| | MEDIA WINNER: Isaac Chotiner Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker has gained a well-deserved reputation as a keen interviewer who elicits honest, if not unwitting, responses from his subjects. In his latest conversation, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz got the Chotiner treatment. Dershowitz was a lawyer for former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial after having been an ardent critic of the Mueller investigation into the former president. In 2018, Dershowitz complained those criticisms had gotten him shunned by friends and acquaintances on posh Martha’s Vineyard. Last year, he claimed Larry David screamed at him on the island. Dershowitz said the Curb Your Enthusiasm star told him, “You’re disgusting,” citing Dershowitz’s coziness with the Trump administration. Chotiner got the lawyer to reiterate many of his prior complaints and discuss David in a grievance-laden exchange for the interview, resulting in some pretty ammusing content. Discussing David, Chotiner asked Dershowitz if he can still watch Curb Your Enthusiasm, to which the lawyer confirmed he cannot. "No,” Dershowitz said, explaining that it's because he now knows the “Larry David” portrayed on the show is the same Larry David in real life. (That's literally the best part, but go off, sis.) At another point, Chotiner sarcastically compared Dershowitz to The Beatles. Dershowitz, of course, replied in earnest. Dershowitz later said to Chotiner, "Now, if you ask a hundred people to name the five most well-known Jewish Democrats on Martha’s Vineyard --" The reporter interrupted to execute a brilliantly deadpan response: ldquo;You want me to do that now, or are you saying hypothetically?” Bravo, Chotiner, we needed a laugh. |
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| MEDIA LOSER: Chad Pergram Fox News has been outraged over the fact that crew members of Stephen Colbert's Late Show are being treated differently than the Jan. 6 rioters. Chad Pergram, the network’s congressional reporter, has been ferociously pursuing justice against these comedians who did not have any intentions to hang Mike Pence. To recap, Colbert's team was at the Capitol last month to conduct interviews with Democratic lawmakers for a Late Show segment. After the interviews concluded, the staffers remained in the halls to film additional stand-ups despite reportedly not having permission to do so. They were arrested by Capitol Police. This week, federal prosecutors dropped charges against the group whom Fox News has dubbed the “Colbert 9." Pergram, as well as several Fox News anchors and hosts, have blasted the decision as evidence of a double standard in the justice system. Of course, these are the same personalities who have continued to downplay the Jan. 6 insurrection. Basically, they argue, those who are on the left are treated more favorably than those on the right. Yeah, it's totally that and not the fact that one group stormed the Capitol with the intention of overturning the 2020 presidential election, while the other *checks notes* was filming a sketch starring a sock puppet. NewsNation anchor and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams mocked the network over the outrage, cracking, “Nuance isn’t what Fox does best.” Abrams later pointed out there have been “lenient sentences” for those who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 but didn’t assault police officers. Given that the Colbert staffers spent the night in jail, those who didn’t receive jail time for their participation on Jan. 6 were treated better than the Colbert crew, Abrams reasoned. According to Pergram, however, the whole thing "raises questions about fairness." Does it though? |
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| 'Within the last week?' It is 2022 and Donald Trump is still trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election he lost. On Tuesday, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) told Milwaukee's WISN that the former president called him “within the last week” to ask him to overturn the 2020 election results in his state. As a refresher, Trump lost Wisconsin to now-President Joe Biden by more than 20,000 votes. Vos said Trump phoned him after the state Supreme Court ruled this month that absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal, prompting reporter Matt Smith to ask when Vos last spoke with the ex-president. “Within the last week,” Vos replied. “Within the last week?” Smith reacted, later asking if the call occurred before or after Trump referred to Vos as a RINO (Republican in name only) in a Truth Social post. Vos confirmed the call took place before the post. “It’s very consistent. He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained that it’s not allowed under the Constitution. He has a different opinion and he put the tweet out, so that’s it.” He further explained that the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling on drop boxes, which were used in the 2020 election, doesn’t say that those boxes were illegal. Trump must have been watching Vos' interview, as shortly after, he publicly pressured the Wisconsin state assembly speaker to declare thousands of votes in his state as illegal. “So what’s Speaker Robin Vos doing on the Great Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling declaring hundreds of thousands of Drop Box votes to be illegal?" he wrote. "This is not a time for him to hide, but a time to act!” Maybe time to hang it up? Please? FOR LATEST JAN. 6 COMMITTEE HEARING COVERAGE CLICK HERE In Other News... Trump-Endorsed Candidate Kari Lake Shared Anti-Trump ‘Not My President’ Meme ‘PURGED’: Washinton Post Reports Subpoenaed Secret Service Texts Are ‘Gone,’ National Archives Investigating if Law Broken Nadler Claims Justice Thomas Didn’t Bring Up Interracial Marriage Decision in Overturning Roe Because He’s In One, ‘And So Is McConnell’ Arizona GOP Excommunicates Rusty Bowers After His Jan. 6 Committee Testimony on Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election Industry News... RATINGS: Maddow Lifts MSNBC Prime Time, Only Host to Near Fox News Competition CNN Poaches Kristine Coratti Kelly From Washington Post to Run Global Communications |
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*Curb theme plays in the background* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kept Vladimir Putin waiting for roughly 50 seconds ahead of a meeting between the two controversial leaders. Putin, the sort of strong man leader that loves to present himself as, well, a strong man, is certainly fuming about the delay. As Mediaite's Colby Hall put it, "Whether it’s images of riding a horse shirtless or videos of his scoring goals playing hockey, Putin understands the importance of image, even if media savvy individuals see it more as a Napoleonic conveyance of his own insecurity." Watch the video of strong man Putin looking awkward AF and weak as hell here. |
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