On Wednesday, InfoWar — a site known for peddling conspiracy theories and fake news — treated viewers to something very real … footage of Texas Representative Joe Barton masturbating. The content was swiftly taken down — but not before a Google cache could record the moment for terrible posterity. Thankfully this was deleted pic.twitter.com/Sf1vjezEws — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 24, 2017 Also Read: Alex Jones Melts Down Over Drag Queens Reading Books to Children (Video) Barton, a long-serving Republican, is facing an embarrassing scene after lewd selfies of him were leaked by an anonymous Twitter account. He has since apologized and insisted that the.
- 11/24/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Texas Congressman Joe Barton sent nudes and illicit text messages to a woman, and he's apologizing for the graphic image first revealed by a Twitter user. Barton, a Republican, sent the nude photo showing his penis. The Twitter user censored the image, and also revealed a sext that reads, "I want u soo bad. Right now." Barton now says, "While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women.
- 11/22/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Nearly three months after taking a bullet to the chest during a mass shooting at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, Tyson Foods lobbyist Matt Mika is opening up about the attack that targeted Republican lawmakers and injured five people.
Speaking with Good Morning America, Mika said he recently returned to the field where gunfire rang out the morning of June 14. He recounted the moment he first saw the shooter, James Hodgkinson, 66, moments before the Illinois man began spraying the field with a semi-automatic rifle.
“We all yelled ‘Gun!,'” Mika remembered. “I don’t know who yelled it first and we started running.
Speaking with Good Morning America, Mika said he recently returned to the field where gunfire rang out the morning of June 14. He recounted the moment he first saw the shooter, James Hodgkinson, 66, moments before the Illinois man began spraying the field with a semi-automatic rifle.
“We all yelled ‘Gun!,'” Mika remembered. “I don’t know who yelled it first and we started running.
- 9/4/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
Stars: Bill Milner, Maisie Williams, Miranda Richardson, Rory Kinnear, Jordan Bolger, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Armin Karima, McKell David | Written by Joe Barton | Directed by Adam Randall
Every year now we are inundated with superhero films. Marvel and DC are doing battle tor movie supremacy, and it is arguable that Marvel are well ahead in the battle. Netflix have released a new film that may not really compete with those two huge companies, but iBoy is an interesting take on the superhero genre that is well worth checking out.
Tom (Bill Milner) is just an average boy, until he gets shot in the head, resulting in the phone he was using at the time fragmenting and embedding in his head. When he wakes up, he finds himself able to connect to electronic gadgets, and even the ability to control them. Giving him the perfect set of tools to seek revenge on...
Every year now we are inundated with superhero films. Marvel and DC are doing battle tor movie supremacy, and it is arguable that Marvel are well ahead in the battle. Netflix have released a new film that may not really compete with those two huge companies, but iBoy is an interesting take on the superhero genre that is well worth checking out.
Tom (Bill Milner) is just an average boy, until he gets shot in the head, resulting in the phone he was using at the time fragmenting and embedding in his head. When he wakes up, he finds himself able to connect to electronic gadgets, and even the ability to control them. Giving him the perfect set of tools to seek revenge on...
- 1/31/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
There’s no getting around the latest Netflix original’s monumentally dumb premise. A British teenager has an accident that causes shards of his smartphone to become lodged in his brain. This grants him iPhone superpowers, leading him to battle crime as the heroic vigilante iBoy.
Okay, okay, stop giggling. Yes, it’s stupid. Yes, it doesn’t make sense. And yes, ‘iBoy’ is a godawful superhero name. But consider how ridiculous it is for a teenage boy to be bitten by a radioactive spider and getting spider superpowers, or four pet turtles being splashed by mutagenic goo and becoming ninjas, or a scientist being irradiated and turning into a big angry green man or… Well you get the picture. My point is that superhero origin stories are usually pretty silly and you shouldn’t be so quick to judge iBoy, an unexpectedly compelling and contemporary take on the classical superhero template.
Okay, okay, stop giggling. Yes, it’s stupid. Yes, it doesn’t make sense. And yes, ‘iBoy’ is a godawful superhero name. But consider how ridiculous it is for a teenage boy to be bitten by a radioactive spider and getting spider superpowers, or four pet turtles being splashed by mutagenic goo and becoming ninjas, or a scientist being irradiated and turning into a big angry green man or… Well you get the picture. My point is that superhero origin stories are usually pretty silly and you shouldn’t be so quick to judge iBoy, an unexpectedly compelling and contemporary take on the classical superhero template.
- 1/30/2017
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
ScreenDaily reports that “Chronicles of Narnia” star Will Poulter has landed the lead role in the adaptation of superhero novel “iBoy”. The film, set in London, will be directed by Adam Randall and is scheduled to begin shooting in February 2014. Joe Barton adapted Kevin Brook’s novel about Tom, a teenager who gains special powers after a [...]
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- 11/7/2013
- by Brittney Seegers
- UpandComers
Episode Number: 6148 (November 17, 2010)
Guests: Ian Frazier
Segments: Charlie Rangel, You Got Mailed, Old People in Space, Chair Apparent,
Videos: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Ugh, why did Stephen have to remind me that the construction of Dubya’s library has started? I’m so unhappy that he chose Smu as its location, literally a 5-minute ride from my loft. *groan* Considering the whoppers that Bush told in his memoirs (and the fact that he’s being accused of plagiarism), I can only imagine the whitewashing that’s going to happen in his library. But I digress.
How adorkable was that character break during the intro? It’s so funny when he cracks himself up. And the font nerd in me squeed a little when Stephen got all fonty about the congressional reprimand letters. It was so cool to hear the audience go “oooOooh” when Stephen bolded his Arial. It’s always a little...
Guests: Ian Frazier
Segments: Charlie Rangel, You Got Mailed, Old People in Space, Chair Apparent,
Videos: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Ugh, why did Stephen have to remind me that the construction of Dubya’s library has started? I’m so unhappy that he chose Smu as its location, literally a 5-minute ride from my loft. *groan* Considering the whoppers that Bush told in his memoirs (and the fact that he’s being accused of plagiarism), I can only imagine the whitewashing that’s going to happen in his library. But I digress.
How adorkable was that character break during the intro? It’s so funny when he cracks himself up. And the font nerd in me squeed a little when Stephen got all fonty about the congressional reprimand letters. It was so cool to hear the audience go “oooOooh” when Stephen bolded his Arial. It’s always a little...
- 11/18/2010
- by DB
- No Fact Zone
President Obama on a Louisiana beach in May 2010. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Back in the summer, it was impossible to escape the Gulf oil spill. Images of dark slicks spreading across the ocean, tar balls piling up on Florida beaches, and fishermen stranded on the Louisiana shore flashed across TV screens 24 hours a day. As polls showed that most people didn’t believe the White House had a coherent plan to clean up the spill, commentators speculated it might help the Republicans in the 2010 midterms (even G.O.P. congressman Joe Barton’s absurd apology to Bp didn’t seem to do much damage) and headlines blared that the disaster was “Obama’s Katrina.”...
- 10/20/2010
- Vanity Fair
Monday’s Wall Street Journal exposed a Facebook privacy loophole involving third-party applications including fan favorites FarmVille and FrontierVille. According to the Journal’s investigation, these apps improperly shared personal information—for instance, Facebook user ID numbers—with marketers and tracking companies. In response to these allegations, the co-chairmen of the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus sent a letter to Facebook Friend-in-Chief Mark Zuckerberg declaring that “this series of breaches in consumer privacy is cause for concern” and demanding to know how the company intends to fix the problem. As it happens, said co-chairmen are Representatives Edward Markey (D-ma) and Joe Barton (R-tx). They used to be enemies but now, thanks to Facebook, they’re friends!
- 10/19/2010
- Vanity Fair
On the evening of the day that Joe Barton apologized to Bp CEO Tony Hawyard for having been "shaken down" by the White House for $20 Billion, Jon Stewart sort of explained Barton's obtuse behavior by putting him on the cover of Disdainful Asshole Digest. But last night Stewart revealed that there was more hay to be made with Barton's comments, or more specifically how many Gop leaders had gone back and forth on the sentiments expressed by the Texas congressman.
- 6/22/2010
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
Photo by Pete Souza. A new Gallup poll suggests that Americans do not hate President Obama nearly as much as pundits say they do. In a semi-significant improvement from May 28’s 45 percent approval and 47 percent disapproval ratings, 49 percent of Americans surveyed now approve of the job Obama is doing, and only 44 percent disapprove. Let’s see, what’s changed since then? Obama gave his first Oval Office speech, seemingly disliked by 100 percent of watchers. That’s probably not it. The week before, Obama used the word “ass” in the context of something he wanted to kick. Naturally, everyone loved this. Plus, Obama visited the Gulf Coast, arranged for B.P. to put $20 billion in escrow for a cleanup fund, and managed to come off less poorly than Tony Hayward apologist Joe Barton (R-tx). Obama ‘12, everyone, right?...
- 6/21/2010
- Vanity Fair
Last week, for seven hours, B.P. C.E.O. Tony Wayward sat in front of Congress and withstood a withering barrage of direct questions. The wayward one divulged little information. How a man with so much responsibility could know so little about the affairs of B.P. is difficult to comprehend. In response to the easy questions, the affable C.E.O. replied that he either didn’t know, wasn’t there at the time, or couldn’t recall. Was our Tony lying, grossly under-informed, or suffering from the onset of some brain-wasting ailment? Bipartisan frustration was momentarily suspended by a brief comedic interval when jiggly Joe Barton, Congressman from Texas, popped out of big oil’s trousers long enough to apologize to Mr. Wayward for president Obama’s $20 billion shakedown of B.P. Smashing! If Tony baby is not the person to address these questions, perhaps he could...
- 6/21/2010
- Vanity Fair
Texas Congressman Joe Barton's apology to Bp-- and apology for his apology to Bp-- somehow managed to be the most egregious statement in an event that featured five hours of Bp CEO Tony Hayward speaking. And after being scolded by mostly everyone in both the media and his home turf of politics, Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer gave him an award for his achievement: the Most Politically Stupid Statement of the Year award.
- 6/19/2010
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
All the pieces are in place to tell an extraordinary story of political meltdown and historic implosion—a tale of nuttiness and know-nothing extremism on a national level—but nobody is telling it. There is, rather, a kind of tolerant literalism—the neighbors are at it again—in the way each new holy-moly incident and utterance is reported and digested. The latest is a Republican congressman, Joe Barton, coming to the defense of Bp—furiously decrying the pressure the White House applied to the company to get it to put up the money to compensate people in the Gulf for all the oil it is spilling. Political pressure, Barton is saying, should not weigh on a sovereign corporation. Forgetting the long history of politicians jaw-boning private industry, why would you say such thing at such a moment in time? Only because some bizarre sense of religious mission and purity has...
- 6/18/2010
- Vanity Fair
Filed under: TV Replay
We're at Day 59 of the Bp oil spill. It is truly a national nightmare. But it does give Jon Stewart plenty of new material. And it provides us with a few more satirical news bites on 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11Pm Et on Comedy Central). So, that's not great -- but it's something, at least.
President Obama requested that Bp put money into a fund that would assist the victims of the oil spill. Surprisingly, the company actually went ahead and did this. But no good deed goes unpunished -- and so, for some odd reason, Republican Congressman Joe Barton decided to attack this move.
Barton defended British Petroleum -- the company responsible for the oil spill which has devastated the Gulf Coast. Joe Barton said that making this fund for the oil victims was a "tragedy." The congressman then accused Obama of trying...
We're at Day 59 of the Bp oil spill. It is truly a national nightmare. But it does give Jon Stewart plenty of new material. And it provides us with a few more satirical news bites on 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11Pm Et on Comedy Central). So, that's not great -- but it's something, at least.
President Obama requested that Bp put money into a fund that would assist the victims of the oil spill. Surprisingly, the company actually went ahead and did this. But no good deed goes unpunished -- and so, for some odd reason, Republican Congressman Joe Barton decided to attack this move.
Barton defended British Petroleum -- the company responsible for the oil spill which has devastated the Gulf Coast. Joe Barton said that making this fund for the oil victims was a "tragedy." The congressman then accused Obama of trying...
- 6/18/2010
- by Oliver Miller
- Aol TV.
This morning, Texan congressman Joe Barton apologized to B.P. “It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion dollar shakedown,” he told C.E.O. Tony Hayward, and referred to the money set aside for the clean-up effort as a “slush fund.” Let’s begin by just saying that Barton’s comments did not echo a popular sentiment.
- 6/17/2010
- Vanity Fair
B.P. C.E.O. Tony Hayward took to the House floor today to chat about the oil spill with the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He delivered some contrite remarks like “I understand the seriousness of the situation” and “I give my pledge as the leader of B.P. that we will not rest until we make this right.” Still, these admissions failed to tug at the heartstrings of some shout-y woman who interrupted Hayward’s statement by yelling at him, “You need to be charged with a crime. You need to go to jail.” She was escorted out. Representative Joe Barton (R-tx) directed his anger at President Obama, not Hayward. What a relief this change of pace must have been for the latter! Barton accused Obama’s administration of conducting a “$20 billion shakedown” of B.P. and complained that he was “ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday.
- 6/17/2010
- Vanity Fair
While a decision on whether movie futures contracts based on boxoffice will begin trading still pending before the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a bipartisan group of 40 congressmen have signed a letter to the House committee that oversees the federal commission "to express significant concern" and "offer our support for efforts to ensure that such futures markets do not become operational."
Among the members of Congress who signed the letter dated June 8 are Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Joe Barton (R-Texas), Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Mary Bono-Mack (R-Calif.), and Dan Maffei (D-n.Y.).
The letter is part of an effort by the MPAA and others opposed to movie futures trading to stop the plans by two companies that want to offer such contracts to institutional and private investors. Backers have said the futures market would be a way for movie companies and others to hedge their bets and protect their investments.
Among the members of Congress who signed the letter dated June 8 are Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Joe Barton (R-Texas), Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Mary Bono-Mack (R-Calif.), and Dan Maffei (D-n.Y.).
The letter is part of an effort by the MPAA and others opposed to movie futures trading to stop the plans by two companies that want to offer such contracts to institutional and private investors. Backers have said the futures market would be a way for movie companies and others to hedge their bets and protect their investments.
- 6/10/2010
- by By Alex Ben Block
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Dylan Stableford
Day four of the war between ABC and Cablevision provided few, if any, new developments.
We already know Sen. John Kerry and the FCC are threatening to get involved, as is Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas), who urged the FCC to stay out of it.
“Discussion of the deal is best left between the respective companies and their viewers, free from government interference or cajoling,” Barton wrote. “The alternative is to ask the government to weigh the relat...
Day four of the war between ABC and Cablevision provided few, if any, new developments.
We already know Sen. John Kerry and the FCC are threatening to get involved, as is Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas), who urged the FCC to stay out of it.
“Discussion of the deal is best left between the respective companies and their viewers, free from government interference or cajoling,” Barton wrote. “The alternative is to ask the government to weigh the relat...
- 3/5/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Howard Stern on ABC fight with Cablevision: 'No way Cablevision will survive if they don't have ABC'
Howard Stern and politicians like Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) have jumped into the feud between Cablevision and ABC, which is threatening to pull its signal from the cable giant this weekend unless it starts paying fees for carrying Wabc-tv in New York -- the nation's top TV market. On Wednesday, Stern used his Sirius radio show to complain about the now-public fight, taking aim at Cablevision's newspaper ads that urge subscribers to voice their displeasure. "There is no f--ing way Cablevision will survive if they don't have ABC TV on it," said Stern, who acknowledged being a Cablevision subscriber. "Cablevision...
- 3/4/2010
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside Movies
Politicians are wading into the fight between ABC and Cablevision as the network's declared deadline for reaching an agreement edges closer.
New York affiliate Wabc-tv has given the cable operator until Sunday to make a retransmission deal, lest the network pull its signal on the day of the Oscars telecast on ABC.
In response to the standoff, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, sent dueling letters to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski.
Kerry called the dispute a "game of chicken being played again and again" and argued that broadcasters should not be allowed to pull their signals unless a cable company is negotiating in bad faith.
"We believe Sen. Kerry is correct and ABC Disney should not pull the plug and should work with us in good faith to reach an agreement that is fair for Cablevision customers," the cable operator said in a statement. "ABC Disney should not put viewers in the middle.
New York affiliate Wabc-tv has given the cable operator until Sunday to make a retransmission deal, lest the network pull its signal on the day of the Oscars telecast on ABC.
In response to the standoff, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, sent dueling letters to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski.
Kerry called the dispute a "game of chicken being played again and again" and argued that broadcasters should not be allowed to pull their signals unless a cable company is negotiating in bad faith.
"We believe Sen. Kerry is correct and ABC Disney should not pull the plug and should work with us in good faith to reach an agreement that is fair for Cablevision customers," the cable operator said in a statement. "ABC Disney should not put viewers in the middle.
- 3/3/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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