COMEDY CENTRAL, July 15, 2011--Stephen Colbert tackled Rupert Murdoch's phone hacking scandal on Thursday's show, and taking a cue from an editor at the now-defunct News of the World who believes that illegally tapping phones is the best way to get t ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 11:33AM
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July 13, 2011--Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a bill today that they claim would help manage a government default if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2. The legislation is motivated by the ri ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2011 at 11:06PM
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By DIANE McWHORTER, NY Times, July 10, 2011--Chris McNair, symbol of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Ala., reported to federal prison last month, bereft of the media respect that has been his companion for most of his 85 years. In 1963, Mr. ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 9:31PM
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By ROB HOERBURGER--Aretha Franklin sat alone with a Coke. It was the night of her 69th birthday, and all around, guests were filing into the Park Room at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, bobbing to live music from the vibraphonist ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 9:26PM
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WASHINGTON POST, July 2, 2011—Tomorrrow, July 3, 2011, my wife, Gwen, and I will reach the big “50.” That’s right: our 50th wedding anniversary, a milestone some friends believed would never be reached, not with the saintly Gwendolyn marrying the lik ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 11:27AM
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THE DAILY SHOW, July 1, 2011--Jon Stewart spent the first part of Thursday night's "Daily Show" addressing the week's second-biggest media story (after Glenn Beck's last hurrah, of course): Mark Halperin calling the President of the United States "a ...
Posted Saturday, July 2nd 2011 at 10:42AM
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MSNBC, THE LAST WORD, June 29, 2011--A newspaper op-ed from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mourned the loss of the Republican party as we once knew it. Lawrence O'Donnell debunks the ring-wing concept of "Real America" in the Rewrite.
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Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 10:58AM
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THE ED SHOW, MSNBC, June 28, 2011--Jon Stewart's ongoing debate with Fox News since his interview with Chris Wallace now has another layer: Herman Cain. On Wednesday night's "Ed Show," Reverend Al Sharpton made clear how he feels about the GOP Presid ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 8:54PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, June 29, 2011--For the first time, a Republican appointed federal judge -- part of a three-judge circuit court panel -- has ruled that the individual insurance mandate in President Obama's health care law is constitutional.
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Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 3:58PM
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THINK PROGRESS, June 28, 2011--Since last year, low-income Arizonans have been feeling the impact of a series of brutal Medicaid cuts that officials predict will kick at least 135,000 people off the state’s health care rolls by next year. Now, thanks ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 10:22PM
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THE ED SHOW, June 27, 2011--Reverend Al Sharpton debates National Organization for Marriage supported Brian Brown on NY's recent Marriage Equality Law. Follow the arguments. See which man sweats.
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Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 10:01AM
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POLITIFACT, June 27, 2011—On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Bob Schieffer asked GOP Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann about her PolitiFact report card.
SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 9:52AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 27, 2011--When notable President Obama impersonator Reggie Brown began his gig at the Republican Leadership Conference earlier this month, it appeared that things were going well. He started out with some jabs the the Democratic ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 4:05PM
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POLITICO, June 27, 2011--Hours before arriving back in the United States from a weeklong trip to Africa, first lady Michelle Obama on Sunday told ABC’s “This Week” of a “surreal” meeting with statesman Nelson Mandela and the trip’s effect on her two ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:58PM
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By REV. DR. JACQUELINE J. LEWIS, JUNE 25, 2011—I am old enough to remember drinking at the colored only water fountain in Ruleville, Mississippi, my mom's hometown when I was five years old in 1964. My mom grew up in Sunflower County, a place that ga ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 12:41PM
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REUTERS, June 25, 2011—When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, le ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 12:38PM
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POLTIFACT, June 23, 2011--As many of our readers already know, a certain late-night comic aired a five-minute-plus segment last night featuring our work. We thought our readers might appreciate a one-stop-shopping source for all the Fox News-related ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 11:02AM
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THE DAILY SHOW, June 21, 2011--In his recent debate with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Stewart said that "Fox News viewers are the most consistently misinformed media viewers."
On his show last night, Stewart changed his tune.
"As it turns out," ...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 11:13AM
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THE LAST WORD, MSNBC, June 21, 2011--"You cut taxes and tax revenues increase." President George W. Bush.
Do Tax Cuts INCREASE the amount of money the government receives in taxes? This proposition is now a Republican article of faith.
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Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 9:02AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, June 21, 2011 — A healthy-looking Nelson Mandela met with Michelle Obama and her daughters on Tuesday, an unexpected encounter between the first lady and the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon who has largely reti ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 2:13PM
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Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your w ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 8:53AM
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MSNBC, June 20, 2011--Two years ago, Glenn Beck's manufactured crusade against activist Van Jones cost the White House advisor his job in the Obama administration. Now, with Beck about to lose his job at FOX NEWS, Van Jones has challenged him to deb ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 8:43AM
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Bruce Springsteen famously said of Clarence Clemons, "You want to be like him, but you can't." That about sums it up.
Here is a very funny and thoughtful interview Jon Stewart did with him in 2009 upon the release of Clemons' book, "Big Man: Real ...
Posted Monday, June 20th 2011 at 9:09AM
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By JUAN WILLIAMS for FOX NEWS, June 19, 2011—Last week the First Husband and First Daddy, better known as President Obama, was asked if losing next year’s election would devastate him.
“I’m sure there are days when I say one term is enough,” he ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 11:57AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, June 18, 2011--Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, whose jovial onstage manner, soul-rooted style and brotherly relationship with Mr. Springsteen made him one of rock’s most beloved sidemen, died Sa ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 11:06PM
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