Tom Kludt
@TomKludt
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contributing editor @vanityfair, covering sports || last name pronounced "KLUTE," like the movie || email me: [email protected]
Joined November 2011
Earlier this year, I spent a day with Joe Anoa’i in Florida before watching him transform into Roman Reigns at the Royal Rumble. For the @VanityFair May issue, a profile of WWE's next great crossover star.
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BREAKING: The South Dakota state Senate narrowly votes to convict Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on the first article of impeachment and remove him from office.
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Ian's confusion over a reference to a widely known trademark of an indelible American brand is understandable once you realize that he doesn't actually live in America.
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RIP Anthony Bourdain, a man who was as honest and fearless in his words as he was in his travels. You were a real one.
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The frustration of Sanders supporters boiled down in two images: a candidate threatening to slap a voter is "impressive"; "online bullying" from a different candidate's backers is valid reason to withhold support.
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MSNBC's coverage of the Lauer firing today vastly exceeds the amount of airtime Fox devoted to both Ailes and O'Reilly's termination combined. Not even close. Remember that.
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Just confirmed that Angie's List has dropped ads on The O'Reilly Factor. Huge turnabout, clearly driven by social media pressure.
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Don't give a shit about any of this, but pretty funny that Megyn Kelly is now answering to "Blackface lady"
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I love Bernie but I'm not going to pretend I'm impressed with his basketball skills. Yeah, he's old as shit, but it's not that impressive to make set shots from four feet out. I'd destroy him one-on-one is what I'm saying.
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maybe instead of the predictable "Labour went too far to the left" / "this is a warning to Dems in the US" takes, it might be worth examining why the political terrain is more difficult for candidates like Corbyn and Bernie, and what role the media plays in shaping that.
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At what point does it make sense to just retract the story completely?
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BREAKING: Mercedes spokesperson tells me it's pulled ads from the O'Reilly Factor
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Ravnsborg was just convicted on the second article of impeachment on a vote of 31-2. Legislators now about to vote on whether to bar him from future office.
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Biden advisers look on nervously as he launches into an unscripted story about the first time he saw Green Book.
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24 senators voted in favor of the article, the exact number necessary for a conviction.
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Is the president of a top liberal think tank saying that the elderly and immunocompromised should defy the guidance of the CDC?
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He's right. It's time to defer to the Professional Political Knowers
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It's a scandal that they didn't make this announcement before the election and give my father a chance to take all the credit for something he had nothing to do with
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Who is behind this account? It's been a relentless torrent of distorted smears against Bernie and, most recently, Cenk Uygur that has shaped coverage in mainstream outlets.
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Wild that every single woman who accused Trump of sexual misconduct -- all 23 of them! -- was a liar, but not the women who have accused the men he doesn't like. Just one of life's mysteries, I guess!
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@piersmorgan I know you’re upset that she’s far more popular and important than you’ll ever be, but you really don’t have to keep doing this.
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It's stunning that this wasn't a bigger story. Remember how big a deal Brian Williams' fibs were in 2015? This is a really extraordinary lie for a a presidential frontrunner to share, and something tells me it will resurface in a big way in the general
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I have Warren people up and down my mentions doing the whole "politics ain't bean bags!" thing with regard to her camp's leaks on the private conversation but they are also apparently getting upset by Bernie supporters pointing out Warren's voting record
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The reasons why Labour went down in flames all dovetail seamlessly with my own personal grievances toward Labour. Those are also the reasons why the Democrats are doomed, and why NFL ratings went down for like 15 minutes last year. I am the cosmos, the ultimate bellwether.
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BREAKING: Lexus pulls ads from The O'Reilly Factor, bringing our count to 13
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There's something very fitting about Ted Cruz's trajectory. He entered the Senate hailed as this great conservative intellectual, and now he's basically just a poster who'd probably much prefer a gig in right-wing media
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I know it's still early days in his post-presidency, but it is pretty jarring how swiftly Trump has vanished from public life. Four years of consuming every facet of culture and politics and then, poof, he's gone.
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The grim news officially arrives at the New York Daily News, where staffers were just informed that Tronc is reducing the "size of the editorial team by approximately 50 percent and re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news.".
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Fox News and The Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests
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Weird that he's suddenly reluctant to call someone a pedophile
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There was far more coverage paid to Corbyn's alleged anti-Semitism than Boris's long history of explicit bigotry. Those who covered this election should ask why that is, and why progressives like Corbyn and Bernie routinely get tagged with bogus charges like that.
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Bae: Congrats on your promotion! What's your new job title?. Me:
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And we love it when our skin folds in a revolting manner, don't we, folks
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2017 in a nutshell: a senator's sexual misconduct analyzed by a pundit who lost his job earlier in the year over sexual misconduct
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LATEST UPDATE (but likely not the last): Five companies pull ads from @oreillyfactor in growing movement
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When the waiter tries to take my plate but there are still a few fries left
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I propose that at 8:00, an hour after we applaud the good doctors, we return to our windows to boo and hiss the bad doctors -- your Ozes, Drews and Phils.
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There's a lot wrong with American culture, but I think I'd still probably prefer seeing people get horny over a cartoon bunny than whatever is going on here
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.@brianstelter and I examine the strain of white nationalism that is animating Trump’s base — and Fox News programming
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Between the Times printing that Tom Cotton op-ed and de Blasio's groveling to the NYPD, it's been a banner week for one of America's longest-running political traditions: liberals trying to curry favor with people who will hate them no matter what.
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lol why are people so inspired by seeing photos of people standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a crowded Brooklyn bar during a pandemic? Jesus, just stay home and watch Cast Away or something.
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In Bill O'Reilly's most dramatic claim for victimhood yet, the former Fox News host admits, "Am I mad at God? Yeah."
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At 6:30 this morning, two companies had pulled ads from the "O'Reilly Factor." Now, that number has swelled to 18.
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whenever Elon Musk casts himself as a white knight during an emergency
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South Dakota's AG was driving to Pierre last year when he hit and killed a man walking along the rural highway. What happened before and after has mystified residents and upended the political class. I went back to my home state to dig into the saga.
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A question I've asked a number of friends in media: What would it take for Fox News to oust Bill O'Reilly?.
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Patience wearing thin and anger visibly rising as I explain to my loved ones that LIGHTYEAR is the origin story of the real Buzz Lightyear. Not the toy. Idiots.
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New statement from attorney representing @JoyAnnReid, who says they “received confirmation the FBI has opened an investigation into potential criminal activities surrounding several online accounts, including personal email and blog accounts” belonging to her
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This has been a brutal proceeding for South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg. Not one representative has risen to his defense. One after another slammed him for his conduct. The House is about to vote now.
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Just as the post-Olympic sadness started to wash over me, I heard the sound of salvation in the distance.
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I know some liberals believe that only Trump and Fox News are capable of being reckless in response to this crisis, but here we have a prominent Democratic operative and a top adviser for the Democratic frontrunner both undermining guidance from credible health experts. Yikes.
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Wow. Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment suit against Fox News chief Roger Ailes.
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Just got an email from @SallyAlbright who says she has no information about @m_mendozaferrer and only knows her from Twitter. Sally also asked why I'm trying to dox her, which is a ridiculous charge, but since lots of ppl are trying to get me booted off this site, let me explain.
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15 companies have now pulled ads from The O'Reilly Factor and I think I've set a record for most updates to a story
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lol this is such an uncomfortable to watch. The Trump rally has hit the Fat Elvis stage.
"We can share a microphone now" -- Hope Hicks is at the rally, not wearing a mask, and for some reason she gets up to the lectern and says (literally) a couple words
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Tweeted this a month ago. Bret will be back. Book it.
Bret Stephens is like late career Favre: constantly trying to walk away, likely at the behest of friends who are tired of seeing him get the shit kicked out of him, but his love of the game is just too strong
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Golden State has gone 12-1 since this tweet
The Golden State era is over. It will take until spring to drive the point home.
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me surreptitiously walking from Greenpoint to Crown Heights past curfew last night
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Over the weekend I heard a woman with a thick Philadelphia accent say "they fixed the roads for the pope," which felt like a phrase that was constructed specifically to demonstrate the Philadelphia accent.
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BREAKING: In a change from previous statement, Jenny Craig now says that it has "suspended all ads on The O'Reilly Factor"
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alternating my time on this website between tweeting "are you triggered snowflake? 😂🤣😂🤣" at everyone who expresses shock at my wildly offensive memes, and absolutely losing my shit over an innocuous reference to Barron Trump.
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journalists generally don't wear campaign paraphernalia, bill
I believe that if an employee of The New York Times or NBC News wears a “Make America Great Again” hat to work, that would be a career killer.
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Shapiro is so vapid and lazy. Honestly, I think I prefer the grifter who plays dumb when he really knows better over the mediocrity who masquerades as a genius
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This might be the first one of these that comes close to accurately capturing the dog's inner-monologue
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At a certain point, you'd think these people would lose their capacity to be disappointed
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One final point: there has been a ton of coverage since 2016 devoted to who is controlling social media accounts and the origins of memes, narratives, etc. so it’s been a little rich to see so many reporters credulously cite @m_mendozaferrer.
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Given her enormous, outsized influence over various reportage this year, @m_mendozaferrer has very much become a public figure. And given that she is the supplier of the information (much of it distorted and false), I think we deserve some transparency on who exactly she is.
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Seems like Joy Reid and MSNBC want to shift the conversation away from the bewildering hacking claims and instead make the story about the evolution of LGBT equality. Which, ok. But maybe one panelist could ask about the hacking?.
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When you definitely don't care and, in fact, you're not even paying attention to what they're saying
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Just got statement from Ryan Lizza, who calls his firing from the New Yorker "a terrible mistake"
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love to visit a city for the first time and immediately weigh in on its long term devolution
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In response to Megyn Kelly's comments today, Bill O'Reilly's rep Mark Fabiani sent me photos of a couple thank you notes she sent O'Reilly
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News here: a federal judge denied Bill O'Reilly's motion to seal settlement agreements with women who are suing him for defamation. This means that, for the first time, we get to see some of the terms of these agreements -- and some are pretty incredible.
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