"The celebrity-gossip outlet’s Washington operation had started off with a bang. The partial government shutdown had enraged TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who thought he might shame Congress back into session by publicizing how lawmakers were spending their recess while federal workers went without pay. The photos did not disappoint. There was a khaki-clad Lindsey Graham at Disney World, holding a bubble wand and boarding Space Mountain. There was Ted Cruz scrolling in his Economy Plus seat. There were members of Congress touring Edinburgh Castle while on a trip to Scotland. 'The reaction in D.C. was,
"Oh, that’s just a codel,"' said Washington communications veteran Nu Wexler, referring to a congressional delegation. It wasn’t clear TMZ understood the distinction or if it cared...."
"Veterans are greeting the arrival of TMZ’s aggressively tabloid approach with a mix of curiosity and wariness. 'If they can expose scumbags who rape and abuse women, that would be a great public service,' said Axios CEO Jim VandeHei. 'If they just make a mockery of a widely mocked institution, that would be a shame. Let’s see the road they choose.'"
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Okay- that’s it. I simply can’t support Lindsay Graham in the primary now. That furniture monger guy it is! 🤪…
My hunch when they announced this is that Harvey did it in retaliation for Fox News turning into a TMZ-like infotainment channel that kinda covers politics. They spend so much time showing clips of leftist shows and doing he said/she said that they don't have time to do actual, you know, news. Frankly, Harvey does this kind of thing better than Fox so he'll probably eat their lunch.
…and for good measure I’m suppriting that Lollipop Guild President for Governor,too…
Gee, given Axios CEO Jim VandeHei‘s comment, I guess investigative journalism is outside of Axios’s wheelhouse and well beyond its capabilities.
…let alone, Axios objectives/goals.
The widely mocked institution is the one full of scumbags raping and abusing women. They are also raping and abusing taxpayer dollars.
Lindsey Graham with a bubble wand at Disney World seems like a deleted scene from "Doctor Strangelove."
"Codel" is another way of saying "congressional delegation." I guess that's clear from the context, though at first I wondered if it was something like a castle.
I was having trouble figuring out what "institution" VandeHei was talking about.
As if there is any need for a codel to Scotland. They were playing golf.
All well-deserved ridicule aside, Congresscritters should be spending a big chunk of their time in their districts. Reps should be doing what the Brits call constituency surgeries - meeting with the people they represent, hearing their problems, seeing what’s happening in their districts, etc. Senators should be meeting with the state governments that sent them, to get guidance for how to represent their states. Okay, I’m in a historical flashback on that one. But now that they’re directly elected, they need to do even more investigative travel in their states.
Spending time away from DC also forces the lobbyists to work harder and erodes some of their advantage. If I know I can catch my Rep at the Safeway, I don’t have to spend six figures on a law firm. CC, JSM
We all know this effort will only focus on one side. Why bother to seek TMZ out?
I’m afraid that ship has sailed. After all, we elected a reality show host for our president.
"CoDel is an active queue management algorithm in network routing, developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols and published as RFC8289. It is designed to overcome bufferbloat in networking hardware, such as routers, by setting limits on the delay network packets experience as they pass through buffers in this equipment."
Kash Patel is disputing the Atlantic’s claims that he spends $1500 a week at bars. The real number, he says, is much larger.
Oh no! Ted Cruz flies economy PLUS! Shame! Shame! Shame!
Was there a single mention of the SAVE act?
“Politics is show business for ugly people.”
Translation: those TMZ guys are going to expose the access we enjoy freely in DC and we're worried.
TMZ may be positioning itself to take the place of SPLC.
Top four articles on TMZ DC right now:
A Trump Administration counterterrorism official has reportedly been put on ice after she allegedly scammed her ex-boyfriend out of $40,000 during their 3-month romance
Congressmen and staffers aren't the only folks TMZ DC is hunting down on Capitol Hill ... we're also coming across reality TV personalities like "Love on The Spectrum" star Subodh Garg, who is on a search of his own.
Charlie bumped into Subodh and he told TMZ DC he's in town to talk to Congress about Autism Awareness Month ... and do some date scouting.
Congress may be throwing elbows on Capitol Hill ... but once the suits come off, some lawmakers are apparently more focused on jump shots than cheap shots!
Our TMZ DC crew caught up with Rep. Shomari Figures and a few other congressmen, including Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick, in the aftermath of the Congressional Basketball Game Tuesday night ... where Democrats and Republicans hit the court together in a rare display of bipartisan teamwork.
Rep. Troy Downing's trying to figure out if Grindr's inaugural event before the White House Correspondents' Dinner is all about meaty sausages. Yes, we mean that literally.
They trashed a decent woman in order to curry favor with obama, i havent forgotten that
This new light of exposure will be non-partisan, right? I won’t hold my breath.
How stupid do you have to be do take this seriously? He's killing boats? He was removing mines at a slower-than-feasible rate before?
TMZ has its work cut out for them....
I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine “sweepers” are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Is there a difference between the post and tmz they repear evety nugget of lawfare and innuendo
Fox has always been half hearst populism and half luce stolid sensibility
One recalls how tmzs crew were laughing at charlie kirks death
Pepperidgd farm remembers
Here’s a local story that the 🤡 at TMZ somehow missed!
Roscoe Smith IV
@LoneStarLegendX
Fire victims in California can’t get a permit to rebuild years later, but a ‘Hospice Company’ can be certified, vetted, and accredited to operate out of a “Burrito Stand” to steal taxpayer funds.
Arrest Gavin Newsom already.
https://x.com/LoneStarLegendX/status/2046978408874475525?s=20
They were "white on rice' on coke boy hunter right?
I remember when ashley was caught snorting by radar yet crickets
3 of them attended the idiocracy school of jurnolizms.
New yawk magazine is also steaming garbage
Or ilhan nur and her somalian chinatown twist
I wish Lindsay Graham would spend more time digging life at Disney World and less time digging death in the real world.
Gutfeld likes to tell the story that the only really bad public feedback he's had was in an airport, where some guy came up to him and started chewing him out. It took a couple of minutes for Gutfeld to realize the guy thought he was Harvey Levin. CC, JSM
Democrats shut down government and these courageous reporters respond by showing Republicans acting normal.
So harvey plsys the clown nose off game like stewart,
Gutfeld knows its a pirandello circus
TMZ is a leftwing establishment magazine. Its going after Republicans and Democrats who stray from the Party line. Talking about "GOing after Congress" is just absurd misdirection.
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Top four articles on TMZ DC right now:
A Trump Administration counterterrorism official has reportedly been put on ice after she allegedly scammed her ex-boyfriend out of $40,000 during their 3-month romance
You're saying this like it's a bad thing. Put on ice? Oh, fired is what I presume that means. Being held accountable, something that doesn't happen under demoncRAT administrations.
@tim maguire, I noticed that too.
Hollow-wood gotcha police.
TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who thought he might shame Congress back into session by publicizing how lawmakers were spending their recess while federal workers went without pay. The photos did not disappoint. There was a khaki-clad Lindsey Graham at Disney World, holding a bubble wand and boarding Space Mountain. There was Ted Cruz scrolling in his Economy Plus seat.
Typical dishonest and brainless leftist.
Fed gov't gets shut down by Democrats, so he goes after Republicans.
If he actually wanted to "shame Congress into re-opening the gov't", he would have gone after Democrat Senators.
But that would require him to not be a worthless piece of shit, and that's a bridge too far
He's killing boats?
He's not the first. Here's a US Naval Institute piece on The Long Blue Line: Cutter Icarus: U-Boat Killer and Offshore Patrol Cutter Namesake
If they just make a mockery of a widely mocked institution - the DC Press Corps?
Thats unpossible they are out of clownpaint
https://open.substack.com/pub/donsurber/p/the-devil-wears-kagan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur
Picked up the left wing bias and tossed it in the garbage. Life is too short.
Wait, there’s a government shutdown?
'If they can expose scumbags who rape and abuse women, that would be a great public service,' said Axios CEO Jim VandeHei. '
Axios killed any investigation into Swalwell
With Phelan and Bondi out while Hegseth and Patel remain, many cabinet members think the way to keep their jobs is to start hitting the bottle. Or in Markwayne’s case, hitting people with the bottle.
Yeah pull my other finger jim
Why was Harvey Levin "enraged" at the partial government shut-down? I'm not sure that anyone else even noticed.
The Dems were having a real house wives viewing party
Schumer was holding the tsa hostage
This is really something. Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president.
Fox News Poll: 56% doubt White House’s competence at managing government ~ FOX News https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-56-doubt-white-houses-competence-managing-government.amp
"Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president"
That's cute. What the poll REALLY shows is that a majority of voters are too stupid to understand that, even if they were qualified to judge mental "soundness", they wouldn't be able to make any determination without being able to sit down with him. Else, why would psychiatrists even need offices?
That's a silly poll.
Sounds like Trump isn’t happy about the 6 month mine clearing timeline that leaked yesterday.
535 members of Congress (plus non-voting delegates). How many have you heard of? Does anybody know the names of more than at most 50? This isn't going to work if they keep giving news about people nobody knows. For every viewer whose face lights up at the mention of Shomari Figures or Troy Downing, there are over 400 who couldn't care less.
Trump is deeply embedded in the emotionally charged brains of the Left. He's like a laser pointer and they're little kittens. Meow.
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