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Jeb Bush slams Norquist’s tax pledge: Don’t ‘outsource your principles’
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Friday suggested that Republicans were outsourcing their “principles and convictions” by signing Grover Norquist’s pledge to never raise taxes. During a House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked the former governor if he agreed with the Americans for Tax Reform…
CNN host clarifies ‘lifestyle’ comment: ‘Being gay is not a choice’
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Friday awkwardly explained that she had misspoken when she said that “homosexuality is a lifestyle choice.” During a Thursday segment about Kansas Pastor Curtis Knapp, who believes that LGBT people should be executed by the government, Banfield attempted to address his comparison between homosexuality and…
Conservative editor: Young Americans ‘so frickin’ stupid’ they shouldn’t get to vote
Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back. Advocating that conservatives should “literally” beat young people into political submission, Goldberg said that young…
WATCH LIVE: Bill Clinton campaigns for Walker opponent Tom Barrett
Former president Bill Clinton campaigns in Milwaukee for Democrat Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast June 1, 2012. Photo: Anthony Correia / Shutterstock.com…
Bill Clinton: Romney had a ‘sterling business career’
Former President Bill Clinton has become the latest high-profile Democrat to undermine the Obama campaign’s message that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would be bad for the economy because he had a record of killing jobs as the CEO of Bain Capital. “I don’t think that we ought to…
Geraldo defends Obama on drones: ‘A dead terrorist is a good terrorist’
Someone on Fox News is finally standing up for President Barack Obama. Appearing Friday morning on the Republican opinion show Fox & Friends, network host Geraldo Rivera appeared to endorse President Obama’s use of a “kill list” to target and systematically eradicate suspected terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. After…
Barrett to Walker: ‘You should be ashamed’ of ‘dead baby’ commercial
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett (D) on Thursday blasted current Gov. Scott Walker (R) for using “Willie Horton” style tactics by running a commercial that includes pictures of a dead toddler. “He’s running a commercial right now that shows a dead baby,” Barrett charged during the final debate before voters…
Colbert: My book is outselling O’Reilly’s
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took a moment to bask in the glory that comes from having a book sitting in the number one spot on two bestseller lists. Colbert’s children’s book I am a Pole and So Can You is currently the New York Times‘s…
Jon Stewart mocks Bloomberg’s proposed super-sized soda ban
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Thursday night lampooned a proposal by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to limit super-sized drinks. Under Bloomberg’s proposal, restaurants and places of public entertainment like stadiums would not be allowed to sell of cups of sugary drinks that are over 16 ounces.…
Maddow calls out Romney for ‘bald-faced lie’
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday accused Republican president candidate Mitt Romney to telling a “bald-faced lie” on the campaign trail. She noted that Romney’s very first ad attacking Obama, which was released before the Iowa caucuses, made it sound like the President had said, “if we keep talking about…
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