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News Howard Stern: Donald Trump Was Too Lewd Even for Me
Howard Stern, the radio shock jock who is synonymous with talking dirty, said on his program that Donald Trump’s “locker room talk” about sexually assaulting women was too much even for him. “When I’m around guys, 85% of the times you’re talking about pussy – but I have never been in the room when someone…
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Breaking News Eminem Gives Trump Bad Rap — and David Duke Hits Back
With groping allegations swirling around Donald Trump, rapper Eminem’s out with the cutting single, “Campaign Speech,” taking aim at the Republican nominee. And white supremacist David Duke is not happy about it. “Consider me a dangerous man. But you should be afraid of this dang candidate,” Eminem sang on the track, describing Trump as “a…
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News WATCH: Mark Cuban’s Epic Debate Shouting Match With Rudy Giuliani
At the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump interrupted each other, slung insults and raised their voices. But the most notable shout fest might have come as campaign surrogates Mark Cuban and Rudy Giuliani battled it out in the CNN spin room before the main event in Las Vegas. The Dallas Mavericks owner…
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News Jewish Vice Presidential Candidate Mindy Finn Touts Independent Ticket as ‘Extremely Pro-Israel’
As you might or might not have heard , there is a Jewish woman running for vice president. Two weeks ago, Mindy Finn joined the conservative ticket of independent candidate Evan McMullin. Finn is a proud Jew, a fierce early critic of Donald Trump — and a staunch supporter of Israel. In a recent interview…
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Community Donald Trump and the Fragility of White Jewish Privilege
The United States has been kind to the Jews. European physical features have helped them become recognized as white in the American racial caste system. The First Amendment’s promise of religious freedom has helped too. However, the whiteness, and in effect the general welfare of American Jewry may soon be a thing of the past,…
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Breaking News John Podhoretz Says Hillary Clinton Can Already ‘Measure The Drapes’ — Thanks to Trump
It was a rocky night for Donald Trump at the third and final presidential debate. According to neoconservative John Podhoretz, it went so bad that even Trump seemed to realize he would never make it to the White House. As the event neared its close, the Republican nominee sarcastically wished Clinton “lotsa luck” in dealing…
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Life No One Has More Respect For Women Than Donald Trump — Except If They’re ‘Nasty’
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do” is, coming from Trump, the sort of lie that can’t be fact-checked. It’s like when the pizza place on the corner, the one with no customers, puts up a sign declaring it has the “best pizza” in New York. By the time Donald Trump got around…
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News Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Spar Over Who’s More Like Bernie (That’s Right, Sanders)
Bernie Sanders was probably the most popular politician in Wednesday night’s debate. So popular, in fact, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump found themselves fighting to align themselves with the statements of the rumpled Jewish liberal from Vermont. It was Clinton who first sought to side with Sanders, whom she fiercely battled for months during…
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