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Florida AG Pam Bondi To Be Rewarded With Trump White House Position

Donald Trump with Florida AG Pam Bondi

As it turns out, not only did Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi get $25,000 for her reelection coffers from Donald Trump for refusing to investigate Trump University on her state’s behalf, her support will garner another reward: an appointment to a plum role in the new Trump administration.

From the Tampa Bay Times:

Immediately after Donald Trump was elected president, one Florida name was floated above the rest for a job in his administration: Attorney General Pam Bondi.

About two weeks out from Trump’s inauguration, the Tampa Republican still has not been appointed to any job.

But an announcement could be coming soon, reports Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs.

In a tweet, she wrote, “NEW: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi will be named to a post in the Trump White House, sources tell me. Trump aides finalizing her role.”

Asked Thursday, the Trump transition provided no new information about whether Bondi was even still in consideration for an administration job.

“We have no additional announcements at this time,” said Sean Spicer, who will be Trump’s White House press secretary, on a conference call with reporters. “I don’t want to get ahead of any announcements that may or may not come.”

Bondi has been mum, too. Asked Thursday morning, she would not comment on whether she was being considered for a new job in the administration.

“I’d never discuss anything confidential,” she said, echoing previous statements.

You just gotta love that swamp.

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Trump Now Says He’s A Big Fan Of “Intelligence”

President-elect Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump made a slight course correction today after trashing the U.S. intelligence community with tweets over the last few weeks, and recently siding with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on the issue of Russia’s recent cyber-hacking during the presidential election:

Now he says he’s a “big fan” of the U.S. “intelligence” community (so why the quotations around the word “intelligence?”):

On a related subject, last weekend Trump promised he would share with America on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week the secret info only he knows about hacking.

We are still waiting…

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Virginia: Governor Promises To Veto Any Anti-LGBT Legislation

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says his state will not be emulating the anti-LGBT mess going on in North Carolina any time soon.

Earlier today, McAuliffe signed an executive order that bans anti-LGBT discrimination among state employees, contractors and subcontractors.

Via the Roanoke Times:

Gov. Terry McAuliffe vowed Wednesday to veto any legislation he receives from Virginia lawmakers similar to North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill.” His statement comes one day after Del. Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, prefiled the Physical Privacy Act. The bill stipulates people must use the restroom, locker room or changing room that corresponds to the gender assigned at birth as opposed to the gender with which they identify. The measure would apply to restrooms located in public schools, universities and government buildings.

Asked about the proposal after an unrelated event Wednesday at Virginia Tech, McAuliffe said he would strike down all legislation that inhibits anyone’s individual rights. “Stay away from the socially divisive issues,” he said to legislators. “We are not going to put a wall up around Virginia.” Marshall said he doesn’t introduce legislation based what McAuliffe likes and doesn’t like. Virginia would be lucky to be as business-friendly and collect as much tax revenue as its neighbor to the south, Marshall said.

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Megyn Kelly’s New Daily NBC Show To Take Over 3rd Hour Of The TODAY Show

More details about the new Megyn Kelly deal at NBC News:

It looks like Kelly will be taking over the 9AM hour of The TODAY Show, settling in between the highly rated 7-9AM block, hosted by Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, and the fun & fluffy 10AM slot hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.

Also – the new show will be Kelly-branded, not a component of the TODAY Show banner.

Via BroadcastingCable.com:

A network source said that timing on everything involving Kelly is still up in the air, including when she will join NBC News and when her new shows will debut. Speaking Tuesday evening on her Fox News Channel show, The Kelly File, Kelly said her last show would air Friday. Her contract with Fox News runs through July though, so she may not be able to officially join NBC News until that contract expires.

Besides hosting her own daytime program, Kelly also will anchor a Sunday night news magazine and jump in on breaking news and political stories.

The 9 a.m. hour of Today has been a trouble spot for NBC. It tries to be a take on the panel talk show, with Al Roker and Tamron Hall leading a discussion of pop culture and light news with multiple hosts. Last August, the hour suffered a further setback when Today brought on Billy Bush to lead the hour, and soon Bush and Roker were clashing on air about Bush’s kid-gloves interview of Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. Bush was then fired in October after video leaked of him and now-President-elect Donald Trump speaking lewdly about women.

“After more than a dozen years at Fox News, I have decided to pursue a new challenge …. I’ll be leaving Fox News at the week’s end and starting a new adventure, joining the journalists at NBC News, who I deeply admire,” said Kelly on her show.

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News Round-Up: January 4, 2017

Some news items you may have missed:

• These high school sweethearts share their love story in OUT’s latest “Love Portfolio”

• A NYC bartender is suing Manhattan restaurant Bagatelle for writing him up as “dressing up like a gay porn star” and looking “like a faggot.” The manager then posted the write up for employees to see.

• Over 1,200 law professors have told Congress to drop Sen. Jeff Sessions nomination for U.S. Attorney General.

• A new study shows one in five straight men like to watch gay porn.

• Repealing ObamaCare would increase the budget deficit by $350 billion over 10 years, according to a new study.

• The home of a California gay couple was trashed, painted with slurs and covered in bleach in apparent hate crime.

• Check the new music video from Randy Report fave Sia, “Never Give Up,” featured on the soundtrack for Lion.

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Senate Republicans: “American People Simply Will Not Tolerate” Blocking Trump SCOTUS Nominations

After absolutely NO movement on President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee for 294 days, Senate Republicans have the nerve to say “the American people simply will not tolerate” Democrats blocking Trump’s SCOTUS nominees.

Let’s remember that almost 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.

Watch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell serve up some serious hypocrisy:

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Trailer: “Bright Lights – Starring Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds”

In advance of the documentary’s HBO premiere this coming Sunday, January 7th, here’s the trailer for Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

I’ll just say this: you might need a tissue.

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds bills itself as a story of the family’s complicated love, and promises an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricity and the nearly two-minute trailer shows off exactly that, along with many sweet moments (and witty banter) shared between Fisher and Reynolds.

Directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, the 95-minute documentary was filmed in over more than a year in 2014 and 2015 leading up to Reynolds preparing to receive her Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award which Fisher presented to her.

Vintage family films and archival footage help bring the documentary to life. Their lives at home in the Beverly Hills compound they shared will be seen extensively in the documentary as will be the way in which they navigated their careers and close relationship.

We started out making a film about Hollywood royalty, they added. And we ended up making a film about love.

Fisher, 60, was aboard an 11-hour flight from London to Los Angeles on Friday when she went into cardiac arrest. She died Tuesday in the hospital.

Reynolds died a day later at the age of 84. Her son Todd said she told him hours before she was rushed to the hospital: I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie.

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds will debut Jan. 7 (at 8 p.m. EST) on HBO.

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Out Actor Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) Tops Highest Paid TV Actors

Out actor Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) is numero uno on the list of highest paid TV series actors, according to Variety.

And there are more LGBTs on the list: Jesse Tyler Ferguson clocks in for work at $250,000 an episode on Modern Family. 

In the reality/talk show realm, no surprise that Ellen DeGeneres rates a $20 million a year paycheck.

And, Anderson Cooper banks between $9-11 million a year from CNN, while Andy Cohen gets $4-5 million a year to play drinking games and gossip on Watch What Happens Live.

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Donald Trump Takes Credit For Jackie Evancho’s Holiday Album Sales

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted today (for a change) that reality TV competitor/singer Jackie Evancho’s record sales have “skyrocketed” since agreeing to sing at his inauguration.

The tweet seems to indicate that folks are buying the youngster’s record because she agreed to appear at his January 20th shindig.

But Billboard isn’t so sure the Trumpster deserves all that credit:

On Wednesday (Jan. 4), president-elect Donald Trump posted on Twitter that Jackie Evancho’s album sales have “skyrocketed” since the 16-year-old singer was announced to be performing the national anthem at his presidential inauguration later this month. “Some people just don’t understand the ‘Movement,’” Trump wrote in praise of the opera singer.

Have Evancho’s album sales really soared since she was announced as the performer on Dec. 14? It depends on how loose your definition of “skyrocketed” is, although they have posted gains. Someday at Christmas, Evancho’s most recent studio album, sold 6,000 copies in the chart week ending Dec. 15, according to Nielsen Music, following its Oct. 28 release.

After Evancho was announced to be performing at the inauguration, however, Someday at Christmas bumped up to 11,000 copies sold in the week ending Dec. 22 (up a big 94 percent compared to the previous week). In the tracking week after, the album sank slightly back to 8,000 copies sold.

Sales of the album did rise following the announcement — but most holiday albums receive a sales spike in the chart weeks approaching Christmas. For context, Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas saw it sales balloon from 139,000 copies sold in the week ending Dec. 15 to 185,000 sold in the week ending Dec. 22.

Furthermore, Evancho performed on the America’s Got Talent holiday special, which aired on NBC on Dec. 19 and re-aired on Dec. 29, and likely helped the album’s cause. Evancho became a star on AGT after placing second on its fifth season in 2010.

Oh – so after appearing on a big network holiday special, Evancho’s holiday record saw a jump in sales? Why, who’s ever heard of anything like that….?

#sad #creditwhore