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In 2016. in an interview on boston heralds radio show trending now, west said that hes more concerned about a potential elizabeth warren candidacy than he is about another bid from hillary clinton. but listen to his explanation. quote, elisabeth warren is their darling. thats who they want. and they have to run another woman because they need the marketing gimmick of the first something. we had the first black president. now were going to have the first woman president. a gimmick, he says. final...

In an interview on boston heralds radio show trending now, west said that hes more concerned about a potential elizabeth warren candidacy than he is about another bid from hillary clinton. but listen to his explanation. quote, elisabeth warren is their darling. thats who they want. and they have to run another woman because they need the marketing gimmick of the first something. we had the first black president. now were going to have the first woman president. a gimmick, he says. finally, chris...

President. a gimmick, he says. finally, chris christie amplified speculation he may run for president in 2016 after sending christmas cards to several republican officials in iowa over the holiday. buzzfeed reported that at least five people in the first caucus state received the cards including some who have never met the governor. one state representative seemed to reasonably suspect that he meant to say more than seasons greetings. quote, governor christie sent me a christmas card. i mean, it...

Less clear or transparent. he put this over hollywood. mr. cloves lives in the san francisco bay area. that did not get seen by him, but hes also had a lot of interesting tweets as well. >> what did this author have to sigh about all this? >> the whole thing hat gotten so much bigger because there have been several tweets that have come out from labeouf where hes taken other peoples apologies and adopting them as his own. one from kanye west, one from the bp of -- the ceo of bp talking about the...

Beyonce, held to a higher standard of accountability with their art here? >> oh, absolutely. if this was some independent artist out of utah, we wouldnt be having this discussion. i also think if beyonce used a song like this and had it on a song like maybe "bootylicious" thats less substance oriented, weve had reason to criticize it here. while i think her intent was go good, even though shes upset some. >> thats why we have you on the program. your insight is always appreciated. thank you very...

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Carried out the attack has been driven from the city. so there are people turning against them, people, arabs, muslims in the region that are opposing al qaeda more and more. how does the u.s. take advantage of that. >> certainly the foreign policy story to watch in 2014. im going to do shameless plugs and ill start with you, david. >> a not very uplifting plug but syria related. i think of the 30 journalists who have been kidnapped, about half of them for the purposerei syria. i feel for all ...

Yet. >> i thought one of the most interesting things "the washington post" did this year and i wonder what you thought as well was creation of a website called no more. a little bit like buzz feed. a viral website trying to be at least. i wonder if this is veer that that industry really took hold and everyone wanted to have buzzy headlines like your employer. >> its been taking hold for some time. we launched the news organization two years ago now. i think if you looked a media today, there are...

♪ ♪ because during the holidays, keeping your identity protected means keeping your family protected. friday night, justine saco tweeted a tasteless joke as she was boarding a flight it. read, going to africa, hope i dont get aids, just kidding, im white. buzzfeed tweeted it as the worst feed of all time and as saco took off she was unaware that down below on earth her world was disappearing. when she arrived in south africa 12 hours later, she had been fired without a chance to defend

Idea that twitter had exploded. her name was trending. it had to do, i think, with buzzfeed coming out with -- calling it the worst tweet ever. what did you make of this whole event? >> the whole thing really kind of horrified me. i have to say. the whole idea of mob justice taking matters into its own hand and making justines tweet the object of global ridicule is deeply disturbing to me, i have to say. and i really think its social media at its worst. social medias a wonderful tool. it has cha...