Tomi Lahren is no stranger to controversy. The news anchor regularly receives backlash for her strong statements on Glenn Beck"s "The Blaze."
"Beyonc didn"t reference the Black Panthers to bring about some sort of positive change. She did it to get attention. Good for you, you made headlines," Lahren said in response to Beyonc"s Super Bowl halftime performance.
But now that controversy is presenting itself in the form of a petition to get her off the air for good.
On the night a shooterkilled fivepolice officers in Dallas, Lahren likened the Black Lives Matter movement to the KKK on Twitter. That tweet has since been deleted but was captured by multiplemedia outletsand quickly went viral.
In response, tens of thousands of people have signed aChange.org petitionto have her removed from her post on "The Blaze."
The petition reads in part, "The purpose of this petition is to not only show the complete disgust that the public has with Tomi Lahren, but to also demand INTEGRITY from all of our news and media outlets."
Lahren laterapologizedfor the KKK statement kind of.
"I"m outspoken, I"m controversial and I"m a human being, but one thing I am not is a racist. I"m also not going to be backed into a corner and silenced we all say c**p we don"t mean when we"re upset, and if my tweets on the night of the Dallas ambush hurt you I apologize but don"t for one second think I don"t have the right to criticize a movement I find destructive, damaging and dangerous," Lahren said.
So far, The Blaze hasn"t commented on the petition.
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It Remake Casts Hemlock Grove Star Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise - IGN News
Se voc tem coulrofobia, corra! A revista Entertainment Weekly divulgou a primeira imagem deBill Skarsgrd no papel do palhao Pennywise na refilmagem deIt - Uma Obra-Prima do Medo .
" um personagem extremo, inumano", afirmou o filho de Stellan Skarsgrd ( Thor ) e irmo de Alexander Skarsgrd(True Blood) sobre Pennywise, vilo criado pelo escritorStephen King no livro A Coisa. "Ele mais que um sociopata porque ele no nem humano. Ele no nem mesmo um palhao. Eu interpreto apenas um dos seres que ele cria.
No livro de King, Pennywise a personificao de um mal sem nome que assombra uma cidade pequena e se alimenta do medo das crianas.
O livro A Coisa j foi adaptado para os cinemas antes, no filme produzido diretamente para a TV em 1991, com direo de Tommy Lee Wallace. A verso de It no sculo XXI conta com a direo deAndrs Muschietti, cineasta argentino responsvel pelo filme de terror Mama, estrelado porJessica Chastain.
Segundo a EW, a verso de Muschietti de Pennywise "elegante, precisa e at mesmo sedutora".
Tim Curryinterpretou o monstro no filme dos anos 90 de forma marcante, por isso, o desafio de Skarsgrd foi dar seu prprio toque para este personagem. "A performance de Tim Curry foi realmente tima, mas foi importante que eu fizesse algo diferente por conta disso", afirma o ator. "Eu nunca serei capaz de fazer uma perfonce Tim Curry melhor que o Tim Curry".
It , nova adaptao de A Coisa, estreia nos Estados Unidos no dia 8 de setembro de 2017.
STEPHEN A SMITH FULL FACEBOOK RANT AGAINST TOM BRADY (7/13/2016)
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady"s four-game Deflategate suspensionstill stands.
That"s because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, denied his request for a new hearing on Wednesday.
So as things look right now, Brady will still miss the Patriots" first four games this season against the Cardinals, Dolphins, Texans, and Bills. His first game back wouldbe at the Browns on Oct. 9.
The suspension stems from Brady"s alleged role in the Patriots" under-inflated footballs cheating scandal, which began after the AFC Championship Game against the Colts, following the 2014 season. The Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl.
Last September, just before the 2015 season opened, a federal district court overturnedthe NFL"s initial four-game suspension of Brady.
But in April, the case moved up the legal ladder, to the Second Circuit appellate court, which reinstatedthe suspension. And on Wednesday, that same court declined to hear Brady"s case again.
The last appeal option for Brady is the U.S. Supreme Court, though it"s unclear if that court would be willing to hear his case.
If Brady does indeed miss the season"s first four games, the Patriots would go with JimmyGaroppolo as their starting quarterback. Garoppolowas a second-round draft pick by the Patriots in 2014. He has played in 11 career games, with no starts and 31 pass attempts, for one touchdown.
Though Brady would be suspended for two AFC East games (Dolphins and Bills), the Jetswould still have to play him twice, in Weeks 12 and 16, with the latter game being in New England on Christmas Eve.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The problem of people smoking and overdosing on K2 has gone citywide.
CBS2 even found a new neighborhood in the Bronx where it is a snap to buy, users abound, and pleas to help are apparently ignored.
CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer was demanding answers about the problem from Mayor Bill de Blasio in an exclusive report Wednesday.
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For emergency personnel called to the junction of Willis Avenue and 149th Street in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, it has become business as usual to see people overdosing on K2 also known as synthetic marijuana or spice and ending up on stretchers.
It is so commonplace that EMS workers and firefighters call the area K2 alley.
As exclusive pictures showed, it is easy to see why. People strung out on K2 loll on chairs in the middle of the sidewalk, lean against buildings, and nod out as mothers push their strollers to nearby stores.
People in the area say it is really easy to buy K2 there.
Theres different name brands; theres different names for them, but its all the same thing, one man said.
The man told Kramer the going price for what he called a stick was $3. The man would not tell Kramer where to buy it, but within minutes of the conversation, he returned with a thin, brown cigarette of K2.
Local businessmen are furious because the strung-out users are everywhere.
Ive been here 24 years, and Ive never, ever, ever, ever seen it this way, said local businessman Abel Brea. Something is going on, and I have to believe you have to put the blame on City Hall; the mayor.
Another local vendor has been getting people to sign a petition to get the city to act.
Weve been trying so long, said Terwinder Singh. People be smoking K2 in front of business, and theyll be falling down like crazy people; dont want to walk through streets. And we are businessmen. Were paying rent and everything. Were losing a lot of business.
CBS2s Kramer brought the frustrations to Mayor de Blasio. She asked him what he could do for the pressing problem.
We can do a lot, de Blasio said. Im very concerned about it, and we are acting on it immediately. We will throw the book at anyone selling K2. NYPD is very focused.
Kramer asked the mayor if help was on the way for K2 alley in the Bronx.
Help is on the way, and again, we proved in East Harlem we can break the back of the problem. We can go after the bad actors who are selling this very dangerous drug. Were going to get them. Were going to shut down any stores that are doing this.
Mayor de Blasio told CBS2 he wants the bodega owners to understand if theyre selling the drug, the city has the ability to shut them down.
We will literally take away your livelihood, the mayor said.
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Wednesday, police were raiding two delis at Broadway and Myrtle Avenue after 33 people overdosed on K2 and had to be hospitalized in the area the day before.
President Obama speaks at Dallas police memorial service
As part of the same show in which Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence was declared to be almost h***y for the job as Donald Trumps running mate, MSNBCs Hardball host Chris Matthews oozed on multiple occasions during Tuesdays show that the day would be known as President Barack Obamas finest hour as he spoke at an interfaith memorial service for the slain Dallas, Texas police officers.
Matthews led off the show by exclaiming what a day and noting how not only the President spoke in Dallas but former President George W. Bush as well before admitting that Id say in all seriousness it was President Obama"s finest hour that featured so much good in what he said.
Matthews also took a brief detour to resurrect his absurd belief that Hillary Clinton is a middle-of-the-road politician:
Hillary Clinton has always struck me as a moderate politically. On foreign policy, she"s too hawkish for me. On some issues like trade, she"s become more anti-trade than she was. Maybe there"s a nuanced difference but it"s to the left of where she was. I think that"s also clear in the platform.
Liberal pollster Cornell Belcher joined Matthews for a later segment fawning over how [t]here"s not a lot of leaders we have had over the last decade who could have made that speech since Obama threaded the needle and it was quintessential Obama cause he lays out a critique of both sides.
Belecher added by lamenting how Republicans always attack him for not being [in favor of] American exceptionalism but the answer is our exceptionalism, so he falls back on our American exceptionalism, we can come together and we can solve that.
Closing out the hour of banter with his Let Me Finish commentary, Matthews reiterated that I believe what [Obama] chose to do today may be his finest hour because what he said at the memorial for those five Dallas police officers was so finely balanced, such an exquisite, eloquent statement about the social and more unpredictable situation of today"s policemen and women.
Focusing on when the President ruled that police officers are called on to solve societal ills that voters and the rest of the government refuse to do (ex. somehow pour more money into public schools, gun control, etc.), Matthews concluded with his trademark infatuation for Obama but not to the point where he felt his leg tingle:
I"ve had great hopes for President Obama over the years and I"ve been proud of many things he"s done as President and as a man who is serving as our president, today was a high point. Again, it may have been his finest hour. Quote, I"m here to insist we are not as divided as we seem. I know that because I know America. That"s the President and that"s Hardball for now.
The relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBCs Hardball on July 12 can be found below.
MSNBCs HardballJuly 12, 20167:00 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: What a day! Lets play Hardball.
[HARDBALL OPENING CREDITS]
MATTHEWS: Good evening. I"m Chris Matthews in Washington. We are covering a big day in politics across the country and what a day it has been. President Obama joined Vice President Joe Biden and former President George W. Bush at the memorial service for the five Dallas police officers killed by an assassin last Thursday night and Id say in all seriousness it was President Obama"s finest hour. Let"s watch a bit.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I understand how Americans are feeling, but Dallas, I"m here to say we must reject such despair. I"m here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem.
MATTHEWS: There"s so much good in what he said today.
(....)
7:08 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: Hillary Clinton has always struck me as a moderate politically. On foreign policy, she"s too hawkish for me. On some issues like trade, she"s become more anti-trade than she was. Maybe there"s a nuanced difference but it"s to the left of where she was. I think that"s also clear in the platform. Somebody was holding out for free trade. Somebody was holding out for TPP, you notice. The anti-TPP forces did not win in the platform fight. So there is a push me, pull me thing going on in the Democratic Party between center, center left and left, right? And were hearing it tonight. It"s not over.
(....)
7:19 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: President Obama consoled the grieving families and colleagues of the officers but he also expressed a disgust attentions between law enforcement people and minority communities and addressed reasons for the growing violence and divisions. It was so honest. Here he is.
OBAMA: We wonder if an African-American community that feels unfairly targeted by police and police departments that feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs can ever understand each other"s experience. [SCREEN WIPE] As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools. We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment. We refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier teenager to get a Glock than to buy a computer or even a book. [SCREEN WIPE] And then we tell the police you"re the social worker, you"re the parent, you"re the teacher, you"re the drug counselor. We tell them to keep those neighborhoods in check at all costs and do so without causing any political blowback or inconvenience. Don"t make a mistake that might disturb our own peace of mind and then we feign surprise when periodically the tensions boil over.
MATTHEWS: The police group was a focus group there. I watched the whole thing.
(....)
7:22 p.m. Eastern
CORNELL BELCHER: There"s not a lot of leaders we have had over the last decade who could have made that speech cause Perry is right. He threaded the needle and it was quintessential Obama cause he lays out a critique of both sides and it was quintessential Obama
MATTHEWS: But give it to me. Tell me how you heard it.
BELCHER: Even going back to his race speech, I mean, he lays out this is what white America sees, this is what African-Americans see, but this is how we need to come together an he critiques both side. This is what he did here with this speech with both sides, calling and those Republicans always attack him for not being American exceptionalism but the answer is our exceptionalism, so he falls back on our American exceptionalism, we can come together and we can solve that as not a lot of Presidents weve seen give this speech.
(....)
7:59 p.m. Eastern
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with what the President said and did today. I believe what he chose to do today may be his finest hour because what he said at the memorial for those five Dallas police officers was so finely balanced, such an exquisite, eloquent statement about the social and more unpredictable situation of today"s policemen and women. He said, we send them into dangerous areas undercut by poverty, bad schools, lack of drug treatments, and too many guns and we ask them to hold the line for us, keep the problems and dangers that rise up in such areas from getting any nearer to us. We ask policemen to do all this, without ever sharing in the tensions these conditions breed, without ever making a mistake on their part and he did something else, the President. He talked to the critics of police, who act as if theyre not dealing in dangerous communities, who refuse to admit the context in which jobs have to do their work and simply get home that night. Survive. I"ve had great hopes for President Obama over the years and I"ve been proud of many things he"s done as President and as a man who is serving as our president, today was a high point. Again, it may have been his finest hour. Quote, I"m here to insist we are not as divided as we seem. I know that because I know America. That"s the President and that"s Hardball for now.
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz"s final All-Star Game appearance was a short one as Ortiz was removed for a pinch-runner after walking in the bottom of the third inning.
Ortiz, who has said he will retire after this season, his 20th in MLB, grounded out in his first at-bat versus National League starter Johnny Cueto.
In the third inning, Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandezended up facing Ortiz after saying earlier this week that he planned on grooving fastballs to Ortiz. After throwing a first pitch that clocked in at 80 miles per hour, Fernandez reverted to his mid-90s heat and eventually walked Ortiz.
Some local Esso franchise operators say a corporate takeover is forcing them out of their jobs.
In March, Imperial Oil finalized deals to sell its remaining 497 Esso retail stations in Canada to five fuel distributors for a total of $2.8 billion, with7-Eleven Canada Inc. buying 148 stations in Alberta and British Columbia.
The deal affects63Essofranchiseesin Metro Vancouver who say they"re now desperate and struggling to find new work to help support their families.
"By this transaction, practically my company is going to be closed and I"m going to be a worker for another company," saidMasud Ahmadi, whohas been running his own Esso convenience store for 21 years.
ECOSAN owner Myles Wilcott says he was told his services for Esso would no longer be needed. (CBC)
Under their current arrangement, Essotakes the profits from the gas pumps while operators like Ahmadiearn income from the convenience store attached to them.
"We are franchisers, we own the inventory and our rent is based on our sales and everything but this model won"t work with the new company," he said.
"They"re not running similar businesses so they don"t honour our ownershipwith this business."
Ahmadi said the retailershave been offered a managerial position at half the salaryof what they make now.
"It will have a huge affect on my family," he said. "My family members who are working here my brother, my wife and my father ... [will]not able to work in the same place anymore by the new company"s standards."
The deal will also affectlocal suppliers who sell products and services likepaper towels, sandwiches and cleaning services to Esso.
"Once we heard that 7-Eleven was coming in, they let us know that essentially we would lose those accounts," said Myles Wilcott, owner ofECOSAN.
"It didn"t matter that a contract was in place or what sort of relationship we had with them, it was just simply a change of ownership so for us it means a lot of lost business."
Ahmadisaidhe"s disappointed he didn"t even get a thank you for his service just a letter that read September 27will be hislast day.
"After 21 years working for a company.And I really believed in and thought I"m part of that," he said.
"They always called us partners.What sort of partnership do we have now?"
He hopes Imperial Oil will offer operators some more help after seeing how the changes affect so many people.
In response to CBC News inquiries, an Imperial Oil spokesperson issued a writtenstatement reading that"terms of our agreements with individual retailers and with 7-Eleven Canada are proprietary and confidential.It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of offers made to retailers by 7-Eleven."
