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Trump is not having the best of weeks...... After being reminded his net worth is in question, now comes word the plug's been pulled on Trump's vanity mag.......aimed at affluent readers in major US markets.....it suffered from sagging ad sales during the recent recession.....but was never a big money maker. Publisher Lauren Bogage of Niche Media, confirmed the magazine's death to media blog inVocus media yesterday. Timothy O'Brien asked a judge to throw out Trump's defamation lawsuit against his book, "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald" ...that pegs Trump's worth at a fraction of the $4-6B The...

It’s an odd day when Donald Trump becomes your hero. But that’s the new light I see him in, standing beside Miss California as she withstood the worst kind of public incivility, just for giving an honest answer to a question about a fundamental institution in American life. Truth be told, “hero” might be overkill. But Trump, for whatever his reasons, deserves credit for how he handled the Carrie Prejean controversy. Prejean, who was a runner-up in the recent Miss USA pageant (a stepping stone to the Miss Universe pageant), became a household name because of her opinion on gay...

With all the California-centric beauty-queen action happening these days, it's been easy to forget that one young lovely was actually named Miss USA a couple weeks ago. But Kristen Dalton doesn't mind. The winner of the 2009 Miss USA Pageant told E! News that she thinks the Carrie Prejean hullabaloo has been good for the cause. "I really think that it's great for the Miss Universe Organization, because it's given us a lot of publicity," Dalton told E!'s Daily 10. "And there's gonna be a lot of people watching this Miss USA pageant next year." And as for Miss California,...

One of the officials of the Miss California pageant who was trying to crucify Carrie Prejean over her stance on gay marriage has quit one day after Donald Trump restored order in the Miss California camp. Shannon Moakley, a former Playboy Playmate, seemed a bit self righteous as reported by Don Surber: She wanted Donald Trump to fire Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA title for posing topless. Now Playboy Playmate Shanna Moakler is out as a pageant official. Moakler’s piety over posing topless was priceless. Jann Wenner’s US magazine now reported that she quit. Moakler: “Since the press conference...

Miss California keeps her crown thanks to Donald Trump (Miss USA pageant owner) who understands people have the right to an opinion -- PC police notwithstanding.... Sadly, principled opposition to same-sex marriage--shared by most Americans, including Pres Obama--- is all too often ascribed to bigotry. Carrie Prejean's response to a direct question from an agenda-driven Miss USA pageant judge -- sparked controversy even as Prejean went out of her way not to offend...... when she did not give the pro-gay-marriage answer that flamboyant gaydar Perez Hilton was looking for, she lost the contest......Hilton called Prejean a "dumb b**ch,".....saying he would...

LIBERAL TALIBAN ISSUES FATWA AGAINST MISS CALIFORNIAMay 13, 2009 Not even Dick Cheney can incite the blood-curdling rage of liberals at the sight of a sexy Evangelical Christian. Paula Jones, Katherine Harris, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and, most recently, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, have all come under a frenzy of attacks from liberals. Christians are supposed to be fat, balding sweaty little men with bad complexions. It's liberals who are supposed to be the sexy ones. (I know that from watching "The West Wing" and all movies starring Julia Roberts.) But sadly for liberals, in real life, the fat, balding...

Do you agree with Donald Trump's decision to allow Miss California, Carrie Prejean, to retain her title after she failed to reveal before last month's Miss USA pageant that she had posed in her underwear as a teenager. Yes or No (I think you vote by leaving a comment)

419 votes so far. "No, I support her" 74%

Donald Trump and Carrie Prejean's full remarks embedded... http://conservativebrawler.blogspot.com/2009/05/miss-california-usa-carrie-prejeans.html

Joan Rivers won the Celebrity Apprentice 2!  Rivers was hired, while her competition, Annie Duke, was fired!  Rivers won $250,000 for her charity, God?s Love We Deliver.

Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are sending the same message to New York’s Governor David Paterson: Hike taxes for high-income earners and your major taxpayers will leave the state. Trump told FOX host Neil Cavuto that the “millionaire’s tax’ is going to be “total disaster” for the state and will consider leaving New York. Trump warned that he also spoke with 25 to 30 people “leaving or going to consider leaving.” Limbaugh went a step further on April 11 when he told Cavuto he will leave the high-tax state and is happy to “lead the way.” In Limbaugh’s interview with...

He’s going to have to work on the hair . . . But when it comes to big, splashy firings it looks like Pres. Obama has his Trump shtick down, very publicly handing GM CEO John Wagoner his walking papers. On Morning Joe just now, Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations chillingly called the phenomenon in which presidents fire private-sector CEOs a “brave new world.”

Poor schlumps out there know how to get along with next to nothing. But these were multi-millionaires that Bernard Madoff wiped out: show some sympathy! That was The Donald's daffy drift in speaking to Wolf Blitzer on this afternoon's Situation Room on CNN. View video here. DONALD TRUMP: They put 100% of their money with this character, this sleazebag. 100% and they're wiped out. And you know, it's one thing when you grow up and you don't have money or you get to a certain age and you don't: you learn to live. [But] these people have had hundreds of...

Ring the bell. Looks like Donald Trump and his lenders will go another round in their financing fight at the Chicago high-rise. The lead lender on the Trump International Hotel & Tower is suing Donald Trump, seeking to collect on a $40-million personal guarantee the developer made on the 92-story structure, according to Crain's. Citing chicagorealestatedaily.com, Crain's said Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas filed the suit Friday in Manhattan's New York state court, alleging Trump didn't pay off a remaining $334.2 million loan due on Nov. 7 to Deutsche Bank and its syndicate of lenders. Earlier this month, Trump filed...

Donald Trump, the flamboyant New York magnate, said on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday night that he is supporting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president. Trump, never shy with his opinions, went on to say that McCain appears to be winning, and that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) should have chosen Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his running mate. “I know John McCain, and John McCain's a great guy, a tremendous guy,” Trump told King. “I've known him for a long time. And I'm with him, and I'm with him based on the fact that I have great knowledge...

It's "The Donald" to the rescue. Mega-developer and TV personality Donald Trump has agreed to buy Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills house for an undisclosed amount and allow McMahon to continue living in it. Details of the deal are still being ironed out.

The Donald to W: "You stink." Donald Trump trashed President Bush Tuesday as a "terrible" president who has destroyed the world economy - but insisted the global crunch wouldn't stall his planned $2 billion golf resort. "We have a president in the United States who's terrible. He stinks," Trump said. "Now the world is in chaos." Trump said he can't wait to see Bush head back to Texas after the November election is done. "Hopefully we'll have a good, new president, whoever he is," Trump said. He praised both major party candidates, but gushed over Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic...

The writing is on the wall, the script done wrote itself. For it's very obvious who will win the Celebrity Apprentice 2008 contest and this review shall so reveal. Be up to date for the grand finale this week with this review of the "Celebrity Apprentice" 2008, with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.

The 3/13/08 episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" was an interesting one in that a good sandwich is always interesting. The teams prep a new Quiznos sandwich and one celebrity apprentice gets fired, there's now four left. And Guest Writer Michelle must move the aquarium. It's a day of fear.

Omarosa gets fired for the crime of not being a celebrity on the "Celebrity Apprentice" episode aired 3/6/08. And The Donald parades out his third (or is it fourth) trophy wife along with another little Trump critter.

HOUSTON -- In a cramped guard booth on the edge of a community of luxury townhouses, the sense of helplessness that has become so familiar to Gregory Sam since Hurricane Katrina uprooted him from his home town of New Orleans can become all-consuming. "I'm struggling," said Sam, 29, a college graduate who took an $8-an-hour post as a security guard after more than 20 job interviews led to nothing. "I feel like I'm isolated in the country somewhere . . . in a time warp." For the nearly quarter-million people such as Sam who were evacuated to Texas after the...

The "Celebrity Apprentice" entertains with a week gone by with NO ONE fired. A feud between Omorosa and Piers Morgan flares up to amusing proportions. With pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.

A Scottish council on Thursday rejected a plan by Donald Trump to build a golf course on a stretch of remote and stunning coastline that is home to some of the country's rarest birds. "Mr. Trump is shocked, extremely disappointed and dismayed at this decision," said George Sorial, managing director of Trump International Golf Resorts. "This is certainly not something we expected." After a heated debate lasting 2 1/2 hours, Aberdeenshire Council's Infrastructure Committee rejected plans for the Trump International Golf Links after a tie-breaking vote from the committee chair. An initial vote was 7-7. Trump was now looking at...

A Scottish fisherman has turned down an offer worth £1million from Donald Trump to move. Michael Forbes, 52, owns a small farm on the estate where the billionaire wants to build a £500million golf resort. Mr Trump has described the home as an "eyesore" and wants Mr Forbes, his wife and elderly mother to leave. However, Mr Forbes is digging his heels in. His determination to stay put forced Trump Corporation to offer him £350,000 and a £50,000-ayear job for life on the proposed development. But it failed to impress. Mr Forbes said: "I told them from the start the...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Donald Trump has some advice for President Bush if he wants a Republican to win the White House: Hide. The business mogul and vocal critic of the Bush administration told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he thinks the president is a "huge liability" for any Republican seeking the White House. Trump went on to say the best thing Bush can do for his party is to go into "hiding." "I think President Bush has to go into a corner and hide if a Republican is going to get elected," he said. "There is no way he is...

Donald Trump has some advice for President Bush if he wants a Republican to win the White House: Hide... "I think President Bush has to go into a corner and hide if a Republican is going to get elected," he said... But Trump and the president agree on who will likely win the Democratic nomination: New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. "I know her very well. She's very talented, and she has a husband I also like very much," he said... Trump also called former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani a "good man" and said he expects Giuliani to win the...

Political analysts widely regard Fred Thompson as a potential, if not likely, candidate in the United States presidential election in 2008. Thompson is a lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator for Tennessee now residing in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. A recent article in The New York Times (NYT) labelled his wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson as a "trophy wife" and a potential liability in the 2008 race. The NYT article described her as having "youthfulness, permanent tan and bleached blonde hair" and wonders if "so-called values voters" would "accept this union." Thompson and Kehn, married in June 2002,...

As the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and the so-called C.E.O. of hip-hop, do you think the outrage over Don Imus’s prickly language and his firing might broaden into a crusade against song lyrics? It already has broadened to lyrics. It’s been that way since 1983. They’ve been yelling at me from Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys till now. What do you make of Barack Obama, who recently said that rap musicians should reform their lyrics? What we need to reform is the conditions that create these lyrics. Obama needs to reform the conditions of poverty. I wish he really...

In a saga that just won't die, Donald Trump wrote a letter Tuesday to Rosie O'Donnell in response to media reports of her blow-up at Barbara Walters, telling her she had the right to be angry and saying Walters "lied to both of us." The tone of Trump's Jan. 9 letter, sent to FOX News and other press outlets, is snide — and some of his allegations about Walters' recent grumblings over O'Donnell, whom she hired last year to be the moderator on "The View," are shocking. "In fact, she lied to both of us!" Trump wrote in the one-page...

Rosie O'Donnell says Donald Trump is a man obsessed. "It's the way I look. He can't resist. I love when people say you're fat like you don't know," O'Donnell joked Monday on ABC's "The View.""... It's always the first comment of someone who disagrees with you if you happen to be on the plus side." Trump has been hurling insults at O'Donnell since she criticized his news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner last month. Trump announced that Conner would be allowed to keep her title, which had been in jeopardy because of underage drinking. "Boy, did I hit a...

In the annual spirit of compulsive declarations, summations and resolutions, let me just say, I'm sorry. For everything. The Crusades, destruction of the Mayan temples, the Spanish Inquisition, (really sorry for that), the Bay of Pigs and, not least, typing the word 'possom' when I really meant 'possum.' But. You knew this was coming: I was sexually abused by a Catholic priest as a teenager and I'm an alcoholic. I am also a gay columnist. OK, I wasn't and I'm not. Nyet. None of the above. Never abused by a priest, never an alcoholic (well, not much of one), and...

Now that Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump are in a feud and war of words, it’s time to look at what they really do in the public forum... But between these two prominent New Yorkers, I wondered: now that it’s Christmas time, who’s more charitable? Donald the self-proclaimed billionaire, or Rosie the talk show host and comic? The answer: Rosie, as it turns out...

Donald Trump is set to sue “The View” host Rosie O’Donnell, Access Hollywood can reveal. Earlier this afternoon Trump announced he is filing suit against the TV talk show host. “She says things that come to her mouth, she’s not smart, she’s crude, she’s ignorant and to be honest I look forward to suing Rosie,” he told our cameras. “I’m gonna sue her and I look forward to it. She’s really very dangerous for the show.” Trump declined to elaborate on the details of his proposed legal filings, but added O’Donnell will understand his reasoning. “Rosie will find out what...

Crowds who paid up to $500 to hear Donald Trump speak on how to get rich instead heard "The Donald" bashing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and questioning the competence of the Bush administration. When talk of wealth turned to politics at the private class at the Learning Annex, Trump first discussed Rice. - said. "I don't care if she's lovely. I want someone who can go and make deals. She goes to countries and nothing ever happens except sound bites." Trump also talked about outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Look at this guy Rumsfeld," Trump said. "Millions of people...

Saddam hussien hated terrorists, he shot them, there wasn't any terrorists in Iraq before the war..anyone that supports this war should be voted out of office...we should leave now

According to Fox 35, Charlie Crist is the winner of the Republican Primary for Governor. Time for us to get behind him. SM

One 'Apprentice' Is Running for Office; Could There Be Another? By: Robert B. BlueyPosted 03/09/0602:20 PM Raj Bhakta, who was “fired� by Donald Trump on the second season of “The Apprentice,� will run on the Republican ticket this November against Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz in the suburban Philadelphia district, reports the Associated Press. “We offer voters legitimate change,� Bhakta told the AP. “I am not a politician. I am someone from a business background who wants to make a change.� Who knew Trump would breed an aspiring Republican lawmaker? The truth is, however, Bhakta isn’t the only cast member from...

Donald Trump joked that he would date his 24-year-old daughter, Ivanka — if he weren't her father. Trump and Ivanka, a vice president of real estate development at the Trump Organization, appeared Monday on ABC's "The View" to promote her five-episode stint as a boardroom adviser on "The Apprentice." When asked how he would react if Ivanka, a former teen model, posed for Playboy, Trump replied, "It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what's inside the magazine." He added: "I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice...

SEVEN minutes out of lower Manhattan, and I've landed in the downtown Twilight Zone. The clocks still run on Governors Island. The buildings appear recently painted. A schedule still adorns a bus kiosk, announcing regular pickups and drop-offs. Signs announce the hours of a barber, a movie theater, a restaurant. A swing set looks as if a child has just run inside for lunch. But there's no one alive here on this creepy and magnificent spit of land smack dab in the middle of New York Harbor's Upper Bay. Not if you don't count the Canadian geese who have full...

This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito. Chuck Schumer walked out before the judges started to speak. Teddy Kennedy showed up late, stayed for 10 minutes, then left. Pat Leahy put on a dour face for a short time, and also bailed... if Judge Barry were a screeching liberal moaning about Alito's threat to the female populace, the Dems would have been all ears--and...

"The renovation of the United Nations' aging East Side headquarters could cost $1.9 billion — more than a third above previous estimates, U.N. officials said yesterday. Secretary-General Kofi Annan blamed skyrocketing Manhattan real estate and construction costs, expensive security and the balky state Legislature for pricey revisions in previous plans." ______________ One of my favorite all-time finds on the Internet was Donald Trump riiiiiipping the UN for this whole sordid affair. And I mean ... he riiiiiips them. Follow the links on Powerline ... http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011113.php#011113

Episode 4 of Season 4 of The Apprentice is on tonight. I'm a little late in starting a discussion thread, but I'm enjoying this set of contestants more than those from the Season 2 and 3, so here goes.

Please help Floridians restore Florida from the Starvation State back to the Sunshine State. How can anyone visit Florida and enjoy their experience knowing what happened here? Let's disband Judge Greer's elite corps from Pinellas County who participated in onerous, double dealing, immoral and illegal activities. GREER'S ELITE CORPS: Former Sheriff Everett Rice vies for Fla AG GREER'S ELITE CORPS: Current AG Charlie Crist vies for Fla Governor Thanks in advance for helping Floridians save our State!

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - "The Apprentice" winner Bill Rancic, entrusted by the reality TV show's creator, Donald Trump, to develop a skyscraper, says he'll stop working for him next year and start his own business. Rancic, who won the first season of the U.S. NBC network's "The Apprentice" in April last year, said his contract with Trump, the American real estate mogul, to oversee construction of the 90-story Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago will end in March. "That will probably be it for me," Rancic said late Wednesday during a global leadership forum in Malaysia. "I'm going to...

Donald Trump, regarding the United Nations' remodeling plan: Senator, congratulations. You've got a mess on your hands. The Senate International Security Subcommittee, chaired by Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, was holding a hearing yesterday into the proposed $1.5 billion refurbish project of the United Nations building. One of the star witnesses was The Donald. Just on pure theater, it was fun to watch. In case you missed it, here's Trump's testimony. It's long, but I promise you it's worth it: 07-22thedonald.mp3 Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and members of the subcommittee. It's a great honor to have been invited,...

By Paul J. GoughThu Jun 23, 3:12 AM ET There won't be any "You're fired" death knells sounded when Martha Stewart takes the reins of "The Apprentice" this fall. The domestic doyenne will find her own way in her own reality series -- but she won't say what it is yet. The show will spotlight Stewart's working life and her attempts to find an aide through the TV process pioneered by Donald Trump through two seasons on NBC. "I think you'll find it quite different," Stewart said Wednesday during an appearance at the Promax&BDA conference of marketing executives in New...

MATTHEWS: What role are you going to take? I mean, you're not a sidewalk superintendent. You're Donald Trump. I mean, what role—will you lead a coalition to stop Governor Pataki from his strong support for the Freedom Tower? TRUMP: Well, there's not much of a role I can take. It all started when the “New York Post” called me and asked my opinion. It's really a shame. We have a great opportunity. And, you know the terrorists win. If we build this job the way it is, the terrorists win. If we rebuild the World Trade Center, but a story...

The White House learned a painful media lesson Thursday: Do not launch a press conference on the first night of May Sweeps! CBS, NBC and FOX cut off President Bush, mid-sentence, in several time zones, after sacrificing one hour of prime. The president was left standing on the stage as NBC rushed to Donald Trump, FOX to Paris Hilton and CBS to SURVIVOR: PALAU. ABC and PBS stayed with talkative Bush until he left reporters in the East Room of the White House. Sensing he was running into trouble, Bush joked, "We better finish this up, there are TV programs...

There's no love lost between Dan Rather and NewsMax readers, and 'The Donald' feels the same way. Today on Howard Stern's radio show Donald Trump was Howard's guest. Stern said he likes Trump because Trump is brutally honest. "I see you all over the place trashing Dan Rather," revealed Stern. "Well, Dan was not too great," Trump replied, in the understatement of the new millennium. "He had me on 60 Minutes, and he did nothing but be nice to me and he was great; then all of a sudden, at the end, he starts ... 'You're a vicious, horrible human...

I am absolutely captivated by the reality TV series 'The Apprentice'. Not just because of its drama (of which there is much) but because it shows how good old fashioned capitalism – hard work, common sense and entrepreneurship – win out over politically correct ideology. Almost uniquely, the show presents capitalist leaders as the hero, rather than the typical stereotypes such as the evil Mr Burns from the Simpsons. The reality of such men is that while many of them may be cold, or unpleasant, they are the necessary servants of the marketplace. Their bold and forceful careers give the...