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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Did you call/or write to apologize in person?!?

George Takei Apologizes For 'Ad Hominem And Uncivil' Blackface Comment

By Josh Feldman, Jul. 3, 2015, Mediaite

Star Trek actor George Takei came under some pretty heavy fire this week when he called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “a clown in blackface.” Takei was clearly upset with Thomas for his vote against gay marriage when the highest court in the land ruled to uphold it nationwide, and he called Thomas “a disgrace to America” who doesn’t belong on the court.

Takei made the controversial remark in speaking ofThomas’ dissent about slavery and “dignity.”Yesterday he doubled down and insisted his remarks were not racist, but lots of people (including some liberal commentators) gave Takei flak for making a racist remark, regardless of intent.

Well, this afternoon, Takei posted a lengthy apology on Facebook completely walking back his comments about Thomas and saying he understands now his words weren’t “carefully considered.”

Here’s Takei’s full apology: www.mediaite.com

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Made More News By Walking Out

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Robert Downey Jr. Walks Out Of Interview Over Questions About Past Drug Use (VIDEO)

By Josh Feldman, Apr. 22, 2015, Mediaite.com

Robert Downey Jr. is currently in the middle of his press tour to promote the hell out of Avengers: Age of Ultron. But he clearly didn’t expect to get probing questions about his troubled past, which happened during his sit-down with British interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

Most of the interview focused on Avengers and superheroes and all the rest of it, but then Guru-Murthy decided to make things more personal. He asked Downey about a quote of his from years ago about how he didn’t come out of prison as a liberal, but Downey simply said opinions change...

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

No justice, no beats!

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Plane Diverted Over Passenger Listening To Loud Music, Invoking Ferguson

Josh Feldman, Dec. 27, 2014, Mediaite

When someone else complained and a flight attendant asked him to turn it down, he “made references to the recent Ferguson Missouri incident” and believed he was being “harassed” because of his skin color.

He went in and out of the bathroom several times, upset and crying, and the flight crew was so concerned they diverted the plane from its L.A. destination and landed in Albuquerque.

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

What, the 5 St. Louis Rams couldn't make it?

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Dem Reps Make ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Protest Gesture On House Floor

Josh Feldman, Dec. 1, 2014, Mediaite

Democratic members of Congress showed solidarity with Ferguson protesters tonight by making the “Hands up, don’t shoot” gesture on the House floor tonight.

New York’s Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke, along with Texas’ Al Green, all made the protest gesture on the House floor tonight. Green made the gesture in reference to what the St. Louis Rams did, but touted it as a “new symbol” of protest.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

MORE?!

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Two More Women Come Forward with Sexual Assault Allegations Against Cosby

By Josh Feldman, Nov. 20th, 2014, Mediaite.com

Florida woman Therese Serignese and Carla Ferrigno, the wife of actor Lou Ferrigno, have both come out in the past day accusing Bill Cosbyof sexual assault.

Serignese revealed to People Magazine that back in 1976, Cosby offered her a free ticket to a show he did. Then, after the show, she was brought backstage. Cosby gave her a glass of water and two Quaaludes and told her to take them. She explained, “At that point I didn’t know what to do, so I just obeyed. I just did it.”

And this is what Serignese, who was one of the unnamed women in a 2006 lawsuit against Cosby, says happened next:

My next memory is I felt high; I don’t remember what happened in the meantime. Then my next memory is being in that vanity room, by that big mirror, and he didn’t have any clothes on, and obviously I didn’t either by that point. I don’t know how they got off. I don’t have that memory.

She adds that she saw Cosby multiple times after that and was encouraged by her mother to call him. And Serignese “can’t recall how many sexual encounters followed, or whether drugs were involved each time.” She says she stopped seeing Cosby after she mentioned to him she might be pregnant and then “got sent away.”

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