Chris Christie bucks Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson by endorsing Donald Trump for president.
The failed Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie comes out for Donald Trump. This is a smack to the face of Marco Rubio, the establishment's choice for a nominee. This also is a smack to the face against John Kasich, the Ohio Republican governor.
"I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president", says Chris Christie.
Christie, the current governor of New Jersey fought Donald Trump while he was running on the stage. Christie at first thought Trump was a joke. He said that Trump's policies aren't tested and we don't want a sideshow as our president.
I guess now he's having second thoughts. Or perhaps this is Christie's retribution against Rubio after he played dirty bull in the New Hampshire primary.
Trump had brought Christie to his press conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The governor said that Trump is the only candidate capable of beating Hillary Clinton.
This is a shocking announcement given that Christie is part of the establishment after he embraced President Barack Obama during his handling of Hurricane Sandy.
Many Republicans blamed Christie for ruining perennial loser Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
Christie is not well liked in his state. Despite landsliding his Democratic opponent in a state that trends even more Democratic, Christie pulled in Black and Hispanic voters. Christie who once had the halo over his head is now heading back to Trenton with his tail in between his legs.
Christie bowing out was a blow to the establishment. With Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Rick Perry out the race, there's no candidate outside of John Kasich capable of mending the Republican Party together.
Rubio says that he, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson being on stage is a sign of diversity. He said that being endorsed by Nikki Haley and Tim Scott shows the Republicans are the party of diversity.
One thing I managed to catch at the Republican debate is the comments by Marco Rubio. He said that the Republican Party is the most diverse party because they have two Hispanic lawmakers and a Black neurosurgeon on stage.
Given the possibility the party may nominate another old White guy, Rubio desperately played the race card at the CNN debate.
Republicans are struggling to win Hispanics and Black voters. Despite the Republican candidate's bold claims about the party being the most diverse, the party is also too damn conservative and too damn White.
Rubio, Cruz and Ben Carson make up about 10% of the Republican Party's diversity. The party is 90% WHITE and 10% EVERYTHING else.
The Republican Party is White like cocaine. They may have minorities in the party, but the policies and their rhetoric isn't diverse. It's pretty damn condescending and outright bigoted.
Donald Trump's rise could bring Blacks and Hispanics voters into the fold. Some are tempted to vote for the controversial media mogul.
I see Donald Trump as Arnold Schwarzenegger. He will bankroll on his celebrity status to win. His bombastic and witty charm woos conservatives and some Democrats.
Given the possibility of Trump winning the election is strong. I don't want to believe it, but it could happen if you don't help the Democrat win. Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders aren't strong contenders and it's going to be a bumpy road for the Democrats. Given Obama fatigue and an inspired Republican voter base, the Democrats got to win back voters.
It's likely a Democrat could beat the Republican nominee. But given the circumstances, it's going to be a TOSS UP.
Trump has tapped into the populist rage that fuels the anti-government resentment towards lawmakers.
John Kasich, Marco Rubio and even Ted Cruz are considered establishment. Cruz calls himself the best choice to take on Washington. But he's been in Washington for two years and haven't really accomplish much since. He's been more of a talker and not a doer. That's hurting him in the race.
Rubio is also the same. Rubio won on the wave of insurgency. He and Rand Paul were elected in 2010 and they been in the senate for most of their term doing absolutely nothing. Even the compromise to immigration reform that was sponsored by Rubio was voted down by him.
When it comes to diversity the Republican Party has a long way to go before it can truly be a diverse party.
Remember the Democratic Party nominated and the American people elected twice the first Black president.
The first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice was picked by a Democrat.
The first Hispanic woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme court justice was picked by a Democratic president who happens to be Black. The first Black man and woman were nominated and confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States.
The first woman as the Speaker of the House is a woman.
The current front runner in the race is a woman. Her opponent is the first Jewish candidate to run.
The Democratic Party's chairperson is a lawmaker who is a woman.
Under a Democratic President who happens to be Black, marriage equality is legal in the United States.
Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz as well as Donald Trump and John Kasich aren't friends of the Black and Hispanic communities. They're a bunch of myopic dicks.
Shout out to comedian/talk radio host John Fugelsang for also catching the Rubio-Bot self-destruct!
Conservatives are mounting a war within itself. The Republican Party's extremist wing is going gaga for Donald Trump. The White extremists are down with Trump. David Duke, a former Grand Dragon of the Klan has endorsed Trump.
Another figure in Trump's corner, is the reclusive conservative agitator Matt Drudge.
Drudge joins Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Joe Apraio, Dennis Rodman, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Alex Jones and Sarah Palin as fans of Trump.
Drudge is pushing kookspiracies about Hillary Clinton's health. He is trying to turn the narrative that Clinton's emails are as "HUGE" as Watergate.
His conservative Craigslist pulls 745,000 visitors a day. He is basically running the game in Republican politics. He's mainly responsible for the race stories and Trump themed stories.
Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast is basically saying that Drudge is giving Trump favorable stories. Drudge is taking a populist stance towards politicians.
Is The Drudge Report In The Tank For Donald Trump?
Drudge is basically throwing Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson under the bus.
Trump is basically leading in a majority of the Super Tuesday primary states. Even in Texas, a state that Ted Cruz is devoting his entire campaign into, Trump is either leading or statistically tied to Cruz. The controversial senator is hoping that a key endorsement of Texas Republican governor Greg Abbot could slow Trump's lead in the state. He also facing a handful of birther lawsuits from kooks. Trump and Rubio managed to tarnish Cruz as a liar and it's stuck to him like glue.
Trump is leading in Florida, that's Rubio and Carson's backyard. The lead is huge and it's possible that Carson's implosion and Rubio's lousy record as a senator the reasons to why they're not even close to Trump.
Even in Ohio, Trump is beating John Kasich, the current governor of the state. Beetle Bailey Kasich, is hoping that people see him as the viable choice. After all, he's a "moderate". Kasich is being hammered for signing off a law stripping funds from Planned Parenthood. Also he is being hit for being a sexist for saying that women might as well be in the kitchen.
The Drudge Report is working overtime trying to get Trump nominated and elected as the president.
It's time to start treating Donald Trump as a threat to the nation. We can't allow this extremist win!
The racist right is rallying around Donald Trump. The former Grand Wizard of the modern Klan, David Duke has decided to end his abysmal campaign for president. The racist in a business suit says that Trump is speaking their language.
Duke and many of his "proud" White supporters are Trump fans.
On Wednesday, Duke encouraged his radio show listeners to volunteer for Trump's campaign. "Call Donald Trump’s headquarters [and] volunteer," he said on the "David Duke Radio Program." At Trump campaign offices, he said, "you’re gonna meet people who are going to have the same kind of mindset that you have.”
In Minnesota and Vermont, a white supremacist super PAC called the American National Super PAC has begun circulating a robocall in support of Trump.
White extremists prefer Trump over Cruz. Cruz is Hispanic. The racist right won't support their own.
"The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called 'racist,' says William Johnson, the leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. He goes on to bemoan "gradual genocide against the white race," and how few "schools anymore have beautiful white children as the majority." He signs off by telling recipients, "Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump."
Johnson is not affiliated in any way with the Trump campaign, and Trump has distanced himself from Johnson's views. Trump also promised to return a $250 contribution Johnson made to his campaign.
But Trump's response to the white supremacists backing him is hardly enough to put them off, said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors hate groups.
"Trump has 'quote unquote' repudiated these groups, but only in the most milquetoast way imaginable," Potok said in an interview. "The fact is that white nationalists are mobilizing for Trump whether he likes it or not."
Trump's habit of retweeting messages posted by white supremacists, sharing them with his 6.4 million Twitter followers, hasn't helped matters.
Like Johnson, Duke framed the GOP primary as a contest between Trump and two people of color, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage,” Duke said Wednesday. And while he doesn't agree with everything Trump says, he told listeners, "I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do.”
Potok said Duke's backing carries a lot of weight in white supremacist circles. "David Duke is the most important self described white nationalist intellectual out there today, and what he says is still very influential."
Donald Trump's rise is contributed to White extremism. It's unfortunate that even though Cruz and Rubio's downfall is mostly due to their race. They're Hispanic lawmakers who act White.
President Barack Obama, Republican governor Sam Brownback, U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) were notified of the mass shooting at the Hesston Excel Industry plant.
Hesston is 40 miles from Wichita. Interstate 135 is the main highway that travels through the town of 4,000.
The terrorist was named Cedric Ford, as confirmed by CBS News. The terrorist killed multiple individuals and injured over 20 people.
The suspect is a Black male. Obviously, I expect the blame game to come forth. First the conservatives will label this terrorist a "liberal Obama supporter" or a "Black Lives Matter activist".
Of course, the fact that he was "the NICE GUY" with a gun is most troubling.
I expect the racial extremists Jim Hoft and Colin Flaherty will bring up Black-on-Whatever crime.
The Drudge Report will lay splash to the terrorist's background. The conservatives will say that "if the workers had firearms" or "If I was in this situation" hypothetical.
Then again, I see that the law managed to kill this terrorist after they told him to drop his arms. All the while, the Kalamazoo terrorist was arrested without incident. The terrorist in the Kalamazoo massacre was a White terrorist who worked for Uber.
Excel is a manufacture of riding lawn mowers.
The Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton says 4-7 people, including the shooter at Excel Industries in Hesston have been killed.
Walton said as many three people were killed. As many as 20 people were hurt. Walton said there are four to five crime scenes in this case.
Police have not said they have a motive for the shooting.
He lived in Newton, Kansas, the town where one of the shootings occurred. A trailer park there was swarmed by officers about an hour after the initial shootings.
This is the second most high profile mass shooting in the United States this year.
Who takes the blame for the Hesston mass shooting?
World News Today send our condolences to the victims of this senseless tragedy.
It's time to start treating Donald Trump as a serious candidate. It's a scary scenario that we could have the controversial business/media mogul become the next President of the United States.
CNN and Telemundo are now the hosts the umpteenth Republican debate. This debate was supposed to be sponsored by NBC/Univision. Republican chairman Reince Priebus fired NBC and the National Review out the cannon.
CNBC got hammered by the candidates and top Republicans after the debate. National Review wrote a scathing criticism of Trump and it led to the Republican Party boycotting it.
Now it's coming close to Super Tuesday. One of these five candidates would become the presumptive Republican nominee if the 10 primaries go in his favor.
Republicans in the establishment are mounting an all out war against frontrunner Trump.
Gas Bags!
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ben Carson are mounting their last stand in Texas. The debate is being held in Houston and then comes Super Tuesday.
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Minnesota caucuses, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Republican caucuses: Alaska and Wyoming are holding it on March 1, 2016.
Trump clearly has a lead in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, Alaska and Wyoming. Colorado and Texas are very competitive. Cruz is placing his hopes that his home state would turn out in huge numbers for him. He has to win 50.1% in order to take a majority of the delegates.
There is a civil war within the Republican Party. They really fear that Trump's divisive rhetoric could doom the party. They can't stand Cruz because he's a gadfly. Most of the party is rallying around Rubio.
Rubio hasn't won any major states since he's become the establishment's last hope. With Rubio calling upon Kasich and Carson to drop out, the candidates all fail to score over 50% of the vote in most of these primaries and caucuses.
Obama might pick a Republican who might become the U.S. Supreme Court justice. It might destroy the party if they reject their own.
President Barack Obama and the Democratic members of the U.S. Senate say that it will happen and it will happen quickly.
The death of Antonin Scalia has become a political football for the partisans. The president has a constitutional duty to appoint a nominee a person to replace a justice to the Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama has a rare opportunity to get a third pick to the Court. Ronald Reagan was the last president to have an opportunity to nominee three to the Court.
Conservatives are fearing that the pick could sway the court.
Republican governor Brian Sandoval is the front runner in the SOTUS nomination.
The senate's Republicans including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are hoping that they can delay or refuse to accept any nominee to the Supreme Court. They vow to have another president pick a justice.
They're willing to shut down the government again. But the pressure is on. The party is facing intense scrutiny over this.
In their last stand, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have pledge to not support Obama's pick to the Supreme Court regardless of qualifications.
The delay of the Supreme Court nomination could screw up cases.
One in particular is the Supreme Court's hearing on five residents of the U.S. territory of American Samoa. They are fighting the U.S. government over citizenship.
The residents born in American Samoa are not U.S. Citizens. They are U.S. nationals and they can't get federal aid or veteran's assistance. They have to buy a U.S. passport with the status of national on it. They are saying that if they're born on U.S. territory the deserve automatic American citizenship.
Tuaua v. United States is going to be a major court case. If it goes in the favor of Lene Tuaua, then it may advocate U.S. citizenship and could open up presidential voting rights to those living in the U.S. territories.
The junk food media is reporting that the president is vetting Nevada's Republican governor Brian Sandoval. This may cause a rift within the party. For one thing, Sandoval is a Republican, he's a well liked governor and he's a Hispanic. If the Republicans oppose one of their own, then they may end up costing their chances in the presidential election.
American Samoa is an unincorporated U.S. territory in the South Pacific Ocean. The territory is a chain of eight islands/atolls with the neighboring independent nation of Samoa to the northwest.
The capital of the territory is the town of Pago Pago.
The U.S. territory's governor is Lolo Matalasi Moliga who is an independent but aligns himself with the Democratic Party.
The U.S. territory is demanding American citizenship, voting rights and recognition. There are residents taking the matter into the Supreme Court.
Pago Pago is the capital of the United States territory of American Samoa.
Tuaua v. United States is being heard in the Court. What is being argued among the justices is the granted legal status of people born on U.S. soil. Those who are born in American Samoa are U.S. nationals, not citizens. They are denied voting rights, opportunities to apply for state and federal jobs if they choose to move to the mainland.
The Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides that “All persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Federal laws and policies that deny citizenship to people born in American Samoa violate this Clause and are unconstitutional.
I was interested in the matter when comedian/satirist John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight brought attention to voting rights not being established in the U.S. territories.
Lene Tuaua is fighting for the right to be recognized as an American citizen.
We The People's Project has invested heavily in this matter. Lene Tuaua was born in American Samoa. He served in the military and gave his life to the country.
Tuaua v. United States is a court case that originated when a group of American Samoans sued the State Department and the Obama administration. They sued to force the government to award American Samoans birthright citizenship, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that anyone born in the United States is automatically granted citizenship.
The case originated as a complaint filed in 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the case was docketed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2013. Briefs were filed in 2014, and an oral argument was made last year.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 3-0 to deny birthright citizenship to American Samoans, ruling that the guarantee of such citizenship to citizens in the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to U.S. island territories.
Republican congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen is the non-voting delegate from the U.S. territory of American Samoa. She became the first woman and Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Attorneys filed a petition requesting that the Supreme Court of the United States review the Appeals Court's decision.
They are pressuring lawmakers in Washington to full grant citizenship to those living in American Samoa. They are pressuring Congress to grant full voting rights to all residents of the U.S. territories.
The residents on these territories aren't allow to vote for the President of the United States.
Did you know that 4.7 Americans live in the occupied territories administrated by the United States?
The District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands have U.S. Representatives who are non-voting delegates to Congress.
ABC's comedy black-ish takes on police brutality and #BlackLivesMatter
Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross star in the hit comedy black-ish. The show deals with a Black father who trying to bring his suburbanite children into the Black experience.
Tonight's episode is taking on police brutality, racial profiling and #BlackLivesMatter.
I'm giving my honest opinion of the episode and revealing spoilers.
Andre (Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) explain the experience of being profiled by law enforcement to their four children. Dre, Pops (played by Laurence Fishburne) and Ruby (played by Jennifer Lewis) are trying to let the children know that justice system failed Black America.
Jack and Diane (played by Miles Brown and Marsai Martin) are concerned about how they're probably going to be killed by the police.
They get into a huge argument into Bow's feelings towards police.
They become preppers for a pending riot after a grand jury decided to not indict an officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black citizen. They get into an argument over the negative press coverage of the unarmed Black citizen. They also noted the feeling when Black America felt that electing Barack Obama was the beginning of a new era in race relations. Dre explains that even with a Black president, things aren't getting any better.
Dre explains to Bow when he sees Obama's opponents treat less than his title as President of the United States, he sees racism at its worst.
There was a fight between Zoey (played by Yara Shahidi) and Andre, Jr. (played by Marcus Scribner). Junior wanted to join the protesters and Zoey warned him to not go because the rioters could end up hurting him.
Dre explains the "gray zone" between what's good and what's bad in the country. Dre and Bow believe that there's a need for change and even though they don't agree on everything, they have hope and strength to change policy.
The characters make reference to the most recent deadly encounters of unarmed Black citizens.
Don Lemon of CNN and Black activist Ta-Nehisi Coates were featured guests on the show.
It's a controversial episode and it's certainly going to attract conservative outrage and reaction from police unions. Some of the police unions threaten boycotting entertainers who criticize law enforcement.
Anderson along with his executive producers Kenya Burris and Yvette Lee Bower are expecting a backlash from conservatives and police unions.
It may be too late for the Republicans to stop him.
Another huge victory for Donald Trump, the controversial business/media mogul.
The insurgent won with 43% of the vote with another statistical tie and major defeat for Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
The frontrunner Donald Trump is projected to win the state with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz trailing from behind. Another big victory for Trump shrinks the chances for Rubio and Cruz.
Matter of fact, it eliminates Ben Carson and John Kasich out too.
Rubio is becoming the establishment's last chance at winning. Rubio polls better against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The establishment are hoping that a Republican Party united could stomp out Trump and Cruz. The insurgency is vowing to oppose any candidate that sold their souls to liberalism.
The pro-Trump websites such as the conservative Craigslist has the siren blazing again!
Black men who are gay or bisexual face the threat of HIV infection at greater rates.
Users of heroin and Black men are driving the HIV epidemic back up to record highs.
You heard of the "down low".
Urban slang for Black men who are secretly "bisexual" or "gay". They want to give the impression that they're "straight" but are trying to repress their feelings towards men or transgender women.
Men love sex. They don't care what happens as long as they get their sexual fantasies off, the men are satisfied.
They end up having sex with men and women at numerous rates. Some are willing to spread the HIV virus in malicious ways to their partners or spouses.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that one in 64 men and one in 227 women in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV at current rates. For black and Hispanic people, however, that risk increases dramatically.
The Daily Beast reports that the dangers are still prevalent in the Black and Hispanic communities. Regardless of sexual orientation, one in 20 black men and one in 48 black women will be diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS in their lifetimes, according to the CDC. For Hispanic men and women, the risks are one in 48 and one in 227, respectively.
White people have the lowest chance of an HIV diagnosis, with an overall lifetime risk of less than one percent. Gay and bisexual white men still have a lifetime risk of one in 11, though.
The CDC’s projections are based on data about HIV diagnoses and death rates collected from 2009 to 2013, and they assume that rates of new diagnoses remain constant. If that’s the case, one in six men who have sex with other men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.
“These estimates are a sobering reminder that gay and bisexual men face an unacceptably high risk for HIV—and of the urgent need for action,” said Dr. Eugene McCray, director of the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. “If we work to ensure that every American has access to the prevention tools we know work, we can avoid the outcomes projected in this study.”
For Hispanic people living in the United States, the CDC has already outlined an array of factors behind the alarming rate of new infections: a high prevalence of HIV, poverty and lack of health insurance coverage, “machismo” that can encourage men to engage in risky sexual behavior as a show of strength, and reluctance to access prevention services for fear of revealing one’s immigration status.
For black people, CDC resources show, prevention challenges are similar: poverty, stigma, barriers to health care access, and too few people knowing their status. Risk in black communities is especially high, the CDC notes, because “African Americans tend to have sex with partners of the same race/ethnicity mean[ing] that [they] face a greater risk of HIV infection with each new sexual encounter.”
According to the CDC’s new projections, all of the states with the highest lifetime risk for HIV are in the South, with the exceptions of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. All of these states and the South tend to have large black and Hispanic populations, higher rates of poverty, and less health-insurance coverage.
The CDC estimates that HIV risk is highest in Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, with about 2 percent of these states’ populations believed to test HIV positive eventually.
No single area may be worst-hit than Washington, D.C., which is nearly 50 percent black and 10 percent Latino. According to the CDC’s projections, a staggering one in 13 D.C. residents will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.
But the CDC doesn’t want its projections to be interpreted as a death sentence.
“As alarming as these lifetime risk estimates are, they are not a foregone conclusion. They are a call to action,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.
If the U.S. can reduce new infections, those lifetime risk numbers will go down, too. The CDC’s current prevention approach emphasizes HIV testing, condom use, treatment for those who have already been diagnosed, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily medication that has been shown to reduce risk by more than 90 percent when used correctly.
“The prevention and care strategies we have at our disposal today provide a promising outlook for future reductions of HIV infections and disparities in the U.S.,” said Dr. Mermin, “but hundreds of thousands of people will be diagnosed in their lifetime if we don’t scale up efforts now.”
Why do any advertising? Trump got Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Sean Hannity, and The Drudge Report all in the tank for him.
The liberal network that devotes a portion of its coverage trashing Republicans is embracing Donald Trump. The two morning nuts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were interviewing Trump.
Joe and Mika are the conservatives on the network. Joe has somewhat endorsed Trump. He's a huge supporter of Marco Rubio.
Trump of course, was cordial to the two. Scarborough and Brzenziki both sang praises.
Throughout the six minutes or so, Trump and the MSNBC hosts chat amiably about a variety of topics, including politics, the primaries, golf, Morning Joe‘s coverage of Trump’s campaign, and their fellow journalists. On at least one occasion, the duo appear to discuss questions for the next segment within earshot of Trump. At times it can be difficult to determine who is speaking to who; Brzezinski and Scarborough appear at several points to be speaking to producers who were not picked up by the mics at the same time they were speaking to Trump.
Who brought attention to this controversy. It was Harry Shearer, the voice actor/comedian/talk radio host/satirist who voices a majority of characters on the Fox sitcom The Simpsons.
On Sundays, Harry hosts Le Show on many NPR stations. He also has My Damn Channel which gave open mic credence to Laura Ingraham, Katie Couric and now the Morning Joe crew.
