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Instead, Spayd echoed the defensiveness of her colleagues, attributing the liberal backlash to partisanship: I can’t help wondering about the ideological motives of those crying false balance, given that they are using the argument mostly in support of liberal causes and candidates. CNN’s Brian Stelter focused his show, ‘Reliable Sources,’ on this subject last weekend….
TV man Jimmy Fallon had impacted molar Donald Trump on his program Thursday night, where Fallon proceeded to act like this whole thing is a fucking joke. The gentle, baby-soft interview included a little bit of joshing about Trump’s “bromance” with Vladimir Putin, then culminated with him playfully ruffling Trump’s hair. Of course you did,…
In March, North Carolina state legislators banned transgender people from peeing in the bathroom of their choosing. According to the law, HB2 or the “bathroom bill,” when you’re in public building—a government agency, a public school, whatever—the gender listed on your birth certificate is the only one that matters. You remember the initial hubbub: North…
Photo Donald J. Trump in a campaign appearance on Friday at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times It was not true in 2011, when Donald J. Trump mischievously began to question President Obama’s birthplace aloud in television interviews. “I’m starting to think that he was not born here,” he…
Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” moment blew up on the campaign trail last weekend like the major gaffe everyone had been waiting for. Donald Trump had new ammunition for the home stretch — a moment echoing Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment that made clear just how much he disdained a wide swath of America. The…
With just 50 days until the election, Donald Trump is facing a staggering — and perhaps historic — organizational disadvantage. According to a POLITICO review of campaign spending, Hillary Clinton has invested seven times the amount of money on TV commercials as her Republican rival and has established twice as many field offices in many…
Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented deluge of small-dollar donations for the GOP, one that Republican Party elders have dreamed about finding for much of the past decade as they’ve watched a succession of Democrats — Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton — develop formidable fundraising operations $5, $10 and…
Just six weeks ago, Hillary Clinton’s advantage in the Electoral College looked insurmountable. Now, based on the latest round of public polls, it’s a different story. If the election were held today, Donald Trump would apparently win roughly as many electoral votes as Hillary Clinton — who held a commanding lead in early August and…
Are you so unimpressed with our presidential candidates? Thinking about voting for Jill “who knows about vaccines” Stein, or Gary “what is Aleppo” Johnson instead? “It’s so hard to choose between two equally bad options!” you sigh. “Might as well go with a third party, that makes me feel nice.” This reaction, my pals, is…
On Monday morning, President Obama addressed the series of bombs left around New York City and New Jersey, saying the investigation is “moving rapidly,” before asking the media to report only what authorities tell it to. “The investigation is moving rapidly, and as is my practice, I’m going to leave it to the FBI and…