In a Thursday night discussion with Fusion's Jorge Ramos, "Real Time" host Bill Maher talked about the Second Amendment, gun ownership and his ambivalence about personally owning a firearm.
When asked by Ramos if he owns a gun, Maher said, "Yes, but what I'm critical of is the fact that I live in the gun country and that no one seems to be really trying to get rid of guns."
"Of course, I think the Republicans are insane about guns," he continued, "because they love guns, which is a sick position to have in the first place, to love something like a gun? I don't love my gun, I have it the way I have, you know, antibiotics. It's not something I love, it's something in case of an emergency that I might have to use."
He went on to say that he wishes that the U.S. had a genuinely liberal party. The Democrats, he said, are virtually indistinguishable from the Republicans on gun laws.
"One party loves guns and one party likes guns a lot," he quipped. "It's ridiculous."
Watch the video, embedded below via Fusion TV:
Former President Donald Trump and first lady Melania are working overtime trying to discredit their former press secretary, original communications aide and long-time staffer Stephanie Grisham, whose bombshell new book reveals embarrassing details about the couple.
According to one part of Grisham's new book, when the first lady was mad at her husband, she would use the arm of a "handsome military aid" to walk with her to make him jealous, said The New York Times.
In particular, Grisham revealed that Melania was furious when she learned of her husband's infidelity when she was recovering from giving birth to his son.
"After the Stormy Daniels story broke and all the allegations that followed from other women," Grisham wrote. "I felt that Mrs. Trump was basically unleashed."
Melania would find little ways of leaving her husband out of photos and her social media posts, which Trump apparently monitored.
At the time, the then-first lady denied the reports about the affairs and hush-money payments.
"Oh, please, are you kidding me?" she said. "I don't believe any of that sh*t."
Read the full report from The New York Times.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday defended her recent shouting matching with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) over the issue of abortion.
During an appearance on Real America's Voice, Greene recalled that she had publicly yelled at Democrats on the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives because she became angry about a bill that would enshrine abortion rights into law.
"I said, 'Are you happy you passed a bill that babies can be slaughtered up until the day of birth?'" Greene recalled. "There were so many Democrats and they have their signs: 'Build Back Better Women.' How on Earth is it making women better by creating a law where they can kill a baby in their womb even though the baby is about to be born? How are we building back better women when we're turning men into women?"
"And so I just started speaking out," Greene explained. "Most of them weren't saying anything to me but it was Debbie Dingell -- like a dingleberry -- she started fussing at me, telling me I needed to be civil to my colleagues and act the way I would act going to church."
The congresswoman went on to claim that the Democrats' bill is "producing genocide in the Black population."
"They believe that life is so important that they are willing to shut down our economy, force children to stay home from school so no one dies from Covid," she said. "All of them voted for this bill that is actually producing genocide in the Black population because they put Planned Parenthood mostly in these Black-dominated neighborhoods and, you know, they're just pushing abortion and birth control."
"When we're passing bills like that, no one in here believes in God," she continued. "We're fighting against this and I refuse to be quiet anymore. It's not go-along and get-along."
Before ending the interview, Greene opined on the joys of motherhood.
"Whether a pregnancy is planned, whether the baby is born perfectly healthy or not, being a mother is life-changing, life-altering and makes women better people," she insisted. "And these abortions, these are actually things that can scar your body, they hurt you internally. And not only that. They scar your soul and women have to live with this."
Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.
White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki has apparently had enough of Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson's tendency to continue shouting additional questions after White House press briefings have concluded.
On Monday afternoon, near the conclusion of the daily White House briefing — which has become a "circus" of late, according to one veteran White House reporter — Psaki doubled down on the administration's criticism of the "horrific" behavior of some U.S. Border Patrol agents in their handling of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I don't think anyone could look at those photos and think that was appropriate action or behavior or something that should be accepted within our administration. There's an investigation. That's ongoing. We'll let that play out," the press secretary said. "But our reaction to the photos has not changed."
That was the end of the briefing — except apparently not for Robinson, the accredited corresponded for far-right cable news channel Newsmax.
"Thank you, everyone," said Psaki. An unidentified reporter responded, "Thank you, Jen," making clear that the briefing was over.
Robinson kept going, calling out, "I have a question. On the polling. The president's polling continues to collapse ..." but got no further.
"Emerald, I know you like to shout at the end," Psaki responded. "Next time, we'll do it during the briefing."
As Psaki departed, briefing book in hand, Robinson made one more try: "Well, if you'd call on me..."
"Thank you so much," Psaki said on her way out with the door.
For her part, Robinson appeared to be pleased with the aftermath of the encounter when down, responding to a video of the exchange by stating, "223,000 views and counting." Robinson also received words of encouragement from Newsmax primetime host Greg Kelly, who wrote, "WOW! PressSec ("Jennifer") really SUCKS at being PressSec."
Psaki's online fans, who refer to her as "#PsakiBomb," naturally believed she had emerged unscathed. But Monday's minor scuffle highlights a challenge that the White House press office continues to face under Biden: rogue right-wing White House reporters, including some with dubious qualifications.
As Salon reported last week, Psaki and her team have also wrestled with how to handle eccentric Christian White House reporter Matthew Anthony Harper, who does not appear for a reputable news agency of any kind. Nevertheless, Harper continues to call for an investigation into both "upper" and "lower" press officials in the Biden White House, against whom he has made highly unspecific allegations of wrongdoing.
Watch the exchange between Robinson and Psaki below, via YouTube:
Jen Psaki slams Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson over yelling question at end of briefing Salon.com www.youtube.com
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