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At this rate, a whole bunch of millionaire thugs will be kneeling as the IRS prepossess their mansions. Last year, the NFL lost about a million regular-season viewers versus the 2013 and 2014 seasons. It represented about a 6% fall-off ― enough to be easily noticed and maybe even cause a little concern, but it could be written off as a one-year blip. Last year's seepage has turned into a major break in the dam. The league is now down about three million viewers per game from 2013 and 2014. When the specific teams appearing, the scope of the telecast...

The president tweeted the video out Sunday morning. The video that President Donald Trump tweeted out early Sunday showing him bodyslamming a man whose face was obscured by the CNN logo appears to have come from a user on Reddit. A user with the handle "HanA##holeSolo" said that he/she originally posted the gif on Reddit. "Holy ####!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my ####post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!!" the user commented. HanA##holeSolo: "Holy ####!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my ####post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!!" pic.twitter.com/xOQ2jlQqwb...

Fox Television's broadcast of Super Bowl LI on Sunday night drew a 48.8 overnight rating, according to Nielsen data released by the network, lower than the previous two Super Bowls. (Snip) Last year's Super Bowl drew a 49.0 overnight rating, while the Patriots' previous title game appearance in 2015 helped Comcast Corp's NBC television draw a 49.7 rating, the highest overnight rating on record.

My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment. He dropped out of school in eighth grade to help support the family. Eventually he got a good, steady job he truly hated, as an inspector in a factory that made those machines that measure humidity levels in museums. He tried to open several businesses on the side but none worked, so he kept...

In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S. presidential election in November, Christopher Graves, a recent Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident honoree for behavioral science, global chair of Ogilvy Public Relations, and chair of the PR Council, and Steve Simpson, chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather North America, will dissect and debate the candidates’ communications and marketing strategies and techniques. SIMPSON: Hillary Clinton triggered an avalanche of criticism by saying “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” Her comment had staying power; it provoked a stream of counterattacks by Donald...

Fox News’s Sean Hannity had the highest rated cable news show in September in the key 25–54 demographic, according to Nielsen data released Friday. The top ranking marks the first time Hannity has beat fellow Fox personalities Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly since he moved to 10 p.m. O’Reilly’s show airs at 8 p.m., and Kelly is on at 9 p.m. Hannity — an unapologetic supporter of Donald Trump — averaged 525,000 viewers in the demographic and 2.39 million total viewers, according to Nielsen. Trump is a frequent guest on the Hannity and O'Reilly programs. Trump has done at least...

Hillary Clinton's super-PAC unveiled a new TV spot this week that brings to the surface Donald Trump's mocking of a disabled reporter a few months ago, Politico reported. Though Trump has denied mocking the New York Times' Serge Kovaleski, Priorities USA, Clinton's super-PAC, is jumping on an opportunity it thinks will resonate with voters. The message: Trump "mocked someone with a disability," reports the New York Times. "Women are pigs and slobs, Mexicans are thugs and criminals, and the disabled deserve to be targets of mocking and derision," Priorities USA spokesman Justin Barasky said in a statement to Politico. "The...

"If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where [Donald] Trump would be? Selling watches in Manhattan." It was Marco Rubio's big moment, the one that was supposed to damage the GOP front-runner. It wasn't a bad line. The zinger illuminated that Trump wasn't self-made. It made him seem like the avatar of New York's worst values--a street hustler from pre-Giuliani Times Square. Rubio's riposte got a laugh, but that was it. But he administered his blow too quickly, after a dizzying oppo dump of Trumpian facts--bankruptcies, lawsuits against Trump University, hiring illegal workers and so on. Like a hormonal...

Donald Trump's presidential campaign, which has faced doubts about its ability to translate enthusiasm into votes, in the past few weeks quietly signed an agreement allowing it to use the Republican National Committee's massive voter file, POLITICO has learned. The list-sharing agreement, which reveals a new level of cooperation between the GOP and its surprise front-runner, could be highly beneficial to both sides. For the Trump campaign, it means access to a database containing a trove of information on more than 200 million Americans, which can be used to power a get-out-the-vote effort. And for the RNC, it means that...

(snip) It would be wrong not to take Trump very seriously. It would be irresponsible. It would be to forget European history, from whose fascist example he borrows. In Weimar America politics are not what they were. The establishment looks tired. The establishment has not understood the fact-lite theater of the contemporary world. The Weimar Republic ended with a clown's ascent to power, a high-energy buffoon who shouted loudest, a bully from the beer halls, a racist and a bigot. He was an outsider given to theatrics and pageantry. He seduced the nation of Beethoven. He took the world down...

Protesters gathered outside of NBC's famed headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City on Wednesday for a "Dump Trump" rally ahead of Donald Trump's appearance as the host of Saturday Night Live this weekend. A petition decrying the Republican presidential candidate's upcoming appearance on the comedy show was delivered by the protesters -- who gathered outside the building that houses SNL studios -- to the executives at NBC. The box containing the signatures read, "522,080 petition signatures demanding that NBC revoke Donald Trump's invitation to host Saturday Night Live on Saturday, November 7th, 2015." Juan Escalante, a staffer...

Megyn Kelly tonight defended the CNN reporter Donald Trump attacked today and mocked the people in the media desperate for Trump to like them. When Trump was on CNN with Chris Cuomo this morning, he repeatedly attacked CNN reporter Sara Murray for being a horrible person who didn't show the size of the crowd at his book-signing and yada yada yada. Kelly--who had to explain to Trump on Twitter that "facts matter" today--checked Trump's claim and (get ready for a shocker) it turns out he was completely wrong about something. Murray did show Trump's crowds and wrote multiple times online...

Democrats stunned by Matt Bevin's victory in the race for Kentucky governor blamed "Trump-mania" for the Tea Party candidate's unlikely 53%-44% win over Democrat Jack Conway. "Attorney General Jack Conway ran a strong campaign focused on the issues that matter to Kentuckians: good schools, good-paying jobs and economic opportunity," said Elisabeth Pearson, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, in an official statement on the results. Pearson added: "Unfortunately, he ran into the unexpected headwinds of Trump-mania, losing to an outsider candidate in the year of the outsider. While Jack Conway came up just short tonight, his presence in this...

The third GOP presidential debate, held Wednesday evening in Colorado, revealed two key truths: The political media has declared war on several Republican candidates, and the candidates have declared war on the political media. The GOP's gripes against the media are legion. Over the past several election cycles, they have reached a fever pitch, with the presidential debates largely to blame. The problem, from a Republican standpoint, was epitomized by Candy Crowley's intervention on behalf of President Obama during his crucial second debate with Mitt Romney in 2012. Reeling from a limp and lackluster performance the first time around, Obama...

Actor Anthony Mackie endorsed Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump Monday during a promotional interview with BET for his new film Our Brand Is Crisis, and was immediately vilified online for being black and embracing conservative ideas. ... “I would 100 percent want to run Trump’s campaign. 100 percent,” Mackie said. “I mean, first that’ll be the best party ever when he won, and second, Trump’s an easy sell. … It wasn’t long before Mackie’s endorsement created a backlash on Twitter. Ira Madison, staff editor for New York Magazine, tweeted Monday: Anthony Mackie always looks like he’d love to get called...

Apple's Siri will listen to anyone — even hackers. French researchers have discovered a way to remotely gain access to Siri and Google Now on iOS and Android, respectively. The research team from ANSSI — a French government agency specializing in information security — were then able to control the intelligent personal assistants by using headphones with built-in microphones as antennas. Hackers could use radio waves transmitted from the antenna of the headphones to eavesdrop on private conversations, send the device browser to a malware site or shoot spam and phishing messages through email and social media sites — such...

… This week it was reported that Donald Trump would guest-host "SNL" on November 7. The same Donald Trump who defamed millions of Latinos with his anti-immigrant comments has been offered a comedy satire platform that would de facto laugh away his bigoted comments. … U.S. Latinos expressed chagrin on social media that Trump had been given an opportunity to host "SNL." The Trump invitation is tantamount to validating his comments that Mexican immigrants are "rapists and murderers." … The Latino voter isn't just exercising its clout at the ballot box, but on the small and big screens, too. !Si...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mentioned to you last week that I had a story about how what we are living through right now is actually worse than the Great Depression and why nobody knows. I went back to my archives, and I got that story, and I have it here. Open borders, bigger government, free college for everybody. How many people already have free college by virtue of having their student loans forgiven or what have you? Everything these people have tried has not worked, so they want to try even more of it. "Bigger welfare state. Get rid of...

Innovative scientists at the Institut Marques in Barcelona, Spain, have made an amazing discovery. Preborn babies can hear and respond to music much sooner than previously believed. “For the first time ever,” it can be scientifically proven that a preborn baby detects and responds to sound at 16 weeks gestation. The Institut Marques reports: “Ultrasound”, the journal of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), has published our study entitled “Fetal Facial Expression in Response to Intravaginally Transmitted Music”, an innovative research project on fetal hearing. This report explains that, beginning in week 16 of pregnancy, a response exists to music...

It is no secret whatsoever that Donald Trump‘s on-off wars with Fox News have a great deal to do with how he feels about the treatment he has gotten from Megyn Kelly. While the Kelly File host has largely been shrugging off the shade and saying a war with the plutocrat was never her intention, she offered commentary on the feud while speaking today at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit. It’s clear we may have overestimated his anger-management skills,” Kelly said. “It is not as though I didn’t anticipate that he might not like that question because he had already...