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- ‘I’m Surprised You Even Had Me On!’: Bill Maher Rips NPR as ‘Far Extreme...
Bill Maher couldn’t believe NPR even wanted to interview him. The host of HBO’s Real Time said he was stunned as NPR’s Steve Inskeep spoke to him on the Wednesday episode of the Newsmakers podcast, because he believes NPR’s audience is so hyper-leftist at this point that listeners would revolt against his appearance. “Your audience is going to love this, by the way,” Maher told him. That came after he said many liberals have their priorities all out of whack — they’ll punish people over small #MeToo infractions but yelp “globalize the intifada” and cheer for Hamas against Israel, he said. “The audience is a little more diverse than you might think,” Inskeep responded. “Really? I’m surprised you even had me on!” Maher shot back. Inskeep let out a hearty laugh at that. Maher continued by saying he believed NPR is “so different than it used to be.” He went on: What I always want people to do but it’s so hard to get people to do these days is just engage with argument. You can hate me, whatever, for whatever your reasons — you know, I’m too old, whatever I am. Are you engaging with the argument? Tell me if I’m wrong about something. And then we’re gonna be cool. But that’s not what either extreme does in this country anymore. And maybe I’m wrong, but I think of this place as the far extreme of the left. Inskeep told him, “Maybe there’s a little more variety in who we talk to than you might’ve been told.” Maher said “who you talk to” is different than what NPR’s audience likely believes. The veteran comic’s remarks come after he has bashed Democrats and leftists numerous times over the past few years. Maher told CNN in 2024 he doesn’t think his liberal views have swayed much since he first started talking politics on TV in the 1990s. Instead, the issue is “the left has changed” — and not for the better, Maher said. More recently, Maher said the fact socialist candidates won Democratic primaries recently showed the party is well on its way to blowing the 2028 presidential election. He told NPR on Wednesday that modern leftists only want to hear the “one true opinion” they’ve all agreed on, rather than hearing guys like him with differing viewpoints. Watch above.The post ‘I’m Surprised You Even Had Me On!’: Bill Maher Rips NPR… [TheTopNews] Read More.52 mins ago - CNN Data Guru Warns Trump He’s in Unpopular ‘Brotherhood’ With Biden, Cart...CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten informed President Donald Trump that his approval on inflation has put him in a rather unpopular “brotherhood” with former Presidents Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter. Enten joined CNN’s Sara Sidner on Wednesday morning following a new report showing inflation cooling down to 3.5% in June, a drop from the three-year high of 4.2% the month prior. The report also showed a small decline in consumer prices. These numbers though, Enten argued, have not improved Trump’s approval or the headache Republicans will likely be facing in the midterms. Enten declared Trump is facing the kind of “numbers that wreck presidencies,” showing Ipsos polling that showed Trump’s net approval on inflation remaining relatively steady for June. According to the surveys, Trump’s net approval on inflation sat at minus-six points in January 2025. He then hit “rock bottom” in May 2026 when that net approval dropped to minus-50 points. For June, his net approval improved slightly by moving to minus-47 points. “Did he improve? Yeah. Maybe a tiny, tiny bit at minus-47 points, but the bottom line is the long-term trend for Donald Trump’s net approval rating on inflation is down, down, down. These are numbers that wreck presidencies. These are numbers that Republicans do not want to see going into a midterm election… you can bet that Republicans would be in for a whole heck of a lot of pain come November,” Enten said. Enten pointed to both Ipsos and Gallup data to show that the presidents with similar net approval on inflation around the same time in their presidencies as Trump were Democrats Biden and Carter. Biden’s net approval on inflation sat at minus-43 points and Carter faced a minus-44 points approval. Enten said; All these numbers are bad. They’re all in the same neighborhood. They’re sort of within the margin of error of each other. But if you’re looking at these two numbers and you understand history and you understanding how inflation impacts presidencies, you do not want to be, if you are Donald John Trump, in the brotherhood with Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter on inflation because inflation ruined their presidencies and unless this number improves and given that the gas prices seem to be climbing higher again, it probably won’t. That means, as I said, a whole heck of a lot of pain for Republicans come the midterms. Watch above… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Even Trump Can’t Resist Weighing In on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s ‘My...
Screenshot via @taylorswift on Instagram. President Donald Trump apparently loves that his namesake airport is going to the dogs — Taylor Swift‘s dog, that is. Trump posted a screenshot of what appeared to be a story from The Palm Beach Post, with a photo of Swift and her newly minted husband, NFL star Travis Kelce. The article headline reads, “Swift and Kelce’s mystery dog debuts at Trump airport in West Palm.” “Taylor Swift’s jet touched down in West Palm Beach on Sunday carrying Travis Kelce and a surprise guest. Find out who,” a subhead teased. “So cool!!! President DJT,” he posted Wednesday morning on Truth Social with a screen grab of the article. Trump — who earlier this month celebrated the renaming of the Palm Beach International Airport in his honor as “SPECTACULAR” — apparently can’t resist weighing in on Swift’s affairs. The couple married July 3 in a blockbuster event at Madison Square Garden that sent the media swooning and commandeered the streets around the World’s Most Famous Arena On her wedding day, Trump posted a troll of the pop superstar. After actor Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony, The Garden’s exterior jumbotrons read “JUST&T MARRIED!” The official Trump White House X account posted a photoshopped image of the same screens with the messages: “TRUMP IS YOUR PRESIDENT” — with the caption “IT’S HAPPENED!!!” It recently emerged that Swift, who endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, paid New York City $160,00 for the permit and police response to her wedding, a two-day affair that included 1,000 guests at the ceremony. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) confirmed the amount Friday, after intense criticism from those who questioned how much taxpayers were shelling out for the billionaire songstress’s party. In all, 135 members of the NYPD were deployed to secure the area around the stadium, with several nearby streets closed to nonessential traffic. Swift and Kelce’s dog had tongues wagging when the white pup was revealed in photos obtained by Page Six, which reported the couple have had the pup for about a year.The post Even Trump Can’t Resist Weighing In on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s ‘Mystery Dog’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Dave Portnoy Baffled by Socialists in US Who Came From ‘Disaster’ Countries Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy said he’s confused by socialism’s surge in the USA — especially since those who back socialist candidates and policies all seem to have moved from countries that are “disasters,” he said on Tuesday. Portnoy vented that he has been baffled by voters who have embraced socialism — as well as anti-Israel views – as their top priorities during an interview on Adam Carolla’s podcast. “It’s like when people say the word ‘genocide.’ The Jews want to live in peace, I do believe that. If they weren’t protecting themselves, they’d get wiped out in Israel, and there’s not that many of ’em,” Portnoy said. “So it’s crazy times, it’s a complicated thing — you want peace out there, but how that has become the No. 1 campaign issue basically across the country, that I don’t know.” He continued, “How we’ve gotten to socialism is somehow seen as this thing that’s gonna fix the United States, and by the way, the people who are saying it, have all migrated from countries that are disasters to come to the United States! To get away from their country to fix the United States, the country that everyone wants to migrate to. It’s a very confusing time.” Carolla agreed, saying “professional agitators” have hijacked many of the political discussions in the U.S. He said they’re just interested in complaining, rather than fixing any problems. “They want grievance — whatever it is they say they want, they don’t want,” Carolla said. “Whatever the f*ck their ‘Free Palestine’ is, they don’t even know what that is. But if you did it, rest assured they’re still going to hate you and the Jews.” Portnoy added there is another thing that confuses him about socialist candidates and advocates: They don’t seem to have jobs. “I don’t know what these people organizing these causes do, because they don’t work. They seem to be from rich families,” he said. “A lot of the people getting these candidates elected, they’re professional agitators-organizers, but they have time on their hands!” Portnoy and Carolla vented after socialists have had a strong run in the U.S. recently. Democratic Socialists of America member Zohran Mamdani (D) was elected mayor of New York City last fall, and a handful of democratic socialist candidates won Democratic primaries over the last month. Two of those candidates in New York — Darializa Avila Chevalier (D) and Claire Valdez (D) — are card-carrying… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Radio Deal Activity Declines as Strategic Acquisitions Rise
Shift in Acquisition Strategies The radio industry is experiencing a notable slowdown in deal activity, with the first half of 2026 seeing just under 200 station sales. BIA Advisory Services reports that 197 stations were sold for a total value of nearly [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Fox’s Tomi Lahren Absolutely Torpedoes Trump’s GOP: They Haven’t Done ‘J...
Fox News host Tomi Lahren went off on the GOP for apparently failing to carry out its own agenda, claiming the party hasn’t done “jack sh*t.” Lahren’s slam on her own party came in an X Post Wednesday morning, as she called out Republicans for failing to act on immigration and voter fraud, declaring: “Vote Republican, get Democrat policy anyway.” The political commentator also shredded Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and questioned why anyone should vote for Susan Collins (R-ME) in Maine’s critical Senate race: Real question and I don’t care who it pisses off, why should we vote for Republicans in November? Mass deportations aren’t happening. Most of us are single issue voters on immigration and DHS under Markwayne has decided they would rather appease CNN and MSNBC. Republicans… — Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) July 15, 2026 Lahren’s post was cheered by none other than former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who was removed from his post in January after a tumultuous stretch in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in two high-profile fatal incidents: the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. “So well stated!!!” Bovino replied to Lahren’s X post. Lahren’s rant on immigration comes after three ICE-involved fatalities in about a week. Immigration agents shot and killed a man in Houston on July 7 during an operation. The victim, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was not the person ICE was trying to apprehend. On Monday, agents fatally shot another man, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Guerrero also was not the agency’s intended target, according to reports. ICE was also reportedly involved in a fatal incident in Florida, where a 28-year-old man was killed when he was hit by a truck in St. Augustine. The victim, from Mexico, was one of four people stopped by ICE and Homeland Security agents in a parking lot. All four people fled, and the victim had apparently run into oncoming traffic when he was killed, according to the Miami Herald, which reported that Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.The post Fox’s Tomi Lahren Absolutely Torpedoes Trump’s GOP: They Haven’t Done ‘Jack Sh*t!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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