Comedians aren’t what they used to be. At least, that is what many have been saying on social media in light of “comedy” such as seen delivered by people like Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Kimmel, Wanda Sykes, and Stephen Colbert.

And while the the public has been calling them out on being politically-divisive instead of funny, someone else has now jumped into the arena to hit back at them. And this call-out really packs a punch.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was confronted by TMZ about a tweet posted by comedian Chelsea Handler that referenced him. Her National Coming Out Day tweet specifically mentioned Graham and implied he was a closeted gay man.

If you’re wondering why Republicans took a sick day today, it’s probably because it’s #NationalComingOutDay. Looking at you @LindseyGrahamSC

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) October 11, 2018

Such a thing would be considered “gay-shaming” or “homophobic” were the situation reversed. But apparently by leftist standards, it is A-Okay.

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Graham’s response was reasonable and level, despite this obvious intended smear.

lindsey graham responding to chelsea handler:
“she wants to live her life that way, it’s up to her..she knows zero about me. to the extent that it matters, i’m not gay. and these comments, i don’t think they reflect well on her, and i don’t think it makes us better as a country.” pic.twitter.com/zKocHmo2yz

— Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) October 13, 2018

typo by me: replace with “… and I don’t kno how that makes us a better country”

— Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) October 13, 2018

People magazine wrote that the interaction with TMZ took place in the Reagan National Airport. He told the cameraman, “It’s a free country; she can say what she wants to say, I don’t care.”

He added, “I don’t think much about what she says at all. She wants to live her life that way, it’s up to her.”

Graham was asked about the “homophobic” nature of her tweet, and offered a powerful insight that Handler might want to take to heart. It came right after he addressed her attempted attack on his sexuality.

“Number one, she knows zero about me. To the extent that it matters, I’m not gay.”

“And these comments… I don’t think they reflect well on her and I don’t know how it makes us a better country, but it’s up to her, not me.”

He’s looking at you, Chelsea Handler. Are you listening? If you don’t care about healing a divided country, do you at least care about real comedy?

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Fox News noted that many social media users weren’t impressed with her “comedy,” either. “Many on social media were not amused and derided Handler’s joke as homophobic, tired, and lazy.”

And they are right. A quick search of Twitter revealed many users who called Handler out for her tweet.

🙄 You’re actually just not funny. You’re a middle aged invisible woman lashing out for attention.

Read a condensed online autobiography of Graham last week. It’s pretty impressive. My guess is that man isn’t bothered in the least by your strange obsession with his sexuality.

— Azaelia Brambleburrن (@cchanldy) October 13, 2018

@chelseahandler Now you are making fun of @LindseyGrahamSC & calling him gay? Iisn’t that what you Leftys call being homophobic? Double Standard Democrats do nothing to make this world a better place. You are a disgusting TRAMP Handler. Leave Senator Graham alone. He is NOT gay! https://t.co/EfbWRc6kOB

— 🦅🎆RedFlame🎆🦅 (@amwcb6179) October 13, 2018

Given the fact that the left seems to be reaching critical mass in terms of hate for the right and midterm elections are quickly approaching, it may seem unlikely that Handler will pay any heed to Graham’s words of wisdom. Some might say it is equally unlikely she will try to focus on real comedy.

In the meantime, Sen. Graham is among those in congress, who as of late, seem to have gotten a fire in their belly and steel plating implanted on their spine. There are many on the right who appreciate this new fire.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger would be proud.

A new U.S. Army tank is virtually invisible to enemies. It carries the latest advances in arms and in armor. They can shoot down planes and take out entire cities.

And perhaps most unusual of all, they don’t require a single human being inside.

The official name of the project is the Robotic Combat Vehicle, and if it sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, consider the fact that a demonstrator should be available by 2021.

According to defense specialist Allison Barrie, they’ll be the first in a new generation of autonomous tanks.

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“Similar to how drones are operated above war zones while flown by pilots more than an ocean away, smart heavily armed and armored vehicles could similarly execute the instructions of soldiers safely within the walls of a base,” she wrote in a piece published at Fox News on Friday.

“Just like the aerial drones, the military will soon be able to remotely operate combat vehicles on the ground anywhere on the planet. Human crews operating the ground drones could be safely stationed on U.S. home soil — nowhere near the enemy.”

The BAE Systems CV90 MkIV is one of the top contenders for this project.

.@BAESystemsInc brought its MkIV CV90 infantry fighting vehicle to #AUSA2018. Officials are looking to offer the vehicle for the Army’s imminent competition to replace its Bradleys. The effort would be a first step for the service’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle program pic.twitter.com/eIEaVcE8Ja

— Matt Beinart (@MBeinart22) October 8, 2018

According to Barrie, the new prototype “already possesses ‘man-optional’ combat mode. It offers all the advantages of the CV90, while potentially allowing a military to take humans out of the battle physically. BAE has already proven that it can remotely operate this ferocious machine beast.”

The active protection of the new model also allows it to be nearly invulnerable to attacks ranging from nuclear assaults to IEDs. However, perhaps the most amazing ability of the CV90 MkIV is how it manages to hide from the enemy.

“BAE’s mind-blowing and relentlessly trailblazing ADAPTIV program provides camouflage that renders the vehicle essentially ‘invisible’ to enemy forces,” Barrie writes.

“It does this by something called ‘active multi-spectral cloaking.’ The cloaking can make the vehicle blend into the background so it seems to vanish. It can even mimic other objects making the tank look like rocks or a car in the eyes of the enemy if need be.”

In other words, it’s like an armed chameleon. And trust us, it’s armed all right.

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“The CV90 tends to involve a two-man turret armed with Bushmaster cannons. This remote-controlled solution allows powerful weapons to be unleashed on the battlefield but reduces the risk to soldiers by taking them out of the turret,” Barrie writes.

“The firepower is a pick and mix. The vehicle’s weaponry can be tailored to requirements and there’s quite a range of options — even very powerful missiles. The weapons can even defeat enemy aircraft and enemy tanks.

“Its Fire Control System can already autonomously set the type of ammunition most suitable to defeat these threats, as well as automatically calculating the angles for maximum accuracy,” she adds. “By itself, the vehicle can also choose the fuse setting. This smart vehicle knows whether the best approach will be airburst, impact or delayed detonation and adjusts its selection to the threat.”

BAE’s latest CV90 model; the MKIV pic.twitter.com/5Re5LYJoIz

— Thomas Dolzall (@TDolzall) October 8, 2018

While full autonomy will likely be a possibility sometime in the near future — meaning the tank’s systems will be able to act on their own — Barrie says that the tank will likely have a human at the helm, even if it’s only being controlled remotely.

“Critics will fear monger about the sky falling due to this generation of smart combat vehicles,” she wrote. “The fact that the military takes great care to keep humans in the decision-making process is frequently overlooked.

“Most importantly, sending autonomous vehicles into combat without human crews could significantly reduce the risk of casualties.”

And, it sounds like this new tank could be making a huge difference in just three years. That’s eight years earlier than Schwarzenegger’s character transported back in time from in the first “Terminator” movie. Just pointing that out.

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With all the recent focus on the #MeToo movement and the sexual assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the behavior of the panelists on ABC’s “The View” might seem odd. Hypocritical, even.

During a guest appearance on the show Wednesday, actor Neil Patrick Harris revealed something disturbing that “View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said to him years before, when he was a teenager.

Harris, who is gay, was talking about his husband and their 8-year-old twins, their love of Halloween and creative annual family photos. Goldberg’s seemingly unrelated laughter caught his attention.

When asked about it, she noted that she remembered Harris “at that age.” It was then that he revealed that the first movie he ever worked on was with Goldberg — and dropped a bomb.

“You know, I did my first movie ever with Whoopi Goldberg, a movie called ‘Clara’s Heart.’ And we worked together on that,” Harris said. “She told me — I was, what, 15, 16 years old — she told me on my last day of shooting that in 10 years’ time she was going to have sex with me.”

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The panel and many in the audience laughed at this. Goldberg didn’t deny it or apologize.

“I might have,” she said.

Again, the panel and many in the audience just laughed. Goldberg then went on to say, “He had many questions as a kid, so I said, ‘Listen, wait 10 years, and I’ll take you through it.’

“In those days, you could actually have some fun like that. You can’t do that now. People get very upset now.”

However, no one present seemed to get upset about it.

Harris also said he was “not offended” by what Goldberg had done. And the panel moved on, as if nothing had happened.

In light of the left’s outrage over uncorroborated allegations against Kavanaugh, it seems highly hypocritical that a grown woman making sexual advances on a teenager was brushed off as a joke.

Goldberg and others on the show bashed Kavanaugh throughout the confirmation process. She also joined in with other celebrities to protest his nomination.

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Massive #CANCELKAVANAUGH protest being planned for Thursday in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/5O9peINeG4

— Urban Hollywood 411 (@UrbHollywood411) October 3, 2018

Notably, this isn’t the first time Goldberg has made controversial comments about sex with children. In 2009, she defended director Roman Polanski, who drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. That wasn’t “rape rape,” Goldberg said on “The View.”

She also took up for former President Bill Clinton, who has a long history of sexual assault and harassment allegations made against him.

With regard to Goldberg’s comments to a teenage Harris, unlike the panel and audience of “The View,” many other Americans didn’t find it funny.

She was already a star, felt powerful, felt entitled, knew he wouldn’t tell and no one would believe him if he did. Same mentality as all the other predators. Didn’t take it as far (as far as we know). Still, her ability to comment credibility on #metoo issues is shot to hell.

— RJBlues (@SheMyRider) October 12, 2018

Sooo Neil Patrick Harris outted @WhoopiGoldberg on how she told him at the age of 15 she was gonna have sex with him 10 years later🤔 Whoopi’s fell almost fell off lol. Not conversations for a grown woman and a 15 year old boy to have. #theview

— Yari (@Shawtypeepgame) October 10, 2018

Did anyone see Whoopi on The View today? She was reminiscing w/ Neil P Harris about a movie they did when he was just a little boy w/ lots of “questions” about growing up. So Whoop told him she would have sex with him in a few years & teach him everything! Free pass for Whoop?

— Rebecca Bauman (@RebeccaBauman4) October 10, 2018

Still, Goldberg has faced no consequences for her disturbing comments.

It seems there are two sets of standards in the United States, and they are politically based. In one set, hypocrisy certainly seems to reign supreme.

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Several Democrats are saying former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is viewed as the “kiss of death” among Democratic candidates running in the 2018 midterm elections.

The Democrats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, voiced concerns that Clinton’s presence would threaten the party’s chances at retaking the House and Senate in 2018, forcing Clinton to keep campaigning to a minimum and only appearing at low-key fundraisers.

“Hillary Clinton is the kiss of death and she represents the part of the Democratic Party that led to historic losses and that elected Donald Trump president,” one leading Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.

“Democrats don’t want her to campaign for them because everywhere she goes she carries this stench of death and is the only political figure in America that is less popular than Donald Trump,” the strategist added. “That’s a real testament to her.”

“When I think of people who have been part of our push to retake the House, I just don’t think of them at all. I think it’s a very good thing that they’re not being visible. It wouldn’t help our candidates,” a House Democrat said.

But despite objections from some Democrats, Clinton continues to make her presence known in the media.

The former presidential candidate and secretary of state told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that cultural changes in issues like gay marriage caused Republicans to “seek the kind of leadership that will limit freedom,” referring to President Trump as that leader.

President Donald Trump sat next to newly released American Pastor Andrew Brunson in the Oval Office Saturday and said that under his administration “they’re tending not to take” Americans, but he refrained from detailing why.

Breitbart News asked President Trump what he did differently from previous administrations to secure the release of 19 Americans including Pastor Brunson, given the U.S. did not make a deal.

“They’re tending not to take them out of our administration and that’s good,” President Trump replied. “I like that and I think I can tell you why, but I won’t, but they tend not to take them out of our administration and you know what, it’s going to stay that way.”

President Trump welcomed Pastor Brunson home to the United States Saturday before speaking to press in the Oval Office. Brunson had been held captive in Turkey for close to two years.

Trump told the press that the situation with Pastor Brunson began under a previous administration. “They were not going to work out anything,” said Trump. “We took it over, we inherited it, and I think have at this moment gotten 19 different people out of various countries that were being held.” He offered a few specific cases as examples.

The president acknowledged Brunson’s faith and strength getting him through.

“The whole world is a fan of yours,” Trump said of Pastor Brunson.

Brunson’s wife and children were with him in the Oval Office. 

“I especially want to thank the administration, you really fought for us, unusually so from the time you took office I know you’ve been engaged,” Brunson said to Trump, adding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence and so many others were involved as well.

President Trump remarked that he had talked with Pompeo once a day about Pastor Brunson’s situation.

Pastor Brunson and his wife prayed for President Trump during the Oval Office meeting. He prayed that God give President Trump supernatural wisdom, perseverance, endurance to stand for truth, and protection against those who would undermine him.

Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook

A student in North Carolina was forced to remove a red, white, and blue USA sports jersey with Donald Trump’s name on it that he wore to a patriot-themed school football game, according to reports.

The student’s father, Mike Collins, slammed Harnett Central High School in Angier, North Carolina, for forcing his 18-year-old son to remove the Trump jersey. Saying that the school’s reason for its action was ridiculous, according to ABC 11.

Collins says that the school told his son that the shirt was “disruptive.” He said his son complied but that he was so humiliated that he left the game.

A father tells me his son was asked by the school principal to remove this jersey during a patriotic-themed football game after people complained. Dad, a registered Democrat, says his son complied but felt humiliated. @HarnettCoSchool says it supports expression not disruptions pic.twitter.com/W9U9v2vBLF

— Tim Pulliam (@TimABC11) October 10, 2018

“We don’t want any kids violated. We don’t want to see kids embarrassed over something like this,” Collins told the ABC affiliate. “He was not disrespectful. He was not acting in a manner that would cause attention to him.

Collins also said that he and his son were not going around proclaiming the greatness of Trump. In fact, Collins is a registered Democrat, he said.

“We’re not promoting Donald Trump. He’s our president. Again, you’ve got to respect your president. I can assure you that there was nothing about this shirt that was disruptive. I think we should stand up for our rights,” Collins said.

“Whether you support our president, or you agree with our president or disagree, that has nothing to do with this,” he added. “We are respecting our president, we’re respecting authority, and that’s what my son did.”

For its part, without admitting to any errors in judgment, the school district reaffirmed the students’ right to free speech.

“While we cannot comment on specific student issues, the Harnett County Schools supports and affirms students’ rights to express themselves,” the district said in a statement. “As long as the expression does not disrupt, and is not reasonably expected to disrupt, the educational mission of the school system, these rights include wearing clothing expressing political messages or supporting political candidates.”

Collins has consulted an attorney but has not said if he plans any actual legal action. He also noted that members of the school board promised to take action and make things right.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

“My wife and I pray for you.”

Pastor Andrew Brunson, freed from being detained in Turkey after almost two years, meets with Pres. Trump, and prays over him in the Oval Office. https://t.co/Wy0dKRBwht pic.twitter.com/ycNwxbUkYF

— ABC News (@ABC) October 13, 2018