He's, of course, talking about the way "The Simpsons" responded to his documentary "The Problem with Apu." trib.al/JQVio0i
“I wasn’t trying to troll them, but it felt like I did,” Kondabolu continues. “They’re not supposed to respond to me. That’s an indication that you couldn’t handle the criticism…It’s really kinda shitty.” trib.al/JQVio0i
What else does he think is a “crock of shit”? Undecided voters.
“If you are undecided a month out, after four years?” he asks, expressing his disdain for the president. “What needed to happen short of ’Donald Trump came to my house and killed my family?’” trib.al/JQVio0i
But things aren’t all about death and destruction in the Kondabolu household. The touring stand-up comedian just welcomed his first child over the summer… during a deadly pandemic that’s forced him to be not touring. trib.al/JQVio0i
“If fate is like, we gotta make sure he has time with his baby—at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people—then fate is fucked up,” he says.
EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before the New York Post published its dubious Hunter Biden story, a YouTube channel linked to Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon-backer Guo Wengui broadcast conspiracies about “hard disks” full of Biden family dirt trib.al/mVnTzFC
While Guo's ties to Bannon have been long known, his association with the president's personal attorney seems to be heating up. Days ago, Guo-friendly Twitter accounts posted pictures of the billionaire and Giuliani smoking cigars together. trib.al/s3ZyYEX
Guo is also launching a strange fashion line that Giuliani mentions in a racist video he accidentally uploaded to YouTube trib.al/s3ZyYEX
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump's influential supporter, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide trib.al/hIfeCR3
Sources say Murdoch is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy, that he isn’t listening to advice about how to handle the pandemic, and that he’s creating a never-ending crisis for his administration trib.al/hIfeCR3
In response to an email inquiry for this story, Murdoch responded, “No comment except I’ve never called Trump an idiot,” referring to a 2018 report that the mogul called the president a “fucking idiot” following a chat about immigration trib.al/hIfeCR3
NEW: Rudy Giuliani’s latest effort to push more dirt on the Bidens weeks before the 2020 presidential election had some important backers—chief among them, the president of the United States trib.al/BSmZmSE
“Have you heard about this [hard drive]?” one source recalled the president asking recently.
The president made clear this latest salvo against the Bidens had his approval. trib.al/BSmZmSE
Multiple senior-level officials in Trumpworld, including some on the reelection effort, were aware of a secret dossier or a hard drive regarding salacious and potentially damaging information on Hunter Biden several weeks before the story broke trib.al/BSmZmSE
EXCLUSIVE: According to multiple sources familiar with the president's thinking, Trump has told close associates that he wishes to counter-program the Biden town hall and score higher TV viewership numbers, and then use such a contrast to humiliate Biden
“He looks at this the same way he looks at attendance at his rallies versus the [turnout] Biden gets for his events,” one source told The Daily Beast. “He obviously wants to blow Biden out of the water.” trib.al/B5mvmC4
NBC's leadership faced a barrage of condemnation after the last-minute announcement that the broadcast network would air the live event during the same hour as ABC News’ previously scheduled town hall with Biden trib.al/B5mvmC4
OPINION: "On a surreal day of GOP-generated alternate reality, every Senate Democrat tried to get America to awaken out of the Matrix but only one succeeded, says @jaymichaelson
.@jaymichaelson "As someone who has researched and written about this network for seven long years, I couldn’t believe my ears. I literally choked up."
"Because finally, finally, amid hours of sanctimonious bullshit from the Republican Party ... here was someone actually telling us what was going on," he adds thedailybeast.com/at-amy-coney-b…
Trump has become a template for a whole planet full of bad-faith actors and wannabe strongmen, MSNBC political analyst @mehdirhasan explains on today’ss @newabnormalpod
Before he became the host of his own TV show in America, @mehdirhasan interviewed all sorts of international politicians: “What I noticed over the last few years is that they all now start talking like Trump.”
Of course, all politicians are bullshit artists. But what’s different today, Hasan tells @mollyjongfast and @therickwilson, “is the way in which Trump and co. have turned lying into not just an art form, but an instrument of power.” trib.al/IL8CaV9