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Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett My Eye Roll Was a Show of Contempt ... Rep Jordan Needs to Act Like a Congressman
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Thursday, February 28, 2019
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett My Eye Roll Was a Show of Contempt ... Rep Jordan Needs to Act Like a Congressman
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Will Ferrell Goes Door-to-Door for Georgia Governor Hopeful Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams already has Hollywood in her corner in her bid to be Georgia’s new governor — and now she’s got one of its leading men canvassing for her … Mr. Will Ferrell. Will was on the ground this weekend, going door-to-door for Abrams’…
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Jermaine Dupri Explains Why He"s Investing in Stacey Abrams for Governor
Jermaine Dupri believes it’s his patriotic duty to lift Stacey Abrams into the governor’s mansion in Georgia, but she’s gonna need young voters to get there … which is why he set up a surprise appearance for her. The ATL…
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Stacey Abrams Banking on Legend, Washington, Streep to Be First Female Black Governor
Stacey Abrams — the Georgia gubernatorial candidate who is gunning to become the first female African American to win a state’s highest office — is getting enormous financial help from some of the richest and most famous celebrities in the…
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Rodney King Beating Cop, Stacey Koon, Officially Charged with DUI
Stacey Koon — the former LAPD sergeant who went to prison for his role in the Rodney King beating — has been charged with DUI … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office formally filed…
Rodney King Beating Cop, Stacey Koon, Officially Charged with DUI
Stacey Koon — the former LAPD sergeant who went to prison for his role in the Rodney King beating — has been charged with DUI … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office formally filed…
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Cop in Rodney King Beating, Stacey Koon, Busted for DUI
Stacey Koon — the former LAPD sergeant who went to prison for his role in the Rodney King beating — is in trouble with the law once again … TMZ has learned. Koon was arrested Tuesday afternoon in L.A. county for a DUI, after he hit a parked…
Friday, March 30, 2018
Stacey Dash Withdraws from Congressional Run
Stacey Dash is waiving the white flag in her bid to become a member of Congress. Dash, who was running for a seat in the Compton/Watts area, hung her decision on God, saying, “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family, I am…
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Compton Mayor Aja Brown to Run for Congress Against Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash is going to have some stiff competition in her run for Congress, because we’ve learned one of the most popular politicians in Southern California is about to throw her hat in the ring to oppose her. We’ve learned Compton Mayor Aja Brown…
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Warren G"s Not Down with Stacey Dash Representing His Hometown in Congress
Don’t expect Warren G to campaign for Stacey Dash in her run for Congress … because he doesn’t think she’s fit to rep his hometown. The West Coast hip-hop legend and Long Beach native tells us it’s nothing personal — he admits he…
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Stacey Dash: I"m Running for Congress
Two years ago, Stacey Dash’s Oscars appearance was one of the most painfully awkward moment from any awards show. Move over, Kanye.
Now, the actress and controversial conservative pundit is appearing somewhere else: a ballot.
That’s right, folks. Stacey Dash is running for Congress. This is real life.
Back in the ’90s, Stacey Dash starred in the cult classic film, Clueless.
It’s a beloved film, but some of its stars haven’t fared so well.
There was the tragic death of Brittany Murphy.
Alicia Silverstone is alive and well … but wrote a parenting book that espouses views characterized as anti-vaccination. That’s never a good look.
And then there’s Stacey Dash who emerged in 2012 as a conservative pundit whose outlandish and often unsupported statements made headlines and made heads turn.
Stacey worked for Fox News for a while — she’s both a beautiful woman and a conservative, so she really fit their brand — but the network did not renew her contract in 2017.
Stacey Dash is now, however, running for Congress.
Yes, the Congress of the United States of America. She filed the paperwork to run in California’s 44th district, looking to unseat Democrat Nanette Barragan.
And yes, she’s making “Dash to DC” a real thing.
It’s worth noting that the district tends to vote for Democratic candidates, and includes Compton, Watts, San Pedro, and North Long Beach.
Some guess that Stacey Dash believes that a beautiful woman of color (and celebrity) might have a fighting chance in flipping the district.
Stacey Dash’s history calls that into question.
See, Stacey Dash wasn’t always an outspoken Republican. In fact, she wasn’t always a Republican.
She apparently supported Barack Obama during 2008. Over time, however, she came to believe that Obama’s policies were “socialism.”
(This is in part a result of the polarization that causes people on both sides of the political aisle to view free market capitalism as the only form of capitalism, as if welfare capitalism isn’t sitting right there)
At that point, she decided that she wouldn’t be “pressured” into supporting Obama or other Democratic politicians simply because she’s black or a woman.
She supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and has continued to be an outspoken conservative ever since.
Stacey Dash running for Congress might be a surprise to anyone who expects people to make good choices, but she’s actually been threatening to run for office for a little while now.
On February 9th, she tweeted:
“A number of people online and off have suggested I run for political office. I wanted to see what my online community thinks of this idea as I mull the possibilities. Thoughts?”
On February 22nd, she tweeted: “Things are taking shape.” She followed that with “Soon.”
Fans and followers who saw those vague tweets could only conclude that she was either making good on her threat to run for office or constructing some sort of laser on the moon. It was the former.
We don’t know what her strategy for flipping a district that voted 83% for Hillary Clinton in 2016. That will be interesting to watch.
As for Stacey Dash choosing now to run … we suspect that February being Black History month has little to do with it.
She’s stated — or, as some characterize it, she’s parroted racist criticisms in a bid for acceptance from white conservatives — that Black History Month shouldn’t exist.
(Forgetting, perhaps, that without such occasions, some people find it all too easy to focus on white accomplishments. Spending the shortest month of the year to pay attention to the struggles and deeds of a minority isn’t too much to ask, right?)
Stacey’s taken a number of controversial stances that don’t even have to do with race — such as suggesting that transgender people should “pee in the bushes” instead of using bathrooms with cisgender people. Yikes.
Some ask if Stacey Dash is making this run to try to build her brand. Others wonder if she just wants attention — though surely she’s read enough mean tweets about herself by now.
Jon Stewart Says Stacey Dash Has a Chance Running for Congress
Jon Stewart says you can’t count anyone out of a U.S. political race these days — and that even goes for staunch conservative Stacey Dash … who’s now eyeing D.C. We got Jon Monday night leaving Madison Square Garden after a Knicks game, and…
Friday, January 12, 2018
Seal Defends His Perceived Attack on Oprah, Then Blasts Stacey Dash
Seal is making the most epic stance … against people who think he blasted Oprah, against people who call him an “Uncle Tom” … and against Stacey Dash. Naturally. The singer is firing back after getting backlash for an Instagram repost he put up…
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Stacey McGill on "The Baby-Sitters Club" "Memba Her?!
Bre Blair is best known for playing the 13-year-old sitter Stacey McGill — who is in a tricky relationship with the older Luca played by Christian Oliver — in the timeless 1995 family film ‘The Baby-Sitters Club.’ Guess what she looks like now!
Monday, January 23, 2017
Stacey Dash Gets Fired from Fox News, Twitter Celebrates
Megyn Kelly isn’t the only big name to be leaving Fox News.
Stacey Dash is on her way out, as well.
The network has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that it has chosen not to renew Dash’s contract, a decision that was actually made last fall but which has only gone public today.
Dash has not appeared on the channel since September.
The former actress and occasional author has made all sorts of headlines ever since debuting on Fox News in 2014.
In July of that year, for example, she suggested that Kanye West should go get locked up in Riker’s Island so that he can “know what rape is.”
A few weeks later, sticking with the theme of sexual assault, Dash implied that only “bad or naughty girls” become rape victims.
In 2015, Dash was suspended briefly from the network for swearing on-air in a rant about President Barack Obama in which she said he “didn’t give a sh-t about terrorism.”
Then there was the time Dash pushed to end both the existence of BET and Black History Month, arguing in January of 2016:
“We can either have integration or segregation. If we don’t want segregation then we need to get rid of channels like BET… If it were the other way around we would be up in arms.”
The 5-year old Clueless star then inspired backlash again in June 2016 when she made transphobic comments while discussing Caitlyn Jenner during an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“Go [to the bathroom] in the bushes. … I’m not gonna put my child’s life at risk because you want to change a law,” she said of transgender individuals wanting to use different bathrooms.
In response to the news that Dash is no longer welcome at Fox News, Twitter basically held a #StaceyDashSucks party.
“Stacey dash lost her fox contract, and suddenly that ‘career’ of being the black who hates black isn’t gonna pay so well anymore,” one user wrote.
Another chimed in with the following:
“Before you laugh at Stacey Dash for losing her gig at Fox News, just remember this means she’s now available for a cabinet appointment.”
That’s pretty good, actually.
Here’s a look at what some other Internet users are saying about Dash:
Will you miss Stacey Dash on Fox News?
Were you even aware that Stacey Dash had not been on Fox News in months?
And are you wondering whether other Clueless cast members are these days?
Well… wonder no longer!
Friday, July 1, 2016
Stacey Dash: Jesse Williams is a Hollywood Plantation Slave!
Safe to say Stacey Dash was not a big fan of Jesse Williams’ impassioned, viral speech at the BET Awards last weekend. At all.
Dash called Williams racist … and didn’t stop there.
“You’ve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!” Dash wrote on her blog, excoriating the actor’s remarks.
“Sorry, Mr. Williams. But the fact that you were on that stage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Just spewing hate and anger.”
Williams stars on Grey’s Anatomy and is also the executive producer of the documentary Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement.
At the BET Awards, he delivered a poignant, and at times pointed, speech about the still-prevailing racism in today’s volatile society.
Citing examples of police brutality and invoking images of slavery as well as the Black Lives Matter movement, Williams earned raves.
“We’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind.”
“Extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment … ghettoizing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them, gentrifying our genius.”
Accepting his humanitarian award, Williams added, “The thing is, though, just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not real.”
Dash, however, saw it a bit differently.
From her standpoint, Williams’ speech was divisive rhetoric, another obstacle keeping America from coming together as a united nation.
“That chip on the shoulders of people like you will weigh you down and keep you from flying free,” she wrote. “But true freedom is never free.”
“You have to know how to fly. If anyone is making you feel this way its you. Living in a psychological prison of your own making.”
“If anyone is GHETTO-IZING anyone, it’s people like you letting the BETs and other media outlets portray us in stereotypes.”
Her beef with the network is ongoing.
During last winter’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Dash stated on Fox & Friends that she couldn’t grasp why BET still existed.
“I think it’s ludicrous,” the 49-year-old said. “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration.”
Dash says it’s all a double standard:
“If we don’t want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black.”
Dash also incurred the wrath of Twitter for comments about Prince not being a black artist, so in certain situations she really is clueless.
Sorry.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Stacey Sanchez Hits Elderly Man With Car, Continues Driving With Body Through Windshield
On Monday morning, some poor guy was coming back from a soup kitchen when the unthinkable happened.
29-year-old Esteysi Sanchez Izazaga (who goes by Stacey Sanchez) was driving her car at around 6:30 a.m. when, according to witnesses, the vehicle veered onto the sidewalk and struck a 69-year-old man.
“The force of the collision caused the victim to go through the windshield of the vehicle and become lodged in the front passenger seat,” the official police statement read, according to People.
Not only that, but the victim’s leg became detached from the rest of his body, and crashed through the rear window.
Authorities found the leg in the car’s trunk.
Sanchez, who was believed to be coming back from a night of partying, continued driving about a mile further towards her house.
Police believe that Sanchez abandoned the car in her neighborhood (with the victim still in it), and walked the rest of the way home.
The 29-year-old was arrested after her boyfriend called the police, and was later charged with a DUI, hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.
Edwin Esparza was changing his car’s oil when he saw the crash happen.
“There’s no words to really describe it. I mean, just seeing that up close and personal, it’s kind of traumatizing in a way,” Esparza told NBC San Diego.
Another local told the news station he didn’t want to come outside because he knew how graphic the scene would be.
“Horrific. Yeah I’ve never in my whole life have I heard a story like this,” Lou Torres told reporters.
“It was so strange that I couldn’t imagine any scenario that would cause this.”
Police said that “Based on statements obtained from Sanchez and preliminary tests in the field, it was determined she was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the collision.”
The victim’s identity has not yet been revealed.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Stacey Dash: SLAMMED for "Black" Comments About Prince
While the world is reeling over the death of music legend Prince, numerous stars have expressed their heartfelt sentiments to honor the man.
Will Smith"s tribute was poignant. Justin Timberlake"s was heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
And then came Stacey Dash.
The Fox News correspondent and all-around ignoramus eulogized Prince during a segment on the network and, unsurprisingly, fans are outraged over one particular comment.
In what seems to be her attempt at a compliment, Dash superfluously brings race into the matter.
"He was an icon," she started, a statement we can all agree with.
She went on to describe how he was an innovator who transcended time before dropping the fateful race card.
"You didn"t look at him as a black artist or an artist of any color, he was just Prince," she said.
Fans went ballistic over hearing this comment, questioning why she had to bring up race at all.
What if you did look at him as a black artist, Stacey? Would that have negated any of his talent or accomplishments?
Not to mention, Prince was a black artist, and trying to strip him of his identity in this manner left many rightfully angered.
Critics swiftly took to Twitter to express their discontent.
"Lord if you"re listening we"ll gladly swap Prince for Stacey Dash," wrote one user.
"Why has no one punched Stacey dash yet?!" quipped another. "Such disrespect for the deceased. Prince was an advocate of black lives matter. Yes he was black."
Dash has long drawn the ire of the black community by dissenting from its collective views on racism.
Earlier this year, the Clueless actress called for an end to Black History Month and the BET network, which caused Black Twitter to hit the roof.
As one user put it:
""Self-hatred (self-loathing) is an extreme hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against one"s identity." #StaceyDash"
Listen to her comments below:
Monday, March 21, 2016
Stacey Dash to Join The Real Housewives of Atlanta?!?
Stacey Dash was not exactly expected to show up at the 2016 Academy Awards. We remain perplexed over what she was doing there.
But now a celebrity gossip website is claiming that the former Clueless star may soon appear someplace even more unexpected:
On Bravo!
As a Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member!!!
According to MediaTakeOut – one of the least reputable sites on the entire World Wide Web – producers are getting ready to give Kim Fields the boot after just one season on the show.
In her place, the series has allegedly made the “BIGGEST signing in Atlanta Housewives history” by agreeing on terms with Dash.
Moreover, Dash will supposedly get paid so much money ($ 2 million per year!) that the other cast members will need to “take a pay cut” in order for the network to afford her.
If true, this salary would make Dash the highest-paid Housewife in franchise history.
Why would the program even consider it?
Love Dash, hate Dash or really, really, really hate Dash… you cannot deny that she would be amazing for ratings.
This is someone who once said only bad girls get raped and who has made a living by saying pretty much anything on Fox News and other outlets.
She would be unafraid to speak her mind, that’s for sure.
Will this signing actually take place?
Producer Andy Cohen appeared to shoot down the rumor on Twitter over the weekend, but crazier things have happened.
And it’s not as if Dash has a large number of offers she’s weighing at the moment.
Would you be more or less likely to watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta online if Dash were a cast member? Would you be sad to see Fields go if she really has been fired?
And can you believe just how many douchebags have existed on reality television?!?
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Stacey Dash Reads Mean Tweets About Herself
Stacey Dash is determined the milk her ongoing 15 Minutes of Fame for all she possibly can.
The Fox News contributor made one of the strangest appearances on television in the medium"s history Sunday night, walking out on stage at the Academy Awards after Chris Rock introduced her as "the new director of our minority outreach program."
Dash, who believes Black History Month ought to be eliminated, proceeded to cackle and tell an audience of millions:
I cannot wait to help my people out. Happy Black History Month.
No one really booed. No one really cheered. Everyone just sat there in stunned, confused silence.
Rock was likely playing a joke on Dash, but the former actress is trying to get the last laugh.
She actually went backstage after her appearance and stole Jimmy Kimmel"s idea of having celebrities read Mean Tweets about themselves.
“No one likes you,” Dash reads from her phone in the following video, quoting one critic on Twitter.
"You sucked on the Oscars like you do on Fox News. Pointless," reads another.
Dash doesn"t seem to comprehend that it"s not funny when a truly unpopular star reads a bunch of insults from people who represent the majority opinion.
But, then again, Dash doesn"t seem to comprehend a whole lot in the world.
"I do what I do because I want to do it,” Dash says, adding:
"And because I believe in it. It has nothing to do with race, and I wish you would stop saying that. Everything I do is because I believe in it and I believe we are all equal … I’m very happy about what I did and I’m proud of it."
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