NEWSWEEK, January 16, 2012 -- You hear it everywhere. Democrats are disappointed in the president. Independents have soured even more. Republicans have worked themselves up into an apocalyptic fervor. And, yes, this is not exactly unusual.
A presi ...
Posted Sunday, January 22nd 2012 at 4:08PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 21, 2012 -- Al Sharpton challenged Newt Gingrich to meet him to discuss his controversial comments about blacks and food stamps, and poor children working as janitors.
The Hill reported that a man in South Carolina questio ...
Posted Saturday, January 21st 2012 at 9:37PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 21, 2012 — When Newt Gingrich was House speaker, lawmakers would routinely arrive at his elegant suite in the Capitol and find an unexpected adviser sitting on the couch: his wife, Marianne.
Like the wife who preceded her a ...
Posted Saturday, January 21st 2012 at 9:25PM
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President Barack Obama hit the ground running this week with his newfound fame as a musical entertainer. The Obama campaign has released a ringtone version of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," available for download on the campaign website.
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Posted Saturday, January 21st 2012 at 9:23PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- American politics either peaked or hit a nadir on Friday afternoon, depending on one's perspective.
A mock presidential rally held by a comedian, Stephen Colbert, and an ex-candidate accused of serial sexual ha ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 9:43PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert appeared on Friday's "Morning Joe" for a raucous, hilarious chat with the MSNBC show's hosts.
Appearing live in South Carolina, Colbert had the audience eating out of his hand from the very star ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 12:25PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- u, After a brief update on how well his pal Stephen Colbert is doing in the South Carolina polls, Jon Stewart got back to mocking the more traditional presidential candidates -- specifically Newt Gingrich -- on Th ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 12:05PM
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THINK PROGRESS, January 19, 2012 -- A new PPP poll confirms what many have long suspected — that many Americans get their news from sources that hew to their pre-existing beliefs.
But this phenomenon was not balanced on both sides of the ideologic ...
Posted Thursday, January 19th 2012 at 12:31PM
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FACTCHECK.ORG, January 18, 2012 -- Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figu ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 9:49PM
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Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remembers jazz great Louis Armstrong traveling the world as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department.
Decades later, Abdul-Jabbar will do something similar.
Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Cl ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 8:06PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart's grand experiment in using satire as a political weapon continued Tuesday night on "The Daily Show," when the "Colbert Report" host dropped by to "not coordinate" with Stewart on h ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 12:12PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Al Sharpton blasted Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, accusing the presidential candidate of using "racial demagoguery" to win votes in the contentious South Carolina primary.
Gingrich's highly charged exchange with Ju ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 12:01PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 16, 2012 -- How Stephen Colbert has managed to pierce the veil of dullness to actually demonstrate -- in an electrifying way -- just how dangerous and corrupt the current system of political campaign financing has become. He ...
Posted Monday, January 16th 2012 at 11:55AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 15, 2012 -- A fake run for president is nothing without fake attack ads, and "Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" is wasting no time in getting it's hysterical message out to South Carolinians.
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Posted Sunday, January 15th 2012 at 11:34AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 14, 2012 -- Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about ra ...
Posted Saturday, January 14th 2012 at 9:25PM
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ALTERNET, January 13, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has once again used his comedic genius to expose the absurdity of politics, all the while testing just how far a comedian can make it in an election that is just as much a circus as the Colbert Report.
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Posted Saturday, January 14th 2012 at 10:14AM
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TRUTHOUT, January 12, 2012 -- Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South. She previously served on the facu ...
Posted Thursday, January 12th 2012 at 2:09PM
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Sean Hannity and Prof. Cornel West had a lively discussion about Herman Cain and President Obama on Hannity's Wednesday show. While the chat wasn't as explosive as West's epic conversation with Bill O'Reilly, things got pretty heated at times.
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Posted Thursday, January 12th 2012 at 11:54AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- "Rick Santorum offends black people. Gays, take the day off."
Rick Santorum has been defending allegations that he made a nakedly racist comment during a campaign stop in Iowa two days before the caucus.
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Posted Wednesday, January 11th 2012 at 9:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry talked about her upcoming MSNBC show and her new book about stereotypes of black women on Monday's "Colbert Report."
When Colbert raised the subject of her new show, Harris-Perry specified ...
Posted Wednesday, January 11th 2012 at 8:56PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, JANUARY 5, 2012 -- Mitt Romney still says he’s unlikely to publicly release his tax information, even if he clinches the Republican presidential nomination, and Democrats have a pretty good idea why.
Romney is a privileged pos ...
Posted Sunday, January 8th 2012 at 10:29PM
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POLITIFACT, January 7, 2012 -- In a busy weekend before Tuesday's Jan. 10, 2012, New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates argued for the right to run against President Barack Obama in back-to-back televised debates.
But they didn't always do i ...
Posted Sunday, January 8th 2012 at 10:28PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- A bizarre incident took place during the 60 Minutes interview with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on New Year's Day: When Leslie Stahl asked Rep. Cantor whether he would be willing to compromise with Pres ...
Posted Saturday, January 7th 2012 at 8:28PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 7, 2012 -- The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills that said in response, "No, you pee in the cup."
One of the most ...
Posted Saturday, January 7th 2012 at 8:05PM
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