In a crazy and crazed week, it made sense that Charlie Sheen would show up Friday on FOX "NEWS" to speak to speak on GUTFELD! Where else would he go?
Always be wary of programs like GUTFELD! whose titles come with an exclamation point. Does the host mistake himself for a show biz dynamo? GUTFELD WITH A G!
Someone should break it to the 'comedian' who couldn't even handle stand-up, his energy levels weren't high when he was young him, as a failed stand up he couldn't keep audiences awake as a young person and he's 61 now. In fact, if any three words best described Gutfeld they would be "low energy levels."
But there he was making nice with professional leper Charlie Sheen. Charlie can't get work these days -- are you surprised? -- so he's written a book and made a NETFLIX special to try to drum up support. The special -- and his interviews promoting it -- are filled with nothing but one lie after another.
We know Charlie and have for years. He's never been more embarrassing than he is currently. He likes to claim that he's the victim when it comes to AIDS and that no one -- woman or man -- caught AIDS from him. He doesn't know that. No one knows that. What is known? Long after he was diagnosed, he continued to sleep with women and men.
Creeps like Gutfeld and Bill Maher won't touch those topics. They won't call out a person with AIDS who sleeps with people he doesn't disclose his disease -- his sexually transmitted disease -- to.
Maher?
Yeah, Bill had him on too -- but over a week ago: September 12th. Again, the "!" in "GUTFELD!" really needs to go.
Creepy Bill Maher mainly spent his time with Sheen trying to figure out if Charlie was a top or a bottom when having sex with men. For those of you currently being schooled in DeSantis' Florida, a top is the penetrating partner and a bottom is the one receiving. Now don't think the bottom is just passive. There are such things as power bottoms and even alpha bottoms. They are still the party penetrated but they are calling the shots We should also note that two men can have sex without anal penetration and some couples and couplings eschew anal penetration.
Yesterday with Gutfeld, Charlie was mainly attempting to audition for a job insisting that he "saw the dismissal as a potential job opening, and if they want to, you know, fix that show and get some ratings, this guy."
We were embarrassed for him. It's the kind of cringe no one has seen on TV since loopy Sean Young threw together a tacky costume and went on a campaign to insist Tim Burton should cast her as Catwoman.
Though Charlie wasn't on Bill's Friday show last week, it was still embarrassing. Alex Wagner was the token woman -- in the last years, Maher's not just screening his guests (he's Rushbo wanting Dittoheads only), he's also moved to only offer one woman or no women. Again, he just wants ditto heads.
He proved how useless he was by playing footsie with Tom Holman. The closest to uncomfortable he made the acting head of ICE was when he invented this mythical waitress Carol who got deported and allowed Holman to 'address' the topic with the following:
What I think about every day is, again, we prioritize the worst first and in the numbers show we do it. What I've said, from day one, if you're in the country illegally you're not off the table. You know why? Because there are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, doing the background investigations, paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation on earth. If you want to be a part of greatest nation, there's a right way and wrong way to do it. If, like it or not, the ones who are here illegally cheated the system.
There are so many ways to respond to that nonsense.
Bill Maher found none of them.
"What I've said, from day one, if you're in the country illegally you're not off the table." The most obvious response to that is, "What you've said from day one? Nobody elected you to anything fat bitch. The campaign promise was the worst of the worst and that came from Chump and not you, fat bitch."
"We prioritize the worst first and in the numbers show we do it." Really? By targeting home depot and farms? You really think gang bangers and drug traffickers work real jobs to cover up for their secret identities?
Homan blustered, "Because there are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, doing the background investigations, paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation on earth." Yes, there are, millions taking tests, doing the background investigation, etc. And you're targeting them. When they show up for a court hearing, when they show up for their scheduled check ups, you're targeting them. So, fat bitch, stop pretending you're anything but a petty crook.
"Cheated the system"? So you follow the rules, do you, fat bitch?
No, he doesn't and shortly after Homan and Maher skipped off together holding hands as the credits rolled, reality broke on Homan.
Homan was captured on video accepting $50,000 in cash at a meeting spot in Texas on 20 September 2024, according to an internal summary of the case reviewed by MSNBC and sources who spoke to the outlet.
Four sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that multiple federal officials believed they had a solid criminal case against Homan for conspiracy to commit bribery. However, since Homan was not a public official at the time he accepted the money and Trump had not yet become president, his actions did not meet the criteria for a standard bribery charge.
Officials eventually decided to continue monitoring Homan once he joined Trump’s second presidential administration. MSNBC reports that officials had been looking at four potential criminal charges including conspiracy, bribery and two kinds of fraud, before Trump’s new justice department shut down the investigation.
Maya Yang and Robert Mackey (GUARDIAN) report:
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election, allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBI and justice department – then run by Joe Biden’s administration – had intended to hold off and assess whether Homan would follow through on his alleged promises after he was appointed as Trump’s border czar. However, the investigation stalled after Trump took office, and in recent weeks, officials appointed by Trump decided to close the case, according to MSNBC.
Some idiots in the media were applauding Maher. Why? Because he defended Jimmy Kimmel who Chump, the FCC and NEXSTAR got fired from ABC last week?
Are they ignoring Chump's social media post about how ABC's THE VIEW will be the next to go? The same program Bill has attacked repeatedly and said should be off the air in the last few months?
Donald Chump is openly targeting political enemies. Last night, he posted on social media:
Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.’ Then we almost put in a Democrat supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia, with a really bad Republican past. A Woke RINO, who was never going to do his job. That’s why two of the worst Dem Senators PUSHED him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so. Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer, and likes you, a lot. We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! President DJT
Robin Levinson-King (BBC NEWS) reports:
The president's post came a day after federal prosecutor Erik Siebert left his post after Trump said he wanted him to resign for failing to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James over allegations of mortgage fraud.
The New York Times reported that Siebert had told senior justice department officials their investigations had not unearthed enough evidence to prosecute James.
James, a Democrat who won a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump in 2023, has denied the mortgage fraud allegations as "baseless" and motivated by "revenge".
This is a very dangerous moment. At THE NEW YORKER, Ruth Marcus explained:
"I want him out," President Donald Trump declared on Friday, referring to Erik Siebert, the career prosecutor he had tapped less than five months earlier to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Siebert, who had been in the role in an acting capacity since January and whose nomination was pending on the Senate floor, complied in short order. His resignation was not enough for Trump, who took to his social-media platform Truth Social just after midnight to make his point: “He didn’t quit, I fired him!” Trump insisted he had acted when he was informed that Siebert had received the “UNUSUALLY STRONG support of the two absolutely terrible, sleazebag Democrat Senators, from the Great State of Virginia.” He was referring to Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who, along with the state’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, had recommended Siebert for the post.
This odd justification—faulting Warner and Kaine for their bipartisanship—should fool no one. The source of Trump’s beef with Siebert was evident. According to numerous reports, Siebert had balked at bringing criminal charges against two of Trump’s supposed enemies: New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who had sued Trump and his company for fraud; and the former F.B.I. director James Comey, whom Trump had fired during his first term. This moment was inevitable. Trump has been proclaiming for years that his political opponents should be locked up, but there is a gulf between loudly alleging criminal behavior and amassing the evidence necessary to prove the elements of an actual crime. The difference in Trump’s second term is that he is not about to be deterred by such niceties. This time around, the lawyers aren’t going to stop him.
The Trump Administration’s modus operandi has been to flood the zone with a torrent of illegal acts. One day it uses the military to blow up boats suspected of trafficking drugs, without legal authorization and in defiance of both U.S. and international law; the next it threatens to revoke the broadcast licenses of television networks whose speech displeases the Administration. These are not discrete incidents. They are linked by the common threads of Trump’s disdain for the rule of law, his bloated conception of Presidential power, and his readiness to bend the state to his will. The scope of the assault seems intended to inure the public to the outrages it is witnessing. It is impossible, emotionally and intellectually, to be worked up about everything, everywhere, all at once.
But here we are. In the hierarchy of the Administration’s horrors, the Siebert firing is about as bad as it gets. Since Trump regained office, the Department of Justice has dismissed career prosecutors for an array of unjustified and self-serving reasons: for daring to have worked on the criminal cases against Trump; being the daughter of Comey; failing to remove personal pronouns in a signature block. It has dismissed pending cases to serve political ends, such as that of New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams. What’s happening now is worse. Dropping the criminal charges against Adams amounted to a political perversion of the justice system. But using the criminal law to punish political opponents as retribution inflicts far greater damage. Here, a potentially guilty person doesn’t walk free; an innocent person is harmed. The prospect of eventual acquittal in the case of an unjustified prosecution is of little comfort; as Trump well understands, being indicted and having to stand trial is ruinous enough. Firing a prosecutor for refusing to pursue a political opponent without a sufficient legal basis crosses the reddest of lines. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche were reported to have privately defended Siebert and questioned the viability of the case against James. On Saturday evening, Trump directed a Truth Social post at his Attorney General, demanding action. “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” the President wrote. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! President DJT.” For good measure, Trump said he would nominate his former criminal-defense lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, to take Siebert’s place. “She will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!” Trump wrote, of Halligan, who has been the White House staffer in charge of removing “improper ideology” from museums, as it’s described in an executive order. “Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer, and likes you, a lot,” he publicly assured Bondi.
In another era, of stiffer spines and greater integrity, we would be in Saturday Night Massacre territory. On the evening of October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refused and resigned, followed by Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. (The deed was ultimately done by the No. 3 official, Solicitor General Robert Bork; unlike Richardson and Ruckelshaus, he hadn’t assured lawmakers he could not interfere with Cox’s work.) To expect a similar display of principle from Bondi and Blanche would be to ignore their track record of servility to Trump.
At dangerous moments like this, we need a strong media. Sadly, our media keeps failing. Take Jimmy Kimmel losing his job. That would never have happened had a compromised and lying media not wanted to ride the easy ratings bandwagon by turning The Demagogue shot dead into a hero -- see our previous reports "Media: The canonization of a demagogue" and "Media Failures."
As we noted, it was the Whiteness of it all, the shutting Black people out of the conversation, the bond among the media with their White skin. We'd also refer you to T
Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words—ones that would greatly aid those who sought to understand his legacy and import. It is somewhat difficult to match these words with the manner in which Kirk is presently being memorialized in mainstream discourse. New York Times columnist Ezra Klein dubbed Kirk “one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion” and a man who “was practicing politics in exactly the right way.” California governor Gavin Newsom hailed Kirk’s “passion and commitment to debate,” advising us to continue Kirk’s work by engaging “with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.” Atlantic writer Sally Jenkins saluted Kirk, claiming he “argued with civility” and asserting that his death was “a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.”
The mentions of “debate” and “engagement” are references to Kirk’s campus tours, during which he visited various colleges to take on whoever come may. That this aspect of Kirk’s work would be so attractive to writers and politicians is understandable. There is, after all, a pervasive worry, among the political class, that college students, ensconced in their own bubbles, could use a bit of shock therapy from a man unconcerned with preferred pronouns, trigger warnings, and the humanity of Palestinians. But it also shows how the political class’s obsession with universities blinds it to everything else. And the everything-else of Kirk’s politics amounted to little more than a loathing of those whose mere existence provoked his ire.
t is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable views—that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. It’s that Kirk reveled in open bigotry. Indeed, claims of Kirk’s “civility” are tough to square with his penchant for demeaning members of the LGBTQ+ community as “freaks” and referring to trans people with the slur “tranny.” Faced with the prospect of a Kamala Harris presidency, Kirk told his audience that the threat had to be averted because Harris wanted to “kidnap your child via the trans agenda.” Garden-variety transphobia is sadly unremarkable. But Kirk was a master of folding seemingly discordant bigotries into each other, as when he defined “the American way of life” as marriage, home ownership, and child-rearing free of “the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school,” adding that he did not want kids to “have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.” The American way of life was “Christendom,” Kirk claimed, and Islam—“the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America”—was antithetical to that. Large “dedicated” Islamic areas were “a threat to America,” Kirk asserted, and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a “Mohammedan,” with Kirk supposing that anyone trying to see “Mohammedism take over the West” would love to have New York—a “prior Anglo center”—“under Mohammedan rule.”
Kirk habitually railed against “Black crime,” claiming that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people.” He repeated the rape accusations against Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five who is now a New York City councilman, calling him a “disgusting pig” who had gotten away with “gang rape.” Whatever distaste Kirk held for Blacks was multiplied when he turned to those from Haiti. Haiti was, by Kirk’s lights, a country “infested with demonic voodoo,” whose migrants were “raping your women and hunting you down at night.” These Haitians, as well as undocumented immigrants from other countries, were “having a field day,” per Kirk, and “coming for your daughter next.” The only hope was Donald Trump, who had to prevail, lest Haitians “become your masters.”
We refer to the person as The Demagogue and we don't normally include links to hate speech but Coates has written a very important article. Klein's not the only one distorting truth -- and as Coates points out later in the article, to canonize TD, you have to refuse to quote his words.
And that's what they did -- even on MSNBC -- in the days after the murder.
And when Jimmy Kimmel got pulled from the airwaves last week, they still didn't have their act together. See the "The Snapshot" for September 18th, we're not going into it again. But we will note that when you do a segment on it, if you're factual, you don't say Jimmy Kimmel was incorrect in what he stated and you also don't refuse to quote what he actually said.
He was attacking TD! He was lying!
And there's an MSNBC host refusing to quote what he actually said while she insists he got his facts wrong.
What was Jimmy Kimmel's 'objectionable' statement:
The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered [The Demagogue] as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
That is not a lie. It is factual. They went to town with the murder until they learned about the family of the shooter. Then they backed off. Then they rushed in to claim that it was because he was radicalized in college (one semester at Utah State University -- they leave out his multiple years after at a trade school Dixie Technical College where you get certificates, not degrees). Then they wanted to blame it on his roommate who is apparently transgender. The shooter is the shooter. And they've bent the truth repeatedly throughout their telling of The Demagogue's life and murder.
When the stupidity bled into the coverage of Jimmy Kimmel, it was noted we can't afford this stupidity. We never really could but especially not in these dark times.
Chump is committing crimes. Unlike Nixon, Chump's doing it right out in the open.
And we can't afford the stupidity.
Which brings us back to the idiots praising Bill Maher. He didn't need to invent "Carol." Chump's deported at least 200,000 people so far this year. He could have addressed the three US children -- one with cancer -- deported to Honduras. He could have noted the deportation of high schooler Maykol Bogoya-Duarte. He could have noted California's Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez. But facts and real people were too much for lazy ass Bill Maher. Inventing someone saves him time from actually having to research what he's going to be talking about. The stupidity is killing us.
