Esther Adler-O’Keefe, the principal at Southampton High School, was just trying to reach new kids through music when she made her appearance in JR’s “Best Friends” music video, featuring Trey Songz.
In the video, the principal is with her husband and leaving for vacation. Apparently leaving the rapper in charge, the principal tells JR to have a good time, but she warns, “enjoy yourself. Just remember, security’s here.”
After the couple walks out the door, the twerking began in earnest. And the content of that video along with the principal’s association with it cost her dearly!
“The video in question showcases behaviors and language use that is not promoted by the Southampton School District,” the superintendent Dr. Scott Farina tells the Southampton Press. “In fact, we actively teach our students the importance of good character and making smart choices. Additionally, this is not representative of who we are as a district, nor of our students and staff.” Twerking does not fall under “smart choices” in Southampton, Long Island, apparently.
You wouldn’t have Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson to kick around any more… well, at least for the next two weeks. The Republican is suspending his campaign to promote his new book.
Can you say priorities?
According to ABC News, Carson has put his public campaign events on hold to focus on fundraising events and stops to promote his new book, A More Perfect Union. He is scheduled to hold book signings next week in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Carson’s last public event was a health care town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 2. He will not appear at a public campaign event again until the next Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, on Oct. 28.
Carson’s campaign staff will not travel with him while he’s on his book tour to avoid the unsavory image that he’s using his presidential bid to make money, a spokesman told ABC. But there are legal issues at hand, too. Federal law prohibits candidates from using campaign resources to profit personally.
Lamar Odom is currently hospitalized. He was found unconscious and unresponsive in a Brothel earlier this week. But the way Odom is described in the media as a reality television star and married to one of the Kardashians, is not going over too well with a host at ESPN.
Scott Van Pelt from ESPN’s Sports Center took offense to the way Odom is being portrayed. He made his feelings known in this statement;
I have to remind myself there are people who think of Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith as ‘those guys who were on Dancing With the Stars.’ Not everybody views things through the prism of sports the way I do, and I presume you do as well, given that you’re watching this show. I mean, those are two of the best who ever played football, but if you frame things from the People Magazine perspective, it’s a different world.
To that end, I saw a tweet from rapper Bun B that got to me. It was about Lamar Odom, who fights for his life in a Vegas hospital. His plight was described across entertainment-based shows this way, and I quote, ‘Kardashian reality star in a coma.’ Now I can’t quote Bun B directly, but my feelings mirrored his — Kardashian reality star? No, no, no, no. Lamar Odom, unlike those for whom fame is oxygen, whose fame comes in the absence of accomplishment, his fame was earned: as Sixth Man of the Year, as a multiple NBA champion, as the result of his significant role with the Los Angeles Lakers teams and being a beloved NBA teammate and peer. Everyone across the league, it seems, loves the man. To read the tweets from the stars still in the league was to feel genuine anguish for a brother who has had an unspeakably difficult road, and who has struggled mightily to find his footing, post-NBA. “Passed out in a brothel” makes for a hell of a headline, and I’m sure quite a juicy episode of TV, but stripped to the foundation, it’s just incredibly sad. All of it. A man who’s dealt with so much loss, unable to find his way, who’s unfortunate reality becomes a plot line in alleged reality.
I understand not everyone watches sports, but ‘Kardashian reality star?’ His name is Lamar Odom, and we knew it, long before he got married on a TV show that we don’t watch.
For those of you who think Kevin McCarthy misspoke when he admitted that the Benghazi Committee’s only goal was to bring down Hillary Clinton’s approval numbers, what will you think if I told you that another Republican congressman is backing up McCarthy’s statement?
Well, another Republican congressman is backing up McCarthy’s statement.
In an interview with WIBX 950 in New York on Wednesday, moderate Republican Rep. Richard Hanna said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was speaking the truth when he said this month that the committee had successfully injured Clinton.
“Sometimes the biggest sin you can commit in D.C. is to tell the truth,” Hanna told the upstate New York radio station. “This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people and an individual, Hillary Clinton.”
I know, I know. It’s hard to find one Republican in Congress capable of telling the truth, but finding two? This is totally unheard of and I understand your skepticism. But it’s true. The rest of America knew that this committee was nothing more than a very expensive political sham and now, one by one, Republicans are finally admitting it too, that the Benghazi Committee was just dirty politics.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear before this fake committee next week. There will be fireworks. Consider yourselves warned.
Sometime between 8 and 9PM Wednesday night during a campaign event in Los Angeles, Bernie Sanders, standing at the podium with his supporters, made the official announcement to huge cheers from the crowd.
“Just as a result of last night’s debate, I’m told that we raised $2 million dollars!”
Sander’s campaign later pointed out that the contributions poured in, the average donation being around $30.
He has everything he can ever want now, and for generations to come. Starving or having to go to a soup line will never happen to Rush Limbaugh. But hearing him talk about how things were in 1933 as compared to how they are now, you get the feeling that Rush would prefer seeing soup lines make a comeback, would prefer seeing other Americans starve, jobless and homeless.
After rambling on about the unemployment and homelessness then and now, and what was different then as oppose to now, Rush concluded;
In 1933, if you were out of work, you didn’t eat. You had to stand in a soup line and depend on charity. In 2015, you can be among the 94 million not working and have a roof over your head, have a cell phone, a car, your air conditioned home probably– or your home is probably air conditioned and, you’re eating as much as you want.
He then ask himself, “What you want people to starve?” He mockingly answered, “No.” He ended his diatribe with, ” If you can eat, and have a house, and a big screen, and a cell phone without working, who in the world is paying for it? Back during the Great Depression, if you couldn’t pay for it, you didn’t have it.”
BIRCH RUN, MI - AUGUST 11: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a press conference before delivering the keynote address at the Genesee and Saginaw Republican Party Lincoln Day Event August 11, 2015 in Birch Run, Michigan. This is Trump's first campaign event since his Republican debate last week. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
Now this story is chalking up to be a bit of a controversy. A radio host in Atlanta claimed he interviewed Donald Trump but was told not to ask the Republican presidential candidate any policy questions.
Steve McCoy, hosts of The News Radio 106.7 Morning Show With Steve McCoy and Cheryl White, said that Trump’s handlers barred him from asking policy questions because they say, Trump’s policies weren’t “set in stone!”
“It came with some restrictions,” McCoy said, explaining the terms of the interview. “I couldn’t ask anything about his current policies, and they had the right to X out any questions that I did ask, and we got through about three minutes of it.”
When asked again if he couldn’t ask about policies, McCoy replied, “No, ‘cause he said those policies — well, he didn’t say it, his handlers said — the policies aren’t set in stone yet, and I guess we can kind of understand that, they got a year to go.”
But Trump’s people are adamant that the interview never took place.
A lawyer for the Trump campaign disputes radio host Steve McCoy’s account, telling BuzzFeed News that Trump did not do an interview with the Georgia radio host this week. The lawyer, Donald McGahn, says McCoy admitted to him the interview took place a year ago.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign slammed McCoy at length in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
“This interview did not take place. It is a fraud and/or a spoof. The Trump campaign has never communicated with this man. He said Mr. Trump spoke to him yesterday prior to the debate, Mr. Trump never spoke to him yesterday or any day before that. The radio host admitted it was a fraud to our attorney, apologized and he is now hiding and not returning anyone’s call. This is representative of the dishonesty Mr. Trump faces from the media.”
And now even the radio station where McCoy works is acting as if they don’t know of any interview. Program Director Greg Tantum, told media outlets that the station is “investigating” the situation. Meanwhile any semblance of an interview by McCoy was removed from the station’s SoundCloud account.
But Buzzfeed was able to capture the interview. Despite the claims from Trump’s people that it never happened, below is a recording of Steve McCoy and someone sounding remarkably like Donald Trump, even sharing some of Trump’s unbearable mannerisms.
Well, he had to be tackled! Apparently, he does not have the right to use an ATM machine!
On Monday, D.C. Metropolitan Police converged on 18-year-old Jason Goolsby as he stood outside of a bank on Pennsylvania Ave. Goolsby, who was with two friends, ran as the cop cars approached him.
Several blocks away, police detained him. Footage of the event — shot by one of Goolsby’s friends — shows officers two officers pressing the teen into the ground while wrangling his arms behind his back. As Goolsby screams, officers tell him to “stop resisting.” Goolsby’s friend repeatedly tells officers that the teen had done nothing wrong. Officials later detained the videographer for interfering with a police investigation. No charges were filed against either teen.
PHOTO SENT DIRECTLY FROM CAMERA. PLEASE CROP AND TONE AS NEEDED. The Democratic presidential candidates in a debate held by CNN on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 in Las Vegas. Photo by Josh Haner/The New York Times
Tuesday night was the first time the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination met face to face in a debate, and Hillary Clinton did not waste any time attacking her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders. Her weapon of choice, his not-so-stella record on guns.
“We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence,” Clinton said. “It’s time the entire country stood up to the [National Rifle Association].”
Sanders repeatedly pointed out that he holds a D-minus rating from the National Rifle Association, and argued that it was necessary to bridge the cultural divide between urban and rural America when it comes to common-sense gun reform.
But the self-described Democratic socialist could not escape heated criticism for voting against the Brady Act, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchases, and supporting a federal bill that would have shielded gun shops from crushing lawsuits. Sanders said that it was “a large and complicated bill,” with some provisions that he liked, and some he didn’t.
“It was pretty straightforward to me,” Clinton countered. She voted against it.
Tuesday’s debate comes less than two weeks after a lone gunman opened fire on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people before taking his own life. Shortly after the shooting, President Obama delivered an emotional address that spotlighted the nation’s shortcomings in keeping guns out of dangerous hands.
It should come as no surprise that the people at Fox News don’t believe every American deserve the right to vote, and they have pushed the Republican’s voter suppression agenda while at the same time demanding “freedom!”
The hypocrisy is palpable.
In the following conversation, one of the host at Fox News is utterly shocked that the Supreme Court voted in favor of voting rights for all Americans.
STEVE DOOCY: The state of California has passed legislation that will automatically register eligible voters when they obtain or renew a driver’s license. Governor Jerry Brown says it’s a way to increase voter turnout, but critics warn the measure could add millions of illegal people to the rolls because the state allows undocumented aliens to get driver’s licenses. That’s a problem, isn’t it, Judge Napolitano?
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Yes, yes. Good morning, Steve. Yes, it is a problem because the other states, including our own home state of New Jersey, which permit registration at the time you get a driver’s license, have you go through another procedure in which you have to demonstrate citizenship.
DOOCY: You’ve got to prove you’re here legally.
NAPOLITANO: Correct, correct. California, it’s one procedure. You may not even know that when you get your driver’s license you’re also being registered to vote. And there’s no requirement of proof of citizenship. What’s the significance of proof of citizenship? All 50 states limit voting to citizens except when the state allows you to sort-of sneak in without proving your citizenship by getting a driver’s license instead.
DOOCY: Sure. And one of the things they’d look to is the Supreme Court in the past has said that the right to drive in the United States is fundamental. However, they don’t say you have to be an American citizen, per se. But what about the right to vote?
NAPOLITANO: You know, there’s a lot of debate without getting too academic about what the right to vote is. Is it a fundamental right that comes from our humanity like thought and speech and association and worship and self-defense? Or is it a privilege given by the government? In my view, the Supreme Court has wrongly said it’s a fundamental right. And once it said that, states like California decided to allow people to vote who aren’t qualified by law to vote because of the fundamental aspect.
DOOCY: Those are for state elections.
NAPOLITANO: For any election in California.
DOOCY: But it’s against the law on federal elections?
NAPOLITANO: Yes, it is. But there’s really no way to monitor it. So if you are an illegal alien in California, get a driver’s license, register to vote, you can vote in local, state, and federal elections in California and those votes count.
DOOCY: Interesting stuff.
NAPOLITANO: It’s almost impossible to monitor this if the state is going to provide shelter for illegals to vote.
DOOCY: And so that’s what is going to happen out in California.
According to reporting by The Times, Playboy will no longer be publishing nude photos in its magazine.
Founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner, 89, who in his trademark silk pajamas has embodied the Playboy lifestyle, agreed last month with a suggestion by top editor Cory Jones to stop publishing images of naked women, the Times said.
At a time when every teenage boy has an Internet connected phone and the web is rife with pornography, the magazine has opted to continue featuring women in provocative poses, just not completely nude, the Times said.
“You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free,” Flanders was quoted as saying in the Times. “And so it’s just passe at this juncture.”
The magazine that featured Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953 is making the changes after circulation dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to about 800,000 now, the Times said.
A group of Confederate flag supporters in Georgia was indicted yesterday for terrorizing party-goers at a black child’s birthday party.
The incident happened in July around the same time South Carolina was debating removing the Confederate flag from state grounds. Party-goers say the cavalry of trucks drove onto the neighborhood, parked in a lot across the street and began shouting threats and racial slurs at everyone at ten party.
“This is is a child’s birthday party,” one woman yells out on the video.
“One had a gun, saying he was gonna kill the [racial slur],” party host Melissa Alford told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Then one of them said gimme the gun, I’ll shoot them [racial slur].”
Monday’s indictment by the Douglas County District Attorney called the flag group “a criminal street gang” and accused its members of participating “criminal gang activity” on that day. The group members were charged with making “terroristic threats” against the party-goers.
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