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Colbert to CNN and Fox: ‘You suck at news’
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took cable news networks to task for jumping the gun and mistakenly announcing that the Supreme Court had struck down the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday morning, as the world looked on, both CNN and Fox…
Jon Stewart mocks reactions to the health care ruling
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked CNN and Fox News for falsely reporting that the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health reform bill had been struck down by the Supreme Court. Both networks claimed the individual mandate was ruled unconstitutional. “It was a…
Stiglitz: Price of inequality is a weakened economy and democracy
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Thursday said the American dream was “a myth.” “While America likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity, it is less so than any other advanced industrial country for which there is data — poorer opportunities than old ossified Europe,” he told…
Gov. Martinez breaks with GOP: Parts of Obamacare ‘good’
Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday admitted there were good provisions within President Barack Obama’s health care reform package. In a video being promoted by Obama’s campaign, Martinez disagreed with Mitt Romney’s assertion that the law should be entirely repealed. “You know, what I think is important is…
Holder blasts GOP ‘political theater’ over contempt vote
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that House Republicans had “engineered” a contempt vote against him and were not really interested in investigating the Fast and Furious scandal. “Today’s vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided – and politically motivated – investigation during an election year,”…
Pelosi: I would have pushed single-payer, but health reform ‘worth it’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that she had no regrets about helping pass President Barack Obama’s health care reform bill. “Your party lost power in 2010, you lost your speakership, you spent a lot of time on this bill, even Democratic leaders in the House and Senate…
WATCH LIVE: Eric Holder reacts to contempt vote
Attorney General Eric Holder reacts after House Republicans vote on holding him in contempt. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast June 28, 2012. …
Anti-LGBT leader: Homosexuality means ‘you can’t stop’ until ‘sex with animals’ is allowed
The director of issues of the anti-LGBT rights group American Family Association (AFA) is warning that allowing homosexuality would mean that “you can’t stop” until “sex with animals” was also accepted. On his Wednesday radio program, Bryan Fischer dug up an a 3-year-old report about a Florida man who claimed…
WATCH LIVE: Congress votes on contempt for Attorney General Holder
Members of Congress are scheduled to vote on whether to put Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about the much-debated but little-understood “Fast and Furious” scandal, which allegedly allowed guns purchased by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to be sold over…
O’Reilly promised to ‘apologize for being an idiot’ if heath law was upheld
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, will Fox News host Bill O’Reilly apologize? After all, he promised he would. During a March 26 interview with American Constitution Society President Caroline Fredrickson, O’Reilly ended the interview by promising to “apologize for being…
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