Sam Bushman wears many hats. All of them scream extremist.
Bushman is the new CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association — a far-right group, with far-reaching influence, that preaches that the nation’s sheriffs have authority to judge the constitutionality of laws, and to block enforcement of any they deem objectionable.
Bushman is also the owner of Liberty News Radio, a right-wing radio and podcast network that provides a soapbox for white separatists, including airing shows that platform former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler.
Bushman is the new CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association — a far-right group, with far-reaching influence, that preaches that the nation’s sheriffs have authority to judge the constitutionality of laws, and to block enforcement of any they deem objectionable.
Bushman is also the owner of Liberty News Radio, a right-wing radio and podcast network that provides a soapbox for white separatists, including airing shows that platform former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler.
- 10/17/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
As congress continues to search for a replacement House Speaker, two frontrunners emerged last week, in the form of Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Steve Scalise. Both options were pretty bleak for John Oliver, especially considering the latter candidate has previously likened himself to the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
To kick off his second episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver immediately got into Kevin McCarthy’s ouster, first poking fun at Patrick McHenry, who is filling the role in the interim.
Oliver joked that he looks like “Patton Oswalt as a ventriloquist dummy” and, like most of the late night hosts did this week, had a laugh at how hard McHenry slammed the gavel to adjourn the House after McCarthy was booted. The late night host then turned his attention to Jordan and Scalise, pointing out that Scalise was once equated to “David Duke without the baggage.
To kick off his second episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver immediately got into Kevin McCarthy’s ouster, first poking fun at Patrick McHenry, who is filling the role in the interim.
Oliver joked that he looks like “Patton Oswalt as a ventriloquist dummy” and, like most of the late night hosts did this week, had a laugh at how hard McHenry slammed the gavel to adjourn the House after McCarthy was booted. The late night host then turned his attention to Jordan and Scalise, pointing out that Scalise was once equated to “David Duke without the baggage.
- 10/9/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Don’t worry. Although Congress is at a standstill without a speaker for the first time in American history, Rep. Matt Gaetz said that everything is going according to his “plan.”
During an appearance on Meet the Press, Gaetz — who led the effort to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy from his position as speaker of the House — defended his actions, even though they have left Congress “paralyzed,” according to Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, in the face of an unprecedented attack against Israel.
“You led this effort to oust Speaker McCarthy without a clear replacement in place,...
During an appearance on Meet the Press, Gaetz — who led the effort to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy from his position as speaker of the House — defended his actions, even though they have left Congress “paralyzed,” according to Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, in the face of an unprecedented attack against Israel.
“You led this effort to oust Speaker McCarthy without a clear replacement in place,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
On Ash Wednesday, the First Lutheran Church in Knoxville called the cops on a parishioner who was attempting to attend services. Corey Mahler — a white nationalist who has sought to transform the Lutheran Church into a bastion for young fascists — was removed from church grounds for causing what his pastor called “harm and division to the body of Christ.”
The move against Mahler in Tennessee was set in motion a day earlier in St. Louis. The president of the nation’s second-largest Lutheran denomination posted a denunciation of agitators “propagating...
The move against Mahler in Tennessee was set in motion a day earlier in St. Louis. The president of the nation’s second-largest Lutheran denomination posted a denunciation of agitators “propagating...
- 3/3/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
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Elon Musk says Twitter will enact a general amnesty for suspended accounts next week.
The billionaire continued his ad hoc strategy of making policy by Twitter poll, asking users on Wednesday, “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?” He did not specify which laws.
A majority (72 percent) of the 3.1 million users voted in favor of the amnesty for blocked accounts, a group that includes former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, former Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, right wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, singer Azealia Banks, pharma bro Martin Shkreli and neo-fascist group the Proud Boys.
“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted when the poll had ended. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” he tweeted, using the Latin phrase that means “the voice of...
Elon Musk says Twitter will enact a general amnesty for suspended accounts next week.
The billionaire continued his ad hoc strategy of making policy by Twitter poll, asking users on Wednesday, “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?” He did not specify which laws.
A majority (72 percent) of the 3.1 million users voted in favor of the amnesty for blocked accounts, a group that includes former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, former Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, right wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, singer Azealia Banks, pharma bro Martin Shkreli and neo-fascist group the Proud Boys.
“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted when the poll had ended. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” he tweeted, using the Latin phrase that means “the voice of...
- 11/25/2022
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elon Musk, who just took over Twitter in a 44 billion leveraged buyout, sought to allay fears about the direction of the social media company by saying it is forming a content moderation council.
“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Without further details beyond Musk’s brief statement, it is difficult to discern the exact nature of the new council’s role or what it may mean in terms of expectations that many notorious figures and their followers could be on their way back onto Twitter. Facebook, facing a storm of controversy in recent years over the content circulating on its network, created a similar body and promised it would function independently from the company’s management team.
Former President Donald Trump and a range of others, especially...
“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Without further details beyond Musk’s brief statement, it is difficult to discern the exact nature of the new council’s role or what it may mean in terms of expectations that many notorious figures and their followers could be on their way back onto Twitter. Facebook, facing a storm of controversy in recent years over the content circulating on its network, created a similar body and promised it would function independently from the company’s management team.
Former President Donald Trump and a range of others, especially...
- 10/28/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
At the risk of damning an impressively strong debut with faint praise, B.J. Novak’s “Vengeance” is perhaps the best possible movie someone could make out of a murder-mystery that starts with John Mayer standing on the rooftop bar of a Soho House, but doesn’t end with the musician dead in a ditch somewhere.
In fact, Mayer never shows up again. He sticks around just long enough for you to assume the worst about what’s to come — oh yay, the other, other guy from “The Office” remade “Swingers” for the Tinder set, and cast someone who once referred to his dick as a white supremacist in the Vince Vaughn role — and then recedes into the background of a wickedly sharp film that satirizes our rush to judgment in a society where unprecedented chaos has forced people to rely on the stabilizing confidence of their own convictions.
Whatever you think of Novak,...
In fact, Mayer never shows up again. He sticks around just long enough for you to assume the worst about what’s to come — oh yay, the other, other guy from “The Office” remade “Swingers” for the Tinder set, and cast someone who once referred to his dick as a white supremacist in the Vince Vaughn role — and then recedes into the background of a wickedly sharp film that satirizes our rush to judgment in a society where unprecedented chaos has forced people to rely on the stabilizing confidence of their own convictions.
Whatever you think of Novak,...
- 6/14/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Topher Grace will portray former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke in Spike Lee’s upcoming “BlackKklansman,” it was announced in CinemaCon on Wednesday.
Grace’s casting was previously announced, but it was not known he’d be playing the prominent white supremacist and former Louisiana state representative in Lee’s telling of a remarkable American story.
Footage screened for theater exhibitors was brief but classic Spike Lee — biting social commentary that is all the more shocking for being true.
Grace’s casting was previously announced, but it was not known he’d be playing the prominent white supremacist and former Louisiana state representative in Lee’s telling of a remarkable American story.
Footage screened for theater exhibitors was brief but classic Spike Lee — biting social commentary that is all the more shocking for being true.
- 4/25/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Just in time for Election Day, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart took one last shot at presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Stewart, 53, joined Colbert on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, starring in an extended musical voting PSA urging Americans to hit the polls and vote in Tuesday’s presidential election.
The skit opens with a young girl telling Colbert, 52, that she’s “too scared to vote.” Colbert breaks out into song to encourage her to participate in the democratic process — but out pops Stewart to play devil’s advocate, decked out in a red top hat, a sash bearing...
Stewart, 53, joined Colbert on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, starring in an extended musical voting PSA urging Americans to hit the polls and vote in Tuesday’s presidential election.
The skit opens with a young girl telling Colbert, 52, that she’s “too scared to vote.” Colbert breaks out into song to encourage her to participate in the democratic process — but out pops Stewart to play devil’s advocate, decked out in a red top hat, a sash bearing...
- 11/8/2016
- by Aurelie Corinthios
- PEOPLE.com
On Monday night's episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert enlisted Jon Stewart to help him with an extended musical segment urging everyone to vote in today's Presidential election.
The subject of the skit is a young girl who tells Colbert that she's "too scared to vote." Colbert encourages her to participate in the democratic process. Meanwhile Stewart – sporting a red top hat, a sash bearing his own name, and a cartoonish southern accent – plays devil's advocate. "If the girl does not want to vote, I say the girl does not have to vote,...
The subject of the skit is a young girl who tells Colbert that she's "too scared to vote." Colbert encourages her to participate in the democratic process. Meanwhile Stewart – sporting a red top hat, a sash bearing his own name, and a cartoonish southern accent – plays devil's advocate. "If the girl does not want to vote, I say the girl does not have to vote,...
- 11/8/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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