Новости за 28.12.2016

Mother Jones' Kevin Drum completely destroys Fox News' attempts at claiming there is 70 million dollars of fraud being committed on our food stamp program known as SNAP.

Our former managing editor Susie Madrak has a big warning over at Huffington Post for us all. As we all focus on Medicare cuts, let's not ignore what Republicans are planning for Medicaid with Dear Leader at the helm.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discussed Donald Trump's idiotic tweets that had "no real meaning" and conservative talks show host Charlie Sykes explained that twitter was Trump's best tool because it matched 'the quality of his thinking."

Scott Walker, a man of big and bold ideas, has done t again.

He's come up with a big and bold solution to the problem of climate change - ignore it and hope it goes away!

At C&L, we dedicate ourselves to calling out the media when they give aid and comfort to liars and manipulators that attempt to normalize the "alt right" and all their extremist points of view.

Judging from the all the whining at Fox, Republicans must be mighty worried about President Obama’s plan to stay active in politics during the Trump/Pence administration. So the all-conservative panel on Outnumbered did a little pre-smearing of President Obama’s post-presidency treatment of Donald Trump. Because, you know, Trump has been so respectful to Obama.

Yes, today we must look at the sorry state of our deplorable media. Fortunately we have some experts to take us on our journey.

Lindsey Graham, to his credit, is not giving up on investigating Russia for the way they interfered with this election. I wish Democrats were as dogged as he on this issue, but they are apparently on board with an investigation, at least.

For my husband Driftglass and I, best was "Deadpool," worst was "The Lobster." No really, The Lobster was just terrible.

Hope everyone had a stellar Christmas weekend. Back at job for a few days here. Sure could've used a few more days away from it though.

Jimmy Fallon played with Trump's hair and Colbert did as well as he could as an employee of Les Moonves, but the best in late night this year came from Seth Meyers.

In December, a report dropped alleging that Russia had engaged in a massive doping conspiracy during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. When it was rolled out, World Anti-Doping Agency investigator said, "For years, international sports competitions have unknowingly been hijacked by Russians. Coaches and athletes have been playing on an uneven field. Sports fans and spectators have been deceived."

Donald Trump loves to take credit for things he had nothing to do with as long as they are positive and that continued after Christmas had passed.