After issuing this tweet, Michael Grunwald, Senior National Correspondent at TIME quickly deleted it. But it was already too late. Here’s a screen shot of Michael’s Tweet.
Grunwald has apologized and TIME released a statement: “Michael Grunwald posted an offensive tweet from his personal Twitter account that is in no way representative of TIME‘s views. He regrets having tweeted it, and he removed it from his feed.”
Beck’s problem with Winfrey is that she compared the Trayvon Martin murder to that of Emmett Till.
Since Oprah made the comparison a few weeks ago after Zimmerman got away with murder, Beck has come to his defense, and Oprah’s personal opinion has put her in Beck’s crisshairs.
But Beck had laid off Oprah recently, until kast night when she made the comparison agaun on CNN’s Anderson Cooper. How dare she attack Beck’s new best friend for life, George Zimmerman!
Beck revived his one way feud with Ms Winfrey, and in the process, compared himself to the Statue of Liberty.
“Oprah Winfrey, you disgust me.”
“…As a woman, who has gone through hell and back and made it, and pulled yourself out by the bootstraps, you made it.
“You grew up with hate from your own race, you grew up with rape in your own race. And the American people, both black and white, yellow and red, it doesn’t matter the color, they saw you make it! They saw you overcome everything you had faced, and we celebrated that!”
Beck then made his own comparison, comparing himself to the Lady Liberty.
“Oprah, I choose to be the person that America thought you were.
…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free,” he said. “Give me the ones that you have told ‘you’ll never make it.’ Send them to me. The tempest-tost, because I hold my lamp beside a golden door.”
Side note: Glenn Beck got kicked out of Fox News. How disgusting do you have to be to get kicked out of Fox News?
She is horrified that someone as powerful as Oprah would make up such a story. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper, the clerk said:
“I don’t know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful, and I am just a shop girl.
“It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag,” the woman said.
“I didn’t hurt anyone. I don’t know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV. … If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don’t understand it. … I spoke to Oprah Winfrey in English. My English is OK but not excellent, unfortunately. … I didn’t know who she was when she came into the store. That wouldn’t have made any difference if I had.”
The happiest moment of their lives turned tragic when the new father took a gun and killed himself on Sunday, moments after his wife gave birth.
The man, who was 32 but otherwise not identified, was in a private room with his wife at Willowbrook Methodist Hospital in northwest Houston on Sunday afternoon when he turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger, police said.
Witnesses reported hearing what sounded like arguing coming from the room before the gun went off, local KHOU-TV reported.
The man was declared dead after being flown to another hospital, Memorial Hermann, officials said.
A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.”
Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change last week, according to WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/1cDOeTY). The boy’s parents were in court because they could not agree on the child’s last name, but when the judge heard the boy’s first name, she ordered it changed, too.
H/T – abcnews
I’m not really sure where to even start with this heartbreaking story. A 10-year-old Houston, Texas girl was arrested and charged with raping a 4-year-old boy, KHOU 11 reports.
While the details surrounding the incident are scarce, what we do know is that the alleged incident is said to have occurred in the courtyard of the girl’s apartment complex.
“She was just being a child, having fun and playing. She didn’t know she was doing any wrong,” the girl’s mother told KHOU.
The incident was first reported back in April, which is when a sex crimes investigator was assigned to the case. The child was arrested last week and taken to a juvenile detention center, where she was held for four days.
In yet another racially charged shooting in the Sunshine State, a man reportedly shot his neighbor point-blank in the face last July and then went back to cooking his dinner.
Not only did 59-year-old Walton Henry Butler shoot 32-year-old Everett Gant but he called 911 to report it. He also became aggravated when they arrested him because as he told them, he only shot a “nigger.”
Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent Police said the suspect acted as if shooting the victim was “no big deal” and they were inconveniencing him with the arrest and interrogation.
h/t – allvoices
Members of the U.S. military are pissed Anthony Weiner’s sexting partner involved the American flag in her masturbation porn — and TMZ has learned, the XXX king behind the video is so sorry … he’s editing the flag out of the tape entirely.
Sources close to Vivid honcho Steve Hirsch tell TMZ, Hirsch recently received a call from an active serviceman in Florida, complaining about Sydney Leathers’ upcoming porn, in which she masturbates on top of the red, white, and blue.
We’re told the man was NOT upset about the masturbation part — he’s a big Vivid fan after all — but the American flag’s involvement crossed the line, and he was going to have the DVD banned from his base.
We’re told Hirsch profusely apologized to the man for offending anyone in the U.S. military — a major porn consumer for obvious reasons — and agreed to remove the American flag from Vivid’s website as well as from Sydney’s DVD.
And that seemed to do the trick — we’re told the man accepted Hirsch’s apology, moved on with his porn-filled existence, and lived happily ever after. The end
Shortly after the NYPD asked the public for helping identifying someone suspected of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl inside a McDonald’s play structure, the cops have made an arrest. And the suspect is a 14-year-old boy.
The boy was charged with criminal sexual act. Because he is a minor, his name hasn’t been released and “his case will be handled with Family Court.”
The alleged incident is alarming: The child was assaulted, police say, inside the tubular play structure at a McDonald’s on Hillside Avenue and Avon Street. The Post’s sources say the suspect had walked into the location at 6:45 p.m. and headed “for the play area where he hid until the child encountered him and he ran off around 8:25 p.m… The man forced the girl to perform oral sex until she fled down the slide and told her mom what happened, sources added. The enraged and distraught mother begged a security guard for help but he did nothing as the suspect tried to flee out an emergency exit, sources said.”
Both the Post and Daily News say the mother tried the grab him, but he escaped.
The police are also looking into whether this attack is linked to a March incident at the same McDonald’s, when a nine-year-old was fondled.
This whole situation prompts us to ask an important question – should bus drivers or teachers step in during violent situations such as this?
h/t – globalgrind
Are you ready for this new “meat?”
A hamburger that looks like one you’d get at any fast-food restaurant comes with a price tag of $330,000 — and it isn’t even made out of natural meat. When volunteers taste it on Monday, in front of rows of VIPs and TV cameras, they’ll be eating the first publicly available burger that comes from a laboratory instead of a dead animal.
To produce the patty, researchers will mix lab-grown beef muscle cells with salt, egg powder and bread crumbs. Beet juice and saffron will be added to give a more natural color to the bloodless burger. It’ll be fried up in a pan, and seasoned with a dash of salt and pepper. With any luck, the burger should taste pretty much like your typical ground beef.
So why bother, when you can buy a burger made with real meat for no more than a couple of bucks?
The high-profile tasting in London is part of a years-long campaign to grow artificial meat without having to raise and kill billions of livestock animals — and as a result, head off a looming food crisis. Even the researchers behind the campaign acknowledge it could take a decade or more to turn lab-grown meat into a commercially viable alternative. But they see the effort as an environmental imperative.
