HUFFINGTON POST, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews exploded at Reince Priebus on Monday's "Morning Joe," tearing into the Republican National Committee chairman and accusing his party of playing the race card.
The MSNBC host was livid over Mitt Ro ...
Posted Monday, August 27th 2012 at 10:55AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 25, 2012 -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The even ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 2:09PM
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SLATE, August 24, 2012 -- Larry Wilmore is most recognizable these days as a “senior black correspondent” on The Daily Show. He was also a writer, producer, and occasional guest star on The Office—and he won an Emmy for The Bernie Mac Show, which he ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 11:14AM
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POLITICO, August 22, 2012 -- President Barack Obama continues to beat Mitt Romney among African American voters with a staggering 94 percent to 0 percent lead, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — which gives Ob ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 10:47AM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 19, 2012 -- Earlier today, Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) claimed that “legitimate rape” does not often lead to pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
This ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 8:56AM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 20, 2012 -- Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin (R-MO) and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan both cosponsored the bill that introduced America to the despicable term “forcible rape.” ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 8:55AM
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HARDBALL, MSNBC, August 21, 2012 – Chris Matthews talks to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on what can be done about recent voter suppression laws that would disenfranchise thousands in November. ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:56PM
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By Benjamin Todd Jealous, HUFFINGTON POST, August 22, 2012 -- "To him, your celebration is a sham; ... your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...."
In 1852, Frederick Douglas spoke these words to express the sentiments of the American Sl ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:55PM
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By Harold Meyerson, WASHINGTON P OST, July 24, 2012 -- Suppose Mitt Romney ekes out a victory in November by a margin smaller than the number of young and minority voters who couldn’t cast ballots because the photo-identification laws enacted by Repu ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:54PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 21, 2012 -- Gabby Douglas' historic Olympic performance has turned her into America's new golden girl. She's on cereal boxes, murals are being painted in her honor and she's practically BFF with First Lady Michelle Obama. Need ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 4:10PM
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CNN, August 15, 2012 -- Soledad O'Brien got into a heated shouting match with Romney surrogate John Sununu on Tuesday, and she's slapping back his claims about Medicare.
The CNN host and Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire, clashed over t ...
Posted Friday, August 17th 2012 at 11:18AM
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POLITIFACT, December 10, 2011 -- Medicare, the health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, constitutes a massive and growing share of federal spending. Yet Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that in the more than four decad ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 11:08AM
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SALON, August 14, 2012 -- As Democrats go on the Medicare offensive after Mitt Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of the GOP’s Medicare-transforming budget, to be his vice-presidential nominee, Romney has fired back with with a predictable broa ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 10:59AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 13, 2012 — Gabby Douglas admitted indulging in post-Olympics fast food to the wrong person: First lady and healthy eating advocate Michelle Obama, who teased the gymnastics champion.
"You're setting me back, Gabby," Obama t ...
Posted Monday, August 13th 2012 at 8:50PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 13, 2012 -- Now that Mitt Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Ryan’s radical budget constitutes Romney’s economic platform. The Ryan-Romney budget is based on a number of false and dangerous notions: th ...
Posted Monday, August 13th 2012 at 7:01PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 12, 2012 -- As Mitt Romney stood before the USS Wisconsin Saturday morning, months of speculation about how far the presumptive Republican presidential nominee might go to court Latino voters came to an end.
Rep. Paul Ryan, ...
Posted Sunday, August 12th 2012 at 6:19PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 11, 2012 -- Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate 42 year-old Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as “the most extreme budget plan passed by a ho ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 11:14AM
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BY MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE DAILY BEAST, August 11, 2012 -- Paul Ryan? Really? It’s a stunning choice. A terrible one too. By making it, Mitt Romney tells America that he is not his own man and hasn’t even the remotest fleeting desire to be his own man. ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 11:13AM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 9, 2012 -- Early voting in Ohio is now operating like this--extended hours in Republican leaning counties, limited hours in Democratic leaning counties.
How can this stand???
Here Rachel Maddow gives us the bac ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 6:37PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- The group of Catholic nuns who launched the Nuns On A Bus tour to shed light on the effects the House Republican budget would have on the poor turned its attention to the GOP’s presidential candidate this week, chal ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 6:07PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will only be open be ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 5:56PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 9, 2012-- The Franciscan Action Network (FAN), a Catholic faith-based advocacy and civic engagement organization, is strongly criticizing Mitt Romney's recent ads and rhetoric regarding welfare programs and welfare recipients, ...
Posted Friday, August 10th 2012 at 11:42AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 8, 2012 -- Fox News host Alisyn Camerota defended a segment she hosted last week that questioned if Team USA's uniforms were patriotic enough.
Following Gabby Douglas' gold medal performance in the women's gymnastics indivi ...
Posted Thursday, August 9th 2012 at 11:15AM
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COMEDY CENTRAL, August 9, 2012 -- Anyone tuning into Fox News these past few months has probably noticed a growing trend in what they're covering: voter fraud. They've even gone so far as to instate a Fox News Voter Fraud Unit, dedicated (one would a ...
Posted Thursday, August 9th 2012 at 10:55AM
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