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Biden White House Presser with ‘Ted Lasso’ Cast Goes Off the Rails: ‘You’re Making a Mockery of the First Amendment’

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A White House visit by the cast of the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso quickly devolved into chaos Monday when a reporter stole the spotlight by accusing Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre of “making a mockery of the First Amendment.”

The Ted Lasso cast, including stars Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham, stood in awkward silence as Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba berated Jean-Pierre for discriminating against certain journalists, saying she had not called on him for seven months.

“We’re not doing this,” Jean-Pierre repeatedly said in an attempt to quiet Ateba.

But he would not be silenced. “This is the U.S. This is not China. This is not Russia. What you’re doing is not right,” he continued. “What you are doing is you’re making a mockery of the First Amendment. It’s been seven months you’ve not called on me.”

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Ateba didn’t appear to receive any support from his fellow journalists. In fact, they rallied behind Jean-Pierre and the celebrity visitors.

“Sorry to our guests. We apologize,” NBC News correspondent Kelly O’Donnell said.

Later, Jean-Pierre called Ateba’s outburst “unacceptable.”

“What has just occurred this last 10 or 15 minutes is unacceptable. It is unacceptable. So we are going to either continue to briefing, or we can just end the briefing right here,” she said.

Simon Ateba has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration, especially its COVID-related travel bans to certain African countries. He has repeatedly accused Jean-Pierre of trying to silence him,

The Ted Lasso cast was at the White House to promote the series’ third season, which began streaming last week. Officially, they were in Washington to discuss mental health issues.

Even President Joe Biden helped promote the show with a tweet taken just outside the Oval Office.

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Exclusive — Mike Tyson Defends Trump: ‘I Don’t Think He Should Go to Jail’

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ORLANDO, Florida — Legendary professional boxer Mike Tyson told Breitbart News that he does not think former President Donald Trump should go to jail.

Tyson, who is attending a different event than the House GOP retreat here in Orlando, Florida, at the same hotel complex, ended up running into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Some time later, Breitbart News caught up with Tyson in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton.

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Mike Tyson is seen on June 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)

“Kevin McCarthy, I was happy to see him,” Tyson said.

Tyson also told Breitbart News that he does not think Trump should go to jail.

“I think politics is what politics are,” Tyson said when asked what he thought of the efforts to come after Trump from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “They have agendas and that’s — it doesn’t have to be a bad agenda but it’s an agenda. I don’t know — I don’t think he should go to jail. I don’t know, I’m not a politician. I don’t want anyone to go to jail.”

Tyson and Trump have long been friends, and the former Heavyweight Champion of the World endorsed the then-future president way back in the early days of the 2016 GOP primary back in the fall of 2015.

Donald Trump and Mike Tyson attend a March of Dimes dinner in November 1989 in New York City. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)

Tyson also said that while he does not usually like to weigh in on politics he has known Trump for decades and has a different perspective about him than many who do not know him personally.

“I don’t know, I like to keep my opinions to myself because people get upset but I like him personally,” Tyson said. “I’ve known Trump for over 30 years. I don’t have the same perspective as everyone else. I have a human perspective.”

Tyson has spoken out in recent years saying he is a conservative and has become more conservative as he has gotten older. Last year, for instance, he told NewsMax’s Greta Van Susteren that being conservative is “common sense.” Tyson also mentioned to Breitbart News here that he recently appeared on InfoWars founder Alex Jones’s show.

When asked by Breitbart News in the brief interview here what needs to happen to get the country back on track, Tyson said, “We need to love each other.”

New World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is lifted into the air wearing the championship belt after defeating WBC heavyweight champion Frank Bruno of Great Britain with a third-round technical knockout March 16, 1996, at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. (MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Sharon Stone Says She Lost ‘Half’ Her Money in Recent Bank Failure

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Actress Sharon Stone told an awards event crowd on Thursday that she has been through some tough times over the years, nearly losing her breasts to tumors, losing her brother last month, and now losing half her money — apparently due to Silicon Valley Bank’s failure.

Appearing on stage to receive a Courage Award during the Women’s Cancer Research Fund’s (WCRF) “An Unforgettable Evening” fundraiser.

To start, Stone told the crowd that she had some notes when she took the stage at the Four Seasons’ Beverly Wilshire ballroom. The notes were different for her, she said, since, “I usually just speak off the cuff because, as you well know, I don’t give a shit,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote.

Stone encouraged the audience to break out their check books for the WCRF with a shocking admission about her own finances.

The Oscar-nominated Basic Instinct star spoke of a range of woes including her breast cancer scare — and her personal connection to the bank failure that has shocked the U.S. financial system.

“I know that thing that you have to get on and figure out how to text the money is difficult. I’m a technical idiot, but I can write a fucking check. And right now, that’s courage, too, because I know what’s happening. I just lost half my money to this banking thing, and that doesn’t mean that I’m not here,” Stone exclaimed.

While she did not mention SVB specifically, it is clear that the collapse of the California-based bank that many members of the woke tech and entertainment sectors favored is what she was likely referencing.

Stone went on to reveal that in 2001 she had to have extensive breast reconstruction surgery after doctors discovered several very large tumors. Fortunately, they were fibroid tumors and not cancerous. However, it was still a massive surgical procedure.

“Those mammograms are not fun,” the Quick and the Dead star explained. “And for someone like me who was told that I had breast cancer because I had a tumor that was larger than my breast and they were sure that I couldn’t possibly have a tumor without it being cancer, it wasn’t.

“But I went to the hospital, saying, ‘If you open me up and it’s cancer, please take both my breasts,’ because I am not a person defined by my breasts. You know, that might seem funny coming from me since you’ve all seen ‘em.”

Stone also spoke about the loss of her brother, Patrick Stone, who died on Feb. 12 at age 57 from heart disease. “My brother just died, and that doesn’t mean that I’m not here,” she said. “This is not an easy time for any of us.”

She closed urging her audience to stand up for what they believe.

“This is a hard time in the world, but I’m telling you what, I’m not having some politician tell me what I can and cannot do. How I can and cannot live, and what the value of my life is and is not. So stand up. Stand up and say what you’re worth. I dare you. That’s what courage is,” she said without specifying exactly who is telling her how to live her life.

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Christina Ricci: I Was Threatened with a Lawsuit for Wanting Boundaries in a Sex Scene

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Actress Christina Ricci claimed Wednesday that she was once threatened with a lawsuit because she was reluctant to shoot a sex scene in the way her film producers desired.

After being asked by The View co-host Sarah Haines about the differences between her own experiences in Hollywood and what she has seen other young actresses deal with, Ricci revealed she was once threatened with a lawsuit because she wanted to set “boundaries” for the shoot.

“It’s really great. Us older ladies talk about it all the time. It’s amazing to see that they don’t necessarily have to go through the things we had to go through. They’re able to say, ‘I don’t want to do this sex scene,’ ‘I’m not going to be naked,’” Ricci said.

“They can set boundaries for themselves that we were never allowed to do,” the Yellowjackets star added. “Someone threatened to sue me once because I didn’t want to do this sex scene in a certain way. It’s really changed and it’s great to see.”

This was not Ricci’s first time mentioning her experience of being threatened with a lawsuit over her objection to a sex scene.

Last summer, in an interview with Variety, the actress said, “I remember once on a movie saying I wasn’t comfortable with something and they threatened to sue me if I didn’t do it. That would never happen now.”

The type of behavior that Ricci described is typical of Hollywood, an industry that relishes lecturing everyday Americans while members of that same industry engage in debauchery.

Last week, Netflix’s Stranger Things star Grace Van Dien revealed that she quit acting after a producer on an unnamed movie suggested she join him for a threesome.

Last summer, actress Mena Suvari said that being pulled into the sex abuse culture of Hollywood helped her nail her role in the 1999 film, American Beauty.

In 2021, actress Keira Knightley noted that every woman she knows has been sexually harassed in some way, which even include threats and violence.

In 2017, three decades’ worth of sexual misconduct allegations against the now-disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein were brought to the light. And over the years, many in Hollywood appeared to have known about Weinstein’s behavior but said nothing about it.

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