What makes this move by Jake Tapper so great isn't that this talking point is so stupid, even though it is, or that his crushing of it was so masterful, because it was. It's that Trump flack Sarah Huckabee Sanders shopped this same bit of idiocy all day on Friday, and Jake was ...read more
Hillary Clinton should be putting this stuff into her ads. While pretty much everyone in the world knows Trump lost the debate, David Duke says he "did the job," and that people who want to "protect our culture" need to get on the Trump train because "he's our candidate, folks" ...read more
CNN had a town hall with President Obama that didn't get a lot of attention thanks to the ongoing 2016 presidential election shitshow, but there were two moments that really stood out to me as great reminders of what a great president we're losing. The first was his ...read more
You should definitely check out Gary Johnson's entire town hall, but for your confused millennial or libertarian friends, just show them these two clips. First, there's Johnson not being able to name a single world leader, then picking one but not remembering his name, then it ...read more
I wish he'd have just said this to begin with, instead of that "no reasonable prosecutor" bullshit he said in July. From the Senate Homeland Security Committee Hearing (transcript here): ...read more
While the big business news story about Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat of Donald Trump at Monday night's debate was a 133-point stock market gain, Fox decided Hillary's win was responsible for strengthening the Mexican peso... by 2.5%...for like an hour (transcript here): ...read more
I've been seeing this happen over and over again, where a Trumpist will just keep lying until the interviewer just gives up. This is sort of a new one, though: an interviewer who doesn't give up, but is just outmatched by the shamelessness of the lies. Sam Stein has this asshole ...read more
Buzzfeed dug this up, from 2011:Whether you like them or don't like them, they have done so much for the African-Americans. ...read more
Remember that time Hillary denied she ever said ISIS was rooting for Trump by explaining in detail that she was quoting a terrorism expert who said ISIS was rooting for Trump? That was awesome. Well today, Andrea Mitchell had that expert, Matt Olsen, on her show, and she pressed ...read more
Over the past few days, the country has been rocked by yet another caught-on-video shooting of an unarmed black man, this time in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The shooting of 40 year-old Terence Crutcher occurred on Friday, but it wasn’t until the Monday release of police video showing ...read more
Somehow, this asshole gets to brand himself as the "law-and-order" candidate (transcript here):Donald Trump just accused the police of having blood on their hands out of sheer cowardice, and I bet you a Trump U diploma it doesn't get mentioned on TV news. ...read more
The Trumpists have been trying to backstop their lie that Hillary started the birthers by saying that Patti Solis Doyle "even ADMITTED" as much when she said the campaign fired ONE VOLUNTEER who forwarded an email that WAS NOT ABOUT Obama's birthplace. Or, as fat fucking liar ...read more
John Dickerson got Kellyanne Conway to admit Trump is a liar, TWICE, then practically apologized for it (transcript here):Here's the full question and answer, including Conway's lengthy deflection and Dickerson's aw-shucks explanation for even bringing it up:Now imagine this were ...read more
Joking about assassination wasn't enough. Now this:Take their -- let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. Okay? It would be very dangerous. Trump doesn't say who should "take away their guns," exactly, he's just saying. Take away their guns.The media isn't playing ...read more
Now, not to mention her in the same breath, but Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. The only thing about that that was true was ...read more
Donald Trump finally revealed the results of his probably fake medical exam today, and if you can manage not to barf, check out Dr. Oz grossly complimenting Trump's testosterone level: Your testosterone is 441, which is actually (hesitates, nods) it’s good. (audience laughs, ...read more
In just one speech last night, Donald Trump joked about the poisoning of children, said he doesn't feel sorry for workers because he works so hard being at podiums, and this:Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working as one people under one God, under one ...read more
Isn't this deplorable? (transcript here):Mother Jones' David Corn uncovered that clip, and this one a few days later:But sure, Hillary's the jerk for calling racists "deplorable." ...read more
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it, partially because nobody on the news has even fucking mentioned it! (transcript here):The media is ignoring a mostly-white crowd laughing it up over a crisis that has damaged the health of a predominantly black ...read more
You know all the Trumpists whining that Hillary "attacked everyday voters" when she said that the racist half (it's actually way more than half) of Trump's supporters were deplorable? They can all now shut the entire fuck up, thanks to these two clips that have been dug up ...read more
You've all probably heard about the 6-foot painting of Donald Trump that Donald Trump bought with other people's money, if nowhere else, then from President Obama on Tuesday:One candidate's family foundation has saved countless lives around the world. The other candidate's ...read more
Wondering why Donald Trump is suddenly backing out of revealing the results of his totally real medical exam "late last week?" I think it's because it never happened, and I think that because his campaign manager said this (transcript here):If Conway doesn't know for sure he's ...read more
She said it last week, too, but without saying "half" (transcript here):She didn't say "half" that time, which is good, because it's way more than half.In the same interview, Hillary also made nice with the other half of Trump supporters: ...read more
So, we know Colin Powell lied about Hillary and personal email, but it turns out he not only lied, he also told on himself. Powell said, last month, that he never told Hillary anything about personal email until a year after she started at State, and through a spokesperson, ...read more