Thank you, Betsy McCaughey. We really needed a laugh today. The former New York Lt. Governor, McCaughey was a guest on CNN last night, sitting across from Don Lemon and trying to defend Donald Trump’s use of certain explicit language. You know what we’re talking about, right? We’re talking about the video that surfaced last Friday in which Trump tells Billy Bush that he can just “grab” a woman by her “pussy” because he’s a “star” and can do “anything.” Trump also says in this 2005 footage that he can’t help himself… sometimes he sees a female and just starts kissing before, unable to even wait for permission. The tape, released by The Washington Post, has resulted in Trump plummeting in the polls, while also losing support of Republicans around the country. But McCaughey remains by Trump’s side! Betsy McCaughey Reads Beyonce Lyrics, Slams Hillary Clinton In the footage above, McCaughey explains: “I abhor lewd and bawdy language. I don’t listen to rap music. I don’t like that kind of thing, but Hillary Clinton, when she expresses …” At this point, McCaughey looks down at her notes and Lemon asks her why she’s referencing rap music. “I mentioned rap music because it’s full of the f-word, the p-word, the b-word, the a-word,” she said, to which Lemon reasonably replied: “I don’t think anybody likes that but those people are not running for president.” Fair enough. But whatever , McCaughey basically said. She had a ridiculous point to make! “Hillary Clinton expresses that she finds the language on that bus, ‘horrific,’ but in fact, she likes language like this,” McCaughey said. Whatever does she mean? She means that Clinton is on record as saying she loves Beyonce and Beyonce has sung such lyrics as: I came to slay, bitch. When he f-ed me good I take his ass to Red Lobster. Yes, McCaughey actually reads these words out loud on air. TWICE! “That happens to be from Beyoncé, her favorite performer,” she explains. “Whom she says she idolizes and would like to imitate. There’s a lot of hypocrisy in Hillary Clinton expressing such horror at language on the bus. Yeah, no. There’s really not. Please tell us we don’t need to explain why it isn’t hypocritical to like an artist who sometimes uses salty language… … while still condemning a candidate for President who says he kisses and touches women against their will. Presidential Debate, Take 2: The Insults Fly! “As much as I like hearing you say that, Hillary Clinton did not say those words,” Lemon responds, after he stops laughing. “Donald Trump actually said the words, and as my mom would say, that’s the horse of another color.” Yes, thank you. Moreover, Beyonce is singing about someone making love to her in a pleasureful manner and then purchasing that person dinner at Red Lobster. Trump is talking about trying to sleep with a married women (who he later tried to fire for turning him down ) and touching the genitalia of the opposite sex because a celebrity can do whatever he wants. It isn’t exactly the same thing. And that’s before we even get into the fact that Trump is running for the highest office in the land. You crazy, Betsy McCaughey. Thanks for making us laugh. View Slideshow: Celebrities React: Donald Trump, Billy Bush Conversation Leaked
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C’mon, you didn’t really think you’d get through a day without a new report of Donald Trump being a sexist douche bag, did you? The latest comes to us from the set of The Apprentice , a show from the time when “rich guy from the ’80s who yells a lot” was still a funny character and not a daily reminder that one of our major-party presidential candidates is an all-caps YouTube comment come to life. Understandably, Trump prefers to focus on the portion of his career during which he slapped his name on a bunch of things with big gold letters rather than the period of time when he was best known for sh-t canning people on TV. Now we may know a bit more about why that is. The Associated Press recently interviewed 20 staffers and contestants from The Apprentice and naturally, they asked about the Donald’s behavior on set . You may want to sit down for this: It turns out … he was a complete asshat! We know. You’re astonished. “We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task,” recalled one former producer, “and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, ‘You’d f–k her, wouldn’t you? I’d f–k her. C’mon, wouldn’t you?'” In fairness, Trump is hardly the first presidential candidate to let his little head do the thinking, but the JFKs and the Bill Clintons of the world have the decency to do their objectifying (mostly) behind closed doors! Of course, by Trump standards, the comments above are downright tame. So naturally things get much, much worse from there: Eight crewmembers say Trump repeatedly commented on a particular camera woman’s backside, “comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka.” If you didn’t just throw up in your mouth a little, go back and read that sentence again. According to former contestant Gene Folkes, during the filming of the show’s first season, Trump called for female contestants to wear shorter skirts and reveal more cleavage. Randal Pinkett, who won his season of the show in 2005, commented that Trum would openly discuss which women on set he’d like to sleep with, even though he had just married Melania Knauss the year prior. A producer named Katherine Walker says she was frequently made uncomfortable by comments Trump made about the other women on the show’s staff. She recalls multiple incidents in which Trump speculated about which women would “tigers in bed.” So yeah, long before he body-shamed Kim Kardashian … Before he tweeted about Alicia Machado’s non-existent sex tape … View Slideshow: 20 Times Donald Trump Proved He Hates Women Donald Trump was still a misogynistic jackass Of course, this latest revelation will cost him exactly zero votes, because as Trump himself once observed, he could gun someone down in broad daylight and not lose any support. In fact, just in the past 48 hours Trump made a truly despicable comment about veterans suffering from PTSD, and we learned there’s a good chance he hasn’t paid taxes in 18 years . So really, a little old school sexism might be a welcome distraction for his campaign.
President Obama’s time in office is soon to come to an end, and though the most powerful post in the country surely has its allure, we imagine the man will be somewhat relieved to bid the White House farewell. For one thing, he’ll no longer have to carry the hopes of the Western world on his shoulders and keep Joe Biden from choking on a Lego. But while his professional life is about to become much simpler, Barry is currently in the throes of one of the most grey-hair inducing experiences imaginable: raising teenagers in the public eye. Over the summer, reports of Malia Obama smoking pot and generally – gasp! – acting like an 18-year-old stirred up a baffling amount of controversy online. There were even reports that Malia was headed to rehab . Obviously, they turned out to be bogus, but that didn’t stop certain media outlets from eagerly pouncing on stories of Malia’s “hard-partying” ways. But even with the press’ ravenous hunger for political scandal (even Donald Trump can’t satisfy that appetite), Malia is a high school grad and legal adult, so the allegations about her love of weed and booze never really developed into that big of a deal. That might not prove to be the case with Malia’s younger sister, Sasha. Sasha is only 15, but sources say she’s got quite the active social life. And unfortunately, she lives in an age in which all of her peers are carrying high-res cameras in their pockets at all times. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before photos of Sasha partying were leaked to the press. Radar Online claims to have seen those pics (though the site declined to publish them), and they say it appears that the high school sophomore is gettin’ her drink on. Insiders report that the pics originally appeared on social media with captions reading: “Taking shots with Sasha Obama” and “When Sasha Obama is at your party.” They’ve since been deleted for reasons that remain unclear. Maybe Sasha pulled the “take those pics off of Instagram or I’ll have my dad drone strike your house” card. Classic move. Whatever the case, it appears that this thing has been promptly swept under the rug. But we wouldn’t be surprised if Sasha is grounded for so long that she’s hoping for a Trump victory to bring about the Apocalypse.