O.G. mic drop. Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show rips apart Bill O'Reilly and Jesse Watters for an offensive skit about Chinese Americans.
Got to give it up to the folks over at The Daily Show, they see "bullshit" and their pointing it out!
Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng lay into Bill O'Reilly and Jesse Watters for doing an offensive segment on The O'Reilly Factor. Watters who regularly ambushes people on the street once again had an opportunity to head to New York City's Chinatown to do a man on the street with older citizens who weren't following the U.S. Presidential Election.
Watters also did a handful of racial stereotypes of Asians.
"Is it the year of the dragon? Rabbit?"
"Do they call Chinese food in China just 'food?'"
"Do you know karate?"
Watch the video here.
The skit fell flat. Now Watters and his producer somewhat apologized for the skit.
But the apology wasn't sincere and it was up to Noah and Chieng to set the record straight.
"Everyone's been wondering who'd be the target for the year’s worst racism," Chieng said. "I didn't even know Asians were in the running."
Fool one.
Chieng, a comedian of Chinese descent raised in Malaysia, said he's especially angry that Watters relied on references to Pat Morita's "Miyagi" character from the original "Karate Kid" movie for laughs.
"That's like me making fun of America for "Saturday Night Fever and Mr. T.," Chieng said. "Real topical stuff, buddy."
Chieng isn't saying Asians can't be the targets of humor, but he wants to raise the bar.
"If you want to come at Chinese people, make fun of China's high pollution or the fact they censor most of the internet which, in this case, is a good thing, since no person in China will have to watch your garbage attempt at comedy."
Chieng also pointed out that karate isn't Chinese. Watters was doing a routine spar with a martial arts trainer.
Chieng actually went to New York's Chinatown to meet with the citizens. He shows the video and asked them questions about Watters and O'Reilly's attempt at interviewing.
It was brutal.
For his part, Watters was promoted to host his own show on the weekend.
Watters was involved in a spat with The Huffington Post this year. At the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, HuffPost chief Ryan Grim and reporter Amanda Terkel confronted Watters at a party. Watters ambushed Terkel on her vacation with her family and she wanted him to apologize for it. Grim records him on his iPhone and Watters got angry. Watters snatched his phone and then they get into a shoving matching. Grim's phone was damaged and Watters refused to apologize for the encounter.
As we enter the final weeks of the U.S. presidential election, the September's job report release makes strives. The month gave us 156,000 jobs. It also ticked the unemployment rate to 5 percent. It's starting to cool off again.
Once again, the jobs report becomes a partisan event. The conservatives will always deny the economy is improving. They will calculate the half truths about the 95 million Americans aren't working.
Americans are losing their homes to the wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and the looming Hurricane Matthew. Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States. Service jobs are stressing the working class. Wage theft and lots of Americans being overworked is an issue that conservatives ignore.
The reasons to why conservatives ignore the real reasons for 95 million people not working.
1. BIRTH 2. DEATH 3. RETIREMENT 4. FIRED OUT THE CANNON (LAID OFF/FIRED FROM JOB) 5. QUITTING A JOB FOR A NEW JOB 6. UNDER 16 (NOT OF WORKING AGE) 7. STAY AT HOME PARENT 8. DISABLED 9. COLLEGE STUDENT STUDYING 10. IN THE IRON COLLEGE (PRISON)
Okay, if you're seriously believing that 95 million people aren't working (just because), then you're a Donald Trump and Mike Pence supporter. If you choose to not factor the obvious reasons as mentioned above, you're obviously a listener of agitators like that old fart Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity and readers of that internet creeper Matt Drudge.
Yes, people are searching for the "right" job. There are plenty of jobs out there. Some are willing and some are giving up. It's a part of real world.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected employers to add 175,000 jobs last month.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said the economy needs to create less than 100,000 jobs a month to keep up with population growth.Average monthly job gains have been about 180,000 this year, which Yellen has described as “unsustainable.”
The unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.0 percent last month, though the increase was driven by Americans rejoining the labor force.
Friday’s employment report will be the last before the Fed’s Nov. 1-2 policy meeting. Investors see almost no chance of a rate increase at that meeting given how close it is to the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Yellen said last month that the Fed will likely raise rates once this year, but prices on fed funds futures suggest just above even odds the hike will come at the Fed’s last policy meeting for the year in December.
Hourly wages for private sector workers rose 2.6 percent in September from the same month a year earlier, in line with economists’ expectations. The annual growth rate has shown signs of accelerating over the last year although it remains slower than before the 2007-2009 recession.
Three Fed policymakers voted for a hike last month when the Fed kept rates steady. However, Friday’s data could boost the case of Fed policymakers who have vocally defended a go-slow approach to rate increases.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused the Fed of playing politics by holding rates low, a charge Yellen and other Fed policymakers have denied.
Trump has also made reversing job losses at U.S. factories a central campaign promise. Manufacturing employment fell by 13,000 jobs in September and the sector has shed jobs in three of the last five months.
At the same time, the job market on balance continues to firm, even if at a slower pace, which could be an asset for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who has argued that President Barack Obama, also a Democrat, has helped the economy.
The Fed lifted its benchmark overnight interest rate at the end of last year for the first time in nearly a decade, but has held it steady so far this year amid concerns over persistently low inflation.
There's a viral video online of a mom being pissed off at Def Jam's Vince Staples. The Long Beach rapper got Krystle Partido's attention. The mom from Oklahoma was ranting for 11 minutes about the rapper's song. She heard the song on a local radio station and she got emotional about this song.
"Norf Norf" just got more attention. I haven't heard the song but I will give it some attention.
Staples's Summertime '06 was released as a double album. It was released in June 2015 and it was critically acclaimed.
"I cannot believe this stuff is on the radio." She called the rapper's song "crap". Then she starts tearing up about it.
She reads the lyrics and said the N-word.
The online community went after her. She got death threats and criticism for attacking an entertainer.
However, one vital person in the mother’s corner is Staples himself. He’s saying that people online should respect an opinion that’s different from their own.
"I don't really have much to say about the video — I don't think it's funny at all," Staples told The Independent on Wednesday. "It's not right to attack someone over their stance, their opinions, and their religion. I think that's very immature."
Rapper appreciates the concern. He didn't condemn Oklahoma mom. He actually praised her.
In the mother's recording, she describes the 2015 track as "crap" and says that the lyrics infuriated her. "I remember listening to the top hits as a kid," she says. "You know Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, and N'SYNC. Those were the top hits when I was a kid. Nowadays it's not the same, not the same at all."
She admitted that the curse words were removed from the track but encouraged fellow parents to pay attention to music their children are listening to.
"I'm raising four little girls and that just breaks my heart," she says while sobbing. "I tell you right now, music has a strong influence on our children. I normally never listen to that radio station, it's almost like I was meant to hear to let you guys know about it."
To be clear, "Norf Norf" depicts the harsh reality of growing up on the north side of Long Beach, where folks have nothing productive to do but gangbang—a problem Staples has tried to remedy by investing in youth programs in the area.
Oklahoma mom cries over Vince Staples song.
Still, Staples believes that the negative reaction to the mother's video underscores a deeper problem in the states.
"We already have a lot of issues between black and white relations in this country based on misunderstandings," Staples continued. "In my eyes, she doesn't look like a racist. She doesn't look like a mean person. It's not very responsible for people to try to take that and jump, looking for some sort of commentary on these issues."
"It's just not right that’s she’s being attacked—it’s not okay."
Partido was surprised when the rapper gave her praise. She was thankful that the rapper appreciated her stance and hope they could one day meet and talk about it.
Staples has often talked about his life in Long Beach and the violence he grew up in. He works at community centers when he's not rapping.
The fallout of Roger Ailes. The former CEO of Fox News was accused by Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros of sexual harassment. He continues to deny the accusations and the folks over at 21st Century Fox had promptly fire him out the cannon. Now he is an informal advisor to the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
The person who brought him down was unexpected. It was Megyn Kelly.
Kelly is getting mad props from liberals and conservatives for standing up to a culture of corruption at Fox News. She was a victim of Ailes' sexual harassment and was pretty pissed that he didn't stand up against Trump when he was dogging on her.
There been a feud for years between Kelly and the softball. It's been mostly subliminal. Now that Ailes is gone and Trump is tanking, the feud is now out in the open.
The softball got pissed when Kelly said that Trump needs to get out of the bubble.
Kelly said this on her show yesterday.
"Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10 o'clock, will go on Hannity and pretty much only Hannity and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days, which doesn't exactly expand the tent for either one of them. There. That's my two cents."
Well the softball was not happy about that comment. He went to social media to blast Kelly.
Mind you that Kelly has went after Clinton constantly for them goddamn emails. She basically tried to "whitesplain" police brutality to comedian D.L. Hughley. Kelly has hosted extremists like Wisconsin sheriff David Clarke on her show. She said that Jesus and Santa Claus are White and everyone "knows" that.
Kelly has been pretty brutal to liberals and Democrats. She is in no way voting for Donald Trump.
Oops, I meant Hillary Clinton.
When someone told the softball to stand by his colleagues for the sake of his network, the softball scoffed.
In 2013, Sean "Softball" Hannity was demoted from his 9pm spot. Kelly took his spot and he's pretty pissed off about this. He lost his spot after his ratings started tanking after President Barack Obama winning his reelection.
Donald Trump enjoys a game of softball. He never loses.
When Trump finished his first national debate between his challenger Hillary Clinton, he quickly went over to the softball for an impromptu post debate interview. Kelly made a snide comment about it.
"We've got Trump speaking to our Sean Hannity. We'll see whether he speaks to the journalists in this room after that interview, let's listen."
Right now, the softball is enjoying some healthy ratings for the time being. When Trump's on that right wing carnival, the softball gets a boost. Because he's the only source for Trump. Trump enjoys playing softball. He's had over 60 interviews with the softball.
It would be over 130 interviews if you throw in Trump kids, Ivanka, Eric, Donald, Jr., Mike Pence and pollster/campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
Glenn Beck isn't playing softball with the country's most annoying conservative agitator.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has caused a civil war within the conservative media.
The war caused a rift that could strain within the movement. Many agitators on the right are really divided on a Trump presidency. The agitators were a part of a movement that dogged Barack Obama for the entire 8 years of his presidency with rhetoric that is deplorable.
One of the agitators made it clear, he'll sit this one out. Conservative agitator Glenn Beck said that even though Trump picked conservative Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, he could not pull the lever for Trump.
Beck is the founder of TheBlaze Network. He created the network after being fired out the cannon by Fox News after a boycott of his 5pm show caused his ratings to tank. He moved to Dallas, Texas, bought a television station and livestreamed his radio show out of the studio. Now four years later, the network is on over 100 television providers.
The network also has conservative and libertarian agitators such as Tomi Lahren, Marcus Luttrell, Dana Loesch, Stu Burguiere and Buck Sexton. Most of the agitators on that network aren't fans of Donald Trump.
Beck believes that Trump's rhetoric is scary and dangerous to the movement he's proud to be a part of. He along with George Will, Mary Matlin, Steve Deese, Erick Erickson, Ben Shapiro, Michelle Malkin, Michael Reagan, Karl Rove and Bill Kristol made it clear, it's no to Trump.
Sean "Softball" Hannity is the country's most annoying conservative agitator. He is by far one of the worst agitators in the junk food media. He claims he's a registered conservative. In reality, he's a huckster who tells half-truths to his gullible audience. He can't go a day without mentioning President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's name in sentence. He calls people names and acts like a man child when he doesn't get his way.
The Blaze, Newsmax TV and One America News are hoping to win over the #NeverTrump viewers. They figure that Fox News is devoting too much time to a bombastic billionaire who has no actual plan to make conservatism better.
The softball and Glenn Beck are feuding again. The truce between Sean "Softball" Hannity and Glenn Beck was short lived. Since the softball got the hots for The Donald, many conservatives see him as an opportunist who is willing to sell his soul to elect a billionaire who once partied with his opponent Hillary Clinton.
On the right wing carnival, the softball was trashing on Beck.
Beck called upon conservatives to come together to build a coalition in case Trump loses to Clinton.
The softball isn't having none of that.
"Glenn Beck was saying, 'Oh, we got to all come together after the election' -- I'm not interested in coming together with a bunch of saboteurs. I just have no interest in that, and people that are myopic... You sabotage, you stay home, you help [Hillary Clinton], and you own her Supreme Court nominees, you own her unvetted refugees, you own radical Islam being empowered because they know she's weak."
The softball said the blame of Trump losing falls on Republicans who refuse to support him. The blame falls on conservative agitators who joined the #NeverTrump movement. The softball called Beck a "saboteur". The softball is "sick and tired" of being lectured by "a guy that gives a Nazi analogy a day." He said that Beck and others are "myopic dicks'.
Beck rather play soccer. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Glenn Beck go to the border and pass out soccer balls and teddy bears to immigrant children.
He spent a portion of his right wing carnival blasting Beck and his co-hosts for not supporting Trump and expressing concern for the softball's flagrant support of Trump.
Beck fired back at the softball with class.
"Sean will always be welcome in my world. He is not my enemy. Nor is D Trump. Jesus didn't teach 'when you they hit you, hit back twice as hard.' That was from rules from radicals which is dedicated to Satan. It is also what DJT teaches and I have heard Sean say a lot lately... Please forgive me for whatever set you off this time. I am sorry we disagree on who we are going to vote for. I have voted for a Republican my whole life, starting with Reagan. I can't do it this time. I am sorry that this disappoints everyone so much."
Beck was a staunch supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz was considered the most conservative candidate running for the presidency.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump managed to get into the race and turned Cruz's asset as being an opposition to the establishment a weakness. He managed to go after Cruz for being inept.
Trump mocked Cruz and Beck for giving teddy bears and soccer balls to illegal immigrants. He questioned Cruz's birthplace. Cruz was born in Canada and was naturalized as an American and held duel citizenship with our neighbor to the North. Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship. His mom was born in the United States and his father was born in Cuba. The Trump campaign claimed that his dad, Rafael Cruz was associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Trump also whispered allegations of Cruz and Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL) cheating on their wives with staffs and agitators in the junk food media.
He mocked Cruz and his running mate perennial loser Carly Fiorina for being out of touch with voters.
Cruz at first didn't support Trump. He even went to the Republican National Convention to speak on behalf of Republicans but not Trump. He was roundly booed by supporters.
Beck praised the move.
But a few weeks ago, Beck was none too happy knowing that Cruz finally endorsed Trump for president.
Beck had feuded with Sean "Softball" Hannity and Mark Levin for nearly five years. They had called a truce in 2013. Beck had let the softball into his studio to do his right wing carnival.
Did you know that Guccifer 2.0 released a trove of documents relating to The Clinton Foundation.
Wikileaks has promoted this for sometime now. The question of the day is, why hasn't the junk food media picked up on it?
Conservatives are bemoaning about Julian Assange fooling them into believing that he had the "smoking gun" to defeat Hillary Clinton. Turns out it's just a presser to bring attention to his website and the need to fund it.
Now this Guccifer leak of documents have The Clinton Foundation fighting back. They said that the documents aren't even theirs. They believe that the hacker is putting shit out there to get attention.
I tend to agree with them on this account.
Donna Shalala said that the foundation wasn't hacked. If it was, they would waste no time contacting the law and having a complete investigation into it.
Many people point out that it's odd to include a folder saying the words "Pay for Play". If there was something that would have gotten attention, it would have to be dug through a trove of documents and not just something that just is blatantly out in the open.
The U.S. has singled out Russia for the hacking of the Democratic Party's private emails. The emails showed party leaders frustrated with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his supporters. The emails also gave the notion that the DNC was colluding with the Clinton campaign during the primaries.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) resigned soon after the Democratic National Convention.
Guccifer 2.0 is very active on social media. He has an active blog and has given interviews to the junk food media of course by anonymous video.
Donald Trump openly supported Russia hacking into Clinton and Democrats. That remark gave him condemnation from many in the intelligence community.
