“Sorry, Kristen Stewart, but “Twilight” fan Emma Clark is on Team RPatz. The Twi-hard community was dealt a devastating blow on Wednesday when Stewart, who plays Bella Cullen née Swan in “The Twilight Saga,” released a statement publicly acknowledging that she cheated on “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson with director Rupert …
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Man’s Penis Stolen By Thieves
“Thieves stole a man’s penis while he slept, according to police. Fei Lin, 41, of the Niqiao village near Wenling City, in east China’s Zhejiang province, told police he was asleep when the thieves burst into his room and put a bag over his head, according to CEN/EUROPICS and as …
Read More »The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People
“Michele Bachmann may have ducked out of the presidential race long ago (and oh, how we’ve missed her) but she’s still coming out swinging in the battle for Washington D.C.’s “Most Beautiful People.” The 56-year-old representative from Minnesota has ranked #10 on “The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People,” an unscientific …
Read More »Michael Moore’s Question For President Obama After Colorado Shooting
“Filmmaker Michael Moore on Tuesday posed a tough question for President Barack Obama on gun control. The director of “Bowling for Columbine,” a documentary about the 1999 massacre at a Colorado high school, said the president has to be the “leader” on the issue and praised his speech in Aurora, …
Read More »Greece Expels Olympian After Racist Tweets (Voula Papachristou)
“Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was kicked off Greece’s Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right political party…”.* Was her mosquito joke out of bounds? Cenk Uygur and Hermela Aregawi (producer, The Young Turks on Current TV) discuss on The Young …
Read More »Did A Tea Party Leader Say ‘Jews Shouldn’t Be In Government’?
Did Wes Harris, founder and chairman of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party, say that that there is ‘no such thing as a moderate Jew’ along with other outrageous anti-Jewish statements? No, he made outrageous statements about Muslims which is apparently fine with many on the right. The Young Turks …
Read More »Uh Oh: Romney’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Attack Ad…
“After the conservative blogosphere used a selectively edited Obama campaign speech to suggest that the president belittled the achievements of small business owners, the Romney campaign released an attack ad featuring New Hampshire small business owner Jack Gilchrist as a counterpoint. In “These Hands,” the Romney campaign repeated the out-of-context …
Read More »Obama Says Lay Off Video Games and ‘Real Housewives’ at Urban League
“President Obama told young audience members to “study” and that success had to be earned in a global economy. “Don’t just cheer and not study,” the President said to an enthusiastic crowd in New Orleans. The President strayed from his prepared remarks late Wednesday night as he spoke to the …
Read More »Bored By The 2012 Presidential Election?
Why are people bored by the 2012 presidential race between Mitt Romney and President Obama? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down, including Mitt’s comments on the NRA, and the electoral college and the influence of big money donors. Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://bit.ly/TYTonYouTube Like Us …
Read More »Google Fiber and Internet Outages – 90 Seconds on The Verge
Let’s go ahead and address the elephant in the room: this is not a concentrated dose ofOn The Verge. That is a late night talk show for tech enthusiasts and forward-thinkers hosted by Joshua Topolsky, or so iTunes tells me, and is filming tonight. While On The Verge can run anywhere from …
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