"The View" co-host Joy Behar went on a rant about where America got its name on Thursday as the co-hosts discussed President Donald Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico. 

"This country that we're in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they named the country after an Italian White man, Amerigo Vespucci. That's what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci, a White European," she said.

"Why was it named after a White man if it was settled by indigenous people?" Behar continued.

The co-hosts discussed the Trump White House barring the Associated Press from an event at the Oval Office on Tuesday for the outlet's refusal to use the term "Gulf of America" in accordance with President Trump’s executive order renaming the body of water between the United States and Mexico.

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Co-host Sara Haines said the renaming of bodies of water was relatively common. 

"The body of water south of China, which much of the world calls the South China Sea, China calls it South Sea, Vietnam calls it Eastern Sea and the Philippines has designated parts of it the West Philippines Sea," she said. "So it happens."

Behar then made the argument that Trump shouldn't be focused on renaming the body of water. 

"But why does he care about it when the prices are going up on the eggs?" she said. "People did not vote to rename the Gulf of Mexico."

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"Plastic straws and the Gulf of America, give me a break," the liberal co-host added.

AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said the outlet was barred from attending a White House signing of executive orders by Trump.

"It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism," Pace said in a statement. "Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment."

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she didn't have a problem with the renaming, and argued it was more inclusive.

"I don’t hate renaming the Gulf of America, and I’m going to tell you why. It’s a more inclusive term. It is North America, Mexico and the United States are part of the Americas. It would be petty if he called it the ‘Gulf of the United States,’" she said. "These are the things Donald Trump does to trigger reaction from the media."

Fox News' Alexa Moutevelis and David Spector contributed to this report.

"The View" co-host Joy Behar called on Democrats to flood the airwaves by calling in to news shows, including their ABC talk show, to speak out against President Donald Trump. 

"Remember when Trump used to call in constantly, he was on this show, Barbara [Walters] interviewed him, and he called in on 'Morning Joe.' That is what they should be doing. Every time, they should be ambushing the airwaves, the Democrats, get off your butts and start doing it," Behar said. 

Behar also suggested Democrats needed their own version of Trump as members of the party continue to determine the best way forward. The co-hosts discussed whether Democratic leaders needed to be more provocative to gain traction with voters.

"It seems to be that you need a candidate that's like Trump on the left. Somebody who speaks the vernacular. He comes out there and might as well say I got a hemorrhoid today, and they like it. Because it’s real," she said. "They need something like that."

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Sunny Hostin chimed in and said, "I hope not," and Whoopi Goldberg argued that Democrats were speaking out against the president, citing Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as well as some other members of the party.

"Not to media bash, but, you know, people keep saying, well, why aren’t we hearing from people? It’s not that we’re not hearing from Democrats. They’re out there. Jasmine Crockett is out there, AOC is out there, people are out, Chuck Schumer. We see Chuck Schumer. You’re not getting the coverage because to them, they’re boring," Goldberg said. 

"People are doing what they can do. They have a very slim minority, and they're doing what they can and they’re as vocal as they can be, but if you’re not getting the information, and you're not getting it the way you used to get all kinds of information, it's hard to back through," she added.

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Goldberg also asked Behar for examples of Democrats who should be calling into the news and doing interviews. 

Behar said former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas are good messengers for the party. 

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Goldberg insisted, "I'm telling you, they're out there doing it."

Behar then demanded Democrats to call into "The View" as they speak. 

Transgender actor Laverne Cox savaged President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders, calling them "illegal" during Friday’s episode of "The View."

Cox appeared on the ABC daytime talk show alongside actor and comedian George Wallace to talk about their new TV series, "Clean Slate," a show about a father who reconnects with his child – played by Cox – who has recently transitioned into a woman. Cox used the opportunity to slam the current administration's executive orders limiting transgender language in the federal government. 

"I think in terms of the administration and all this propaganda and lies – everything he’s doing is illegal, by the way," Cox told the ABC panel.

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Co-host Ana Navarro kicked off the political discussion, mentioning her respect for how Cox blends activism with acting, and asking the actor to weigh in on Trump’s recent executive orders.

Trump last month signed an executive order, titled, "Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government."

The EO clarifies that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that men and women are biologically distinct, along with addressing how agencies should handle these directives.

The president also signed the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order on Wednesday, mandating that public institutions will determine an individual’s eligibility for women’s sports to be based according to their biological sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction.

Cox told "The View" about feeling anti-trans discrimination for "the past several years" at this point.

"It started at the state level, many years ago," the actor said. "You know, what is it? 26 states banned ‘gender-affirming care’ for young people. This has been happening at the state level for many years. So, I’ve been devastated because trans families have had to relocate for many years, parents have been criminalized, so it’s been devastating. Now it’s happening on a federal level."

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Cox talked about loving trans people and people in general, and added that Trump’s orders are "horrible." 

The "Orange is The New Black" star hoped that the executive orders "will be challenged in the courts" because of their alleged illegality. 

"At the end of the day, trans people are less than 1% of the population and trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs, that you can’t afford healthcare. We’re not the reason you can’t buy a house or your rent’s too high," Cox said. "I think they’re focused on the wrong 1%. I think the other one percent is the reason for all those things."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told the co-hosts of "The View" on Thursday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would leave the U.S. and children with "no vaccines," while talking about her exchange with the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary nominee on Wednesday.

"Robert Kennedy has made a lot of money promoting these anti-vaxx ideas," Warren alleged. She continued, "He also now owns a piece of the action in lawsuits against the vaccine companies, so if somebody sues one of the vaccine companies, gets $10 million in the lawsuit, Robert Kennedy makes a cool one million."

"If he gets to be the head of HHS, he will have the tools in his toolbox to make it more likely that those lawsuits win. That is, that is the vaccine manufacturers lose and the amount of payoffs are bigger," Warren told the co-hosts of "The View" of the exchange with Kennedy.

"In other words, he will have all of these tools, just very quietly, with no oversight, because he’ll be the guy in charge, to undercut vaccines so that he can make more money in the future and the rest of us could end up literally with no vaccines at all to give to our children," Warren added. 

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During the hearing, Warren expressed ethical concerns over Kennedy's involvement with vaccine lawsuits, and asked if he would not "take any compensation from any lawsuits against drug companies while you are secretary and for four years afterwards."

Kennedy said he would commit to that while serving as HHS secretary, as Warren charged that he could influence several current or future lawsuits and asked him again to commit to not taking a financial stake in the lawsuits.

The HHS secretary nominee said he would comply with all ethical guidelines.

"Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it," Warren said during the exchange. "Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in."

Kennedy responded, "I support vaccines. I support the childhood schedule."

He added that he only wanted "good science."

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Kennedy defended himself against criticism that he is anti-vaccine. 

"I worked for years to raise awareness about the mercury and toxic chemicals in fish. And nobody called me anti-fish. And I believe that… that vaccines play a critical role in healthcare. All of my kids are vaccinated. I've read many books on vaccines. My first book in 2014, a first line of it is, ‘I am not anti-vaccine’ and last line is ‘I am not anti-vaccine.’ Nor I'm the enemy of food producers, American farms and the bedrock of our culture, of our politics, of our national security," he said Wednesday during his opening statement.

The co-hosts of the prominent progressive podcast "Pod Save America" appeared on "The View" on Friday to explain the Democratic Party's failures during the 2024 campaign.

The three co-hosts and former Obama administration staffers, Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer, pointed to the party’s coddling of President Biden and his ambitions to run for re-election despite his age and poor polling, as one of the reasons for Democrats being in such disarray. 

"I think one thing, though, that harmed the Democrats over the last couple of years was a lack of candor and not being honest with ourselves that there were a lot of voters who felt like Joe Biden was too old to get another four years," Vietor told the ABC daytime talk show hosts.

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Since President Donald Trump’s election victory in November, there have been reports of infighting in the party, especially over how it went about replacing former President Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Prominent figures, like House Speaker emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have slammed Biden’s team for him not dropping out of his re-election race early enough. She told the New York Times podcast, "The Interview," in November, "Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race."

Others in the party have slammed influential figures – like former President Obama and his allies – for encouraging Biden to drop out of the race and not having a good playbook for replacing him on the 2024 ticket.

"The View" co-hosts mentioned the divisions in the party, prompting the ex-Obama aides to say they stem from Democrats not being honest about how Biden was unlikely to beat Trump until it was too late. 

Vietor replied, stating ahead of Biden’s exit, American voters "were rejecting his candidacy, and you could see it in polling and you could see it in primaries." Slamming the party, he added, "And Democrats said, ‘You know what? It’s fine. Everything will be okay. Trump is bad and therefore that will offset that.'"

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Vietor added that the party needs to return to being honest and pro-working class to become strong again. "We got to get our act together," he added. 

Co-host Joy Behar then asked, "Do any of you agree with Joe Biden that he would’ve won?"

"He would not have won," Favreau stated. "His own polling showed… that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes – 400 plus."

He continued, "This I maybe don’t blame Joe Biden for – his people, the people closest to him – refused to show him the polling, the real polling."

Sources close to the former president told The Washington Post in December that Biden believes he would have beaten Trump.

Pfeiffer chimed in, stating, "If Joe Biden wants to spend the rest of his days believing he would have won, that’s a gift we can all give him."

The husband of "The View" host Sunny Hostin, along with 200 co-defendants accused of insurance fraud in a sweeping, $459 million New York lawsuit, could find himself tied up in court for years to come, according to legal experts.

Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin, an orthopedic surgeon, is among dozens of doctors and medical personnel named in the federal lawsuit, which was filed last month by American Transit Insurance Co., a New York-based commercial auto insurance provider that insures Uber, Lyft, and taxi companies in the state. Hostin in particular is accused of receiving kickbacks by "performing surgery and fraudulently billing" American Transit, according to the lawsuit.

It cites at least two of Hostin's patients who were allegedly treated in January 2023 following involvement in "low-impact" collisions that caused only minimal damage. Despite experiencing "no more than soft-tissue injuries," both received arthroscopic surgery, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit was filed under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, in the Eastern District of New York— a strategy that legal experts told Fox News Digital is designed to have a chilling effect on behavior. It's also one that risks entangling defendants such as Hostin in years of complex court proceedings— and potentially saddling them with massive payouts as a result. 

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That's because RICO laws— passed in the 1970s as an attempt to crack down on mafia activity and other organized crime— allow plaintiffs to win "treble damages," awards that are triple the amount of actual, or compensatory damages. 

In the American Transit case, that's somewhere in the ballpark of $459 million or more— three times as high as their compensatory damages, which stand at $153 million.

Intimidation factor, chilling effect 

Often, these types of lawsuits are pursued with a certain strategy in mind, said Michael Mears, an associate law professor at the John Marshall Law School who specializes in criminal law and RICO cases. 

"There's a lot more going on with the use of the RICO statute than just recovering damages," Mears told Fox News Digital in an interview. "It's changing behaviors. It's changing attitudes. It's changing the way business is done sometimes."

RICO civil lawsuits are sometimes used as a means to force people or stop certain behaviors and oppressive practices.  In the case involving Hostin, that includes allegedly habitual over-billing by doctors and ambulatory services, or the overcharging of patients to an extraordinary degree. 

In the New York case, for example, "you've got doctors who really don't want to be called criminals," Mears said. "Just the accusations alone [in] a civil RICO statute can be very intimidating, and be a very powerful tool" to stop objectionable practices. 

That's not to say there won't be a litany of courtroom activity ahead for defendants named in the American Transit lawsuit, including Hostin. 

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Legal experts told Fox News Digital that civil RICO cases in today's world are a long game— often carrying a timeline of years, rather than months, to play out in court.

Plaintiffs in civil RICO cases are often insurance companies who are accusing a group of people of fraud, Jeffrey Grell, an attorney specializing in RICO litigation, told Fox News Digital in an interview. 

In the American Transit lawsuit, the insurance provider accuses Hostin and the dozens of other medical practitioners of abusing New York's no-fault law to artificially inflate or bill for unnecessary medical treatments and profit from the kickbacks.  

No-fault laws require companies like American Transit to cover health care expenses "reasonably incurred" as a result of injuries suffered by insured occupants. But the low burden of proof under no-fault laws also means that they are especially vulnerable to exploitation by medical practitioners. 

American Transit alleges that Hostin and other defendants abused New York’s no-fault laws to bill "hundreds of millions" of dollars in fraudulent payments between 2009 and December 2024. 

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Complex cases, lengthy timelines  

Civil RICO cases are often lengthy, arduous cases for each of the individuals involved.

In fact, the 698-page lawsuit filed by American Transit is among the largest RICO civil cases ever filed in New York— all but ensuring a drawn-out resolution process for Hostin and other defendants. 

Courts "are going to look at the individual claims made against each defendant to establish all the elements of a RICO claim, and all the elements of RICO claims are pretty complicated," Grell said.

Many of the defendants— if not all— will attempt to move to dismiss the case before discovery begins, a preliminary process that alone can take more than a year. Often, there will be a flurry of related motions filed by defendants in attempting to have their motion to dismiss granted by the court, further adding to the drawn-out time frame. 

After the motions to dismiss are resolved, the discovery process begins. This process can be lengthy and complex, as it involves each person named in the suit, and the counsel for each defendant will attempt to make the case that their client individually does not satisfy the elements of the RICO case.

"Like in any other civil lawsuit, the RICO statute allows people to take depositions," Mears said of the time frame for RICO cases. "They allow the collection of documents. They allow the discovery of filling records." 

Ultimately, it's a process that "opens up a whole avenue to find out what's going on within the organization— whether it's a doctor's office, a hospital, a doctor's group," he said, and which allows plaintiffs to order discovery and document collection from each individual named. 

That can result in the case dragging on for even longer.

"In other words, the discovery process [in RICO cases] can be very intimidating," Mears said. "It's a long game."

Sunny Hostin, for her part, has weighed in on her husband's work as a doctor in her role co-hosting "The View."

Most recently, Hostin referred to his work in a discussion over health insurance in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.

"Doctors suffer because of big corporations as well, doctors that want to do good like my husband," Hostin said in the segment. She added that her husband, in his capacity as an orthopedic surgeon, "operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he's been trained his whole life to do."

Hostin's lawyers previously denied all allegations against him and described the filing a "blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier," according to the Daily Mail.

They did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the allegations or any timeline anticipated in the RICO proceedings.

ABC News is kicking off 2025 with a series of embarrassing headlines involving some of its biggest stars. 

"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir was scorched by critics in a viral moment during Wednesday's broadcast as he was reporting from Pacific Palisades in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that have ravished Southern California. 

Muir, wearing a yellow flame-resistant jacket with ABC News' logo in front, attempted to show viewers the rubble from burnt buildings behind him. But caught more attention was what was behind his own back. 

As he turned away from the camera, clothespins could be seen tightening Muir's jacket near his lower back, providing him a slimmer appearance for viewers. 

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Jack Osbourne, TV personality and son of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, spotted the makeshift fashion accessory and called out the "World News" anchor on X.

"Nice Jacket Bro. Glad you look nice and svelte with those clothes line pegs, while our city burns to the ground," Osbourne reacted.

Other critics blasted Muir as "pathetic" and "narcissistic" as he faced accusations of prioritizing his appearance while reporting on the widespread devastation in Los Angeles. 

Muir wasn't the only ABC star depicted in an unflattering light. "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin was at the center of social media chatter after it was reported that her husband was facing medical fraud accusations in a sweeping federal lawsuit filed last month. 

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emmanuel "Manny" Hostin and his practice, Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, were named among more than 180 defendants in a major RICO case filed in New York on Dec. 17.

According to The Daily Mail, Hostin and the other defendants were allegedly receiving "kickbacks" for performing surgeries and fraudulently billing the insurance company that provides for Uber, Lyft and other taxi companies. The lawsuit alleges Hostin was given an "investment" interest in the Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center while receiving a "steady stream" of patient referrals in return. 

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Two of Hostin's patients cited in the lawsuit were allegedly treated in January 2023 following involvement in "low-impact" collisions that were said to have only caused minimal damage, "no more than soft-tissue injuries," but both received arthroscopic surgery.

Hostin's attorney told The Daily Mail his client denies all the allegations and called the filing a "blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier."

In the wake of her husband's legal troubles, comments made by Sunny Hostin herself have resurfaced. 

Hostin spoke about her husband's work on "The View" as recently as last month while discussing the health insurance industry in the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 

"Doctors suffer because of big corporations as well, doctors that want to do good like my husband," Hostin told her colleagues. "[He] operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he's been trained his whole life to do."

Additionally, comments Hostin made in March 2023 about the severity of insurance fraud went viral as she discussed potential charges against former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who had been serving a prison sentence for tax fraud. 

"Prosecutors are like ‘Oh really? Well how about we add some additional fraud charges onto you?' And they're talking about threatening him with insurance fraud, which I would say you could get 20 years in prison. So that's a death sentence for him," Hostin said at the time.

While some headlines have created fodder for critics, others signal drama inside the Disney-owned network. ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl was reportedly "gunning" for his colleague George Stephanopoulos' spot as host of the Sunday morning news show "This Week" following the network's $15 million settlement with President-elect Donald Trump. 

Page Six reported this week that Karl, who is a rotating host of "This Week" with Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz despite Stephanopoulos' name being in the title, "wants the show, and he sees [ABC’s Trump settlement] as an opportunity," according to sources. 

A spokesperson for ABC News denied Karl's reported ambitions, telling Page Six "It’s not true. They have a friendly and mutually respectful relationship." 

The settlement, which was made late last month, stemmed from comments Stephanopoulos made during an interview last March with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., when he claimed ten separate times Trump was found "liable for rape," when the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil case actually determined him to be liable for "sexual abuse," which has a distinct definition under New York law.

Initially, Stephanopoulos was defiant in the face of Trump’s lawsuit, telling CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t be "cowed out of doing my job because of a threat."

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"Trump sued me because I used the word ‘rape,’ even though a judge said that’s in fact what did happen. We filed a motion to dismiss," Stephanopoulos told Colbert. 

A judge ultimately tossed ABC News' motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit and settled with the president-elect in December before entering a costly trial. The decision to settle was reportedly made by Disney's top chief Bob Iger. 

In addition to paying Trump's legal fees, Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to issue statements of "regret" as an editor's note at the bottom of an article on ABC News' website. The note reads, "ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024."

Liberal critics from rival networks, including CNN, NBC and MSNBC accused ABC News of "bending the knee" to Trump and setting a bad precedent. 

The drama that has unfolded at ABC News in recent weeks comes on the heels of intense scrutiny over the network's election coverage, which was overseen by Disney co-chairman Dana Walden, a close friend of Vice President Kamala Harris (An ABC spokesperson previously stated Walden does not weigh in on editorial decisions.). 

ABC News faced fierce backlash over its handling of the Trump-Harris presidential debate after Muir and his co-moderator Linsey Davis repeatedly fact-checked Trump while allowing Harris to go unchallenged. 

The year is ending and, shockingly, it was filled with less drama than most people predicted. Self included. Last year’s annoying list focused on the enemies of sanity like teachers union boss Randi Weingarten and Greta Thunberg, climate extremist turned full-time lefty activist. 

Of course, 2024 still had drama. A lot of it can be traced to some of its annoying people and there are too many to list here. We get to make fun of the worst of them.

Let’s begin with a bipartisan spirit. Both left and right find MSNBC "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski super annoying. I’m practically a founding member of the "Joe is a Joke" caucus. Until recently, that was a mostly conservative clique.

They spent years saying awful things about President-elect Trump and other conservatives. Scarborough’s lie about President Biden being coherent earned him "Worst Quote of the Year" from the Media Research Center. Scarborough told the audience: "This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever." He threw in an "F---you," for good measure. Remarkably, both he and Biden are still employed.

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After that lie, the "Morning Joe" twosome paid a visit to Trump and alienated their far-left base, with Scarborough telling viewers they need to, "Grow up." Their ratings have gone anywhere but up ever since. MSNBC had to add another host and lefty loon Keith Olberman is saying it’s time for Scarborough and Brzezinski to go. Here’s the Variety headline: "Keith Olbermann: How Can MSNBC Save Itself After Trump’s Win? First Step: Fire Mika and Joe."

He’s far from alone. Bluesky is filled with hate for the pair and their show. I’d be surprised if they still have a show on MSNBC by Christmas 2025. I bet they would be, too. 

Me, me, me, me. That’s the voice for narcissistic journalism – Taylor Lorenz. She used to write about tech and social media at The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc. By any fair measure, she’s a social media sensation. She has over half a million followers on TikTok and another half a mil combined between Twitter and Bluesky. Now she has a Substack readership where she promotes COVID-19 paranoia and hatred of health care CEOs.

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She exited traditional journalism in August after she posted what she claimed was an "obvious meme" calling Biden a "war criminal." Then she got called out for saying she felt "joy" after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which she now says was "dubiously edited." And she can usually be found wearing a mask and criticizing those who don’t as, "raw dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbors."

To top it off, she got in an online argument with statistician Nate Silver about her age. Lorenz is still listed in her Wikipedia profile as "age 37–39," taunted him saying, "Just assume I’m 50!" (According to Soap Central, the real number is 40, for those who care.)

But all of these things got people talking about her. That’s the true measure of Millennial, or Gen. X, success. 

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In the normal world, there’s only one Taylor – Taylor Swift. It’s easy to admire Swift and her football star boyfriend Travis Kelce. (She was one of my superstars of 2023.) Both of them had successful years. Her Eras tour did great and Celebrity Net Worth says she’s now worth $1.5 billion. Her boyfriend remains one of the top tight ends in the NFL and his team is a favorite of fans and referees in its quest for a third straight Super Bowl. (Boo here.)

The problem is, I’m sick of them. Be honest, if you don’t think of yourself as a "Swiftie," you are, too. Happens to anyone in the public eye so much that your eye starts to twitch. Despite that, I still wish them great success both individually and as a couple in 2025. (Except for that Super Bowl.) 

When it comes to race-baiting, MSNBC host Al Sharpton outdoes himself, going all the way back to promoting the Tawana Brawley rape hoax. Then there’s his antisemitism. But 2024 put him on the map for something new – allegations of pay for play. 

It came out after the election that Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign gave $500,000 to Sharpton’s National Action Network. That might be fine except it happened right before a super nice October interview. Ooops. 

I could write a whole column about the horror that is "The View." Or 10. I was all set just to highlight how truly awful co-host Sunny Hostin is for managing to outshine her coworkers by being the most despicable Bozo in the ABC clown car. 

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Hostin called the GOP "morally bankrupt" and blamed Hispanic support of Trump on "misogyny and sexism." She also advocated for families to boycott Trump supporters at holiday time because it's "more of a moral issue."

But they had to turn it up a notch. Fellow hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar got discussing why they hadn’t seen Vice President-elect JD Vance recently. Behar claimed, "He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump."

Whoopi responded, "So, you think it's Musk/Vance?"

Whoopi followed up with, "Stay away from the stairways. Because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out."

They later claimed it was a joke but that’s pretty dark, especially for three women named Sunny, Joy and Whoopi.

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