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VIDEO If you are in public life, especially politics, NEVER pay for the services of a hooker with a bad check. The Jerry Springer Show prominently featured one such person, a mayor, who made that unbelievably dumb mistake. As a result of a hooker getting stiffed she had the documentation in the form of a bounced check to bring the local politician down. However, the good news is that such a person despite being really stupid proved he could spring back into a new career on television with a show featuring weird people and wild scandals. And it all started...

Legendary talk show host Jerry Springer has died aged 79, according to his family. A statement from his family confirmed that he passed away 'peacefully' at his home in Chicago. They said that he had been diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, with his health taking a turn for the worse this week according to TMZ.

Legendary talk show host Jerry Springer said on Thursday that the argumentative and out-of-control guests who appeared on his long-running show closely resemble former President Donald Trump, Newsweek reported. Speaking on SiriusXM's "The Dean Obeidallah Show," Springer argued that "there's no question" the infamous bickering and cursing of guests on the famed "The Jerry Springer Show" led to Trump's election.

A white Black Lives Matter activist appeared to cause a ruckus at an event being held by black leaders in support for South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Black Lives Matter supporters had gathered to protest the event just as a man stole the microphone from councilwoman Sharon McBride. 'Who chose these people as the black leaders?' the man shouted on the microphone. 'Who organized this?' The questions immediately drew cries and jeers from the gathered audience and at one point in the video, a black women held up her cane and threatened to attack he man. Moments later, the microphone...

It’s no secret that Jerry Springer has seen more examples of the decline of civility in society than probably anyone. So when he blames Donald Trump for the current rise in rudeness, maybe he’s onto something? He thinks so anyway, as he told MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle during a segment on Friday. “I used to joke and say that my anger at the president is that he took my show and brought it to the White House,” Springer said. He then talked about civility in a manner familiar to anyone who has seen one of his “final thoughts” that used...

Influential Ohio Democrats are pushing former Cincinnati mayor and daytime-TV host Jerry Springer to run for Ohio governor in 2018, more than half a dozen Democrats familiar with the race told Business Insider. Many said Springer, who sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio in 1982 and remains active in state politics, could be a good fit for the current political climate.

LOS ANGELES - A former producer for television shows including “Divorce Court” and “The Jerry Springer Show” was arrested last week and charged with killing her disabled sister in a 2015 garage fire. The Los Angeles Police Department reported Thursday that Jill Blackstone was arrested in Baltimore on murder and animal cruelty charges. Blackstone is accused of drugging her sister, Wendy Blackstone, on March 14, 2015, and putting her and the siblings’ three dogs in the garage of their North Hollywood home and setting it on fire. Wendy Blackstone, 49, and two of the dogs perished in the blaze. ABC7...

When the situation in Charlottesville, Va. shifted from tense to violent to fatal during the Rogues' parade of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other deplorables, photographer Ian Reid says he felt a grave sense of inevitability. For several months now, Reid, a New York-based freelance photographer, has traveled from city to city chronicling the increasingly violent clashes between the white nationalists protesting the removal of the Confederate Flag and confederate statues from public spaces and the counter-protesters they draw.

The Democratic Party’s plan to crash this month’s Republican National Convention is heavy on gimmicks and stunts meant to highlight a possible “Trumpocalypse,” as well as to ridicule the presumptive GOP candidate.... ....Democratic National Committee’s “Counter Convention Plan Sketch” covers 22 pages and outlines the party’s activities in Cleveland, where the Republican convention begins July 18. ...A copy of the plan was obtained by the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” who breached party servers and made off with DNC financial records... ....The DNC plan notes that the party’s efforts in Cleveland will cost in excess of $800,000. In addition to 16 staffers...

I guess this should be filed in the "Washington Politics" thread ... I'm an African American registered Democrat. I don't mind giving conservative Republicans hell when they deserve it. But unlike many conservative, I don't mind speaking out against my Party when I think they are wrong and encouraging them to do the right thing. Anyway, white liberals are having fits about the article posted below, which was written by me and published on my blog, in Black newspapers across the country, and at the liberal Daily Kos blog. I'm posting the article here because I'd like to have some...

JACKSON, MI – While efforts to terminate her parental rights were pending, Bridget Marks, a mother of three, appeared as a stripper on The Jerry Springer Show. “They don’t watch Jerry Springer in my house,” Marks, 23, responded when Assistant Prosecutor Kati Rezmierski asked her if she would want her children to see the show, which aired May 3. There is no nudity in the episode, titled “Strippers Go Round and Round,” and Marks said she was paid for her appearance. Marks, who said she no longer works as a dancer, was testifying Monday, July 29, during a family court...

A Tennessee woman who said she wanted a relationship--and did not want to be just “a booty call”--allegedly stabbed a male suitor Tuesday night after he became irate when she put the brakes on his attempts to “touch her suggestively,” police report. Oh, did we mention that the two are first cousins?

There’s a reason why even he-man Texas Gov. Rick Perry is leery of incoming presidential candidate debates, perhaps: “Politician” is one of the scariest jobs in the nation, say thousands of Americans asked to rank professions according to such factors as “imminent danger,” “public speaking” and ” potential humiliation.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has "no doubt" that President Barack Obama is an American citizen, staking out a definitive position on the matter after spending several days stoking widely debunked claims that the Democrat was born overseas. Perry's comments come as he's struggling to right his troubled campaign, and as some Republicans question whether he's done irreparable damage to his run by dabbling in the so-called "birther" controversy in recent days.

She was probably already spending the money in her head as she lay in her cell patiently waiting for her imminent release. But it appears Casey Anthony needn't bother because she may not be 'cashing in' on the death of her daughter Caylee as much as was first predicted. It was thought that the accused child murderer could have raked in millions of dollars from TV appearances, interviews, penning her memoirs, a movie about the tragedy and even a career in the porn industry. And no sooner had she been acquitted on all counts except for lying to police than...

EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Springer has a lot going on in his life -- 20th anniversary of his talk show, hosting duties of his dating show, 'Baggage' -- but the former big-city mayor always has time to talk politics. When Jerry called to say hi this week, I just had to ask about his fellow TV star Donald Trump, who in the course of a few weeks has become the Republican front-runner to oust President Obama. "Remember when you were a little kid and a wise guy at the back of the class would shout things out?" Jerry asks. "That's Trump. He...

Bystanders severely beat a driver who accidentally hit a man running from a mobile home park near Henderson where large fights broke out Saturday night, state troopers said Sunday. Troopers said the driver, who didn't want his name released out of concerns for his safety, was driving down Raleigh Road in Kittrell to get his son a late-night snack from Burger King around 9:15 p.m. Several large fights were taking place in a nearby mobile home park, troopers said. Reuben Wright, 19, of Henderson, ran out into the road in front of the car, and the driver had no time...

The trouble began, Theresa Smith said, shortly after she bought a hamster for her 9-year-old son. A few months later, the hamster, Princess Stephanie, was playing in its exercise ball on the floor of their apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, when an older son, who is 25, flew into a rage. “He kicked it deliberately, the ball flew across the room, the hamster flew out of the ball, and it died,” Ms. Smith said. After he had calmed down, the older son felt terrible, she said. “He was very remorseful,” Ms. Smith said. “He bought my son three more hamsters.” This...

Washington (CNN) -- Politics is serious business, but not all the time. Sar-ah! Sar-ah! Sar-ah! Jerry Springer is known for a lot of things -- from being the former mayor of Cincinnati to ringmaster of an outlandish talk show where smackdowns are more common than humidity on South Beach. Now Springer can add another title: FOS (friend of Sarah). Well, sort of. "I don't want her to be president," Springer told radio station WABC. "I don't agree with her views. But I would never say anything mean about her. I think she is incredibly charismatic. I think she takes her...

HOT off the press at Maggie's Notebook, looks like that poor girl came to her senses... ah, the power of prayer! ____________________________________________ Bristol Palin has dis-engaged her engagement to Levi Johnston. The week has been a busy one for Levi as pregnant girlfriends are speculated to be carrying his babies. Lanesia Garcia says her baby is actually not Levi's, it's the baby of the other guy, but... Briana Plum claims her baby's daddy is indeed Levi Johnston. No word from Sarah.