Month: February 2022

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during an appearance ahead of facing a Republican-led recall election in in San Leandro, Calif., September 8, 2021. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) After California governor Gavin Newsom was caught unmasked during a photo-op at the NFL playoff game Sunday, he addressed reporters Monday to offer an explanation, although without apologizing. He defended
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Whoopi Goldberg opened up a firestorm on Monday’s edition of “The View” after she claimed that the Holocaust had nothing to do with race. Goldberg was excoriated by many online for the claim she made. She issued an apology on her official social media account hours later. “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is
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FBI Director Christopher Wray discussed China during an address on Monday, including the threat posed to the U.S. by the Chinese government’s massive theft of information. “The Chinese government steals staggering volumes of information and causes deep, job destroying damage” that spans “a wide-range of industries. So much so, that … we’re constantly opening new
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One day after leading their flagship Sunday morning talk show with the inconvenient statistic, ABC’s World News Tonight failed to cover their own poll showing an overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden limiting his search for a new Supreme Court Justice to just black women. ABC wasn’t alone though, CBS Evening News didn’t
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, in Conroe, Texas, January 29, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) In response to Trump’s Continuing Disgrace Phil has ably related the outrageous things that former president Donald Trump had to say over the weekend and the perils they portend going forward. For now, I just want to address one
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Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the WorldPride 2019 opening ceremony in New York,June 26, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) On Monday, Jewish organizations denounced The View host Whoopi Goldberg’s on-air rant that dismissed the racial motivation behind the Holocaust, the Third Reich’s genocide of more than 6 million Jews. Goldberg surprised her audience and co-hosts when she argued on
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Democratic state legislators are backing a bill to eliminate abortion restrictions in West Virginia. The Associated Press reported that at a news conference on Monday, co-sponsor Del. Danielle Walker called restrictions on abortions “a barrier to safe, affordable, accessible health care.” “It is racist. Sit in that uncomfortable moment,” she said, according to the outlet.
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On Friday night, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid injected more venom into our body politic, declaring parents speaking out at school board meetings to be “bankrolled by conservative organizations…controlling the puppet strings” and that they, along with Republicans, are akin to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Nazis, Pol Pot, and Soviet Union due to their
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A Wisconsin-based spice company lost 40,000 customers after its CEO called all Republicans racist. Earlier this month, Penzeys Spices CEO Bill Penzey sent an email to his paying customers alerting them to a “Republicans are Racist” sale over Martin Luther King weekend. “Remember how Republicans, going against a mountain of evidence to the contrary, once
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Neil Young performs in Washington D.C., November 18, 2015. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) It’s just dumb and intolerant. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ince Neil Young announced that he was pulling his music off Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s having a podcast on the platform, figures favorable to the move have been busy mining their thesauruses in
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