Mediaite Newsletter - 10/21/2016

	Trump Campaign Spent Half a Million Dollars on Lawyers… Just Last Month by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Multiple Major Websites Temporarily Offline Friday Morning in Apparent Attack by Sam Reisman Several major websites were temporarily taken down early Friday morning following what appeared to be a coordinated attack on the Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Dyn. Read More »

	Trump National Political Director Leaves Campaign Nineteen Days Before Election by Alex Griswold Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's national political director has bailed from the campaign with less than three weeks left in the election. Read More »

	Washington Post Accuses O'Reilly of Fabricating Exchange From Killing Reagan by Alex Griswold In a series of blog posts, The Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple accused Fox News host Bill O'Reilly of "historical fraud," saying O'Reilly wrote about a hostile encounter between a reporter and Ronald Reagan in Killing Reagan that simply didn't happen. Read More »

	Carl Bernstein: Trump is Setting Himself Up to Head 'Neo-Fascist' Movement by Ken Meyer Carl Bernstein made an appearance on CNN this morning, and he opined that Donald Trump's refusal to say whether or not he'd accept the results of the election are an ominous sign of what's to come after November 8. Read More »

	County Board Enacts Anti-Clown Ordinance Through Halloween by Chris White Read More »

	The Daily Show Shows Trump How Peaceful Transitions of Power Are Supposed to Work by Josh Feldman Trevor Noah was sick today, so Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper filled in not just to keep things going, but to show Donald Trump how peaceful transitions of power are supposed to work. Read More »

	Weird Al Yankovic Moderates the Songified Clinton-Trump Debate by Josh Feldman If the Al Smith Dinner tonight left you craving better political humor, the popular songifiers over at schmoyoho installed Weird Al Yankovic as the moderator of the third and final Clinton-Trump debate remix. Read More »

	'Over the Line': CNN Panel Pans Trump Hard for Al Smith Dinner Speech by Josh Feldman Immediately after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's speeches at the Al Smith dinner tonight, CNN's panel immediately trashed Trump for not understanding where the line was. Read More »

	Clinton Jabs Trump at Al Smith Dinner: He’s as Healthy as the Horse Putin Likes to Ride by Josh Feldman Hillary Clinton spoke right after Donald Trump at the Al Smith Dinner tonight and pretty much dumped out every zinger she could think of aimed at her opponent. Read More »

	'Hillary Is So Corrupt...': Trump Rips Clinton, Gets Booed a Few Times at Al Smith Dinner by Josh Feldman Donald Trump got in a lot of zingers tonight at the Al Smith Dinner, and even got a little self-deprecating, but towards the latter half of his speech he ended up getting booed over some of his edgier jokes against Hillary Clinton. Read More »

	What Were Clinton and Trump Chatting About at Al Smith Dinner? by Josh Feldman One day after calling each other puppets and getting in some pretty sharp zingers at each other, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump actually chatted with each other at the Al Smith dinner tonight. Read More »

	Ingraham: #NeverTrump Republicans Are 'Effectively Advancing' Clinton's 'Abortion Regime' by Josh Feldman Laura Ingraham, one of Donald Trump's biggest fans in the conservative media, is now declaring that all the pro-life #NeverTrump Republicans who are resisting and fighting Trump are basically just giving in to Hillary Clinton's pro-abortion agenda. Read More »

	WATCH: Clinton, Trump Crack Jokes at Al Smith Dinner by Mediaite TV It's a tradition every election year that both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president deliver "roasts" at the Al Smith dinner, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are there tonight. Read More »

	Trump Abruptly Ends Interview After Reporter Asks About People Calling Him Sexist, Racist by Josh Feldman Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview earlier today when he was asked about people calling him a racist and a sexist. Read More »

	Chris Wallace 'Disappointed' That Roger Ailes Went to Work for Trump Campaign by Josh Feldman Fox's Chris Wallace, the much-praised moderator of last night's debates, got candid in an interview today about his old boss advising one of the candidates he grilled... Read More »

	Fox Sports 1 Topped ESPN in Ratings Last Week For the First Time in Its History by Joe DePaolo Read More »

	Liberal Media Okay with 'Turd' and 'Blow Job' Comments to Help Elect Hillary, But Not Trump’s Unpatriotic Response by Crystal Wright As news outlets along the political spectrum are wringing their hands over Donald Trump’s refusal to state he'll honor the election results, there... Read More »

	Trump National Political Director Is Stepping Back from Campaign, Citing 'Personal Reasons' by Josh Feldman Election day is less than three weeks away, and in the final stretch of the campaign Donald Trump's national political director is "stepping back." Read More »

	Limbaugh: The Media's Angry at Trump Because They Wanted Him to Admit He'll Lose by Josh Feldman Rush Limbaugh went on a rant against the media this afternoon in reaction to how much everyone in the press is flipping out about Donald Trump's refusal to say he'll accept the election results. Read More »

	Michelle Obama Rips Trump: He 'Humiliates Women as If We're Objects' for Entertainment by Josh Feldman Michelle Obama stumped for Hillary Clinton in Arizona today and went after Donald Trump in possibly much harsher terms than she did last time. Read More »

	Wikileaks: Clinton ‘Borrowed’ Her Citizens United Debate Answer from Bernie Sanders by Alberto Luperon Read More »

	Local Humane Society Nixes 'Grab a Pussy ... Cat' Ad by Lindsey Ellefson The shelter got about 100 cats last week and was just trying to encourage adoption, but judging by the reaction of the community, that doesn't make it better. Read More »

	'You're Likelier to Get Struck by Lightning' Than See Voter Fraud: Obama Shreds Trump's 'Dangerous' Talk by Lindsey Ellefson He even shared statistics from a study that indicated that only 31 out of a billion or so votes were fraudulent. Read More »

	Black Lives Matter Activists Sue Trump Campaign Over Beating By ‘Angry Trump Mob’ At Rally by David Bixenspan Read More »

	How to Watch Packers-Bears NFL Thursday Night Football Live Stream Online by Mediaite TV Here's how to watch the Thursday Night Football showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears live stream online. Read More »

	Obama Trashes Republicans Over Trump-Boosting, Singles Out Rubio: 'Come On, Man!' by Josh Feldman President Obama today went on another angry rant against Republicans who have cynically jumped around on whether or not they support Donald Trump. Read More »

	How to Watch Cubs-Dodgers National League Championship Series Game 5 Live Stream Online by Mediaite TV Here's how to watch Game 5 of the National League Championship Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers live stream online. Read More »

	Ivanka: 'What You Hear Is What You Get' with My Dad, He Will Never Lie to You by Josh Feldman Ivanka Trump made another public appearance today defending her father's lack of political correctness. Read More »

	‘Y’all Are Filibustering!’: Trump Surrogate Goes Off About God's Plan, Benghazi, and More by Lindsey Ellefson Now this is a good cable news clip. It has it all. Congresswoman Renee Ellmers hit every topic she could. Read More »

	#TrumpBookReport: Twitter Rips Trump's Debate Performance With a New Mocking Hashtag by Ken Meyer You know how this works. Donald Trump says something strange or controversial, Twitter mocks him for it, Queen to D5. Read More »

	Former Fox, CBS Anchor Opens Up About New Career As a Gay Porn Star by Ken Meyer Do you remember Jim Walker? The award-winning news anchor who you might've seen at one point on Fox, NBC, and CBS? Well, we thought you might like to know, he's got a new name and a new career as a gay porn actor. Read More »

	Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Says Infamous Photo of Bloodied Boy Is a Fake by Sam Reisman Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the now infamous photo of a traumatized, bloodied, and dust-covered five-year-old boy sitting in the back of an ambulance, a casualty of bombings in Aleppo, is a fake. Read More »

	Obama to Republicans: Call Obamacare Reagancare If You Want, I Don’t Care by Josh Feldman President Obama delivered a big speech today on Obamacare, talking up its successes and glossing over some recent bumps in the road. Read More »

	'Maybe Football is, Like, Not Good': Watch This Drunk History Lesson on Football From FS1's Katie Nolan by Joe DePaolo Read More »

	Beck: Why Would Trump Call Clinton a 'Nasty Woman' When He's 'Cratering With Women'?! by Josh Feldman Glenn Beck was absolutely bewildered by Donald Trump's bad debate performance last night, especially considering he was up against "the worst candidate on the left I've ever seen." Read More »

	Trump Surrogate: Actually, Clinton’s the One Who’s Planting Doubt About Election Validity by Sam Reisman Harlan Hill, onetime Bernie supporter and present Trump surrogate, had a hard time of it in a CNN panel Thursday morning, blowing his top as he disputed the veracity of U.S. intelligence and poll data and posited a few conspiracy theories of his own. Read More »

	Trump Supporter On Hillary Winning: 'I Dislike the Woman So Much That I May Go Underground' by Justin Baragona One Trump voter feels that she'll have to go into hiding if Hillary is elected. Read More »

	‘Fact Checkers’ Go Above and Beyond to Protect Clinton on Leaked Open Borders Comments by Chris White Read More »

	WATCH: Video Seems to Show Kim Kardashian's Robbers by Lindsey Ellefson Surely, visitors to and residents of Paris will be glad when the authorities finally figure out who perpetrated the robbery. Read More »