🔥 D.L. HUGHLEY: “Bill Maher and I used to be friends. It’s harder for me to listen to him now… I’ve never seen him mention the price or look of a presidential library until Obama got one — The way Trump is erasing his legacy it may be the only proof a Black president existed.”
🔥 D.L. HUGHLEY: “Bill Maher and I used to be friends. It’s harder for me to listen to him now… I’ve never seen him mention the price or look of a presidential library until Obama got one — The way Trump is erasing his legacy it may be the only proof a Black president existed.”
Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught.
A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.
1. I have the right to do it.
2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don’t care.
That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.
Please stand up and prove him wrong.
NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:
"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.
Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.
In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.
Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it.
The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters.
To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less."
Backstory:
- January: https://t.co/l518elnE4b
- April: https://t.co/8pWTTjOIbk
- May: https://t.co/LfKHnm18nF
NBC corners Todd Blanche by showing dozens of 8647 seashell shirts sold on Amazon.
Blanche scrambles to explain why ordinary citizens selling this are fine, but a Trump critic faces prison.
The White House runs a two-tiered justice system for political revenge.
While there are many people celebrating the demise of LIV, for far too long there were far too many mute mouths about the cancer that LIV was and is.
It tilted the game towards greed. It muddied the meritocratic aspects of golf. It’s likely that the philanthropic foundations of this game will, to some extent, be eaten into to fund the future equity of PGA Tour players. It stalled, or killed, the trajectory of hall of fame players. It divided the game.
The only win, as I see it, is that LIV sought to launder the atrocities of the Saudis, but instead it further highlighted them.
As LIV players sold their autonomy, the whole sport seemed to be in the throes of transition, from professionalism to authoritarianism.
But the golf world knew that the Saudis were not interested in golf and that sport has norms that are worth preserving.
Money, not for merit, but for the murky purposes of sportwashing crowds out those norms.
It is in the striving to get better that one gets richer, that is the transformative influence of sport; both the athlete and audience benefit from the norms of competition. Sportswashing, what MBS/PIF were attempting to do with LIV by paying athletes for their celebrity to confer legitimacy on their murderous regime, reverses this process because it is only ostensibly about the competition, it is primarily about the obfuscation of the horrors of the regime. Both the athlete and the audience are robbed of the transformative influence of sport and what they are participating in and watching is merely a facade, a base amusement.
So it is no surprise that almost nobody watched.
Good riddance to the Saudi backed LIV.