After running a cold open that mocked NBC’s controversial Trump town hall, Saturday Night Live also dedicated a portion of this week’s “Weekend Update” segment to flame the network. After Colin Jost roasted the president for hosting more “coronavirus giveaways across the country,” Michael Che went in on his home network for giving the president a platform. “What can I say?” Che said. “We have a type.” Photos of Matt Lauer, Bill Cosby, and Donald Trump appeared behind him—a nod to the alleged predators with whom the network has happily worked in the past. Che moved on to the current political […]
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Almost four years to the day after the Access Hollywood scandal first broke, Billy Bush is revisiting the moment that almost derailed his career. (Again.) Speaking with Men’s Health, the Extra host discussed his relationship with Matt Lauer—and why he felt “deeply hurt” by the disgraced Today anchor at the time. In the fall of 2016, audio leaked of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women on the Access Hollywood bus ahead of a 2005 appearance. Bush punctuated Trump’s monologue with peevish snickers—and when the two dismounted the bus, he urged a woman Trump had just been fantasizing about assaulting to give […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/18/1080559267_74:-1:1920:1038_1200x675_80_0_0_971b28a39b0a2e3dc8e2298b5f949ec8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Chris Summers. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009241080559248-social-media-giggles-at-matt-hancocks-discomfort-as-sky-presenter-quizzes-him-on-casual-sex-ban/ Last week the UK government reversed a decision to make it illegal for people to have sex unless they live together. The latest guidelines say people in an “established relationship” can sleep together but appeared to ban “casual sex” between strangers. Social media has reacted with great delight at an awkward conversation between Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Sky News presenter Kay Burley on whether “casual sex” has been banned by the government in the light of the pandemic. Ms Burley, who is notorious for her belligerent interviews with politicians, was unusually bashful as she probed Mr Hancock about […]
Jose Mourinho’s preparations for the upcoming Premier League season are well underway as he secures the signing of Ireland defender Matt Doherty from Wolves – with the club announcing the deal in the most unique of ways. Doherty has been a central figure in Wolves’ resurgence from the third tier of English football to becoming Premier League mainstays with the 28-year-old attacking fullback establishing himself as one of division’s standouts in his position, prompting Mourinho to make a move for the nine-times capped international for the relatively cut-price figure of £14.7 million ($19.6 million). Also on rt.com ‘We have to be […]
Last month, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences claimed that a possible second wave of the coronavirus in the country would be worse than the first one and could result in about 120,000 new fatal cases if authorities fail to take urgent action to avoid the outbreak. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has described a potential new wave of the COVID-19 as a “very serious threat”, which he said could lead to another nationwide lockdown. In an interview with The Times on Friday, he said that the second wave is “clearly visible in other parts of the world” but that in […]
President Donald Trump took a swipe at Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday morning for working against his foreign agenda. Trump recently announced he would bring home most US troops from Afghanistan after 19 years and thousands of troops from Germany that have been there for decades. Liz Cheney has allegedly been working behind the scene to thwart President Trump’s agenda. President Trump tweeted this out on Thursday. Liz Cheney is only upset because I have been actively getting our great and beautiful Country out of the ridiculous and costly Endless Wars. I am also making our so-called allies pay tens of […]
Blue chip clients cut ties last month with the lobbying firm run by Trump confidant Matt Schlapp over his caustic comments about Black Lives Matter protests. But Schlapp’s firm also picked up a new client: the President of the United States. Trump’s reelection campaign paid Cove Strategies, Schlapp’s lobbying and public affairs shop, $43,567 for communications consulting in June, according to a Federal Election Commission filing on Monday. It was the first time the Trump campaign had paid Cove Strategies, and the first payment the firm has received from any federal political committee since 2012, when it got less than $300 […]
Last week House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) introduced the Afghanistan Partnership and Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) intended to ensure that the American people and Congress are fully informed about the effects of the U.S. drawdown from Afghanistan, including its effects on national security. Liz Cheney demands that troops remain in Afghanistan.US troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001! President Trump wants to bring the troops home.Americans want to bring the troops home. Advertisement – story continues below On Tuesday Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted out he is joining with Democrat Ro Khanna to bring […]
One of Silicon Valley’s top investors has quietly dumped seven figures into Democratic super PACs over the past two years through a pair of dark money groups that have little documented activity beyond channeling money into federal elections. Matt Cohler, a former Facebook executive and a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark, is behind the pair of nonprofit groups, one of which has donated a total of more than $1 million this year alone to three leading Democratic political groups. The Pacific Environmental Coalition’s latest donation came last month, according to records released this week; it donated $500,000 to Senate […]
Earlier today Democrat lawmaker Cedric Richmond (D-LA) hurled racist insults at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his son during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing Democrat Richmond attacked Republican lawmakers in the room who “have never lived in my shoes.” Rep. Gaetz then countered the Democrat for assuming no Republican member do not have different race family members. Channel News 8 reported: Richmond acknowledged that he knows Republicans on the committee who “have black grandchildren,” but he added, “It is about black males, black people in the streets that are getting killed, and if one of them happens to […]
Hours after announcing that he has a 19-year-old Cuban “son,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared alongside the teen, Nestor Galban, on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight to prove to a Democratic colleague with whom he’s been feuding that he has a “non-white” child. Gaetz’s revelation about Galban came on the heels of his extremely heated altercation with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) during a Congressional hearing on police reform, which flew off the rails when Gaetz exploded at Richmond for suggesting he didn’t know what it’s like to fear for a Black son. “For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107965/87/1079658778_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_f2330a26990347da355da073df840341.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202006191079658764-matt-damon-makes-surprise-appearance-in-jimmy-kimmels-bedroom-amid-shows-vacation-announcement/ According to Jimmy Kimmel, the only thing worse than quarantine is to realise that Matt Damon has been living in your house the whole time. It might make things even worse if Damon also denounces your books and then steals your wife. Announcing the show’s vacation and upcoming guest hosts, Jimmy Kimmel was taken by surprise at the appearance of Matt Damon, who stepped out of his bedroom wearing a bathrobe and a face mask – pretty much how people like us look during the pandemic quarantine. The householder himself was “shocked” to know […]
Failed presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell, the California congressman best known for farting on live TV and running one of the shortest and pathetic campaigns for president ever, used a congressional hearing earlier today to shame his Republican colleagues into supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. A tweet posted by The Hill, shared a video of an exchange between Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, widely viewed as President Trump’s strongest ally in DC, where Swalwell challenged Republican members to chant BLACK LIVES MATTER. If they were willing to do this, Swalwell would relinquish his time and allow Republican members of congress to […]
The saying “Better late than never, I guess” has never felt so apt. After 18 years and 25 seasons, The Bachelor has finally announced the first black lead for its flagship series, Matt James. It’s a positive, if long overdue sign that the franchise is beginning to take its race problem seriously. But as longtime fans of the franchise well know, it’ll take more than one black lead to make amends for this franchise’s past failures on race. That The Bachelor is only now announcing its first Black lead, amid widespread Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of […]
On Friday night, Bill Maher returned to his HBO show Real Time and offered solidarity with protesters during his monologue, conceding that the police had clearly gone too far not only when it comes to brutalizing black bodies but their aggressive, violent, escalatory tactics against protesters. Later, the political satirist took issue with Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and his outrageous op-ed in The New York Times effectively calling for the president to declare war on protesting civilians by sending in the military to strike them down. The piece, surely part of a 14-year vendetta that the conservative lawmaker has held against […]
The “Rational Optimist” author gives his take on the economic history and possible futures of prosperity’s most important driver: innovation Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? According to Matt Ridley, it was because Edison was the progenitor of an “innovation factory” that didn’t just create things but brought them to market in a way no one else did. Innovation is one of the most important forces in the economy, and arguably the most important driver of human prosperity over the last […]
(Matt Tait and Andrew Weissmann) The attorney for a star witness of the Mueller sham just happens to be a colleague of former Mueller gang leader Andrew Weissmann. Who would have thought? A week ago, the transcripts from House hearings a couple years ago, involving the fraudulent Trump – Russia collusion sham, were finally released. One individual who spoke before the House Committee was Matt Tait. Tait wrote a post at the notoriously far left entity Lawfare on June 30, 2017. This was at the same time the media was all over the Trump – Russia fraudulent sham and so Tait’s […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz, attorney-author Alan Dershowitz and investigative journalist John Solomon joined Sean Hannity Friday night to discuss the latest House Intelligence Committee document release that proves the Obama administration had nothing on Trump and Russia. It was all a hoax and they pushed forward with their investigations anyway. During the segment Rep. Gaetz tossed former Rep. Trey Gowdy under the bus for blocking the subpoenas of deep state operatives. Matt Gaetz: Devin Nunes is a patriot. And I’m glad you went through Trey Gowdy’s exquisite questions in 2017 to these corrupt officials. I guess my questions Sean would be why […]