Joining today's show are Donny Deutsch, Richard Haass, Eugene Robinson, Kasie Hunt, Robert Costa, Mike Allen, Amy Holmes, Steve Kornacki, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Amb. Ron Dermer, Bianna Golodryga, Sen Chuck Grassley, Rick Stengel, Sara Eisen and more.
In their array of franchise feats, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos can now add the latest with exclamation.
They are in first place.
It’s a new position with 25 games left in the second half of the Southern League season.
In a game Tuesday night that went from a rout to a sweat, the Blue Wahoos had their 11-0 lead whittled in the middle innings, then closer Zack Weiss summoned to seal a 13-10 victory against the Birmingham Barons at the bayfront stadium.
“It’s the craziest one I can remember in a long while,” said Blue Wahoos veteran manager Pat Kelly. “You jump out to an 11-0 lead early, but it was so early (4th inning). And that’s what you kept trying to emphasize to your team... keep scoring, keep scoring.
“But (Birmingham Barons) got a little spark on the pinch hit, three-run homer (6th inning) and they just kept pecking away. It’s chaos. And you see games like that in the big leagues and those guys lose those games. Zack was outstanding as usual. I hated to use him for five outs, but we needed to win the game.”
By winning the game, amid a crowd of 4,012, the Blue Wahoos (26-19 in second half) won the series against the Barons (28-16) and pushed past the Mobile BayBears to share a first-place tie with the Mississippi Braves in the South Division.
The Blue Wahoos now head to Biloxi for their first-ever visit to MGM Park, adjacent to the Beau Rivage Casino, where they begin a five-game series against the Biloxi Shuckers tonight.
“Obviously, we can’t put a whole lot of pressure on ourselves,” said Blue Wahoos outfielder Bryson Smith, who produced a career-best five hits in six at-bats, driving in four runs. “We don’t really think about it too much. We’re just trying to do our best to play our best.
“But it’s pretty unique. It’s special for the city of Pensacola for us to be in the hunt. And for me, especially. I’ve been here a couple of years. so it is really nice and really cool to be part of this.”
Smith, the former Florida Gators star, has endured an injury-filled pro career. He wasn’t with the team when the Blue Wahoos finished 25-43 in the first half.
But all the more special he’s been a key factor in the second half. He smashed a 3-run homer in the second, then an RBI single later.
“Terrific, terrific,” Kelly said. “He just swings the bat so well and competes. You love having a guy like that on your team.”
The game wound up becoming one for the archives. The teams combined for 33 hits, which matched the most in a Blue Wahoos game. They each hit three homers. The Barons center fielder Jacob May hit for the cycle, finishing it off with a two-run homer in the eighth that made for a riveting finish.
All of this occurred on Joe Scarborough Bobble Head Night.
The Pensacola native, Catholic High grad, former U.S. Congressman and now popular co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, has tried to attend a couple games a year.
He saw one of the most memorable.
“Everybody who has been in Pensacola for a long time and seen things come and go, it’s really remarkable how well this is doing,” said Scarborough, referring to the total experience at the ballpark. “This is the sort of magnet we have always needed.”
For the record, Scarborough threw a one-bouncer to home plate with solid velocity.
As Scarborough visited with fans and signed autographs, the Blue Wahoos kept scoring runs. It all started with Jesse Winker’s two-out, solo homer in the first inning. Two more runs followed.
Then came Smith’s blast in the second. Followed by Juan Duran’s moon shot with one on. That ball was hit so far, so high, no Birmingham player moved.
After three innings, the Blue Wahoos had a 9-0 lead and knocked out Birmingham starter Myles Jaye, who entered with the most wins (11) in the Southern League. Jaye went through a stretch of 27 scoreless innings from June 17-July 23.
He had not surrendered more than five runs all season.
“I think he was just a little off. He couldn’t get his slider over. His fastball was up in the zone,” Kelly said. “He’s not that type of pitcher.”
By getting that lead, then eventually holding it, the Blue Wahoos can carry a good vibe into Biloxi. After the first-half struggles, the second-half surge has been affirmation of Kelly’s belief.
“It’s a tribute to those guys out there. They never gave in,” Kelly said.
Al Gore running for President? Dont believe whispers just yet.
Two people close to Al Gore pushed back on a report Thursday that suggested the former vice president was considering running for president in 2016.
An associate of the 67-year-old Gore told CNN that the speculation was "groundless," and a spokeswoman for Gore added later Thursday that there was "no truth" to the idea he is considering a White House run.
Buzzfeed reported that supporters of Gore had begun talking about a possible presidential run, though some Gore advisers poured "lukewarm water" on the speculation.
"This is people talking to people, some of whom may or may not have talked to him," one Gore adviser told Buzzfeed.
The former vice president lost the race to succeed President Bill Clinton in 2000 -- despite winning the popular vote -- and would be competing against Clinton's wife, Hillary, were he to enter the Democratic race.
Hillary Clinton, once seen as holding a commanding position in the primary thanks to her grip on the party's establishment, has shown growing vulnerabilities in recent weeks. A recent poll showed Clinton losing to her top challenger, Bernie Sanders, in New Hampshire -- though a recent CNN/ORC poll showed her comfortably ahead in Iowa -- and questions have swirled for months about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Also weighing a decision is current Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently on vacation but expected to announce his presidential intentions in weeks.
Since leaving the White House, Gore has become perhaps the most vocal public official sounding the alarm on climate change. He has also led business ventures in media, buying Current TV before it was purchased in 2013 by Al Jazeera.
The Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now Hillary finally hands over her server—after it's been professionally wiped clean.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes questions from reporters following a town hall meeting at Exeter High School August 10, 2015 in Exeter, New Hampshire. (Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
After years of holding herself above the law, telling lie after lie, and months of flat-out obstruction, HIllary Clinton has finally produced to the FBI her server and three thumb drives. Apparently, the server has been professionally wiped clean of any useable information, and the thumb drives contain only what she selectively culled. Myriad criminal offenses apply to this conduct.
Anyone with knowledge of government workings has known from inception that Hillary’s communications necessarily would contain classified and national security related information. Thanks to the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, it is now beyond dispute that she had ultra-Top Secret information and more that should never have left the State Department.
Equal to Ms. Clinton’s outrageous misconduct is that of the entire federal law enforcement community. It has long chosen to be deliberately blind to these flagrant infractions of laws designed to protect national security—laws for which other people, even reporters, have endured atrocious investigations, prosecutions, and some served years in prison for comparatively minor infractions.
During the same years that Hillary was communicating about national security and world affairs off the grid, the Department of Justice has had no qualms threatening news reporters and prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act. It’s high time for a special prosecutor to be named to conduct a full investigation into Ms. Clinton’s likely commission of multiple felonies, including a conspiracy with Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and possibly others, to violate multiple laws. While the FBI and Department of Justice have willfully ignored Hillary Clinton’s outrageous conduct, they didn’t hesitate a minute to investigate and prosecute former CIA Director and national hero, General Petraeus.
He was just tarred, feathered and ridden out of the CIA on a rail for sharing some information (his own notebook) with his biographer who was both in the military and had a top secret clearance. Yet, Petraeus did not have a secret server set up to house his classified and top secret information or digital satellite imagery; he destroyed nothing; and, there was no “leak.” But that’s not all.
During the same years that Hillary was communicating about national security and world affairs off the grid, the Department of Justice has had no qualms threatening news reporters and prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act. To hell with the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent, even the New York Times reported that this administration prosecuted more reporters and whistleblowers for “espionage” than all prior administrations put together.
Remember Fox news reporter James Rosen? The Holder Justice Department not only seized his emails immediately and without his knowledge, they suggested he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case—under the Espionage Act—which carries a ten-year term of imprisonment. And they quickly indicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senator Menendez on extremely stretched or tortured views of vague criminal statutes and factual allegations of conduct that may well not be criminal.
Senator Menendez can’t vacation with his best friend but Hillary Clinton and her “Foundation” can accept millions of dollars from foreign governments seeking to curry her favor. Yet there’s been no criminal investigation of Ms. Clinton and her cabal? They couldn’t seize her server months ago while it contained all the emails? They couldn’t put a stop to it from the beginning? Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a town hall meeting at Exeter High School August 10, 2015 in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Oh right, I forgot. As the Wall Street Journal reported, Ms. Clinton had declined to allow an Inspector General at the State Department during her entire tenure—so there was no internal oversight. And oh yes, her name is Clinton, and she has long deemed herself above the law. The rules only apply to everyone else. But wait, there’s still more. The current Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, Leslie Caldwell, and her Chief of the Corporate Fraud Section, Andrew Weissmann, destroyed Arthur Andersen and its 85,000 jobs on unfounded charges of obstruction of justice for destroying documents the Supreme Court said it had no legal obligation to keep.
The laws governing Ms. Clinton’s obligations are clear. Nonetheless, they haven’t even convened a grand jury to look into Ms. Clinton’s longstanding assertion that she wiped her server clean—of documents she was legally required to keep? On top of that, there can be little doubt that Eric Holder and other high-ranking FBI and DOJ officials themselves wrote Ms. Clinton at Clintonemail.com—not to mention countless communications with the President and “All His Muses”—Counter-terrrorism advisor Lisa Monaco, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and then White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler (not to mention Valerie Jarrett)—about Benghazi and all other top secret and classified issues.
The DOJ hasn’t subpoenaed the emails from any of the recipients—or the internet service providers? Or looked for them on the backup government servers of the accounts of all the recipients? And the State Department still today is making statements defending her? Not only did Ms. Clinton deliberately demonstrate disdain for the Federal Records Act and nullify the protections of the Freedom of Information Act, she violated the Espionage Act by having information relating to the national defense on her server at all. And her deliberate disregard for national security made the job of all hackers that much easier. As Andy McCarthy explained it in the National Review: In fact, the espionage act—which regulates the handling of intelligence by government officials — does not refer to classified information; it refers to information relating to the national defense. Moreover, it does not prohibit solely the transmission of such information; it criminalizes the communication, delivery, or transmission of that information; causing communication, delivery, or transmission of that information; permitting the removal of that information from its proper place of custody through gross negligence; permitting that information to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed through gross negligence; or, failing to make a prompt report to superiors in the government when an official knows that the information has been removed from its proper place of custody, communicated to someone not authorized to have it, lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed.
The Inspector General for the Intelligence Community has advised Congress that even in the few emails he has reviewed, there was top secret information—in the form of digital satellite imagery and signals intelligence. Regardless of how it was marked, and no doubt Ms. Clinton will blame others, even a neophyte would have known that such information was of the highest secrecy. Not surprisingly, the first seeds of Ms. Clinton’s deflecting the blame to underlings were sown by her protectors in the State Department itself last night. Aside from that, her knowledge and intent do not matter under some of these statutes and are indefensible under others. General Petraeus certainly had no criminal intent, and neither did any of the reporters.
Ms. Clinton, however, established her entire system to avoid the law and in violation of the Espionage Act—as she and her co-conspirators removed all records from the State Department from its inception. Compounding her crimes, she knowingly and willfully destroyed whatever she wanted to destroy—despite or more likely because of—the incriminating information it contained and in the face of the Benghazi investigation. There’s still more. The countless false statements are crimes under 18 United States Code Section 1001—both by Ms. Clinton to Congress (“no classified information”) and in writing by Cheryl Mills to the State Department and just filed with Judge Sullivan—in which she states: “On matters pertaining to the conduct of government business, it was her practice to use the officials’ government email accounts.”
We already know that Ms. Clinton used her personal server exclusively. Title 18 United States Code Section 1001 makes it a crime for anyone to “knowingly and willfully” falsify, conceal, or cover up “a material fact,” or make “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or misrepresentation,” etc. Countless people are convicted felons under this statute—some for offenses that would never occur to anyone even to be a crime. And these are just a few of the possible statutes that it would appear to any federal prosecutor that she and her corrupt cabal violated.
As Lt. Col. Ralph Peters had the guts to say last night on FoxNews, “Hillary Clinton is a criminal.” Military heroes who have risked their lives for this country have gone to prison for less. The Department of Justice’s selective prosecutions have been well-document. Its favoritism and targeting practices must end.
As discussed on NewsMaxTV’s Hardline last night, it’s time for a national outcry for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and indict Ms. Clinton’s flagrant violations of some of our most important laws. Anyone else would have been arrested by now. Until there is a massive change in this country, justice is a game.
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The annual Iowa State Fair has come to town, kicking off an 11-day run with a parade Wednesday evening at the State Capitol in downtown Des Moines with Gov. Terry Branstad. It's a time-honored Midwest tradition -- and a valued stop on the campaign trail for presidential hopefuls.
Attractions at this year's fair include livestock and agriculture exhibitions, art shows, amusement rides such as the Tilt-a-Whirl, Big Bumper Boats, and the Wacky Worm (must be 42" to ride), and, of course, the Midwest Dairy Association's Butter Cow (a life-sized cow sculpted out of about 600 pounds of butter).
There are 70 different kinds of fried foods on a stick, and new delicacies such as deep-fried nacho balls, fried peanut butter and jelly on a stick, and pumpkin spice funnel cake, among others, are on the menu this year.
The fair's grandstand packs an all-star lineup, with performances by Carrie Underwood, Def Leppard, Reba McEntire and The Fray. Over on the free stage, fairgoers can hit up the Village People, Britney Spears' sister Jamie Lynn's new country act, or even Sir Mix-A-Lot of "Baby Got Back" fame.
Of course, an expected attendance of over 1 million makes the fair a must-attend for presidential candidates in both parties as they try to court voters here in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. One of their top fairgrounds destinations is the Des Moines Register's Soapbox, a modern take on the old-fashioned political activity of "getting up on the soapbox." Presidential candidates are given 20 minutes to make their pitch to attendees in any format. Hundreds turn out to see the spectacle, and candidates are often heckled.
Last time around, Mitt Romney made his infamous "corporations are people" comment at the soapbox. In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama skipped the soapbox, instead taking daughters Sasha and Malia for a spin on the bumper cars.
Fourteen Republican candidates are expected to participate in the soapbox. On the Democratic side, soapbox participants include Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton will also attend the fair on Saturday.
When they're not addressing the masses, candidates will be found across the fairgrounds, sampling the many specialty snacks, taking a peek at the Big Boar (it's a 1000+ pound boar), admiring the Butter Cow, flipping pork chops at the National Pork Producer Council's tent, and shaking hands with as many voters as they can find.
"The caucuses are about face-to-face campaigning, and you're going to get the biggest audience possible by walking around the fairgrounds. You're going to get the most exposure, you're going to see the most faces. And it's important in a state like Iowa, where what gets people to turn out on caucus night is whether they've had a face-to-face interaction with the candidate," said Annah Backstrom, the Des Moines Register's content strategist for politics, who directs the Register's political teams.
Trump on leading polls, Paul's attacks, Clinton's emails 08:11
Some things to watch this year: will candidates like Bernie Sanders -- who has been received with huge crowds -- attract a bigger gathering at the soapbox? How will candidates respond to heckling? Will Rick Perry, who suspended pay for his campaign staff this week, generate enough interest to reignite his campaign during his Aug. 19 stop?
A CNN/ORC poll of Iowa voters released Wednesday has Donald Trump taking the GOP lead with 22% from previous Iowa frontrunner Scott Walker, now in third place at 9%. But over five months away from caucus night, top Iowa GOP strategists suggest it's still anyone's game. Hillary Clinton is holding a 50% to 31% lead over upstart Sanders, who is gaining ground in early-primary state New Hampshire.
The lead-up to the summer tradition is not without its partisan divide.
"What do you call it when you have nine governors, five senators, two incredibly talented businesspeople, and one world-famous surgeon running for the Republican nomination? The Field of Dreams, of course," the Republican Party of Iowa said in a press release Wednesday. The party plans to tout their "Field of Dreams" at a booth in the varied Industries building.
The Iowa Democratic Party, meanwhile, took the opportunity to jab the GOP: "While our Democrats will be at the State Fair talking about their work on the progressive issues and values that all Iowans share, including economic fairness, social equality, and the importance of high quality education, the GOP field attending the fair will be talking about their own positions that seem stuck in a time warp from the earliest days of the fair," a spokesperson for the party wrote.
A POLITICO report entitled Insiders: Trump can’t win early states; Only 1 in 10 Democrats think Joe Biden could win their state.
Six in 10 Republican insiders in the early states say Donald Trump can’t win Iowa or New Hampshire. That’s the assessment of this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top operatives, strategists and activists in Iowa and New Hampshire. Their conclusion comes on the heels of the latest national poll, from CNN/ORC, that reports the controversial real estate mogul is leading the GOP presidential field even after crudely attacking Fox News host Megyn Kelly last week following the first GOP debate, which she co-moderated.
“Many Trump enthusiasts are showing up for free food and verbal fireworks at his events, but won’t sit through a precinct caucus,” an Iowa Republican said, when asked whether Trump would win if the early-state contests were held today.
“Telling a pollster you support Trump is whiskey courage. Most of them will sober up enough to realize they aren’t going to walk into a ballot booth and vote for a misogynist jerk,” agreed a New Hampshire Republican, who like all participants was granted anonymity in order to speak freely.
The percentages were nearly the same in both states: 58 percent of Iowa Republicans said Trump would not win, compared to 61 percent in New Hampshire.
Still, Iowans report signs of Trump organization on the ground, and many insiders acknowledge, to their chagrin, that he remains a force in both states for now. Several, however, were skeptical that the voters who enjoy Trump’s broadsides against the media, the GOP establishment and Washington in general will ultimately trust him to be commander-in-chief.
“Trump is generating a lot controversy, but he is not taken seriously as a potential president,” a New Hampshire Republican said. “I have heard from many people who say ‘I love him! Love what he’s saying!’ But when I ask if they would really vote for him, they say, ‘hell no.’”
Added a Granite State Democrat, who like all participants responded through an online survey: “NH Republicans are pretty sophisticated and strategic and will pick someone they think can beat Hillary. And to beat Hillary, a candidate is going to have to at least draw with Republican women. And he has destroyed his chances with women.”
Other insiders said that many of the voters expressing interest in Trump aren’t typically deeply involved in the political process. And Iowans, whose caucus system is more complicated than simply casting a ballot, said they doubted Trump’s support was deep enough to result in heavy turnout.
“It’s unlikely he would win today,” an Iowa Republican said. “His organization will have to be deeper than it is right now, but it’s certainly possible. The concern they should have is that a lot of his support is drawing from people who have never participated in a caucus. That means his ballot may not transfer to action. Attending a caucus is a much higher bar than stopping by a polling place. But this is a totally unpredictable environment.”
Another Iowa Republican added, “Trump supporters have to show up to the caucus. Finding that many Trump [supporters] that I talk to have never attended a caucus before and when they find out it is not just showing up and casting a ballot, they may find that is not worth the effort. His is a campaign built entirely on celebrity and short attention spans.”Even so, 40 percent of Republican insiders — and three-quarters of Democratic insiders — said Trump would win their states today.
“One third of the Republican primary vote has been propagandized into believing Obama was born in Kenya and wanted to invade Texas, that illegal immigrants are raping and pillaging their way through the countryside,” a New Hampshire Democrat said. “In a divided field, if he keeps the overwhelming majority of those voters, he can win.”
From the other side of the aisle, a Granite State Republican said, “Sadly, the Establishment Republican party refuses to embrace the understanding that people are truly fed up with politicians, and are so willing to send that message, that they will vote for a psychopath before they desire to vote for the establishment.”
Two Republicans — one from Iowa, one from New Hampshire — weren’t sure, but said they were “praying” he wouldn’t be competitive.
“Praying no,” the Iowa Republican said. “Trump has not offered any credible plans for what he is talking about. Saying he will accomplish things with his ‘intellect’ and because he ‘is smarter’ is no different than Obama saying he has a pen and a phone. If Trump wants to stay ahead, he would be smart to put some ‘meat on the bone.’”
Lamented the Granite State Republican: “I hope and pray he cannot, but worry that we may have to take him seriously if this continues.”
Bursting Biden's bubble
Caucus insiders also weighed in on the potential presidential candidacy of Vice President Joe Biden, who is said to be considering a run. But 88 percent of Democrats said he could not win their states if the contests were held today.
“He is starting way too late, and doesn’t have time to build ground organization,” a New Hampshire Democrat said. “Also, while people like him, he’s never taken off here. Would put the kibosh to O’Malley, however, only room for one Irish American guy from mid-Atlantic states.“
“Although he is much loved by NH Democrats, many feel he wouldn’t win,” added another.
Several insiders pointed out that Biden couldn’t run much to the left of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and does not have a clear path.
“He won’t get the Feel the Bern [Bernie Sanders] vote and HRC is too well organized here,” a New Hampshire Republican said. “However, any further bad news stories re [Clinton’s] emails, etc could get the middle really scrambling for an alternative.”
“Biden pulls from Clinton voters,” added another GOP Granite Stater. “He doesn’t occupy the lane that Bernie’s driving in right now, nor will he resonate with the far-left progressives that make up a big part of the NH Dem voting bloc.”
These are the members of The POLITICO Caucus (not all of whom participated this week):
Iowa: Tim Albrecht, Brad Anderson, Rob Barron, Jeff Boeyink, Bonnie Campbell, Dave Caris, Sam Clovis, Sara Craig, Jerry Crawford, John Davis, Steve Deace, John Deeth, Derek Eadon, Ed Failor Jr., Karen Fesler, David Fischer, Doug Gross, Steve Grubbs, Tim Hagle, Bob Haus, Joe Henry, Drew Ivers, Jill June, Lori Jungling, Jeff Kaufmann, Brian Kennedy, Jake Ketzner, David Kochel, Chris Larimer, Chuck Larson, Jill Latham, Jeff Link, Dave Loebsack, Mark Lucas, Liz Mathis, Jan Michelson, Chad Olsen, David Oman, Matt Paul, Marlys Popma, Troy Price, Christopher Rants, Kim Reem, Craig Robinson, Sam Roecker, David Roederer, Nick Ryan, Tamara Scott, Joni Scotter, Karen Slifka, John Smith, AJ Spiker, Norm Sterzenbach, John Stineman, Matt Strawn, Phil Valenziano, Jessica Vanden Berg, Nate Willems, Eric Woolson, Grant Young
New Hampshire: Charlie Arlinghaus, Arnie Arnesen, Patrick Arnold, Rich Ashooh, Dean Barker, Juliana Bergeron, D.J. Bettencourt, Michael Biundo, Ray Buckley, Peter Burling, Jamie Burnett, Debby Butler, Dave Carney, Jackie Cilley, Catherine Corkery, Garth Corriveau, Fergus Cullen, Lou D’Allesandro, James Demers, Mike Dennehy, Sean Downey, Steve Duprey, JoAnn Fenton, Jennifer Frizzell, Martha Fuller Clark, Amanda Grady Sexton, Jack Heath, Gary Hirshberg, Jennifer Horn, Peter Kavanaugh, Joe Keefe, Rich Killion, Harrell Kirstein, Sylvia Larsen, Joel Maiola, Kate Malloy Corriveau, Maureen Manning, Steve Marchand, Tory Mazzola, Jim Merrill, Jayne Millerick, Claira Monier, Greg Moore, Matt Mowers, Terie Norelli, Chris Pappas, Liz Purdy, Tom Rath, Colin Reed, Jim Rubens, Andy Sanborn, Dante Scala, William Shaheen, Stefany Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter, Terry Shumaker, Andy Smith, Craig Stevens, Kathy Sullivan, Chris Sununu, James Sununu, Jay Surdukowski, Donna Sytek, Kari Thurman, Colin Van Ostern, Deb Vanderbeek, Mike Vlacich, Ryan Williams. Kristen Hayford contributed to this report.
USA Sets Premiere Dates for ‘Colony,’ Donny Deutsch Comedy.
USA is using the Nov. 10 return of its popular comedic reality series “Chrisley Knows Best” as a lead-in for its new Donny Deutsch series “Donny!.” The “soft-scripted” series follows the ad exec and former “Big Idea” host and is meant to take a “satirical look at the media, wealth and modern romance.”
NEW SERIES:
“Donny!” (Season 1: 6 eps – 10:30/9:30c Tuesday, November 10) - This half-hour soft scripted comedic series, starring Donny Deutsch, takes a satirical look at the media, wealth and modern romance through the eyes of Deutsch’s fictionalized character of the same name. It is based on the real-life famed ad man, single dad and TV personality. Each week, as the host of a successful daytime talk show, Donny preaches from a holier-than-thou pulpit and dispels advice about a variety of issues. But off the camera, as Donny navigates life as a single dad and TV personality, we find that he’s a filterless rogue who lives in hilarious contrast to almost everything he espouses publicly.”Donny!” is executive produced by Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman and Angie Day of Left/Right (“Odd Mom Out,” “Mob Wives,” “Small Town Security”) and Deutsch. “Donny!” also stars Emily Tarver (“Sisters”).
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