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| Now We Know That Kamala Harris Believes She's Losing |
| 2024-10-14 |
| [PJ] On Sunday, PJ Media's Scott Pinsker said that there would be a surefire way of telling that Kamala Harris legitimately thinks she's losing the election. "As long as Kamala Harris believes she’s winning, she’s not going to take any risks. No big gambles, no bold moves," he wrote. He noted several signs of genuine panic from her campaign, and number one was that "Kamala Harris will suddenly open up and do a ton of interviews — including hostile interviews." Lo and behold, on Monday, Fox News announced that Harris will do a sit-down interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News Channel’s chief political anchor Bret Baier for an interview on Wednesday in Pennsylvania. It will be Harris’ first formal interview ever on Fox News. It will air on the October 16 edition of Baier’s "Special Report" at 6 p.m. ET. Baier will anchor "Special Report" from the battleground state of Pennsylvania that evening. Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, joined "Fox News Sunday" for the second straight week on Sunday as the Democratic ticket has amped up media appearances in recent weeks. "Special Report" is regularly among the most-watched programs in cable news, and the popular Common Ground segment featuring political leaders from across the aisle discussing the issues of the day with the goal of finding middle ground has been a hit this election cycle. Harris has already been increasing the number of interviews she's been having, but they've all been on friendly territory. She's appeared on CNN, MSNBC, "The View", "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", Howard Stern's radio show, "60 Minutes," and a sex podcast called "Call Her Daddy." |
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| Biden's handlers will be panicking that 81 year-old president finally agreed to debate with Trump |
| 2024-04-27 |
Speaking during a softball interview with Howard Stern on Friday morning, Biden said he is 'happy' to take the stage to debate his 77-year-old rival. It quickly led several Republican accounts mocking Biden's decision and that it was beyond his 'handler's control'. 'Crooked Joe Biden says he's 'happy to debate' President Trump. His handlers must be furious,' RNC Research, an account managed by the Republican National Committee tweeted. |
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| Noted Germophobe Howard Stern Reportedly Getting Into Fights With His Wife Over Fear of New COVID Variant |
| 2023-09-09 |
The famous shock-jock has made it clear in recent years that he is terrified of getting COVID, to the point where he began doing his radio show from his Long Island home, rather than venturing in to New York City. His second wife, who is younger than him, apparently does not share his neurosis and this is causing friction between the two. Radio host Howard Stern recently admitted that his paranoia over a new strain of COVID-19 has gotten him into a fight with his wife. During a Wednesday segment of his Sirius XM radio show, the shock jock conceded that he’s paranoid and "neurotic," especially when it comes to the virus, and noted that his wife, Beth Ostrosky Stern, is less so. As he explained, this has led to tension and arguments with her as media outlets have been warning about a new coronavirus strain and his wife wants to go out and socialize. The topic came up when a guest caller asked the radio host whether he thought it was risky to return to the studio for his show amid the new warnings about another COVID-19 outbreak. Stern admitted the fear of getting sick has been weighing on him and his relationship. He said, "I’m going crazy with this. My wife yelled at me last night. We got into a fight." He added, "You know how paranoid I am about getting COVID. I haven’t gotten it, and I’m pretty safe, and I really don’t want to get it." |
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| Ad expert ranks Bud Light's handling of Dylan Mulvaney fiasco among the worst brand gaffes in HISTORY; brand’s post-brouhaha tweet ‘TGIF?’ | ||
| 2023-04-16 | ||
 [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Anheuser-Busch's handling of backlash to its Bud Light brand partnership with transgender...mutton, dressed up as pork... influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been branded a historically-bad marketing gaffe by a leading expert. In a Bloomberg Opinion column on Saturday, advertising and brands expert Ben Schott called the Bud Light imbroglio 'a marketing case study for the ages' in 'how not to handle brand collaborations in a dangerously polarized space.'
And in 2006, the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch notoriously said the company only wanted 'cool' and 'attractive' customers, saying, 'Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.' 'But Bud Light's action is worse than a gaffe, it's a betrayal,' wrote Schott, noting that the brand retreated into 'cowardly' silence, leaving Mulvaney high and dry, as the controversy went kaboom!online and in bars across the country. 'Bud Light actively and eagerly sought out a controversial influencer in a dangerously polarized space, with neither the wisdom to plan for a backlash nor the bravery to stand by its partner,' he wrote. Schott was sympathetic to Mulvaney - but condemned Bud Light for choosing to use the star for a campaign, then abandon her when the going got tough. Mulvaney's April 1 Instagram post saw the influencer showing off commemorative cans Anheuser-Busch's handling of backlash to its brand partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney is facing criticism, after the company seemed to abandon Mulvaney Musician Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting at cases of Bud Light, country singers John Rich and Travis Tritt publicly denounced the brand, and Ted Nugent calling the partnership a 'middle finger to their core consumer demographic.' There was also backlash to the backlash, with shock jock Howard Stern slamming the fury at Bud Light as overblown, and podcaster Joe Rogan calling the conservative outrage over Mulvaney 'goofy.' As the polarization spilled into barrooms, with patrons trading insults and recriminations over each others' beer choices, a handful of bar owners said they would stop selling Bud Light, at least temporarily, simply to prevent fights. On Friday afternoon, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth finally broke the company's silence in a public statement cryptically titled 'Our Responsibility To America.' Bud Light tweets for first time since Dylan Mulvaney controversy: 'TGIF' [NYPOST] Bud Light’s official Twitter account on Friday sent out its first tweet since brewing company Anheuser Busch sparked an uproar over its sponsorship deal with transgender ...mutton, dressed up as pork... influencer Dylan Mulvaney. "TGIF?" the popular beer’s account tweeted along with a photo of the iconic blue can. The typically active account has been quiet since April 1 — the day before Mulvaney took to Instagram to announce the deal with the beer giant, promoting a contest that gave Bud Light drinkers a chance to win $15,000. The advertising sponsorship drew widespread outrage among conservatives, who slammed the company’s decision to partner with a trans self-proclaimed genius as pushing "gender propaganda," and called for boycotts of the company. Since the partnership, the $132 billion beer company has seen its market value plummet by some $5 billion since the campaign was launched April 1. Busch distributors around the country have been feeling the fallout, with many bars in red states from Tennessee to Wyoming refusing to stock Bud Light. Amid the outrage, several Budweiser factories received bomb threats, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed. It is unclear how many facilities were targeted. The company had previously defended its decision to hire Mulvaney, an actress and influencer with more than 10 million followers on TikTok, where she documented her gender transition. However on Friday, the company offered a lukewarm apology to its customers. "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people," Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Brendan Whitworth said in a blurb titled "Our Responsibility To America." "We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer," he added, without mentioning Mulvaney in the statement.
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| CNN Lost Another 38% Of Viewers In 2021 |
| 2021-12-30 |
| Remember the old Miller Lite commercials? "Tastes Great! Less Viewers!" [Zero Hedge] - CNN managed a remarkable feat in 2021. The network, currently reeling from a spate of pedophilia related allegations among its staff, succeeded in losing ANOTHER 38 percent of its viewership. According to Nielsen data, CNN saw the massive drop in weekday prime-time viewership, while MSNBC saw a 25 percent drop in viewership for the same time slots. The data shows that on average there are 919,000 Americans watching MSNBC, while only 787,000 are still watching CNN. At this rate the networks will soon be out of business. At this point, anyone still watching CNN has to be either completely brainwashed or brain dead. The network is now desperately attempting to corral these zombies into paying for its services with subscriptions. Howard Stern recently posited the question "who the hell’s gonna pay for CNN+?" noting that "people don’t want CNN. I mean are they outta their minds?" Fox News also saw a decline of 34 percent, but still has vastly more viewers with an average of 2.3 million during prime time hours. Network news channels also saw significant declines in viewership, with NBC "Nightly News" registering a 14% decline, and both ABC’s "World News Tonight" and the "CBS Evening News" seeing 12% drops in viewership. The data also revealed that visits to mainstream media news websites plummeted, with unique visitors to the Washington Post’s website dropping by an staggering 44% between November 2020 and 2021, and the New York Times registering a 34% decline in unique visitors. While analysts claim the decline is due to President Trump leaving office, one might posit that it has more to do with the torrent of bullshit pouring out the mouths of every anchor and talking head visible on the networks, and practically every ’journalist’ woefully attempting to disguise their opinions as real news in the Post and the Times. |
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| 2017-11-16 |
 Weinstein accuser busted for cokeRose McGowan has spoken for the first time since turning herself in to police on drug possession charges to protest her innocence and suggest that the cocaine police found in her wallet after she left it on a plane was planted. The actress was arrested in Virginia on Tuesday on an outstanding warrant for cocaine possession which was filed in February. It stems from a flight she took to Virginia in January after which she left her wallet on the plane. Actress sues Weinstein An actress is suing Harvey Weinstein over claims he masturbated in front of her and later raped her in his swanky Beverly Hills hotel suite. The woman, who is named as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, says the disgraced producer first invited her to discuss a potential role in his Netflix series Marco Polo in 2015. Accuser Number 3 against Ed Westwick emerges A third woman has come forward to accuse Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick of sexual assault. Rachel Eck told Buzzfeed that the actor assaulted her the night before the 2014 Academy Awards. 2nd Actress files lawsuit against Weinstein A second lawsuit has been filed against Harvey Weinstein in as many days. On Wednesday, an anonymous actress sued Weinstein for assaulting her during a casting couch meeting, and opened the lawsuit up to the 'dozens, if not hundreds' of his other victims. Natasha Henstridge fingers Weinstein for sexual misconduct Natasha Henstridge revealed on Megyn Kelly Today that she too was a victim of Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct. That incident occurred in a hotel during the Sundance Film Festival, said Henstridge, who did not give a year. Sulu was joking; wants to forget the whole thing On Monday, former Star Trek actor George Takei posted a deceptive quasi-apology for a recent resurfaced interview with shock-jock Howard Stern in which Takei bragged about grabbing hesitant and "skittish" men by the penis in an effort to "persuade" them into sex. |
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| Gopnik: There Can Be No Truce with the Second Amendment | |
| 2017-10-03 | |
| [NewYorker] "Was it a jihadist or just a guy?” So the seventeen-year-old girl asks, on hearing the news, landing at once on the central black-comedy question as the annals of American mass murder expand this morning. If the author of the at least fifty dead and more wounded—the word “wounded,” of course, fails to capture the extent of the maiming, just as the blank word “dead” fails to capture the dawning of grief for so many families—was someone who had, even once, communicated with or been radicalized by isis, no matter how remote or long-distance that radicalization, or if he was merely a Muslim from a Muslim country, then a massive act of terrorism would have been committed and a militant response, including travel bans and broad suspensions of rights, would be essential. If you run that last sentence by our very own TW for shortening, I think she might be able to work it in by Friday.
President Trump, deprived from birth by some genetic accident of all natural human empathy—one should listen to a recently recovered tape of Trump, speaking to Howard Stern, in which he is actually boasting of his indifference to a man he thought was dying—speaks empathy as a foreign language and makes the kinds of mistakes we all make in a second language that we have barely mastered, placing adjectives in places that no native speaker ever would. Who sends warmest anything to the families of murder victims? Vice-President Mike Pence, who is not a sociopath, merely a Republican, knew that the right language is the language of bafflement, talking about “senseless violence” and the rest. So far, all signs are that it was just a guy—just one more American killer who got his hands on some collection of weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing people, and who then killed people. We know that if it was a Muslim with a foreign name, we would be in full panic mode and all we would be hearing about is the ever-greater dangers of terrorism. Indeed, the killings in France, on Sunday, which were surely terrorism, have already begun to attract that kind of attention from the right wing here. But when it happens here, what we’re told by the entire power structure of American life—both houses of Congress, the White House, and now the Supreme Court, locked and loaded to sustain the absurd and radical pro-gun ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller—is that there is nothing at all to be done, save to pray. Mandalay Bay, as I understand it, was a gun free zone to begin with. So, if anything, the shooter showed in one grisly moment how gun control really works, and the result was predictable. The facts remain facts. Gun control acts on gun violence the way antibiotics act on infections—imperfectly but with massive efficacy. Yet, even with that knowledge, some of us, in our innocence, proposed a sort of truce about Second Amendment issues in the face of the ongoing national emergency—the Trump Presidency—in which it seemed essential to make common cause, even with those who have the strange American fixation on the right to own military-style firearms. Nothing strange about it. There is a strong correlation between private gun ownership and civil liberties. It may be more subtle than attempts to control the transfer/ownership of firearms, for example, but it is provable. They don’t have a reason for this fixation—no reason can be found. None so blind as one who will not see, I guess. There’s no argument for it—such weapons are useless in sport, except for the sport of using them; they play no role in hunting, or not hunting anything except helpless people; and they protect no one from a tyrannical government, since the tyrannical government, if it would ever come to that, is hardly in need of small-arms fire to assert its will. It is about cost. Absolutely the government can use force and its great preponderance of weapons against its citizens, but private gun ownership shows that there will be a cost. The first cost will be in blood, but the second is far reaching and permanent: a government that has lost the Mandate of Heaven, and is therefore doomed to be extinct. Gun ownership shows first that the citizen is and should be the first concern for government policies, and second that should that consideration be ignored, there will be a cost. The leadership in government may be willing to pay it, since they will not be harmed hiding behind the masses of Kops and military, but there's always this: you gotta go to the grocery store sometime. One day your personal assistant won't return from the grocery store, or your secretary won't show up. Gopnik thinks that calls on his followers to wage war on a Constitutional Amendment will be cost free, but that is terribly misleading people down a dark path that has no good end for any of us. All on the Holy Alter of Public Safety. Absent an argument for it, they merely have a fixation about it, but it remains practically religious in its intensity. Between the consolidated power of the pro-gun right, and the truth that gun control has slipped down the agenda of even anti-violence liberals, this means that the only American response to regular mass gun killings will be a shrug and faked sympathy. It is hard to know how to stay too far ahead of despair. Step One: Admit you have a problem. Step Two: Stop trying to destroy rights through shaming or any other means you have just to satisfy your own sense of moral outrage. | |
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| Lena Dunham: 'Soul-crushing pain' of Trump's election made me lose weight | |
| 2017-02-07 | |
| [EW] Most people turn to diets and exercise to lose extra pounds, but Girls star Lena Dunham is sharing a new weight-loss trick you may not want to try at home. Probably all the puking she did. Dunham stopped by Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show Monday morning and revealed that she has none other than Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to thank for her slim figure. "Slim" should be in scare quotes... "Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food," she told Stern after he complimented her look. "Everyone’s been asking like, ’What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ’Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.'" At the link: Lena demonstrates some mad eighth-grade girlz skills at eye makeup...
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| How Trump is remaking the ‘culture war’ |
| 2017-01-26 |
 [NYPOST] The nation’s foremost culture warrior is President Trump.He wouldn’t, at first blush, seem well-suited to the part. Trump once appeared on the cover of Playboy. He has been married three times. He ran beauty pageants and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show. His "locker-room talk" captured on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape didn’t, shall we say, demonstrate a well-honed sense of propriety. There is no way Trump could be a credible combatant in the culture war as it existed for the last 40 years. But he has reoriented the main lines of battle away from issues related to religion and sexual morality and onto the ground of populism and nationalism. Trump’s culture war is fundamentally the people versus the elite, national illusory sovereignty versus cosmopolitanism and patriotism versus multiculturalism. It’s the difference, in a nutshell, between fighting over gay rights or immigration, over the breakdown in marriage or Black Lives Matter. The new war is just as emotionally charged as the old one. It, too, involves fundamental questions about who we are as a people, which are always more fraught than the debate over the appropriate tax rate or whether we should have a defense-budget sequester. The participants are, by and large, the same as well. The old culture war featured Middle America on one side, and coastal elites, academia and Hollywood on the other. So does the new war. And while Trump has no interest in fighting over gay marriage or engaging in the bathroom wars, his staunch pro-life position is a notable holdover from the old war. Yet any of his detractors who is warning, out of reflex more than anything else, of an attempt to control women’s bodies or establish a theocracy is badly out of date. Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has many ambitions, but imposing his morality on anyone clearly isn’t one of them. Instead, he wants to topple a corrupt establishment that he believes has put both its selfish interests and a misbegotten, fuzzy-headed altruism above the well-being of the American people. This isn’t just a governing program, but a culture crusade that includes a significant regional and class element. It channels the concerns of the Jacksonian America that is Trump’s base and, as Walter Russell Mead writes in an essay in Foreign Affairs, "felt itself to be under siege, with its values under attack and its future under threat." |
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| Howard Stern's how to debate "anti-zionists" |
| 2014-07-25 |
| h/t Instapundit When a caller attempted to blame Israel for the war with Hamas last week, SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern told him to F*** off! ...Stern: Oh, f*** off... I dont want to listen to any anti-Semitism today. Jews get enough s**t all over the world. They get s**t on all the time. Jews are the indigenous people of that area. Im sick of the bulls**t. And the Arabs dont even want those Palestinians, otherwise theyd let them matriculate into their country. ...Stern: People forget history. Jews were being executed and killed, and they went over to Israel, this little sh*thole, which was a desertit had nothing going on. ...Stern: But the Palestinians are mad at the Israelis, instead of being mad at the f***ing terrorists running their so-called countrywho are raping the country, taking all the aide the United States actually gives to them. That theyre not angry with; theyre angry with Israel. [...] They elected terrorists to run their country. Thats the difference. Who do you support? Get off your f***ing high horse. |
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| Hollywood and the Antigun Left goes after the NRA | |||
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Mr. Stern asked Mr. Weinstein on Wednesday whether he owned a gun. The Hollywood heavyweight replied that he did not and never would. "I don't think we need guns in this country. And I hate it," the producer said. "I think the NRA is a disaster area." Mr. Weinstein then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. "I shouldn't say this, but I'll tell it to you, Howard," he said. "I'm going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we're going to take this head-on. And they're going to wish they weren't alive after I'm done with them." The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a "big movie like a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'" The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, "Gun stocks -- I don't want to be involved in that stuff. It's going to be like crash and burn. The chairman of the Weinstein Co. (formerly Miramax) is one of President Obama's biggest fundraisers. He brought in more than $500,000 from his Hollywood friends for the president's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2012.
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| Paglia: Western Civilization at risk. |
| 2013-12-29 |
| [WSJ] 'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can't Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out of fashion, Americans undervalue manual labor, schools neuter male students, opinion makers deny the biological differences between men and women, and sexiness is dead. And that's just 20 minutes of our three-hour conversation. 'Surprising' to some perhaps. When Ms. Paglia, now 66, burst onto the national stage in 1990 with the publishing of "Sexual Personae," she immediately established herself as a feminist who was the scourge of the movement's establishment, a heretic to its orthodoxy. Pick up the 700-page tome, subtitled "Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, " and it's easy to see why. "If civilization had been left in female hands," she wrote, "we would still be living in grass huts." Under the Champ, we'll soon all be living in huts and smoking the grass. The fact that the acclaimed bookthe first of six; her latest, "Glittering Images," is a survey of Western artwas rejected by seven publishers and five agents before being printed by Yale University Press only added to Ms. Paglia's sense of herself as a provocateur in a class with Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. But unlike those radio jocks, Ms. Paglia has scholarly chops: Her dissertation adviser at Yale was Harold Bloom, and she is as likely to discuss Freud, Oscar Wilde or early Native American art as to talk about Miley Cyrus. "Talk about Miley Cyrus"....now there's an intelligent concept. Ms. Paglia relishes her outsider persona, having previously described herself as an egomaniac and "abrasive, strident and obnoxious." Talking to her is like a mental CrossFit workout. One moment she's praising pop star Rihanna ("a true artist"), then blasting ObamaCare ("a monstrosity," though she voted for the president), global warming ("a religious dogma"), and the idea that all gay people are born gay ("the biggest canard," yet she herself is a lesbian). An "abrasive, strident and obnoxious" lesbian, quite rare. Quite rare indeed. |
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