The Red, White and Brew

Do you salute before or after you twist the cap off? Budweiser is renaming itself through the November elections. Its “America is in Your Hands” advertising campaign will replace the Budweiser name on cans and bottles with the word America. The labels also will have passages from the Pledge of Allegiance and patriotic hymns.

Which raises the question: How many cans of America will you need to drink to choose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton?

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Donald, if you were a twee, what kind of twee would you be? In launching her new interview show, “Megyn Kelly Presents,” the Fox News host is modeling the show after Barbara Walters’ celebrity specials. Kelly’s first big interview: Donald Trump. “This is not a presidential debate. This is an interview,” Kelly said.

We don’t want to say Kelly’s lobbing softballs at Trump, but he’s got his baseball cap on.

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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Catering to more than just the usual comic-con, convention centers are hosting conferences for fans of aliens, mermaids and drag queens. RuPaul’s DragCon, with 20,000 men in drag and their fans, is in Los Angeles this week.

North Carolina, and not L.A., was scheduled to host DragCon, until locals learned it wasn’t that kind of drag race.

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