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Fox News Officially Supporting CNN’s Suit Against Trump

November 15, 2018 By Ed Brayton

From the Department of Massive Contradictions, Fox News is officially supporting CNN’s lawsuit against Donald Trump over the pulling of press credentials from reporter Jim Acosta and will file an amicus brief in the case supporting their argument that Trump is violating the First Amendment with his actions. (more…) Read more

Mitch McConnell and the Death of Shame

November 15, 2018 By Ed Brayton

Sen. Mitch McConnell, perhaps the most blindly partisan political leader this country has ever seen, actually has an op-ed on the Fox News website — of course — with the headline (I kid you not), “Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?” Any legitimate news site would need to stop laughing before considering whether to publish it. (more…) Read more

Crokin’s Excuse for the Failure of ‘Red Tsunami’ Predictions

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

We’ve heard from Kat Kerr, Mark Taylor and Bill Mitchell with their excuses for why the “red tsunami” they predicted didn’t happen, now let’s hear from their fellow crackpot, Liz Crokin. She has a fresh new take on it — the Republicans let the Democrats win so they could expose rampant voter fraud. (more…) Read more

McInnes: Soros is Making My Neighbors Hate Me!

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

Gavin McInnes loves to pose as this super tough guy, but he’s reduced to a whining, sniveling little snowflake when he gets mean looks from his neighbors. And of course, he blames George Soros for the whole thing because…well, because he can’t blame himself and his repulsive views, can he? So blame it on the right’s all-purpose boogeyman. (more…) Read more

DOJ: Whitaker Will Consult with Ethics Advisers

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

Reuters reports that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will consult with ethics officials about any matters that may require his recusal, presumably including the Mueller investigation. Whether he will follow their advice, of course, is an entirely different matter. (more…) Read more

Trump’s Ridiculous Attacks on Macron

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

After French President Emanuel Macron made a speech on Armistice Day decrying the explosion of nationalist sentiment, Trump is now throwing a tantrum on Twitter, attacking him with all kinds of hypocritical and a-historical nonsense. Leave it to Trump to conduct diplomacy on freaking Twitter. (more…) Read more

Trump: The Secret Service Made Me Do It

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

So now Trump is blaming the Secret Service for his failure to show up for memorial services for American World War I veterans who died in action. He says they told him he couldn’t go and he tried to take a car — honest, he did! — but they wouldn’t let him do that either. (more…) Read more

CNN Files First Amendment Suit Over Acosta’s Revoked Credentials

November 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton

I’m glad to see that CNN has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Trump pulling the credentials of reporter Jim Acosta after a tense exchange during a press conference last week. And now that the suit has been filed, the White House is suddenly changing their justification for doing so. (more…) Read more

Culture Wars Radio, Episode 20

November 13, 2018 By Ed Brayton

Episode 20 of Culture Wars Radio is now available to patrons of the show. You can become a patron for only $2 an episode. On this episode, we talk about the firing of Jeff Sessions and his replacement by total crackpot Matt Whitaker, about Trump bailing on honoring the troops in Paris, and about the midterm elections, among other things. Read more

More Inane Excuses for Failure of ‘Red Tsunami’ Prophecy

November 13, 2018 By Ed Brayton

All of the “prophets” and wingnuts who boldly predicted that Republicans would sweep the midterms in a “red tsunami” are now scrambling for excuses. Mark Taylor said it did happen, but only “spiritually” (whatever the hell that means). Kat Kerr says it really did happen too, but she put an amusing twist on why we didn’t notice: (more…) Read more

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