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Ben Affleck CALLS Bill Maher’s Criticism of Islam “GROSS” and “RACIST” — Maher Fires Back Over Why Muslim Moderates Stay Silent
Ben Affleck: So you’re saying Islamophobia isn’t a real thing? That if you’re critical of something.
Bill Maher: Well, it’s not a real thing when we do it.
Sam Harris: I’m not denying that certain people are bigoted against Muslims as people. And that’s a problem.
Ben Affleck: Why are you so hostile about this? It’s gross. It’s racist. It’s like saying, “You’re a shifty Jew.”
Bill Maher: You’re not listening to what we’re saying. We have to be able to criticize bad ideas.
Ben Affleck: You’re painting a whole religion with the same brush. What about the more than a billion people who aren’t fanatical and just want to go to the store?
Nicholas Kristof: Plenty of fanatics and jihadis are Muslim, but the people standing up to them are Muslims too. Look at Malala and others risking their lives to speak out.
Bill Maher: A billion people don’t hold any of these pernicious beliefs?
Ben Affleck: They don’t. That’s just not true.
Bill Maher: One reason moderates don’t speak out is because they’re afraid. It’s the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.
Ben Affleck: You’re making a career out of talking about ISIS, ISIS, ISIS.
Sam Harris: It’s not just ISIS. It’s a global phenomenon.
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Mayim Bialik Reveals Why She Feared Being Targeted After October 7 — “A Grown Man Approached Me in a Parking Lot While I Was With My Children”
Interviewer: Before October 7, I remember a pro-Palestinian group protesting me and handing out flyers calling me a Zionist. At the time, I didn’t understand why that was being used as an insult.
Mayim Bialik: Right, they were using it as a slur.
Interviewer: People seem to equate supporting Israel’s right to exist with supporting Palestinian suffering. But that’s not what Zionism means. Why should people who dislike a group get to define how that group identifies itself?
Mayim Bialik: It’s like telling a Jew, “If you believe in this, you must believe in that.”
After October 7, the antisemitism became much more visible. I was afraid. I didn’t know what I would find when I opened the gate to my house or what my children would experience.
I had a grown man approach me in a parking lot while I was with my children, wearing a “Zionism is Racism” shirt. I told my kids to get in the car. It was terrifying.
Interviewer: Did you ever feel like you were one of the only Jewish entertainers speaking out?
Mayim Bialik: No, there were others. Deborah Messing, Jerry Seinfeld, Gal Gadot and Amy Schumer, among others.
But I understand exactly why people don’t speak up. Ben Stiller wrote a beautiful piece saying you cannot attack secular Jews or hunt Jews down because of what the Israeli government is doing.
Many of us disagree with the policies of governments around the world. We don’t attack civilians who share their religious or ethnic identity.
Interviewer: Did you ever think, “I’ve entertained you people my entire life, and now you’re intimidating me in a parking lot?”
Mayim Bialik: No. Because Jew. My grandparents always said, “It doesn’t matter what country I live in, I am a Jew.”
And if you think throwing out a white flag and blaming yourself will save you, you have another thing coming.
Plenty of people don’t care that I’m a bleeding-heart liberal or that I cry for Palestinian children when they’re killed.
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Esther Krakue clashes with Ava Santina over whether women who experience sexual assault have a responsibility to report it to the police.
Piers Morgan: “I remember Rose McGowan, for example, going public about Harvey Weinstein.”
Ava Santina: “And look what happened to her.”
Piers Morgan: “She was incredibly courageous, and she did get a lot of terrible fallout from it. But by going on the record, I think it did help to incarcerate him.”
Ava Santina: “If these women had gone to the police first, the police would have said, ‘These are historical incidents. You can’t actually prove them in a court of law,’ and they would have been out the door anyway.”
Esther Krakue: “That’s why it’s important to encourage women to speak out. It’s not just about them. It’s also about protecting other women. I’ve had friends who’ve been raped, and I’ve said, ‘This is bigger than you, because this person can go and do this to other women.’”
Ava Santina: “If something that serious happens to you, the last thing you want to do is phone up LAPD and have two men round your house investigating.”
Esther Krakue: “Actions have consequences. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot choose to be quiet and then 10 years later say, ‘By the way, I was raped. Here’s my story.’”
Ava Santina: “I’m just asking for a little sliver of compassion for the women.”
Esther Krakue: “I have a sliver of compassion, but I also have a sliver of compassion for the alleged victims who were not protected because these women didn’t go to the police. Actions have consequences.”
Piers Morgan: “If you don’t go to the police, in a way you’re allowing a rapist, if that’s indeed what Russell Brand turns out to be, to continue doing what?”
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Candace Owens Accuses Erika Kirk of Betraying Charlie Kirk and Attacks Her Role at Turning Point USA — Stephen A. Smith Demands Answers
Stephen A. Smith: "I want to know, is there a single strong piece of independent, verifiable evidence you have that Israel was involved in any way in what happened to Charlie Kirk? Because there are a lot of people, obviously, supporters of Israel, who would emphatically refute anything you've said in that regard."
Candace Owens: "Yes. The correct office that would be able to look at the innuendo, the observable facts, the fact that the people around him lied, and that he was under immense pressure the night before, was blocked from doing so.
You had Joe Kent, the national director who stepped down and said that he was prevented from exploring foreign ties. That's a massive red flag. If we're so certain that Tyler Robinson did this and acted alone on a rooftop, why would Kash Patel's office shut down the investigation into foreign ties?"
Stephen A. Smith: "Asking questions about it is one thing. Some would say that you've come across as somebody who feels as if she knows exactly what happened to Charlie Kirk. How do you explain that?"
Candace Owens: "We wouldn't have to be hosting an open investigation every day if I said that I knew exactly what had happened to Charlie Kirk.
I do hold the belief and express the belief that Charlie was betrayed. And I think he's betrayed every single day, with the messaging, the partnerships and the direction that Turning Point USA is going."
Stephen A. Smith: "And who's the biggest betrayer? Is it the president? Is it Turning Point USA?"
Candace Owens: "It would be his wife.
A marriage is a sacrament in my view as a Catholic. You enter that union under God. And I do not believe that the way she is behaving, the direction she's taking his company in, and the lies or mistakes she has made publicly about what he was going through in his final days, are acceptable.
She is behind these attacks. She has made personal phone calls asking people not to attend certain events, people that she doesn't like.
So while she plays like she's this sweet puppy, she's nasty behind the scenes. At least I'm telling you how I feel publicly. She just has the budget, the money and the powerful connections with the Department of Defense and the executive office where she can play like she's a cuddly stuffed animal when she's vicious."
Stephen A. Smith: "Was she ever a friend of yours? Because it doesn't sound like it."
Candace Owens: "I didn't really know her. We've always been kind to each other. When Charlie passed away, I was incredibly supportive. I asked Andrew to give her my number so I could help in any way.
I was operating under the delusion that she would be interested in exploring and wanted to get to the bottom of what happened to her husband. And I was wrong.
Then I got to see, as they started firing people, that from the very beginning they knew I was going to be a problem. She was sending out PR agents and influencers to attack me."
Candace Owens Accuses Erika Kirk of Betraying Charlie Kirk and Attacks Her Role at Turning Point USA — Stephen A. Smith Demands Answers
Stephen A. Smith: "I want to know, is there a single strong piece of independent, verifiable evidence you have that Israel was involved in any way in what happened to Charlie Kirk? Because there are a lot of people, obviously, supporters of Israel, who would emphatically refute anything you've said in that regard."
Candace Owens: "Yes. The correct office that would be able to look at the innuendo, the observable facts, the fact that the people around him lied, and that he was under immense pressure the night before, was blocked from doing so.
You had Joe Kent, the national director who stepped down and said that he was prevented from exploring foreign ties. That's a massive red flag. If we're so certain that Tyler Robinson did this and acted alone on a rooftop, why would Kash Patel's office shut down the investigation into foreign ties?"
Stephen A. Smith: "Asking questions about it is one thing. Some would say that you've come across as somebody who feels as if she knows exactly what happened to Charlie Kirk. How do you explain that?"
Candace Owens: "We wouldn't have to be hosting an open investigation every day if I said that I knew exactly what had happened to Charlie Kirk.
I do hold the belief and express the belief that Charlie was betrayed. And I think he's betrayed every single day, with the messaging, the partnerships and the direction that Turning Point USA is going."
Stephen A. Smith: "And who's the biggest betrayer? Is it the president? Is it Turning Point USA?"
Candace Owens: "It would be his wife.
A marriage is a sacrament in my view as a Catholic. You enter that union under God. And I do not believe that the way she is behaving, the direction she's taking his company in, and the lies or mistakes she has made publicly about what he was going through in his final days, are acceptable.
She is behind these attacks. She has made personal phone calls asking people not to attend certain events, people that she doesn't like.
So while she plays like she's this sweet puppy, she's nasty behind the scenes. At least I'm telling you how I feel publicly. She just has the budget, the money and the powerful connections with the Department of Defense and the executive office where she can play like she's a cuddly stuffed animal when she's vicious."
Stephen A. Smith: "Was she ever a friend of yours? Because it doesn't sound like it."
Candace Owens: "I didn't really know her. We've always been kind to each other. When Charlie passed away, I was incredibly supportive. I asked Andrew to give her my number so I could help in any way.
I was operating under the delusion that she would be interested in exploring and wanted to get to the bottom of what happened to her husband. And I was wrong.
Then I got to see, as they started firing people, that from the very beginning they knew I was going to be a problem. She was sending out PR agents and influencers to attack me."
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A Gay Pastor Pushes Back on Being Defined by His Sexuality: “I’m More Than a Gay Pastor. I’m a Pastor Who Happens to Be Gay.”
Host: Just for clarity, how do you identify so the audience knows?
Guest 1: I’m a gay man.
Host: Understood. And Reverend Will Horn, pastor and author of The Handbook: A Conversation Guide to What the Bible Does and Does Not Say About Homosexuality, welcome.
Reverend Will Horn: Thank you for having me. This is a conversation that has torn families and churches apart, and even torn some people apart on the inside. I believe respectful conversations where we’re genuinely seeking understanding can help people heal.
Host: How do you identify for the audience?
Guest 2: As the representation of God in the earth.
Host: Is it offensive to identify someone as a gay man or a gay pastor?
Guest 2: No. It’s truth for me. It’s not offensive at all.
Reverend Will Horn: I wouldn’t say it’s offensive, but I would say I’m more than a gay pastor.
I’m a pastor who happens to be gay, but I’m also a pastor who’s Black. There are many different qualifiers. Sometimes that label can feel reductionary, but it’s not offensive.
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Bill Maher and Glenn Greenwald Clash Over U.S. Responsibility for Violence and Instability in Muslim Countries — “We’ve Been Interfering in and Dominating That Region.”
Bill Maher: "It’s not our fault what came out. We didn’t go into Egypt. We ended up with the Muslim Brotherhood."
Glenn Greenwald: "We were supporting and propping up Mubarak for 30 years, even as we were cheering for all the Tahrir Square demonstrators as though we were on their side. It was our government that kept Mubarak in power. We’ve done the same thing across the entire Muslim world.
It’s amazing for you to say, 'Look at all these Muslims. The minute you give them a little bit of freedom, they go wild and start being violent.'
How can you be a citizen of the United States, a country that has generated more violence and militarism in the world over the last five or six decades, and then say, 'Look at those people over there. They’re incredibly violent'?
We play a significant role in what has been happening in the Middle East because we’ve been interfering in and dominating that region to maintain access."
Bill Maher: "I wasn’t talking about violence. I was talking about theocracy. That doesn’t happen here."
Glenn Greenwald: "Okay, that doesn’t happen here. But at the same time, Iran isn’t invading lots of other countries and occupying them for a decade. Nor are fundamentalist Muslim countries doing what the United States has done.
These things are interconnected because we’re continuously interfering in that part of the world."
Bill Maher: "So it’s all our fault?"
Glenn Greenwald: "It’s not all our fault. But when you send your military into other countries for six straight decades to bomb them, kill their children, women and innocent men, and prop up dictators, you have to take responsibility for your actions."
Bill Maher: "That region goes back a thousand years before our revolution, so I don’t think we can take all the blame."
Glenn Greenwald: "I don’t think we should take all the blame. I think we should take a lot of it. And there have been plenty of bodies and corpses piled up in the name of Christianity and Judaism as well."
Bill Maher: "Not recently."
Glenn Greenwald: "Have you heard of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for the last 50 years, motivated in part by extremist views of Judaism?
Or the wars in Europe? Or the fact that there were generals in the United States saying we had to invade and destroy Iraq, a country of 26 million people, because our God is bigger?
Lots of religions, not just Islam, have produced violence."
Bill Maher: "That’s a silly liberal view that all religions are alike because it makes you feel good."
Glenn Greenwald: "No, it makes you feel good to say our side is better."
Bill Maher: "To put a crown on your head and say, 'I’m a good person. How do I prove that?'"
Glenn Greenwald: "You get to ignore the responsibility your own government has for violence and instability in the world by saying, 'Look, it’s that primitive religion over there that’s to blame.'"
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Bill Maher Condemns Islamic Extremism Following Charlie Hebdo Massacre — “To a Coward, Courage Always Looks Like Stupidity.”
Bill Maher: "When people say things that are offensive, evil, dangerous, we must have the courage to call it by its name. Every time. That is evil.
They showed a woman in London walking out of her house in a miniskirt in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood. All the men were screaming at her, 'Cover up! This is a Muslim neighborhood. You shouldn't do that.' And she says, 'This is Great Britain.'"
Guest: "Why do you think people think about you the way they do?"
Bill Maher: "It's the fight within Islam that's most important. It's not amenable to a solution from the West. But what we can do is not give a fucking inch.
I'm so with the Muslims because I keep saying I'm the liberal in this debate. All my life I've been a liberal for the downtrodden and the oppressed: Blacks, gays, women, the bullied, whoever it is. And Muslims are oppressed by their own people. That's a liberal thing."
Guest: "It's been 48 hours since these murders, and already the 'but' brigade is out in force. 'Free speech, but don't go that far.' 'Free speech, but maybe you shouldn't have done that.'
There have been horrific acts of violence, and women have been subjugated in these countries for generations. Maybe part of the reason the media is suddenly so outraged is because this time it's about them. Where was the outrage before?"
Bill Maher: "That's true. Where is the outrage? I've been calling for it.
This is evil, not to mention dangerous. After the Boston bombing, you said that the idea that writers, scholars and artists who stand against orthodoxy or bigotry are to blame for upsetting people is dangerous and spreading fast.
Here's the Financial Times. They said they weren't condoning the murders, but that publications claiming to defend freedom were sometimes just being stupid by provoking Muslims.
You know what? To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. It is wrong to kill cartoonists, and it's galling to be asked to respect that."
Guest: "The New York Times, unlike the Washington Post, didn't have the courage to publish the cartoon."
Bill Maher: "The Washington Post was brave."
Bill Maher Condemns Islamic Extremism Following Charlie Hebdo Massacre — “To a Coward, Courage Always Looks Like Stupidity.”
Bill Maher: "When people say things that are offensive, evil, dangerous, we must have the courage to call it by its name. Every time. That is evil.
They showed a woman in London walking out of her house in a miniskirt in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood. All the men were screaming at her, 'Cover up! This is a Muslim neighborhood. You shouldn't do that.' And she says, 'This is Great Britain.'"
Guest: "Why do you think people think about you the way they do?"
Bill Maher: "It's the fight within Islam that's most important. It's not amenable to a solution from the West. But what we can do is not give a fucking inch.
I'm so with the Muslims because I keep saying I'm the liberal in this debate. All my life I've been a liberal for the downtrodden and the oppressed: Blacks, gays, women, the bullied, whoever it is. And Muslims are oppressed by their own people. That's a liberal thing."
Guest: "It's been 48 hours since these murders, and already the 'but' brigade is out in force. 'Free speech, but don't go that far.' 'Free speech, but maybe you shouldn't have done that.'
There have been horrific acts of violence, and women have been subjugated in these countries for generations. Maybe part of the reason the media is suddenly so outraged is because this time it's about them. Where was the outrage before?"
Bill Maher: "That's true. Where is the outrage? I've been calling for it.
This is evil, not to mention dangerous. After the Boston bombing, you said that the idea that writers, scholars and artists who stand against orthodoxy or bigotry are to blame for upsetting people is dangerous and spreading fast.
Here's the Financial Times. They said they weren't condoning the murders, but that publications claiming to defend freedom were sometimes just being stupid by provoking Muslims.
You know what? To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. It is wrong to kill cartoonists, and it's galling to be asked to respect that."
Guest: "The New York Times, unlike the Washington Post, didn't have the courage to publish the cartoon."
Bill Maher: "The Washington Post was brave."
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Douglas Murray Confronts Al Andalusi in Heated Debate Over Extremism, Jihad, and Gaza Casualty Statistics and calls him “Islamist blowhard”
Piers Morgan: "Douglas, uh, first of all, what was your reaction to this interview with an NHS doctor last night on this show?"
Douglas Murray: "Well, let me first of all say that uh it's necessary to clear quite a lot of things up... Firstly, uh your guest last night is a member of an extremist organization Hizbut Tahrir, which is banned in many countries including in European countries."
Al Andalusi: "Douglas Murray, I'm not going to let you lie to the audience like you usually do... Right, so please, give me one country that..."
Douglas Murray: "It's not banned in Germany."
Al Andalusi: "Said Germany, you're not listening, you're not listening..."
Piers Morgan: "Is this Mr. Al Andalusi?... Let him answer, please."
Douglas Murray: "First of all, I'm not going to keep being talked over by this Islamist blowhard, let me speak... When a big bearded member of Hizb ut-Tahrir calls for Jihad on the streets of London, then they are not calling for an inner personal struggle with the nature of the divine. They are calling for violence..."
Al Andalusi: "You know, I just don't know if either of your guests are going to allow me a word in. Because you're lying..."
Douglas Murray: "It's really interesting hearing somebody who presents themselves as a moderate being a spokesperson for Hamas... They are all provided by the ministries of Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organization."
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Russell Brand’s Former Flatmate Recalls His Obsession With Sleeping With 5,000 Women — “He Told Us in the First Week”
Presenter: "Mark, you lived with Russell Brand years before he became a household name. Tell us how you met and what your first impressions were."
Mark Pinheiro: "We actually met in 1998. He came to watch a show I was performing in at the Hen and Chickens theatre in Islington. Russell was going to take over my role in a later run, so he came to see the performance."
Presenter: "And what did you make of him?"
Mark Pinheiro: "I was quite stunned from that initial meeting. He sat in the front row with his legs spread out, taking up the chairs either side of him.
You could already see there was quite a big personality there. He also had a really big, distracting grin. He wasn't a very sensitive personality."
Kate Garraway: You also spoke about his conversations around women and women coming back to the flat. It wasn't just what you'd expect from a young, carefree, single man. Even other men found the way he spoke about women and his constant desire for them a bit odd, didn't they?
Mark Pinheiro: I'd agree with that. I'd never seen someone with such strong enthusiasm about trying to achieve numbers.
He said he wanted to sleep with 5,000 women. That's what he told us in the first week we really got to know each other. When he introduced himself, he led with that information. That's kind of how he sold who he was.
I think, to a large degree, he wanted to play that up and prove himself in front of us as often as he could. So, yeah, that was a very strange admission to make.
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Michael Knowles Questions Why the Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Accused Killer Has Been Delayed Until 2028 — Ben Shapiro Weighs In on the Justice System
Michael Knowles: The trial of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk, will begin on June 21, 2028.
I don't know what special circumstance would justify a year-and-a-half delay before you even get to trial. It's pretty insane, honestly.
Ben Shapiro: The defense attorneys wanted this to go on longer. They were proposing delaying this until late 2029.
Michael Knowles: Charlie was murdered in September 2025. And the judge says, okay, well, we'll find a middle ground here.
The entire American criminal justice system is deeply flawed. And it is, in fact, a denial of justice.
Ben Shapiro: There's an old saying: "Justice delayed is justice denied." And I think that is particularly true here.
Michael Knowles: Whatever we call the death penalty in America, that probably is cruel and unusual.
We wait 30 years and then inject these people with poison. Some even wake up halfway through their execution and have to go to the hospital before what? We kill them again?
Ben Shapiro: The best argument against the death penalty in the United States is the way it's applied: unevenly, sporadically, and unusually.
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SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY REPEATEDLY PRESSES A MEDICAL DOCTOR WITH ONE QUESTION: “CAN MEN GET PREGNANT?”
DESPITE BEING ASKED FOR A SIMPLE YES OR NO, DR. NISHA VERMA REFUSES TO GIVE A DIRECT ANSWER.
HAWLEY ISN’T LETTING IT GO.
Senator Josh Hawley: Dr. Verma, do you think that men can get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I hesitated because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going. I take care of patients with different identities, and I take care of many women.
Senator Josh Hawley: The goal is just the truth. Can men get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I take care of many women that can get pregnant. I do take care of people that don’t identify as women—
Senator Josh Hawley: Let me remind you what you testified to a moment ago: science and evidence should control, not politics. So, can men get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I absolutely believe science and evidence should guide medicine.
Senator Josh Hawley: Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men. Can they get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I also think yes-no questions like this are a political tool.
Senator Josh Hawley: No, yes-no questions are about the truth, Doctor. I’m asking you based on the science: can men get pregnant? That’s a yes or no question.
Dr. Nisha Verma: I think you’re trying to reduce the complexity of a—
Senator Josh Hawley: I’m trying to test your veracity as a medical professional and as a scientist. Can men get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I think you’re also conflating male—
Senator Josh Hawley: I’m not conflating male and female. They’re two different things. There’s biological men and there’s biological women. Can men get pregnant?
Dr. Nisha Verma: I would be more than happy to have a conversation with you that is not coming from a place of trying to be polarized.
Senator Josh Hawley: I’m not trying to be polarizing. We’re here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men.
We’re here about the safety of women and science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases—that’s 22 times greater than the FDA label.
And yet you won’t even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don’t get pregnant.
I don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with us on this basic issue.
Dr. Nisha Verma: I am a person of science, and I’m also someone here to represent the complex experiences of my patients. I don’t think polarized language or questions serve that goal.
Senator Josh Hawley: It is not polarizing to say that there is a scientific difference between men and women.
Women are a biological reality and should be treated and protected as such. That is not polarizing. That is truth.
Your refusal to recognize women as women and men as men is deeply corrosive to science, public trust, and constitutional protections for women.
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Josh Radnor admits the How I Met Your Mother cast aren’t close anymore despite sharing such a close friendship on screen.
Interviewer: “Are you guys still as close as you were?”
Josh Radnor: “No. Not even a little bit.”
“I don’t mean that in any dramatic way.”
“It’s like college, where you have this very intense time together and you think you’re going to be… you can’t imagine not seeing each other every day.”
“And then it just disperses and you just go out and live your life.”
“People really want to believe that me and Neil and Jason are hitting bars in New York City together.”
“It’s a little more like family than friends, in that you don’t get to choose your family. We were cast. We didn’t choose each other.”
“You also have love that is quite deep and rich and probably everlasting.”
“But it’s not an active love.”
“Acting is a lot of little love affairs that you have and then you move on.”
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Piers Morgan clashes with James Barr and Ernest over ovarian cancer, transgender identity and whether gender is defined by biology or self-identification
Piers Morgan: “Men can't get ovarian cancer because men don't have ovaries. What is a leading cancer charity doing asking this stupid question?”
James Barr: “What are you doing attacking a charity? They're trying to help someone and raise awareness about people who could suffer from ovarian cancer.”
Piers Morgan: “A woman with terminal ovarian cancer messaged me and said the idea of sharing a tiny ward with someone who identifies as a woman but has a penis fills her with utter horror.”
James Barr: “You aren't a woman, Piers, neither am I. You know so much about women, your wife took a two-week break from you. Why are we listening to you talking about women constantly?”
Piers Morgan: “No men have ovaries. No women have penises.”
Ernest: “You all believe there is only one type of woman, which is cisgender women. Anyone who doesn't fit that definition is excluded. In my opinion, that is transphobic
Esther Krakue: “Are there different types of black people, or is black just black? Just like there's no such thing as cisgender and transgender, there are just women.”
Ernest: “Why are you conflating race with gender?”
Piers Morgan: “If I now identify as a black man, am I a black man? Am I a black man if I say I'm a black man?”
Ernest: “No, because you're a white man. You can identify as a black man, Piers, but I know you lean on white privilege more than anything else.”
Piers Morgan: “So you wouldn't respect my rights to identify as a black man? Would you respect me and refer to me as black? Yes or no?”
Ernest: “No.”
Piers Morgan: “Thank you, Ernest.”
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Rachel Maddow: “Hundreds of Thousands of People in Georgia Could Be on Medicaid Right Now” Explains What Democratic Leadership Could Change
Jon Stewart: “How can Democratic state houses make up that difference without really going into the red for themselves just economically? Or is it that they can put more pressure on this federal government for block grants? Like, how does that work?”
Rachel Maddow: “I don’t think Donald Trump is going to sign anything that’s going to be good for healthcare for the American people. Had he wanted to do that, he could have done that by now, and he never has.”
Rachel Maddow: “The fact that Georgia has been governed by Republicans for so many years means that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Georgia who could be on Medicaid right now, and Republicans are making sure they can’t.”
Rachel Maddow: “The Medicaid expansion is something that you can do under state law if you want to, and Republicans stopped them from doing that in Georgia.”
Rachel Maddow: “Now Keisha Lance Bottoms is in there. And it’s a huge deal that she’s the first Black woman to ever be the governor of a state anywhere.”
Rachel Maddow: “It’s a really, really, really big deal in the short term that this probably means that hundreds of thousands of people who otherwise don’t have health insurance in Georgia are now going to get it because of her and because of Democrats.”
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Russell Brand’s Former Flatmate Reveals His Obsession With Sleeping With 5,000 Women — Says His Behaviour Was Disturbing from onset
Presenter: "Mark, you lived with Russell Brand years before he became a household name. Tell us how you met and what your first impressions were."
Mark Pinheiro: "We actually met in 1998. He came to watch a show I was performing in at the Hen and Chickens theatre in Islington. Russell was going to take over my role in a later run, so he came to see the performance."
Presenter: "And what did you make of him?"
Mark Pinheiro: "I was quite stunned from that initial meeting. He sat in the front row with his legs spread out, taking up the chairs either side of him. You could already see there was quite a big personality there. He also had a really big, distracting grin. He wasn't a very sensitive personality."
Kate Garraway: You also spoke about his conversations around women and women coming back to the flat. It wasn't just what you'd expect from a young, carefree, single man. Even other men found the way he spoke about women and his constant desire for them a bit odd, didn't they?
Mark Pinheiro: I'd agree with that. I'd never seen someone with such strong enthusiasm about trying to achieve numbers. He said he wanted to sleep with 5,000 women. That's what he told us in the first week we really got to know each other. When he introduced himself, he led with that information. That's kind of how he sold who he was.
I think, to a large degree, he wanted to play that up and prove himself in front of us as often as he could. So, yeah, that was a very strange admission to make.
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Micheal Knowles and Ben Shapiro SOUND THE ALARM Over the 2028 Trial Date for Charlie Kirk’s Accused Killer — “Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied”
Michael Knowles: The trial of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk, will begin on June 21, 2028.
I don't know what special circumstance would justify a year-and-a-half delay before you even get to trial. It's pretty insane, honestly.
Ben Shapiro: The defense attorneys wanted this to go on longer. They were proposing delaying this until late 2029.
Michael Knowles: Charlie was murdered in September 2025. And the judge says, okay, well, we'll find a middle ground here.
The entire American criminal justice system is deeply flawed. And it is, in fact, a denial of justice.
Ben Shapiro: There's an old saying: "Justice delayed is justice denied." And I think that is particularly true here.
Michael Knowles: Whatever we call the death penalty in America, that probably is cruel and unusual.
We wait 30 years and then inject these people with poison. Some even wake up halfway through their execution and have to go to the hospital before what? We kill them again?
Ben Shapiro: The best argument against the death penalty in the United States is the way it's applied: unevenly, sporadically, and unusually.