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Former TARP regulator tells Moyers: Another banking crash is ‘inevitable’
Neil Barofsky, the former regulator tasked with policing banker bailouts in the Bush administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), told talk show host Bill Moyers this week that another major banking crash is now “inevitable” because neither of the political parties have the stomach to end “too big to fail.”…
Homeless men hospitalized after ‘Friday the 13th’-style attack
Two homeless men in Houston were taken to the hospital after a grisly attack patterned after a horror film series. According to KPRC-TV, a witness said he told police the two men were attacked Thursday morning by a man wearing a hockey mask and wielding a machete, in the style…
Conservatives condemn Obama for ad similar to famed Reagan line
The conservative media sphere seethed with anger on Friday over actress Lena Dunham’s suggestive new ad (embedded below) for President Barack Obama that implies a similarity between voting and having sex — seemingly forgetting that the Republican Party’s greatest icon, President Ronald Reagan, personally employed the very same analogy in…
Obama effigies surface in California and North Carolina
Effigies of President Barack Obama were reported this week in both southern California and North Carolina, including one allegedly using the racist imagery to bring attention to a miscarriage of justice. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Wednesday that U.S. Secret Service agents visited a local homeowner after he used an Obama…
Quoting Obama, CNN anchor says ‘bullsh*t’ during live broadcast
Speaking on a live broadcast Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello quoted from a recent interview the president gave to Rolling Stone and said the word “bullshit” without any attempt to self censor. Discussing the outpouring of Republican consternation over the ad, CNN host Carol Costello invited contributor LZ Granderson…
Fischer: Wedding ring conspiracy means Obama may be a ‘closeted Muslim’
Bryan Fischer, the director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization, on Thursday speculated that designs on President Barack Obama’s wedding ring meant that “he may in fact be a closeted Muslim.” Earlier this month, World Net Daily’s resident birther Jerome Corsi put forth a conspiracy theory that…
Giuliani: If contraception is covered, ‘it’s only fair’ to provide Viagra
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says that if President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is going to force insurance companies to cover contraception then “it’s only fair” that men are provided with pills to treat erectile dysfunction. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce earlier this week,…
Geraldo Rivera to ‘Fox & Friends’: ‘Reckless allegations’ on Libya are ‘beyond the pale’
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Friday urged his colleagues at the network’s morning show to stop the “politicizing” and “preposterous allegations” about President Barack Obama’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks in Libya. Geraldo told the hosts of Fox & Friends that Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-PA) suggestion that the…
Colbert: Are women voters just ‘mindless hormone zombies’?
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert discussed the much-maligned (and since removed) post at CNN.com about whether or not women’s decisions in the voting booth are affected by their hormones. “Folks, we’re a mere 12 days away from the election,” Colbert said, “and it is my solemn…
Gingrich: Romney will win ‘over 300 electoral votes’
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich predicts that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney will receive “more than 300 electoral votes” to defeat President Barack Obama on Nov. 6. Speaking to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Thursday, the former House Speaker offered to “end the anxiety” for Fox News viewers.…
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