FBI Director Kash Patel destroys Candace Owens' balderdash

One is almost tempted to feel a flicker of pity for the conspiracy theorists of our age, were it not for the sheer malice that so often animates their fantasies. But when those fantasies begin to accuse the friends and colleagues of a murdered man of complicity in his own assassination, pity evaporates, replaced by something closer to contempt. In other words, such claims is pure garbage.

On Friday, the newly installed FBI Director, Kash Patel, appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show and delivered what can only be described as a methodical demolition of the lurid allegations peddled by conspiracy cretin Candace Owens concerning the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk.

Megyn, with her signature directness, began by asking the essential question: do the authorities have the right man in custody? Is Tyler Robinson indeed the killer?

Patel’s answer was instantaneous and unequivocal: "Yes." Because of course he was.

Kelly then turned to the most poisonous and idiotic of Owens' claims (that Kirk's own circle at Turning Point USA had somehow known of, or even sanctioned, his murder). "Do you have any credible reason to believe that anyone connected with the Turning Point organization had anything to do with Charlie's death?" she asked.

Patel's reply cut through the fog like a blade: "Zero."

What followed was a patient, almost weary recitation of the other fever-swamp theories Owens has entertained: French paratroopers, Egyptian Air Force jets mysteriously operating out of Provo, Utah, and (one struggles to type this on my computer with a straight face) "potential underground assassins traveling through unseen tunnels" As Blake Neff, producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, had earlier summarized these delusions with admirable restraint.

Patel dismissed the entire edifice: "At this time, the FBI doesn't have credible information to connect any foreign governments to it." Not a shred. Not an iota.

He was at pains to emphasize that the investigation remains active ("We are not done just because we arrest someone, just like in the pipe bomber case"), with federal and Utah authorities still pursuing every legitimate lead. Yet the clear implication was that the bureau is chasing facts, not phantoms conjured on podcasts for clicks and notoriety by our resident liar.

Even the bizarre text messages between Robinson and his roommate [which some online sleuths insist must be fabricated because they sound too convenient] were addressed. Patel noted the emotional temperature of the case but observed, with the calm of a man who has seen every species of falsehood, that he does not "believe the prosecutors in the state of Utah would be using any piece of information or evidence that was not credible."

This is what responsible authority sounds like: measured, precise, and completely uninterested in indulging the hysterics of the terminally online.

One is reminded, inescapably, of the warning issued by Turning Point USA and by Blake Neff himself: that Owens has displayed a "reckless disregard for the truth" and trafficked in what Neff rightly called "evil" lies about a dead man who can no longer defend himself. 

We need to ask ourselves, is Owens doing it as a cosplay for recognition and money, or is she really a fool, like she has shown us regarding her anti-Semitic take on Israel.

In an era when conspiracy has become a form of performance art, and, for some, a lucrative one, it is reassuring to hear a public official simply refuse to dance to that tune. The truth, Patel reminded us, is stubborn. It does not bend to accommodate the fevered imaginations of those who have appointed themselves amateur pathologists of other people’s grief.

Charlie Kirk deserved better than to have his murder turned into fodder for grotesque speculation. And the American public, exhausted by years of institutional distrust, deserves officials who will speak plainly when the facts are clear.

On both counts, Kash Patel has done his duty. One rather suspects the conspiracy industrial complex will not thank him for it.

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BREAKING: MSNBC cancels race baiter's show

Perhaps the race baiting is no longer fashionable, at least on cable tv. As of today, MSNBC has canceled Joy Reid's 7 p.m. show, "The ReidOut," in a major shake-up.

This latest decision is part of a wide programming overhaul led by the new MSNBC president, Rebecca Kutler. This is Ms. Kutler's first major change at the network and appointed president this month.

The final race-baiting episode is said to air sometime this week and Reid's time slot will be replaced by a panel show featuring Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, who currently hosts "The Weekend."

Although the network hasn't made it official as of this moment, the news is all over the outlets such as the former newspaper, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and Newsweek who cite sources familiar with the changes.

Reid is expected to remain with MSNBC in a different capacity, possibly as a contributor or correspondent, a race hustler, or just a blathering fool, though details are still unfolding. 

Although MSNBC had previously jumped ahead of CNN, they have always lagged behind Fox News because of their maniacal hatred of President Trump. People are obviously tired of their claptrap.

Charlie Kirk tweeted: J"oy Reid, aka the race lady at MSNBC, just had her show cancelled because it was unwatchable. Good riddance to the most vitriolic, lowbrow, and unhinged race hustler ever allowed on national television."

I disagree with Charlie--I always believed that Al Sharpton was the worst race hustler, but that's merely my opinion.

Sage Steele tweeted: "Sadly, every word of this is true. Maybe, just maybe, the days of making money off of race baiting and divisiveness are beginning to come to an end."

But the best response came from Megyn Kelly: "Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked 'white women tears' as pathetic and offensive to her? Who's crying now, Joy? Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, shame on NBC for letting it go on this long."

This has been a long time coming and her show will be missed like fire hemorrhoids in August.

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Nikki Haley comes off like a politician who can’t even say if a man can become a woman

I used to like Nikki Haley when she was the US Ambassador to the UN, but slightly less so when she was governor of South Carolina when she didn't oppose males from using female bathrooms or locker rooms.

Those were the days she seemed to stand for something, especially when the UN, as usual, attacked Israel. But she apparently changed or else her true nature has floated to the surface.

Haley was asked Monday whether she believe a man can become a woman. The obvious answer "no" never left her lips. Instead, she tap danced around the question by first discussing former President Trump and deflected from answering the question.

She was asked, "A lot of the stuff that Trump does, you know, and says, really bothers me, and I’m concerned about it. You know, one thing I saw him do was, he said that, uh, he had trouble answering the question, could a man become a woman? And I’m just wondering what, what your response to that question is?

Haley began by talking about Trump, which was totally irrelevant to the question. It felt like she wet her finger and stuck it up to see which was the political winds were blowing and pandered to the liberals.

"Look, I mean, I have said, I want to start with Trump and then get to the question. You know, this is a hard truth on my part. I believe Trump was the right president at the right time. I agree with a lot of his policies. But rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. And everybody on this call knows that. And we can’t be a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. We won’t survive it."

Okay, whether you agree with her or not, how does that come close to answering whether a man can become a woman? 

Then she went into a discussion about surgeries for minors, which she opposes. But duh? That is also irrelevant to the question.

"Now, can a man become a woman. There’s been a lot that’s been talked about when it comes to all of these roles and all of these issues. I strongly believe that we should not allow any gender change surgeries to anyone before the age of 18. Period. We– kids now can’t get a tattoo until they’re 18. We shouldn’t have them permanently change their body until they’re 18. And that includes puberty blockers, that includes any sort of hormones that would do that.

"After the age of 18, we want to make sure people can live any way they want to live. I don’t think government needs to be in control of anybody’s life. You go live the way you want to live, you should be free to live the way you want to live, and every– government and everybody else should stay out of your way."

But Haley, do these surgeries, like cutting off a man's twig and berries and reshaping skin make him a her? Or does taking skin from a woman's arm or butt and shape it into a twig and berries make her a him? An inquiring mind wants to know. 

It's a simple question.

Megyn Kelly responded to Haley's jabbering and wasn't very happy about it.

This is utter bullshit. The WRONG ANSWER & an unnecessary weird pander to the rabid trans lobby.
The answer is NO, A MAN CANNOT BECOME A WOMAN. https://t.co/NAL7BrRHqb— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 15, 2024

If Haley cannot answer that simple question, how strong would she be when having to make tough decisions?

By the way, the answer is "no." 

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Megyn Kelly: Trump has lost “multiple steps mentally"

According to podcast host Megyn Kelly, former President Donald J. Trump has lost  “multiple steps” mentally and wasn't the same man he was in 2016 cognitively.

Kelly, who is also a former Fox News anchor, said Trump, 77, was starting to show his age — and it wasn’t pretty.

“There’s no question Trump has lost a step or multiple steps,” Kelly told conservative commentator Glenn Beck Friday. “He is confusing Joe Biden for [Barack] Obama … I know he’s now saying he intentionally did that — go back and look at the clips, it wasn’t intentional.”

“The reference about how somebody is going to get us into World War II, confusing countries, confusing cities where he is, and it’s happening more and more,” she said.

The difference, of course, between Trump and Biden is that Trump has the self awareness to cover up his verbal mistakes, and will also close the border, restore law and order, and scare our enemies. Biden will continue to be confused, corrupt, weak and dishonest, and will continue to allow illegal aliens, some of whom are terrorists, to enter the country.

“This is what happens when you’re 77-years-old. Trump seems inhuman, but he’s not inhuman. He’s a human. He’s a man,” Kelly continued. “DeSantis’ line about ‘Father Time spares no one,’ was a good one. So, look, if it’s between Trump and Biden, I don’t think there’s any question who’s more fit and more capable. But are we really going to pretend that Donald Trump is just as vibrant and mentally sharp as he was in ’16?” 

Kelly and Trump have a long personal history dating to the 2016 presidential election during a Fox News debate when she challenged Trump regarding some of his rhetoric regarding women.

The Kelly-Beck interview was immediately seized upon by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who circulated the clip on X. Team DeSantis has tried to make hay of Trump’s age and has noted that ‘Father Time is undefeated.’ Of course, the same holds true for Biden and there is no question that Trump’s cognitive status far outperforms Biden, who seems unable to string a pair of thoughts together.

Trump has repeatedly confused President Biden for Obama in recent public statements — but has insisted the slip-ups have been intentional, which actually seems unlikely. 

“Whenever I sarcastically insert the name Obama for Biden as an indication that others may actually be having a very big influence in running our Country, Ron DeSanctimonious and his failing campaign apparatus, together with the Democrat’s Radical Left ‘Disinformation Machine,’ go wild saying that ‘Trump doesn’t know the name of our President, (CROOKED!) Joe Biden. He must be cognitively impaired,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last month.

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Oops! Dershowitz accuser admits she 'may have made a mistake'

You don't blow your nose in Superman's cape and you don't mess around with Alan Dershowitz if you know what's good for you. 

In 2014 Virginia Giuffre claimed that famous law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with her when she was a minor, a claim that Dershowitz has repeatedly and vehemently denied it ever happened. 

Now Giuffre has said that she "may have made a mistake" in her accusation. 

You may recall Giuffre first accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her, which has been verified. But she claimed that Epstein had also trafficked her to Dershowitz on "Pedophile Island," which Epstein owned and entertained many famous people such as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, John Glenn, Itzhak Perlman, and even Kevin Spacey, among others. 

“I have long believed that I was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz,” Giuffre said in a joint statement. “However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and traumatic environment, and Mr. Dershowitz has from the beginning consistently denied these allegations. I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz. This litigation has been very stressful and burdensome for me and my family, and we believe it is time to bring it to an end and move on with our lives.”

In the statement, Dershowitz said, “As I have said from the beginning, I never had sex with Ms. Giuffre.”

“I have nevertheless come to believe that at the time she accused me she believed what she said. Ms. Giuffre is to be commended for her courage in now stating publicly that she may have been mistaken about me,” he added. “She has suffered much at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and I commend her work combatting the evil of sex trafficking. I also now believe that my allegations that David Boies engaged in an extortion plot and in suborning perjury were mistaken.”

Dershowitz spoke on the Megyn Kelly show and announced the end of the lawsuits, adding that no payments have been issued.

“The matter is over,” he said. “She has now acknowledged that she may have made a mistake in recognizing me or in identifying me, so I’m very gratified, of course.”

Dershowitz was friends with Epstein in the past and defended him after his first arrest and charge of sex trafficking. In 2008, he reportedly assisted in getting Epstein an easy plea deal. This was the reason he had gone to Epstein's island and personally, I believe him.

Giuffre has been part of several legal actions involving Jeffrey Epstein, including Prince Andrew. She accused him of raping her when she was a minor and in February, the lawsuit ended in a cash settlement. The scumcrumpet Duke of York said that he "regrets his association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others."

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But mostly he regrets having been caught with his royal pants down.

Giuffre was also involved in legal action against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and girlfriend, who was recently given a twenty-year prison sentence and is said to have made friends with the jailhouse "muscle."

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Megyn Kelly gives back to NY Times: "grow up . . . do your job'

You don't mess with Megyn Kelly, the Chuck Norris of podcast media, if you can't take the return fire.

Kelly shot back at The New York Times after they accused her of spreading misinformation about the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy "Hands-a-Blur" Pelosi.

The paper ran an article on Saturday where they listed “elected officials and candidates” along with “prominent figures” who had, in their words, “spread misinformation or cast doubt on the attack.” One of those on the list was Kelly. The former newspaper said that she “[R]aised doubts that all facts were being disclosed.”

Kelly returned fire on Monday, tweeting: 

The NYT lists me as a spreader of misinfo re the P Pelosi attack bc I “raised doubts that all facts were being disclosed.”
It’s called JOURNALISM. SFPD clearly has more to disclose but if u ask for it, you’re a “misinfo” spreader like @Miguelnbc. Grow up, NYT & DO YOUR JOB.

Speaking on her podcast on Oct. 31, Kelly said, “We are learning more about who the intruder was, but many questions remain about the circumstances of the crime, which police have been fairly tight-lipped about and actually contradictory as well.” 

In fact, NBC lost the story completely. 

She condemned the media, saying they were “rushing to make this about right-wing political violence, and not just that, not just right-wing political violence, this is about January 6, don’t you know? This is about January 6, like everything needs to be for the Democrats today; not homelessness, not crime, not mental illness, January 6; back to that. They will use it for all it’s worth and then some.”

Kelly’s assertion that the media was trying to turn the attack on Pelosi into another instance connected to January 6 was further confirmed in the article which claimed she was spreading misinformation. The article stated:

The flood of falsehoods showed how ingrained misinformation has become inside the G.O.P., where the reflexive response of the rank and file — and even a few prominent figures — to anything that might cast a negative light on the right is to deflect with more fictional claims, creating a vicious cycle that muddies facts, shifts blame and minimizes violence. It happened after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which was inspired by Mr. Trump’s lie of a stolen election, and in turn gave rise to more falsehoods …

“The press has gone deep, dark down the rabbit hole about trying to say, ‘This is all about January 6’ because the lunatic’s latest iteration of craziness was focused on some QAnon theories, things along those lines, notwithstanding his BLM flag and his LGBTQ flag out in front of it,” Kelly noted, referring to Pelosi’s alleged attacker.

The election is tomorrow, Nov. 8, and the Democrats have no platform to stand on other than personal attacks, Jan. 6, and "Trump is a bad man so vote for me." 

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The left's ideology has led to more violent crime, a powerful rebuke of the rule of law, inflation, economic strife, a weak military, a perverted education system, and the genital mutilation of children.

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MSNBC Fires Racist Host . . . Finally

You can put lipstick on a racist, but she's still a racist

MSNBC's weekend host, Tiffany Cross [her surname fits her chronic demeanor] was finally fired by the far-left network after she was lip-deep in another racist controversy. 

Cross hosted "Cross Connection" and was sent packing Friday, several weeks after saying that "white owners" and "white coaches" were to blame for the failed handling of Tua Tagovailoa's concussion football injury on September 29.

This racist woman is able to make everything bad that ever happened or happens, the fault of the white man.

According to Variety, the network decided to not renew Cross’s contract after two racist years at the network, and after relations between her and her bosses reportedly became “frayed.”

Cross’s NFL non sequitor comments got her in trouble with critics and non-racists who said she inaccurately and for no reason made Tagovailoa's serious injury a race issue.

“To see all these black men crashing into each other with a bunch of white owners, white coaches, and the complete disregard for black bodies and black life … it just represents a larger issue,” Cross pontificated at the time, as reported by Outkick.

Cross’s argument was quickly countered by former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who called the now ex-MSNBC host “the most racist person on television.”

But Joy Reid is fast coming up from the rear for that "honor."

As reported by Mediaite, Kelly blasted Cross, stating, “he’s Samoan and his coach is mixed race,” Kelly added after the clip aired. “Had a white parent and a Black parent. So, anyway, he’s not White. I guess in Tiffany’s world that’s White.”

“But in any event, this person sees everything through [an] ‘it’s racist’ prism.”

After news broke that Cross had been fired, Kelly commended MSNBC for the move, “I tip my hat to MSNBC and NBC for doing the right thing, because as I said, she was the most racist person on television,” as reported by the New York Post. 

Variety reported that Cross’s termination was caused by her “indulging in commentary executives felt did not meet the standards of MSNBC or NBC News.” Had she blamed Donald Trump or the GOP for the concussion, Cross would still be on the air.

But Cross should not have surprised the brass at MSNBC as her anti-white racist comments were her go-to moves.

After the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict was announced, Cross decried GOP lawmakers as supporting a “murderous White supremacist.”

Commenting on Will Smith’s Oscar slapping incident, Cross declared white people should refrain from talking about the matter, because it was a “family discussion.”

Say what?

Her latest rant came one day before news broke that she was fired, leading many to believe that this was the straw that broke the camel’s back, according to the National Review.

In this rant, she attacked the state of Florida and Florida governor Ron Desantis, saying the state was the “dick of the country.”

“Ron DeStupid, Ron DeSantis, whatever you wanna call Florida man, he is so problematic,” she ranted in a cross manner. “He traffics in stupidity and ignorance, and I just think they are a problem for the rest of the country. Let’s get them out.”

Cross attended, but eventually dropped out, of Clark Atlanta University taking mass communications with an emphasis on tv, radio and film.

Ron DeSantis studied history at Yale University, was captain of Yale's varsity baseball team [with team's best batting average of .336] and was worked while attending school as an electrician's assistant and baseball coach. He graduated in 2001 with a B.A. magna cum laude and went on to teach history and sports at Darlington School for a year. He attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 2006 cum laude and obtained a Juris Doctor.

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It's laughable that Tiffany Cross would make fun of Ron DeSantis' surname and say that he's stupid and ignorant. 

DeSantis did not drop out of school and was not fired from a job.

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Ibram X. Kendi defends fellow racist/cop-hater

Ibram X. Kendi has made a boat-load of money, mostly from white people who need to virtue signal that they are not racists, but you being are because you deny it. They give that false theory a fancy name and call it critical race theory and Kendi is the purveyor of the big lie.

Kendi is defending the idiotic tweet basketball player LeBron James posted Thursday morning that targeted an Ohio cop doing his job by saving a black girl from being stabbed this week. James suggested the cop should have "disarm[ed]" her instead.

If you watch the video you can plainly see that had the officer tried to disarm the girl, who was in motion to plunge her knife into the other girl, made exactly the right choice. He had no time to clear the distance between him and the attacker and had no choice if he wanted to save the black girl who was about to be stabbed. 

James, a left-wing semi-intelligent activist, tweeted out the photograph of the police officer, writing, “YOU’RE NEXT. #ACCOUNTABILITY.” James included an emoji of an hourglass, meant to signify that time is running out. [Perhaps 'semi-intelligent' is giving him too much credit.]

What's also reprehensible, beside James' tweet, which he later deleted, is how the media wrote their headlines, merely saying that a cop shot a black girl but eliminating the context. It's clear that the media hopes for more rioting--it makes them lots of money, just like race hustling makes lots of money for people like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

While Kendi pushes critical race theory, the federal government has previously referred to it as "divisive" and "un-American propaganda." Kendi appeared on the Communist News Network (CNN) where he responded to James' tweet.

“In this particular case, LeBron James spoke out, he tweeted a picture of the officer, the officer who allegedly shot Ma’Khia and he said, ‘you’re next,'” CNN leftist host Brianna Keilar said. “He has since deleted that tweet. What is your reaction to that? Does that add to the tension? Is that appropriate?”

“I think it’s important for us to recognize that people are very, very angry and upset and outraged and people including LeBron James, you know, including others, they witnessed, you know, I don’t want to speak for LeBron, but I know many people feel as if they did not witness police work,” Kendi claimed. “They witnessed someone being killed and even potentially murdered. And of course, like with any other case, people are going to be outraged that someone did not come and de-escalate, the situation, disarm that girl, so everyone could have gone home safely that evening.”

Backlash to James’ racist, anti-cop tweet was so severe that he deleted it less than two hours after posting it. He followed up with two tweets but didn't apologize for putting a target on the back of the cop and posting his photo.

“ANGER does [sic] any of us any good and that includes myself!” James said ungrammatically. “Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!”

“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed [and saved] by police,” James continued. “I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY.”

He's full of crap and proof that it doesn't take a genius to be a great athlete.

Some of the responses to James' tweeting from the hip:

 “Narrative Commitments + Retribution > Facts + Effectual Reforms This is a recipe for savagery, not #Accountability” - Kmele Foster

“Apparently the life of the girl nearly stabbed to death didn’t matter.” - Dana Loesch

“How dare you? This is disgusting & dangerous. He saved the life of a young Black woman under attack. This is incredibly irresponsible.”-Megyn Kelly

“Nothing to see here, just the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite illiterate apparatchik trying to incite the assassination of a police officer who saved a girl from being stabbed to death.”- Sean Davis

“LeBron James is a bad person who masquerades as a hero.” - Jason Rantz

And my favorite:

The Daily Caller: “Working class police Officer targeted by billionaire professional athlete because he didn’t let someone be stabbed to death.” - The Daily Caller

 Critical race theory and Ibram X, Kendi are racism in disguise and need to be called out for their Marxist agenda.

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Former 'Today' staffer speaks about Lauer affair

Addie Collins Zinone, a former NBC News production assistant for the "Today" show spoke out about the  month-long sexual relationship she had with the married Matt Lauer in the summer of 2000.

Zinone interviewed with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly who now hosts a lesser-known show whose title escapes me. 

In the aftermath of coming forward about the hot times with the old guy (she was 24, he was in his 40s) Zinone is facing attacks online for coming forward.

One person who is not President Trump tweeted: 

"Stop playing the victim! You are NOT a victim! You are a whore! Plain and simple."

I don't agree with that completely, but I do believe they both were wrong to have the affair. But I do mostly agree with the next tweet:

"Addie Zinone just wanted some 5 minutes attention...her affair with Matt Lauer was 100% consensual and she honestly should have never brought it up. She made the choice to be a homewrecker and gives a bad name to the real #MeToo people."

The only problem I have with the above tweet is referring to her as a "homewrecker." The so-called home she allegedly 'wrecked' was probably waiting for the wrecking ball before the affair began. You need to call Lauer a homewrecker too.

Then there came angry, somewhat illiterate tweets, but I won't go into them because they're simply angry and stupid.

Zinone described the negative feedback she received since revealing the affair.

"I understand that people are going to paint me as a homewrecker, as a slut and a whore and those are things I have been called. It was suggested yesterday to me that 'Please please go get hit by a bus,'" she told Kelly.

The alleged affair lasted about a month and Zinone claims to take full responsibility for her actions, calling them a "massive mistake" that still haunts her, but she asserted that Lauer steered her into the uncomfortable situation.

So which is it? Lauer steering her into the uncomfortable situation is to blame, or her going along with it and having sex with Lauer?

"These are very hard things to talk about," she told Kelly's TV audience of hundreds. "My family is shattered by this. They are afraid for me. This all trickles down to a lot of people that are affected, so having these conversations is really important, but also there's a lot of shame attached to what I did." 

So she's telling the world what she did in order to absolve herself of the shame while kind of blaming Lauer while pretending to take responsibility.

Zinone alleged that she struggled with hiding her story for 17 years and was fearful of telling the world about her shame.

So why did she have to tell the world of hundreds of Megyn Kelly viewers?

Her shame, she seems to be hoping, can be marketable. Can't wait for the tell-all book about her four weeks of fame.


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Alex Jones: I know about Megyn Kelly's mystery lover

Megyn Kelly's interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may be scooped by Jones himself, but that's not the big story according to Jones.

The man who claimed 911 was an "inside job," and that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting "never happened," says he has inside information on Kelly that will blow the roof off of the aluminum siding industry as well as journalism itself.

Jones claims he secretly taped his own interview using a groin camera and a butt mic. He said that he also recorded talks he had leading up to the actual interview and that Megyn Kelly propositioned him "in no uncertain terms."

Kelly just laughed and said, "If my telling him that I heard he isn't getting along with his ex-wife is propositioning him, then he has a point. But he's as repulsive to me as a snake having coitus with a garden hose."

Jones believes Kelly tried to 'sandbag' him in the interview. "It's not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I promise you that," Kelly told Jones in a recording released by the high-functioning paranoid schizophrenic on his Infowars.com website. "All I can do is give you my word and tell you if there is one thing about me I do what I say I'm going to do and I don't double-cross."

Jones shot back at her in his indefatigable way, "Pinky swear?"

"Of course," she said, offering Jones her finely manicured hooked pinky.

"Aha!" Jones replied. "I knew all you wanted to do was touch me. That's sexual assault, my friend and you're in big trouble. I'll see to it that you're gone from NBC before the sun sets in Bermuda."

Kelly thought he was kidding and goes on to say that she is a "combination of Mike Wallace, Oprah Winfrey and Larry the Cable Guy.

"That's what you'll get in the interview--a little bit of all three of those and hopefully everybody will walk away feeling like they had a good dinner--nutritious, some red meat with some dessert at the end," she is heard saying on the tape Jones had hidden above his gonads.

"Of course I'm going to do a fair interview I'm still me--I'm not going to go out there and be Barbara Walters," Kelly said.

But Jones commented during the interview that he wasn't buying what she was selling. "And you sound like you're selling yourself, sister," Jones said sardonically.

"When she got here with her crew of intelligence operatives, she did the opposite of what she said," Jones told viewers. "And so I was recording the whole time, from our pre-interviews, right through the interviews, we have a record of it so that you can decide for yourself what I really said and what I stood for." He added, "You alone will be the judge. You alone will be the jury of who is fake news. Bwah ha ha!"

Kelly already had enough on her plate with the enraged parents in the Sandy Hook shootings in which Jones said when it happened in 2014 that "Sandy Hook is synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured."

Fake, like 911, the moon landing and probably World War II. 

"When you say parents faked their children's deaths, people get very angry," Kelly said in a teaser of the interview.

J.P. Morgan Chase pulled its advertising until after the Jones interview or if it's canceled.

Jones is currently trying to remove the butt mic which has somehow become lodged in his nether regions alongside his head.



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Bill O'Reilly gone from Fox News

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Bill O'Reilly is no longer going to be the Fox News icon--he's done. He has been forced out as a prime-time host after it has been disclosed that multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations have been made against him.

O'Reilly's ouster ends his two-decades as the most popular and influential cable TV commentator.

"After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel," 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, said in a statement.

To the credit of Fox News Channel, they stood by O'Reilly even after the allegations of sexual harassment were piled on. He reached settlements with five women to the tune of around $13 million.

Apparently, after more than 50 advertisers abandoned O'Reilly's show, "The Factor," it was time for Fox to call it quits. 

The New York Times reported that inside the company, women were outraged and questioned whether Fox executives were "serious about maintaining a culture based on 'trust and respect,' as they had promised last summer when another sexual harassment scandal forced the ouster of Fox News' chairman, Roger Ailes."

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O'Reilly, 67, didn't comment on his status since he left on vacation last week, but his attorney issued a statement Tuesday calling it a "smear campaign" by liberal opponents. It said that Mr. O'Reilly "has been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America.

With the 8 p.m. spot empty, Fox will move Tucker Carlson in that time-slot and move "The Five" from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Beginning May 1st, Eric Bolling will debut a one-hour program at 5:00 p.m. Martha MacCallum's show, "First 100 Days" will remain permanent. Perhaps they will rename it "First 1461 Days" to cover President Trump's first term in office.

O'Reilly's departure follows that of Roger Ailes who, nine months ago, was forced out as chairman after a sexual harassment lawsuit by former host Gretchen Carlson and at least six other women, all of which he denied. One of those women is Megyn Kelly who also clashed with O'Reilly and has since left Fox for liberal NBC last December.

The message that Rupert Murdoch and his sons are sending is that there is now a change in the company's culture and harassment is unacceptable.

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Mentally unstable Rosie O'Donnell wants to stop inauguration

Rosie O'Donnell is at her wits end as the New Year has passed and January 20th looms on the horizon. Of course, I'm referring to Inauguration Day when Donald J. Trump raises his somewhat small right hand and takes the oath of office.

It's eating her up. 

The 54-year-old below-average-in-talent lesbian tweeted Sunday that the President-elect is "mentally unstable" and that America has "less than 3 weeks to stop him." She did not offer ways in which America should or could stop him, but she's leaving that up to the myriad imaginations of the leftist public.

This is just one of many times that the morose and rather obese comedian has gone after Trump. She has referred to him as "the worst representation of what the United States is or could be." 

Her tirade was short on detail and high on venom.

The Trump-O'Donnell comedy team has been sparring publicly for more than ten years, since the time in 2006 when Rosie publicly criticized Donald for refusing to fire disgraced beauty queen Tara Conner. In fact, their feud fueled some of Trump's campaign and took center stage at the GOP debate on Fox News when Megyn Kelly asked him about his using derogatory language to insult women and he shot back, "Only Rosie O'Donnell."

Sadly, Rosie swore to leave the United States if Trump won the election but did not keep her word and refused to go.

When she made that promise Trump said, "Oh, I love it . . . Now I have to get elected because I'm going to do a great service to our country. Now it's much more important. In fact, I'll immediately get off this call and start campaigning right now."

Perhaps we should all get together and tweet Rosie, asking her to just go.


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Brazile bagged for second email with debate question

If you believe the emails released by WikiLeaks are genuine, whether or not the Russians hacked them, you might be surprised to learn that another leaked email shows that Donna Brazile gave the Hillary Clinton campaign a second debate question in advance.

The WikiLeaks document release Monday shows that Brazile sent Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri an email titled: "One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash," the night prior to the March 6th CNN (Clinton News Network) primary debate in Flint, Michigan.  

"Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint," Brazile's email stated.

The following night the question proved to be accurate. Lee-Anne Walters, a mother of twin boys who stopped growing and her daughter lost her hair during the Flint water contamination crisis. She posed the question to both Clinton and Sanders: "After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the citizens that have said service lines?" Walters asked.

Clinton's answer to the question was so detailed and lengthy that Anderson Cooper had to interrupt her twice to attempt keeping her to the agreed-upon time limit. The crowd cheered but she still lost the state's primary to the socialist Sanders.

The alleged tip-off was found in the load of messages hacked from Clinton's Campaign Manager Chairman John Podesta's Gmail account. 

In the same month, Brazile was accused of tipping off the Clinton machine with a question she sent to Clinton campaign adviser Jennifer Palmieri. The subject line of that email read: "From time to time I get the questions in advance." She then sent the question which dealt with the death penalty.

After Palmieri responded back, Brazile wrote "I'll send a few more."

CNN's Roland Martin asked the death penalty question verbatim the following night during a CNN town hall.

Brazile, who appeared Oct. 19th on Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly, naturally denied helping Hillary during the primaries and attacked Kelly for even asking the question. 

Brazile's indignation is laughable.

"As a Christian woman, I understand persecution, but I will not sit here and be persecuted," she huffed. "Your information is totally false," she lied.

Donna Brazile is a disgrace to her party, journalism and Christianity.

CNN announced in a statement Monday after the email became public that Brazile had tendered her resignation and CNN accepted it on October 14th a few days after the  Brazile tip-off first broke.


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Donna Brazile pulled "a Hillary"

Donna Brazile, formerly of CNN (Clinton News Network) and now the Democratic Party leader, claimed to the world that emails showing her apparently giving Hillary Clinton questions at a March town hall were "doctored." 

In order to check out the veracity of her claim, tech forensic experts went to work, and they are now saying that they've found proof the emails were authentic, which proves Brazile did "a Hillary" with the truth.

On a TV interview with Fox News, Megyn Kelly questioned Brazile about an email that surfaced from Campaign Chairman John Podesta's email account and attributed to Brazile which was posted on WikiLeaks, an internet website headed by Julian Assange (who Hillary Clinton wanted to "drone"). 

The email was passed on to campaign adviser Jennifer Palmieri about the death penalty, under the subject line: "From time to time I get questions in advance."

Soon after the email was sent, the March town hall was hosted by CNN and TV One. A similar question was asked by Roland Martin, but Brazile vehemently denied receiving questions from CNN. "I have seen so many doctored emails. I have seen things that come from me at 2 in the morning that I don't even send," she said. "I will not sit here and be persecuted, because your information is totally false."

But of course it was not false--Donna Brazile's indignation was false.

Tech blog Errata Security quickly found the email in question could be verified by using an ordinary verification program.

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a system verification system used by many email servers, among them is HillaryClinton.com. It is used to avoid spam filters whereby the system sends a DKIM "key" to the receiver to verify the sender and confirm the email hasn't been tampered with.

Bloggers ran the DKIM keys that were included with this and other emails through the verification software and it validated the Palmieri email as both real and undoctored.

Cybersecurity expert Robert Graham presented his results and showed that if the emails had been in any way altered, the software would have declared the emails unverified. The whole procedure took about five minutes, he told Fox News.

So it's obvious Brazile lied.

When asked if it was possible that WikiLeaks could have been hacked too, Graham said that it was very unlikely because to do so, the hacker would have needed access to the HillaryClinton.com server.

Graham is so confident in his finding that he posted a $600 BitCoin challenge for anyone who can alter an email and still have it come up as verified after being run through DKIM software.

So far, no takers.

It seems that Donald Trump has a good case to make about the election and media being rigged. This is not the America I grew up in--this America is becoming like a Third World nation and it saddens me.




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De Niro wants to punch Trump in the face

"This is not a small hand, if you get my drift"

Actor Robert De Niro, in perhaps one of his finest roles, said of Donald Trump on Megyn Kelly's Kelly File, that he'd "like to punch him in the face." 

Fox Viewers gave De Niro a round of applause knowing that he only pretends to be a tough guy in his movie roles and only pretends to be appalled by what Trump said of women 11 years ago. But his acting abilities were so convincing that many believed he was being sincere.

De Niro's anti-Trump statements were so emphatic that Kelly's producers figured that it couldn't be part of the campaign. It was given to the Kelly File for airing and publicists for the production firm released it to the media.

In the video, De Niro really goes after the Donald, calling him "blatantly stupid," a "bull***t artist" and a "punk." The video was filmed before Friday, when Trump's lewd video was released.

Other celebrities have openly endorsed Hillary Clinton but the more intelligent ones, such as James Woods, have refused to endorse Clinton due to her incompetence in Benghazi, her use of an illegal server for her convenience that compromised national security, the Clinton Foundation and the covert way it operates, her Wall Street speeches, her hypocritical acceptance of money from misogynistic countries such as Saudi Arabia, the White Water scandal and her attacking the women who her husband sexually assaulted and/or abused. 

This was not a complete list.


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WikiLeaks' Assange not ready to leak

After much anticipated ballyhoo, promising the American public and the world that he was going to announce the "October surprise," Julian Assange fizzled out. 

I know if anyone is surprised, it's Alex Jones, but perhaps he can make up a conspiracy theory that his gullible fans will believe and tweet 'till their fingers turn blue. 

In any case, there is the possibility that Assange, founder of WikiLeaks and purveyor of U.S. intelligence information to our enemies, will make a video for Tuesday on the 10th anniversary of the website.

Currently, Assange, 45, lives in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for the past 5 years due to the fact that the Swiss want him to stand trial for sexual assault. Evidently, he took advice from Bill Clinton and found sanctuary in the embassy whereas Bill had the government on his side.

If Assange speaks, the Trumpers believe Hillary Clinton will be the target of the verbal assault and what he might say will be extraordinarily damaging to her campaign hopes.

James Comey has vowed that if anyone stands in the way of Hillary's quest for the presidency, they will have him to contend with.

"I don't want to give it away," Assange told Megyn Kelly of Fox News in August, "but it's a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining," (perhaps involving Hill and Huma, if you ask Donald).

Last month, Assange told Sean Hannity of Fox News and the Trump Fan Club for Life, that his next round of revelations was coming "reasonably soon." Hannity went all gaga and moist.

Assange released 20,000 internal DNC emails in August showing what appeared to be an anti-Bernie Sanders conspiracy, to keep him from winning the Democratic nomination. It led to the resignation of Debbie "Downer" Wasserman Schultz and should have embarrassed the Clinton campaign.

But in order to embarrass someone, that person (or campaign) must have a sense of right and wrong. The Clintons have always been able to justify their nefarious behavior as long as it served their political ambitions. The Clinton campaign believes that it is so important to elect Hillary Clinton as president, that any means necessary to accomplish this goal is justified.

While Assange in saying that he cannot make the announcement in person due to security concerns, there is no evidence that any danger for him exists. That said, some officials and pundits have made threats directed at him in the past. 

WikiLeaks tweeted an alleged quote from Hillary Clinton from a 2010 State Department meeting. She asked if Assange could be killed in a drone strike (see below.)

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The sad part in all this is that in spite of Hillary wanting to 'drone' Assange, or anyone, would not make any difference to her zombies, anymore than it would make a difference to Trump's if he shot someone on Broadway.

This is perhaps the strangest and most frightening election in our country's history--and that's not Trump hyperbole or a Clinton lie.




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Fox Refuses to do a "Breitbart"

Donald Trump wants to fire Megyn Kelly. Unfortunately for him, she isn't on his show, "The Apprentice," she's on "The Kelly File, "her show.

Things got bad last summer during the first Fox debate in which Kelly asked Trump about the derogatory remarks he'd made about women in the past. Since that debate, Trump doesn't seem to be able to get her out of his mind.

This week, "The Donald" sent out a bunch of derogatory tweets calling her "ridiculous," "over-rated," "crazy," and "unwatchable." Evidently, Mr. Trump watches a lot of TV and knows what's watchable and what isn't.

Fox News, who was at one time accused of being in the tank for Trump, responded to his attack against their employee, something that Breitbart news failed to do for theirs (Michelle Fields). Fox accused Trump of making "sexist verbal assaults" against Ms. Kelly:

Donald Trump's vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land.

Megyn Kelly is an exemplary journalist and one of the leading anchors in America--we're extremely proud of her phenomenal work and continue to fully support her throughout every day of Trump's endless barrage of crude and sexist verbal assaults. As the mother of three young children, with a successful law career and the second highest rated show in cable news, it's especially deplorable for her to be repeatedly abused just for doing her job. 

In response to Fox's statement, Trump's campaign said that 'Fox News has begged Mr. Trump to do a prime time special to be broadcast on the Fox Network, not cable, with Megyn Kelly. He has turned them down."

My guess is that he's actually afraid of Megyn Kelly. She asked him difficult questions when all he wanted was to be loved. 

According to a Fox representative,  Bill Geddie, the executive producer for the show scheduled in May, nobody associated with Megyn Kelly's upcoming special reached out to Trump to be on the show for an interview.

Kelly has said nothing about Trump's attacks, which I suspect infuriates him even more.

According to his campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, Trump considers Kelly to be "biased" against him and said in a statement that "Megyn Kelly is a highly overrated reporter and anchor that constantly disparages Mr. Trump with negative and inaccurate reports."

She was likely referring to what Trump actually said as opposed to what he changed it to the same day.

Like Fox or hate them, at least they have the decency and guts to stand behind their reporter. Breitbart, take note.


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Vets don't want to be politicized by Trump

Paul Reckehoff who heads the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America tweeted that his group hadn't heard from the Trump campaign and didn't know which organizations would be involved with the event Trump is to attend in lieu of the GOP debate scheduled for tonight. 

He tweeted: "If offered, @IAVA will decline donations from Trump's event. We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts."

The female GOP candidate, Carly Fiorina, said her campaign would donate $1.5 million to veteran's causes, if she can join a Trump-Cruz debate.

Trump has not made it clear precisely which veteran(s) group(s) would be included in tonight's event in Des Moines, and to many, it sounds as if he came up with the idea on the spur of the moment. But one thing seems clear, veterans don't want to be used as political pawns in a Trumpian showmanship ploy. Trump's campaign merely said that the "special event to benefit veterans organizations" would be held at Drake University in Des Moines.

Trump told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, "We're going to raise a lot of money for the veterans. A lot of money is going to be raised." He then made it clear that he would definitely not be attending the debate.

Some say Trump dodged the debate just like he dodged the draft in the Vietnam War era.

A recent tweet by Trump referred to Megyn Kelly, a Fox News debate moderator, as a "bimbo." In his book, The Art of the Deal, Trump has bragged about sleeping with some of the wives of the men with whom he had business deals. 

Some of these issues may come back to haunt in with the evangelical voters in Iowa.

But, as he said, he could shoot someone on the street and people would still vote for him. He may be right.

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Trump can't take the heat

There is no question that Donald Trump was a crucial factor in the viewership of the first GOP debate on Fox News. About 24 million people watched the debate and got to know the candidates because many wanted to see the "Trump Show."

In this way, "The Donald" has helped the Republican party garner more viewers than any cable news program in history. This can be attributed to Trump's entertainment factor and the anger many conservatives share against political correctness and the lies we constantly get from politicians.

Trump has tapped into our anger and he pulls no punches.

But there comes a point when substance is important. Voters want specifics about what the candidate can do for them and how they think. This gives us the chance to evaluate what's being said/promised, and come to intelligent conclusions.

In the debate, Fox News' Megyn Kelly asked Trump a specific question about his disparagement of women: "Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter. However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women. You've called women you don't like, 'fat pigs,' 'dogs,' 'slobs,' and disgusting animals."

Trump quickly interjected, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." Everyone knows about their feud and how they sparred in the past.

But Megyn Kelly didn't allow him to get away with that reply. "No, it wasn't," she said. "Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?"

Trump's comeback was to argue about political correctness being "the big problem."

"Frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding," Trump said. "We have a good time. What I say is what I say, and honestly Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry."

Trump told CNN's Don Lemon that Megyn Kelly had it out for him during the debate. "She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her . . . whatever."

The implication was clear. You don't have to be a deviant to know what he was going to refer to but decided that sometimes political correctness is the only way to go.

Vox, the far left ragblog, supported Trump and came out with what they referred to as a "complex theory" as to why Fox went after him.

It's not just about what happened at Thursday's debate. It's also about the way Fox News had, until Thursday, been inflating the Trump bubble, and the broader tension between Fox News's role as a ratings-obsessed cable network, an actual journalistic outlet, and one of the most important institutional actors in the Republican Party.

So, according to Vox, Trump was basically ambushed by Megyn Kelly. That would seem to imply that Kelly threw 'softballs' to the other candidates so that they would outdo The Donald on stage.

But alas, that wasn't the case. 

Kelly asked Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin about his strict abortion stance: "Would you really let a mother die, rather than having an abortion?" 

And while the death of a mother over a child is extremely rare, Walker dealt with the question admirably.

She asked Jeb Bush about saying that his brother's decision to get us into Iraq was a mistake: "To the families of those who died in that war . . . how do you look at them now and say your brother's war was a mistake?"

Bush dealt with it.

She asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich about his justifying the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio by arguing that he would be able to speak to Saint Peter at the pearly gates about it. "Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe you won't use your Saint Peter analogy to expand all government?" Then she asked him: "If you had a son or daughter who was gay or lesbian, how would you explain to them your opposition to same sex marriage?"

Kasich dealt with both questions quite well.

Kelly's first question to Dr. Ben Carson was directed at his readiness to be president based upon his previous lack of knowledge of government affairs. 

Carson dealt with it and came away from the debate by "sticking the landing." 

Kasich's questions, like those posed to Walker, Carson and Bush were tough, but they all dealt with them and handled them thoughtfully and well.

Trump also dealt with the question that Megyn Kelly posed, but he appeared arrogant, angry and seemed to take it personally, attacking Kelly for what she called him out on: misogyny. 

And like an angry kid who didn't want to clean his room, Trump complained to CNN that he was treated "unfairly."

I don't think calling politicians "stupid," and "losers" is going to continue to work for Trump. There's just so much traction one can get from anger without substance.

Anger without substance is like a hula-hoop for a snake--they don't have hips.

And Vox has as much credibility as Hillary Clinton's server story.



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