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Right-Wing Radio Host Pulled Off Air After Gus Walz Hate Comment
I Heart Radio host Jay Weber was pulled off the air after calling Tim Walz’s son a “blubbering b---h boy” in a since deleted post on X. Gus Walz, who has ADHD, a learning disorder, and an anxiety disorder, went viral for his tearful reaction to his father’s speech on Aug. 21 at the Democratic National Convention. Weber called Gus’ emotional response “embarrassing for both father and son” in his original tweet. He issued a now-deleted apology on X, writing, “I didn’t realize the kid was disabled, and have taken the post down.” Critics called on I Heart Radio to fire the Jay Weber Show host. Fellow right-wing media personalities Ann Coulter and Mike Crispi also faced backlash for criticizing Gus. Crispi labeled Gus a “puffy beta male,” Coulter deleted a tweet in which she responded “Talk about weird...” Read it at Raw StoryRead more at The Daily Beast.
Ronda Rousey Apologizes for Sharing Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video—11 Years Later
Pro wrestler Ronda Rousey is finally ready to apologize for sharing a video she an called “extremely interesting, must watch” that portrayed the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, which left six staff members and 20 six and seven year olds dead, as a hoax.Rousey posted a lengthy statement Friday expressing her regret for sharing the video on January 15, 2013, just four weeks following the tragedy. “I can’t say how many times I’ve redrafted this apology over the last 11 years,” her statement begins. “How many times I’ve convinced myself it wasn’t the right time or that I’d be causing even...
Who Hyped Beyoncé at the DNC? Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Whodunnit then? Who was the original Beyoncé hypeman? Who got the party started by claiming there would be a live rendition of Freedom.DNC chairman Jaime Harrison and convention chair Minyon Moore didn’t tamp the speculation down in interviews on Tuesday. “Texas Hold’ Em” rang through the convention hall.A DNC official wouldn’t deny an appearance to the Daily Beast on Thursday, and two outlets—The Hill and TMZ—even reported it was happening.Hours and hours went by before The Hollywood Reporter ripped the band-aid off: she wasn’t coming. TMZ admitted on X they got the story wrong, and The Hill’s article link now...
King Apologizes for Wrongful Arrest of DJ Who Drove Same Route as Princess
Dutch King Willem-Alexander has personally apologized for a royal snafu that saw a DJ and his pals wrongfully arrested after they drove on the same route as Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia.The terrifying ordeal reportedly saw Serginio Piqué, a Black man, get pulled over abruptly by armed men in balaclavas as he drove in central Antwerp on a Friday evening this month.Piqué claimed he was ordered out of his car and onto the asphalt, where he and his buds were forced to keep their feet crossed and their hands on their heads until they were handcuffed, reported the NL Times.The men said...
Ann Coulter Roast Goes Viral as Internet Gets Revenge for Gus Walz
Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter was hit by a blizzard of criticism for her tweet describing Tim Walz’s son as “weird,” with clips of an old roast resurfacing and going viral in the wake of her comment.Gus Walz, 17, went viral himself Wednesday night for his heartwarming reaction to his father’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. The teenage son of Kamala Harris’ running mate stood and applauded with tears in his eyes, proudly telling other attendees: “That’s my dad!”“Talk about weird,” Coulter wrote in response to the heartwarming moment, turning Tim Walz’s favorite term to attack Donald Trump and...
‘Strange Darling’: The Erotic Serial-Killer Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing
Strange Darling opens with a text crawl (narrated by Jason Patric) that explicitly harkens back to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Nonetheless, writer/director JT Mollner’s feature debut teases conventionality while flipping expectations at every turn, delivering a fractured tale of desire, deceit, and the dark hearts that roam this wide-open country.Ruthlessly surprising and uncompromising—and thus best seen with as little prior knowledge as possible—it’s an electric thriller with blood on its hands, flesh in its mouth, and deviance on its mind.(Warning: Some spoilers ahead.)Shot entirely on 35mm film (as it announces via a title card) by actor Giovanni Ribisi, who additionally...
Jon Voight Begs Brad Pitt to ‘End the Nonsense’ With Angelina Jolie
Jon Voight shared his “wish” for his daughter Angelina Jolie’s marriage to Brad Pitt this week, as their divorce proceedings drag on and after she accused Pitt of “physically and verbally assaulting” her and their children.“I wish they’d find a way to make peace,” Voight told Fox News this week. “I think the kids need some stability,” he also said, before imploring to Pitt to “end this nonsense.”Pitt and Jolie are legally single, but not yet divorced despite Jolie filing all the way back in 2016. The proceedings have dragged on over disputes about custody of their children and previously...
‘Incoming’: Is This Netflix Movie the Next ‘Superbad’?
It’s understandable, even thematically fitting, that the new Netflix teen comedy Incoming looks up to Superbad like a younger brother idolizing his cool older siblings. Superbad may not itself be about the cool kids, but in terms of one-wild-night teen comedies, it’s just about the funniest and best-made version we’ve seen so far this century—something for any comic filmmaker to admire. So when Incoming rips it off, it’s hard to sustain much ill will. In fact, quite the opposite: The movie’s aspirations earn it a line of credit that it may not actually deserve.Reversing the vantage of Superbad’s about-to-graduate seniors,...
Wait, Did Trump Just Admit He Lost the 2020 Election?
One thousand three hundred eighty-eight days after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump appeared to tacitly admit that he lost to Joe Biden.Almost four years of denials gave way to one seemingly innocuous throwaway line, made while Trump held a press availability Thursday about immigration issues near a stretch of wall on the Arizona side of the U.S.-Mexico border.Holding up a printed copy of a graph that purportedly shows migrant encounter stats at the southern border, and which was on display the moment he was the target of an assassination attempt at a July rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Trump...
‘Multiple’ Secret Service Agents Put on Leave After Trump’s Near-Assassination
Fallout within the U.S. Secret Service continues to rage on after Donald Trump’s near-assassination last month.The protection agency said Friday it’d placed “multiple” agents on leave as part of its probe into how a 20-year-old nursing home worker was able to come within inches of assassinating a former president, MSNBC reported.Among those reportedly taken off duty was the special agent in charge of the agency’s Pittsburgh field office. MSNBC reported that “five or six” agents in total were placed on leave as “disciplinary action.”Fox News reported that a member of Trump’s personal protection team was among those place on leave....
Mr. Peloton: I Lost All My Money So Now I’ve Turned to Rugs
Peloton co-founder John Foley says he’s lost all his money but is looking to bounce back with a new company making made-to-order rugs.The 53-year-old set up the in-home exercise equipment company in 2012, overseeing its staggering growth to a $50 billion company in less than a decade. Along the way, Foley amassed an estimated $1.9 billion personal fortune by 2021—but he ended up leaving the company a year later as the company’s stock cratered due, in part, to the easing of COVID lockdown restrictions.“You know, at one point I had a lot of money on paper. Not actually [in the...
News Chopper Catches Missing 9-Year-Old on His Roof Playing Hooky on iPad
The search for a missing 9-year-old boy in Brooklyn ended Thursday when a news helicopter spotted him on the roof of his apartment building. The child’s parents called police when their son failed to show up at school, prompting the NYPD to issue a description of the boy. CBS News New York sent a chopper to the area. When it arrived, veteran helicopter reporter Dan Rice noticed a child sitting on the roof of the apartment building from which the boy had gone missing that morning. “We zoomed in with the camera—it appeared to be the child that fit the description of the missing child,” Rice said. The station called the NYPD, with officers soon arriving to take the child back to his parents. A neighbor said they’d seen the boy on the roof at around 8 a.m. but hadn’t thought anything of it. “There’s a swinging bench up there, sort of. The kid was sitting on the bench playing on his iPad,” the neighbor said. “I thought his parents gave him permission to go up there.”Read it at CBS NewsRead more at The Daily Beast.
Beyoncé Frenzy Exposes These Giant Dem Influencers’ BS
Breathless reports that Beyoncé would perform at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night turned out to be complete baloney.TMZ cited “multiple sources” in its report claiming “Queen Bey will be the big surprise performer” at the event in Chicago, only to later admit: “We got this one wrong.” The Hill was similarly led astray by its sources, one of whom had even gone so far as claiming they’d personally seen “Beyoncé in Chicago.”To quote the great Beyonce: We gotta lay our cards down, down, down ... we got this one wrong.— TMZ (@TMZ) August 23, 2024 A representative for the...
Manslaughter Probe Launched as Final Body in Superyacht Disaster Is Found
The body of the 18-year-old daughter of British technology magnate Mike Lynch—the last missing person from the shipwreck of the Bayesian superyacht that sank earlier this week—has been found, Sicilian authorities said Friday. Prosecutors are now exploring manslaughter charges as part of their investigation of the tragedy.Hannah Lynch was scheduled to start at Oxford to study English next month after having completed her studies at the prestigious Latymer Upper School, where she was said to have been a standout student in literature and poetry. “I’ve never taught someone who combined sky-high intellectual ability with warmth and enthusiasm in the way...
Fugitive Who Faked His Own Death—and an English Accent—to Face Trial
An American alleged conman who faked his death in 2020 and fled to Britain to evade rape charges, only to insist he was someone else when caught, will finally stand trial in Utah, a judge ruled Thursday.The saga of 37-year-old Nicholas Rossi, whose real name is Nicholas Alahverdian, has played out over a decade across two continents amid a series of increasingly outlandish claims, a fake obituary, and a laughably poor attempt at an English accent.Rossi appeared in a Salt Lake City courthouse Thursday, where Judge Barry Lawrence ruled prosecutors put forward enough evidence to merit a jury trial.A convicted...
Spurned RFK Jr. Tries to Spoil Harris’ Moment of Joy by Pulling Out
After Kamala Harris ended the Democratic National Convention on a high, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hoping he can bring her down to earth by pulling out of the presidential race.On Thursday, the independent candidate filed paperwork to withdraw from presidential ballots in Arizona, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes confirmed. The withdrawal came ahead of a press conference Friday morning—Kennedy has refused to confirm or deny reports that he’s planning to end his campaign and endorse Donald Trump.He made the move in Arizona after Harris spurned a request for a meeting—while the Trump campaign appeared to open the way...
Queen Camilla Fears King Charles Is ‘Working Too Hard,’ Wants Him to Slow Down
Some insiders at Buckingham Palace—and the king’s wife—are concerned by King Charles III’s packed schedule, fearing that his insistence on maintaining a full program of events, including a grueling overseas tour to Australia planned for October, is harming his chances of making a full recovery in his cancer battle.Their concerns were brought into sharp focus this week when Charles took part in a traditional Balmoral welcoming ceremony Monday, before flying hundreds of miles the next day for an “intense” visit to Southport, a northern English town rocked by riots following the appalling murder there of three very young children attending...
Inside the White House Cover Up of Biden’s Health Crisis
It was at a conference on hunger in September 2022 where President Joe Biden scanned the crowd and called out, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” No response. “I think she was… she was going to be here.”Jackie Walorski, one of the conference organizers, had died in a car crash the previous month. After her death the White House sent condolences in Biden’s name, saying how he “appreciated her partnership” in setting up the conference.Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, explained Biden's asking for Jackie by saying that she was “top of mind” for the president at the conference. She...
‘The Killer’: John Woo Remakes His 1989 Action Classic
There’s arguably nothing cooler than The Killer or its star Chow Yun-fat, so John Woo’s new remake of his 1989 Hong Kong classic begins behind the proverbial eight-ball.The action maestro’s latest is, mercifully, a cut above last year’s Silent Night, boasting at least faint traces of the signature style that made him a genre legend. Still, despite being a step in the right direction, his English-language The Killer, which hits Peacock on Aug. 23, remains merely a mediocre remix that, for all its familiar elements, fails to improve upon a single aspect of its trailblazing predecessor.In contemporary Paris, lethal assassin...
Opinion: All Those Republicans Were at the DNC for a Reason
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Though it was ostensibly a Democratic event, a number of Republicans graced the stage of the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, leaving some onlookers scratching their heads.Five Republicans spoke at the convention: former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan; Mesa, Arizona mayor John Giles; former Rep. Adam Kinzinger; former Trump White House national security official Olivia Troye; and Trump’s former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.“In all honesty, I thought that it was really effective,” said The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie, who has been in...
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