| | MEDIA WINNER: Joy Behar The View's Joy Behar shut down retirement rumors by signing another three-year deal with ABC. Rumors of Behar's retirement recently circulated as her current three-year contract with ABC expires this summer. Behar, who is turning 80 this year, set the record straight in a statement to the New York Post. “Fake news," her representative told the Post on Tuesday, confirming that the new contract will keep her tied to ABC until 2025. Behar was reportedly paid $7 million per year as part of her previous deal with the network. She will likely rake in an eight-figure salary thanks to the new contract. Behar is also the only original panelist remaining at The View, where she started alongside Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulos, and Barbara Walters in 1997. While she was ousted from The View from 2013-2015, Behar has been at the center of the show’s Hot Topics table for the past seven years, also moderating the discussion every Friday. In 2020, Behar told reporter Ramin Setoodeh that she would likely leave the show once her contract ended in 2022. “I don’t see myself staying for more [time]. That’s it! I could be wrong. If I’m as fabulous in [2022] as I am now, I’ll think about,” she said. Sounds like Behar held on to her fabulousness throughout the pandemic, as she did end up resigning her contract. Here's to three more years ... with way fewer face plants this time. |
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| MEDIA LOSER: Taylor Lorenz Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz wants people to stop listening to any “blue check doctors” on Twitter who downplay the effects of “Long Covid.” In a Tuesday Twitter thread, Lorenz claimed that doctors who do not recognize how “Covid complacency” has “opened the door to rampant illness & devastating long-term damage” are actually not real health experts. “Don’t listen to blue check doctors on Twitter who consistently downplay Long Covid or the virus’ devastating long-term effects,” Lorenz declared. “COVID complacency has opened the door to rampant illness & devastating long-term damage. Any ‘expert’ who doesn’t recognize that is not an expert.” Oh, and she wants everyone to stop calling her a “covid doomer” too. Lorenz went on to claim that it's not just her critics that refer to her as a "covid doomer," but also those "content to let medically vulnerable, disabled, elderly people suffer and die." Those downplaying Covid are simply selling “false hope to an unwitting public,” she further argued. To be clear, there is absolutely no fault in spotlighting how Covid affects the medically vulnerable. Lorenz, however, attempted to get her point across by requesting that people dismiss medical experts amid a global pandemic. Sound familiar? Maybe because liberals, including Lorenz, have consistently faulted anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers for doing exactly that. |
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| Subpoena season The special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the state sent out a bevy of subpoenas on Tuesday. The grand jury subpoenaed former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led the efforts to overturn the results of the election, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) -- among many others. The investigation is focused on efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure Georgia election officials to decertify the election result and even “find” Trump votes so that he could win the state in the 2020 presidential election. Other former Trump lawyers subpoenaed Tuesday included “John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, all of whom advised Trump on strategies for overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia and other swing states,” reported the Atlanta Consitution-Journal. Graham vowed to fight the subpoena in a Wednesday statement. “I have been informed Senator Graham is neither a subject nor target of the investigation, simply a witness,” said a statement on behalf of Graham from his lawyers. “This is all politics. Fulton County is engaged in a fishing expedition and working in concert with the January 6 Committee in Washington.” Graham was subpoenaed due to his role in reportedly calling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger shortly following the November 2020 elections. According to the Journal, Graham “allegedly questioned whether the secretary of state had the power to reject more legally cast absentee ballots to help Trump narrow his deficit in Georgia. Graham denied the allegation.” Responding to the allegation, Graham's statement argued he was "well within his rights to discuss with state officials the processes and procedures around administering elections." “Should it stand, the subpoena issued today would erode the constitutional balance of power and the ability of a Member of Congress to do their job. Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena, and expects to prevail," the statement concluded. FOR LATEST JAN. 6 COMMITTEE HEARING COVERAGE CLICK HERE In Other News... VP Kamala Harris Speaks Out in Surprise Visit to Scene of Highland Park Massacre: ‘We’ve Got To Be Smarter As a Country Damning New CNN Report Details How Biden White House Was Caught Totally Flat-Footed on Roe, Despite Months to Prepare Mick Mulvaney on Jan. 6 Hearings: When Republicans Testify Against Other Republicans, ‘Republicans Should Pay Attention’ Tucker Carlson Claims Mass Shooters ‘Are Going Nuts’ Because Women ‘Never Stop Lecturing Them About Their So-Called Privilege’ RATINGS: Chris Hayes Leads MSNBC Going Into Holiday Weekend |
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Out with a bang A video from a family’s Fourth of July get together ended with a bang after a rogue firework ended up underneath a minivan. The action, captured by a SimpliSafe security camera, starts when the launcher tips over and the ordnance launches across the ground, striking underneath the vehicle. At first the reaction isn’t too big. But then … well, you should really just see it for yourself. |
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