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Saturday, January 26, 2019
NFC Title Game NFL Called Out on Senate Floor ... "Travesty, Outrage"
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Live Stream of Senate Hearing, Brett Kavanaugh vs. Dr. Christine Ford
Brett Kavanaugh’s fate may well be determined in the next 8 hours, after the showdown in the Senate Judiciary Committee between the Supreme Court nominee and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. The hearing kicked off at 10 AM ET and Ford…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Terry Crews" Emotional U.S. Senate Testimony on Sexual Assault
Terry Crews says he had to fight every instinct to not get physical after a WME talent agent allegedly groped his genitals in 2016 — and he got very emotional discussing it on Capitol Hill. The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star testified about sexual…
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Roger Stone Says Hulk Hogan Can Win Senate Seat Because He"s Famous
Roger Stone has one good reason for floating the idea of Hulk Hogan running for a U.S. Senate seat — and that reason’s sitting in the Oval Office right now. We got President Trump’s former adviser Thursday in NYC and got his…
Hulk Hogan"s Flattered People Want Him to Run for U.S. Senate, BUT ...
Hulk Hogan may have retired from wrestling, but someone powerful is twisting his arm hard … to run for U.S. Senate … something he says doesn’t interest him, but he made it clear to us that could change. Republican strategist and former Trump…
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Sarah Silverman Saddened by Al Franken"s Last Day in the Senate
Sarah Silverman is sad Sen. Al Franken was forced to resign, and pissed President Trump hasn’t had the decency to do the same. We got Sarah at LAX Monday and asked her about her old pal who officially stepped down Tuesday…
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Tim Allen Thought Both Alabama Senate Candidates Sucked!
Tim Allen is a bigger fan of the dessert menu at Craig’s than the two guys Alabama had to pick from for U.S. Senator. We got Tim and his wife, Jane, along with Mary Hart and husband/producer Burt Sugarman leaving the WeHo hot spot Tuesday night…
Roy Moore Loses Alabama Senate Election Against Doug Jones
The contentious and highly publicized race for Alabama’s vacant Senate seat is finally over … and the victor is Doug Jones. Roy Moore lost the special election for the seat left open by Jeff Sessions Tuesday night, to his Democratic…
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Roy Moore Shows Up Riding a Horse to Vote in U.S. Senate Race
Roy Moore went full cowboy mode … mounting a horse to cast his ballot in Alabama’s contentious special election. The Republican U.S. Senate candidate arrived on horseback Tuesday in Gallant, Alabama. Moore wore his trademark cowboy hat while…
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Al Franken Resigns from the US Senate
Nearly a month ago, Senator Al Franken apologized for kissing, groping a woman without her consent. Since then, other accusers have come forward with similar allegations.
There have been calls for Franken to resign from the Senate. Countless calls from Democratic voters, as well as calls from the majority of Democrats in the Senate.
On Thursday, December 7th, Senator Franken announced that he will resign.
After weeks of pressure from voters and his colleagues in the Senate, Al Franken took to the Senate floor to announce his resignation.
He will step down in the coming weeks.
Al Franken was quick to highlight that he is not the only politician accused of sexual misconduct.
“I of all people am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party.”
He could not be more clearly referring to Donald Trump’s infamous “grab ‘em by the p–sy” tape.
And, just as clearly, Al Franken condemns alleged child-molester Roy Moore, who is currently campaigning to become one of Alabama’s senators.
Roy Moore is somehow receiving Republican support despite having used his position in the prosecutor’s office as a cover to find and prey upon underage teens.
Senator Franken, who is accused of having used social circumstances to force unwanted kisses upon women, also addressed the allegations against him:
“Some of the allegations against me are simply not true.”
While it’s possible that a political opportunist decided to try their hand at condemning him after others told their true stories, that doesn’t mean that any of these women are necessarily lying.
And if one were, that would in no way mitigate the allegations that others have made.
“Others,” Franken continues. “I remember very differently.”
A lot of famous, powerful men who have been accused of terrible things in recent weeks have stated that they remember things differently.
Pro-tip? Some sexual predators, from harassers to rapists, don’t even realize that they are what they are. Not realizing what they’ve been doing to women for years is not an excuse.
Franken says that he is stepping down for the sake of the people of Minnesota, whom he represents.
“I know in my heart, nothing that I have done as a Senator, nothing, has brought dishonor on this institution, and I am confident that the Ethics Committee would agree.”
Remember that is possible to admire someone’s politics and still dislike them as a person. You might even like someone as a person but loathe some of their political views.
That’s the way that the world works.
“Even on the worst day of my political life, I feel like it has all been worth it.”
That’s good to hear.
“Politics, Paul Wellstone told us, is about the improvement of people’s lives. I know that the work I have been able to do has improved people’s lives. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.”
He’ll get no argument from us. His political positions and battles on behalf of the Americna people were admirable, and may have helped to make the United States a better place.
But there is no way to cancel out personal wrongdoings. Speaking well on the Senate floor and voting well does not negate sexual harassment or assault.
Franken is expected to resign by the end of 2017.
This should give Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton enough time to appoint a replacement to fill Franken’s seat until a special election takes place.
Dayton is a Democrat (and a number of states have traditions and even laws of appointing a member of the outgoing senator’s party), so an upset within the Senate when it comes to voting is not expected.
Some point to this resignation as an example of party hypocrisy, that the GOP is actively supporting and endorsing sexual predators within their own party while the Democratic Party is condemning and removing them from their own.
Added to the situation is that the GOP sometimes likes to brand itself the “party of family values,” a vague line that sometimes takes on sinister meaning and seems totally at odds with an endorsement for Roy Moore or Donald Trump.
But we should all remember that sexual predators exist within all walks of life, and either side of the political aisle.
What defines us is how we, as groups and as a society, deal with them when they are exposed.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Roy Moore: Alabama Senate Candidate Accused of Child Molestation
Former Alabama Supreme Court judge and current US Senate candidate Roy Moore has always been a controversial figure.
After all, this is a man whose homophobic, racist, and anti-Muslim views earned him a reputation as a bigot even by the standards of Alabama Republicans.
But despite being twice removed from the bench for ethical violations, Moore has risen through this party’s ranks to become a figure of national prominence.
In September, he defeated Trump-backed candidate Luther Strange in a run-off election and became the GOP’s nominee to fill the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
During his campaign, Moore brandished a gun onstage, blamed the Sandy Hook massacre on a lack of school prayer, and called for the impeachment of judges who have
Astonishingly, it seems these views have only served to increase Moore’s popularity with his base.
But now, the 70-year-old finds himself at the heart of a scandal that may cost him the support of even his most fervent supporters.
The Washington Post has interviewed four women who say they were subjected to unwanted sexual advances by Moore in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he was in his thirties and they were in their teens.
Leigh Corfman tells the newspaper she was just 14 when Moore groped her and forced her to touch his genitals at his home in rural Alabama.
“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking.
“Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.”
Three women have independently claimed that Moore kissed them, inappropriately touched them, and plied them with alcohol when they were between the ages of 15 and 17.
Moore has denied the allegations in a statement issued by his campaign team:
“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” the statement reads.
Adopting the favorite counter-argument of Trump-era Republicans, a rep for Moore added, “This garbage is the very definition of fake news.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans have stated that Moore should step aside if there’s any truth to the allegations.
Others, however, have mounted absurd defenses of Moore, including Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler, who went viral with this asinine argument:
“Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” Ziegler told the Washington Examiner.
Currently, Moore has no plans to bring an end to his campaign.
He is set to face off against Democratic challenger Doug Jones in a special election on December 12.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Kid Rock: F--k No, I"m Not Running for Senate!
Great leaders rise, often from humble beginnings, to lead their communities and their nations to ever greater heights. But one day, they’re forced to step out of the spotlight. Sometimes, they retire sooner than we’d like.
And then there’s Kid Rock and … whatever he’s actually been doing this year.
Because he’s announced an update on his plans to run for Senate, but the language that he used was much, much more colorful.
2016 was nuts in a surreal way. Like the year was somehow cursed and nothing made sense anymore.
2017 is nuts, in that we’re all living with the consequences of all of history but especially of 2016.
Kid Rock announcing his plans to run for Senate would have been totally bonkers at any point in the past.
But now that there’s a deranged reality star sitting in the Oval Office, anything can happen.
In fact, it seemed that Kid Rock might have been inspired to make that announcement after spending time palling around with Trump, Ted Nugent, and Sarah Palin in the White House.
(Honestly, whoever gets elected next is going to need to have that whole place cleaned. Like, spiritually. Burn some sage, have a member of every different faith come by an perform a blessing, whatever)
Kid Rock didn’t stop at announcing his plans to run for Senate, however.
He launched an actual website, effectively a declaration of game on, motherf–kers.
The website wasn’t much, just some products like Kid Rock for Senate shirts that you could buy.
Oh, and some lawn signs that you could by. (Honestly, they could make for some great Halloween decorations)
But either Kid Rock realized that being in government is actual work (well, for everyone except the Golfer in Chief who goes on vacations every week) or he realized that there wasn’t enough un-ironic support for him to go to DC, because …
In an interview with Howard Stern, Kid Rock shot down claims — which he himself had made — that he was planning a Senate run.
“F–k no, I’m not running for Senate,” he said, as if offended that anyone would take him at his word.
“Like who the f–k couldn’t figure that out?”
He hadn’t filed the necessary paperwork, but … this is a guy who associates with the likes of Trump and Sarah Palin. No one actually expected him to know anything about government work.
But that didn’t mean that no one took him at his word.
Kid Rock did share what he’s planning on doing instead:
“I’m releasing a new album. I’m going on tour, too.”
That’s almost as bad as Kid Rock in the Senate, but … most of us won’t actually have to suffer through his concerts.
As to why he went so far as to havea website and stupid merchandise?
“Since someone said I was going to run for Senate in Michigan, I was like, ’F–k it, let’s get some signs made.’”
“I have people that work for me, that are in the in, and I’m like, ‘F–k no, we’re not doing it, but let’s roll with it for a little while. This is awesome.”
But that long national nightmare is at last behind us.
There are other, bigger national nightmares that are still ongoing, however.
It’s worth noting that Kid Rock shared some of his keen political insight about the New York Times.
“It’s a little bit gay.”
We don’t think that he was quoting Honey Boo-Boo, and Howard Stern asked him to clarify, which he did.
“They have a narrative of a left-wing agenda.”
They don’t, and we wish that we could say that Kid Rock’s 1995-era use of the word “gay” as an insult were a surprise.
But nothing is a surprise anymore. It’s 2017 and all that lives wails in despair as the universe slowly succumbs to entropy’s callous embrace.
Kid Rock Tells Howard Stern, "F*** No," I"m Not Running for Senate
Welp, the cat’s out the bag … Kid Rock’s NOT running for Senate. Kid was talking to Howard Stern Tuesday on his Sirius XM radio show when the question came up, and the musician swiftly shot it down … explaining it was just a joke he ran with.…
Kid Rock Tells Howard Stern, "F*** No," I"m Not Running for Senate
Welp, the cat’s out the bag … Kid Rock’s NOT running for Senate. Kid was talking to Howard Stern Tuesday on his Sirius XM radio show when the question came up, and the musician swiftly shot it down … explaining it was just a joke he ran with.…
Friday, August 25, 2017
Kid Rock Has Right Stuff for Senate ... Says Smokey Robinson
If you think Kid Rock could be the next Senator from the great state of Michigan … Smokey Robinson will second that emotion. We got the Motown legend at LAX and asked what he thought about Kid’s potential run for office. Admittedly, kind of a…
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Kid Rock Talks Senate Run: Game On, Motherf--kers!
There’s a good chance that, after hearing the news earlier this month that Kid Rock is considering running for the U.S. Senate, you hoped it was all a joke.
Or at least just a very realistic nightmare.
But this is the reality we live in now.
After Donald Trump somehow became president of the whole entire country, any old celebrity feels like they, too, can achieve political greatness.
Even celebrities as dumb and trashy as Kid Rock.
When he made his announcement a couple of weeks ago, Kid Rock also launched a website — KidRockforSenate.com, if you hate yourself.
There wasn’t much on the site at the time, except for a link to buy some t-shirts, and fancy yard signs to let all your neighbors know what a piece of trash you are:
But now, the Kid himself has written up a big long statement, all about his intentions and his ideals.
It’s somehow even worse than you’re imagining.
To start, he explains that when he created the website, “I was beyond overwhelmed with the response I received from community leaders, D.C. pundits, and blue-collar folks that are just simply tired of the extreme left and right bullsh-t.”
And so, “as part of the excitement surrounding this possible campaign, I decided to take a hard look to see if there was real support for me as a candidate and my message or if it was just because it was a fresh new news story.”
“The one thing I’ve seen over and over is that although people are unhappy with the government, too few are even registered to vote or do anything about it.”
And so, since it’ll be a bit before the next elections for Senate, Kid Rock wants to focus his energy on getting people “engaged and registered to vote.”
That is, getting people registered “all while still calling out these jackass lawyers who call themselves politicians.”
So he’s just figuring out that there are a whole bunch of people who don’t vote, and he thinks he can change that?
Because those people will listen to the guy who gave us “Bawitdaba” when they haven’t listened to anyone else ever, is that it?
He goes onto explain that “while exploring my candidacy for U.S. Senate,” he’s creating a non-profit organization “for the promotion of voter registration.”
This way, he says, he can allow people to register to vote at his concerts.
He also says that he will “absolutely use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please,” because “many other politicians are doing the same thing, they just feed you a bunch of bullsh-t about it.”
“One thing is for sure though,” he adds. “The democrats are ‘shattin’ in their pantaloons’ right now … and rightfully so!”
Yes, because the idea of Kid Rock running for any political office is terrifying, and unfortunately accidentally defecating is a somewhat normal response to terror.
In closing, Kid says that his people are planning a press conference for sometime in the next six weeks, “and if I decide to throw my hat in the ring for U.S. Senate, believe me … it’s game on, mthrfkers.”
Serious question: how did we get here?
Monday, July 17, 2017
Caitlyn Jenner Ponders U.S. Senate Run
Caitlyn Jenner says she may run for a seat in the California Senate.
About a year ago, we’d have written this sentence and then laughed. We’d have scoffed at this notion.
We’d have mocked the concept of a celebrity who knows more about beauty products than fossil fuel emissions possibly thinking she can make a difference in the political arena.
But then a certain former reality star was named President of the United States.
And Kid Rock teased his candidacy.
And now we’re left with no choice but to report seriously on the possibility of Caitlyn Jenner as a U.S. Senator.
“I have considered it,” said Jenner this week on John Catsimatidis’ radio show Cats Roundtable on 970 AM, adding:
“I like the political side of it.
“If there’s one thing – I work very closely with the American Unity Fund – that their sole purpose, their mission statement is to get the Republican party to do a better job with all LGBT issues.”
Of all the celebrities to claim they may one day run for office (sorry, Dwayne Johnson, we love you… but no), Jenner does at least appear to have some knowledge in the area.
She’s been an outspoken member of the Republican party for years, slamming Hillary Clinton pretty hard last year while also expressing her support for Donald Trump.
And then her disdain for Donald Trump.
“Over the next six months or so I’ve got to figure out where I can do a better job,” Jenner said on the aforementioned radio show, expounding on this topic:
“Can I do a better job from the outside? Working the perimeter of the political scene?
“Or, are you better off from the inside. And we are in the process of determining that. And yeah, I would look for a senatorial run.”
In the summer of 2016, Caitlyn attended the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
She spoke at an event there in support of LGBT rights and told the women of The Bew last week that she has been meeting with members of the Trump administration to talk about these same issues.
On Sunday, she said she has spoken to United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley about topics that means a lot to the gay and transgender community.
If Jenner actually chooses to run in 2018, she will most likely face incumbent Democratic Senator from California Diane Feinstein.
Feinstein has not yet announced her candidacy, but she’ll be up for re-election next November.
You tell us: Would you vote Caitlyn Jenner into the Senate?
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Kid Rock Announces Plans to Run For US Senate; Idiocracy Jokes Write Themselves
We’re living in one of the most divisive times in American history, and now more than ever, there’s an urgent demand for politicians who can rise to the occasion and meet the unique challenges of this era.
We need politicians with guts, politicians with integrity, politicians who can filibuster by reciting the lyrics to “Bawitdaba” from memory.
And only one man fits the bill …
His name is KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID … actually, we don’t know his real name, and we’re too lazy to look it up, but he goes by Kid Rock, and he’d like to represent the great state of Michigan in the United States Senate.
Yes, seriously. We think.
The 46-year-old spawn of a naked chick trucker mud flap and a can of Natural Ice has announced that he plans to add being elected to the US Senate to his list of accomplishments, which currently includes touching Pam Anderson’s boobs and taking goatee maintenance to new heights.
Rock announced his campaign with the following tweet:
“I have had a ton of emails and texts asking me if this website is real… http://kidrockforsenate.com The answer is an absolute YES.”
The website he links to doesn’t offer much in the way of information or answer any of our many, many questions.
(For example: Is this for real? What’s your platform? No, seriously, is this for real?)
It does feature the apparent campaign motto “Are you scared?” as well as a link to purchase shirts and other merchandise, and now that we think about it, that pretty well sums up American politics in 2017.
Oh, the site also gives us this amazingly meme-worthy photo of the future Senator Rock:
As for his qualifications … well, Rock did meet President Trump back in April.
Of course, to many, that would be like saying you’re qualified to host a forum on race relations because you once got drunk with Shia LaBeouf.
Needless to say, a lot of people are chuckling at the notion of Senator Rock, and we agree that the whole thing is ridiculous.
Obviously, Kid should think much bigger and run for president!
Hear us out:
We already know that Dwayne Johnson wants to run for the White House in 2020, and the notion of a Rock vs. Rock contest is too amazing to resist.
Sure, it might signal the death of American democracy as we know it, but that thing was on its way out, anyway.
So get in the pit and try to love someone!
Whatever that means.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
U.S. Senate Pulls a Kanye West On Media, Don"t Talk to Us in the Capitol
U.S. Senators just collectively stiff-armed the media — banning all recorded interviews in the hallways of the Capitol … unless reporters get special permission. The new rule essentially allows the Senate to cherry-pick who they talk to and…
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Chuck Norris Gets Made Into an Honorary Texan By State Senate (PHOTO)
Chuck Norris is such a badass, he gets made into a Texan for killin’ it as one on TV … no joke. The Texas State Senate named Chuck an honorary Texan Tuesday at their State Capitol, where senators presented the actor with a gavel along with his new…
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