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Fox News chief Roger Ailes: Obama is ‘lazy,’ Biden is ‘dumb’ and Gingrich is a ‘prick’
An author was recently given “unprecedented” access to Roger Ailes and came away with the Fox News president’s thoughts about a “lazy” President Barack Obama, a “dumb” Vice President Joe Biden and former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who he described as a “prick.” In an excerpt from the new…
GOP mega-donor admits his company ‘likely’ bribed foreign officials
Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and billionaire financier of Republican candidates and causes, admitted in an SEC filing submitted Friday that his company probably broke a federal anti-bribery law through its business dealings in China. In an annual regulatory report by Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the company wrote that an…
Lawrence O’Donnell airs greatest hits of ‘big Dick Morris’ after Fox News drops him
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday recalled some of Dick Morris’ most ridiculous statements as Fox News announced that he would no longer be appearing on the network. Earlier in the day, a spokesman for Fox News had told Deadline that Morris’ “contract is up and we will not be…
Tagg Romney considering run for Kerry’s Senate seat
Tagg Romney, the son of former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is mulling a run for the Massachusetts Senate seat recently vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. The Boston Herald on Monday reported that Republicans were pushing Tagg and his mother, Ann, to consider a campaign for the Senate…
Jindal’s keynote speech tells Republicans to ‘stop being the stupid party’
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) told a group of Republican leaders on Thursday that the GOP’s brand had been hurt by candidates saying “offensive and bizarre comments” and it was time to “stop being the stupid party.” In his keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in North…
Obamas in the limelight at monster inaugural ball
Barack and Michelle Obama slow-danced their way into their next four years in the White House at a monster inaugural ball featuring some of the biggest stars in popular music today. Like the king and queen of a high school prom, the president and first lady flashed awkward smiles as…
Crowds build for second Obama inauguration
Excited crowds poured into downtown Washington on Monday for Barack Obama’s second inauguration as US president, anchored on a call for America to unite despite ugly political divides. Barack Hussein Obama will raise his right hand and place his left on Bibles once owned by Martin Luther King and Abraham…
Biden tells Latinos at inaugural celebration: ‘This is your moment, and America owes you’
Celebrities like “Desperate Housewife” Eva Longoria and Puerto Rican salsa star Marc Anthony celebrated President Barack Obama’s reelection — and how Hispanic voters helped him win. Hispanic music, film and television stars as well as Latino lawmakers gathered at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night for a raucous celebration that…
What the president said: a selection of quotes from U.S. inaugural speeches
The following is a selection of quotes from US presidents giving their inaugural speeches, from George Washington to Barack Obama. - George Washington (1789) “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every…
Inauguration 2013: How Obama is different from four years ago
Inauguration 2013: How Obama is different from four years ago (+video) The shadow of President Obama is cast on a wall as he leaves a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the Senate Finance Committee voted to approve his health-care bill in this…
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