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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Clinton Foundation to keep Harvey Weinstein's $250,000 donation
[FoxNews] The Clinton Foundation will not return as much as $250,000 in donations from disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein following the accusations of sexual harassment and rape.

The foundation said Sunday that donations, ranging from $100,000 to $250,000, have already been spent on projects, The Daily Mail reported.

The move to keep the money was expected following tweets from the foundation's spokesman Craig Minassian.

"Suggesting @ClintonFdn return funds from our 330,000+ donors ignores the fact that donations have been used to help people across the world," Minassian wrote on Twitter.

Suggesting @ClintonFdn return funds from our 330,000+ donors ignores the fact that donations have been used to help people across the world. https://t.co/dBXNZwAkWS
‐ Craig Minassian (@MinassianMedia) October 14, 2017

The calls to return Weinstein's money were prompted after multiple actresses have come forward and accused the Hollywood executive of sexual assault and rape, forcing numerous politicians and organization to grapple with the dilemma.

Dozens Democratic Party politicians – including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Sen. Al Franken, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Cory Booker – have pledged to donate their Weinstein's contributions to charities focused on women's rights.

Hillary Clinton echoed her former colleagues, saying she was "shocked and appalled" after the sexual harassment allegations were revealed about Weinstein, who hosted fundraisers for her in the past and donated more than $46,000 to her recent presidential campaign and other election efforts.

"What other people are saying, what my former colleagues are saying, is they're going to donate it to charity, and of course I will do that," she said on CNN. "I give 10% of my income to charity every year, this will be part of that. There's no – there's no doubt about it."
Seems Clinton is keeping her promise to "donate" the money to "charity".
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/16/2017 07:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dozens Democratic Party politicians – including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Sen. Al Franken, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Cory Booker – have pledged to donate their Weinstein's contributions to charities focused on women's rights.

Virtue signaling. No need for any of that with the Clinton's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2017 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  have pledged to donate their Weinstein's contributions to charities focused on women's rights.

I take that to mean 'Panned Parenthood and Baby Parts' or NOW.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/16/2017 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Why should they? You seem to forget the lack of any moral basis other than money laundering for the institution. Did they give back the Russian money?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Dear Hillary: please lookup the meaning of the word "fungible".

You're just as obtuse as my sleazeball Senator, Tim Kaine.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/16/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/16/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  He’ll need it for bail.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
‘State of Denial’: Hillary Clinton Blames Nigel Farage, Macedonian Fake News Factories, for Losing Election
[BREITBART] And more dastardly villains to come!
Posted by: Fred || 10/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Over 7 billion people on the Earth and untold millions of organizations, she ain't gonna run out of someone to blame any time soon.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/16/2017 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Better luck in 2020, Hillary.
Posted by: gorb || 10/16/2017 0:54 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/16/2017 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad they didn't do Downfall in drag as well. Maybe some state of the art CGI?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2017 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Forgot to credit the the graphic to Earl of Taint
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/16/2017 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  She has managed to turn a single lost election into hundreds of losses over nearly a year, and shows every intention of continuing to lose until someone turns off her mic.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/16/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#7  What a water thief
Posted by: newc || 10/16/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Iblis, you forgot she lost multiple primary elections, as well, few years back!
Posted by: illeagle || 10/16/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  She's had way more then her 15 mins. Hillary STFU and go away!
Posted by: 3dc || 10/16/2017 22:57 Comments || Top||


Pelosi to Dem Critics: ‘Self-Promotion Is a Terrible Thing, but Clearly Somebody Has to Do It’
[FREEBEACON] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
(D., Calif.) continues to face criticism from within the Democratic Party, and Sunday she gave herself a little bit of self-promotion.

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D., Calif.) has been a vocal critic of Pelosi and last week said it is "time to pass the torch" in Democratic Party leadership. Pelosi told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that she has promoted "a great array of talent" in the party and said she still accomplishes a lot in the House of Representatives.

"I think I’m a great politician, I know the budget," Pelosi said. "Self-promotion is a terrible thing but clearly somebody has to do it."
Posted by: Fred || 10/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actuellement: Promoting yourself is all about how we live, and in a broader picture, it's how about things get done in a vibrant economy.

"I think I’m a great politician, I know the budget," Pelosi said. "Self-promotion is a terrible thing but clearly somebody has to do it."
Posted by: Fairbanks || 10/16/2017 3:41 Comments || Top||

#2  That would be the 20 Trillion Dollare(tm) debt budgets, right? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2017 7:41 Comments || Top||


John Kasich leaves the door open to challenging Trump for president in 2020
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Ohio Gov. John Kasich
...political has-been current Republican governor of Ohio...
refused to rule out a run for president in 2020 as a Republican primary challenger to President Trump.
Didn't he do that last election?
Yes. And next time he won't do even that well.
When asked by Chuck Todd ‐ host of NBC's "Meet The Press" ‐ if he was going to run in 2020 against Trump, Kasich demurred.

"I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow," he said. "I will tell you this ‐ the other day, my wife said to me one morning, 'You know, John, I wish you were the president.' That's how I knew the country was in trouble."
Posted by: Fred || 10/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has anybody told him it would help to win Ohio?
Posted by: gorb || 10/16/2017 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Shouldn't that picture be in the dictionary with 'echo chamber'? Clearly someone is making him think this is real. Right? Or, is he that dumb?
Posted by: Beau || 10/16/2017 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  ...maybe he hired some professional election advisers, you know the ones no longer working for Hillary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2017 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Now all he needs is a base of support.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/16/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Just go away.
You stand for nothing, just like the democrats.
Posted by: newc || 10/16/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Kay-sick...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/16/2017 13:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Didn't he recently say he was going to become a Democrat? Perhaps that's the primary for him.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/16/2017 17:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Has anybody told him it would help to win Ohio?

He did win OH. Unfortunately, that was all he won.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 10/16/2017 20:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Not unfortunately at all.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/16/2017 20:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
De Niro Screams ‘F*ck You Trump' At Fundraiser As Waitress Tells ‘Sick Dirty Thing' He Did
The world isn't working as anticipated, so the poor man must vent before his brains boil in his skull.
[MadWorldNews] Well, Bobby De Niro has a lot of explaining to do. De Niro owns several swanky restaurants, one of which is called the Tribeca Grill. Jade Bukowski worked for De Niro at Tribeca Grill from July 2016 to January 2017, and she has now revealed that it was De Niro who was acting as a pimp, providing Harvey Weinstein after-hours access to the Tribeca Grill.

Weinstein used the Tribeca Grill as the place where he would lure young actresses looking to make it big in Hollywood, and once there, he would force them to do sex acts. Of course, De Niro knew, and sometimes he was even present. In an exclusive piece for the New York Post, Jade Bukowski wrote, "The ritual for his rendezvous was very firm. Champagne, caviar, and an unspoken rule [from De Niro] that Weinstein and his date not be disturbed. The pair would sit close, whispering and touching each other suggestively. After dining, Weinstein and the woman would often disappear for a while, exiting the restaurant through a side door."
...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All of the entertainment industry is corrupt like this. Filled with rapists and pedophiles. I will be happy to see the lot of them out of work and out of money.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/16/2017 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Out of one side of his mouth, the author uses the word force. Out of the other side of his mouth, the author talks about whispering and suggestive behavior. Which is it?
Posted by: gorb || 10/16/2017 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Which is it?
The writer was forced to talk out of both sides of his mouth. With a forked tongue.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/16/2017 1:12 Comments || Top||

#4  It seems it went like this:

Harvey would whisper for a while and then if the aspiring actress would willingly submit, he would take. Or if she was less willingly, various degrees of force, including verbal extortion ('you won't get a job in this town unless...').

of course Harvey wanted sex with grown women. Others in Hollywood were pedophiles - the latter is what I'm waiting to see be exposed.
Posted by: lord garth || 10/16/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Washington is Hollyweird for ugly people. Both are operated upon the principles of prostitution and pimping. At least give the 'adult' industry in the Valley creds for being honest about it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||

#6  I heard he was thinking about making another mob movie with Al Pacino. Good. That'll give me a chance to not watch it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/16/2017 10:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Hollyweird is completely addicted to being just as it has been since the days of Fatty Arbuckle. Old guys like DeNiro are not going to accept that "the good old days" are over. Considering that actors will all be replaced by CGI in the next 5-10 years, the smart money in Hollyweird will sit back and wait.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/16/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||

#8  The Internet and the cellphone/microphone/video cam has altered the public arena. Keeping a secret or asserting that "I never said THAT!"™ becomes nearly impossible... And they haven't realized it.
Posted by: magpie || 10/16/2017 13:01 Comments || Top||

#9  From Tribeca Grill website:

About Our Private Dining
The legendary Tribeca Grill, co-owned by Drew Nieporent and Robert De Niro, accommodates parties large and small for any celebration. The Loft offers an elegant setting for up to 175 guests, the Gallery provides an intimate experience for 40 or smaller, and the RealD 3D Tribeca Film Center Screening Room presents state-of-the-art entertainment with style. Custom colorful chandeliers and paintings by Robert De Niro, Sr. make for a warm downtown ambiance in which to enjoy Chef Richard Corbo’s seasonal American menu and the Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning wine list. Whether it's a wedding, wine dinner or business lunch, Tribeca Grill’s versatility and thoughtful service creates lasting memories time and again. For the perfect event, call or email our Special Events Team.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/16/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Is Chef Corbo like Chef Ramsey? Does he make sure everybody knows where his social justice bona fides are?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/16/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#11  Article won't name names and so is basically worthless but I can't help but picture Mr. De Niro.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/16/2017 22:44 Comments || Top||



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