TPM’s Hunter Walker follows up on yesterday’s Lonegan fireworks with a (long scheduled) sit-down interview with Cory Booker. The interview covers really every aspect of the campaign and Booker’s candidacy, but I wanted to flag his response to yesterday’s story …
“Just imagine being an 18-year-old woman reading that, an 18-year-old high school senior reading that. … When he talked about what it means to be a man. Imagine being a kid being bullied in high school by people who are beating him up saying the same thing. And so, I learned a lot that words have a very powerful effect, especially (from) people who are in positions of authority. So, I think those words were hurtful, and demeaning, and deeply unfortunate, but a reflection of a narrow group of thoughts about our society that i hope we as a chorus of conviction and consciousness in our community can condemn. But I condemn them in a way where — I honestly and sincerely say this on a day that I’m more emotionally raw — I just pray for him and I pray for all of us. May we all elevate in our love.”
Mitt Romney’s famed car elevator mansion receives final approval for construction to begin.
Statement from Jay Carney on today’s Senate GOP filibuster of a clean debt ceiling hike:
In the wake of catastrophically bad poll results on GOP efforts to burn down the country, the GOP poll unskewers return!
Termination hearing for derp-spewing, militia-building, anti-‘Libtard” police chief in Gliberton, PA cut short when apparent supporter accidentally drops his semi-automatic pistol on the hearing room floor.
The disciplinary hearing for that wackadoodle Pennsylvania police chief was interrupted last night when someone dropped a gun.
Top GOP Rep. acknowledges defunding Obamacare is “off the table.”
Since we’d gotten a number of questions from readers, I jotted down a short post a couple days ago explaining that we’ve removed TPM from Flipboard, Google Currents and a number of other similar aggregator sites. I didn’t expect that the note would create a mini-storm in the digital news and ad community. So I wanted to explain and elaborate on just what I meant and why we’re doing this. Just note, this post is mainly about the tech, publishing and advertising world. So if you’re here for Shutdown coverage or just politics, this may not be your cup of tea.