For legendary director and outspoken Democratic donor Rob Reiner, choosing sides between Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump in their current war of words didn’t require much deliberation.“Bruce Springsteen is a hundred percent right,” he says, in an interview for an upcoming print issue of Rolling Stone. “I mean, you have …
Read More »Michael Stipe Performs 'Driver 8,' Trolls Trump at Harris-Walz Event in Georgia
Michael Stipe performed at a Harris-Walz get-out-the-vote rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday attended by Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (MN) and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. He performed R.E.M.’s “Driver 8” from the band’s third album, 1985’s Fables of the Reconstruction. “Thank you for being here, and thank …
Read More »Doug Emhoff Talks Buying Records and Hanging Out With Michael Stipe While Campaigning for Kamala
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has been busy campaigning around the country on behalf of wife Kamala Harris in the most dude’s rock way possible: Digging through the crates at record stores and hanging out with Michael Stipe. Emhoff spoke about how he’s incorporated record stores into the campaign trail during …
Read More »See Michael Stipe and Jason Isbell Perform R.E.M. Classics at Harris-Walz Pittsburgh Event
Jason Isbell and Michael Stipe — in his first public live appearance in five years — performed a set of music together Friday at a Pittsburgh fundraiser for the Harris-Walz campaign, with the duo playing R.E.M. songs that Stipe hadn’t sung since before the band’s breakup. The singers were introduced …
Read More »The Democrats Are Winning the Record Store Battle
Argue all you want about last night’s contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But there’s no debating the fact that the Democrats are fiercely ahead in an equally important battle: the crate-digging wars. Early Tuesday afternoon, hours before the presidential debate at the National Constitution Center, a woman walked …
Read More »Doug Emhoff Addresses Donald Trump's Attacks on Kamala Harris: 'It's a Distraction'
Doug Emhoff made his first appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and took the opportunity to respond to Donald Trump‘s many attacks on his wife Kamala Harris. Host Jimmy Kimmel jokingly asked Emhoff, “What was your reaction when your wife turned Black? Were you surprised?” “All …
Read More »The Right Is Being Characteristically Weird About Family Affection at the DNC
Former President Donald Trump once said he would date his daughter, but that isn’t stopping conservatives from criticizing Democratic politicians for having what appear to be pretty normal, loving relationships with their families. On Monday and Tuesday, conservatives took issue with a video clip from Monday’s Democratic National Convention of …
Read More »Trump, Radio Host Attack Second Gentleman as 'Crappy Jew'
As Donald Trump scrambles to find a line of attack against his new 2024 rival — Vice President Kamala Harris — he’s falling back on his basest impulses. In a Monday radio interview with the conservative Sid & Friends In The Morning show, the former president repeated past assertions that …
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