Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday said that he hoped that former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would have a speaking role at this month’s Republican National Convention. During an interview on Fox News, host Greta Van Susteren asked the RNC chairman if Palin would be at the…
In covering the tempest surrounding Chick-Fil-A Monday on The Colbert Report, host Steven Colbert hit upon a new business strategy: Don’t run away from controversy, embrace it. “Just associate your product with a divisive political position and wait for the cash to roll in,” he said, before pitching some trial…
The irony of former NY Times reporter Judith Miller using her perch at Fox News to castigate the Obama administration for recent national security leaks was not lost on The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who used his Monday night broadcast to call her out. Miller –a Pulitzer-Prize winner– became infamous…
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday mocked Wheaton College, located in a Chicago suburb, for challenging the contraception mandate while providing emergency contraception. The new Health & Human Services Department mandate requires most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies. “When the Obama administration unveiled…
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett on Sunday asked the nephew of a victim of the Sikh temple shooting whether there had been any “anti-Semitic acts” against the Sikh community. “Had there been to your knowledge any prior acts of violence against members of the temple, any anti-Semitic acts against the…
Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the first woman to be elected to Congress from Tennessee’s 7th District, explained Monday that she officially refers to herself as a congressman — not a congresswoman. “Doesn’t sound very politically correct, does it?” she said in a video produced by FreedomWorks. Blackburn said that while…
An innocent deaf woman in Tacoma, Washington says that police shocked her with a Taser and then put her in jail for almost three days with no interpreter after she called 911 to report a guest had attacked her in her own apartment. Lashonn White told KIRO that she called…
UPDATE: The FBI has cleared the person of interest of having anything to do with the shooting, according to the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Police said Monday they are seeking a second person in connection to the shooting assault on a Sikh temple that left six people dead and an officer…
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday reviewed the case of a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left at least seven dead and came to the conclusion that places of worship were being attacked because “people who are atheists, they hate God.” Robertson opened Monday’s 700 Club broadcast with…