Rapper Talib Kweli gave some insight Wednesday into Twitter’s notoriously opaque standards on harassment: he’s allowed to call a black journalist a “coon” as much as he wants because it’s not racist when a black man uses the term.
Author: Ezra Dulis
Leslie Jones Was Punching Down on Twitter Trolls for Hours Before Milo Ever Mentioned Her
Let’s be honest: The real reason Milo Yiannopoulos is banned from Twitter is because Leslie Jones stirred up drama to keep her bomb of a movie in the news.
The Dumbest ‘Journalism’ About Melania Trump’s RNC Speech
Melania Trump’s primetime speech at the Republican National Convention caused a media feeding frenzy after a journalist alleged that she plagiarized phrases from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.
UPDATE–Fox News Chief Fights Back: ‘Roger Ailes Has Never Sexually Harassed Megyn Kelly’
Several reports claimed that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes reached an agreement to leave his position at the cable news channel, then quickly retracted or revised the claim.
Sonnie Johnson: Many Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ Are Genuine and Need a Reason to Hope
Sonnie Johnson, in the latest episode of her podcast “Did She Say That,” laid out the difference between a “petty” response to the Black Lives Matter movement and a purposeful one.
Donald Trump’s ‘Star of David’ Just Punked the Media into Spreading an Attack Ad for Free
If you read establishment or left-wing political news this weekend, you know the big story is that Donald Trump obviously made a big mistake by tweeting an anti-Semitic meme — an iconic Hillary Clinton campaign photo in front of piles of cash, next to a Star of David. He’s under fire from the press, Republicans have nothing to say in his defense, and he’s sending out erratic statements denying that the shape is a Star of David. But what if that’s not what happened at all? What if Trump sent out something patently offensive to a couple hundred journalists who are Verified on Twitter — so they would blow up its reach to an audience that might not take such great offense? He’s done it before. Right now, the Clinton campaign is boasting of spending money to define Trump with advertisements in battleground states. But where are those ads going? Television, where ads are increasingly irrelevant thanks to Netflix and DVR? Radio, for the people who don’t have an aux input in their cars? Trump, whether intentionally or not, instead sent out an attack ad to social media, where most voting-age people get their news. And he did it without spending a cent. And
Huffington Post Covers for Loretta Lynch: It’s All Goofy Bill!
The Huffington Post is labeling the secret Arizona meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch a “flub” by the former President — instead of a tightly regulated rendezvous between the head of the Department of Justice and a potent…
Huffington Post Has Written Just Three News Stories About Clinton’s Email Server in Three Months
The Huffington Post’s Politics section has seemingly only written three original articles about Hillary Clinton’s private email server scandal in as many months, ignoring major developments in a story with significant implications for the 2016 preside…
Hillfington Post: HuffPo Silent on Leaked DNC Clinton Documents
The Huffington Post has not covered the release of hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) documents which show Hillary Clinton’s party fretting about scandals unearthed by the book Clinton Cash.
Why Donald Trump Has the Perfect Presidential Temperament, Part II
Everyone says Donald Trump is crazy, so I decided to test their theory and challenge the assumption that he is made of the wrong temperament. I run Republicans Overseas in the UK; we have to process the Trump victory; we think he’s being misrepresented. The political elite, along with the media and their regular pundits, have been so busy picking on words — evaluating Trump according to their own personal standards — that they keep missing what is happening before their eyes. Across the board, no matter the group, they have applied their own elitist standards of how one should behave and how one should speak. No matter how wrong they have been, it seems they care more about being right than analysing how our culture has changed and how the voters have spoken. At least CNN’s Quest for Business attempted to attribute the demise of our culture going all the way back to Jerry Springer. The main criticism of Trump is his personality, not his temperament. Trump’s personality and tone do offend some people; however, after knocking out 16 competitors, perhaps these critics might have been better served analysing his successes rather than judging his behavior. So, for those