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During Tuesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the eponymous host reacted to the media hysteria surrounding President Trump’s alleged violation of campaign finance law, where he directed his “fixer,” Michael Cohen, to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with him; immediately before the 2016 Presidential Election.   Cohen has actually become more of a traitor, or at the very least, an incompetent lawyer who has no understanding or respect for the concept of attorney-client privilege, as demonstrated by his recordings of his conversations with his client, President Trump.   President Trump expressed regret for his decision to hire Cohen during an interview with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner.      Carlson pointed out that the latest source of mainstream media hysteria has become something of a phenomenon in politics, for better or for worse.   Carlson ran through a list of Democratic politicians who have faced campaign finance vi...

The #MeToo movement first began late last year after the public first learned about Harvey Weinstein’s disturbing pattern of sexual misbehavior.   Various women, some who have achieved quite a bit of fame in their own right, came forward saying that they too had been sexually assaulted and/or harassed by powerful men, including Weinstein.   The #MeToo movement has unearthed sexual assault allegations against famous men, some dating back decades; ending the careers of TV personalities including Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, entertainers such as Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey, and politicians on both sides of the aisle.   Rose, who co-hosted CBS This Morning in addition to hosting an eponymous program on PBS, allegedly welcomed female interns into his home wearing nothing but a bathrobe.   Lauer, who spent more than two decades as co-host of NBC’s Today show, experienced his fall from grace just one week after CBS and PBS gave Rose the axe.    In his off...

Let’s start off with breaking news: Time Magazine has announced its person of the year, or more accurately, people of the year.   The honor goes to “The Silence Breakers”, a group of women who have come forward to accuse powerful men of sexual harassment and/or assault since the publication of The New York Times expose detailing Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s bad behavior two months ago. Men in nearly every industry have lost their jobs as a result of these allegations, from the titans of morning TV Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose to “House of Cards” leading man Kevin Spacey.   In many of these cases, the inappropriate behavior of these men was an “open secret.” For example, Katie Couric, who co-hosted “The Today Show” with Lauer for nine years, told Andy Cohen in a 2012 interview on his show “Watch What Happens Live” that “He pinches me on the a** a lot.”   Politicians on both sides of the political aisle have also had to grapple with these allegations. ...