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Screenshot via Club Random podcast Bill Maher went off on “the left” as intolerant after his guest Jay Leno noting that Sammy Davis Jr. received backlash decades earlier for embracing then-President Richard Nixon. On the most recent episode of the Club Random podcast, Maher was joined by Leno and the pair discussed everything from Johnny Carson to Leno’s recent accidents. At one point, the pair discussed the late Sammy Davis Jr. and Leno brought up the fact that the musician was called a “traitor” by activists after taking a photo with Nixon in the White House. “So what?” Maher said of the two embracing. “I know, but at the time he was seen as a traitor,” Leno, who sang Davis’s praises, said. Maher went on to compliment Davis’s response to the backlash, saying the musician said he would simply support any politician getting “results” for the American people. Maher argued:… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell pushed for an infrastructure project providing another link between New York and New Jersey be called the “Biden tunnel” in honor of President Joe Biden, predicting President-elect Donald Trump will take “credit” for the project. The tunnel across the Hudson River is part of billions in infrastructure investments from Biden’s administration. O’Donnell was joined by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday where the Last Word host pushed for Biden to get full credit for the coming tunnel. O’Donnell argued: It should be called the Biden Tunnel. It is the most complex infrastructure project funded by Joe Biden. It will provide a third tunnel across the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey, one of the most important interstate links in the country. As the vehicular traffic has increased across the Hudson River over the last 50 years, there has not been one additional… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Screenshot via This Past Weekend podcast Theo Von accused government officials of pushing a TikTok ban not because they are concerned about Americans’ private information being shared with China, but because they want the Palestinian “genocide” covered up. In a Tuesday episode of the This Past Weekend podcast, Von dismissed any national security concerns being floated about the China-owned TikTok platform, arguing the prevalence of content related to Israel’s bombing of Gaza — where thousands of civilians have been killed — is the real reason the government is uncomfortable. “I believe that they don’t want people sharing the truth about the genocide in Palestine and that’s why they’re doing it. I believe that that’s what it is and TikTok is one of those places where people can still do that. And they want to own it. They want to own it, dude,” the podcaster and comedian said. Amid calls for… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told Tucker Carlson in a Monday interview that Vice President Kamala Harris was arrogant and took support from organized labor for granted before her November election loss. O’Brien, who addressed the Republican National Convention in August, told Carlson on his X (formerly Twitter) show that Harris told his union to “get on board” and expressed to the former Fox News host, “Who does this fucking lady think she is?” First, O’Brien recalled to Carlson that before President Joe Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped their presidential bids, his union asked both candidates and President-elect Donald Trump to answer questions Teamsters members were concerned about. Trump and Kennedy answered all 16 questions, while Biden replied to five of them, O’Brien said. After Harris was nominated as her party’s candidate, O’Brien shared an anecdote about the VP. The Teamsters boss said he sent one of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Screenshot/CNN A Democratic Party strategist told The New York Times on Monday that her party’s brand was “in the toilet” with voters and that elected officials who were successful won their elections by charting their own paths. Times opinion contributing writer Frank Bruni hosted what the paper called a written online conversation. He was joined by podcaster Anat Shenker-Osorio, former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, and Lis Smith – who was Pete Buttigeig’s 2020 senior campaign adviser. The quartet spoke in-depth about where Democrats go after an election in which they lost the White House and the Senate, and Republicans kept their slim House majority. Addressing Shenker-Osorio, Ryan, and Smith, Bruni noted President-elect Donald Trump was four weeks from being inaugurated for a second term and commented Democrats were attempting to find their footing. He asked, “In your opinion, what’s the one biggest reason behind — the key factor explaining —… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.