On Wednesday, a member of the British Parliament who has served in that august body for 32 years and been a member of the Labour Party for 55 years wrote a searing condemnation of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as she announced her resignation from the party.
Dame Louise Ellman, who was raised in an observant Jewish home, denounced Corbyn for his toleration of anti-Semites and his consorting with, and never confronting, antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and terrorists. Ellman is the Chair of the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Labour Friends of Israel as well as serving as Honorary President of the Jewish Labour Movement, as the <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-labour-mp-louise-ellman-20637870">Mirror</a> noted.
Last week, activists in her home constituency in the  Liverpool Riverside area called on her to resign, stating, “We have no confidence that our MP Louise Ellman will carry out the wishes of our CLP (Constituency Labour Party) and our Riverside constituency or that she will follow Labour Party policy. This branch therefore call on our Riverside MP, Louise Ellman, to resign.”
In June, Ellman wrote, &#8220;It is time Jeremy Corbyn acted on Labour&#8217;s antisemitism crisis.&#8221;
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It is time Jeremy Corbyn acted on Labour&#39;s antisemitism crisis. Here are four practical steps that must be taken now. Let&#39;s make progress! <a href="https://t.co/TFf1LYdH9q">pic.twitter.com/TFf1LYdH9q</a>
&mdash; Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouiseEllman/status/1152166541795966977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, Ellman stated:
<blockquote>I have made the truly agonizing decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997.</blockquote>
She wrote:
<blockquote>I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our Prime Minister. With a looming general election and the possibility of him becoming Prime Minister, I feel I have to take a stand. I cannot advocate a government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Under Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s leadership, antisemitism has become mainstream in the Labour Party. Jewish members have been bullied, abused and driven out. Antisemites have felt comfortable and vile conspiracy theories have been propagated. A party that permits anti-Jewish racism to flourish cannot be called anti-racist …
Jeremy Corbyn — who spent three decades on the backbenches consorting with, and never confronting antisemites, Holocaust deniers and terrorists, has attracted the support of too many anti-Semites.
The Labour Party is no longer a safe place for Jews and Jeremy Corbyn must bear the responsibility for this. We cannot allow him to do to the country what he has done to the Labour Party.
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish community is fearful of what a Corbyn government might mean for Britain’s Jews. I share those concerns. But this issue is not simply about the Jewish community. This is about the nature of our society. Jeremy Corbyn’s seeming tolerance of anti-Semitism would embolden racists, poison our public debate, and damage the social cohesion of our country.
My values — traditional Labour values —have remained the same. It is Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn, that has changed. He has presided over a culture of hatred, fear, and intolerance in the Labour party.
But this issue is no longer about the Labour Party — it is about the threat a Jeremy Corbyn premiership could pose to the country.</blockquote>
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I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997. <a href="https://t.co/3BTzUacZvo">pic.twitter.com/3BTzUacZvo</a>
&mdash; Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouiseEllman/status/1184575029276745730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Labour Party MP For 32 Years Quits Party, Writes Searing Letter Condemning Corbyn

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Jeremy Corbyn

On Wednesday, after Turkish forces moved toward them, the U.S. launched airstrikes to destroy the headquarters in Syria where the American campaign to destroy ISIS was located, according to U.S. officials who spoke to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-rejects-u-s-call-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-syria-11571219662?mod=hp_lista_pos1">The Wall Street Journal</a>. The base included warehouses where the Kurdish-led fighters fighting Turkey and ISIS were trained and quipped. The airstrike reputedly was launched to prevent Turkish forces from nearing the base.
The Journal noted that despite the assault on Kurdish forces from Turkey, President Trump on Wednesday would only say that the Turkish attack had “nothing to do with us.”
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence flew to Turkey to meet with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and on Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution opposing the withdrawal of U.S troops from Syria and leaving the Kurds open to an assault.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/625/text?r=7&amp;s=1">resolution, HR 625,</a> stated:
<blockquote>Whereas thousands of Syrian fighters, including Syrian Kurds, fought courageously with the United States against the brutality of ISIS throughout Syria, liberating nearly one-third of Syrian territory from ISIS’ so-called “caliphate.”; Whereas, on October 6, 2019, the White House announced “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria” while the “United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces … will no longer be in the immediate area.”; Whereas, on October 6, 2019, the White House announced “Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years”; Whereas an October 10, 2019, White House statement said, “This morning, Turkey, a NATO member, invaded Syria. The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea.”; Whereas Turkey has historically threatened, forcibly displaced, and killed Syrian Kurds, including during military operations in the Afrin District …
Whereas during the counter-ISIS campaign in Syria, the SDF captured thousands of ISIS fighters, including foreign terrorist fighters from around the world who pose threats to our allies in the region; Whereas in addition to ISIS fighters in detention approximately 70,000 women and children are currently held at the Al-Hol internally displaced persons camp and at other camps in northeast Syria; Whereas the Lead Inspector General for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve stated in August 2019, ISIS is already “seeking to establish safe haven in al-Hol” aiming to recruit individuals who are “susceptible to ISIS messaging, coercion, and enticement.”; Whereas the SDF has warned the United States and international community that a Turkish incursion into Northeast Syria would significantly decrease the SDF’s ability to combat ISIS and to continue providing security and management for ISIS detainees and their family members; Whereas, on October 6, 2019, President Trump conducted a call with President Erdogan in which, according to the official White House press release, they discussed the upcoming Turkish incursion, and soon after this call, a White House press release announced the withdrawal of the United States military from the immediate area, which was completed within hours; and Whereas an abrupt withdrawal of United States military personnel from certain parts of Northeast Syria is beneficial to adversaries of the United States Government, including Syria, Iran, and Russia: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) opposes the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria;
(2) calls on Turkish President Erdogan to immediately cease unilateral military action in Northeast Syria and to respect existing agreements relating to Syria;
(3) calls on the United States to continue supporting Syrian Kurdish communities through military and humanitarian support, including support to those displaced or otherwise affected by ongoing violence in Syria; and
(4) calls on the United States to work to ensure that the Turkish military acts with restraint and respects existing agreements relating to Syria.</blockquote>
The resolution was passed in a 354-60 vote.
Kurdish fighters reportedly sought aid from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, prompting Trump to aver, “Syria is protecting the Kurds, that’s good. Syria may get help from Russia and that’s fine. … There’s a lot of sand to play with … I wish them all a lot of luck.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), warned that Trump&#8217;s remarks “completely undercut Vice President Pence and Sec. Pompeo’s ability to end the conflict,” adding, “I fear this is a complete and utter national security disaster in the making and I hope President Trump will adjust his thinking.”
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On Tuesday evening, Pat Sajak, the witty host of “Wheel of Fortune,” issued two tweets that hilariously won Twitter and destroyed the Democratic presidential debate. With one minute left before the debate started, Sajak tweeted, “I’m all goose-bumpy waiting for it to start.”
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I’m all goose-bumpy waiting for it to start.
&mdash; Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1184257628660219906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Three minutes later and two minutes into the debate, Sajak followed with, &#8220;I&#8217;m done.&#8221;
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I’m done.
&mdash; Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1184258344187580416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In late June, Sajak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pat-sajak-strikes-again-demolishes-dem-debate-one-hank-berrien">lanced the Democratic presidential debate </a>with this deathless tweet, writing, “This could be worse. It could be a dinner party and I could be there.”
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This could be worse. It could be a dinner party and I could be there.
&mdash; Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1144422946011791360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sajak has famously tweeted such pointed and brief remarks before. After the horrific Las Vegas massacre in October 2017, when celebrities chimed in with their uninformed opinions, Sajak tweeted, “OK, let me explain this again: We&#8217;re celebs. We&#8217;re wiser &amp; more empathetic than you. We are famous. Please take our opinions more seriously.” Sajak&#8217;s biting wit did not spare the celebrity Left, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/21921/pat-sajak-takes-out-kimmel-and-other-leftist-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire </a>noted at the time:
<blockquote>This is not first time Sajak, a political conservative, has lanced the celebrity bubble of leftism that pervades Hollywood; his resume should have been a warning to leftists that his wit would target them. Sajak is an external director for the conservative publishing house Eagle Publishing, serves on the Board of Trustees at Hillsdale College and has served on the Board of Directors for the Claremont Institute.</blockquote>
Here are some other examples of Sajak pointedly targeting the Left:
<blockquote>Looking forward to next awards show/lecture.
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/818616227727900672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2017</a>
Nobody abhors violence more than Hollywood, and nobody does more to glorify it.
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/819370450581069824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2017</a>
I wonder if the celebrities who moved out of the country will return for the demonstrations?
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/821726393192976385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2017</a>
Unhappy about results of last week&#8217;s People&#8217;s Choice Awards. Thinking of breaking Starbucks windows &amp; trashing limos.
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/822902011553337347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2017</a>
Changing the world one screamed obscenity at a time.
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/823552255148380161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2017</a>
&#8220;Alexa, turn on CNN. I want to hear the news.&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;ll have to pick one or the other.&#8221;
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/883151772663021569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2017</a>
Does anyone have thinner skins than the &#8220;tough&#8221; news media?
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/819992846665220096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2017</a>
At the end of 2018, Sajak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39795/pat-sajak-ends-entertaining-year-online-renaming-james-barrett">mocked CNN</a>, tweeting, “Easy fix for CNN: change name to Current Narrative Network. My work here is done.”
Easy fix for CNN: change name to Current Narrative Network. My work here is done.
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1079435032199131137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
As The Daily Wire reported in June, Sajak’s view of the June debate was not unique. Despite the fact that the second night of the Democratic presidential debates outpaced the first &#8212; drawing 15.26 million viewers across the three networks, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/democratic-debate-part-2-rises-tv-ratings-thursday-june-27-2019-1221677">The Hollywood Reporter</a> &#8212; the debate still slightly trailed the first 2012 Democratic presidential debate, which drew 15.46 million viewers, and was left in the dust by the first GOP presidential debate in 2012, which attracted a whopping 24 million viewers.
The latest Democratic presidential debate fared even worse, as <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cnn-debate-ratings-fall-fourth-democratic-face-1248171">The Hollywood Reporter</a> noted:
<blockquote>CNN drew another sizable audience for the fourth Democratic presidential debate — but not as big as the news network&#8217;s previous debate telecast. Tuesday&#8217;s debate averaged 8.34 million TV viewers, below CNN&#8217;s last debate coverage on July 30-31 and the smallest audience of the four Democratic debates thus far. Live streams of the coverage on digital properties for CNN and co-sponsor The New York Times averaged an additional 449,000.</blockquote>
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After it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-ronan-farrow-book-claims-hillary-pressured-farrow-to-drop-harvey-weinstein-investigation">revealed </a>on Thursday in a report in<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149"> The Hollywood Reporter</a> detailing some of the claims of Ronan Farrow’s new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Kill-Conspiracy-Protect-Predators/dp/0316454133?tag=insider-safetynet-20">Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators</a>,” that Hillary Clinton pressured Farrow to drop his investigation into Harvey Weinstein, actress Rose McGowan &#8212; whose accusations against Weinstein of sexual assault helped launch the #MeToo movement &#8212; ripped Clinton for her actions, tweeting, “Hillary Clinton, did you have any concern for your husband’s victims? And what about HW victims? No? Didn’t think so.”
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Hillary Clinton, did you have any concern for your husband’s victims? And what about HW victims? No? Didn’t think so <a href="https://t.co/CR5Xs6Ppj6">pic.twitter.com/CR5Xs6Ppj6</a>
&mdash; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1182609198397509633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In June 2018, McGowan <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/06/04/rose-mcgowan-lashes-out-at-president-bill-clinton-you-left-a-stain-on-society/23450775/">slammed Bill Clinton </a>after Clinton said he hadn’t apologized to Monica Lewinsky since the scandal involving her, saying, &#8220;I have never talked to her. But I did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry. That&#8217;s very different. The apology was public.&#8221; McGowan tweeted, &#8220;Bill Clinton. Here is the truth of it: a human life was altered &amp; destroyed due to your selfishness. Because. You. Could. You not only wiped your semen on a young girl’s dress, you left a stain on society. You actually owe EVERYONE an apology, especially her.&#8221;
McGowan has no reverence for Democratic power figures; in an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/rose-mcgowan-shares-her-secret-being-happier-2018-thr-interview-1109996">interview</a> with The Hollywood Reporter in May 2018, McGowan described her disappointment with former President Barack Obama after meeting him and his non-acknowledgment of the #MeToo movement or her comments targeting Weinstein, saying bitterly, “I was disappointed he didn’t acknowledge a global fight, let alone mine. It was after everything had come out.” As The Daily Wire reported, “THR’s Chris Gardner notes that Obama’s glaring failure to address the elephant in the room ‘was especially hard for her because Obama’s daughter Malia had interned at the Weinstein Co.’”
McGowan stated, “I was sitting right in front of him, and he would not meet my eyes, and then at the last minute, he asked for Naomi Campbell to be put in a photo with us.” McGowan stated that Obama never offered an “I’m sorry” or “Keep going, Rose.” Obama only said, “You ladies sure know how to pose.” McGowan concluded, “I wanted him to be better.”
McGowan has also not been shy about targeting Hollywood icons; in December 2017 she aimed at actress Meryl Streep. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meryl-streep-responds-rose-mcgowans-attacks-i-paul-bois">The Daily Wire </a>reported, Streep, who worked with Weinstein on “August: Osage County” and “The Iron Lady,” claimed ignorance of Weinstein’s behavior. She stated, “Not everybody knew. Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally. I didn’t know about these other offenses.”
The Daily Wire wrote, “Reporters have yet to press her on how she could have possibly been so ignorant when Weinstein’s behavior was such an “open secret” that Seth MacFarlane could crack jokes about it amid celebrity laughter. As screenwriter Scott Rosenberg succinctly put it, “<a href="https://deadline.com/2017/10/scott-rosenberg-harvey-weinstein-miramax-beautiful-girls-guilt-over-sexual-assault-allegations-1202189525/">everybody f***ing knew</a>.” Quentin Tarantino was honest enough <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/movies/tarantino-weinstein.html">to admit it</a>.
After hearing that actresses including Streep would be wearing all black at the Golden Globe awards in honor of #MeToo, McGowan blasted Streep while referencing Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman’s fashion line, tweeting:
<blockquote>Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest. YOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly &amp; affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.</blockquote>
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/10/11/it-is-so-on-rose-mcgowan-rekt-hillary-clinton-with-brutally-honest-and-damning-questions-about-her-husbands-victims/">Twitchy</a>

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Rose McGowan Absolutely Shreds Hillary For Ignoring Victims of Alleged Sexual Assaults

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Hillary Clinton

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Once again, a Chick-fil-A employee came to the rescue, and this time it went far, far beyond the call of duty. This time, it happened in Virginia, where a woman dropped her phone in the parking lot and it slipped into a storm drain.
As <a href="https://katu.com/news/offbeat/chick-fil-a-climbs-down-storm-drain-to-get-customers-phone">KATU</a> reported, Shauna Hall, from Stafford, Virginia, told her story <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shauna.hall07/posts/10219623415954385?__tn__=K-R">on Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>This afternoon I park at our local Chick-fil-A and as I go to get my son out of the van, no joke, my phone drops and bounces right into the storm drain I’m parked next too. My iPhone that we just paid off and that I had just put a brand new Otterbox on two days before. After a moment of loosing (sic) my freakin mind, I lay on the ground, placing my head best I can between my van and the drain, looking into the dark abyss to see if by any chance it has landed somewhere I can reach. Of course it has not. In disbelief and as I am about to puke and cry, I go in and ask for a manager. The manager comes over to talk to me and is very friendly but unsure how to help.
Just then another employee behind her says he is going to grab a grab-stick and a mirror to try and help. He does so and we escort him out to the scene. Without hesitation, and in his uniform, he lays on the ground and attempts to locate the phone. He can’t see it either and we both realize the worse. It has, in fact, fallen dead smack in the middle, down the actual drainage hole. So we go back inside where we go to a table as my son is hungry and I still can’t believe what has happened. Then the young man who has been trying to help me, comes over with my order ticket and tells me he has completely refunded my mobile dine-in order and that our food will be out shortly. Thanking him I tell him he didn’t have to do that, but he tells me it was no problem as I’m clearly already having a bad day. He then offers his personal phone for me to use if I want to call anyone but I know no numbers by heart.
He then joins us at the booth and calls the county trying to get some help. They hang up on him but we get the idea to go back out and call my phone to see if we can hear it (fearing we won’t as the hole is most definitely full of water because of course we are in the middle of a drought but had a full day of rain yesterday). But just before he makes the call, we notice the manhole cover over top the drain is not bolted so we try to lift it. It’s really heavy so he does most the lifting and ends up slicing his finger open. After running in quickly to clean the wound, he is able to remove the cover and there at the very bottom of the drain hole is my phone. After trying to reach it with his grab-stick then dropping his stick, he tells me it’s a manhole for a reason and he is going down. He then climbs down into the hole and retrieves my phone which miraculously is not broken or wet. I was so thankful I freaking hugged him. Not only did he slice his finger and was filthy from laying on the ground and climbing in the hole, I find out he had actually just gotten off shift and was still willing to help me.
So this is Seth. Turns out he is also the store’s Digital Marketing Director. He is also now my hero and favorite Chick-fil-A employee. As he was about to climb out of the hole he asked me to snap a picture so he could show his girlfriend what he did at work today.
Service with a smile. Just another day at Chick-fil-A.</blockquote>
For other examples of employees of Chick-Fil-A going beyond the call of duty, how about the time a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worlds-best-service-chick-fil-manager-sends-boat-hank-berrien">Chick-fil-A manager sent a boat to rescue an elderly couple in Houston</a>, or the time an employee of Chick-Fil-A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-chick-fil-employee-shows-why-chick-fil-wins-hank-berrien">ran after a car whose occupant had forgotten their order</a>, or the time a teenage boy working at a Chick-fil-A looked through the drive-thru window and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-teenage-chick-fil-employee-does-something-hank-berrien">noticed that a 6-year-old boy in a car in the drive-thru lane was choking</a>, so he jumped through the drive-thru window and ran to the car, where he found the mother of the boy begging for someone to help her save her child from being choked by a seatbelt that had gotten tangled around his neck, then yanked out his pocketknife and cut the young child free.

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Will the real Elizabeth Warren history please stand up?
On the 2020 presidential trail Warren has made it a habit to claim she was fired from her job teaching special needs children because she was pregnant. At a townhall event she claimed, &#8220;By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days. Wish me luck and hire someone else for the job.&#8221;
As recently as this week Warren tweeted:
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When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant—and the principal told me the job I&#39;d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else.
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1181556990906118144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination—but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories. I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours.
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1181556992227323905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Warren&#8217;s story started to unravel this week, when <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/county-records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-over-pregnancy/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reported:
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The Riverdale Board of Education approved a second-year teaching contract for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate’s repeated claims that she was asked not to return to teaching after a single year because she was &#8220;visibly pregnant.&#8221; <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-1970-1971?secret_password=nTS2VmCgg4oeOIw7xlcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-1970-1971?secret_password%3DnTS2VmCgg4oeOIw7xlcn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570563146888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMvCzvbYdHXY8tWAV9OX0FOOPnvw">Minutes</a> of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a &#8220;2nd year&#8221; contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-1970-1971?secret_password=nTS2VmCgg4oeOIw7xlcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.scribd.com/document/429152169/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-1970-1971?secret_password%3DnTS2VmCgg4oeOIw7xlcn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570563146888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMvCzvbYdHXY8tWAV9OX0FOOPnvw">Minutes</a> from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was &#8220;accepted with regret.&#8221;
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Additionally, in 2007, in an interview with Harry Kreisler for the program “Conversations with History,” Warren never mentioned pregnancy discrimination causing her to be fired, and only told Kreisler that she didn’t have the courses necessary to keep the job fired, as <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/footage-appears-to-dispute-warren-claim-she-lost-teaching-job-for-being-visibly-pregnant">The Washington Examiner</a> noted. She stated:
<blockquote>I was married at 19 and then graduated from college [at the University of Houston], actually, after I’d married. And my first year post-graduation, I worked — it was in a public school system, but I worked with the children with disabilities. And I did that for a year, and then that summer, I actually didn’t have the education courses, so I was on an “emergency certificate,” it was called. And I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, “I don’t think this is going to work out for me.” And I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, “What am I going to do?” And my husband’s view of it was, “Stay home. We have children. We’ll have more children. You’ll love this.” And I was very restless about it. So I went back home to Oklahoma, by this point we were living in New Jersey because of his job, I went back home to Oklahoma for Christmas and saw a bunch of the boys that I’d been in high school debate with and they’d all gone on to law school. And they said, “You should go to law school. You’ll love it.”</blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-elizabeth-warrens-2011-claim-about-pregnancy-discrimination-appears-to-undermine-current-explanation/">Mediaite</a> points out, “Some of Warren’s defenders have surmised that she may not have felt comfortable discussing the subject in 2007, but feels comfortable doing so now, a premise that Warren herself reinforced in a <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-claim-democratic-presidential-candidate-stands-by-being-pushed-out-of-teaching-job/">statement</a> about the controversy, writing, ‘After becoming a public figure I opened up more about different pieces in my life and this was one of them.’”
But Mediaite also found a 2011 interview in which Warren seemed perfectly comfortable mentioning pregnancy discrimination but still never mentioned being fired because of it. She stated to Rutgers Law Professor Paul Tractenberg,“I was married at 19 to a boy I had dated since my freshman year in high school. I had a baby, he was transferred to New Jersey, I was going to be a public school teacher and, a whole series of quick events, and I had been a high school debater, and the boys in high school debate back in Oklahoma had said ‘You should think about law school.’ And so I read up, found out there was a law school in Newark, drove in, looked around and thought ‘I could give it a try.&#8217;”
Warren told Tractenberg, “I graduated from law school 9 months pregnant, and Amy’s getting a little bigger at that point, and I thought I’d stepped off the train. You know, hard enough to get a job for a woman then, I was about to have a baby and nobody was interested in me. And with that law degree from Rutgers, I hung out a shingle.”
Mediaite also noted that in her 2014 <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Fighting_Chance/dbGfAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=my%20first%20choice">book</a>, &#8220;A Fighting Chance,&#8221; Warren recounted the history of her going to law school but somehow elided the part about encouragement from her debate team, writing:
<blockquote>My first choice was to go back to teaching, but I never even asked Jim. I knew he would say that a demanding full-time job was out of the question. So somewhere between diapers and breast-feeding, I hatched the idea of going to school. At first Jim resisted, but finally he agreed. School would be okay.
Suddenly the world opened up. It was kid-in-the-candy-store time. At first I thought about graduate school in speech pathology. I also got the applications for engineering school. And then I thought of law school. I knew next to nothing about being a lawyer, but on television lawyers were always fighting to defend good people who needed help.</blockquote>
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Warren 2011 Interview Casts Even More Doubt On Her ‘I Was Fired’ Story

Elizabeth Warren

Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and CNN’s presidential town hall event Thursday night, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has been surging in the polls and looking more and more like the emerging frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, insulted men of faith, implying that they would never find a woman who would marry them.
Morgan Cox, Chair of the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Directors, asked Warren, “Let’s say you’re on the campaign trail and you’re approached—” Warren interrupted, “I have been.” Cox finished, “You have been, yes. And a supporter approaches you and says, ‘Senator, I’m old-fashioned, and my faith teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman.’ What is your response?”
First, Warren assumed that only a man of faith would believe in Biblical values and that a woman of faith would not take Biblical injunctions seriously, as she replied, “Well, I’m going to assume it’s a guy who said that.” She continued, “And I’m gonna say, ‘Then just marry one woman.’”
As the crowd laughed and applauded, Warren jibed, “I’m cool with that.” The crowd gave a sustained ovation, prompting Warren, trying for one last zinger, to add bitingly, “Assuming you can find one.”
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Elizabeth Warren was asked how she would respond to a person who says that marriage is &quot;between one man and one woman&quot;
&quot;I&#39;m going to assume it&#39;s a guy who said that, and I will say, then just marry one woman. … Assuming you can find one,&quot; Warren said. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EqualityTownHall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EqualityTownHall</a> <a href="https://t.co/RAuVqch7Ls">pic.twitter.com/RAuVqch7Ls</a>
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Later, Warren ripped people of faith again, saying, “The hatefulness, frankly, always really shocked me. Especially for people of faith because I think the foundation is the worth of every single human being. And I get people may make decisions for themselves that are different than the decisions other people make, but by golly, those are decisions about you; they are not decisions that tell other people what they can and cannot do.”
Warren’s contempt for men of faith would seem to be at odds with her take on the parable in the Bible of the sheep and the goats; she <a href="https://newbostonpost.com/2017/09/05/elizabeth-warren-about-as-religious-as-she-is-native-american/">told</a> Reverend Bernice King, the daughter of the Dr, Martin Luther King Jr., “And the way I hear that is that, he’s saying to us first, there’s God in every one of us. There’s Jesus in every one of us. However you see it in your religion, but that inside there’s something holy, in every single person. And the second thing he’s saying, is: ‘And I call on you to act, not to sit back and proclaim your faith, but to get up and to make a difference.’ And the third thing I hear him saying, is: ‘And it is every one of you. When the final day comes, that every one of you will be judged by what you did for the God in others’.”
Warren also <a href="https://medium.com/@teamwarren/congressional-action-to-protect-choice-aaf94ed25fb5">supports</a> the <a href="https://www.actforwomen.org/the-womens-health-protection-act/">Women’s Health Protection Act</a>, which would protect access to abortion from “bans on abortion prior to viability that are a direct violation of constitutional rights confirmed by Roe v. Wade, requirements that doctors provide medically inaccurate and, at times, false information to people seeking abortion care, and restrictions on the ability to safely access medication abortion in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.”
That wouldn’t fly with the same men of faith that Warren contemptuously dismisses.

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Christianity

After <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/08/joni-ernst-trump-question-foreign-interference-sot-kaye-ac360-vpx.cnn">CNN reported </a> that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was unwilling to answer a CNN correspondent when she was queried as to whether it was appropriate for President Trump to ask a foreign government to investigate a political rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi snidely subtweeted Ernst, without bothering to confront her directly. Pelosi tweeted, “Republicans are now refusing to answer the simplest question: whether it’s acceptable for a president to pressure foreign countries to undermine our elections. American elections should be decided by Americans, not by ‘favors’ from foreign governments.”
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Republicans are now refusing to answer the simplest question: whether it’s acceptable for a president to pressure foreign countries to undermine our elections. 
American elections should be decided by Americans, not by “favors” from foreign governments.<a href="https://t.co/wrx4NhPT48">https://t.co/wrx4NhPT48</a>
&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1182282711953809408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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If Pelosi expected Ernst, whoserved in the Iowa Army National Guard from 1993 to 2015, where retired as a lieutenant colonel, to be intimidated, she was sadly mistaken. Ernst fired back, “Actually, American elections should be decided by ELECTIONS. Not politicians. I know you’re still upset about the results from 2016, but people here in Iowa would sure appreciate it if you spent less time playing political games and actually brought <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USMCAnow?src=hash" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#USMCAnow</a> up for a vote.”
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Actually, American elections should be decided by ELECTIONS. Not politicians. I know you’re still upset about the results from 2016, but people here in Iowa would sure appreciate it if you spent less time playing political games and actually brought <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USMCAnow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USMCAnow</a> up for a vote. <a href="https://t.co/YM07a1MXbl">https://t.co/YM07a1MXbl</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@joniernst) <a href="https://twitter.com/joniernst/status/1182329057536557057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After the transcript of a call between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky was released, Ernst released this statement:
<blockquote>The fact that House Democrats dove head first into an impeachment inquiry before seeing this transcript shows exactly what we’ve known all along: they are determined to impeach President Trump. I’ve looked at the transcript; I don’t see anything there. The Senate Intelligence Committee is going through proper, bipartisan procedures on this whole matter. House Democrats should be focused on helping us lower health care costs for folks across the country and passing the widely supported USMCA.</blockquote>
She <a href="http://www.kmaland.com/news/ernst-questions-trump-impeachment-inquiry/article_53ec032a-e062-11e9-9b1a-bfb4f1df8637.html">also stated,</a>&#8220;The Senate Intelligence Committee is being really thoughtful about this, and working in a bipartisan manner. They&#8217;re doing their job in looking into the claims. They&#8217;ll also be going through that transcript, and taking a look. This is an effort that I support, and can get behind. It&#8217;s working together to get to the bottom of it, actually finding out the facts before trying to throw this president under the bus.&#8221;
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which has been stuck in Congress, is a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and adds provisions that the earlier agreement lacked, including giving Mexican workers the right to unionize, thus making it more expensive for American companies to relocate there. It also makes <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/politics/nafta-usmca-differences/index.html">intellectual property protections</a> stronger, guarding American companies from intellectual property theft by countries we trade with, as Miriam Sapiro <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/perspectives/usmca-trade-deal-mexico-canada/index.html">noted</a> for CNN.
Ernst has been fed-up with the House for its impeachment proceedings for a while; on Monday she tweeted, “The American people sent us to Washington to do our jobs, not play politics. If House Democrats use impeachment to delay #USMCAnow, they will be hurting Iowans.”
On October 1, she tweeted this:
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Folks in Iowa want Congress to focus on moving our country forward, not this impeachment circus. <a href="https://t.co/Oua82APRyE">pic.twitter.com/Oua82APRyE</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@joniernst) <a href="https://twitter.com/joniernst/status/1179155655292280833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On October 2, she tweeted. “Folks in Iowa want Congress to focus on moving our country forward, not this impeachment circus.”
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Folks in Iowa want Congress to focus on moving our country forward, not this impeachment circus. <a href="https://t.co/Oua82APRyE">pic.twitter.com/Oua82APRyE</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@joniernst) <a href="https://twitter.com/joniernst/status/1179155655292280833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On September 25, she tweeted, “If Democrats were serious about helping farmers, they’d join me in urging @SpeakerPelosi  to pass USMV+CAnow. We have a trade deal on the table that would help farmers, businesses and workers in Iowa and across the nation. Time to stop the games and get it done!”
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On Thursday, Sarai Idan, who was Miss Iraq, lauded Israel for its commitment to help the Kurdish people in the face of what Turkish dictator Recip Erdogan’s brutal assault on them. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Thursday morning, “Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies. Israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant Kurdish people.”
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Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies. Israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant Kurdish people.
&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1182268451269857281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Idan commented, “And people wonder why I stand with Israel … heard many countries say ‘They condemn’ but not a single one said they will extend assistance to #Kurds.”
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And people wonder why I stand with Israel&#8230; heard many countries say “they condemn” but not a single one said they will extend assistance to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kurds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kurds</a> <a href="https://t.co/xsPEgpXlRD">https://t.co/xsPEgpXlRD</a>
&mdash; Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq (@RealSarahIdan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSarahIdan/status/1182359755517358081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/miss-iraq-posed-miss-israel-then-radical-muslims-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire</a> reported in December 2017, at the Miss International Beauty Pageant, Idan <a href="https://www.jta.org/2017/11/14/life-religion/miss-israel-and-miss-iraq-pose-together-on-instagram">posed for photos</a> with Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, for their respective Instagram accounts. Idan’s caption read: “Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel.” Gandelsman <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/peace-and-love-as-miss-israel-and-miss-iraq-pose-together-on-instagram/">wrote</a>on her Instagram post, “Get to know, this is Miss Iraq and she’s amazing.” She added on Facebook, “Practicing bringing world peace.”
The backlash from parts of the Muslim world targeting Idan, 27, was so fierce that she posted a defense on Istagram, writing in Arabic on Instagram, “I want to stress that the purpose of the picture was only to express hope and desire for peace between the two countries,” but adding that the photo did not indicate support for the Israeli government and offering an apology if the photo was harmful to the Palestinian cause.
It didn’t help; as the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Family-of-Miss-Iraq-flee-country-after-photo-posted-with-Miss-Israel-518090?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">Jerusalem Post reported</a>. Gandelsman, who had become good friends with Idan, told Hadashot that Idan’s family, which still lived in Iraq, had been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats for Idan’s photos with Gandelsman as well as Idan’s posing in a bikini.
Gandelsman added that Idan said she did not regret posting the photos. She said, “She did it to so that people can understand that it’s possible to live together. In order for people to see that we can connect, in the end we are both human beings.”
Seven months later, months after they had posted the selfie together at the Miss Universe competition Miss Israel and Miss Iraq <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5839563/Miss-Iraq-visits-Miss-Israel-Jerusalem-fury-selfie-together.html">reunited in Jerusalem</a>. Idan joined Gandelsman, for dinner in Jerusalem, then posted a picture online captioned, “Sister&#8217;s reunion.” The two also posted a video in which Idan told her followers “Shalom” while Gandelsman told her followers, “Salaam.” Idan told Israel’s Channel 2 News, “I don&#8217;t think Iraq and Israel are enemies; I think maybe the governments are enemies with each other. There&#8217;s a lot of Iraqi people that don&#8217;t have a problem with Israelis.” She told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/middleeast/miss-iraq-miss-israel-reunited-selfie-controversy/index.html">CNN</a>, “When I posted the picture I didn&#8217;t think for a second there would be blowback. I woke up to calls from my family and the Miss Iraq Organization going insane. The death threats I got online were so scary. The director of the Miss Iraq Organization called me and said they&#8217;re getting heat from the ministry. He said I have to take the picture down or they will strip me of my title.&#8221;

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Netanyahu Promises Aid To Kurds. Miss Iraq: That&#8217;s Why I Stand With Israel

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In a report in<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149"> The Hollywood Reporter</a> detailing some of the claims of Ronan Farrow&#8217;s new book, , &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Kill-Conspiracy-Protect-Predators/dp/0316454133?tag=insider-safetynet-20">Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators</a>,&#8221; which focuses on the sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, THR writes that Farrow attests that he was pressured by Hillary Clinton to drop his investigation.
THR writes:
<blockquote>Weinstein also attempted to leverage his long-term relationship with Hillary Clinton to pressure Farrow, he writes. In summer 2017, while Farrow was trying to lock down an interview with Clinton for his foreign policy book — while also still working on the Weinstein story — he received a call from Clinton&#8217;s publicist, Nick Merrill, who told him that the &#8220;big story&#8221; Farrow was working on was a &#8220;concern for us.&#8221; Then, in September 2017, according to an email cited in the book, Weinstein wrote to Deborah Turness, the ex-president of NBC News who now runs NBC News International, to propose a docuseries on Clinton. &#8220;Your Hillary doc series sounds absolutely stunning,&#8221; Turness responded.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.insider.com/ronan-farrow-hillary-clinton-tried-to-kill-harvey-weinstein-story-2019-10">Insider.com</a> notes, “Weinstein, a major Democratic Party donor, gave Clinton more than $26,000 in contributions since her initial Senate run in 2000, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvey-weinstein-political-donations-2017-10">according to the Federal Election Commission</a>.”
Insider.com also notes that Hillary Clinton came forth in October 2017 after The New York Times published their investigation of Weinstein, asserting, &#8220;I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.&#8221;
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Statement from Secretary Clinton on Harvey Weinstein: <a href="https://t.co/L1l2wl9l0I">pic.twitter.com/L1l2wl9l0I</a>
&mdash; Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickMerrill/status/917803750869426176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Also in October 2017, as <a href="https://deadline.com/2017/10/hillary-clinton-harvey-weinstein-fareed-zakaria-campaign-dollars-sexual-assault-video-1202186791/">Deadline reported</a>, Clinton was interviewed by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who asked regarding Weinstein, “He donated money to you, directly and indirectly — would you give the money back?”
Clinton answered,  “Well, there’s no one to give it back to … What other people are saying, what my former colleagues are saying, is they’re going to donate it to charity, and of course I will do that. I give 10% of my income to charity every year. This will be part of that. There’s no – there’s no doubt about it.”
Zakaria asked if Clinton considered Weinstein a friend. She replied, “Yes, I probably would have – and so would so many others … You know, people in Democratic politics for a couple of decades appreciated his help and support. And I think these stories coming to light now, and people who never spoke out before having the courage to speak out, just clearly demonstrates that this behavior that he engaged in, cannot be tolerated and cannot be overlooked.”
Zakaria commented, “People say people knew.” Clinton shot back, ““Well, I certainly didn’t! And I don’t know who did. But I can only speak for myself, and I think speak for many others who knew him primarily through politics … But the courage of these women coming forward now is really important because it can’t just end with one person’s disgraceful behavior and the consequences that he is now facing. This has to be a wake-up call and shine a bright spotlight on anything like this behavior anywhere, at any time.”
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Ronan Farrow

On Wednesday, it was formally announced that former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who chaired the House Select Committee on Benghazi from 2014 to 2016, had joined President Donald Trump&#8217;s personal legal team as it counters the impeachment inquiry process launched by the House of Representatives against President Trump.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow stated, &#8220;I am pleased to announce that former Congressman Trey Gowdy is joining our team as Counsel to the President. I have known Trey for years and worked with him when he served in Congress. His legal skills and his advocacy will serve the President well. Trey’s command of the law is well known and his service on Capitol Hill will be a great asset as a member of our team,” as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/former-rep-trey-gowdy-joins-trump-legal-team-n1064466">NBC News</a> reported.
In late September, appearing on Fox News, where he was a contributor, Gowdy said of House Democrats, &#8220;A lot of them have already made up their minds. If there&#8217;s a smoking gun there — I can&#8217;t even find the gun, whether it&#8217;s smoking or not.&#8221;
Gowdy is not unaware of the proper role of Congress; in 2012 he stated, &#8220;The notion that you can withhold information and documents from Congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. Respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles.&#8221;
As <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/meghan-mccain-warns-democrats-trey-gowdy-bad-news/">The Daily Caller</a> reported, “The View” co-host Meghan McCain warned the liberals on her show who mocked Gowdy for his 2012 statement, “You can go on about Trey Gowdy. But he’s one of the great congressmen. He’s someone I have respected for years. You can laugh all you want, but the fact he’s joining Trump’s team is good news for Trump, and bad news for Democrats.” She added, “…by the way, right now if I was in a fox hole, I would want Trey Gowdy in there with me.”
Last Friday, as <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trey-gowdy-declined-to-represent-trump-in-impeachment-inquiry-report">The Washington Examiner</a> reported, Gowdy said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff had made himself a &#8220;fact witness&#8221; in his dealings with the whistleblower who had targeted President Trump for his dealings with Ukraine. Gowdy said on Fox News, &#8220;How long is Speaker Pelosi going to put up with Adam mishandling this investigation? She has already taken it away from Jerry Nadler. I’m sure the guys and gals on the Judiciary Committee are not happy about having Adam Schiff do it. But if you are going to do it, at least don’t screw it up, Adam.&#8221;
Gowdy added, &#8220;Right now he&#8217;s made himself a fact witness. He is in the evidentiary chain for what happened with this whistleblower, and I hope the Republicans make him testify … Schiff has received a pass — the whole time I was in Congress, I don’t ever remember a negative word about him. I remember him complaining when Republicans would meet with whistleblowers. I remember him complaining when the Republicans would ever meet with witnesses and he wasn’t present … I don’t know how long Nancy Pelosi is going to put up with this.”
Some statements Gowdy has made:
<blockquote>The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren&#8217;t Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It&#8217;s about respect for the rule of law!
Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.
You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in their briefcase or purse.</blockquote>
In 2018, before the congressional elections, Gowdy <a href="https://www.axios.com/trey-gowdy-the-only-purpose-of-the-republican-party-is-to-win-elections-1523010505-1f588526-3795-45d7-8148-1c8bc3521e06.html">said bluntly</a>, &#8220;the goal is to win.&#8221;

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On Wednesday night, a group of people decided to support the protesters in Hong Kong challenging the government of Communist China by wearing “Free Hong Kong” T-shirts and  carrying aloft signs reading “Free Hong Kong” and “Google Uyghurs” at the Washington Wizards—Guangzhou Long Lions game in Capitol Arena in Washington D.C.
They didn’t get far.
Jon Schweppe, the director of policy and government affairs at the American Principles Project, joined a couple of friends to launch their action, and when they arrived with their T-shirts and signs, their “Free Hong Kong” sign was confiscated — during the national anthem.
Schweppe tweeted, “Just had our “Free Hong Kong” sign confiscated at Capitol One Arena at the Wizards game against the Guangzhou Long Lions.”
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Just had our “Free Hong Kong” sign confiscated at Capitol One Arena at the Wizards game against the Guangzhou Long Lions. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeHongKong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeHongKong</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NBA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Censorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/on1O4QdBUi">pic.twitter.com/on1O4QdBUi</a>
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He added minutes later, “We are currently standing tall behind the basket with our Free Hong Kong shirts on. We were told if we do another sign we will be removed. Standing tall in our tshirts.”
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We are currently standing tall behind the basket with our Free Hong Kong shirts on. We were told if we do another sign we will be removed. Standing tall in our tshirts
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Schweppe continued, &#8220;So far we are allowed our &#8216;Google Uyghurs&#8217; sign. They seemed annoyed with it.”
The Uyghurs are a minority Muslim group native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People&#8217;s Republic of China. There have been reports that the Communist Chinese government has been brutally targeting them.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/06/asia/china-xinjiang-video-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN reported</a> on Monday:
<blockquote>A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang. The video — which was posted online anonymously <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ">last week</a> — shows hundreds of men, most of whom are dressed in purple and orange vests with the words &#8220;Kashgar Detention Center&#8221; printed on them, seated in rows on the ground of what appears to be a large courtyard outside a train station. Their heads are shaved and their hands bound behind their backs. All of the men are wearing black blindfolds over their eyes and they are being watched over by dozens of police officers in SWAT uniforms.</blockquote>
The NBA has come under fire after the league chastised the general manager of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, after Morey supported Hong Kong’s protests against China’s new extradition bill.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backfire-nba-houston-rockets-cower-to-communist-china-get-blasted-online">The Daily Wire </a>reported, Morey had tweeted out a graphic that stated: &#8220;Fight For Freedom Stand With Hong Kong.&#8221; That prompted Chinese officials to denounce the tweet; some Chinese companies suspended doing business with the Rockets. As Logan Murdock of <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-steve-kerr-doesnt-give-opinion-daryl-morey-china-controversy">NBC News noted</a>, “Not only is the country hosting exhibition games between the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets this week, but the league has a lucrative business relationship with the Communist country. Tencent — a Chinese news company that signed a $1.5 billion streaming deal with the league in July — announced it would suspend all Rockets-related programming …&#8221;
NBA chief communications officer Mike Bass released the following statement:
<blockquote>We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them. We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.</blockquote>
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American security confiscating pro-Hong Kong signs from American demonstrators during an NBA game played in America&#39;s capital, all while the American national anthem plays in the background, perfectly illustrates corporate America&#39;s growing subservience to communist China. <a href="https://t.co/cAl50lbrHd">https://t.co/cAl50lbrHd</a>
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H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/10/09/activists-have-their-free-hong-kong-sign-confiscated-during-national-anthem-at-wizards-game/">Twitchy</a>

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On Wednesday in Washington state in King County, which has been suffering from a burgeoning homelessness crisis, the King County Council considered a proposal that would spend $250,000 to <a href="https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-considers-busing-more-homeless-out-of-the-region">send homeless people back to their families</a>.
As KOMO News reported, the program, titled Homeward Bound, was proposed by Councilmember Reagan Dunn, and would give a homeless person a meal stipend and a pre-paid ticket to anywhere in the continental U.S. providing they have proof of family in that target city. The only places they could not move are the counties next to King County.
Dunn stated, “If we are going to have a meaningful reduction of the number of homeless people on our streets, the elected officials need to do their job and make tough choices, and I’m asking them to make those tough choices today.” Dunn mentioned over 10 cities with similar programs. Among them was San Francisco, which transferred 800 people through Homeward Bound initiative.
Dunn stated, &#8220;We want to make sure that there is someone there that can care for them, that there is a roof over their head, that they&#8217;re stable, and they&#8217;re in a position to provide care.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/seattle-wants-to-bus-out-the-homeless">The Blaze</a> noted, &#8220;Seattle is among the cities hardest hit by the homeless crisis, which some critics say is the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-response-to-seattle-rape">result of liberal</a> law enforcement policies.&#8221; KOMO added, “In a 2019 point in time count, a one-night count of all of the homeless people in King County, Dunn said 9%, or roughly one thousand homeless people, said they would benefit from reunifying with family.”
In 2018, the <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-homelessness">City-Journal</a> reported, “In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year. At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County.”
In August, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-residents-blame-inefficient-elected-officials-for-homeless-problem-say-theyve-lost-faith-in-system">Fox News</a> reported, “In an effort to address the homeless crisis, Seattle&#8217;s City Council has looked at different ways to raise money. In May 2018, they unanimously approved a $275 tax per employee on Seattle&#8217;s largest employers. Pitched as a progressive revenue source aimed at tackling homelessness, the tax was estimated to raise $47 million a year.” Fox News added, “A <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/homeless-poll-results/">2019 Seattle Times poll</a> showed that while there&#8217;s strong support for the city to expand mental health and substance abuse treatments for the homeless, there&#8217;s skepticism of the elected officials&#8217; ability to do it.”
<a href="http://hsh.sfgov.org/homeward-bound/">San Francisco’s Homeward Bound</a> program stated, “Through the Homeward Bound Program, HSH can provide bus tickets home to individuals that are: homeless/low income and living in San Francisco; and have family or friends at the destination that Homeward Bound staff can verify as willing and able to provide a place to stay and ongoing support; and are medically stable enough to travel unassisted to the destination; and are sober and able to abstain from alcohol or using other substances en route.”
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Seattle Area Considering Funding To Send Homeless Back To Their Families

On Monday night, after the San Francisco 49ers demolished the Cleveland Browns, 31-3, 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman, who is in his 9thyear in the NFL, blasted Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield for allegedly not shaking his hand after the pregame coin toss. Sherman snapped, &#8220;What&#8217;s amazing, and annoying, was him not shaking hands at the beginning,&#8221; Sherman said, <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001063629/article/niners-richard-sherman-irked-by-baker-mayfields-snub">speaking with NFL.com’s Michael Silver</a>.  &#8220;That&#8217;s some college s&#8212;. It&#8217;s ridiculous. We&#8217;re all trying to get psyched up, but shaking hands with your opponent — that&#8217;s NFL etiquette. And when you pull bush league stuff, that&#8217;s disrespectful to the game. And believe me, that&#8217;s gonna get us fired up … Respect the game. You can have rivals, but pay your respect in that moment — especially when you&#8217;re young.&#8221;
Sherman continued, &#8220;He hasn&#8217;t earned anything in this league. How many games has he won? He&#8217;s acting like he was the MVP last year. If (Patrick) Mahomes did that, it would be one thing. But he would never do that, because he has too much respect for the game. And when you see a guy who doesn&#8217;t? You humble him every chance you get. Because eventually, he will have respect for the league &#8212; or he&#8217;ll be out of it.&#8221;
Teammate DeForest Buckner echoed, &#8220;That can rub a lot of people the wrong way. I guess it&#8217;s part of his game. Oh well.&#8221;
Sherman seemingly ignored the fact that Mayfield shook hands with everyone before the coin flip, then dashed off to get ready after the coin flip.
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WHAT IS SHERM TALKING ABOUT HE LITERALLY SHOOK BAKER&#39;S HAND 
BAKER SHOOK EVERYONE&#39;S HAND <a href="https://t.co/Vl5AjYt5Jv">pic.twitter.com/Vl5AjYt5Jv</a>
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So Richard Sherman claims Baker Mayfield refused to shake his hand at the coin toss. This video seems to indicate otherwise: <a href="https://t.co/4CgOsLKLPL">pic.twitter.com/4CgOsLKLPL</a>
&mdash; Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Trotter/status/1181624570454761474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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So Richard Sherman is mad Baker Mayfield ran off the field and didn&#39;t shake hands a second time during the coin toss? This might be the dumbest controversy of all-time <a href="https://t.co/zZssOt7CMW">pic.twitter.com/zZssOt7CMW</a>
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Sherman cited Mayfield saying it “blows my mind” that the New York Giants drafted quarterback Daniel Jones sixth overall as well as other instances where Mayfield spoke out, then snapped, &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason for him to say and do those things, especially given how little he&#8217;s accomplished. That&#8217;s where he&#8217;s gonna have to grow up. He might get there, but he has a long way to go.&#8221;
Mayfield’s outspoken behavior also includes this, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-baker-mayfield-told-he-cant-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a> reported in early August:
<blockquote>On Tuesday, after he spotted men serving in the U.S. Army, Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield reportedly refused a directive to stop signing autographs and come back to the team. Baker took time with every single soldier, signing whatever they’d asked of him and taking photos with the servicemen. “Baker Mayfield was called off the field by the team when autographs were supposed to be over. He refused and signed and took selfies with every soldier remaining on the field,” Cleveland.com reporter Hayden Grove captioned the video of Mayfield on Twitter.</blockquote>
Sherman apologized on Tuesday — sort of. <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/richard-sherman-backtracks-after-video-footage-proves-baker-mayfield-shook-hands-with-49ers/">CBS News reported</a> that he told The MMQB&#8217;s Albert Breer it wasn’t Mayfield refusing to shake his hand but the fact that he ran to the sideline after the coin toss that triggered his ire, saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s it. They are making way too big of a story of a blowout. He pissed us off. We put a foot in his ass. End of story.&#8221;
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49ers&#8217; Richard Sherman Blasts Baker Mayfield For Not Shaking Hands After Coin Toss. Here&#8217;s Video Before The Coin Toss.

According to a new study from the <a href="https://www.bu.edu/cte/">Boston University CTE Center</a>, every year someone plays tackle football, their risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) rises by 30%. Additionally, for every 2.6 years of play, the risk of developing CTE doubles, as <a href="http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/cte-football/">bu.edu reports</a>.
The researchers studied 266 deceased former amateur and professional football players, and unlike previous studies, included dozens of brains of former football players who had not suffered CTE, allowing a basis for comparison.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7550267/NFL-stars-risk-CTE-soars-year-play-study-finds.html">The Daily Mail</a> explained, “CTE sufferers have clumps of tau protein built up in the frontal lobe, which controls emotional expression and judgment (similar to dementia.) This interrupts normal functioning and blood flow in the brain, disrupting and killing nerve cells. By stage 3 … the tau deposits expand from the frontal lobe (at the top) to the temporal lobe (on the sides). This affects the amygdala and the hippocampus, which controls emotion and memory … Symptoms of the degenerative disease don&#8217;t typically become evident until years after the head traumas were sustained.”
Lead author Jesse Mez, director of BU’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center Clinical Core, stated, “While we don’t yet know the absolute risk of developing CTE among American football players, we now can quantify that each year of play increases the odds of developing CTE by 30 percent. We hope that these findings will guide players, family members, and physicians in making informed decisions regarding play.”
The study’s corresponding author, Ann McKee, director of the BU CTE Center and chief of neuropathology at VA Boston Healthcare System, added, “This study is a testament to the hundreds of families who have donated their loved one’s brain…. It is only because of this support that we can confidently estimate the strength of the relationship between duration of [football] play and risk of CTE.”
The researchers included other variables in their study, as bu.edu reports, including, “total number of concussions, football positions played, a person’s age at first exposure to tackle football, their participation in other contact sports, their race, and the presence of other diseases.” Bu.edu added, “They found no associations between these other variables and CTE risk or severity,” but noted that players with a CTE diagnosis had their odds double of getting CTE for every additional 5.3 years of football they played. Bu.edu explained, “Those who played tackle football fewer than 4.5 years were 10 times less likely to develop CTE than those who played longer, although several men who played four years or fewer were diagnosed with CTE, including three whose only contact sport was football. Those who sustained the longest careers, playing more than 14.5 years, were 10 times more likely to develop CTE than those who played fewer years.”
A <a href="http://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/cte-former-nfl-players/">2017 study</a> of American football brain injuries diagnosed CTE in 99% of post-mortem exams of former NFL players&#8217; brains. The <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104">study’s findings</a> stated, “CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177 players across all levels of play (87%), including 110 of 111 former National Football League players (99%).” Additionally, &#8220;The median age at death for participants with mild CTE pathology (stages I and II) was 44 years (IQR, 29-64 years) and for participants with severe CTE pathology (stages III and IV) was 71 years (IQR, 64-79 years). The most common cause of death for participants with mild CTE pathology was suicide (12 [27%]) and for those with severe CTE pathology was neurodegenerative.&#8221;
Players in the NFL have an average career of 3.3 years.
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NFL: JAN 30 Super Bowl LIII &#8211; Commissioner Roger Goodell Press Conference

Scary: Study Finds Every Year Of Tackle Football Raises Chances Of CTE 30%

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One of the stars of Bravo TV&#8217;s &#8220;Real Housewives of Orange County,&#8221; Braunwyn Windham-Burke, <a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/about">described by Bravo</a> as a “mother of seven with a full house including a baby, toddler, twin kindergarteners, and three teenagers,” confessed on the show that  “now and then” she and her husband shared threesomes.
That was just the start; she said that it became a birthday tradition, starting on her husband’s 35th birthday, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/real-housewives-braunwyn-windham-burke-birthday-threesomes">Fox News</a> reports. Bravo’s “Daily Dish” <a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/braunwyn-windham-burke-on-having-threesomes-with-husband-sean">reported</a> that Windham-Burke said,  “It started with his 35th birthday … I’m pretty sure it was before the internet, so there’s no photographic proof.” Windham-Burke continued that she knew the third party ahead of time and that she and her husband Sean, 52, “kind of assumed&#8221; it would happen. Windham-Burke stated, “Some things had been happening. We were at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego for his 35th birthday; we rented out every bottom room. We had friends from everywhere and like, everyone lost their damn minds.”
She added, &#8220;Keep in mind, I&#8217;ve been with him a long time. Everything we&#8217;ve done, we&#8217;ve done together. So it was sort of like, &#8216;Oh, that would be fun.&#8217; And I was kind of like, &#8216;This is your birthday present.&#8217; So it started as a joke. And then it became, &#8216;OK, for every monumental birthday, this will be your gift.'&#8221;
Windham-Burke said she remains friends with the other woman from the first threesome, who lives across the country. She added that the threesomes with her husband only include other women.
Windham-Burke’s confession is only the latest in the series of Hollywood celebrities who have come forth about their kinky sex lives. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/demi-moore-regrets-threesomes-ashton-kutcher-was-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a> reported, actress Demi Moore revealed in her new book, “Inside Out,” that she and then-husband Ashton Kutcher also participated in threesomes, writing, &#8220;I wanted to show him how great and fun I could be,&#8221; according to <a href="https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2019/09/demi-moore-claims-ex-husband-ashton-kutcher-cheated-twice-blamed-threesomes-new-memoir/">Radar Online</a>. <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/09/19/demi-moore-says-she-regrets-having-threesomes-with-ashton-kutcher-in-new-book/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=P6Twitter">Page Six</a> added, &#8220;Moore wrote that in 2010, she saw media reports claiming Kutcher, 41, met a 21-year-old woman while bowling with her daughter Rumer Willis, and cheated on her in his marital home while Moore was out of town filming a movie. When she confronted him, he brought up their threesomes as a defense.&#8221;
Moore added, &#8220;Because we had brought a third party into our relationship, Ashton said, that blurred the lines and, to some extent, justified what he&#8217;d done.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/silicon-valley-star-swinging-saved-my-marriage-paul-bois">noted</a> that &#8220;Silicon Valley&#8221; star Thomas Middleditch claimed that &#8220;swinging&#8221; &#8220;saved&#8221; his marriage, telling Playboy:
<blockquote>Only after I got married was I like, &#8216;Mollie, I&#8217;m sorry, but we have to get non-traditional here.’ To her credit, instead of saying &#8216;F***k you, I&#8217;m out,&#8217; she was like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s figure this out.&#8217; To be honest, swinging has saved our marriage. We have different speeds, and we argue over it constantly, but it&#8217;s better than feeling unheard and alone and that you have to scurry in the shadows.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I&#8217;m sexual. I&#8217;d always thought I was a romantic and that when I fall in love, that stuff fades away. It does for some years — enough to be like, &#8216;I should get married, and I&#8217;ll be different.&#8217; But it&#8217;s part of me. If that&#8217;s part of your being and it feels important to you, find a way to explore it, because repression sucks.</blockquote>
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Braunwyn Windham-Burke Visits Extra

‘Real Housewives’ Star Reveals: I Give My Husband Threesomes On His Birthdays

Apparently a president asking a foreign leader for help in an upcoming election dates back to at least 2000, when former President Bill Clinton asked then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair for help resolving a dispute involving British Airways, USAIR and American Airlines.
As Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-clinton-tony-blair-donald-trump-campaign">reported on Fox News</a>, Clinton’s request came on February 8, 2000, as the political race was heating up and Clinton knew Vice President Al Gore would be running to succeed him.
Carlson commented, “You’ve heard endlessly on cable news that it is unprecedented the president would seek political gain from a conversation with a foreign leader. Well, turns out, it has happened before. Back in 2000, President Bill Clinton had a conversation with Tony Blair of the U.K. and asked him to intercede in a dispute between British Airways and two carriers. The president, at the time, was much more direct than President Trump was in his conversation.”
The relevant portion of the conversation, as reflected in declassified documents from the <a href="https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/48779">Clinton Digital Library</a>, followed a discussion the two men were having about Ireland. The exchange went like this:
<blockquote>Clinton: No. No. I think about this more than anything else, besides he screw-ups in the Middle East. Let me ask you something on a much more mundane issue. Yesterday, I met with some cabinet members and Rodney Slater said we put some more ideas down to resolve the airport dispute we have with British Airways, USAir and American Airlines.  Would you take another look at that and see if we can get it done?
Blair:  I&#8217;m not completely familiar with that.
Clinton:  I know you&#8217;re up to your ears in other things but we&#8217;ve been dealing with this for years and it&#8217;s sort of a big deal here.  Rodney told me he put some more stuff down on the table.  In a political season, it would be big over here to get this open sore resolved.  If you could have somebody take a look at it.  I have never seen him more agitated about anything.  He is just trying to get it resolved.
Blair: Sure, I will have a look.</blockquote>
Carlson asked, “Now, is this a big deal? Not really. Is it nakedly political? Is it an attempt to use a foreign country to influence the outcome of an election in a presidential year? Yes, it is, obviously. Incidentally, it didn’t take long for us to find that, we only had to dig through old Clinton transcripts for about 15 minutes&#8230; there are probably a lot more examples, and if we find them we will bring them to you.”
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-16-mn-469-story.html">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported in March 1993, roughly two months after Clinton had been inaugurated, “The Clinton Administration, overriding the objections of the nation’s largest airlines, agreed Monday to let British Airways acquire nearly 20% of USAir and begin sharing transatlantic routes and airplanes with the financially ailing carrier. Besides the $300 million that British Airways already has paid to acquire 19.9% of USAir, the London-based airline plans to invest another $450 million, contingent on Congress lifting limitations on the foreign ownership of U.S. airlines … The decision exposes the limitations the Clinton Administration faces as it seeks to open up restricted overseas markets to domestic airlines. In fact, the Administration’s decision Monday left domestic airlines without any additional access to London’s highly restricted Heathrow Airport and boosted British Airway’s competitive position across the busy North Atlantic.”
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US President Bill Clinton (R) and British Prime Mi

FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton Asked British PM Tony Blair For Help During ‘Political Season’

Bill Clinton

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, rarely reticent to express his political opinions about social justice and a vociferous critic of President Trump, suddenly went silent when he was asked about the NBA smashing down Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey after Morey supported Hong Kong’s protests against China’s new extradition bill. When he was asked about the situation, instead of coming boldly forth to defend citizens battling a Communist regime, Kerr responded, “It&#8217;s a really bizarre international story, and a lot of us don&#8217;t know what to make of it. So it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m reading about just like everybody is, but I&#8217;m not going to comment further than that.”
Kerr has hardly been silent before; as <a href="https://www.si.com/nba/2018/06/06/steve-kerr-white-house-donald-trump">Sports Illustrated</a> reported, in June 2018, he slammed President Trump for uninviting the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House after they won the Super Bowl, instead hosting a &#8220;celebration of America.&#8221; Kerr stated:
<blockquote>What you&#8217;re seeing is, the athletes, are showing patriotism through their community service. The President is turning all of this stuff into a political game. And a ratings game. And it&#8217;s a blatant display of nationalism. Patriotism is helping your fellow citizen, whether it&#8217;s what KD&#8217;s doing or what we did when we visited Washington. What the Lynx are doing today. That&#8217;s what patriotism is about. I&#8217;m blown away by the irony of the Eagles being disinvited. When you read about their good deeds in their communities. Malcolm Jenkins addressing lawmakers, trying to get to the root of the issues we have. Instead we have these military sing-alongs at the White House to show how patriotic we are, even though we don&#8217;t know the words. It&#8217;s just incredible.</blockquote>
In January 2019, when the government was in the midst of a shutdown, Kerr <a href="https://warriorswire.usatoday.com/2019/01/20/warriors-head-coach-steve-kerr-trolls-donald-trump-on-twitter/">referenced</a> a 2014 tweet from Trump in which Trump <a style="font-style: inherit;" href="https://twitter.com/stevekerr/status/1087059178403721216?s=21">wrote</a> about former President Barack Obama, “It’s almost like the United States has not President -[sic] we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!” Kerr retweeted Trump, then tweeted, “Common ground!”
In July 2019, after Trump tweeted at four Democratic congresswomen that they  should “go back” to their countries although three of them were born in the U.S., Kerr tweeted that Trump was a &#8220;racist,&#8221; writing, “Come on members of Congress, call out the president for his racist tweets this morning. Show some leadership. It’s the job you were elected to do.”
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Come on members of Congress, call out the president for his racist tweets this morning. Show some leadership. It’s the job you were elected to do.
&mdash; Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKerr/status/1150600554353008641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backfire-nba-houston-rockets-cower-to-communist-china-get-blasted-online">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Morey had tweeted out a graphic on Friday evening that stated: &#8220;Fight For Freedom Stand With Hong Kong.&#8221; That prompted Chinese officials to denounce the tweet; some Chinese companies suspended doing business with the Rockets. As Logan Murdock of <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-steve-kerr-doesnt-give-opinion-daryl-morey-china-controversy">NBC News noted</a>, “Not only is the country hosting exhibition games between the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets this week, but the league has a lucrative business relationship with the Communist country. Tencent — a Chinese news company that signed a $1.5 billion streaming deal with the league in July — announced it would suspend all Rockets-related programming …&#8221;
On Sunday, NBA chief communications officer Mike Bass released the following statement:
<blockquote>We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them. We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.</blockquote>
Morey issued another tweet to apologize, writing, “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China … I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives.’’
On Monday, Kerr commented on the China-NBA story, asserting:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s a really bizarre international story, and a lot of us don&#8217;t know what to make of it. So it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m reading about just like everybody is, but I&#8217;m not going to comment further than that. What I&#8217;ve found is that it&#8217;s easy to speak on issues that I&#8217;m passionate about and that I feel like I&#8217;m well-versed on, and I&#8217;ve found that it makes the most sense to stick to topics that fall in that category. So I try to keep my comments to those things, and so it&#8217;s not difficult. It&#8217;s more I&#8217;m just trying to learn. My brother-in-law is actually a Chinese history professor and I emailed him today to tell me what I should be learning about all this and what’s happening and so I’m trying to learn just like everybody else.</blockquote>
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Steve Kerr&#39;s full statement on the NBA/China controversy <a href="https://t.co/7D5QTCtQe9">pic.twitter.com/7D5QTCtQe9</a>
&mdash; Logan Murdock (@loganmmurdock) <a href="https://twitter.com/loganmmurdock/status/1181411502739214337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Los Angeles Lakers v Golden State Warriors

Trump Critic Steve Kerr Suddenly Silent On NBA’s China Controversy

On Monday, CNN advertised a new site that would be available for millennials to complain how their lives were harder than their parents. CNN tweeted, “Are you a millennial who feels like it’s harder to get ahead than it was for your parents? The data shows you’re not alone. Tell us your story at MillennialStories@cnn.com.”
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Are you a millennial who feels like it’s harder to get ahead than it was for your parents? The data shows you’re not alone. Tell us your story at MillennialStories@cnn.com
&mdash; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1181325093697392641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As journalist Jesse Singal has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/health/young-old-millennial-partner/index.html">pointed out</a>, there are two views of just which age group constitutes millennials. Singal noted, “I was born in 1983, which means I&#8217;m part of the generation, whether one uses the <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html">Census Bureau&#8217;s definition</a> (born 1982-2000) or <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/25/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers/">Pew&#8217;s</a> (about 1981-1997).”
CNN has been seemingly obsessed with courting millennials; they <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/politics/how-millennials-could-kill-politics-as-we-know-it/index.html">published a piece</a> in October 2018, just before the congressional midterms, in which they breathlessly stated:
<blockquote>Millennials could be one of the biggest political forces in America today, if they wanted. Defined by Pew as those born between 1981 to 1996, millennials make up about 22% of the US population, and at some point between November&#8217;s midterms and the 2020 election, they&#8217;re <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers/">expected to surpass baby boomers</a> as America&#8217;s largest living generation. They&#8217;re a massive voting bloc, capable of setting policy priorities and swinging elections. They&#8217;re also grossly underrepresented in American politics.</blockquote>
Later in the same article, CNN did millennials’ complaining for them, lamenting, “Though millennials&#8217; experience varies widely by demographics, geography, and politics, they&#8217;re a generation shaped by experiences like the Great Recession, high levels of student debt, and the rise of social media.”
CNN was apparently loath to compare millennials’ problems with the Greatest Generation, which fought World War II, experienced the Great Depression, and felt lucky if they could go to college.
In November 2018, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/us/monopoly-for-millennials-trnd/index.html">reporting on a new version of Hasbro’s Monopoly</a> titled “Monopoly for Millennials,”  CNN noted that Hasbro stated, &#8220;With many of us being Millennials ourselves, we understand the seemingly endless struggles and silly generalizations that young Millennials can face (and we can&#8217;t even!), so we created the game to provide fans with a lighthearted experience that allows Millennials to take a break from real life and laugh at the relatable experiences and labels that can sometimes be placed on them.”
Then CNN quoted one millennial complaining, “This is one of the biggest game/toy companies in the world making the fact that property ownership is impossible for most people my age into a jeering tag line. It&#8217;s patronizing. The whole thing feels out of touch with what my age group actually wants or likes. I feel like something like this would have been more well-received coming from an independent publisher who was poking fun at Monopoly itself, but this is the successful rich Uncle Pennybags who owns everything, sticking his tongue out at you.&#8221;
In contrast to CNN offering millennials an opportunity to complain, <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/money-lessons-from-successful-millennials-4169817">thebalance.com</a> reported in April 2019:
<blockquote>Bank of America’s 2018 Better Money Habits Millennial Report <a href="https://bettermoneyhabits.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/bmh/pdf/ar6vnln9-boa-bmh-millennial-report-winter-2018-final2.pdf" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" data-ordinal="1">pointed out</a> that those born between 1981 and 1997 are <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/financial-health-of-millennials-4171826" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">doing just as well or better</a> than older generations when it comes to <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/how-millennials-should-handle-money-4120863" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">money management</a> and career confidence. Among the findings: 63 percent of millennials are saving, 59 percent feel financially secure, and 73 percent of millennials who have a budget stick to it every month, or most months.</blockquote>
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no whining

CNN Offers Place Where Millennials Can Complain How Hard Their Lives Are

Millennials

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, who has been fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer, said that he may <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jeopardy-alex-trebek-cancer-end-show-possibility">have to give up</a> hosting the show because chemotherapy treatment he is undergoing causes sores in his mouth that inhibit his speaking clearly. Trebek <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/alex-trebek-tells-lisa-laflamme-i-m-not-afraid-of-dying-1.4625438">told</a> CTV’s Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme, “I’m sure there are observant members of the television audience that notice also, but they’re forgiving.  But there will come a point when they (fans and producers) will no longer be able to say, ‘It’s OK.'&#8221;
Trebek has hosted the show since 1984. The original daytime version of the show debuted in 1964 and was hosted by Art Fleming, airing until 1975. The version with Trebek  debuted September 10, 1984.
Both NBC versions and the weekly syndicated version were hosted by Art Fleming. Trebek told LaFlamme, “I’m not afraid of dying; I’ve lived a good life, a full life, and I’m nearing the end of that life … if it happens, why should I be afraid of that? One thing they’re not going to say at my funeral, as a part of a eulogy, is ‘He was taken from us too soon.’”
He stated, “A lot of people are coming to me and looking for help, reassurance — and that’s tough,” adding that it was hard “trying to be as optimistic as you can when the other person feels none of that … they feel only despair. And I don’t know if I was strong enough or intelligent enough to help alleviate that despair.”
Trebek revealed his eyesight “gets messed up a little,” from the chemotherapy. He added that the “day after that, I start getting pains in my joints … There are weaknesses I feel in my body but I can always suck it up when it comes to tape the show.”
In September, after Trebek had to reundergo chemotherapy after he had finished his first round, he <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-undergoing-chemotherapy-numbers-sky-65651536">told “Good Morning America,”</a>“I was doing so well. And my numbers went down to the equivalent of a normal human being who does not have pancreatic cancer. So we were all very optimistic. And they said, &#8216;Good, we&#8217;re gonna stop chemo, we&#8217;ll start you on immunotherapy.’ … I lost about 12 pounds in a week. And my numbers went sky high, much higher than they were when I was first diagnosed. So, the doctors have decided that I have to undergo chemo again and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;
Trebek added that when he was first diagnosed he experienced a “surge of sadness” and “depression.” He continued, “When it happened early on I was down on myself. I didn’t realize how fallible each of us is in his or her own way … I talk to the audience sometimes and I get teary eyed for no reason. I don’t even bother to explain it anymore, I just experience it. I know it&#8217;s a part of who I am and I just keep going.”
Trebek told LaFlamme that what still drives him is “to make a difference in the lives of people.”

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Hank Berrien

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