Big Big Train’s teaser for their upcoming album.

Classic The Grays:

Saw them at the House of Blues. You are jealous.

I know what Jason Falkner and Jon Brion are doing these days. What the hell is Buddy Judge doing? A very talented musician.

P.S. Bonus Jason Falker from his home studio:

Ted Cruz often complains that President Obama “literally will not utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.'” Today, we learned that if another leader utters those words, the White House will censor them.

The White House website has censored a video of French Pres. Francois Hollande saying that “Islamist terrorism” is at the “roots of terrorism.”

The White House briefly pulled video of a press event on terrorism with Pres. Obama, and when it reappeared on the WhiteHouse.gov website and YouTube, the audio of Hollande’s translator goes silent, beginning with the words “Islamist terrorism,” then begins again at the end of his sentence.

Even the audio of Hollande saying the words “Islamist terrorism” in French have, apparently, been edited from the video.

According to the official White House transcript of Hollande’s remarks, Hollande refers to “Islamist terrorism.” The audio of the bold text in brackets is missing from the video – the only point in the video were the audio is absent:

“We are also making sure that between Europe and the United States there can be a very high level coordination.

“But we’re also well aware that the roots of terrorism, [Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we’re doing within the framework of the coalition.] And we note that Daesh is losing ground thanks to the strikes we’ve been able to launch with the coalition.”

See for yourself:

The White House blames all this on a technical glitch.

.@WhiteHouse: "Technical issue" led to drop in audio when French president's translator said "Islamist terrorism" https://t.co/GwZhSsIO4x

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 1, 2016

I gotta hand it to them. That’s some Trump-level gaslighting.

Go to :54.

DICKERSON: Let me ask you last about abortion. What would you do to further restrict women’s access to abortions as President?

TRUMP: Look, look, I just . . . I mean I know where you’re going, and I just want to say: a question was asked to me, and it was asked in a very hypothetical, and it was said, illegal, illegal. I’ve been told by some people that was a older line answer, and that was an answer that was given on a, you know, basis of an older line from years ago, very, on a very conservative basis. But —

DICKERSON: Your original answer, you mean.

TRUMP: My original. But it was —

DICKERSON: About punishing a woman.

TRUMP: — but I was asked as a hypothetical. Hypothetically. Hypothetically. The laws are set now on abortion. And, that’s the way they’re gonna remain, until they’re changed.

DICKERSON: ‘Cause you had said, you wanted, you told Bloomberg in January that you believed abortion should be banned at some point in pregnancy. Where would you do the ban?

TRUMP: Well I, first of all, I would have liked to have seen, you know, this be a states’ rights. I would’ve, I would’ve preferred states’ rights. I think it would’ve been better if it were up to the states. But right now, the laws are set, and that’s the way the laws are.

DICKERSON: But do you have a feeling how they should change? There are a lot of laws you want to change. You’ve talked about them on everything from libel to torture. Anything you’d want to change?

TRUMP: At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way.

DICKERSON: Do you think it’s murder? Abortion?

TRUMP: [Pause] Uh, I have my opinions on it, but I’d rather not comment on it.

DICKERSON: You said you were very pro-life. Pro-life means that it’s abortion. That abortion is murder.”

TRUMP: I mean, I do have my opinions on it. I’d rather, I just don’t think it’s an appropriate forum.

DICKERSON: But you don’t disagree with that proposition, that it’s murder?

TRUMP: What proposition?

DICKERSON: That abortion is murder.

TRUMP: No, I don’t disagree with it.

Aaaaaand . . . the walkback, accompanied by the claim that it is not a walkback:

.@realDonaldTrump spox Hope Hicks walks back Trump abortion comments to CBS. Says Trump WILL change law on abortion pic.twitter.com/1oedertZbC

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) April 2, 2016

All he said was: “At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way.” And hours later, that “he will change the law.”

THERE IS NOTHING NEW OR DIFFERENT HERE, CITIZEN.

P.S. As a reminder, there ain’t nothing “hypothetical” about what Trump said before. 1:32:

MATTHEWS: Do you believe in punishment for abortion? Yes or no? As a principle?

TRUMP: The answer is . . . that . . . there has to be some form of punishment.

MATTHEWS: For the woman?

TRUMP: Yeah, there has to be some form.

Not hypothetical. Nor was it edited. Even thought they tried to suggest that too:

Today in gaslighting https://t.co/0WQzojyZHU

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 1, 2016

Trump spox on unequivocally, obviously unedited videotape of candidate w/Chris Matthews on abortion: "I don't know if the tape was edited."

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 1, 2016

He thinks you’re stupid. He thinks you can’t understand simple English, and see when he does a 180 within hours.

As to some of you, he’s correct on both counts.

Trump.