memeorandum: The Smearing of Kamala Harris (Anita Hill/New York Times)

10:20 PM ET, October 28, 2024

Top Items:

Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:

Trump's Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt’ — DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN WAS LEFT scrambling Sunday night after roast-comic Tony Hinchcliffe made insulting jokes about Hispanic and black people on stage at the ex-president's Madison Square Garden rally.

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors, Mediaite, ABC27, Vanity Fair, Mercury News, Daily Mail, Slate, BizPac Review, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Independent and Associated Press

Politico:

Trump's Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania — Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday. — Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania. — Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally.

Discussion: Semafor, New York Times, BNN Bloomberg, Payday Report, Mediaite, Associated Press, The Guardian, Forbes and KENS

NBC News:

Trump rally comedian workshopped racist Puerto Rico line at NYC comedy club the night before — The comments have drawn intense anger and reignited the criticism over Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria's devastating aftermath in Puerto Rico. — The comedian who let loose a series of racist jokes …

Discussion: Washington Post, DNyuz, Deadline, Washington Examiner and Townhall

Gary Legum / Wonkette:

Kamala Harris Had Lovely Sunday With Puerto Rican Voters, Why Do You Ask? — So much for inroads with Hispanic voters, maybe. — Of all the election scenarios we have had running through our mind for months, we'll admit that “activating millions of Puerto Rican voters against your own campaign …

Discussion: Ledger, Rolling Stone, Scripps News, NBC News and Reuters

Susan Milligan / New Republic: Trump's Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women

Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Floating pile of garbage’ comments follow Trump to his rally tomorrow

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Forbes and The Wrap

New York Times:
Harris Aides Hopeful That Casting Trump as a Fascist Could Shift Election

Discussion: Breitbart

Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Harris cuts ad featuring MSG Trump rally Puerto Rico ‘garbage’ joke

Discussion: CNN, Daily Mail, NewsNation, The Independent and BizPac Review

Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
Kamala Harris hitting every battleground state in final days, hoping to drive turnout

Discussion: Twitchy and The 19th

Nicole Narea / Vox:
MAGA's closing argument: Racist attacks on a critical bloc of swing-state voters

Discussion: CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Semafor, RNS, USA Today, Raw Story, The Wrap and ABC News, more at Mediagazer »

Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day? Harris — If Donald Trump loses on Nov. 5, the racist carnival he curated …

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's hostility to Puerto Rico reemerges at the worst possible time

Discussion: The Hill, ABC News, Fox News, Vibe, The Root, One America News Network, Associated Press, Forbes, New Jersey Monitor, TMZ.com, The Wrap, Mediaite, USA Today, Townhall and KENS

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Tony Hinchcliffe defends his Puerto Rico jokes from Trump rally

Discussion: Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Scripps News, Blaze Media, Raw Story, The Independent, Twitchy, Washington Post, BizPac Review, DNyuz and Fox News

Andrew Howard / Politico:
Fallout spreads from racist rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally

Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Trump's dominating the news again. Maybe that's good news for Harris.

Discussion: DNyuz and Mediaite

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Over 200,000 subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement — The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos's decision …

Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:

Betrayed Washington Post readers leave their parting thoughts in 140,000 comments — According to NPR's David Folkenflik, a staggering, catastrophic 8 percent of Washington Post subscribers - over 200,000 — have canceled their subscriptions since Friday's news broke that owner Jeff Bezos ordered …

Discussion: The Guardian, Blaze Media, Fox News, Washington Post and Public Notice, more at Techmeme »

Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
USA Today the Latest to Offer Up Excuse for Lack of Presidential Endorsement

Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

Taylor Herzlich / New York Post:
More Washington Post staffers resign over paper's failure to endorse Kamala Harris

Discussion: Twitchy, The Wrap, HotAir and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »

Monika Bauerlein / Mother Jones: Billionaire-Owned News Is Not Our Only Option

Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:

The hard truth: Americans don't trust the news media — A note from our owner. — Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post. — In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.

Associated Press:

Police say fires set at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington are connected; ‘suspect vehicle’ ID'd — Police say they have identified a “suspect vehicle” connected to incendiary devices that set fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state early Monday.

Allison Berry / KATU-TV:

Burning ballots pulled from inside smoking Vancouver ballot box; hundreds of ballots lost — VANCOUVER, Wash. — KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.

Julia Silverman / Oregonian:

2 ballot drop boxes set on fire in Portland area; hundreds of ballots destroyed — Police in Vancouver and Portland are investigating two Monday morning fires intentionally set at ballot boxes.Elections officials in Multnomah County said only three ballots were destroyed at the ballot box …

Discussion: KATU-TV, KPTV-TV, The Hill, CNN, DNyuz, Axios, Blaze Media and American Greatness

Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:

Trump Wants You to Accept All of This as Normal — In the final week of this election season, the Republican Party is running two different campaigns. One of them is an ugly and angry but conventional political enterprise. Donald Trump and other Republicans make speeches …

Discussion: HuffPost

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:

This Is Trump's Message — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — We might as well start with the lowlight of last night's Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden. That would be Tony Hinchcliffe, a podcaster who's part of Joe Rogan's circle …

Discussion: New York Times, Civil Discourse …, Washington Post, Associated Press, MSNBC, CNN, The Hill, Business Insider, Iowa Starting Line, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, ABC News, Daily Mail, Washington Times, The Mahablog, Billboard and Scripps News

Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone:

Ana Navarro and ‘View’ Hosts Slam ‘Vile,’ Racist Jokes Made at Trump Rally — A “comedian” joked that Puerto Rica was a “floating island of garbage” while opening for Trump at Madison Square Garden … During Monday's episode of The View, the two Latina hosts slammed Tony Hinchcliffe's jokes …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, New Republic, HuffPost, The Hill, Mediaite, NBC News, New York Times, ABC News, The Wrap, Billboard, Progress Pond, The Barbed Wire and IJR

Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Trump Spokesperson Puts Happy Face On Racist MSG Rally For ‘Fox And Friends’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, NBC News, The Hill, New York Post, Raw Story, Twitchy and The Independent

Politico:
Playbook: Trump closes with cringe

Discussion: The Hill and New Republic

Annie Karni / New York Times:

Trump Hints at ‘Little Secret’ With House Republicans, Setting Off a Panic — The former president seemed to delight in fueling speculation about what he is cooking up with House Republicans, prompting Democrats to worry about election fraud. Speaker Mike Johnson refused to explain.

Discussion: The Hill, USA Today, Axios and DNyuz

Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Trump's Dark Little “Secret” With Mike Johnson Is Actually a Threat

Discussion: Axios, The Guardian, Raw Story, New York Magazine and BizPac Review

Matthew Rozsa / Salon: Why climate experts say this election could be our last chance for meaningful action

Ian Millhiser / Vox:

A new Supreme Court case could change the result of the presidential election — Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member. — On October 23, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that many voters who cast a mailed-in ballot improperly, thus rendering their vote …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico, Associated Press, CBS News, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Washington Times, HuffPost, Forbes and SCOTUSblog

Brakkton Booker / Politico:

NAACP poll: Trump's support among young Black men decreasing — A new NAACP survey found Republican Donald Trump's support among young Black men has dwindled with a little more than a week to go before Election Day. The poll found Black men under 50 years old decreased their likelihood …

Discussion: The Hill, DNyuz and New Jersey Online

Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:

Kamala Harris' VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China — Tim Walz had a romance with Jenna Wang, daughter of a CCP official in 1989 — She said her father Bin Hui would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner

Discussion: Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, RedState, Twitchy, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Florida Politics

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:

Nevada Supreme Court rejects GOP mail ballot challenge — Nevada's Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision Monday allowing mail ballots to be counted if they arrive without a postmark up to three days after the Nov. 5 election. — A majority of the high court ruled the state law requiring mail …

Discussion: Townhall, RedState, Boston Herald and The Daily Caller

Democracy Docket:
Trump, RNC Lose Bid To Disqualify Non-Postmarked Nevada Ballots Received After Election Day

Discussion: Bloomberg, One America News Network, The Hill, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Election Law Blog, Washington Examiner, Townhall, Axios, USA Today, Nevada Current, The Gateway Pundit, Nevada Globe, The Federalist and Fox News

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Swing state paper publishes blistering takedown of a key component of Trump's agenda — Former President Donald Trump's plans would bring about economic ruin and hardship for millions of Americans, wrote Peter Harrell of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Marin Independent Journal and The Atlantic

Amethyst Martinez / The Daily Beast:

Anna Kendrick Calls Out Director Who Shamed Her Publicly — The actress is now a director herself, having recently premiered her directorial debut with the film “Woman of the Hour.” — Jamie Oliver Urges Fans to Help Find $390K of Stolen Cheese — ‘VERY POSH CHEESE’