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Colbert tells audience ‘f*ck you’ for re-electing Obama
Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert greeted the news of President Barack Obama’s re-election eating cheese popcorn and wearing an old bathrobe. “What are you people doing here?” he asked the crowd blearily. “Shouldn’t you be out celebrating? Because, evidently,” he said, popcorn flying as his voice…
Jon Stewart pinpoints moment ‘bullsh*t mountain’ Fox News collapsed
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart vivaciously mocked Fox News’ election coverage. In particular, Stewart noted “there was an avalanche on bullshit mountain” after President Barack Obama was declared the winner. Stewart was especially entertained by Republican strategist Karl Rove’s denial that Obama was going…
Maddow asks Republicans to return to the world of facts
Reviewing the results of the 2012 elections, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted Republicans would need to “pop the factual bubble” that they were living in. Despite polls showing that Obama was likely to be re-elected, conservative pundits had proclaimed that Romney would be victorious on Tuesday night. “Republicans and conservatives…
Rep.-elect Grayson: Democrats should concede nothing in budget deal
Florida Rep.-elect Alan Grayson (D) on Wednesday night said that Democrats should not concede anything in a grand bargain with Republicans. “Why talk about caving at all? The Democrats won the election,” he told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer. Huge automatic budget cuts are set to go into effect if…
Bill Maher: Republicans are screwed up from living in a bubble
Comedian Bill Maher said Wednesday night that Republicans needed to escape the “Republican bubble” if they wanted to win a future presidential election. “Republicans have to start getting their information from a better source than Fox News,” he told MSNBC host Chris Matthews. “I’m not kidding about this. I think…
Beck on Romney’s loss: ‘Man, sometimes God really sucks’
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday declared that Mitt Romney’s loss to President Barack Obama proved that “sometimes God really sucks.” As it was becoming apparently that the president was going to be re-elected on Tuesday, Beck had told a panel on his Blaze TV network that “the body…
Watch live: Speaker Boehner speaks on the fiscal cliff and the election
Speaker of the House John Boehner holds a press conference on the fiscal cliff following last night’s election. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 7. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
CNN panel to Obama: Appoint Romney as ‘secretary of business’
A CNN panel of journalists and other experts on Wednesday called on President Barack Obama to appoint former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as the “secretary of business.” CNN host Wolf Blitzer noted that Obama would need to name new cabinet members after being re-elected and it would be “a…
Rush Limbaugh eats humble pie: ‘We are outnumbered and we are losing ground’
Republican radio figure Rush Limbaugh announced Wednesday that, far from the Republican Party simply failing to turn out its base on Tuesday night, “we are outnumbered” now in the country, calling President Barack Obama’s overwhelming reelection victory “the trend” from now on. “We have to face some truths, we have…
Key and Peele: White Obama voters are now ‘honorary black people’
This morning the comedy team Key and Peele released a new message from President Barack Obama’s “Anger Translator,” Luther, in which he reacted to the 2012 election results. In these sketches, Keegan-Michael Key plays the character Luther, who is the brash, outspoken id of the more sedate “Obama,” played by…
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