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#Endorse This: Cedric The Entertainer Drops Truth Bomb On Herschel Walker

#Endorse This: Cedric The Entertainer Drops Truth Bomb On Herschel Walker

Herschel Walker has said some pretty epically dumb things, which totally explains why Donald Trump endorsed him in Georgia's U.S. Senate race. Which tempted Cedric the Entertainer to roast the Republican football legend in an ad sponsored by Progress Action Fund.

“We got big election stuff coming up right now. I need everybody to get involved,” Cedric says. “We got to stop; we got to fight against the ignorance that’s going on out there, especially in the state of Georgia. Lord, you know they said life is like a box of chocolates? Well, Hershey’s Walker is one of these chocolates that you don’t want. You know the ones where you get a box of chocolates and you, like, [gagging]? That’s him. I mean, the man is ridiculous, dog.”

Cedric would go on to compare Walker to Marjorie Taylor Greene, another bat-sh*t crazy Georgia Republicans

“I mean, some of the stuff he is saying — we just got to be very concerned about the educational system, one. Two: We already got senators that’s, like, you know, Marjorie Taylor, that’s crazier than a mug."

Watch the entire spot below:

Endorse This! Colbert Hilariously Destroys Herschel Walker's 'Gun Plan'

Endorse This! Colbert Hilariously Destroys Herschel Walker's 'Gun Plan'

Republicans have been tripping over themselves in an all-out race to shield the NRA and find any blame for gun shootings that ignores actual guns. And while we thought Ted Cruz had the dumbest excuse, Georgia's Trump-backed Senate candidate and former football player Herschel Walker appear to have out-dumbed Cruz.

Walker says the solution to school shootings involves "a department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media." Did Walker play wearing a helmet? Late Show host Stephen Colbert gleefully assessed his suggestion.

“Yeah, what about doing that?” Colbert said on Wednesday night. “It’s high time to create the Federal Bureau Of Looking At Young Men Who Are Looking At Women Who Are Looking At Social Media.”

Colbert even came up with a logo for this so-called agency.

Trump Pal Herschel Walker Lied Profusely About Fitness Council Post

Trump Pal Herschel Walker Lied Profusely About Fitness Council Post

Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker was removed last week from his position on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. In addition to apparent ethical violations, it appears he repeatedly misled the public about the post over his three-plus years on the council.

Then-President Donald Trump named Walker, a former player for the team he owned in the short-lived United States Football League and a contestant on Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" television show, to a two-year term as an unpaid member of the council in May 2018.

Trump appointed him to be council co-chair for another two years in December 2020 after losing the presidential election.

But according to experts, Walker's decision to run for Senate put him in violation of Biden administration ethics policies and possibly of the Hatch Act, a 1939 ethics law that prohibits "special government employees" from doing their public duties while also seeking partisan political office.

On March 23, the administration asked him to resign or "be terminated."

Rather than comply with the law, Walker played victim. "President Biden is so scared about us beating Raphael Warnock that he has asked me to resign from my unpaid position on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition," he tweeted Thursday, hours after being removed and replaced. "I'm not a quitter so you are going to have to fire me."

Walker appears to have repeatedly exaggerated and misled about his tenure on the council.

In a Fox News appearance in October 2020, Walker, a prominent Trump backer, attacked Biden's candidacy. In the middle of comments calling out the Democratic nominee for having helped enact several anti-crime laws, he suddenly said, "I think the American people need to know the truth. And that's all he talks about, knowing the truth. Well, the truth is, talk about your son. The truth is I've never been offered a position in Washington from President Trump."

Trump had appointed him to the council more than two years earlier — a fact Walker had bragged about in an interview just weeks before.

A Walker spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry for this story.

The fitness council, established in 1956 to promote healthy eating and physical activity, includes up to 30 members who agree to work without salary but can receive per diem stipends and travel reimbursements. It is supported by a small staff of typically between two and five full-time employees.

But at a January 2020 rally at Austin College in Texas, Walker falsely suggested it was a much larger operation:

Being in Washington ain't the best thing in the world because I'm in trouble all the time. But let me tell you what's so funny: I have changed some stuff up there and how they do stuff. I have 75 people in Washington work for me, and we work. And right now I have a bill right now already through the Ways and Means, on the Senate floor, that's gonna be passed, that's gonna incentivize people to start working out. And what it is, is, when you pay to play [sic] for your child, uh, play sports, you're gonna be able to write that off.

Though the council had no formal role in responding to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Walker seemed to suggest it did. He told interviewers on "The Bigun Rick Show" that June: "We are trying to be active in the youth sports world and a lot of the people out doing different things, and so we have different meetings and different calls from the White House. And so we're active. And with everything going on right now, with the rioting and all that stuff, you know, we're trying to help out as well."

Walker has been endorsed by Trump and by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Georgia Republican Senate primary to face off against first-term Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

So far, Walker's candidacy has been marred by questions about his long-time Texas residency, allegations of repeated domestic abuse, and reports about his ties to racist, homophobic, and antisemitic extremists.

Reprinted with permission from American Independent

Romney Redux? Nunn Uses Familiar Attack In Georgia Senate Race

Romney Redux? Nunn Uses Familiar Attack In Georgia Senate Race

Democrat Michelle Nunn is staying on the offensive in Georgia’s Senate race, with a new ad hammering Republican nominee David Perdue for his role in a factory closing in North Carolina.

The 60-second ad centers on Perdue’s brief tenure at Pillowtex, a North Carolina textile company. Perdue served as CEO for just eight months in 2002; Pillowtex shut down shortly after he departed, taking thousands of jobs with it.

“He walked away with his $1.7 million, and didn’t care about if we had a dollar in our pockets,” a former employee says in the ad.

“All we were was people to make money off our backs,” says another.

If the ad looks familiar, that’s because it is. As The Washington Postpoints out, Nunn’s ad was made by the same political consulting firm that produced the infamous “Stage” ad attacking Mitt Romney in 2012. The two spots are nearly identical.

There’s little mystery in Nunn’s decision to reprise Democrats’ anti-Romney playbook against Perdue. For starters, it was wildly effective in 2012. And like Romney, Perdue has used his successful business career as his primary qualification (aside from the episode at Pillowtex, Perdue has enjoyed more successful stints as CEO of Reebok and Dollar General, among other corporate experience). He has also left himself open to charges of elitism during the campaign.

Nunn seems particularly well suited to fight Perdue on this landscape, given her long non-profit career at the Points of Light charity. That said, she still faces an uphill battle to be elected in reliably red Georgia. According to the RealClearPoliticspolling average, Perdue currently leads Nunn by 4 percent.

Screenshot: Michelle Nunn/YouTube

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