Les Moonves reassures that Colbert isn’t that liberal, a “moderate” even.
Harvard law prof on Scalia’s goof this week: “I strongly doubt it has ever happened before.”
We’ve already told you about the report from the Toronto Sun that a new audio recording of Mayor Rob Ford has triggered a decision to enter rehab and temporarily suspend his run for reelection. The tape reportedly captures Ford drunk out his mind at a local bar, complaining about his wife and saying he wants to bang fellow mayoral contender Karen Stintz.
But now the Globe and Mail is reporting that they’ve got or have at least been shown a new video. At first it seemed like there might be ambiguous language referring to a single recording But it’s not the same. It’s new video of Ford smoking crack just this weekend with his sister and possibly bodyguard, extortionist and drug dealer Sandro Lisi at Ford’s sister’s apartment.
Now we have a few more details. Ford is reportedly suspending his campaign to go to rehab but he plans to stay on ballot. In other words, he’s not dropping out of the race. The decision appears to have been triggered by a secret recording of him drunk out of his mind at a Toronto bar Monday night in which, among other things, he talked about wanting to bed a woman, Karen Stintz, who is also running for mayor.
Earlier this month we sent artist and writer Molly Crabapple to Istanbul to report on the aftermath of last year’s Gezi Park protests and the mix of secularists, dissidents, artists, football fans, internet free speech activists, anarchists and Kemalists who now continue the undercurrent of street protest in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian Turkey. They plan to return to the streets tomorrow on May Day. Today we’re publishing her account and her drawings of what she saw as our latest TPMPrime longform “mini”: Istanbul: Before the Tear Gas. (sub req.)
That Scientific American editor who wasn’t allowed to mention climate change on Fox this morning tells TPM he won’t be appearing on the network again.
Justice Scalia’s goof in his dissent from yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling on the EPA has been corrected as of this morning. See update at the bottom.
You can’t beat the set-up: Scientific American editor goes on Fox and Friends …
The administration of lethal drugs in the first of two highly controversial executions in Oklahoma went awry Tuesday evening. The inmate ultimately died of a heart attack, and the second execution was postponed for two weeks. The gruesomely ironic twist is that these two executions have been the focus of a titanic legal battle in the state over the drugs used in lethal injection executions.