HotAir Daily Express 06/01/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Samantha Bee explains: “The thing is our show is steeped in passion”]( 6/1/2018 11:21:31 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments If she’s guilty of anything, it’s of caring too much. I joked yesterday that the defense of the “c*nt” jab at Ivanka Trump would end up mirroring that guy from “Forrest Gump”: “It’s just this war and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [I said, ELDERLY AMERICANS NOW USE FACEBOOK MORE]( 6/1/2018 10:41:45 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Facebook has taken numerous serious hits in recent months over privacy, Russian manipulation and what some regard as censorship. Now, here’s some really bad news for the social media giant: Older Americans are Liking it — a lot. Facebook [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Get your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook]( Hoover SPONSORED How can America rediscover what has made it exceptional? Find out when you download your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook today! [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [May jobs report – +223,000 jobs, unemployment down to 3.8%]( 6/1/2018 10:01:21 AM Steve Eggleston 0 Comments After a disappointing April jobs report, expectations were not particularly good for May. The consensus was for 190,000 jobs to be added, with unemployment holding steady at 3.9% and hourly pay modestly increasing by 0.2% from April and 2.6% from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jury awards family four dollars in wrongful death suit against cops]( 6/1/2018 9:21:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a rather creepy story out of Florida (where else) which deserves a bit more attention. Four years ago, Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Newman shot and killed Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. while responding with his partner to reports of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No secret now: The Secret Service overpaid 2016 campaigns for agents’ travel]( 6/1/2018 8:41:19 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments They purposely appear to be everywhere in political campaigns — No-nonsense-looking men and women in dark suits and cool shades, coats open, hands always empty, wandering eyes inspecting the crowds every second but, strangely never resting on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem investigations into Scott Pruitt have officially jumped the shark (Another rant)]( 6/1/2018 8:01:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Democrats and their media enablers have been on the warpath against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt pretty much since the day he was nominated for the post. You’ve no doubt seen the headlines and panel discussions which regularly discuss [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Virginia Democrat’s ad: After 9/11 the greatest threat to America lived in a cave. Now he lives in the White House.]( 5/31/2018 10:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A fitting, if surreal, note on which to end a day devoted to partisan double standards. If the party roles were reversed here, this is a three-day firestorm. As it is, it’s more of a curio for the media. Which makes sense, since many of them [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How the Blink 182 guy brought UFO news into the mainstream]( 5/31/2018 9:21:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you know about Tom DeLonge, you probably recognize the name first from his work as the frontman for Blink-182 and classic albums such as Enema of the State. But as the popularity of the band decreased, DeLonge began using his good fortune to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Totally unacceptable”: Trudeau slams Trump for new steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada]( 5/31/2018 8:41:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We should probably sneak in a post today about the inexplicable new trade war between the U.S. and our closest allies amid our important saturation coverage of Samantha Bee, no? It’s fun watching congressional Republicans scramble to denounce [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another 2016 mystery: Where did all Jill Stein’s recount funds go?]( 5/31/2018 8:01:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This isn’t so much of a whodunit as a wherewentit. A year and a half after raising more than $7 million for quixotic attempts to hold recounts in several states, Green Party Jill Stein still has not provided an accounting for the money or its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conservatives are right about a double standard when liberals say offensive things, says … CNN anchor?]( 5/31/2018 7:21:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments My goodness, this is surprising. Especially since not everyone is nearly so introspective. I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cunt. Cunts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest. — Sally Field [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did hackers post this image of John McCain as the Va Tech shooter on Joy Reid’s blog? (Update: Meghan McCain responds)]( 5/31/2018 6:41:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Joy Reid’s old blog has dropped enough shoes to qualify as a centipede getting ready for bed. Just this morning Ed wrote about Reid’s support for the 9/11 Truther documentary Loose Change. As Ed mentioned, that position wasn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leading candidate to replace John McCain in the Senate is … Cindy McCain?]( 5/31/2018 6:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments C’mon. Nothing against Cindy McCain, who’s a businesswoman, a philanthropist, and seemingly a very nice person, but all political dynasties are fundamentally un-American. (You too, Adamses. Merit doesn’t count here.) This Newsmax [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former AG: Let’s face it, Trump will have to fire Sessions if he wants him gone]( 5/31/2018 5:21:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And … why doesn’t he? Alberto Gonzales, one of Jeff Sessions predecessors as Attorney General, tells Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s New Day that Donald Trump won’t be able to push Sessions out of the job through passive-aggressive [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Google: Sorry our search results listed Nazism as the ideology of the California Republican Party]( 5/31/2018 4:41:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today, Rep. Kevin McCarthy pointed out that Google search results for the California Republican Party were listing “Nazism” as the party’s ideology. Dear @Google, This is a disgrace #StopTheBias [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Samantha Bee: I crossed a line with what I said about Ivanka Trump and I’m sorry]( 5/31/2018 4:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is almost as surprising to me as “Roseanne” getting canceled. Sam Bee apologizes, via TBS: “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: RoseanneGate, FecklessGate, TrutherGate, SpyGate, all the little -Gates, and Salena Zito!]( 5/31/2018 3:21:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [School shooters as misfit losers looking for the limelight]( 5/31/2018 2:41:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday Broward County released three brief cell phone videos made by the Parkland school shooter. What struck me was how many times, in the course of a few minutes, Nikolas Cruz mentioned that soon everyone would know who he was. The NY Times [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed, CNN: Say, does anyone remember Joy Reid’s Truther posts?]( 5/31/2018 2:01:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Those time-traveling hackers sure do get around. Fresh off renewed scrutiny of her hostile comments about LGBT issues on her old blog, MSNBC host Joy Reid faces new questions about her encouragement of 9/11 Truther claims in 2006. Buzzfeed dug up an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I might commute Rod Blagojevich’s sentence and pardon Martha Stewart]( 5/31/2018 1:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s logical consistency to all (or almost all) of Trump’s pardons so far. The question is the degree to which he’s being motivated by strategy versus the degree to which he’s just jonesing on having a power as president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN’s Acosta mocks Trump White House over Kardashian visit, but held a very different view under Obama]( 5/31/2018 1:01:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN’s Jim Acosta is a hypocrite. Yesterday, Acosta went on a rant about the essential unseriousness of the Trump White House. “Here he comes out today tweeting about Roseanne Barr,” Acosta said, referring to President Trump. He [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [King Corn suing EPA over ethanol waivers]( 5/31/2018 12:31:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I suppose we should have seen this one coming. President Trump has thus far refused to consider ending the Renewable Fuel Standard and its mandates for blending ethanol into the gasoline supply. This keeps the King Corn folks in Iowa happy, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roseanne: I’ll examine my options to fight back on cancellation]( 5/31/2018 12:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Have fun storming the Disney castle! After first pledging to leave Twitter and later flipping back and forth on whether she wants to defend her comments, Roseanne Barr hinted yesterday at a legal fight over the cancellation of her eponymous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Samantha Bee: Ivanka Trump certainly is a feckless c*nt]( 5/31/2018 11:21:59 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, something new from late-night comedy’s loudest and proudest feminist. A little truth here from David Rutz: There's one obvious reason no one except conservative media raised an eyebrow over @iamsambee's remark [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dick’s shocked to find their gun sales plummeting]( 5/31/2018 10:41:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Dick’s Sporting Goods seemed to think they finally had everything under control after their recent “assault weapons” announcements. After stopping sales of AR-15 style firearms they publicly announced their intention to destroy all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Eliana Johnson [Trump fumes, but Sessions may have the upper hand]( Peter Navarro [Donald Trump’s steel, aluminum tariffs lift low and moderate income families]( NBC [Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller]( Tim Mak [Audio: How Michael Cohen protects Trump by making legal threats]( Andrew C. McCarthy [A worthy pardon for Dinesh D’Souza]( The Wrap [TBS scrubs Samantha Bee’s entire “feckless c–t” episode from the web]( Miami Herald [Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying. BSO said no.]( Buzzfeed [Trump allies don’t see “three-dimensional chess” in Dinesh D’Souza’s pardon]( The Hill [Boehner: “There is no Republican party. There’s a Trump party”]( CNBC [Breaking: Economy added 223,000 jobs in May vs. 188,000 expected]( David K. 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