The Pamela Anderson-Meghan McCain Smackdown I Didn't Know How Much I Needed

[Splinter]( September 6, 2019 [The Pamela Anderson-Meghan McCain Smackdown I Didn't Know How Much I Needed]( [Today on the surreal public affairs program The View, Pamela Anderson, most recently an outspoken supporter of Julian Assange and a woman whose politics are actually quite good, was in the hot seat. She masterfully proceeded to fend off numerous broadsides from John McCain’s daughter, made excellent points, and generally gave us very entertaining television by breaking every hosts’ brain.]( [[Media](](@feature1LinkUrl) [Fox News' Attempt to Prove That There's an Anti-Cop Crisis Goes Hilariously Wrong]( [There’s nothing quite as satisfying as watching Fox News fail to collect anecdotal evidence to support its ridiculous claims. Just take this Friday morning clip in which the first responders that Fox & Friends packed into an audience didn’t validate their “woe are cops” narrative.]( [[2020](](@feature2LinkUrl) [AZ GOP Chair Threatens to 'Stop' Gabby Gifford's Husband 'Dead in His Tracks']( [Mark Kelly is a former astronaut and current candidate for Senate in Arizona. He is also the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt in 2011. As such, Kelly’s campaign has a rather strong platform on reducing gun violence, something...]( [[Trumpland](](@feature3LinkUrl) [Wow Barron Got Tall]( [A Splinter tipster pointed us today to this story from a couple weeks back about how Barron Trump—the only silent and therefore least objectionable Trump—is tall now.]( [[Trumpland](](@feature4LinkUrl) [Some of These Trump Stans Do Not Seem Like They're in the Best Place]( [On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy look at the lives of “Trump’s Rally Diehards”—a gaggle of “mostly white” men and women who have followed the president’s roving MAGA hate-fests from place to place, soaking up his unctuous self-flattery and casual xenophobia like they have “an addiction,” as...]( [[2020](](@feature5LinkUrl) [The SoulCycle Boycott Seems Like It's Actually Working]( [Remember last month when a bunch of people got really upset that the billionaire who owns a group of trendy gyms was hosting a fundraiser for President Donald Trump in the Hamptons? Well, their calls for a boycott of at least one of those exercise companies, SoulCycle, seems to be...]( [[White House](](@feature6LinkUrl) [Finally, the Dumbest Possible Explanation for the Sharpie Map: Trump Reportedly Drew It Himself]( [Who did the Sharpie?]( [[Media](](@feature7LinkUrl) [Is David Brooks Doing Alright?]( [I know there are editors in the Opinion section. What I’m unclear on is if any of them saw David Brooks’ latest column and had a singular question about its content???]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Deadspin](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Person Caught Saying “I Never Had My Butt Fingered” On NFL Broadcast]( [The NFL is back, and we already have our biggest storyline of the season: Who said “I never had my butt fingered” on the NBC broadcast of the season’s opening Packers-Bears game?]( [[Gizmodo](](@rec2LinkUrl) [Absolute Legend Catches iPhone in Midair While Riding Roller Coaster]( [Samuel Kempf was riding a roller coaster in Spain when he saw an iPhone hurtling through the air. Lesser men may have simply watched helplessly as the phone plummeted to Earth, no doubt getting destroyed in the process, but Kempf is not lesser men. He jumped into action, and like...]( [[Deadspin](](@rec3LinkUrl) [How Do The Raiders Do It?]( [Year after year, move after move, hire after hire, the Raiders outdo their own capacity for abject humiliation, and every time you think they’ve bottom out, they bring in a new excavator. And now, with the start and also pending end of the Antonio Brown era, they can honestly say...]( [[Jalopnik](](@rec4LinkUrl) [Mazda's 1990s Eunos Cosmo Is Still Wilder Than Any Car On The Road Today]( [It’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more foolish and more amazing than many cars made since.]( [[Jalopnik](](@rec5LinkUrl) [Behold, The Most Mysterious Used Car For Sale In America]( [Our world is generally pretty well understood. There are no more undiscovered continents, we’re in pretty much constant communication with everyone, everywhere, all the damn time, which means true mysteries are that much more precious. That’s why I’d like all of you to really enjoy knowing the fact that there...]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036