Extra Extra: Security Guard Loses Job After Video Of Him Farting At Work For Months Goes Viral
Aug. 23, 2018, 5:15 p.m.
Because there's a serial farter at MSNBC, check out today's end-of-day links: unreleased Tom Petty, weather-altering technology, Mario Batali sued, 'Game Of Thrones' tourism, Michael Cohen's father, and a beautiful dumb idiot dog.

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- According to a new Reuters poll, a majority of Americans support medicare for all.
- Volkswagen is reversing course on the use of controversial weather-altering technology at a major Mexican car plant after local farmers complained that the system caused a drought by preventing rainfall.
- A Manafort juror says one holdout prevented him from being found guilty on all counts.
- Chuck Schumer wants to delay Supreme Court nomination hearings in the wake of Cohen’s guilty plea, calling the developments “a game changer.”
- The More Perfect podcast has announced 27: The Most Perfect Album, a compilation of original songs inspired by the 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution performed by the likes of Kevin Morby, Dolly Parton, They Might Be Giants, and more.
- Michael Cohen's father urged him not to protect Trump: "I didn't survive the Holocaust to come to this country and have my name sullied [by Trump]."
- Game of Thrones tourism has hit Croatia.
- Andrew Scott has joined season two of Fleabag (which has started filming).
- A woman who claims Mario Batali groped her in a Boston bar when she took selfies with the disgraced chef has filed suit against him.
- David Pecker, publisher of the National Inquirer, was granted immunity in the Michael Cohen case.
- Who is the serial farter at MSNBC?
- In other farting news, a security guard lost his job after a video of him filming himself farting at work for the past six months went viral.
- Listen to a great unreleased version of the Tom Petty song "You and Me."
- And finally, you are a beautiful dumb idiot and I love you:
Invisible snacks, the new way to get that summer body. 😂
📹: podarroz_weimaraner pic.twitter.com/JdCoQ2Hnts— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) August 23, 2018