Новости за 13.10.2016

Former MVP and NBA world champion Cleveland Cavalier basketball forward LeBron James took a different path than the former NFL MVP and Super Bowl Boston Patriot quarterback Tom Brady did when asked about Donald Trump's remark that describing sexual assaults, as real or fantasy, was "just locker room talk."

It's as habitual as his bragging about all the times he's assaulted women.

Angela Rye and Andre Bauer appeared with Brooke Baldwin on CNN to debate the issues around these new allegations about Donald Trump and Michelle Obama's ringing condemnation.

During a rally today in West Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump refuted the new sexual assault allegations by intimating the reporter from People Magazine wasn't hot enough for him.

Michelle Obama's speech starts at approximately the 25:15 mark.

WHOA. Michelle Obama appeared at a campaign rally in New Hampshire this morning, and just destroyed Donald Trump. It was a thing of grace and beauty. Transcript:

Now here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election where we have consistently been hurting hateful language about women. Language painful for so many of us. Not just as women but as parents trying to protect our children and raise them to be caring respectful adults. Читать дальше...

"It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Trump Zone. --- The Twilight Zone

During the second presidential debate, Donald Trump said he never acted out the words that he spoke in the 2005 sex tape.

It would be sad if it wasn't in the service of Donald Trump.

Rudy Giuliani is mentally unhinged, and even Joe Scarborough can't cover for him.

Giuliani told a Trump crowd yesterday that he never saw Hillary Clinton on 9/11. Of course, Rudy Giuliani wasn't at Ground Zero that day, either. And it took Twitter negative seconds to find the day-after picture of Hillary and Rudy walking side-by-side through the damaged streets surrounding the World Trade Center.

So #Giuliani didn't see #Clinton after 911. Читать дальше...

Josh Marshall is worried about the aftermath of this election:

Quite simply, everybody needs to be paying close attention to what happens on November 9th.

It now seems quite likely that Hillary Clinton will win the November election and become the next President of the United States. But Donald Trump has been for months pushing the idea that the election may be stolen from him by some mix of voter fraud (by racial and ethnic minorities) or more systemic election rigging by persons unknown. Читать дальше...

I guess the Nobel Prize Committee didn't need a weatherman.

Congrats to Bob Dylan on winning the Nobel Prize in literature. Truly one of the greatest living Americans. pic.twitter.com/P5SyI8qCrs

— CAFE (@cafedotcom) October 13, 2016

Sure, some sourpusses on Twitter grumbled that modern novelists should now win Grammys, They should inform the Nobel committee after they write "Like a Rolling Stone" quality lyrics for 57 years.

Former Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R) cautioned this week that Christians needed to "wake up" and vote for Donald Trump because electing Hillary Clinton would "lead to even more sexual assaults against women."

CNN legal advisor Paul Callan dropped a novel bit of shade on one of the ladies who came forward to tell her story in the New York Times about Donald Trump's alleged assault on her in the first class section of an airplane.

CNN's Brianna Keilar has been a fighter against political surrogates of late and Wednesday afternoon she took on Trump's Kellyanne Conway over a NY Times story that recounts claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump by former beauty pageant contestants.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Steep drop-offs in China and Japan are hurting global investment in clean energy.

Katrina Pierson has no soul. And if you don't believe me, just watch her on this panel where she goes after one of Trump's alleged victims of sexual assault because airplanes in the 80s had fixed armrests.

This video is not safe for work or innocent eyes and ears.

h/t Karoli, open thread below...

Rod Stewart and the Faces played the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY on this day, October 12th, in 1975, It was the final live appearance the band would make anywhere until their semi-reunions of the 21st century.

A bit of levity for this all-too-difficult political week. Sergey Lavrov is the Russian Foreign Minister, Christiane Amanpour is...Christiane Amanpour. But watch....

The effect of the Washington Post's release of NBC's archived video footage of Donald Trump's conversation with Billy Bush on a bus on a studio lot has gone beyond the politics of did he or didn't he and spread into a national conversation that can be grouped into two parts. The groupings follow from the impact of a clearly audible conversation guided by Donald Trump who on tape describes his efforts and angst at not being able to persuade a married woman (entertainment anchor Nancy O'Dell) to have sex with him... Читать дальше...

Uh oh! Buyers' remorse at Trump Headquarters!

The author of the following message is being kept anonymous, but apparently they attended an expensive Trump fundraising event, and were emailed pictures of the event as a "Thank You."

The reply is short and eye-popping:

I cannot express my disappointment enough regarding the recent events surrounding Mr. Trump.

I fear that his campaign will assure a victory for Mrs. Clinton with disastrous consequences for the party and our country's future. Читать дальше...

In what can only be described as a bombshell, the New York Times and CBS both published incredibly disturbing stories today regarding accusations of sexual assault and impropriety by Donald Trump, once case involving comments made to a 10 year old child.

Last night Chris Hayes interviewed Ben Howe of the #NeverTrump movement. Chris Hayes brought up this comment from Matt Mackowiak:

Alex Jones went off the deep end earlier this week, casting President Obama and Hillary Clinton as demons with the smell of sulfur on them.

During an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Kellyanne Conway used a very interesting phrase to describe Republicans that were pulling support from Donald Trump.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer reacted with shock on Wednesday when liberal commentator Nomiki Konst pointed out the "white privilege" of Republican strategist Brad Blakeman, who was complaining about racism against white people.