NY Misrepresentative Elise Stefanik may not be serving another term in Congress after all.
While Stefanik was quietly re-elected last week, she ended the week accepting an appointment from President-Elect Donald Trump to be an ambassador to the United Nations, the same post that Nikki Haley had. Haley's sin, of course, in the eyes of the deranged Trump, was challenging him in the primaries, because he felt entitled to the nomination this year in the first place. I've read reports that the narcissist in Trump passed up the debates during primary season because he didn't want them to happen to start with.
Please. Stefanik, 40, sabotaged her reputation in New York by hitching her wagon to Trump to advance her career. I think she'd be well served to cram some learning of languages in the next two months.
A special election is likely to fill the suddenly vacant seat in Congress.
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Meanwhile, in Georgia, a certain misrepresentative who also was re-elected last week is trolling.
Empty-G, aka Marjorie Taylor Greene, is whining because there are peaceful protests over Trump's re-election victory six days ago. As Farron Cousins explains, the protesters are exercising their constitutional rights, something that Empty-G thinks is wrong.
Personally, I think Empty-G is ticked because she might've been angling for the gig that went to Stefanik.
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As Joyce Bassett reports in the Albany Times-Union today, actress-comedian-talk show host Whoopi Goldberg (The View) is talking up the prospect of an all women's sports network. ESPN tried that a few years ago (remember ESPNW?), and, apparently, it didn't pan out. Pretty cheeky how Bassett's column included a picture from 2002's "A League of Their Own", which is being parodied by Capital One pitchdoll Jennifer Garner in a commercial that got some good rotation over the summer.
Like, as long as the network gets off the ground, and replaces something like Newsnacks on cable systems, we're all for it.
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Rudy Goofiani is stalling on paying off his debt to Georgia's Ruby Freeman & Shay Moss.
Goofiani showed up at a polling place in Florida last week, as he apparently now has a residence there, in a vintage Mercedes that once belonged to film legend Lauren Bacall. That raised some red flags. Goofiani and his lawyer are trying to save some of the items, like a watch that is a personal heirloom. Freeman & Moss are ok with letting Goofiani keep the watch, but they're impatiently waiting for him to turn over everything else. He vacated & emptied his Manhattan apartment in an effort to hide some of the assets.
Please pick up the white courtesy phone, Rudy. Your career is over.
While the idea of an all women's sports TV channel is interesting, and would probably get at least decent viewership, the all important question would be this: what would you air on it?
Unless Disney and ESPN have a hand in ownership, or provide much of the programming, any such channel would be out of luck, as most of the major pro and college women's sports already have TV or streaming deals...
The WNBA has a TV deal with ESPN, Ion and I think when the new NBA TV deal kicks in, the WNBA will have games on NBC and I think Amazon(not entirely sure about that, but the same outlets will have NBA games, so it wouldn't surprise me if the WNBA was on the same networks/platforms...
The National Women's Soccer League(or NWSL) has deals with ESPN, CBS, Ion and I think NBC, and most major college women's sports have TV or streaming deals, either with ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox Sports or conference TV networks(Big Ten, SEC and ACC, and before they folded, the Pac 12 Network)...
WNBA has been on Ion, ABC/ESPN, & CBS Sports Network. NWSL has its semi-finals on ESPN this weekend, and had games on CBS last weekend. NBC? I don't think so. ESPN+ streams a ton of college hoops, both men's & women's, and college hockey, too, but in the case of women's college hockey, they could use wider exposure.
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While the idea of an all women's sports TV channel is interesting, and would probably get at least decent viewership, the all important question would be this: what would you air on it?
Unless Disney and ESPN have a hand in ownership, or provide much of the programming, any such channel would be out of luck, as most of the major pro and college women's sports already have TV or streaming deals...
The WNBA has a TV deal with ESPN, Ion and I think when the new NBA TV deal kicks in, the WNBA will have games on NBC and I think Amazon(not entirely sure about that, but the same outlets will have NBA games, so it wouldn't surprise me if the WNBA was on the same networks/platforms...
The National Women's Soccer League(or NWSL) has deals with ESPN, CBS, Ion and I think NBC, and most major college women's sports have TV or streaming deals, either with ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox Sports or conference TV networks(Big Ten, SEC and ACC, and before they folded, the Pac 12 Network)...
WNBA has been on Ion, ABC/ESPN, & CBS Sports Network. NWSL has its semi-finals on ESPN this weekend, and had games on CBS last weekend. NBC? I don't think so. ESPN+ streams a ton of college hoops, both men's & women's, and college hockey, too, but in the case of women's college hockey, they could use wider exposure.
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