Hi there, !
Today Wed 10/18/2017 Tue 10/17/2017 Mon 10/16/2017 Sun 10/15/2017 Sat 10/14/2017 Fri 10/13/2017 Thu 10/12/2017 Archives
Rantburg
532925 articles and 1859669 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 48 articles and 121 comments as of 5:22.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT           
Report: U.S. Coalition Cuts Islamic State Revenues over 90 Percent
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 6: Politix
5 20:00 KBK [3] 
10 18:24 M. Murcek [3] 
7 23:34 texhooey [5] 
10 15:00 charger [1] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [3]
10 16:04 Frank G [5]
0 [3]
0 [2]
0 []
0 [1]
0 []
1 09:42 Frank G []
0 []
0 []
2 19:03 Bright Pebbles [3]
1 05:42 DooDahMan [2]
0 []
0 [4]
0 [3]
0 [7]
0 [6]
0 [4]
0 []
0 []
4 15:48 newc [7]
0 [3]
0 [2]
0 [6]
0 [1]
0 [4]
2 15:01 Seeking cure for ignorance [4]
Page 2: WoT Background
4 23:36 Old Patriot [4]
5 08:38 AlanC [5]
1 07:44 Procopius2k [2]
0 [2]
0 [5]
3 22:58 newc [2]
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 17:52 Glolurong Bumble6930 []
0 []
7 18:20 gorb [2]
4 23:01 newc [1]
0 []
9 22:26 gorb [4]
11 21:57 Skidmark [3]
3 21:59 Skidmark [2]
5 14:24 AlanC [8]
6 21:59 newc [4]
9 19:17 M. Murcek [2]
-Short Attention Span Theater-
George Lopez booed off stage after Trump jokes flop at gala
[PAGESIX] Comic George Lopez was booed off stage at a gala for juvenile diabetes in Denver last week, over an anti-Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
routine that fell flat with the crowd.

We’re told the flap began when Trump backer and Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei donated $250,000 but requested that Lopez cool it with the anti-Trump jokes at the Carousel Ball.

An attendee at the event ‐ where tables sold from $5,000 to $100,000 to benefit the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes ‐ commented on a YouTube video that "George was asked nicely to stop making Trump jokes by a man in front row [Maffei] who just donated $250K." But "George doesn’t, continues. Gets booed."

We’re told that Lopez responded to Maffei, "Thank you for changing my opinion on old white men, but it doesn’t change the way I feel about orange men."

Trying to recover and sensing the audience turn, Lopez said, "Listen, it’s about the kids . . . I apologize for bringing politics to an event. This is America ‐ it still is. So I apologize to your white privilege."

We’re told Lopez also told a joke about Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, saying, "I guess you can get some Mexicans to do it cheaper and they wouldn’t crush the tunnels ­underneath."

When the audience did not respond well, he quipped, "Are you El Chapo people?" in reference to the drug kingpin who has used tunnels to evade authorities.

Lopez then announced a video segment ‐ but he did not return to the stage, and a local newscaster took over the hosting duties.

TV host Chris Parente posted on Twitter, "big controversy: host of HUGE charity #CarouselBall, @georgelopez, makes political comments about Trump, drops f-bomb and is escorted out." But a source close to the comedian insisted to Page Six that Lopez’s segment was "only supposed to be four minutes," even though he was listed as the night’s emcee.

Lenny Kravitz performed at the gala, which raised $1.65 million.

Posted by: Fred || 10/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  George Lopez has been accused of ripping off other 'comedians' for their jokes. Suck it, asshole - your downward slide continues.
Posted by: Raj || 10/15/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The era of commies politicizing everything is over.

I don't care what you think anymore. All your ideas are stupid.

Get that son of a bitch off the stage.
Entertain me.
Don't try to school me in things you know absolutely nothing about.
Posted by: newc || 10/15/2017 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Where were all those biting Obama jokes for the previous 8 years?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/15/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  I keep flashing back to the shepard's crook of vaudeville days and funny men like George Burns and Bob Hope, not to mention Henny Youngman.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/15/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Good. Lopez has always been a racist fuck and it is good to see it on tape.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/15/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Why would they invite that racist jerk in the first place?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/15/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Why would they invite that racist jerk in the first place?

It was in Denver.

Colorado has become increasingly Vibrant! thanks to the Mestization of the Southwest.
Posted by: charger || 10/15/2017 14:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Who?
Posted by: Tom || 10/15/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  If comedians hadn't given Obama a pass for 8 years folks might tolerate this crap now. If the jokes were 'fair' which they rarely are since they are generally based on straw men or out and out misinformation.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/15/2017 17:56 Comments || Top||

#10  They'd all be Kathy Griffin, if they could, and they have no idea why that hasn't worked out for her.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/15/2017 18:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump too tough on Iran, North Korea, Clinton says
[FoxNews] With his tough talk and hardline stances on Iran and North Korea, President Donald Trump is damaging America's credibility abroad – and could provoke a nuclear-arms race in East Asia, Hillary Clinton says.

Trump's recent threat to decertify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, "makes us look foolish and small and plays right into Iranian hands," Clinton said last week.

"That is bad not just on the merits for this particular situation, but it sends a message across the globe that America's word is not good," said Clinton, who spoke in advance of Trump's announcement Friday that he wants Congress and the other nations that negotiated the deal to toughen the requirements for Iran.

"This particular president is, I think, upending the kind of trust and credibility of the United States' position and negotiation that is imperative to maintain."

For his part, Trump says that Clinton, as secretary of state under former President Barack Obama, helped negotiate a "terrible" deal with Iran.

Getting tough on Iran is the right approach, the president said.

"We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror and the very real threat of Iran's nuclear breakout," Trump said Friday, according to the Washington Times. "Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal."

Clinton also denounced Trump's bellicose language toward North Korea, saying his verbal aggression has rattled U.S. allies.

"We will now have an arms race ‐ a nuclear arms race in East Asia," Clinton predicted. "We will have the Japanese, who understandably are worried with missiles flying over them as the North Koreans have done, that they can't count on America."

Clinton stressed that a diplomatic solution was preferred, and suggested the inflammatory rhetoric played into Kim Jung Un's hands. She bemoaned Trump's public undercutting of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he tweeted "Save your energy, Rex" after the nation's top diplomat had suggested negotiations.

"Diplomacy, preventing war, creating some deterrents is slow, hard-going, difficult work," said Clinton, who declined to answer when asked whether Tillerson should resign. "And you can't have impulsive people or ideological people who basically say, 'Well, we're done with you.'"

Today, I announced our strategy to confront the Iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure that they never acquire a nuclear weapon. pic.twitter.com/N4ISdjuEdC
‐ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2017

Trump on Sept. 21 signed an executive order calling for a new round of economic sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The president said the actions were aimed at "a complete denuclearization of North Korea," the Washington Times reported.

"North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world," Trump said. "It is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal rogue regime."

Clinton, who recently released a book that recounts her election defeat to Trump, has been an aggressive critic of the president.

In an interview with Britain's BBC on Friday, Clinton called Trump a "sexual assaulter."

Clinton made the comments when asked about the allegations of sexual assault made against Democratic mega-donor and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

"This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated anywhere, whether it's in entertainment, politics," Clinton said. "After all, we have someone admitting to being a sexual assaulter in the Oval Office."

In the same interview, Clinton referred to the sexual transgressions of her husband – former President Bill Clinton – as being "clearly in the past," Fox News reported.

Clinton's comments on Iran and North Korea were scheduled to air Sunday on CNN. The White House did not immediately return a request to respond to her remarks.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/15/2017 14:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah. We should have been nicer to them. Like you were with Libya.
Posted by: gorb || 10/15/2017 16:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Note that the Dems never talk about the constitutional issues raised by this whole mess.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/15/2017 17:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Go away, Loser. Or stay and help Republicans in 2018
Posted by: Frank G || 10/15/2017 17:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Keep throwing things sgainst the wall, Ms Woulda-been President. Maybe the next thing will stick.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/15/2017 18:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, that Clinton. Click.
Posted by: KBK || 10/15/2017 20:00 Comments || Top||


Jimmy Kimmel: Donald Trump Jr. an ‘idiot,’ ‘imbecile’ whose job is to tweet
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Late-night talk show host and frequent President Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel had a few choice words for the president’s oldest son Friday, calling Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Jr. an "imbecile" who does little more than tweeting.

In an interview aired Friday on "Good Morning America," Mr. Kimmel addressed Mr. Trump Jr.’s recent attacks against him for not addressing the Harvey Weinstein scandal on his show sooner. The first son criticized Mr. Kimmel, who has spoken out on his show about controversial topics like gun control and health care, for not addressing the numerous sexual harassment allegations against the disgraced Hollywood mogul immediately after the news initially broke.

"He’s an idiot, let’s just start with that," Mr. Kimmel fired back during his interview. "This is an imbecile whose job seems to be tweeting as far as I can tell."

"Harvey Weinstein is ... not a friend of mine," the late-night host explained. "I’m not in the movie business. And I’ll add that story came out, like, I think moments before we went to tape on Thursday, and we didn’t have a show on Friday."

Mr. Kimmel also said he wouldn’t mind hosting the president on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" so he could take a shot at changing the president’s mind on a few things.

"Absolutely, I have a lot of questions for Donald Trump," Mr. Kimmel told ABC News’ Amy Robach after she asked if he’d host the president on his show.

"I would guess that he’s not planning to visit me anytime soon," Mr. Kimmel admitted.

"Maybe this is crazy, but I feel like I could turn him around on a couple of things," he said. "I think he needs to be surrounded by better people. ... I just think he’s changed positions so frequently."

"I want to know what happened to the Donald Trump ... who was a Democrat?" he added.
Posted by: Fred || 10/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump will rip Kimmel a new asshole in the upcoming weeks on Twitter, the best platform for opposing these lefty douchebags. Kimmel seems unaware of his success at the NFL's 'social justice' protests; let him suffer the consequences.
Posted by: Raj || 10/15/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Kimmel doesn't have anyone watching him who would boycott him. More than that, Kimmel might be in the crosshairs of this Weinstein scandal himself when everything collapses. He did some Comedy Central Roasts, I wonder if he ever referenced Harvey in them.
Posted by: Charles || 10/15/2017 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Kimmel doesn't have anyone watching him who would boycott him.

Local affiliates may find other alternatives that may bring better ad revenue than the network offered default. If the network demands the air time, anti-trust investigation needs to follow.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/15/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  This as opposed to Kimmel's line of work, which involves finding obvious targets of ridicule so that his dumbest watcher can follow his jokes.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/15/2017 9:04 Comments || Top||


#6  he will always have an audience in Seattle, Portland, San Fran., Austin, and NYC.
Posted by: 746 || 10/15/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm from Austin 746. Don't judge a book by its fringes.
Posted by: texhooey || 10/15/2017 23:34 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton falsely claims Donald Trump is an 'admitted sex assaulter' as she compares him to Harvey Weinstein - but claims allegations against Bill are 'clearly in the past'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hillary Clinton, who received campaign funding from Weinstein, called rape and sexual assault allegations facing the movie mogul 'heartbreaking'

  • Clinton was apparently referring to the tape leaked during the campaign where Donald Trump was heard boasting about 'grabbing women by the p****y'

  • In fact he has never 'admitted' a sexual assault and apologized for 'locker room talk'

  • She told the BBC's Andrew Marr: 'I really commend the women who have been willing to step forward now and tell their stories'

  • In another interview with Channel 4 she said her campaign would hand back donations from Weinstein but had still to do so

  • That changed her first claim that she would give from her personal income - which would have earned her a tax break
Posted by: Fred || 10/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  but claims allegations against Bill are 'clearly in the past'

By choice or by circumstance?
Posted by: gorb || 10/15/2017 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Past as in the last 48 hours?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/15/2017 3:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Bill says the girls can feel his nose. Its large and its red and its a bit warty.

Some women may find Bill's Nose stimulating. Hillary, herself, admits that Bill's Nose was one of his major attractions when.... she was a bit younger.
Posted by: Vortigern Slush9204 || 10/15/2017 4:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Hillary, you want to know why "What Happened" happened?
This sort of thing is why it happened.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/15/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Better question: How does she not burst into flames telling these stupid lies?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/15/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Classic leftist projection.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/15/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Bill says the girls can feel his nose. Its large and its red and its a bit warty.

You sure he meant his nose?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/15/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Hillary's comments are like the beacon of hypocrisy shining in the darkness of the liberal mind showing them the way.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/15/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9 

Also explain why Bill spend his time with interns.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/15/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Wouldn't this fall under slander?
Posted by: charger || 10/15/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
18[untagged]
12Islamic State
3Taliban
2Govt of Iran
2Govt of Syria
1Commies
1Govt of Iraq
1Govt of Pakistan
1Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar
1al-Nusra
1Jaish-e-Mohammad
1Lashkar e-Taiba
1Moslem Colonists
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)
1Boko Haram (ISIS)

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2017-10-15
  Report: U.S. Coalition Cuts Islamic State Revenues over 90 Percent
Sat 2017-10-14
  Iraqi forces move to begin operations against Kurds
Fri 2017-10-13
  Iraq PM Denies Attack Plan as Tensions Rise with Kurds
Thu 2017-10-12
  British jihadi Sally Jones killed by US drone strike fleeing ISIS hell
Wed 2017-10-11
  Bangladesh arrests top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami
Tue 2017-10-10
  Nusra Front, Islamic State clash in Syria's Hama province
Mon 2017-10-09
  Syrian rebels capture ISIS HQ in Deir Ezzor
Sun 2017-10-08
  Two Saudi guards killed in attack on royal palace in Jeddah
Sat 2017-10-07
  Driver 'deliberately mows down pedestrians' outside London Museum
Fri 2017-10-06
  Iraqi premier claims victory against Islamic State in Hawija
Thu 2017-10-05
  3 Special Forces Troops Killed and 2 Are Wounded in an Ambush in Niger
Wed 2017-10-04
  Daesh defense line collapses in Hawijah as Iraqi forces liberate more villages
Tue 2017-10-03
  Key ISIS member Qari Zahid killed in US drone strike in East of Afghanistan
Mon 2017-10-02
  Terror Attack in Las Vegas - Mass Shooting - Updated 50+ dead, 400+ wounded
Sun 2017-10-01
  Kurdish secession bid in Iraq threat to entire region: Hezbollah chief


Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
18.188.152.162
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (27)    WoT Background (6)    Non-WoT (11)    (0)    (0)