1/ A profile of Trump by Graydon Carter, Publisher of Vanity Fair, who has known the orange one for 30 years.....exceptionally well written, and insightful.....
Donald Trump
In 1987, Michael Kelly, later a celebrated editor but at the time a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, took Fawn Hall, a secretary to Oliver North, as his guest to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Hall had been caught up in the whole Iran-contra scandal, and her arrival shocked the swells of Washington, who were used to seeing business, political, sports, and movie grandees on the arms of major news organizations. Thus began a tradition of media companies prowling the nether regions of their coverage to come up with the tabloid oddity of the moment for their novelty guest.to Oliver North, as his guest to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Hall had been caught up in the whole Iran-contra scandal, and her arrival shocked the swells of Washington, who were used to seeing business, political, sports, and movie grandees on the arms of major news organizations. Thus began a tradition of media companies prowling the nether regions of their coverage to come up with the tabloid oddity of the moment for their novelty guest.
In 1993, I took Donald Trump.
Novelty guests don’t know they’re novelty guests. They just think they’re guests. That evening in May 1993, Vanity Fair had two tables and we filled them with the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Bob Shrum, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Peggy Noonan, Tipper Gore, and Vendela Kirsebom, a Swedish model who professionally went by her first name and who was then at or near the top of the catwalk heap. I sat Trump beside Vendela, thinking that she would get a kick out of him. This was not the case. After 45 minutes she came over to my table, almost in tears, and pleaded with me to move her. It seems that Trump had spent his entire time with her assaying the “tits” and legs of the other female guests and asking how they measured up to those of other women, including his wife. “He is,” she told me, in words that seemed familiar, “the most vulgar man I have ever met.”
This is TRUE!
2/ A slightly relieved Frank Rich on Trump's disaster.....excellent as always....
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today: the second 2016 presidential debate.
After a weekend of high-profile GOP defections and whispers that the RNC might try to nudge him off the ticket, Donald Trump went into last night’s debate with his campaign, and his party, seemingly in free fall. Did the debate change the momentum?
Yes. While Clinton’s momentum likely continues on the upswing, the momentum building steadily over the weekend among Republican elites to finally dump Trump once and for all was slowed. And that is the worst possible news for the GOP. Trump is still on the same downward spiral that he was before the debate — he was behind by 12 points in Pennsylvania and 3 in Florida in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll completed last week before Friday’s bombshell — but now the odds have increased that more down-ballot Republican candidates, unable to escape his death grip on the party, will join him on history’s junk heap.
3/ Whatever your opinion of President Obama as Chief Executive, I think we can all agree Obama the human being is a classy, decent and compassionate person with a mischievous sense of humour.....here is a photo collage [about 15] of some of his moments from his term in office....
4/ A fascinating excerpt, from the PBS Frontline documentary 'Choice 2016", of the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011, when Trump was humiliated by the President and may well have decided to run for President that night.....
“The Choice 2016,” which makes its debut Tuesday on PBS, begins at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. President Obama, just after releasing his long-form birth certificate, conducts an extended roast of Donald J. Trump, the businessman and reality-TV host who loudly peddledthe lie that the president was not born in the United States.
We see Mr. Trump sit, rigid-faced, fuming. “The Choice” suggests that his decision to run for president may have been born in that room.
“Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump,” Ms. Manigault says. “It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”
5/ A supercut of a stalking Trump behind Hillary at the debate.....a creepy one minute.....
Sunday night’s presidential debate was yet another infuriating 90 minutes of watching a more-than-prepared woman face off on the national stage against an erratic, gaslighting narcissist.
And thanks to the debate’s Town Hall format, audience members were also forced to endure 90 minutes of Donald Trump’s intimidation technique ― one that included “leering” and “grimacing” behind Hillary Clinton as she participated in the Q&A. Many Twitter users were quick to notice:
6/ Even after 20 years the murder of JonBenet fascinates America - Mary and I watched the CBS special on this, and their conclusion was the brother was the most likely suspect.... in this interesting article Rolling Stone lists all of the players in this drama....
This fall, several television networks raced to reveal new information in what's become the ultimate cold case. But aside from hype and bombast surrounding its 20-year anniversary, no one seemed to be able to offer much but more theories. As it stands, the list of people linked to JonBenét's murder is as winding as the spiral stairs that led to her corpse in the basement. Now that we've supposedly been given all the information we'll probably get, here's a review of the alleged perps – ranging from her own parents to a child pornographer on the lamb in Thailand – who have come up in countless attempts to nail the killer behind one of America's longest and most baffling true-crime whodunits.
7/ A highly amusing two part Samantha Bee, shredding the media and Trump surrogates.....a very good six [Pussy Riot] and five [GOP Fear the Pussy] minutes.....
It’s been a long weekend for Donald Trump, so Samantha Bee came out swinging at his lewd comments about womenduring Monday night’s episode of Full Frontal.
The Trump campaign has been engaged in damage control ever since old audio emerged of Trump describing his questionable, predatory behavior to Access Hollywood‘s Billy Bush in 2005. The audio has proven itself problematic for Trump and Bush, so Bee ripped into “these two leering dildos turned their rape-culture banter into a rape-culture power move that demeaned and violated [Arianne] Zucker in ways she is only now finding out about.”
Bee proceeded to blast Trump’s apology video as insincere and hypocritical, and she ribbed the media with a “vagina monologue” for their reluctance to say the word “pussy” on air.
8/ Paul Krugman on the most serious issue in this Presidential campaign, which is also the subject that never gets mentioned.....
What About the Planet?
Our two major political parties are at odds on many issues, but nowhere is the gap bigger or more consequential than on climate.
If Hillary Clinton wins, she will move forward with the Obama administration’s combination of domestic clean-energy policies and international negotiation — a one-two punch that offers some hope of reining in greenhouse gas emissions before climate change turns into climate catastrophe.
If Donald Trump wins, the paranoid style in climate politics — the belief that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a vast international conspiracy of scientists — will become official doctrine, and catastrophe will become all but inevitable.
9/ Kellyanne Conway is the subject of a great SNL skit, with Kate McKinnon....four funny minutes....
Spare a thought for Kellyanne Conway the next time a Donald Trump scandal breaks.
As the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign manager, she invariably has to deal with the fallout from the former reality TV personality’s rhetoric.
“Saturday Night Live” poked fun at what must be her relentless schedule over the weekend. No matter how hard she tried, Kate McKinnon as Conway just couldn’t catch a break on her day off.
Each time she settled in to a relaxing activity, her cell phone would buzz and she’d be hauled on to a TV show to defend her boss’s indefensible actions.
10/ Bad Lip Reading did their usual funny stuff with the first Presidential debate.....it's almost surreal......five good minutes......
11/ A better than usual Bill Maher "new Rules".....six very good minutes, some serious zingers in with the jokes.....
During the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Trump continually leaned into his microphone to say, “wrong.” Seriously, he did it a lot; he just kept interrupting with “wrong.”
Tonight on Real Time, Bill Maher incorporated it into his “New Rule,” which was, “In the next debate, when Donald Trump starts going on about how everything in this country is a total disaster, Hillary must lean into the mic and say, ‘WRONG!'”
12/ A moving, heartfelt and beautiful letter written by a guy who watched his wife die in the hospital.....I read it first, then read it aloud to Mary and I admit folks, I teared up a couple of times....a wonderful, simpatico story....
After his 34-year-old wife suffered a devastating asthma attack and later died, the Boston writer Peter DeMarco wrote the following letter to the intensive care unit staff of CHA Cambridge Hospital who cared for her and helped him cope.
As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis, in what turned out to be the last days of her young life, they stop me at about the 15th name that I recall. The list includes the doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists, social workers, even cleaning staff members who cared for her.
“How do you remember any of their names?” they ask.
How could I not, I respond.
13/ As I watched this I was thinking it can't be real.....but apparently it is! These kids are crazy...
Four terrifying minutes....
The official website for the Red Bull Hardline bike race in Wales bills it as the toughest mountain bike race in the world. After viewing some incredible first person footage from one of the competitors, the claim becomes very difficult to challenge.
Dan Atherton wore a GoPro camera during his run over a highly trecherous course that he created. The results, seen below via Red Bull, were stunning.
This is the same race with normal camera angles....1 minute....
14/ The Daily Show sent their Chinese reporter to New York's Chinatown to follow up on the O'Reilly/Watters racist interviews.....very nicely done, and quite amusing.....five minutes....
The Daily Show tonight did a whole segment going after Fox News’ Jesse Watters for his stereotype-indulging comedy bit in Chinatown this week.
Correspondent Ronny Chieng ripped Watters for his “idiocy,” told him “go fuck yourself,” and said, “If you’re gonna be racist, at least get your stereotypes right, you ignorant sack of shit.”
He was most bothered by Watters going up to people who couldn’t speak English and showing just video of them not responding to the things he says.
15/ Bank at Wells Fargo? Or any of the other big banks like Chase, or BoA?
Please.....you are supporting the evil ones.....change to a local bank.....
I can recommend First Green Bank in Mount Dora [with six branches]......great service, and they do everything the monster banks do.
When John Stumpf, the embattled chief executive of Wells Fargo, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee on Sept. 29 and swore to tell the truth, Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, noted that he and his colleagues were engaged in “an important national ritual.”
As they pummeled him with questions, Mr. Stumpf apologized and insisted that when Wells Fargo employees opened as many as 1.5 million bank accounts and applied for up to 565,000 credit cards on behalf of unwitting customers, it did not “represent the true culture and nature of Wells Fargo.”
For everyone who did not believe him for a second, another important national ritual began. It is the one in which consumers, in the aftermath of yet another bank scandal, ask themselves this question: Should I finally remove multibillion-dollar, profit-making corporations from my day-to-day financial life once and for all?
Plenty of people seem to be wary of large financial institutions.
Todays Video - wow......an amazing three minutes of the most flexible, versatile dancer your scribe has ever seen......wonderful!
A comment.....
Todays awful puns.....here's a sample.....
Todays Hospital Jokes
1. Patient refused autopsy.
2. Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
3. Patient has waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
4. On the second day, the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.
5. She is numb from her toes down.
6. Patient’s medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40-pound weight gain the in the past three days.
7. Discharge status: Alive but without my permission.
8. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.
9. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
10. Patient has no previous history of suicides.
11. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
Todays religious joke
A Priest and a Rabbi were sitting next to each other on an airplane.
After a while, the Priest turned to the Rabbi and asked,
"Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?"
The Rabbi responded, "Yes, that is still one of our laws."
The Priest then asked, "Have you ever eaten pork?"
To which the Rabbi replied, "Yes, on one occasion I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich."
The Priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading.
A while later, the Rabbi spoke up and asked the Priest, "Father, is it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?"
The Priest replied, "Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith."
The Rabbi then asked him, "Father, have you ever fallen to the temptations of the flesh?"
The Priest replied, "Yes, Rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke my faith."
The Rabbi nodded understandingly and remained silent, thinking, for about five minutes.
Finally, the Rabbi said, "Beats the shit out of a ham sandwich, doesn't it?"
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