'It's like 'Pee-Wee's Playhouse' with a conservative spin': Alex Stein made a major announcement



BlazeTV will air "Prime Time Alex Stein" in the Spring of 2023 with host Alex Stein (@alexstein99). During Tuesday's coverage of the midterm elections, Glenn Beck checked in with Alex while he was live from a GOP watch party with the Dallas County Young Republicans.

"What is the show going to be, Alex?" asked Glenn. Alex descried the show as "a very experimental show ... like a 'Pee-Wee's Playhouse' with a conservative spin." Alex joked that all of the proceeds would go to Vladimir Zelenskyy and the fight they are currently having in Ukraine.

Video below.


\u201cOmg! I\u2019m so freaking sad that John Fetterman won tonight because Dr. Oz was going to single handedly save our entire republic when he got into the senate!\u201d
— Alex Stein #99 (@Alex Stein #99) 1667977335
\u201cAsking @BetoORourke if he feels guilty about the millions of dollars he wasted on his failed campaign for Governor? \n\n\u201d
— Alex Stein #99 (@Alex Stein #99) 1667940249
\u201cThis is not ok Elon! AOC and I have something special that not even a billionaire like yourself can destroy \n\n\u201d
— Alex Stein #99 (@Alex Stein #99) 1667503953

Kathy Griffin uses her dead mother's Twitter account to resume war with Elon Musk after getting suspended from platform for impersonating him



Comedian and left-wing attack dog Kathy Griffin began using her dead mother's Twitter account to continue doing battle with new Twitter owner Elon Musk after she was suspended from the social media platform Sunday for impersonating him.

\u201c@elonmusk I\u2019m back from the grave to say\u2026\n#FreeKathy \n#TipIt\u201d
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1667775222

"I'm back from the grave to say ... #FreeKathy ..." the account for Griffin's late mother read Sunday evening. That was followed by the following message: "Apologize in advance for all the comments you’re gonna have to read about how ugly I am, and they’re probably gonna throw you in there, too. Oh, by the way this is KG. I’m tweeting from my dead mother’s account. She would not mind."

Musk, as he is wont to do, expertly trolled Griffin, noting on Twitter that "actually, she was suspended for impersonating a comedian" — a quip that's garnered nearly 450,000 likes and counting since Sunday evening.

He wasn't done:

\u201c@bennyjohnson @kathygriffin For $8\u201d
— Benny Johnson (@Benny Johnson) 1667777736

Griffin gets all worked up

Griffin can be a relentlessly surly soul when she's offended. We're talking about someone who accused a non-celebrity of attending the Jan. 6 riots and reported the person to the FBI — all after this everyday individual called Griffin "despicable."

So you know she's obsessed with digging into Musk with her myriad claws.

After Musk joked that Griffin was "suspended for impersonating a comedian," she got predictably fired up:

\u201c@elonmusk @bennyjohnson @kathygriffin I mean\u2026 you stole that joke, you asshole. People have been posting that joke for hours, you hack.\nLook, please do a better job running this company. It used to mean something. \nThis is KG btw\u201d
— Benny Johnson (@Benny Johnson) 1667777736

“I mean… you stole that joke, you asshole,” she wrote from her deceased mom's account. “People have been posting that joke for hours, you hack. Look, please do a better job running this company. It used to mean something. This is KG btw.”

Some other tries from Griffin:

\u201c@saraschaefer1 I honestly think it\u2019s because it\u2019s me, and because the tweets I was trying to write in his voice were pro democrats and had hashtags like #VoteBlueToProtectWomen and #voteblue and pro @BetoORourke etc.\nOh Sara, this is KG btw.\u201d
— Maggie Griffin (@Maggie Griffin) 1667791219
\u201cElon, this is Maggie contacting you from the spirit world tell u\u2026you\u2019re a douchebag. This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin\u2019s boxed wine loving mother saying I\u2019m gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY. \nTo the moon, a**hole. #FreeKathy\u201d
— Maggie Griffin (@Maggie Griffin) 1667835391

The New York Post noted that Griffin "risks getting her mom’s account suspended too because Twitter’s 'ban evasion policy' clearly states that 'Twitter reserves the right to also permanently suspend any other account we believe the same account holder or entity may be operating in violation of our earlier suspension, regardless of when the other account was created.'"

Griffin's long line of nastiness

Back in 2017, Griffin was granted a short respite from her life on the D list after infamously posing with a fake bloody head of then-President Donald Trump during a photo shoot. She soon apologized in the wake of massive backlash, and the stunt earned her a visit from the Secret Service. Later that year, Griffin took back her apology.

As readers of TheBlaze know all too well, Griffin's nastiness is legendary:

Texas school kids to receive DNA and fingerprinting kits in case of emergencies, but critics claim kits are meant to help ID remains in case of another Uvalde-like shooting



So-called "child identification" kits will soon be distributed to all Texas public school and open-enrollment charter school students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The law states that the purpose of the kits is to help local and federal law enforcement locate "missing or trafficked" children, but critics believe that the kits are instead intended to help investigators identify human remains in the event of another school shooting.

The kits provide a means for parents or guardians to collect DNA samples and fingerprints from their children. The kit also calls for a current photo. Those parents and guardians wishing to utilize the free kit may then keep it in their possession in case an emergency arises.

The same kits cost $9.95 at the National Child Identification Program website, and participation in the program is entirely voluntary. Kits are sent home in accordance with a law passed in 2021, though similar kits were also distributed in fall 2000 and 2006/2007 with little public backlash.

Now in 2022, some concerned parents have speculated that schools are sending the kits home once again after two horrific school shootings occurred within the state in recent years. In 2018, a school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, about an hour south of Houston, left eight students and two teachers dead. Then just five months ago, a maniac managed to murder 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, before a Border Patrol agent breached the door and shot him to death.

"It was almost like the state just throwing their hands up and saying, 'We can't do anything about the guns. We're not going to change any of the laws. So, therefore, the next best thing is to make sure that we can identify your K through eighth grader if they are killed in any type of school incident,'" Clear Creek Independent School District parent Anthony Crutch said. "When I receive them, we're going to complete the kit and store it in the cabinet and pray to God nothing happens."

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, appeared to agree, tweeting, "Texas Gov Greg Abbott is choosing to send DNA kits to schools that parents can use to identify their children’s bodies AFTER they’ve been murdered rather than pass gun safety laws to proactively protect their lives."

\u201cTexas Gov Greg Abbott is choosing to send DNA kits to schools that parents can use to identify their children\u2019s bodies AFTER they\u2019ve been murdered rather than pass gun safety laws to proactively protect their lives.\n\nVote @BetoORourke #txgov #txlege \nhttps://t.co/lnZQcUoNlt\u201d
— Shannon Watts (@Shannon Watts) 1666015405

Fox News reported that approximately 4 million students are expected to receive the kits, which will be issued through the Texas Education Agency.

'It may be funny to you, motherf***er': Beto GOES OFF when he gets a taste of his own obnoxiousness



During a town hall speech on Wednesday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Robert "Beto" O’Rourke was interrupted while dramatically demonstrating what soldiers "on the battlefields in Vietnam" would look like while using an AR-15 to "penetrate an enemy soldier's helmet at 500 feet." Of course, he was obnoxiously using the atrocious murders of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, to bolster his campaign, just as he did in May, just one day after the horrific elementary school massacre, when he showed up and heckled Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the middle of an update.

According to the Beto-loving Twitter mob, O'Rourke's heckler "laughed," prompting the Democratic candidate to shout, “It may be funny to you, motherf***er, but it’s not funny to me.”

Apparently, former ESPN host Jemele Hill can be counted among O'Rourke's simpering fans on Twitter, where a video clip of his outburst has been viewed more than 3.8 million times as of this writing.

\u201cTexas, y\u2019all gotta elect this man @BetoORourke\n\n\u201d
— Jemele Hill (@Jemele Hill) 1660197669

No, Jemele, we don't gotta.

O'Rourke, a longtime advocate for strict gun control laws, will face off against Abbott in November.

On "Pat Gray Unleashed," BlazeTV host Pat Gray elaborated on the race to be Texas governor, with Abbott and O'Rourke battling over gun rights, the border crisis, Texas schools, and more.

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Uvalde mayor fires off blunt message to 'haters' who don't like how he handled Beto O'Rourke: 'To hell with you, too'



The mayor of Uvalde, Texas, fired back at critics on Wednesday who condemned his reaction to Democrat Beto O'Rourke interrupting a press conference about the Ross Elementary School massacre.

What is the background?

As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was finishing a press conference about the massacre, O'Rourke, who was sitting in the audience, interrupted the governor and shouted about the necessity of gun control.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told O'Rourke to "sit down," while Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told O'Rourke that he was "out of line" and called the former Democratic congressman an "embarrassment."

The most stinging rebuke came from Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin (R), who told security they needed to remove O'Rourke before describing him as a "sick son of a b****."

The incident, which went viral on social media, drew partisan reaction. Gun control advocates praised O'Rourke for "speaking truth to power." But critics of O'Rourke condemned him for using the tragedy to score political points with his base. O'Rourke is running for governor of Texas.

What is McLaughlin saying now?

The Republican mayor told a reporter late Wednesday that he reacted negatively to O'Rourke's outburst because the venue and circumstances were inappropriate for a discussion about gun control.

"If they want to have that discussion, that's fine. But that event today was not the place or the time to come in there and attack the governor or anybody else there," McLaughlin said. "If [O'Rourke] wants to have that discussion, have it outside somewhere separate. But not in that building where we're trying to give the people there [an update about the tragedy]."

"This community is broken right now. No community should have to go through what we've been through in this community, and for a person to come in there and start that crap — I have no respect for Beto," he continued.

"And the haters that hate, that send me the emails and the texts, to hell with you, too," McLaughlin said bluntly.

\u201cDon McLaughlin, mayor of Uvalde, on @BetoORourke crashing the press conference earlier today: \u201cThat event today was not the place or the time\u2026I have no respect for Beto and the haters who hate\u2026to hell with you too.\u201d\u201d
— Julio Rosas (@Julio Rosas) 1653529263

McLaughlin's concluding message for O'Rourke is that what he did was "wrong" because it further stoked the flames of partisan division.

"I don't care if you're a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, we're American people — we're trying to come together as a community," McLaughlin said. "To do what you did today at that press conference was wrong. I'm sorry, but it was wrong."

After unsuccessful Senate and White House bids, Democrat Beto O'Rourke announces run for Texas governorship



Beto O'Rourke, who has previously mounted unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the White House, has now announced his Texas gubernatorial bid.

O'Rourke served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from early 2013 until early 2019. He failed to defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Ted Cruz during the 2018 senatorial contest. Then in 2019, O'Rourke pursued a presidential bid, but he dropped out later that year.

If O'Rourke successfully clinches the Democratic nomination to run for governor, winning a general election would likely prove to be a difficult task since Democrats have not won a gubernatorial election in the state since 1990.

Former President Donald Trump won the state during the 2020 presidential election contest, continuing a long-time Republican winning streak — but the last time a Democrat took Texas during a presidential contest was more than four decades ago in 1976.

"Bring it," Lone Star State Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted. The Republican governor said that O'Rourke desires to "defund the police," "kill good paying oil & gas jobs," "allow chaotic open border policies," "support the failing Biden agenda," "impose socialism," and "take your guns."

Abbott has served as the state's governor since early 2015.

Beto wants to:\n- defund the police\n- kill good paying oil & gas jobs\n- allow chaotic open border policies \n- support the failing Biden agenda\n- impose socialism\n- take your guns. \n\nBring it.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) 1636990960

"Most of us understand the responsibility that comes with owning a firearm, and we will vigorously protect that Second Amendment right and also protect the lives of those around us," O'Rourke told The Texas Tribune. "But I think most of us also understand that we should not have military-style weapons used against our fellow Texans. We have four of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history right here in Texas that took place over the last five years."

During his presidential bid, O'Rourke advocated for a mandatory government buyback program for some firearms.

"Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47," O'Rourke said in 2019.

Hell yeah, we're going to take your AR-15. If it's a weapon that was designed to kill people on the battlefield, we're going to buy it back.pic.twitter.com/cCEWkG6y0X

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) 1568338011

Dallas Democrats mercilessly mocked after soliciting donations for 'care packages' to fugitive Texas Dems



Dallas Democrats were blasted over the weekend after the group advertised a donation drive soliciting supplies for Texas House Democrats who fled the Lone Star State two weeks ago to block certain legislation from becoming law.

More than 60 Texas Democratic lawmakers — 56 state representatives and nine state senators, according to the Texas Tribune — fled to Washington, D.C., to deny the Texas House the quorum required to conduct business. By fleeing the state, they effectively blocked Republican-backed legislation from certain passage.

The lawmakers plan to be in Washington through the Texas legislative special session, which is set to expire after the first week of August.

What did Dallas Democrats say?

On Saturday, the group tweeted they will be conducting a donation drive on Tuesday to collect supplies — not for the needy in their community — but for Texas House Democrats who willingly left Texas.

"Our Dems in DC said they'd appreciate care packages from home," Dallas Democrats tweeted. "Before 5pm Tues, we're collecting Dr. Pepper, salsa, hard candy, hairspray, travel toiletries, hand sanitizers, sewing kits, first aid, and/ or $ to pay shipping. TY!"

💙 Our Dems in DC said they’d appreciate care packages from home. Before 5pm Tues, we're collecting Dr. Pepper, sals… https://t.co/vBNPwQ9gys

— Dallas Democrats (@dallasdemocrats) 1627159240.0

The request comes despite the fact that Beto O'Rourke, the former congressman and failed presidential candidate, gave the group more than $600,000 last week.

The Texas House Democrats are also entitled to a per diem of $221 for every day of the special legislative session.

What was the reaction?

The request for materials for "care packages" and money to ship them was met with swift mockery and immediate condemnation.

Many people who took issue with the request, in fact, questioned its authenticity, noting that all of the requested items can be found in any of the dozens of drug stores in Washington.

  • "No Miller Lite?" Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mocked, a reference to the beer the Texas Democrats took with them on their private plane to Washington.
  • "Sewing kits? First aid? They're in hotels in Washington DC not the Western Front," another person mocked.
  • "Thought Robert Francis (@BetoORourke) was taking care of their needs . . . ? Not to mention the Texas tax-payers paying them $221 per diem. Absurd!" Allen West, who is running for Texas governor, reacted.
  • "The Democrats who abandoned Texas are asking for care package donations?! They are grown adults in Washington, DC refusing to do their taxpayer funded jobs. And they are surrounded by plenty of stores where they can buy whatever they want. Pathetic," commentator Clay Travis said.
  • "they could go also go purchase any of these items at a CVS conveniently located on literally any block…" another person said.
  • "These utter morons have been gone for literally only days and want a care package mailed from Texas for a photo op with stuff they could buy at a local CVS.Salsa and first aid?" lawyer Jenna Ellis said.

Still, others responded to the outrageous request by pointing people to better places to donate their money.

  • "Here's a link to @FeedingAmerica where you can support a worthwhile charity helping Americans in need instead of throwing money at these private jet flying covid infecting moronshttps://feedingamerica.org," one person said.
  • "You know who could use all of that? The DC Food bank," writer Bethany Mandel said, including a link to the DC Food Bank.
  • "They're in hotels in our nation's capital. If you're moved to help those truly in need, and want a worthy cause, consider donating to Samaritan's Purse," another person said, including a link to Samaritan's Purse.