Home » Archives » Video » Featured Video (Page 403)
Michelle Obama to Olympians: ‘I’m still so inspired by you’
First Lady Michelle Obama said Friday she is fulfilling a childhood dream by leading the US delegation to the London Olympics. “These Games especially affected our little house on the south side of Chicago,” she told US athletes at their training base in east London ahead of Friday evening’s much…
Ann Romney: Mitt and I love class-system drama ‘Downton Abby’
Following a bad few days in the United Kingdom for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, his wife, Ann, did a little bit of pandering by volunteering that she and her husband adored Downton Abbey, a British television drama that glorifies the class system. During an interview that aired on…
Florida woman posing as butt-enhancing doctor arrested for lethal injections
Authorities arrested a woman posing as a doctor in South Florida after the toxic, unknown substances she injected into a woman’s buttocks, hips, thighs and breasts proved to be fatal, according to the Associated Press. Shatarka Nuby, 31, reported that her skin became hot and turned black after the injections…
Cantor defends Bachmann: Anti-Muslim witch hunt is ‘about security’
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Friday refused to condemn Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin, had infiltrated the U.S. government on behalf of radical Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood. Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accused Bachmann…
Ignoring ammonium nitrate law, Romney says OKC bombing is reason for no gun control
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said no new gun control laws were necessary after the massacre in Aurora, Colorado because Timothy McVeigh killed 168 in Oklahoma City with a bomb made of fertilizer — but in that case, Congress did eventually regulate the sale of ammonium nitrate.…
Colbert calls out Chick-fil-A’s Facebook ‘sock puppet’
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert delved into the controversy over Chick-fil-A’s anti-LGBT politics and their poorly-thought-out defense strategy of creating a phony teenage defender on Facebook. Since Chick-fil-A founder Dan Cathy announced that he was “guilty as charged” of pledging millions of dollars to…
Jon Stewart: Congress either a$$holes or five-year-olds
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart called out “the assholes” in his newest segment, named “Jon Stewart Fingers Some Assholes Then Gives Them A Vigorous Tongue-Lashing.” The first “assholery” that Stewart called out was former CEO of Citigroup Sanford Weill, who recently said the United…
Carville: Might be better for Romney to keep his mouth shut
Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday joked that it might be best for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney if he didn’t say anything during his overseas tour. CNN host Erin Burnett noted that Romney refused to talk about his foreign policy views to CNN, but allowed the Israeli newspaper Haaretz…
Wisc. Rep. Mark Pocan: ALEC is feeling the heat
Wisconsin state Rep. Mark Pocan (D), who attended American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) annual meeting, said Thursday that the organization was definitely “feeling the pressure” of liberal and progressive groups. “They’re really feeling the heat of their corporate members who are feeling the heat because of this bad legislation that…
Florida man kills door-to-door salesman: I’ll kill anybody that steps on my property
A man in Cape Coral, Florida on Wednesday was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property. Kenneth Bailey Roop, 52, has been charged with second-degree murder for killing 30-year-old Nicholas Rainey. A co-worker who witnessed the shooting said Rainey had knocked on Roop’s door, but…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Swiss banks face massive fines over Americans’ hidden bank accounts
- Two dead as mystery illness sickens 7 in Alabama
- Runaway goat leads New Jersey police on 90-minute highway chase
- IRS official pleads the Fifth: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
- New PTSD drug may allow vets to reprogram traumatic memories
- Alex Jones pushes tornado truther theory: ‘There’s weather weapon stuff going on’
- Massachusetts Lt. Governor resigns to take job at local Chamber of Commerce
- Atheist Arizona lawmaker quotes Carl Sagan for House opening prayer
- Two Virginia women charged over homespun herbal abortion
- Tone Policing Only Goes One Way
Commentary
Tone policing only goes one way
By Amanda Marcotte
The Orange Couch does Mad Men: S7E8, “The Crash”
By Amanda Marcotte
An open letter to the Center for Inquiry
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
