WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump will take part in the upcoming third round of presidential debates despite the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates has decided to change the rules allowing for the muting of microphones, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said. Stepien said in a Monday statement that the president “is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes.” Stepien said the debates commission was “biased” and was trying to “provide advantage to their favored candidate.” Earlier on Monday, the commission issued a statement saying that Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden will […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/14/1080821409_0:0:3543:1992_1200x675_80_0_0_aac99d4a1c1e9a1f2917e0bed372393a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evan Craighead . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010201080821439-us-presidential-debate-commission-adopts-mic-muting-policy-ahead-of-october-22-face-off/ To avoid another disorderly match-up between the two US presidential hopefuls, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) will now mute the microphone of one candidate in order to allow the other to speak without interruption, it announced on Monday. The CPD announced Monday that US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would have their microphones turned off during their final debate on Thursday while the other candidate is speaking. Each candidate will be given two uninterrupted minutes at the beginning of each topic to give their answer to […]
The commission that runs debates has changed the rules, following a cacophonous first debate that was packed with interruptions. Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The commission that runs debates has changed the rules, following a cacophonous first debate that was packed with interruptions. Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The Commission on Presidential Debates announced changes to the debate rules ahead of Thursday’s final presidential debate. Under the new rules, each candidate will have two minutes of uninterrupted time to speak at the beginning of each 15 minutes segment of the debate. “The […]
The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will not include foreign policy as a topic, a decision for which the president’s campaign has slammed the commission, especially after the recent Hunter Biden allegations. “Good morning to everyone except Presidential Debate Commission members who changed focus of final debate away from foreign policy,” the Trump campaign’s senior adviser Jason Miller tweeted on Monday morning. Miller theorized the topics were steered away from foreign policy “so Joe Biden wouldn’t have to answer to being compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, supporting endless wars and sending pallets of cash to Iran.” Good […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran – First aired … October 13, 2020 – [ Editor’s Note: Trump, Pompeo and the ‘Munchkin’ are reaching the bottom of the barrel when it comes to sanctions, but their days may be numbered if the election brings in a new administration which had spent years negotiating a JCPOA that the Trumpsters tore down as quickly as they could. As I cover in my interview time below, the sanctions strategy has backfired by first keeping the Iran economy running under war time conditions, meaning that Trump unified Iranians to become more self-reliant […]
President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In a unique political […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0e/1080769654_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_d474eb41452bc726bb457c670f5dd162.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010141080770110-hot-thursday-night-trump-biden-to-partake-in-rivalling-town-halls-after-cancellation-of-2nd-debate/ Last week, the US Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed that the second faceoff between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden slated for 15 October had been cancelled. Earlier, POTUS said “no” to the commission’s move to hold a virtual debate due to health concerns. NBC News has announced that President Donald Trump will participate in the network’s town hall on Thursday night, a 60-minute event that is due to be held at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. NBC’s “Today” host Hoda Kotb said on Wednesday that the event […]
The White House spokesman has said It would be “nice” if the US Commission on Presidential Debates reversed its decision to scrap the second Trump-Biden bout. The president wants the debate to be held in person. “It would be nice if the commission would get the debate back on the schedule. I think the president is ready to go. He wants to be on stage debating Joe Biden in person,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern told the media on Sunday. Morgenstern added that he believes that Trump “will be happy to show up” to trade verbal blows with the […]
Luntz was hired to do focus groups for the GOP to aid in putting a spin on the debates, to show a GOP win. This is normal politics and Luntz is their top guy. We also are deeply suspicious about Trump’s diagnosis, based on his getting NDA’s from Walter Reed doctors. He cancelled a debate based on political advice. COVID was, we believe, advised as well, Trump and Melania were told to fake the disease. Kurschner has this, watch the video: He is certainly right about Kamala Harris being condescending but not so right, and obviously paid by the GOP to […]
C-SPAN’s longtime host Steve Scully, scheduled to moderate next week’s presidential town-hall debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden that may or may not happen, received a robust vote of confidence Friday from Chris Wallace and a host of prominent Republicans the morning after a post from his Twitter account prompted a political media uproar. Fox News Sunday host Wallace, who moderated last week’s presidential debate, along with Fox News commentator Karl Rove and former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer were among Scully’s defenders after Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, announced that a question tweeted […]
The second presidential debate, previously scheduled for Thursday in Miami, has been canceled. Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images The second presidential debate, previously scheduled for Thursday in Miami, has been canceled. Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images Updated at 7:44 p.m. ET The second presidential debate has been canceled, organizers confirmed, following a disagreement between the campaigns and the Commission on Presidential Debates regarding safety protocols for Thursday’s event. “On October 8, CPD announced that for the health and safety of all involved, the second presidential debate, scheduled for October 15 in Miami, would be conducted virtually,” the commission […]
9 Oct, 2020 23:03 Follow RT on The US Commission on Presidential Debates has announced that the second scheduled face-off between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden has been cancelled for good, with no replacement date. “It’s now apparent there will be no debate on October 15, and the CDP will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22,” the commission said on Friday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Follow RT on Source link
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said on Friday that he sees no issue with the Commission on Presidential Debates making the second debate virtual amid President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, saying the president’s own behavior brings up “serious questions. Early on Thursday morning, the CPD announced that due to concerns over the president’s ongoing battle with COVID-19, they would have the candidates debate from remote locations rather than in-person. A furious Trump, meanwhile, immediately pulled out of the virtual debate, saying he was “not going to waste my time” with it. During an appearance on America’s Newsroom, Wallace first addressed the […]
President Donald Trump has had a rough week—and it really, really shows. In an incredibly angry hour-long call-in interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network Thursday morning—his first live media appearance since he was hospitalized with COVID-19—Trump snarled at length about the decision to hold his next debate with Joe Biden virtually. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate” — Trump, on with Maria Bartiromo, begins his first post-coronavirus interview by saying he’s pulling out of the second debate. (He sounds a little hoarse.) pic.twitter.com/R43JSszfll — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 8, 2020 But his most vitriolic […]
President Donald Trump confirmed that he will host Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show, agreeing to an event billed as a “virtual rally” after refusing to do an online debate with Democrat rival Joe Biden next week. “Looking forward to speaking with the great Rush and guests,” Trump said Thursday afternoon in response to a message by journalist Jack Posobiec, who tweeted that the president would host Limbaugh’s show on Friday as a “virtual MAGA rally.” Limbaugh announced earlier Thursday on his show that Trump would join him Friday for “the largest virtual rally in radio history.” He added, “It will […]
Aside from the housefly that commanded the debate stage for a few minutes by sitting on Mike Pence’s head, his visibly infected pink eye has also sparked concern, causing people to question whether the vice president is healthy or infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus. While the US vice president, Mike Pence, tested negative for COVID-19 prior to his Wednesday stand-off with the Democratic VP challenger, Kamala Harris, social media users paid lots of attention to what appeared to be his pink eye, suggesting that the infection may be related to conjunctivitis – a known symptom of the coronavirus. Examining multiple close-ups, […]
The infectious President Donald Trump has announced that he has absolutely no intention of taking part in a virtual debate with Joe Biden, just minutes after the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed the pre-election event would take place remotely to keep everyone safe. In his first live interview since he was hospitalized for three days with COVID-19, Trump told the Fox Business Network Thursday morning: “I’m not going to do a virtual debate… I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate.” Then, in a dubious attempt to convince everyone that a debate would be safe, he added: “I […]
President Trump said he won’t participate in a virtual debate moments after the commission that organizes the presidential debate announced a change in format because of the coronavirus. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP President Trump said he won’t participate in a virtual debate moments after the commission that organizes the presidential debate announced a change in format because of the coronavirus. Patrick Semansky/AP Updated at 8:55 a.m. President Trump said Thursday he’s “not going to do a virtual debate” after the independent commission that runs the debates announced that the second presidential debate, which had been scheduled for […]
The recent VP debate was marked not only by a vehement exchange of jabs between Senator Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s right-hand man Mike Pence: eagle-eyed viewers also discerned a fly sitting for a couple of minutes on the vice president’s head, however awkward it may seem. Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate is sure to go down in history as the sparring involved a third active participant, albeit a silent one – a fly that sat for several minutes on Mike Pence’s head during the prime-time exchange. The fly immediately landed on debate memorabilia, namely themed fly swatters, t-shirts, and mugs. […]
US President Donald Trump has vowed not to participate in a virtual debate with Democrat Joe Biden after a new format was proposed by the debates commission. Speaking with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, Trump said the proposed format, in which each candidate would appear via a live feed from separate remote locations, was unacceptable. Trump said that he’s “not going to waste” his time doing a virtual debate and dismissed the proposed arrangement for the October 15 faceoff. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate” — Trump, on with Maria Bartiromo, begins his first post-coronavirus interview by […]
I got a tension headache from watching the vice presidential debate. I recognized the source instantly, because it felt exactly like the throbbing pain I’ve felt every time I’ve had a man shout me down, cut me off and interrupt me during what’s supposed to be a public conversation. And I honestly cannot imagine that millions of women didn’t also instantly recognize the same feeling after watching Mike Pence’s performance on the debate stage. People spend a lot of time emphasizing the supposed odd-couple pairing of Vice President Pence and the president—contrasting the corrupt evangelicism of the former with the corrupt […]
Mike Pence defending himself against Kamala Harris’ accusations during the VP debate came across as a case of “mansplaining” to liberals who dissected his performance. However, some noted it is “up to the candidate to talk back.” “She got run over by Pence over and over again. The moderator did nothing about it, but she kept her poise, she kept her composure, and she did great tonight,” CNN’s Van Jones said in a post-analysis, giving Pence a new title: “mansplainer-in-chief.” Similar takes could be found on other mainstream networks. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos noted while talking with Martha Raddatz that “a lot […]
Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera apparently didn’t get the memo on Wednesday night that guests on Sean Hannity’s show weren’t supposed to praise Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ debate performance. While the other cable news networks criticized a “limp and lame” Vice President Mike Pence for repeatedly interrupting Harris during the debate, Hannity—a close confidant and adviser to President Donald Trump—and his other pro-Trump guests predictably gushed over the veep’s performance. After saying Harris was “caught lying red-handed” about big issues such as race relations and court-packing, Hannity turned to frequent guest Leo Terrell—a one-time liberal pundit turned full-on Trump booster […]
On Wednesday, Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival, the incumbent vice president Mike Pence clashed in a Salt Lake City debate over a whole array of pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, rigged voting, police brutality, and climate change. US President Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a gaffe machine” in a live-tweet, which came amid Wednesday’s vice presidential debate between the Democratic Senator and incumbent VP Mike Pence. Trump praised the US vice president’s performance during the debate, noting that Pence did “great” and that he “won big”. Mike Pence is doing GREAT! She is a gaffe machine. […]
On Wednesday night, after Kamala Harris swatted a fly-infested Mike Pence in the first and only vice presidential debate, Maya Rudolph appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to discuss her SNL version of the California senator and returning to Studio 8H to film the late-night sketch show for the first time since the start of the pandemic. “It was nuts. You and I were there for the first show after September 11th, and when anthrax was in the building—that was another doozy, that was crazy—and I feel like there was a reminiscent feeling,” Rudolph told Fallon. “You were in […]
Viewers of the US vice presidential debate may have been surprised to see a third contender on stage: a persistent fly which refused to budge from VP Mike Pence’s head, prompting many to proclaim the insect as the night’s victor. Though the candidates were separated by plexiglass shields during Wednesday night’s debate amid fears of Covid-19, the precautions were no match for the intrepid fly, which was seen camping atop Pence’s head for several minutes while he and Senator Kamala Harris traded barbs on stage. With a far less contentious debate than the first contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris attacked each other over the pandemic, Iran, climate change, and police violence before closing the debate by discussing voter fraud. COVID-19 The first round of questions dealt with the pandemic, during which Harris called the White House’s handling of the crisis the “greatest failure of any presidential administration in US history.” She accused the Trump administration of covering up the seriousness of the pandemic. Pence said Trump suspended travel from China, while Biden opposed that decision. The vice president also said the administration has tens of millions of […]
When President Barack Obama bombed the first presidential debate of his 2012 re-election campaign, then-Vice President Joe Biden was tasked with triage: righting a campaign that appeared on the verge of sinking. On Wednesday night, with President Donald Trump’s illness and hospitalization with COVID-19 cementing public skepticism of his administration’s handling of the pandemic, Vice President Mike Pence faced a similar, though even more daunting challenge. But while he successfully played the same role he has filled for the past four years—that of the Trump translator, sanitizing or spinning the more unseemly things espoused by his boss—there was one thing even […]
While the future of the upcoming second round of US presidential debates remains uncertain, VP candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris are facing off in their only debate of the 2020 campaign. Moderated by USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, the debate takes place at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, and is divided into nine 10-minute segments. WATCH LIVE: This year, the vice-presidential match, which is usually considered pretty uneventful, gained way more attention due to President Trump having been hospitalized with Covid-19 after debating Biden a week ago. If Trump doesn’t fully recover in time, the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/07/1080700389_0:39:3184:1830_1200x675_80_0_0_3f4c53d92d3680709679f71d13c5b0c6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010071080700473-us-voters-views-of-vp-candidates-pence-harris-mostly-negative-ahead-of-debate—poll/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Vice President Mike Pence and the Democratic candidate for his office, Senator Kamala Harris, head into Wednesday night’s debate with public opinion largely negative against both, a new PEW Research Center poll revealed on Wednesday. “Around half of registered voters (51 percent) give Pence ‘cold’ ratings, while slightly more than a third (36 percent) give him ‘warm’ ratings and 12 percent have neutral feelings,” a press release explaining the poll said. “For Harris, 48 percent express cold feelings, 39 percent have warm feelings and 13 percent give her neutral ratings.” The […]
Workers clean plexiglass dividers installed on the debate stage at the University of Utah, in preparation for the VP debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. Kim Raff/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kim Raff/Bloomberg via Getty Images Workers clean plexiglass dividers installed on the debate stage at the University of Utah, in preparation for the VP debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. Kim Raff/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a bid to protect the candidates from the coronavirus, the stage for Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City will feature plexiglass barriers between Vice President Mike […]
The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, pictured on Tuesday, is hosting the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, pictured on Tuesday, is hosting the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris square off in the first and only vice presidential debate Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET in Salt Lake City. Pence has laid low with Trump undergoing treatment for the coronavirus, a threat the president had downplayed […]
Moments after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said next week’s debate should be canceled if President Donald Trump still has coronavirus, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume dismissed that idea out of hand, saying the debate needs to occur even if Trump shows up infected. With the president still recovering from his COVID-19 diagnosis that resulted in a three-day hospital stay in Walter Reed, Biden told reporters on Tuesday night that while he’s “looking forward” to debating Trump on Oct. 15, they “have to follow very strict guidelines” for it to happen. “I think if he still has COVID, then […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said the next debate between himself and President Donald Trump later this month should be cancelled if his rival still has Covid-19. Biden said previously he’d let the experts decide. “Well, I think if he still has Covid, we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden told reporters on the campaign trail in Hagerstown, Maryland on Tuesday, despite saying he was anticipating the October 15 event and suggesting it would have to “follow very strict guidelines.” Both Trump and the first lady tested positive for the virus last week. The president spent three days at the Walter Reed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080689315_0:137:2817:1721_1200x675_80_0_0_a14f8579a63a6fe6a1cc25bf6fe6ffce.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010061080689202-biden-says-second-presidential-debate-on-october-15-shouldnt-happen-if-he-still-has-covid/ Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden appears to have changed his opinion on the slated October 15 debate against US President Donald Trump, telling reporters that the next debate will be contingent on 45’s COVID-19 novel coronavirus test results. “If he still has COVID we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden told reporters on the road with him, as reported by Reuters. The former vice president’s Tuesday evening comments appear conflicting to remarks he delivered to reporters before boarding a Florida-bound plane Tuesday morning. “If the scientists say that it’s safe […]
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Plexiglass barriers will reportedly be used in the upcoming debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Joe Biden’s running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, said to be requested by Democrats after President Donald Trump caught Covid-19. Trump tested positive for the coronavirus just two days after debating Biden in Cleveland, Ohio. While Biden has so far tested negative, the Commission on Presidential Debates – the NGO running the process – decided to almost double the distance between Pence and Harris, from 7 feet (2.1 meters) to 13 (4 meters). On Monday, the CPD agreed to put plexiglass barriers not just between the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080675093_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_7a12b24539758f5b14b7f8f6009011f7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010051080675130-biden-says-he-stands-ready-for-second-presidential-debate-with-trump/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Monday that he is ready to engage US President Donald Trump in a second debate despite concerns about the possibility of contracting the novel coronavirus. “If the scientists say that it is safe… I think that is fine. I will do whatever experts say is the appropriate thing to do,” Biden told reporters. The day before, Biden’s campaign adviser Symone Sanders expressed hope that coronavirus-hit President Donald Trump will be able to take part in the second presidential debate, adding that Biden will definitely be there. The […]
Trump is now being treated for the novel coronavirus at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, though medics say he can be discharged as soon as Monday if his condition continues to improve. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his team hope that coronavirus-hit President Donald Trump will be able to take part in the second presidential debate on 15 October, but Biden will definitely be there, his campaign adviser Symone Sanders said on Sunday. Sanders said they are “looking forward” to the second debate, adding that the former vice president “loves a good town hall”. “We are hoping that President Trump can […]
A bunch of my friends from high school back in Kansas were getting together for a birthday at a hometown bar a little while back and I, now a New Yorker, couldn’t be there. So I told one of my buddies to buy everyone a round and Venmo me for whatever it cost. His response: “What’s Venmo?” It was one of about a billion times life has told me that you can’t go home again, but this story would come as no surprise to Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. She’s the author of the book […]
The United Kingdom’s Department of Education has issued new guidelines to schools in England not to promote material from organisations opposed to capitalism, comparing the ideological position to racism and antisemitism. A politics and media literacy organisation has warned on Friday that the Department for Education’s (DfE) new guidelines for English schools could inhibit education and sets a precedent that undermines teaching confidence. Last Thursday, the DfE said in its new sex and relationship education guidance schools should not “under any circumstances use resources produced by organisations that take extreme political stances on matters” and included the stated desire to overthrow […]
Despite the fact that nearly everyone agrees that the first presidential debate was a disaster, Joe Biden still managed to come out of the night with a catchphrase. As Donald Trump spoke over him, Biden snapped, “Will you shut up, man?” It was both a retort and a plea. Now, it’s a t-shirt. In what felt like no time at all, the Vice President’s campaign mocked up a $30 top, slapping a petulant portrait of Trump over charcoal gray with white lettering spelling out the new slogan. It sold out quickly, but countless other imitators emerged. (A Biden campaign spokesperson was […]
The Politics That Led To The ‘Worst Debate’ By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. October 2, 2020 The Politics That Led To The ‘Worst Debate’2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/glen_845x400_0.jpeg200px200px The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly. “There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.” The rich man’s media are calling it “the worst debate in modern American history,” but that’s because the truth is often painful to watch. The Biden-Trump confrontation revealed, with crystalline clarity, that the real “genius” of the American electoral process […]
Temperature scans are becoming commonplace around the world — at political events, at doctors’ offices, at airports and more. Do they provide useful info to help reduce the spread of COVID-19? (Image credit: Stephen Zenner/LightRocket via Getty Images) Source link
Speaking with Fox’s Sean Hannity, the president said: “Let me be clear again: I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.” (Image credit: Julio Cortez/AP) Source link
Even Steve Scully—the mild-mannered, straight-shooting face of C-SPAN who’s preparing to moderate the Oct. 15 presidential town hall debate—isn’t safe from the slings and arrows of outraged Trumpkins. On Thursday night, Scully became the Republican Party’s latest media pinata as FoxNews.com published a story headlined “Trump campaign calls out second debate moderator who interned for Biden, worked for Ted Kennedy.” Forty-two years ago, when he was an 18-year-old communication and political science major at American University in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania-native Scully obtained an unpaid, college-credit internship with the office of first-term Republican Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania. When that internship fell […]
In his first on-air appearance since Tuesday night’s chaotic presidential debate that he moderated, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Thursday placed the blame on President Donald Trump for the debate devolving into what a CNN reporter described as a “shitshow.” Wallace, one of the most respected and revered newsmen in the business, has weathered a storm of criticism over his inability to maintain control on Tuesday as Trump quickly disregarded the rules and began steamrolling Wallace and Joe Biden, something he acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times. “I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080634581_0:0:3035:1709_1200x675_80_0_0_6ae94ff03f3931aafb126f0fbb921373.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080634662-trump-says-may-not-accept-amended-us-presidential-debate-rules/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that he may not support the changing of presidential debate rules for the remaining two rounds of his televised showdown with the Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Trump added that he “easily” held victory at the first presidential debate against Biden in Cleveland, citing polls. Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third Debates when I easily won last time? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2020 I won the debate big, based on compilation of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080633516_0:0:2801:1576_1200x675_80_0_0_3d1c472b8d8d23c8e662bf49efdda763.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080633552-trump-opposes-debate-changes-that-cover-for-biden-inability-to-perform-white-house-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump wants to participate in the next presidential debate but does not want the rules changed simply to cover for his rival’s inability to perform, White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said on Thursday. “First, with regards to the commission rules changes, the president made it clear his view on that yesterday that he thinks the only way there is a fair debate is changing the moderator and is changing the Democrat nominee”, McEnany said at a press briefing. “He wants to debate. He plans on being at the […]
“Not enough alcohol in the world right now,” Lewis Black tweeted Tuesday night during the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Like the rest of the country, the comedian was horrified by what he was watching. He just happens to be better than most Americans at putting that horror into words. “What happened last night was unconscionable on so many levels,” Black tells me during our taping for this coming week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “Every so often in my life, I’ve regretted not having children,” he adds. “But basically I feel like I made that […]
With the first Trump–Biden debate now smoldering behind us, the betting markets have picked their winner. That also means they’ve decided on a loser: President Donald Trump. Tuesday marked the first time the incumbent squared off face-to-face against his rival, Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. The two septuagenarians bickered, insulted, belittled and at times screamed at one another at almost regular intervals, all in hopes of convincing the American public each is the best choice to control the world’s largest deployed nuclear arsenal. And while conventional, real-time polling may have been unavailable during the roughly hour and a […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – More than 73 million people watched the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, the Nielsen marketing research firm said in a press release. To compare, more than 84 million people watched the first debate between Trump and Clinton on 26 September 2016. “An estimated 73.1 million people tuned in to watch the first debate of the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday, 29 September 2020”, the release said on Wednesday. The viewership for Tuesday’s presidential debate is 13 percent less than the first debate between then-Republican presidential nominee Trump and his Democratic […]
The headlines said it was a disgrace, a national embarrassment, and a shitshow, but the debate wasn’t any of those things. Donald Trump was, and why don’t we say so? Putting his actions in the passive voice, as things that happened rather than things he did is to show how little has been learned since 2016 and how successful he’s been at normalizing the unthinkable. Putting all that on the debate, rather than the president, lets him off the hook for behavior so frightening that parents who let their kids stay up to watch rushed them off to bed early. Watching […]
Congratulation to great friend of the Kazakh people @realDonaldTrump for winning debate today! Impressive and amazing result for a strong premier who always put America and Kazakhstan first! pic.twitter.com/qLljQ8b5UU — Republic of Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (@KazakhstanGovt) September 30, 2020 https://twitter.com/KazakhstanGovt/status/1311117464961347584?s=20 Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues. Duff has […]
President Trump answers questions about his remarks in Tuesday’s presidential debate about white supremacist groups after many congressional Republicans suggested he needed to be clearer denouncing the movement. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump answers questions about his remarks in Tuesday’s presidential debate about white supremacist groups after many congressional Republicans suggested he needed to be clearer denouncing the movement. Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump attempted to clarify his position on white supremacists after a litany of members of his own party urged him to more clearly condemn the right wing group know as The Proud Boys, whom […]
Regardless of one’s impression of the two contenders during the first in-person showdown between the candidates to occupy the Oval Office, both conservative and liberal commentators agreed on one thing – the debate moderator’s job left much to be desired. Fox News host Chris Wallace landed in viewers’ crosshairs as he attempted to referee the first of three presidential debates between the two major parties’ presidential hopefuls, incumbent President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, on Tuesday night. “Chris Wallace is embarrassing, and trying to pretend that the problem isn’t 100% Trump”, former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill tweeted after […]
A broadcast of the first debate between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is played on TVs at The Abbey in West Hollywood, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images A broadcast of the first debate between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is played on TVs at The Abbey in West Hollywood, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images After a debate plagued by interruptions and crosstalk — mostly from President Trump — many politicos, voters and journalists asked whether more could have been done to stop the chaos. Some asked whether the debates should continue at […]
President Donald Trump might have choked on his Egg McMuffin on Wednesday when tuning into his favorite morning show. Fresh from an aggressive debate performance which his campaign chalked up as a victory before it had even happened, Trump most likely tuned into Fox & Friends expecting the kind of sycophantic flattery he’s become accustomed to over the past four years. However, even the president’s pals at Fox thought his debate performance, well, kinda sucked. All three of the hosts—Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley Earhardt—made clear how deflated they felt the morning after the debate. In particular, Kilmeade seemed despondent […]
President Trump ran roughshod over debate moderator Chris Wallace and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden — and crossed many lines in the process. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP President Trump ran roughshod over debate moderator Chris Wallace and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden — and crossed many lines in the process. Patrick Semansky/AP This was maybe the worst presidential debate in American history. If this was supposed to be a boxing match, it instead turned into Trump jumping on the ropes, refusing to come down, the referee trying to coax him off and Biden standing in the middle […]
Well. I need a shower. That was a disgusting event, and we all know why. It’s been said a million times, but it’s never been truer than on this night: Donald Trump drags everything down to his level. And the moderator let him. That was the most shocking and pathetic moderator performance that we’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine Trump helped himself with that performance. I suspect that to regular voters, he just looked rude or worse, in failing to denounce white supremacy and railing on about Hunter Biden. Fox went gaga over that performance, of course, but I think most […]
Poor Chris Wallace, the debate moderator who couldn’t. As the first—and possibly last—televised presidential shoutfest of the 2020 general election campaign devolved Tuesday night from the worst Thanksgiving dinner ever to a drunken, knife-wielding bar fight between Donald Trump and Joe Biden amid shattered beer mugs, the Fox News Sunday anchor was powerless to stop the American carnage. “Chris Wallace did not act as moderator. Donald Trump was the abuser and Chris Wallace was among the abused,” MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace (no relation) said when it was all over and the only thing left to do was shoot the wounded. “The debate […]
First Trump-Biden meeting marked by constant interrutions by Trump First published 29 September 2020, Washington Post Washington, DC: Donald Trump came to heckle. He came to interrupt and to pontificate and to flail his arms, batting away questions and facts in a chaotic fury. He was a boor and a troll, holding up his stubby mitts in an angry pantomime as he tried to halt the words coming from former vice president Joe Biden’s mouth. Trump seemed to believe that with a single rude hand gesture, one that he regularly uses to assert his dominance, he could hold back the truth […]
“Get ready for democracy to crumble!!!” Stephen Colbert shouted at the top of his live post-debate monologue Tuesday night. “I come to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, an empty vessel, a man with a mind wiped clean,” the Late Show host said. “I have stood in the swirling chaos of creation. I have seen Shiva dancing his destructions, wielding his trident, carving great gouts out of universe. The sky, once both red, blue, and black until all that remained was a starless void and the hollow husk once known as Chris Wallace. We have emerged from the mad whirlwind where we […]
Chris Wallace’s moderation of the first presidential debate left a lot to be desired, with critics renewing calls for podcaster/comedian Joe Rogan to handle an upcoming event between President Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden. Minutes after Tuesday night’s debate ended, Rogan’s name was trending on Twitter with supporters saying he could have handled the night’s proceedings far better than Wallace, who struggled on multiple occasions to keep Trump and Biden from bickering and interrupting each other. “Regardless who you’re pulling for, I think we can all agree that Joe Rogan would do a much better job moderating this thing […]
US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have had an intense first presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday. During the debate, Trump and Biden were constantly interrupting and sniping at each other, making it hard for moderator Chris Wallace to follow the time limits set for each speaker. He even had to raise his voice when the debaters interrupted each other or diverged from the topics they were supposed to discuss. Heated Debate Seeking to dispel rumours of his age-related sluggishness, Biden called Trump “the worst president America has ever had” and energetically attacked his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, economic crisis […]
Pundits covering the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden struggled to contain their horror during their post-event analysis, dubbing the throwdown a “dumpster fire” and a “s**t show” live on TV. President Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden took the stage at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University on Tuesday night, where the two clashed over 90 minutes of debate, seeing frequent interruptions, personal insults and meandering off-topic. Apparently unimpressed by the performance, CNN’s Jake Tapper dubbed the event the “worst debate I’ve ever seen” just seconds after it finished. “We’ll talk about who won the debate, who […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1e/1080616585_0:0:3169:1782_1200x675_80_0_0_e2cf53d7d2bac9170b2f824a06f8af35.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009301080616554-watch-biden-tells-trump-would-you-shut-up-man-in-the-heat-of-debate/ The first presidential debate turned out to be really intense, with the two candidates constantly interrupting each other whenever they disagreed or were angry at what the other one was saying. Democratic nominee Joe Biden snapped at President Donald Trump at the first presidential debate held in Cleveland on Tuesday. In a video that has immediately gone viral, the former vice president was speaking about the Supreme Court as President Trump made attempts to cut him off, asking repeatedly, “Who’s on your list, Joe?” The footage catches the very moment Biden apparently loses his […]
The first US presidential debate quickly devolved from friendly greetings to chaos as Democratic challenger Joe Biden struggled to make his points while being interrupted incessantly by President Donald Trump. At one point, as Biden tried to evade a question from moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would support adding more slots to the Supreme Court and eliminating the Senate filibuster rule if Democrats regain control, Trump badgered him with interruptions. “Whatever position I take on that, that will become the issue,” Biden said. “The issue is the American people should speak. You should go out and vote. You’re in […]
The US president earlier announced that his administration would soon have a COVID-19 vaccine, while Democrats have raised concerns about its effectiveness against the virus. President Donald Trump said during the Tuesday debate against Joe Biden that the United States is “weeks away” from a coronavirus vaccine, adding that his administration has done a “great job” concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. “You could never have done the job that we did”, Trump told Biden. “You don’t have it in your blood”. “I don’t trust him at all”, Biden responded on Trump’s vaccine statement. Trump countered saying that a vaccine can be available […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1e/1080615549_0:40:3072:1768_1200x675_80_0_0_75e3e6c3b8473103826f77c936f92ffc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009301080615460-first-presidential-debate-between-donald-trump-and-joe-biden-ahead-of-2020-us-election/ The debate will be moderated by the anchor of “Fox News Sunday”, Chris Wallace, who is expected to pressure Trump and Biden on the coronavirus pandemic, US economy, anti-racism protests, a Supreme Court nomination, and the election itself. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are facing questions at the first presidential debate held in Cleveland, the state of Ohio, on Tuesday. The two candidates are set to discuss six topics chosen by Wallace, 15 minutes for each, without any breaks. Every segment will start with a question by the moderator. Follow Sputnik’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1d/1080614086_0:232:2164:1449_1200x675_80_0_0_9e89cf06a98e99f04a6ab1171c83b80b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009291080614162-trump-arrives-in-cleveland-for-first-2020-presidential-debate/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump has arrived in Cleveland, Ohio for the first presidential debate against his Democratic rival Joe Biden later on Tuesday, according to a White House pool report. The debate will start at 9:00 pm Eastern Time and run for 90 minutes without commercial interruption. The topics for tonight’s debate will be the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in US cities, and the integrity of the election. The two candidates will face each other again on 15 October in Miami and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104729/60/1047296031_0:109:3500:2078_1200x675_80_0_0_10825048c9d25fb5922de267bdb4fbfc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009291080613342-nearly-three-fourths-of-americans-plan-to-watch-first-us-presidential-debate/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Nearly every three-in-four voters in the United States plan to watch the first presidential debate on Tuesday night, but only 3 percent of them believe the debate can influence their choice on Election Day, a new poll by Monmouth University revealed on Tuesday. “These results underscore the fact that the audience for these debates are voters who already have a rooting interest in one side or the other”, Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray said in a statement about the poll. According to the poll results, 74 percent of voters […]
Is the prospect of a presidential debate too triggering? Well, the Ohio University hosting the showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has offered “presidential debate support spaces” for students traumatized by the face-off. President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden face off against each other on Tuesday night, in the first of three debates before November’s election. The political slugfest takes place at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and will be moderated by Fox News’s Chris Wallace. It’ll be watched by a studio audience of around 75 people, and by millions of Americans at home. Also on […]
Shepard Smith’s new CNBC show is called simply The News. And with that in mind, the former Fox News anchor is trying his best to play everything right down the middle. Ahead of his premiere this Wednesday, Smith appeared on his new network colleague Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, where he offered up a series of non-committal, both-sides takes on the biggest news events of the week. Smith got in one joke about Donald Trump writing off $70,000 in hairstyling expenses but otherwise said he didn’t expect the bombshell report on the president’s tax returns to change any voters’ minds. He similarly […]
Joe Biden, unless he has some huge brain fart, is going to win the debates. But it’s not likely to help him very much, for two reasons. So I would caution his campaign against thinking they can lock this thing down with solid debate performances. My advice would be: Rather than trying to win the debates, Biden should give Donald Trump the room to lose them. I’ll explain what I mean by that below, but first, let’s get to those reasons. Reason one why winning won’t matter much is that everyone expects him to win. This may sound kind of odd […]
Preparations take place on Sunday outside the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion in Cleveland ahead of the first presidential debate, scheduled for Tuesday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Preparations take place on Sunday outside the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion in Cleveland ahead of the first presidential debate, scheduled for Tuesday. Patrick Semansky/AP President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will debate each other for the first time Tuesday evening, in the first of three presidential debates. Here are the details: When? Tuesday, Sept. 29, from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET. (You can listen to the debate […]
Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going home on parole after more than four decades behind bars. Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) hide caption toggle caption Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going home on parole after more than four decades behind bars. Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) State officials in New York confirmed this week the parole of Anthony Bottom, age 68, who now identifies as Jalil […]
“People are dying, tens of thousands of people are out of work—he’s embarrassing,” is not only the quote of the year from former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines, but also sums up how he, Rick Wilson, Molly Jong-Fast, and Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid feel about Donald Trump’s dwindling support among his own base. To make matters worse for the president, he is set to debate Joe Biden for the first time Tuesday night, and he doesn’t have that same 2016 anger and energy he drummed up to defeat Hillary Clinton. In this new members-only bonus episode of The New […]
On 29 September, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are scheduled to face off against each other in the first of three presidential debates, with the representatives of the two candidates having hammered out the final details of the matchup. US President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival in the upcoming election Joe Biden are gearing up to face off in their first debate ahead of the November election. Campaign sources of the two sides have shared the details of the upcoming event, slated for 29 September, that has been adjusted to comply with guidelines necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Politico. […]
Joe Biden was slammed as “unhinged” by critics following an interview in which he compared US President Donald Trump to both Fidel Castro and infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in the space of less than a minute. Asked by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle about voters believing Trump’s frequent accusations that Biden will push a socialist agenda as president, the former vice-president said he wasn’t sure if there was anyone voting for Trump who hadn’t already made up their mind. “But who knows. He’s sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes […]
James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley in February 1965. Khalil Muhammad and David Frum are reimagining that debate for the 2020 March on Washington Film Festival. Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley in February 1965. Khalil Muhammad and David Frum are reimagining that debate for the 2020 March on Washington Film Festival. Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images In February 1965, two of America’s most towering public intellectuals faced off at the University of Cambridge in England. They were there to debate the proposition: “The […]
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Watch False Flag Weekly News In today’s False Flag Weekly News (at the 48:50 mark) I raised a question often posed by audience members: Is COVID a complete hoax? Or is it a scam based on a real, dangerous virus? I argued the latter. The best evidence that COVID deaths are in six figures, I opined, is the data on “excess deaths from all causes,” according to which over 250,000 too many Americans have died this year. Professor Tony Hall disagreed, citing reports that only 6% of reported COVID deaths are deaths from COVID alone. I argued that he was misconstruing […]
With time ticking for the 3 November election, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continue to lock horns, notably over whether either of them is fit to take office. Donald Trump has once again claimed that Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is “possibly” using drugs in order to improve the former vice president’s debate performances during his election campaign. “[…] That’s what I hear. […] I don’t know how you can go from being so bad where you can’t even get out a sentence. I mean you saw some of those debates with the large number of people […]
The Former French President was appearing on a television show that focused on racial issues that have gained particular awareness recently, amid Black Lives Matter protests triggered in the US by the death of black man George Floyd that sent shock waves reverberating globally Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a race row in France, using the word “monkeys” before weighing in on a controversy over racist language in a TV interview on French television. The debate on “Quotidien” touched upon the belated decision to change the French translation of an Agatha Christie novel’s title to remove the N-word. “[There’s] […]
Conflict has erupted among researchers over the alleged discovery of a female human skeleton who was, according to an archaeologist, buried as a vampire. Researchers have disputed claims made by archeologists that a human female was subject to a “vampire burial”, causing widespread discourse over the true nature of her death, according to media reports. Researchers made the discovery at a mass grave of 16th-century plague victims on the Venetian island of Nuovo Lazzaretto. According to forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence, the recovery may be the first vampire burial known in archeology. Spent yesterday afternoon with a […]
VENICE—If two hours of shaky footage of a sex-starved 34-year-old Dennis Hopper eating, drinking, and smoking as 55-year-old Orson Welles grills him about everything from communist Catholics to the difference between sex and love or magic and miracles sounds like a great movie, then Hopper/Welles, which debuted at the scaled-down Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, is for you. For everyone else, it borders on painful. The footage comes from a 1970 archive of a dinner party in L.A.—after Hopper flew in from New Mexico, where he lived in what sounded an awful lot like a hippy commune. It was meant for […]
CNN head Jeff Zucker appears to have offered Donald Trump a “weekly show” on the network in 2016, also giving tips for a presidential debate, arguing Trump could not win the race without his outlet’s support, leaked audio reveals. Zucker – who now presides over one of the most fervently anti-Trump media outlets in the American corporate press – hatched the idea to give then-candidate Trump a weekly slot on CNN during a March 2016 phone call with Micheal Cohen, a lawyer for Trump at the time, according to audio obtained by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. Speaking with Cohen hours before […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admonished some of his own employees this week over remarks on the company’s internal messaging platform about racism and violence against Black men. In a post on the social-media giant’s internal communications channel Workplace last week, a Facebook staffer shared a post titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” The post called into question the notion of racially disparate outcomes in the criminal-justice system, argued that racism is not a serious motivation in police shootings, railed against “critical race theory,” and claimed narratives about police violence often “conveniently leave out” other factors, including whether the […]
U.S.- China Tension by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran Video below [ Editor’s Note: Usually the Debate Show will cover a specific story, often for that day, on an ongoing war or geopolitical situation. But the booker told me this would cover all the issues with China and the US. Right away I thought that a half hour beats five minutes on a New Review to cover a topic, but ALL of the topic between these two giants was going to be a challenge. One never knows if the host is going to have specific questions, or start […]
Watch the MASK DEBATE starting a little past the 14 minute mark above; click HERE for links to the stories we covered By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor International lawyer Ed Corrigan has thrown down the gauntlet: There are sane and sensible limits to freedom, he says, and mandatory masking during a pandemic falls squarely within those limits. Most of our audience at False Flag Weekly News disagrees. A few think the whole pandemic is a hoax. Almost all think the virus was made in a lab and designed, like 9/11, to shred the Bill of Rights, terrorize the population into […]
The Democratic Socialist runner-up to Joe Biden argued for a “coalition” with Republican establishment figures against President Donald Trump. Democratic leftwinger Bernie Sanders says he wants a “serious debate” on his country’s future, but not until Joe Biden is elected president. “We’re going to come together to defeat Trump”, the Vermont senator told The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, “and the day after Biden is elected, we’re going to have a serious debate about the future of this country”. Sanders lost out to Biden in the Democratic presidential nomination race earlier this year amid allegations of dirty tricks against his campaign – […]
Joe Biden’s wife confirmed in a Fox News interview that he will go through with plans for debates with President Donald Trump, ignoring the advice of some political strategists and media outlets such as CNN. “Oh yes, he will,” Jill Biden told Fox’s Dana Perino on Tuesday. “I think they’ve already, I think it’s three debates they’ve decided on. So yes, he will be there.” She added that her husband, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, will make up his own mind rather than being swayed by those who are urging him to skip the debates. Jill Biden’s comments echoed those […]
by Jim W. Dean, …with Press TV, Tehran Feature image – Imam Reza Shrine, photo Jim W. Dean, 2018 Editor’s Note: The US sanctions war continues. Instead of the Teddy Roosevelt day of “Walking softly and carry a big stick”, we have “Promote unipolarism by sanctioning often and cutting off access to international banking and electronic settlement networks’. Somewhere in that is supposed to be a line about “defender of the free world”, but I am having trouble locating that part. It seems to have been swept under the rug somewhere, or in a museum. Pompeo and Trump have hunkered down on […]
As many as 40 million Americans are under threat of losing their homes due to the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, with tens of millions of people unsure where they will get the money to pay for rent after being put out of work, and a federal eviction moratorium expiring late last month. Outspoken comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore has slammed the US government and politicians in Washington over their alleged inaction amid the eviction crisis facing tens of millions of Americans, suggesting that it demonstrates the catastrophic condition that the country has been put in by […]
As Cristina Laila reported earlier — Notre Dame on Monday withdrew from hosting a presidential debate scheduled for September 29 due to concerns over COVID-19. Notre Dame announced: After consultation with Dr. Mark Fox, St. Joseph County deputy health officer, and with the unanimous support of the Executive Committee of the University’s Board of Trustees, Father Jenkins made what he called “this difficult decision because the necessary health precautions would have greatly diminished the educational value of hosting the debate on our campus.” “I am grateful to the many members of the University community who have devoted countless hours planning this […]
Houston Rockets star James Harden has denied he was making a ‘political statement’ after he received criticism online for being pictured wearing a face covering which appeared to endorse the pro-police ‘Blue Live Matter’ movement. Harden sported a mask featuring an American flag along with a thin blue line, iconography which has come to be known as support for the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ campaign – a group some cite as being contrary to the wave of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests currently prevalent in the United States. The images were released by both the Rockets and the NBA Twitter accounts, and were immediately greeted […]
Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides” of debate in Harper’s Magazine. Thomas Chatterton Williams hide caption toggle caption Thomas Chatterton Williams Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides” of debate in Harper’s Magazine. Thomas Chatterton Williams Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 prominent journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying what it called the “intolerant climate that has set […]
Notre-Dame Cathedral: Volunteer carpenters aim to settle reconstruction debate A group of volunteer carpenters are hoping to settle the debate over how Paris’s fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral should be rebuilt by constructing a replica of part of the structure’s roof entirely by hand using traditional techniques and materials. Armed with axes and hand saws, the team of 25 craftsmen and women, who belong to a collective called Carpenters Without Borders, managed to build one of the 25 trusses that made up the wooden roof of Notre-Dame that they say is identical to the original. “It is a demonstration of traditional techniques on […]