News That Defies The Status Quo!

Share Tweet Email [embedded content] BY: Alex Griswold Follow @HashtagGriswoldSeptember 20, 2017 9:16 pm The Associated Press incorrectly reported Wednesday that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) was overheard at an airport trying to cajole another senator into voting for his healthcare plan, when really Graham was just interviewing with Fox’s Sean Hannity. “Sen. Graham implores […]

Share Tweet Email [embedded content] BY: Paul Crookston Follow @P_CrookstonSeptember 20, 2017 8:07 pm Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Wednesday she wants to pass legislation to protect illegal immigrant families who “did a great thing” by coming to the U.S. The House minority leader’s comments came in response to protesters who shut down her press conference Monday, chanting […]

Share Tweet Email Samantha Power / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehmanSeptember 20, 2017 7:26 pm Obama U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power “unmasked” some 260 people in 2016, including in the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Most of Power’s unmasking happened in the final months of former President Barack Obama’s […]

Share Tweet Email Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Wikimedia Commons BY: Jack Heretik Follow @JackHeretikSeptember 20, 2017 6:54 pm President Donald Trump will award the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor, to an Alabama-native Vietnam veteran next month, the administration announced Wednesday. The White House ceremony will honor Captain Gary M. Rose, who served as […]

Share Tweet Email [embedded content] BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutzSeptember 20, 2017 6:26 pm After Mediaite received footage of an irate Lawrence O’Donnell dealing with producers and hammering and God knows what else, it was inevitable someone would mash it up with Bill O’Reilly’s legendary “We’ll do it live!” rant. So we decided to do it. […]

Share Tweet Email [embedded content] BY: Jack Heretik Follow @JackHeretikSeptember 20, 2017 5:44 pm MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell had a massive meltdown while filming his MSNBC show, newly leaked outtake footage revealed Wednesday. Mediaite obtained eight minutes of footage of the host of “The Last Word” during the taping of the August 29 taping of his show. […]

Share Tweet Email Senator Bernie Sanders / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehmanSeptember 20, 2017 5:05 pm Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) is set to deliver a lecture on his vision of a “progressive foreign policy” on Thursday, adding further fuel to the fire for those speculating about a possible 2020 presidential run. Sanders will […]

Share Tweet Email BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith / Getty Images BY: Alex Griswold Follow @HashtagGriswoldSeptember 20, 2017 4:39 pm BuzzFeed announced Monday it has hired a former CNN reporter who resigned after penning an unverified story, which the network was later forced to retract. In June, Thomas Frank wrote a story that alleged Congress was […]

Share Tweet Email Getty Images BY: Bill McMorris Follow @FBillMcMorrisSeptember 20, 2017 4:15 pm Public school teachers are three times more likely to miss large chunks of school days than their peers at charter schools, which could hurt student learning, according to a new report. An analysis by Thomas P. Fordham Institute senior research and […]

Share Tweet Email [embedded content] BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutzSeptember 20, 2017 4:01 pm President Donald Trump’s United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was well-received in Republican circles, but media members and former Democratic officials had harsh words. CNN analyst David Gregory called Trump’s remarks “frightening,” specifically in regards to comments that the United States, […]

A night after late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel laid into Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and his health care proposal, saying Cassidy lied to his face when he said that the bill would pass the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” the comedian took aim at conservatives who spent the day criticizing his previous night’s impassioned monologue. After addressing […]

Last night, late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel lit up Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) over the Republican lawmaker’s health care bill that is being pitched in the Senate as a way to repeal Obamacare. With Cassidy having previously said that any health bill he proposed would have to pass the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” referencing Kimmel’s emotional […]

Anderson Cooper and President Donald Trump surrogate Ed Martin got into a heated debate over the Russia probe during Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper: 360 At issue was the report that special counsel Robert Mueller is requesting information relating to controversial actions of Trump’s since taking office — including a meeting with Russian officials the day after […]

With more and more bombshell stories hitting the news cycle in recent days related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and any potential collusion with the Trump campaign, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow took some time out at the end of her A-block to heap praise on American reporters and journalists. After […]

Politics and ESPN has been a hot topic since SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill‘s tweet last week in which she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist. Curt Schilling has not been shy about weighing in on the issue since. The former Red Sox pitcher and current Breitbart host, though, claims that politics — at least […]

A day after late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel hammered at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), claiming the lawmaker lied to him about his health care bill passing the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” President Donald Trump came to the conservative senator’s defense. Senator (Doctor) Bill Cassidy is a class act who really cares about people and their Health(care), […]

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired by President Trump after Trump promised to keep him on, has joined CNN as a senior legal analyst, according to Politico. Bharara has become something of a well-known Trump critic since getting canned by the president back in March. […]

<p>At an event held by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday, former President Barack Obama spoke out and smeared GOP lawmakers for trying to get rid of ObamaCare. “It’s certainly frustrating to have to mobilize every couple of months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suffering on our constituents,” he told […]