Trevor Noah interviewed Pres. Barack Obama. It was a great discussion and it’s worth your time to watch the whole piece. [Pajiba]
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Lamar Odom went to rehab voluntarily. [Dlisted]
Kylie Jenner dressed up as Christina Aguilera for Christina’s birthday. [The Blemish]
Emily Ratajkowski wore a red one-piece swimsuit. [Popoholic]
Here’s video of Kanye West meeting with Donald Trump. [Starcasm]
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60 Minutes hates disabled people, basically. [XOJane]
Kim Kardashian did the Love Advent calendar. [IDLY]
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Why would you countdown Christmas with scantily clad ladies a la the Love advent calendar?
I regret not giving Trevor Noah a chance to win until recently. I thoroughly enjoyed watching him expose that angry white woman, Tomi Whatever, and then went on a binge. I hope more people find him after this interview.
I actually check her facebook out of curiousity. She went and did an interview with another black guy after her Trevor Noah interview. She expressed the main reason she was airing the interview was because she felt she as a white woman couldn’t answer the question of how black people should protest differently so she aired an interview with a black person who said, black people should protest better by being financially successful. The video was titled something to the effect of, “Should Trevor Noah Be Speaking for Black America?” The answer the black person said was essentially, “No because he grew up in South Africa.”
There’s actually a comedians in Cars getting coffee with Trevor Noah that got me to watch his show. He talks about having to pretend like his white father was his mom’s boss because his parents relationship and his own existence was illegal. Can you imagine. It kind of seems like he might have a leg to stand on when discussing racism and oppression.
“He talks about having to pretend like his white father was his mom’s boss because his parents relationship and his own existence was illegal”
Yeah he talked about this extensively in a recent Fresh Air interview.
He was MORE than respectful towards Tomi but no surprise, she acted like a butthurt child afterwards
That story is part of his stand up routine or used to be. Not that it’s not true, but it is simultaneously horrifying and funny when he tells it in his stand up.
If you can find his early international stand up concerts, when he was still trying to break out, he often retold that story as part of his routine. I think it’s called ‘born a crime’. There is more to the story than the brief version he gives nowadays. Not just about his parents, but also how their neighbours treated him and how they finally had to break it to his grandmother that he was mixed and not albino/ freakishly light skinned black in relation to redt of family.
He generally discusses racial/cultural differences in a really funny, but nuanced way.
Personally, he had me at his ‘drunk Mandela’ joke that he dropped from his show when he started working internationally.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HMZjSqJwmE
Also his very funny riff on colonialism.
https://vimeo.com/130619176
I remember Trevor saying that for years, he thought he was just an “indoor child”, because his mom kept him inside so the neighbors wouldn’t see that he was mixed.
Oh goodness, that Mandela thing is hilarious. Thanks LAK!
If you get the chance to read his memoir, he talks about that and growing up in South Africa a lot more in depth. (I liked the book, and I liked the insight into his life, but I also have to say, I walked away after reading it thinking that it was his mom who was the real badass. I hope he has her on the show at some point!)
I was never a Daily Show watcher, so I didn’t have any pre-conceived idea of what it should be, and I LOVE Trevor Noah! He’s not only adorable, but quick witted, funny, intelligent, diplomatic and charming. Definitely give him a try if you haven’t already!
Same! I loved John Stewart so much, I just couldn’t make the switch. And then I listened to Trevor Noah’a book on Audible and it took my breath away. So much respect for this guy, now.
Lainey has a recent link to his appearance on breakfast club between Tomi and this one. He is a very interesting guy!
Brilliant
Articulate
Really insightful
Astute
Compassionate
Killer (of ladies, he’s so effin handsome)
CAN WE PLEASE KEEP HIM???????
Frankly I’m annoyed at President Obama. Seriously it just seems like his naivety or optimism helped land us with Trump. The whole Russia connection should have been loud and center in October as should have Comey’s “unprecedented” interference. He seemed to have taken a very passive “I’m not going to interfere with the election” approach yet everyone else was already interfering with the election.
I think his hands were tied not only because of the usual partisan reasons, but because of the racism and vitriol that Trump’s campaign and his surrogates would have spewed if he had. I’m not sure how they would’ve done it, but they would’ve found a way to deflect and make it all about Obama if he had interfered.
On the (slight) bright side, the constant feigned ignorance that Republicans and Trump’s supporters are undertaking will come to bite them twice as hard when the truth inevitably comes out. That’s my only consolation from all of this.
Essentially Obama was damped if he did, damped if he didn’t. It’s been that way throughout his administration.
Stupid censorious auto-correct! Damned if he does. Damned if he doesn’t.
@wood dragon, if you really think about it, either one works.
I’m with you. But that’s been his whole presidency-he’s very measured. And sometimes that’s great-but other times it would have been helpful if he would have spoken out and been a little more impassioned.
But his way means that Donald might actually take his advice sometimes…. Speaking truth to power doesn’t have to be done with a hammer.
The real problem was that the mainstream media was so distracted by “e-mails!” (that as Obama said, honestly weren’t much, despite the hysterical viewing with alarm) that they ignored real issues. Hillary did talk about many issues and policies but you would never know it from watching tv or reading major newspapers. They let Trump decide what was interesting and what was not. The Russian interference was well established early not only by our intelligence agencies but also by the Europeans who were dealing with similar problems. The media just didn’t make it a story that sounded serious to their viewers and readers. But it is. Likewise with FBI agents leaking like sieves to Giuliani and Comey violating clear protocol to give the impression of wrongdoing by Hillary when oops, it turned out to have nothing to do with her. These were acts designed to sway the election toward Trump.
I disagree with Obama about lack of evidence for vote tampering. We can’t know that without hand recounts of paper ballots. The fact that such recounts have been blocked by states and Trump’s people is quite suspicious to me, as is the very fact that there is no paper ballot to hand recount for many of the machines. Not only can deliberate vote tampering occur, both for local and national reasons — but machine malfunctions can occur. You won’t pick up optical scanner software or hardware problems by running the ballots through a second time, as they were doing. I proofread my own ocr output in my work and it is common for the ocr program to skip sentences or paragraphs. — and that sounds like what happened when 75,000 scanned ballots in a predominantly black area registered votes for lower offices but not for President. The human eye will not make that mistake.
This has been my (sole) ongoing complaint with him: he really kept thinking the Republicans had America’s interest at heart. It means that he was raised right, but it feels like “raised right” doesn’t count for much anymore.
there is zero evidence linking russia to the hacks. so many people have called it BS. why can’t you people let trump enjoy his win. if there was concrete evidence the cia would have released it but its all a lie. another attempt to undermine trumps win.
first it was the recounts in only the states donald trump won. that backfired. trump won more votes in the recounts. now u are blaming russia. what’s next?
lets not forget hillary Clinton sold uranium to russia.
hillary Clinton’s camp was first hacked long before donald trump ever had any intention to run for president.
why aren’t people interested in the contents of the leaked hillary Clinton’s emails. those emails showed who she really is and we should be thankful to who ever exposed her for who she really is, a liar and a cheat.
OMG – enough about those freaking e-mails. The FBI found THREE e-mails that were called into question and none of them were officially classified material. As for Trump – he’s not even in office yet and I’m already exhausted from all his shenanigans. Every day there is a different tweet or idiotic statement from him. As for Hillary being a liar – every time Trump opens his mouth a lie tumbles out.
There’s a meme going around that says: When I think of how close we actually came to having a president who once used a private email server just like her predecessors, I’m like whew, thank goodness we got the guy who’s going to bust unions, take away people’s healthcare, fleece the treasury and give all our military secrets to Russia…Wow, that was a close one!
And now we have a guy who was ready to appoint to his cabinet one fellow who spilled classified info to his girlfriend and another who set up an illegal server to transmit classified material to unauthorized NATO contacts.
@Prince: leprechauns invented global warming to protect their gold reserves. My cat once killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Cancer is a state of mind, brought to you by Xenu™. And my first job? Roping foals at the only unicorn rodeo in the world.
Don’t you dare tell me I’m full of crap, I believe every last statement I made with every fiber of my being, and that makes them true. Who needs facts? I’ve got emotion on my side!
lol..yeah this is basically the mindset of a Trump-supporter in a nutshell.
Thumbs up!
Loooove this.
This comment is made of WIN!
I know, don’t confuse you with facts, but there absolutely has been evidence of Russia tampering.
“so many people have called it BS.”
But our 17 intelligence agencies call it truth.
Go back to work at Sputnik, Prince. You sound like a kremlin troll.
Plus the European intelligence people are saying the same thing – Putin has been meddling with their elections in similar ways.
This whole uranium story seems to be the answer the Trumpets are all using to counter the Russian interference with the election. It isn’t working. There’s a great deal more here than “let Trump enjoy his win.” The contents of the emails are not as bad as they are being portrayed.
Can we please see the GOP emails that were hacked? I really want to know what Ryan truly thinks of Trump and what his plans before the convention really were.
Welcome to a post-fact world.
Prince: Big picture:
Republican Mitch McConnell, senators (bi-partisan) unite behind investigation into Russian hacking. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with President-elect Donald Trump over Russia on Monday, saying he supports a congressional investigation into findings that Russian hackers attempted to influence the election.
McConnell praised the American intelligence community, saying he has “the highest confidence in the intelligence community, and especially the Central Intelligence Agency” — which Trump had recently lambasted over its findings.
This is not political at this point, the electoral college could vote for someone other than Trump. It is about accountability.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/russia-hacking-election-senators-donald-trump-angus-king/
Did you just say “evidence”? Since when do Trump voters care about evidence and facts?
But since we’re on it, when the CIA and the NSA as well as several European agencies say it happened, and many prominent Republicans agree? Yeah, that happened.
And can I just say, you Trump voters need to look beyond the orange buffoon. He will be fine. You, on the other hand? What if Putin – who will undoubtedly be here long after Trump leaves office – decides that he wants someone in the White House you don’t want there? Are you going to just shrug that off as well? Do you really think this is the end?
THAT is why Republicans are worried. They know this isn’t a partisan issue. Once you let this sh*t slide, it might slide right onto your candidate next time.
this is why I’m in full support of trump locking hillary up. this is a woman who said anybody who doesn’t accept the outcome of the election is a threat to democracy. this is a woman who conceded. then she goes ahead to support the recounts. she lost the recounts now she’s blaming russia. why cant she admit it, she was a bad candidate and she ran a horrible campaign with no message. vote for me, I have a vagina vote for me, lets make history.
she had the opportunity to bow out with dignity after her loss. she will go down in history as a bitter loser who couldn’t accept the outcome of the election.
You know your trolling looks even stupider when you can’t even use correct punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.
Lynnie, it’s nice to have you back!
Ignore it @Lynnie! Just ignore!
The CIA is blaming Russia. These are things even Mitch McConnell is concerned about and wanting to investigating.
Hillary Clinton, to my knowledge hasn’t been too vocal post election. She said she would participate in recount efforts that were initiated by Jill Stein and based on reports from those recount efforts it doesn’t even seem like her or her lawyers were that participatory.
Clinton hasn’t been too vocal? What about Tim Kaine? He’s turned into the invisible man
Prince, you are so delusional, where should I even start. So, if you want to lock her up, what exactly should she be charged with? Tell me the charge, not just a vague ‘she’s a criminal”. I want to know exactly what crime she committed? So come on… Secondly, she most certainly had clear policy messages, which you chose not to listen too, because you were too busy yelling “lock her up” with your fellow Trump minions. The candidate who did not go into any details about policies was Trump. You vote for a conman who couldn’t put together a sentence with more than 5 words; these tended to consist of lies, racist insults, mockery and conspiracy theories. If anyone is criminal, it is Trump: he’s got over 100 lawsuits to prove it and a pending IRS audit, which he already had to voluntarily disclose ‘an error” and pay a penalty for taking deductions he was not entitled to three days after the election: I know you don’t read this on Breitbart, so maybe you should start reading NY Times or Washington Post. The man won’t be in office in 4 years to get reelected. He has alienated half of his own party, who are literally rubbing their hands right now, because with all his conflicts of interests, they can nail him without a doubt and put Pence in power, who was their main man since the beginning, He’s a real Republican. Come back then and let us know how STUPID you feel for being duped.
Kellyann Conway is that you?
seriously! what a whack job.
She’s blaming Russia!? No, the intelligence agencies have evidence that Russia hacked the election, and Obama has ordered a review of the evidence.
Stop twisting genuine news stories to suit your own agenda namely: it’s all Hillary’s fault!!
3 frigging emails!
In this country, the government needs to convict a person of an actual crime before sending them to prison. She hasn’t committed any crimes but sure, it is good to know that you believe in imprisoning people just because they disagree with you.
IKR? At least here at CB you only get called a troll or blocked if you disagree with the consensus. What a bastion of tolerance.
@EP – when the CB consensus is against bigotry, corruption and a foreign state interfering in an election…… yeah, anyone going against that looks like a troll to me too.
Not that that stops people like you from whining anyway.
It’s also in favour of neoliberalism and the destruction it causes too.
Yes, those liberal hippie tree-huggers at the CIA claiming Russia interfered in the election — of course they’d say that. Hey, everyone, look over there — it’s Hillary’s emails!
don’t feed the troll
I think Trevor Noah is a big talent who is still evolving and finding his stride. As for Obama, I will miss his intellect and humor but look forward to hearing more from him once he is free of the presidency. What an eight-year ride he had, for the most part, with Republican blockheads too jealous of his charisma and ideas to let him succeed. There was not much he could do with this gang and they would have eaten him alive if he forced the Russia/ Trump connection earlier.