Insurgent Ted Cruz fires at the Washington Post when they took aim at his daughters. Cruz is with his wife Heidi and daughters Catherine (left) and Caroline (right).
Now I am not a fan of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his bombastic campaign for president. The insurgent lawmaker has relatively no accomplishments since his introduction to the senate in 2013.
He's been nothing more than a gadfly to the Republicans. The conservatives love his "in your face" approach when it comes to taking on Washington.
But his "in your face" approach has made it harder for Republicans to support him. They believe that Cruz and Donald Trump could spell disaster.
But given the atmosphere in the junk food media, it's not an easy road for a perennial running Hillary Clinton. So far she's leading against most candidates. Clinton is still having slow support from many of the progressives. Many progressives view Clinton more negatively after the fiasco with Bernie Sanders and previously then Barack Obama.
When campaigning for the nomination, the candidates swore they'll never attack the children of a candidate. But for the junk food media, nothing is off limits.
Pathetic.
The Washington Post had to do damage control when they released a political cartoon featuring Cruz with two little monkeys. I guess the monkeys were Catherine and Caroline. Those are the senator's two young daughters.
Cue the outrage.
For one thing Cruz is Hispanic. Depicting him and his daughters as monkeys is pretty damn racist!
The person who drew the comic will probably be placed in the freezer or fired out the cannon once the heat increases. But it's become a rally cry for Cruz to raise campaign cash.
Cruz raised a $1 million from it.
Cruz called it a "tasteless attack". He said that you can say whatever the fuck about him. But you best not talk about his kids!
"My daughters are not FAIR GAME," he wrote on social media and in his fundraising emailer. "I'm sickened....I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this."
Fool, please. You know that being the President of the United States is going to be a job for the patient. Barack Obama faced an onslaught of attacks from the people like you.
When has there been ever a time the junk food media been easy of the families of a political candidate?
His wife was brutally criticized by those agitators in the conservative media for being "an angry Black woman". They don't see her as an accomplished mother, wife, business executive and volunteer.
Think about last month when The Daily Caller obtained a Snapchat photo of Malia Obama attending Brown University and she's viewing a game of beer pong. Or the Republican staffer who took to social media to attack the appearance of Malia and Sasha Obama during the 2014 pardoning of the turkeys.
And who can't forget the conservative Craigslist reporting that the junk food media scrubbing a story about Malia and a few her friends heading out of country. The story being leaked caused the Secret Service to end Malia's vacation early.
Ted, you better get used to it. The junk food media has no shame in what it does.
Matter of fact, the freedom of speech assures this type of trash to be published.
Critics probably splashed this nonsense on their screen savers.
The president heads off to Hawaii for his family vacation. His vacation will be like always a working one. And even though our friends in the agitating media are on vacation, their sidekicks are in session.
As you know, the president gives the nation a recap of his seventh year. In his yearly wrap up he announced that he will do more to take on the Islamic State. He will try to pass reforms to curb the ongoing gun violence. He said that he will try to end his last year in office on a good note.
He did an interview on NPR. Steve Inskeep asks him about the legacy and the rise of the insurgent Donald Trump. Here's the part that got the conservatives attention.
STEVE INSKEEP: And you mentioned Donald Trump taking advantage of real anxieties in the country but that the anxieties are real. Some of that anxiety, as you know, focuses on you, Mr. President. And I want to set aside the politicians for a moment and just talk about ordinary voters. Do you feel over seven years that you've come to understand why it is that some ordinary people in America believe or fear that you are trying to change the country in some way that they cannot accept?
OBAMA: Well, look, if what you are asking me, Steve, is are there certain circumstances around being the first African-American president that might not have confronted a previous president, absolutely. You know, I think ...
INSKEEP: I don't know if that's all of it.
OBAMA: I'm sure that's not all of it ...
INSKEEP: It's not all I am asking, anyway. You could answer it anyway you want.
OBAMA: Well, you are asking a pretty broad question. I don't know where to take it, so if you want to narrow it down, I can. If what you are suggesting is is that, you know, somebody questioning whether I was born in the United States or not, how do I think about that, I would say that that's something that is actively promoted and may gain traction because of my unique demographic. I don't think that that's a big stretch.
But maybe you've got something else in mind.
INSKEEP: Years ago you made that remark, you were much criticized for saying something about people clinging to guns and religion. This is before you were even elected president. And although you were criticized for the phrasing of that, it seemed to me that you were attempting to figure out, what is it that people are thinking, what is it that's bothering people? Now you've had several more years to think about that.
OBAMA: Well, keep in mind, Steve, I was elected twice by decent majorities. So the fact of the matter is that in a big country like this there is always going to be folks who are frustrated, don't like the direction of the country, are concerned about the president. Some of them may not like my policies, some of them may just not like how I walk, or my big ears or, you know. So, I mean, no politician I think aspires to 100 percent approval ratings.
If you are referring to specific strains in the Republican Party that suggest that somehow I'm different, I'm Muslim, I'm disloyal to the country, etc., which unfortunately is pretty far out there and gets some traction in certain pockets of the Republican Party, and that have been articulated by some of their elected officials, what I'd say there is that that's probably pretty specific to me and who I am and my background, and that in some ways I may represent change that worries them. But that's not to suggest that everybody who objects to my policies may not have perfectly good reasons for it. If you are living in a town that historically has relied on coal and you see coal jobs diminishing, you probably are going to be more susceptible to the argument that I've been wiping out the economy in your area.
It doesn't matter if I tell them actually it's probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn't pay to build coal plants. If somebody tells you that this is because of Obama's war on coal, well, you know, that's an argument you may be sympathetic to. And that's perfectly legitimate. So as I said, you asked a pretty open-ended question. I think you were being a little coy in how you asked it.
INSKEEP: I'm trying to give you room to answer.
OBAMA: No, I understand, but what I'm saying is that I think that there's always going to be, every president, a certain cohort that just doesn't like your policies, doesn't like your party, what have you. I think if you are talking about the specific virulence of some of the opposition directed towards me, then, you know, that may be explained by the particulars of who I am.
On the other hand, I'm not unique to that. I always try to remind people that, goodness, if you look at what they said about Jefferson or Lincoln or FDR — finding reasons not to like a president, that's, you know, a well-traveled path here in this country.
One in particular was the rise of the insurgency. The insurgent candidates running for the Republican nomination have gotten a whole lot of media coverage.
Donald Trump is by far the biggest focus of the elections. His fiery rhetoric has sparked a flame in the conservatives. The conservatives are playing upon the fear of a Browner nation to win this election.
Conservatives believes the president plays the race card. Here's an example of the conservative Craigslist posted yesterday.
Macy Gray releases a politically charged holiday song. It dings Donald Trump.
Macy Gray released "All I Want for Christmas" on iTunes this month. The song is pretty awesome if you're a progressive and want Congress to get President Barack Obama's agenda done.
The song pretty much takes a stance on issues that are considered hot potatoes in the junk food media. Cue the conservative outrage.
Here's the lyrics. Read it carefully and then peep the commentary below.
[Verse 1]
All I want for Christmas is a whole bunch of stuff
But anything that you can buy me won’t be enough
Because everything I’m hoping for is intangible
Like free health care and gun control
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
[Verse 2]
Santa Claus stop by the ghetto too
And bring lots of opportunity with you
Bring the day the government will realize We’ll all be happier when it’s legalized So immigrate, stop the hate, let’s educate The more we do, the less we will incarcerate 7 billion people just below the moon
And if we come together, oh, the things that we could do
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
[Interlude - Kids Talk]
What do you want for Christmas?
I just want peace for everybody on earth
What about you?
I want hope for everybody
Tayjon?
I think I want homes for the homeless
Alina?
I want water for everybody
Yaay
[Bridge]
All I want for Christmas is to have a chance So please take care of the environment Take Mr. Gore seriously And do what you can to stop global warming No matter what they say, Barack you did real good
I hope that your successor
Does the things he or she should That Mr. Trump, he’s an entertaining guy But let's face it, really is he qualified?
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
You see that she's taking a dig at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Macy Gray also wanted the country to recognize climate change. She said that President Barack Obama's agenda is good.
Many conservatives will blast the song for being "liberal indoctrination" and "Hollywood elitists" talking down "real Americans".
Macy Gray is well aware of the outrage that will follow her.
She doesn't care about the criticism. Her job is put out songs for her fans. I am certain her fans will be happy to hear it.
Conservatives will get even more outraged. She did the song called "B.O.B.". The song talks about that little thing that keeps women in their vibe. If you want to know what I'm talking about. Click here.
The hopeless bid for president is over for Lindsey Graham. He suspends his campaign. It's not over for the South Carolina senator. He will still be agitating on GOP Sundays about "radical Islam" and how his buddy John McCain stood up to Barack Obama.
Looks like the clown car just booted another one out! Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced today that he officially dropped out his long shot bid for president.
"I must suspend my campaign," he said on CNN this morning. "I'm not going to suspend my desire to help the country. I'll probably go back to Iraq and Afghanistan and get another update. Thirty-six trips has informed me. But the one thing I feel really good about is I did it with a smile on my face. I talked about things that are important to me and somebody better fix one day."
Later, in a phone interview with ABC News, Graham said, "I'm just going to chill out today," adding he hasn't decided whom to endorse yet. "There's lots of talented people in the race: Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, others."
Graham, 60, had been included in the undercard debates during his campaign, struggling to garner any significant support in national or early state polls. "I’m far more confident today that our party will reject the Obama doctrine of leading from behind and will provide the strong leadership America needs," Graham says in a campaign video.
Thank you to everyone who honored me with their support. God bless our fighting men and women & God bless America.
https://t.co/9qCM2qIu8p
The South Carolina Republican Party removed Graham’s name from the ballot there, a letter from the state GOP confirms to ABC News. Today marks the deadline to have any candidate's name removed from the South Carolina ballot.
“This letter shall certify the removal of Lindsey Graham’s name from South Carolina’s February 20, 2016 Republican Presidential Preference Primary ballot,” South Carolina GOP chair Matt Moore wrote to the state’s election commission.
The move potentially spares Graham from a poor performance in his home state.
"I have offered a detailed plan to win a war we cannot afford to lose and to turn back the tide of isolationism that has been rising in the Republican Party," Graham, whose campaign for the presidency lasted 204 days, said in a recent statement. "I believe we made enormous progress in this effort."
Graham is a hawkish Republican on national security. He openly boasted that if you elect him, he would send the troops to Iraq and Syria to take on the Islamic State.
Graham and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were fixtures on GOP Sundays. Since he announced his bid for president, the appearances slowed down. It's been mostly about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and the insurgent of the month.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the current insurgent of the month. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina deflated.
Graham isn't a fan of Trump, Cruz and Rubio. He blames them for the party's toxic environment.
Graham slammed Trump at a campaign stop. Trump in return told the junk food media Graham's phone number and he got swamped with death threats and insults.
Many conservatives aren't fans of Graham. For one thing, they think he's a RINO. They believe he's a closeted gay Republican. He's part of the Gang of Whatever, a group of bipartisan lawmakers who according to the right jams laws down Americans' throats.
This is the guy who complains about "radical Islam" and President Barack Obama not focusing on terrorism. He says that the president leads from behind. The funny thing is that Graham is leading from behind. He is a tool.
He is just as divisive as the leading candidates. It's unfortunate that he polled lower than Rick Santorum.
Santorum is by far the worst candidate to ever run for president. Santorum and Gilmore are way more pathetic than Graham. I mean they should just drop out as well.
Now who's going to go to the lower-tier debate? Likely Rand Paul and Ben Carson. They took the biggest nosedive in this race for the nomination.
Now the spots are lowered to 13.
Donald Trump - Reality television host/Business and media mogul
Ted Cruz - Current U.S. Senator from Texas
Marco Rubio - Current U.S. Senator from Florida
Ben Carson - Ex-neurosurgeon/activist
Carly Fiorina - Ex-business executive/activist
Jeb Bush - Ex-Florida governor/son of 41st and brother of 43rd
Chris Christie - Current New Jersey governor
John Kasich - Current Ohio governor
Rand Paul - U.S. Senator from Kentucky
Mike Huckabee - Ex-Arkansas governor/talk show host
Rick Santorum - Ex-Pennsylvania senator
George Pataki - Ex-New York governor
Jim Gilmore - Ex-Virginia governor
Who dropped out the race
Rick Perry - Ex-Texas governor
Scott Walker - Current Wisconsin governor
Bobby Jindal - Ex-Louisiana governor
Lindsey Graham - Current U.S. Senator from South Carolina
"Senator Graham has an incredibly strong and loyal grassroots network in South Carolina," GOP state chair Matt Moore said. "Given Senator Graham's huge [Senate] primary victory in South Carolina just last year, the Graham network could have a major impact on South Carolina's presidential primary."
But Democrats pointed to Graham's support of comprehensive immigration reform. "The one presidential candidate who has consistently favored comprehensive immigration reform just dropped out of the race after attracting virtually no support," Democratic National Committee spokesman Eric Walker said in a statement.
In a statement, Graham's close friend Arizona Sen. John McCain expressed his gratitude for Graham's bid. "It is a pity that a bifurcated debate structure kept his voice and views from the wider public that needed to hear them," he said. "With Senator Lindsey Graham’s announcement, Republicans lost our most qualified, thoughtful, fearless and honest presidential candidate, not to mention the candidate with the best (and it seemed sometimes the only) sense of humor."
Today, the old fart Rush Limbaugh rips into Graham. He also rips the Democratic debate. The old fart makes note of the restroom break by Hillary Clinton.
The taping of the Miss Universe Pageant was a disaster. Entertainer Steve Harvey messed up on the Miss Universe winner. That became the talk of the nation. Matter of fact, while that was going on, a woman driving on the Las Vegas strip intentionally drove on the sidewalk and plowed over tourists.
The law said that the woman intentionally swerved her car onto a busy sidewalk two or three times Sunday and mowed down people outside a Las Vegas casino, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others.
The injured were tourist from Montreal, Quebec, the majority French spoken province in Canada.
There were some who spoke in fluent French and needed translators.
The Las Vegas metro police said that the incident isn't terrorism. They believe that the act is deliberate because of possible OVI and drug use.
Police say the woman, who is in her 20s, had a 3-year-old child in the car with her at the time. The child was unharmed.
The woman who police said had recently arrived in Las Vegas drove a 1996 four-door Oldsmobile with Oregon license plates.
Lt. Dan McGrath says police now believe this woman "went up and off these streets, two or possibly three times." The woman is being interviewed and is having her blood drawn. She is being held in jail with charges pending.
Six patients who had been admitted to area hospitals in critical condition were stable after their initial treatment.
World News Today sends our condolences to the victims of this senseless tragedy.
Well I am assuring Steve Harvey got some flack for the flub. The AP reports that the entertainer messed up in announcing the winner of Miss Universe Pageant.
The Colombian contestant was already wearing this year's Miss Universe crown when host Steve Harvey returned to announce on live television that he had mistakenly read from a cue card, and that the contestant from the Philippines was actually this year's winner.
In the following moments, the crown was removed and placed on the head of a mystified Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines, other contestants rushed to console Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo of Colombia and a sheepish Harvey felt compelled to apologize on Twitter and to reporters assembled backstage.
"I feel horrible for this young woman," he said.
Harvey said it was his mistake and that he would take responsibility for not correctly reading the card, which said that Wurtzbach was this year's winner and Colombia was actually the first runner-up.
He held up the card for Fox network cameras to see up close. Talking with reporters afterward, Harvey and an executive for pageant owner WME-IMG called it human error.
"Nobody feels worse about this than me," he said.
Wurtzbach appeared stunned as she walked to the front of the stage alongside the crown-wearing Gutierrez before last year's Miss Universe from Colombia removed the crown and placed it on Wurtzbach's head.
Wurtzbach later said she felt conflicting emotions as the mistake happened: joy when she was told she had indeed won, concern for Gutierrez and confusion at the whole situation.
Wurtzbach said she tried to approach Gutierrez onstage afterward, but the Colombian was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women. She said she realized it was "probably bad timing."
"I did not take the crown from her," Wurtzbach told reporters after the pageant concluded, saying she wished the contestant from Colombia well and hoped the Latin American community understands that "none of this was my fault."
"None of this was done on purpose. It was an honest mistake," she said, apologizing on behalf of the organization she now represents. She said Harvey told her afterward that she "should just enjoy the moment."
Crowning Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo was a mistake.
Harvey also apologized on Twitter, but at first misspelled the home countries of both contestants before also fixing that. "I'd like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake," he wrote. "I feel terrible."
Within seconds of Gutierrez being crowned, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos took to Twitter to commemorate what appeared to be an unprecedented back-to-back Miss Universe win for the South American nation.
"Colombians! The most beautiful in the world," wrote Santos. "Miss Universe 2016!!!! What pride!"
But seconds later, Santos had to reverse himself.
"For us you'll always be our Miss Universe," he wrote in a message to Gutierrez. "We feel very proud."
Donald Trump, who used to own the rights to Miss Universe, tweeted on Monday that "this never would have happened" under his watch. He softened his tone later that morning in an interview on NBC's Today Show, calling Harvey a "great guy" who handled it well. Trump said if he were still in charge of the show, he would make the women share the title.
"I think I'd make them a co-winner. That'd be very cool," he said.
He added: "Things happen. It's live television," he said.
Harvey, who was hosting the contest for the first time, said he reread the card and noticed it said "first runner-up" next to the Colombia contestant's name before he asked producers if he had made a mistake.
An executive with pageant owner WME-IMG, Mark Shapiro, said Harvey caught the mistake and corrected it on his own, saying he wanted to make a wrong into a right.
"It was humiliating for the women. It was humiliating for him," he told reporters after the pageant.
As all this was unfolding, a car drove up onto a sidewalk and struck dozens of people just outside the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino where the pageant was taking place. The Las Vegas Strip was soon jammed with ambulances and fire trucks, and authorities said at least 30 people were taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries and one person was killed.
Even before Sunday night's oops moment, the pageant was involved in another controversy when a backlash against Trump led Univision to pull out of the broadcast and the businessman to sell it in September.
Pia Wurtzbach crowned the winner of Miss Universe after a major flub by comedian Steve Harvey.
NBCUniversal and Trump co-owned the Miss Universe Organization until earlier this year. The real-estate developer offended Hispanics in June when he made anti-immigrant remarks in announcing his Republican presidential run.
That led Spanish-language network Univision to pull out of the broadcast for what would have been the first of five years airing the pageants, and NBC to cut business ties with Trump.
The former star of the "Celebrity Apprentice" reality show sued both companies, settling with NBC in September, which included buying the network's stake in the pageants.
That same month, Trump sold the organization that includes the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to entertainment company WME-IMG.
Philippines presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda didn't address the debate over the win but said, "in bagging this victory, Ms. Wurtzbach not only serves as a tremendous source of pride for our people, but also holds up the banner of our women and of our country-as a true representative of what the Filipina can achieve."
Harvey was so embarrassed over this. He went to social media to apologize to the runner-up and winner.
The competition started with women representing 80 countries between the ages of 19 and 27. For the first time, viewers at home weighed in, with their votes being tallied in addition to four in-person celebrity judges.
It's the third time a contestant from the Philippines has won the title.
The pageant's contestant from the United States, Olivia Jordan, was named second runner-up.
The entertainer hosted the Miss Universe Pageant on Fox last night.
He incorrectly announced the winner of Miss Universe. Harvey erroneously announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutiérrez as the winner. However, after Gutiérrez crowning, Harvey stated that he read the results incorrectly and that Wurtzbach was the actual Miss Universe 2015.
Miss Universe 2014 Paulina Vega then handed Gutiérrez's crown over to Wurtzbach.
Pia Wurtzbach represented the Philippines in the Miss Universe 2015 held on December 20, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Broderick Stephen "Steve" Harvey is an American comedian, television host, radio personality, actor, and author. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Steve Harvey (the talk show), and Family Feud. He is the author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009, and the book Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man.
Harvey previously hosted Showtime at the Apollo, starred in The Steve Harvey Show, and was featured in The Original Kings of Comedy. He is a three-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, and an 11-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.
Conservatives don't care about Zaevion Dobson. They care about how Blacks don't discuss violence in the community.
Well that didn't take long.
Conservatives are concern trolling yet again about gang violence, "Black on Whatever" violence, and the usual "Where's the outrage?" narrative from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, President Barack Obama and #BlackLivesMatter.
Here's an example of the nonsense pandered through the conservative agitating media:
This was a shot at Campaign Zero/BlackLivesMatter spokesperson DeRay McKesson.
According to Breitbart News, McKesson didn't seem too concerned about Zae. They sneak dissed Mckesson's recent tweets about going to Star Wars. They claim that DeRay McKesson and others involved in the movement are too busy rousing cops and not focusing on Black on whatever violence.
Newsflash: Black America has talked about violence in our community. It doesn't generate ratings for the agitators in the cable news.
And another thing, since when do someone has to speak out against ever freaking event where a person of color lost his or her life to gun violence. DeRay McKesson isn't the person who keeps tally of deaths by guns. His job is to protest law enforcement not being held accountable for killing unarmed civilians.
He can't be everywhere where the media is!
As soon as the story of Zaevion Dobson went viral, many Americans took to social media praising the teen for his self-sacrifice. The Knoxville teen shielded his friends from a hail of gunfire.
A group of domestic terrorists aimed upon a neighborhood where Zae and his friends were. The suspects were shooting at everything.
Zae was hit in the head by the slugs. He would die on route to the hospital. The suspects didn't know the victim. They were in the area where they believed a rival lived. The rival shot at one of the suspect's family member.
One of the suspects met his fate at the hands of rival. Brandon Perry, one of the alleged shooters was killed by gunfire later that night.
Zae's death will likely become a talking point in the last State of the Union Address for Obama.
Obama is getting really frustrated with the inept Congress not passing gun control legislation. He believes that his legacy is tarnished by the lack of action on mass shootings.
He may issue executive orders in the final years to curb some of the easy loopholes.
What is often ignored is the fact that gun violence is everyday. Conservatives only see this a reason to have more guns and less regulations. The San Bernardino shooters had legal access to firearms.
Matter of fact, their former neighbor was a strawman for some of the firearms used in the December massacre.
Of course, conservatives play this "good guy with a gun" nonsense.
That tired argument won't work when the mass shooter has a partner watching you plot a counter attack. The law doesn't see a "good guy" trying to stop a "bad guy". They see an active shooter. You being the "good guy" could be mistaken by the law as an active shooter. You could be killed by the suspect or law enforcement if you try to stop an active shooter.
Zae's death became a national story for the fact that he was a standout football player who many said was a "leader" who took action in situation.
Here's one reason to why I believe conservatives just don't get it.
In the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio lies iHeartMedia studios. On Ronald Reagan Drive in Sycamore Township is America's oldest AM radio station, WLW-AM.
WLW is probably one of the most listened radio station in the country.
During the day, the station's frequency can be heard from Cincinnati. Its broadcast can be reached to regional metros such as Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis.
WLW boasted that at night many Americans can hear the station from New York City all the way to Salt Lake City. WLW called itself the world's highest fidelity radio station.
Great history comes with a price.
One in particular is a concern troll who panders in the faux outrage of "Black on Whatever" violence.
On that station is a controversial talker who is good friends with two certain agitators who I've mentioned frequently on this blog. I've often mentioned that Matt Drudge and Sean Hannity are racial agitators. The Drudge Report and almost everything surrounding Sean Hannity is basically racially charged. I've said Sean Hannity is by far the most annoying conservative agitator to ever host a radio or television program. Hannity is the biggest concern troll out there. He will go through leaps and bounds to bring up a racial story. His right wing carnival hosted this agitator on many times.
Hannity and this agitator share one thing in common. They claim they're "Great Americans".
This character is a part of that machine that gives White extremists a reason to plot domestic attacks against the Black community.
Bill Cunningham is a longtime fixture of Cincinnati AM agitation. Cunningham is a nationally syndicated host who has a local weekday show on WLW at 12pm and a national Sunday show at 10pm.
On his Sunday show, he covers controversial issues from that landed on The Drudge Report.
Cunningham is considered the start of a Republican talking point. He often reads off the week and often reads from the website, the most read stories. Most of the stories that come off The Drudge Report are race-based or stories that are likely political attacks on liberals, President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Cunningham is very close to Drudge on that level. He took over for the reclusive agitator in 2007 after Drudge hung it up for full-time agitation on his website.
Cunningham is a former attorney hosted the gig at WLW for over 30 years.
During his time, he's been a controversial figure in the conservative media. He's notorious for making jokes about Barack Obama's middle name being "Hussein" at a John McCain campaign stop. It was a play for the "Obama's a Muslim" conspiracy. McCain condemned the comments and rejected the endorsement from Cunningham. Cunningham mocks McCain and Obama for being "soft" and "not willing" to let "Hussein" be a political issue.
Cunningham is a notorious birther as well. He and many others in the conservative media have demanded the president show his long form birth certificate. He inspired Donald Trump to get into birther movement.
Cunningham was a huge supporter of Steven Roach, the former Cincinnati cop who bucked Timothy Thomas. The incident sparked a riot in the city in April 2001. Cincinnati's Black leaders issued a boycott of the city.
Race-baiting agitators Hannity and Drudge.
He also mocked the death of Nathaniel Jones. Jones was arrested after workers at White Castle called the law on a panhandler who was acting erratically in the business. He was taken down by the law brutally. He ended up having a heart attack. Cunningham was played an offensive parody song mocking the situation.
Cunningham got into a heated debate with fake liberal agitator Tamara Holder on Fox. He told Holder to "know her place" and "shut her mouth". That controversy got him temporarily banned from that right wing network.
Cunningham has big concerns about Black America not addressing violence in our community.
Cunningham will allow a bunch of extremists talk about how Blacks are being brainwashed by the "Democrat Party". He would put on Black extremists like Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, Jesse Lee Peterson, Kevin Jackson, and Deneen Boreli to debate these issues.
When these screwballs aren't available, he'll put on White extremists Wayne Allan Root, Colin Flaherty and now Republican Kentucky governor Matt Bevin to discuss Black criminals and Obama's upbringing as a Black man.
Cunningham has been going on for years without being mentioned by Media Matters for America, the Daily Kos and the official Black Lives Matters debunking squad. He keep pushing even further on Black criminality to rile up White extremists.
Cunningham is now rewarded with his own daytime talk show. He follows the formula of his old buddy Jerry Springer. His show is talking about taboo topics. When he's not hosting in Cincinnati, he hops on a plane and heads to New York City to do a taping for his CW-syndicated show.
Cunningham plays the role of a consoling talk show host. He puts on Black guests who have issues that are just utter coonery.
He plays this "father figure" when he have Black guest argue and fight over issues that shouldn't even be put on television. And he's been doing this for three seasons.
Now I am not one for boycotts but I want you to know that this agitator is putting on an act for ratings.
I find it funny that he would be so concerned about violence in the Black community when he's the biggest provocateur of it on his radio and television show.
Zaevion Dobson's death was tragic. His story is heartbreaking. But he's one of hundreds of other young men and women killed in senseless gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
It would take a long time to figure out the names all the victims lost to gun violence. Cunningham, that old fart Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Drudge, and the rest of the agitators in the conservative media aren't concerned about Black lives.
The Knoxville community mourns the life of Zaevion Dobson.
They cheer on when Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims kill one another. They scream into their microphones when these groups kill White people. They are only concerned about gun control when Blacks, Hispanics and Muslim obtain them. When Whites obtain guns, they look the other way.
When a mass shooter happens to be White, the junk food media says its a person with mental issues.
When a mass shooter is a Black person, the person is a thug.
When a mass shooter is a Muslim, the person is a terrorist.
When the motive is politically motivated against a group, conservatives say it's not about politics.
When the motive is inspired a rivalry or a systematic oath of loyalty, it's about gang violence.
When the motive is inspired by religion. They automatically single it out to be Islam. Or rather their definition of "radical Islam". That's the newest word vomit being spewed by conservatives and Republican lawmakers.
Shock jock Anthony Cumia got a night in lockup after he knuckled up a woman.
You may have heard of the infamous shock jock who was fired out the cannon from SiriusXM a few years back. The shock jock was a co-host on a nationally syndicated radio program out of New York.
They were one of the most listened radio programs on SiriusXM. It was called the Opie & Anthony radio show. The radio show was on for nearly 20 years.
When Anthony Cumia was fired out the cannon after making racial slurs about a Black woman he got into a confrontation in Times Square. He called her.......(insert racial slur, sexual reference and Obama drop).
The executives at SiriusXM warned Cumia to shut it down and apologize. He said, "Fuck y'all, freedom of speech!". So they said, "Your ass is gone!"
Cumia was even more pissed at Opie and Jim Norton for not backing him up. They haven't spoken since and they are feuding.
Anthony Cumia and Gregg "Opie" Hughes were considered too nasty for radio.
They were once called the most dangerous voices outside of Howard Stern.
Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony, Jerry Springer, Mancow, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh and Bubba the Love Sponge often singled out for controversy. They have often pushed the bar on hot topics.
And it seems like old habits can't stop some.
Call her bluff.
Cumia is back in the news. But only for his own misfortunes outside the studio.
He was busted on Saturday for knuckling up on a woman who was staying in his New York home.
The 26-year old victim went to social media to plead for help. Cumia was apparently drunk and disorderly during the whole ordeal. The victim showed her broken hand on social media.
Cumia was trying to be "playful".
The woman uploaded part of the confrontation to Periscope, and after calling the cops, Cumia was taken into custody and charged with strangulation, criminal mischief, unlawful imprisonment and assault.
Me thinks, the victim could have been a paid escort.
Cumia later pled not guilty to the charges against him.
"Mr. Cumia emphatically denies the allegations brought against him, and is optimistic that when the truth comes out, he will be exonerated," Cumia's attorney, Alan Schwartz.
Think if this was felonious kidnapping. That charge could carry up to 20 years in the iron college.
Will the junk food media label Cumia a "sexual predator" or a "thug" for doing this act?
Georgia teen and her underage boyfriend took the ride of their lives. They just happened to use her mother's cash to get there. The law placed the cuffs on her and gave her public shaming and sympathies. All while ignoring the fact she was unrepentant criminal.
Will the junk food media call this teen a thug?
Nope.
They'll give this young teen and her accomplice a glowing profile and make it a story about her being a troubled teen and not an unrepentant criminal.
This teen Ivie Jane Adams is facing some serious heat. The charges alone could carry her a few years in the iron college if they decide to charge her as an adult.
Adams and her boyfriend traveled through Georgia, Alabama and Florida breaking into vehicles and stealing property. They even geeked her mom of her properties. They were said to have stolen credit cards, jewelry.
She and the boyfriend (a minor) were hitting it up in Jacksonville. They found another ride in the city and taken it across the panhandle. The couple ended up busted in Dothan, Alabama.
She's being shipped back to suburban Atlanta for a court hearing.
Now that her name was released to the junk food media, people are already seeing the "cuteness" factor in this. She was a good girl and she never got in trouble.
Blah, blah, blah.....!
There's other privileged and pampered Americans who believe themselves to be above the law.
Ethan Couch, Sarah Furay and Martin Shkreli are notorious for being pampered criminals. Don't forget the Bush family too. There's a handful of family members who used their connections to get away with criminal misbehaving.
A heroic action cost this young teen his life. Now Americans are hoping that this drives attention to gun violence.
Gang violence should be considered domestic terrorism. I believe that the junk food media has labels a tragedy based on race, religion and political views.
There was a standout football star who shielded his friends from a hail of gunfire. The student was destined for a bright future. His life was taken away by senseless gun violence.
The teen and his friends weren't the intended target. The neighbor was and he faced his fate too.
Three young girls tearfully thank Zaevion Dobson for saving their lives. The Knoxville Police and FBI are investigating the death of the teen after a rivalry between two factions.
Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch says the 15-year-old Fulton High School football player died after he used his body to shield the two girls and a boy from gunfire on Thursday night.
"By the time it was over, we had went inside," another girl said. "I pulled on him and said 'You can get up now' but he didn't get up. So I just went upstairs, and by the time I came back to make sure everything was real, (I saw) he was shot in the head."
This event started when the suspect Brandon Perry's mother Lisa was struck by gunfire at her home earlier that night.
Brandon Perry lurked in the neighborhood waiting for the alleged shooter. He and a couple of his boys let the bullets fly in the neighborhood. The bullets went flying and everyone took cover. He and his brother Zack along with three others were sitting on a porch at 7pm Thursday night talking about their winter break.
We don't know if the suspects knew Zaevion or the other victims. But the attack was random.
The young girls who's names were withheld said Zae saved their lives. The law is searching for the suspects.
The family and his friends call Zaevion, Zae. The community praised the heroic deeds of Zae. They condemned the suspect and those who were involved in the attack.
Perry eventually met his fate after the actual targets managed to buck him on the road. His ride crashed into a home of a sleeping resident.
Perry would die of his injuries. Perry's buddy Chris Bassett is held in the Knox County lockup. He's been held on being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and violation of probation. He hasn't got his "get out of jail" free card. He may charged for the murder. Bassett is innocent until proven guilty.
His death attracted national attention. It also attracted conservative ire by mentions of "Black on whatever" violence by concern troll bigots like that asshat Colin Flaherty.
Alleged gunman lost his life to gunfire. Brandon Perry was gunned down after he was ambushed.
Zae had a future in football. His coach from Fulton High praised the boy for being a "leader" in the community.
The mayor of Knoxville, Madeline Rogero express sympathies to Zae's family.
There was another tragedy in the city. A shoplifting suspect was bucked in a hail of gunfire after the law said he tried to mow down law enforcement.
Again, I don't want to jump to conclusion on whether deadly force was justified in this. But given the Zack Hammond controversy, I don't take the law's perspective of the shooting as credible. Until they release the video or dash camera of what happened. I can't believe this.
Amos Frerichs was shoplifting from a shopping mall. The deputies followed Frerichs into the parking lot, where he "aggressively resisted arrest," according to KPD.
The deputies tried to tase him, but Frerichs managed to get into his car. That's when he ran over both deputies, KPD says. One deputy got up and shot into the car, hitting Frerichs. Police say the suspect hit at least two parked cars.
Investigators say Frerichs was trying to hit the deputy again when he was shot.
Frerichs died at the scene. Both deputies were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The officers are Evan Rogers and reserve officer Geziel DosSantos. Both have been with KCSO since 2012.
No one else was injured. These officers only been on the force for less than five years. They claim that the suspect tried to mow them over. They didn't have dash camera or body cameras on them.
The junk food media says that he has a criminal record. The record has no gun criminality. There were minor assaults and thefts. Nothing that upped the ante to violent criminal.
The law bucks shoplifting suspect. They claim he tried run them over with his ride.
Frerichs has a long criminal history that includes multiple charges and arrests in Knox, Blount and Loudon Counties. He's been arrested in Knox County for multiple assaults and thefts.
He has multiple outstanding arrest warrants against him, including two assaults and two thefts in Knox County, according to police.
KPD believes Frerichs tried to get away because of these warrants.
Police are still investigating the shooting.
Zaevion Dobson will likely be mentioned at the State of the Union Address. This will be President Barack Obama's final address to the nation. He will address gun violence, the NUMBER ONE THREAT in the United States.
World News Today sends our condolences to the family of Zaevion Dobson, Brandon Perry and Amos Frerichs. We send our prayers to Lisa Perry and wish her a speedy recovery.
Conservative are probably outraged that Barack Obama is getting name recognition. It happens to be those tax payer roads that conservatives travel on.
Rivera Beach, Florida decided to end to changed the name of Old Dixie Highway to President Barack Obama Highway.
President Barack Obama Highway has replaced the previous name, which harkens back to the slave-holding South. The move follows a 4-1 city council vote in August to remove the word “Dixie” from all public signage.
Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters, whose city is 66 percent black, spearheaded the effort to name the highway, which at one point intersects with a road named after civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are schools, roads, buildings, and yes animals named after the current 44th President of The United States.
The signs go up and the name will be official at the start of 2016.
East St. Louis, Illinois renamed 4th Avenue after Barack Obama. Off Interstate 55/64, the first officially named road after Barack Obama.
Many of the old Confederate "heroes" are being stripped of their honor. Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy was stripped of his title in New Orleans.
The council removed the Davis and Robert E. Lee memorials from Orleans Parish (of course New Orleans is consolidated-parished).
I used to work with this old lady who hated Obama so much, she would call him everything but the president. I got her so riled up when I said that Barack Obama is half-White. She said that he's always doing thing for Black people and them Mexicans. She hoped someone would attempt to assassinate him.
Thankfully she's no longer working at the job. She got herself fired out the cannon for misconduct.
But I bet you money that if my community decides to name a road after Obama, I bet she wouldn't travel it.
The ABC Democratic debate is on tonight. In the small town of Goffstown, New Hampshire, the Democrats come to a crowded auditorium to watch three candidates duke it out over the issues facing America.
Hillary Clinton: Former First Lady of the United States, former U.S. Senator from New York, former Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, author, and lawyer.
Bernie Sanders: Current U.S. Senator from Vermont, former U.S. Representative, former mayor of Burlington, activist, author, and lawyer.
Martin O'Malley: Former governor of Maryland and former mayor of Baltimore, former city councilman and lawyer.
The debate will be moderated by ABC News Tonight host David Muir and chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz. The Saint Anselm College is the sponsoring host for the debates.
The issues discussed tonight focused on terrorism, gun control, the economy, the Obama legacy, climate change, foreign policy and tuition for college students.
Many issues discussed may include: #BlackLivesMatter, Planned Parenthood, heroin, infrastructure. and Wall Street regulations.
And like with the Republican debate, I won't give you a play-by-play on what was said.
I know that the junk food media will already bias it for Hillary Clinton. The ratings will be between 6.6 million to 10 million viewers. The Republicans are trolling the candidates. The conservative agitators won't have an opportunity to go after the most controversial statements. They're on vacation and they'll return shortly after the New Year.
Republicans like Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz will nitpick every statement from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They will not worry about Martin O'Malley. He's scoring extremely low.
The field is weak. The Democrats have a feud within it's ranks. They believe that the chairwoman is pushing for Hillary Clinton to win. It may cause a brokered party convention. The Republicans have a worst situation. There's still 14 candidates and no clear front runner other than Donald Trump. Trump's persona may cause the Republican infighting. and a brokered party convention
I didn't get a chance to hear the first part of the debate. For two reasons. I was busy. I didn't really have much care for it. It's not like the Republican debate. The Democrats aren't wack-a-doodles.
But their chairwoman is. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) has placed the debate on poor viewership nights. The Friday and Saturday night debates were expected to be low rated.
Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley and the former contenders complained that the debates were biased to Hillary Clinton.
Again, I kind of wish Barack Obama would run for a third term. If it wasn't for the 22nd Amendment limiting terms for the president, Obama would slaughter every candidate running.
If I had to choose between a Republican and a Democrat running for president.
I would put my chips on Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders.
But if all things are predicted as I count my coins, I think Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Two polarizing figures who's getting heavy media coverage. Candidates who earn more than the average working man or woman. Candidates who say shit to win shit.
I am not inspired by any Democrat or Republican running for president. Nonetheless, I rather have a rational leader than a bombastic leader. So if you make the decision on who can be the right candidate, that's left up to the voters.
