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Fox Hosts Want 'Honest Conversation' About How Democrats Are 'Fascists'

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 10:58

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday called for an "honest conversation" about how Democrats should be considered "communists and fascists."

During a discussion about Donald Trump's campaign stops in Iowa, Campos-Duffy praised Trump for attacking Democrats.

"As the Democrats have sort of removed the mask of who they are — and we've seen it on display in many ways, especially over the last couple months through these protests — I love that he is just naming it out, calling them communists and fascists," she said. "Let's just have a really blunt, honest conversation about what are the choices in this election."

"I like the phrase, the destroyers of democracy," co-host Will Cain added. "Now, listen, I don't know if it's a matter of human nature, but I definitely know it's a matter of political strategy, that the left has engaged successfully for a good half a decade now of accusing their opponents of the sins which they are committing."

"What they have done is demonize others for the things that they are secretly doing," he added. "And it's been revealed to itself as well through this lens of, you're a threat to democracy."

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Alina Habba Is A Garbage Human Being

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 10:07

Donald's Trump favorite parking lot attorney may be in deep trouble with the state bar. I would not be surprised if she is recommended for disbarment, if these claims stand up to scrutiny.

Here is the story. Back in 2021 an employee at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was allegedly sexually harassed by a supervisor. The employee, named Alice Bianco, was 21-years old and working as a server. She claims that food and beverage manager, Pavel Melichar, sexually harassed her, forcibly kissed her and coerced her into having sex with him.

When Bianco wanted to proceed with a lawsuit, Habba "groomed" her and pretended to be her friend, claiming that she was looking out for her when in actuality she was representing the best interests of the club, Melichar and Donald Trump. That is a BIG no no in the legal profession.

Habba convinced her to sign a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that was drafted by Habba's own law firm. In the lawsuit, which is only against Habba, not Melichar or Trump, Biance claims that she did not know that Habba was an attorney for Trump until after the signed the NDA.

In one of the more grotesque sections, Habba allegedly told Biance: "You don't want to go public with this. I've been raped, I can help you, I can protect you." Either Habba lied about her own experience being sexually assaulted as a means of gaining Bianco's trust or Habba is used her victimhood to trick Bianco. Either way, it's bad. Further, Habba allegedly told Bianco that the NDA and the payment would be tax-free, which was not true.

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Horrific New Details About FL GOP Chair’s Alleged Rape Of Threesome Gal Pal

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 10:06

The documented cruelty and hypocrisy from this “family values” GOP power couple in Florida is jaw dropping. As I reported a few days ago, a woman who says she was in a three-year threesome with the Zieglers has accused the oxymoronically-named Christian Ziegler of raping her after she turned down an appointment for sex with him and his wife, each of whom are “Don’t Say Gay” law supporters.

That was stomach-churning enough. Now, ABC Action News has obtained the affidavits in support of search warrants for Christian Ziegler’s iPhone and files associated with his Gmail account.

Ziegler and his wife — Sarasota School Board Member Bridget Ziegler who helped found Moms of Liberty — had made plans to have sex with the woman two days before, according to the affidavit. But when Ziegler's wife could not make it at last minute, the other woman canceled responding in text message, "Sorry I was mostly in for her."

But just five minutes later, when the woman opened her front door to go take her dog, she found Ziegler in the hallway outside her apartment.

"Christian entered the apartment, bent the victim over the bar stool" and raped her, Det. Angela Cox wrote in the affidavit.

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Fox Desperately Spins DeSantis Debate Debacle As His Campaign Collapses

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 10:00

Fox's Tammy Bruce was determined to put a happy face on the "debate" debacle between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The debate was a mess, with Hannity doing his best to help out his buddy DeSantis, and the Newsom team should have known they were never going to get a fair shake from Hannity.

But it didn't go well for DeSantis despite all the help he got from Hannity. And his campaign seems to be in free fall, with the head of one of his PACs quitting a little over a week ago, and another one quitting this week.

As usual, it was upside-down land over on Fox, with them showing some short clips of the "debate" and pretending everything went perfectly for DeSantis, and pretending anything that came out of Newsom's mouth was "word salad."

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Mike's Blog Roundup

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 09:02

Balkinization - enduring legal scholarship;

Miss Cellania - Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie;

Musings of an Old Fart - Jimmy Carter's call to action;

Suburban Guerilla - disbar this dickish AG;

Tom Dispatch - the hamster wheel of war.

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George Santos Won't Leave Quietly, And No One Gives A Sh*t

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 09:00

Former Rep. George Santos's brief, but boisterous time in Congress was inundated with lies, half-truths, and the insulting false telling of his mother being in the South Tower when it was struck on 9/11. There is almost no part in Santos's false life that wasn't offensive. The Long Island fabulist was even accused of stealing puppies. Santos lied about where he went to college and falsely claimed he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Everything. About. Him. Is. A. Lie.

Still, he wants revenge for being expelled from Congress, and he's naming names. Anyone who would lie about the horrific attacks on 9/11 to prop up their political life should get the torches and pitchforks routine. Still, some Republicans thought he should stay in the House of Representatives.

Santos's last words on Friday after the vote were: "To hell with this place."

Santos spent his first hours as a former congressman posting on X to rage against his former colleagues and said he would file ethics complaints against four of them on Monday.

The Guardian reports:

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Graph Or Game?

crooksandliars - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 08:00

Your Sunday morning open thread is below.

- Karoli

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Late Night Music Club: The Wallflowers, One Headlight

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 23:00

Jakob Dylan, son of Bob Dylan, definitely inherited his father's songwriting talent. When I heard this song, I remember thinking that there would be a lot more coming from him. And while the band is still performing, they did go through a major overhaul and just never got back, which is unfortunate. This is their official video, remastered in HD, from October 2009.

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5th Circuit Orders Texas To Remove Buoys From Rio Grande

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 13:31

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling yesterday ordering Texas to remove the buoys installed in the waters of the Rio Grande, stating the state violated laws governing navigable waterways by placing the barriers along the border. Via The Hill:

In affirming an earlier ruling, the 2-1 decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the lower court properly considered “the threat to navigation and federal government operations on the Rio Grande as well as the potential threat to human life the floating barrier created.”

The floating buoys cover 1,000 feet in the Rio Grande with anchors in the riverbed. They are arranged in a chain stretching up- and down-river, each separated by a rounded blade with serrated edges similar to a circular saw.

The buoys were put in place around July 10, installed just days after four migrants, including an infant, drowned trying to cross the river. In August, authorities found a body floating near the buoys.

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Fruitcake! Are You Pro Or Con?

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 13:30

[It's a midday open thread with a discussion of fruitcake. Let us know in comments if you're pro or con fruitcake, and what is your favorite holiday baked good. -- eds.]

Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University

Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a fruitcake joke.

A quip attributed to former “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson has it that “There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”

It’s certainly earned its reputation for longevity.

Two friends from Iowa have been exchanging the same fruitcake since the late 1950s. Even older is the fruitcake left behind in Antarctica by the explorer Robert Falcon Scott in 1910. But the honor for the oldest known existing fruitcake goes to one that was baked in 1878 when Rutherford B. Hayes was president of the United States.

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Wisconsin Unions File Lawsuit To End Scott Walker's Folly

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 13:01

Seven Wisconsin unions have joined forces and filed a lawsuit seeking to be made whole by ending the failed right wing experiment of Act 10, Scott Walker's legacy of attacking public sector workers by forbidding their collective bargaining rights::

The lawsuit, filed by the teachers and other public workers on Thursday, alleges that the law's exemption of some police, firefighters and other public safety workers from the bargaining restrictions violates the Wisconsin Constitution’s equal protection guarantee. The complaint notes that those exempted from the restrictions endorsed Walker in the 2010 gubernatorial election, while those subject to the restrictions did not.

Plaintiffs include the Abbotsford Education Association, AFSCME Local 47, AFSCME Local 1215, Beaver Dam Education Association, SEIU Wisconsin, Teaching Assistants Association Local 3220 and Teamsters Local 695.

The groups said they are filing the lawsuit now because of the "dire situation that exists in our workplaces."

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Killer Kyle Plays Holier Than Thou Card Against The Pope

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 12:47

Krybaby Killer Kyle Rittenhouse has fallen into a monotonous routine of doing something stupid, getting called out for it, and playing the victim card.

The latest example is KKK liking a tweet from a fellow bigoted, redneck, gun-loving reprobate who was badmouthing Pope Francis:

The Pope is a liberal ass-hat. https://t.co/SUfTHVwruc

— Taylor D. Rhodes (@TDRColorado) November 23, 2023

They were all upset because the Pope had a luncheon with some transgender women.

Newsweek caught on to it and wrote a short article about it. Newsweek shares the story on xitter.

So now, we have KKK doing something stupid - liking a hateful tweet - and getting called out for it - the Newsweek article and tweet. Cue the playing of the victim card:

This is absolutely ridiculous… You can’t even like a post without the left wing media attacking you… disgusting https://t.co/QGPv5Uoq7u

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Epic Beatdowns In History -- Plus, Newsom Vs. DeSantis!

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 12:47

So Gavin Newsom went on Fox, straight into the heart of the enemy, and in a Sean Hannity "moderated" debate, he delivered the kind of epic beatdown to Ron DeSantis we used to see in WWF cage matches.

You probably saw the coverage we did here at Crooks & Liars. But Cliff Schecter put together a funny video tying the biggest moments together with relevant movie clips.

Newsom was relaxed, delivered more facts than Ron has learned in his entire existence, and mocked DeSantis the entire time, saving vicious zingers for the end of his statements.

It was something to behold.

There were moments it seemed like it might make more sense for DeSantis to put a mic in front of his little white booties to see if they'd do better.

It was a thorough asskicking in every way, with DeSantis looking every bit as uncomfortable as he usually does in public. (God, that whiny voice!) Why did he agree to this? We'll never know. But thank whatever or whoever you worship that he did.

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Trump Loses Immunity Fight - TWICE!

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 12:46

Donald Trump continues to lose in court - bigly. Late Friday the Judge issued an opinion, ruling that Trump's attempts to have his case thrown out based on immunity claims has no legal basis.

In the ruling, Judge Chutkan wrote:

"Whatever immunities a sitting president may enjoy, the United States has only one chief executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass."

Read the entire ruling here. It is BLISTERING.

A few more notable quotes:

"A former President’s exposure to federal criminal liability is essential to fulfilling our constitutional promise of equal justice under the law."

And finally, my favorite part:

“Defendant may be subject to federal investigation, indictment, prosecution, conviction, and punishment for any criminal acts undertaken while in office.”

In addition to dismissing Trump's claims of Presidential immunity. the Judge also dismissed his claims that the charges violate his free speech under the First Amendment. These rulings bring us even closer to trial, having pushed out two of the most bold motions that Trump's team have put forward this far.

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Israel Had A Copy Of Hamas Battle Plans More Than A Year Ago

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 09:14

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the planl, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. It all sounds so familiar! Via the New York Times:

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.

The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.

Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.

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Bannon Vows GOP Civil War Over George Santos Expulsion

crooksandliars - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 09:14

Maybe it takes one lying fraud to love another but even so, George Santos seems an odd choice to wage civil war over. And yeah, I get it that every MAGA vote is needed for the assault on the U.S. government Bannon longs for, even if he hasn’t noticed that the House has not done a great job of getting anything done, even with MAGA’s fave drag queen. But, hey, don’t let me stop you, Steve!

The way Bannon sees it, expelling Santos is “1000%” a plot by ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy, with Fox News as accomplice, to “screw MAGA,” to make new Speaker Mike Johnson’s job harder, to sabotage the ability to make massive budget cuts, to defund the war in Ukraine, to force offsets for aid to Israel, to “stop anything you really want to do on the border” and to take away the GOP majority in the House.

“They want a civil war? They got one!” Bannon fumed. “Anybody that takes a penny from McCarthy, you’re part of the problem.” He claimed McCarthy already has $17 million that will be used to “take out the MAGA candidates” and is fundraising for more. “So, bring it!” Bannon added.

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