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The first night of the 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards is taking place on Saturday, Sept. 3, and well see where the Primetime ceremony could be heading based on the first wave of winners.

With an evening that features categories for animated program, reality host, documentaries and short form, we could get a strong sense of where some of the support lies for the main ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12.

There are significant history-making moments that can take place.

Barack Obama could become the second U.S. president to win an Emmy for outstanding narrator for Netflixs Our Great National Parks. Dwight Eisenhower won in 1956, while still in office when he picked up the Governors Award for his use and encouragement of television.

If Obama wins, hell be halfway to EGOT status after netting two Grammys for best spoken word album for Dreams from My Father (2006) and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2008). Other presidents that have won Grammys include Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Netflix could be the big winner of the first night of honors, as the streamer is projected to take home nine statuettes, including outstanding short form comedy, drama or variety series for I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson and critically acclaimed and fan-favorite series Arcane in animated program. The projected big night could also have up to five more Emmy wins land in its favor, based on the predictions.

Other notable races to keep an eye on are the reality races that could see reigning champ RuPauls Drag Race: Untucked bested by the heartwarming Love on the Spectrum U.S. for unstructured reality. In the structured reality category, Im going on a limb and foreseeing Chip and Joanna Gaines walking away with their first Emmy for Fixer Upper: Welcome Home. The power couple could be unseated by either Queer Eye or Shark Tank, which would become the most awarded show in the categorys history.

Finally, well see if the Will Smith slap helps the 94th Oscars squeak past Norman Lear or the Super Bowl Halftime show or if John Oliver should prepare multiple speeches since his show is nominated in the writing variety lineups.

Check out the final predictions for Night One of the Creative Arts ceremony below. The forecasts for Night Two will be revealed on Friday.

Read Varietys Awards Circuit predictions to keep up with the latest Emmy and Oscar race updates.

Outstanding Animated Program

Will win: Arcane (Netflix)

Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down Christian Linke (executive producer/story by), Marc Merrill (executive producer), Brandon Beck (executive producer), Jane Chung (executive producer), Thomas Vu (executive producer), Jerme Combe (co-executive producer), Melinda Wunsch Dilger (co-executive producer), Pascal Charrue (co-executive producer/directed by), Arnaud Delord (co-executive producer/directed by), Alex Yee (co-executive producer/directed by), Ash Brannon (co-executive producer/story by), Conor Sheehy (story by), Barthelemy Maunoury (animation director), David Lyerly (voice director)

Could win: Rick and Morty (Adult Swim)

Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program

Will win: Love on the Spectrum U.S. (Netflix)

Casting directors: Laura Ritchie, Kat Elmore and Jeffrey Marx

Could win: Lizzos Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Amazon Prime Video)

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

Will win: Maya Rudolph, Big Mouth (Netflix)

Episode: A Very Big Mouth Christmas as Connie the Hormone Monstress

Could win: Chadwick Boseman, What If? (Disney+)

Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming

Will win: Step Into The Movies With Derek and Julianne Hough (ABC)

Episode: Moulin Rouge Roxanne Tessandra Chavez, Derek Hough

Could win: Dancing with the Stars (ABC)

Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program

Will win: Our Great National Parks (Netflix)

Episode: Chilean Patagonia Christiaan Muoz-Salas and Ignacio Walker

Could win: 100 Foot Wave (HBO)

Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program

Will win: Life Below Zero (National Geographic)

Episode: Fire in the Sky Danny Day, Michael Cheeseman and Simeon Houtman

Could win: Deadliest Catch (Discovery)

Outstanding Commercial

Will win: Teenage Dream (Sandy Hook Promise) BBDO New York, Ad Agency; Smuggler, Production Company

Could win: Detectives (Apple iPhone 13 Pro)

Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program

Will win: The Beatles: Get Back (Disney+) Peter Jackson

Episode: Part 3: Days 17-22

Could win: We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime) W. Kamau Bell

Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program

Will win: Lizzos Watch Out for the Big Grrls (Amazon Prime Video) Nneka Onuorah

Episode: Naked

Could win: RuPauls Drag Race (VH1) Nick Murray

Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series

Will win: Saturday Night Live (NBC) Don Roy King and Liz Patrick

Episode: Host: Billie Eilish

Could win: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Paul Pennolino and Christopher Werner

Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special

Will win: Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (HBO) Bo Burnham

Could win: The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent (NBC) Hamish Hamilton

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

Will win: The Beatles: Get Back (Disney+) Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, producers; Peter Jackson, Clare Olssen and Jonathan Clyde, produced by

Could win: We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime)

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special

Will win: Lucy and Desi (Amazon Prime Video) Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Nigel Sinclair, Amy Poehler and Mark Monroe, produced by

Could win: George Carlins American Dream (HBO) Teddy Leifer, Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio and Kelly Carlin, executive producers; Joe Beshenkovsky, co-executive producer; Amanda Glaze, supervising producer; Wayne Federman, producer

Outstanding Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

Will win: Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO) Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dyllan McGee, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller and Sara Rodriguez, executive producers; Oluwaseun Babalola, producer

Could win: Changing the Game (Hulu)

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program

Will win: RuPaul, RuPauls Drag Race (VH1)

Could win: Padma Lakshmi, Top Chef (Bravo)

Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special

Will win: The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) Jon Stewart, executive producer/host; Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon and Richard Plepler, executive producers; Chris McShane, co-executive producer; Lorrie Baranek, supervising producer; Caity Gray, producer

Could win: Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (CNN)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation

Will win: The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Amazon Prime Video)

Episode: Boyd in 3D Lexy Naut (storyboard artist)

Could win: Love, Death & Robots (Netflix)

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Will win: Americas Got Talent (NBC) Noah Mitz, Michael Berger, William Gossett, Ryan Tanker, Matt Benson, Patrick Brazil, Scott Chmielewski

Episode: Finale Results

Could win: Dancing with the Stars (ABC)

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special

Will win: Adele One Night Only (CBS) Noah Mitz, Bryan Klunder, Patrick Boozer, Patrick Brazil, Matthew Cotter

Could win: Annie Live! (NBC)

Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program

Already awarded: *TIE* Legendary (HBO) Tonia Green, Tyson Fountaine, Sean Conklin, Marcel Banks, Jennifer Fregozo, Silvia Leczel, Glen Alen and Were Here (HBO) Jeremy 6 Austin, Martin de Luna Jr. Lushious Massacr, Tyler Laila McQueen Devlin

Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Underscore)

Will win: Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Siddhartha Khosla

Episode: The Boy from 6B

Could win: Severance (Apple TV+) Theodore Shapiro

Outstanding Music Direction

Will win: The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent (NBC) Adam Blackstone

Could win: 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) Rickey Minor

Outstanding Narrator

Will win: Barack Obama, Our Great National Parks (Netflix)

Episode: A World of Wonder

Could win: David Attenborough, The Mating Game (Discovery+)

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program

Will win: The Beatles: Get Back (Disney+)

Episode: Part 3: Days 17-22 Jabez Olssen

Could win: The Tinder Swindler (Netflix)

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program

Will win: RuPauls Drag Race (VH1)

Episode: Big Opening #1 Jamie Martin, Paul Cross, Ryan Mallick and Michael Roha

Could win: Lizzos Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Amazon Prime Video)

Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program

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Barrack Obama couldnt resist pulling this little joke on Stephen Curry and crew during a 2015 press conference

Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are a pretty good team, arent they?

Sure, there have been a few personnel changes since their first title win all the way back in 2015.

But the fact that this franchise could take so much criticism for being as dominant as it was, suffer consecutive major injuries to two of its 4 best players, have one of those players leave them, and still come back and win another NBA title just 2 years later, is saying something.

And that doesnt even include the fact that their franchise player was out for a season as well, where they were the worst team in the NBA.

However, long before they were 2022 NBA champions, Barrack Obama had brought the team to the white house to honor them as the 2015 NBA champions.

During the 2015-16 season, Golden State had started out with a ridiculous 39-4 record, raising talks about them potentially being the greatest team of all time.

And when it came time to address their title win, it appears that then President Barrack Obama just couldnt help but troll the team a little for it.

Lets dive right into it, shall we?

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In case you may not be aware, Barrack Obama is from the proud city of Chicago. So when it comes to the NBA, he is a staunch supporter of the Bulls.

Why do we say this?

No reason. Just keep it in mind, as you watch the YouTube clip below.

Ah yes. The sweet old scent of bias.

Does that matter to Steve Kerr though? Nope!

Even through the laptop screen, you can see the man blushing from ear to ear.

But then again, who wouldnt? He got that compliment from the then-president of the United States after all.

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Former Obama administration official Brandon Friedman claimed opposition to the IRS is racist following renewed attacks against the agency on Sunday.

On Twitter, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted out, "Happy Sunday. Abolish the IRS," as a joke to his followers. Friedman fired back that this anger against the IRS is not just based on political bias but on the agencys racial history.

"Republicans don't just hate the IRS because it pays for things like highways and social security. There's history here. They hate what it represents. The IRS was created in 1862 specifically to fund the Civil War, to end slavery and to burn white supremacy to the ground," Friedman tweeted.

He added, "Abolish the IRS may sound like an innocuous anti-tax message, but it's literally a call to defund the U.S. military. The same military that crushed secessionists the first time. It's a fundamentally anti-government message. The insurrection continues."

This photo taken April 13, 2014 shows the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

MY IRS AUDIT FROM HELL, OVER A SMALL BOAT AND THE FOLLY OF 87,000 NEW AGENTS

Twitter users blasted Friedmans take, calling it "incredibly stupid" and "exceptionally dumb."

"Dumbest tweet I've seen today," former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith tweeted.

Journalist Kimberly Morin wrote, "Here in the wilds of Twitter we have yet another example of an incredibly stupid and ignorant tweet by an incredibly stupid and ignorant left-wing a--hole. #TaxationIsTheft coward."

"When I think of the IRS, I think, Dang nabbit, my great-great-great-great-grandpappy lost his eye in the Civil War. We must avenge his eye by not paying our taxes! The Lafayette Co. President Ellen Carmichael joked.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)confirmed to Fox News that the IRS will need to raise the number of audits towards citizens earning less than $400,000. (iStock)

RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway explained, "The IRS was then used to fund the Union Army warring with Indians for the next several decades, presumably as part of that same quest to combat white supremacy."

"This is exceptionally dumb, of course. But it's also quite telling that leftists believe the IRS is the one that pays for stuff," The Federalist senior editor David Harsanyi wrote.

Conservative commentator Chad Felix Greene tweeted, "How are you possibly this embarrassingly ignorant?"

NEW YORK TIMES REPORT BLASTS REPUBLICANS FOR UNFOUNDED CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT INCREASED IRS ENFORCEMENT

The IRS came under Republican criticism recently after it was discovered that President Bidens Inflation Reduction Act would include a massive expansion of the agency, including 87,000 new employees over the next ten years.

Despite reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that confirmed this expansion would require raising audits on citizens earning under $400,000 per year, mainstream media outlets have largely called conservative concerns "unfounded."

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will double the IRS workforce over the next ten years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler further attacked GOP lawmakers on Aug. 18 for "preying on peoples fears" on the IRS.

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It may be hard to recall these days when a Democratic White House proudly rejects any guiderails from things such as economics or the Constitution. But back in the Obama years, they considered themselves the wonks. And Obamacare was supposed to be the triumph of the wonks.

As the law aged, its rickety construction became clearer, which is why most of the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates in 2020 ran on replacing Obamacare. Among other problems, the bills pay-fors, the revenue enhancements that would supposedly dampen the law's effects on the deficit and on inflation, all evaporated.

More specifically, Democrats repealed them, showing that they never really intended for the bill to reduce healthcare spending or pay for itself.

The CLASS ACT was a Ted Kennedy brainchild, creating national long-term care insurance. Democrats included it in Obamacare, and it was actually called a revenue raiser supposedly raising $87 billion over 10 years, because people would be paying premiums, and the benefits wouldnt go out the door until mostly after the 10-year window on which budget analyses are done.

It was a horrible idea, of course, and it was scrapped. That imaginary $87 billion in savings, however, was part of what allowed Obama and congressional Democrats to pretend the law was "paid for."

Another abandoned revenue raiser in Obamacare was an absurd and intrusive tax hike. The 1099 provision would have forced freelancers to file 1099s for almost any business transaction, such as buying equipment or hiring a repairman. Congress repealed that awful provision.

Obamacares Medical Device Tax was repealed. I wrote in 2013 about another false pay-for that Obama delayed: Obamacare was supposed to save money by cutting Medicare Advantage spending cuts would have become apparent last autumn. But the law also allowed HHS to run demonstration programs in Medicare, experiments to find new ways to improve care and reduce costs. So, Obama used most of that demonstration program money to postpone Medicare Advantage cuts until after the 2012 elections.

And now, yet another Obamacare pay-for has been gutted by Biden. Check out this video from back in the day:

Got it? By nationalizing the student lending industry, which previously had federal guarantees for private banks, Obamacare would raise $58 billion in revenue over a decade.

Some Democrats promised even more. Part of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 will make key changes to the student loan industry, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) said. This measure will save taxpayers nearly $70 billion over 10 years.

So to all the other ways in which this student loan bailout is objectionable, here is another one. It is yet another abandonment of the lies used to sell Obamacare. Of all the bogus claims that it paid for itself, this is only the latest to fall apart.

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Six years after President Obamas ambitious attempt to expand overtime to millions of Americans was vigorously opposed by the business lobby and struck down by a conservative judge in Texas, President Biden is about to take another swing at the issue. And this time, its expected to face even stronger opposition due to a more divisive environment and the growing clout of a powerful new adversary gig economy giants like Uber and DoorDash.

The Department of Labor is intensively working on a proposal it plans to introduce in October. The proposal is widely expected to increase the cap that currently bars overtime for salaries from just above $35,000 to more than $50,000. It may also more narrowly define the exemptions that have long kept employees from earning time and a half enabling many more full-time salaried Americans to qualify for overtime.

The rule was expected to be introduced in April, but was pushed back to this fall while an army of lawyers and statisticians labor to make sure that it can withstand legal challenges from the business community.

It remains unclear how far the administration will go to overhaul the salary cap in general, full-time salaried workers currently have to earn less than $35,568 per year to qualify for overtime and the overtime threshold has not been updated in recent decades to keep pace with the cost of living and skyrocketing health care and housing costs. Sources close to the agency say that the Department of Labor may align the overtime rules closer to Californias standards for its workforce the states threshold for overtime is currently $62,400 for employers with at least 26 employees and $58,240 for employers with fewer than 26 employees and tighten the administrative exemption, which has been used to disqualify low wage fast food managers from earning overtime.

The Labor Departments current effort is heavily influenced by Obamas failed attempt to double the salary cap from $23,000 to almost $47,000, which was overturned by a federal judge in the final weeks of his presidency. At the time, the opposition to the rule was led by Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists who argued that it would burden small businesses with extra costs.

This time around, the battle could prove to be even more intense, says David Weil, the architect of Obamas overtime overhaul whose nomination by Biden to the same post in his administration was shot down by Republican lawmakers and a few moderate Democrats Arizona Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Key to swaying those Democrats votes was the International Franchise Association, whose president, Matt Haller, told Politico that it sent a steady drumbeat of CEOs and franchisees virtually into Manchins, Sinemas and Kellys offices. During Weils confirmation hearings, the gig companies advocacy group App-Based Work Alliance pushed out tweets claiming that Weil supported an outdated workforce model that was rejected by gig workers who love their flexibility and independence.

Weeks after the vote, Haller crowed on the IFAs site that it was the first time since 1989 [that] a federal appointees confirmation was defeated on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

That battle could foreshadow a bitter fight over the overtime proposals. What was different [from the Obama-era debate] was an intense ground game focused on a few wavering Democrats and new players in the business lobby the platform companies like Uber and DoorDash who helped strengthen the existing players who are very much in opposition to anyone who they feel will be more vigilant in enforcing the law, says Weil. It was intense and hostile. It is a tougher environment.

The gig economy giants are fiercely opposed to laws that would extend labor protections like overtime to their armies of workers. DoorDash, Gopuff, Grubhub, HopSkipDrive, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt and Uber launched a new lobbying group called Flex in March. Those same companies collectively spent more than $6 million on lobbying last year with a focus on labor issues. Also in their sights is a long delayed Biden proposal to reverse a Trump era rule that made it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees which prevents them from qualifying for labor protections like overtime and minimum wage. The Trump rule is estimated to cost workers more than $3.7 billion annually, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

In addition, longtime industry heavyweights like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the International Franchise Association are actively pressuring the agency on the overtime rule and spending money to wield their influence. In the first half of this year, the Chamber spent almost $16 million and the Business Roundtable spent almost $5 million lobbying members of Congress and federal agencies on a wide array of issues, including the overtime rule. In vigorously opposing Weils nomination, the Chamber sent a letter to several lawmakers last January to express its concern that Weil would again seek to unnecessarily raise this salary threshold.

Arrayed on the other side and pushing for expanded overtime protections are EPI, the National Employment Law Project, unions and progressive lawmakers such as Sherrod Brown, Democratic senator from Ohio.

Weil, who now teaches at Brandeis University, is confident that the administration can deliver. Whats key, he says, is to reach out to all the stakeholders from employers and the business lobby to unions and worker advocates throughout the process. You can do it in a way that protects more workers and is legally defensible and economically sustainable.

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