White House: Difference Between Donald Trump And Al Franken Is Franken ‘Admitted Wrongdoing’
Sexual assault against a US Senator are different from those Donald Trump has faced because Trump has denied any wrongdoing, the White House press secretary said. 
A reporter asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders if it would be fair to investigate the claims of sexual assault that more than a dozen women made about Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Senators are currently calling for an ethics investigation into whether Senator Al Franken. a comedian turned politician, should keep his seat ― a probe that Franken himself says he supports. 
“I think that this was covered pretty extensively during the campaign,” Sanders said.

“We addressed that then. The American people, I think, spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president.”

“I think in one case specifically, Sen. Franken has admitted wrongdoing, and the president hasn’t,” Sanders replied. “I think that’s a very clear distinction.” 
Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Trump sexual misconduct allegations: “Sen. Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn’t” pic.twitter.com/pUpn6EtYfg
Franken, who on Thursday was accused of kissing and groping anchor Leeann Tweeden in 2006 without her consent, has issued an apology. 
“I certainly don’t remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann,” he said. “As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I shouldn’t have done it.”

Trump tweeted later Thursday about the allegations, referring to a photo that appears to show Franken touching Tweeden’s breasts while she was asleep. 
The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? …..
Trump has denied all of the allegations against him. And last month, Sanders said the official position of the White House is that all 16 women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct are lying.  
“We’ve been clear on that from the beginning and the president has spoken on it,” she said at the time. 
Trump has also brushed off his own boasts of grabbing women “by the pussy” ― a comment famously captured on a 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape ― as “locker room talk.”
During Friday’s briefing, Sanders continued to dodge questions about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Multiple women have accused Moore of sexually harassing or assaulting them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

Sanders called the allegations against the Republican nominee “troubling,” but declined to say whether Trump believes them.

“He feels like it’s up to the governor and the people in the state of Alabama to make a determination on whether or not they delay that election or whether or not they support and vote for Roy Moore,” she said.

Moore has also denied all the allegations against him, and his legal team has sought to discredit some of the women who have come forward. 

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The GLAAD Wrap: Trailers for ‘The Chi,’ ‘The Fosters,’ and ‘American Crime Story,’ new music from Trey Pearson and more!

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Conservatives Attack Starbucks Holiday Cup’s ‘Gay Agenda’

The theory that the cup’s illustration of hands holding belongs to a lesbian couple has caught fire on social media.

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Navy officials take full responsibility for MASSIVE phallus
The penile rendering was first noticed by a concerned mother who reported it to her local news station.

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NEW MUSIC: Morrissey – ‘Low In High School’

Morrissey – Low In High School

It’s hard work being a Morrissey fan. From the early heady days of his solo career when the first tour was worthy of an MTV special to the genius first few albums (apart from Kill Uncle obviously), right up to 2004’s “comeback” of sorts You Are the Quarry, you were always assured of something close to brilliant with a hint of the ridiculous.

Then came the very average Ringleader of the Tormentors, the really bad Years of Refusal and the debacle of 2014’s World Peace Is None Of Your Business.

RELATED: Morrissey Urges You to Live for Yourself on New Single ‘Spent the Day in Bed’ – LISTEN

With Stephen getting older and even grumpier, isolated as he is high in the Hollywood hills, all he has to do these days is pop up once every three or four years, say something vaguely racist, release an album on yet another label with whom he will soon fall out, cancel most of a world tour and head back home to ruminate from a massive distance on shitty England, corruption and….oh look, Israel.

Since hitting his 40s, Morrissey has gradually become more and more bitter. Call me cynical but the pop star in him saw the potential behind the media-led fake outrage over “National Front Disco” all those years ago and has expertly bottled controversy to order.

It’s not easy for an old man in the years of the Twitter cesspit but he can still make headlines. For Low In High School he suggested that a leadership battle for England’s UKIP party (nothing vague about their racism, main force behind not at all racist Brexit) was biased against a candidate because she is “openly” anti-Islam.

Consider that to be the opening statement for Low In High School. Old Morrissey has often been a bit mean, sometimes seriously bitter and nasty. Take “The World Is Full of Crashing Bores”:

It’s just more lock-jawed pop-stars

Thicker than pig-shit

Nothing to convey

So scared to show intelligence

It might smear their lovely career

Fair point Moz. However:

Lamenting policewomen, policemen

Silly women, taxmen, uniformed whores

They who wish to hurt you

Work within the law

Aw bless, poor Morrissey has to pay taxes and abide by the law.

And so to “I Bury the Living” on which he claims that all soldiers too are thick as pig-shit and driven by “the hatred of all human life.”

You can’t blame me

I’m just an innocent soldier

There would be no war

If not for me

I’m just a sweet little soldier

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

You can’t blame me

I’m just an innocent soldier

Give me an order!

I’ll blow up a border

And I’ll blow up your daughter

Oh sweet Jesus.

It gets worse on the closing track “Israel” on which you have to think: Hold on, is he just taking the piss? Possibly. I love the Cranberries, warts and all but not since Dolly O’Cranberry lamented on “Sarajevo” that “Bosnia was so unkind” but not to worry because “things would change if we really wanted them to” has there been such a crass take on such an important issue. At least Dolores meant well. Not Morrissey:

And they who reign abuse upon you

They are jealous of you as well

Love yourself as you should

That’s it. Hamas is jealous of Israel. Jealous! If only someone had had a word with the IRA a few decades earlier, Ireland would be a different country.

With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns indeed.

Despite all this, as Morrissey does, there are some genuinely brilliant songs on Low In High School. The lead track “Spent the Day In Bed” is not one of them. If you can get over or ignore the lyrics, “I Bury the Living” is classic Morrissey stomping genius.

“All the Young People Must Fall In Love” is quite genuinely one of the best Moz songs in years. It’s playful, sweet and quietly scathing:

They say presidents come, presidents go

But all the young people they must fall in love

All the young people they must fall in love

Presidents come, presidents go

And oh look at the damage they do

On “Who Will Protect Us From the Police,” Moz does his Moz thing – funny, simple, relevant, biting and playing right into his audience’s middle aged hands.

“Low In High School” is not in any way a bad album. In fact it’s very possibly his best since You Are the Quarry. However, the bitterness leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. He’s not some thin, beautiful whipper-snapper anymore. The petty, adolescent bullshit is 30 years old. Grow up old man.

Fans will want to get the album now before he cancels his world tour and falls out with BMG which will then delete it. Give it six weeks.

If like me you love the very concept of Morrissey you will love this album.

It’s just a shame he has to be such a dick about it.

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Rabbi Says Roy Moore Will Fight ‘LGBT/Transgender Mafia’

Orthodox Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter was one of several right-wing religious leaders who appeared at an event in support of the anti-LGBT Senate candidate Thursday.

www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/11/17/rabbi-says-roy-moore-will-fight-lgbttransgender-mafia

Jeffrey Tambor responds to damning second accusation of sexual harassment
Is it really that hard to treat people with respect?

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Margaret Court, Mariah Carey, Armie Hammer, Todrick Hall, Michelangelo Signorile, GOP Tax Plan: HOT LINKS

GOP TAX PLAN. Orrin Hatch explodes after Sherrod Brown says tax plan is for the rich: “I’ve been here working my whole stinking career for people who don’t have a chance,” Hatch said. “And I really resent anybody who says I’m just doing this for the rich, give me a break.I think you guys just overplay that all the time and it gets old, frankly you ought to quit.I get kind of sick and tired of it … It’s a nice political play, but it’s not true.”

Sherrod Brown really takes the fight to Orrin Hatch here. No Trumpian namecalling or low blows. Instead focusing on the GOP helping only the ultra-rich. Judging by how mad Hatch got, Brown hit a soft spot. pic.twitter.com/WxDFb8ipHB

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) November 17, 2017

BAD SANTA. All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is…

MARGARET COURT. Australian tennis legend tells lawmakers to ignore results of marriage survey: “The tennis legend and pastor, who is married to former WA Liberal president Barry Court, urged politicians who were personally opposed to same-sex marriage to follow their conscience rather than the national survey result. Mrs Court, who argues that marriage is set down in the Bible as being between a man and a woman, said there did not appear to be place in the major parties for people with similar views.”

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer are making the rounds.

MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE. On Liz Smith, Kevin Spacey, and the closet: ‘When it came to heterosexual public figures and their affairs, divorces and other romantic interests, Smith and other celebrity and political chroniclers not only had to get their details correct ― per proper journalism ― but they knew the public saw this as glamorous and exciting. Homosexuality, on the other hand, was something that revolted many in that profoundly homophobic era, so these scribes hid behind the notion of protecting “privacy” as an excuse for hiding information or outright lying.

OFFICER DREAMY OF THE DAY. This guy.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Behind the curtain.

FRIDAY FLASH. Alex Molina.

 

 

 

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‘Strictly Come Dancing’: Alexandra Burke And Debbie McGee Pour Cold Water On Feud Reports
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ stars Alexandra Burke and Debbie McGee have laughed off reports that they’re secretly feuding backstage, reassuring fans that this definitely isn’t the case.

On Friday (17 November) morning, a tabloid newspaper claimed the pair were “barely talking” as the gang prepare to take part in this weekend’s Blackpool special.

But it didn’t take long for the women to slam the claims, with Debbie tweeting a snap of herself and the former ‘X Factor’ star:

What a load of cods wallop the papers write @alexandramusic and I have been.mates since day 1. Feel the love ❤ pic.twitter.com/OT5ZRF2jgF
“What a load of codswallop the papers write,” she added alongside the pic. “@alexandramusic and I have been.mates since day 1. Feel the love.”

Alexandra then replied to her fellow contestant, writing: “Love you Debbie xx.”

Alexandra and Debbie aren’t the only ‘Strictly’ 2017 stars to be at the centre of “feud” reports, though there’s a little bit more to say on those surrounding Shirley Ballas and Brendan Cole.

The new head judge and veteran pro dancer clashed multiple times in the weeks before Brendan and his partner Charlotte Hawkins left the competition, but Brendan denied claims he’d been “hurling abuse” at Shirley as she gave scores to other pairs.

Speaking on ‘Lorraine’, he couldn’t resist a cheeky dig though, adding: “I don’t necessarily like what she was doing to us and our little journey on ‘Strictly’, [but] the BBC are loving her and the fans are loving her – some are hating her…”

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