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Santorum: Global warming is ‘political science’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Friday blasted rivals former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for their past support of legislation to combat global warming, saying that politicians shouldn’t change “when the climate changes.” “When the climate changed about man-made global warming in this country…
Chris Christie calls former Navy SEAL an ‘idiot’
Police in New Jersey escorted a former Navy SEAL from an event on Thursday after Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) called him an “idiot.” During a town hall-style meeting in Florence Township, a 34-year-old law school student William Brown, a U.S. veteran of three deployments in Iraq, explained that he was…
Stephen Colbert calls Fox’s Bolling to find out his gas price secret
For days, rising Fox News personality Eric Bolling has been touting a “secret plan” to lower gas prices by a dollar, a plan that he refuses to disclose to anyone but the Obama administration. He claims the plan is written down on a sheet of paper in a manilla envelope…
Jon Stewart mocks Breitbart’s Obama footage
Daily Show host Jon Stewart made fun of Sean Hannity on Thursday night for hyping a video that showed President Barack Obama introducing Harvard law professor Derrick Bell. In the video from 1990, Obama is seen encouraging students to “open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor…
Gov. O’Malley: GOP governors trying to roll back Americans’ rights
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, the Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, on Thursday accused Republican governors across the country of attacking American’s rights rather than trying to create jobs. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted that the governor had previously accused Republicans of having an agenda “to go against abortion rights…
Santorum blames negative press on New Yorkers
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on Thursday attributed the criticism of his socially conservative political beliefs to journalists and others living in New York. “The idea that values issues are losers is held by a group of people in the media who live in the New York area,” he said…
Sen. Udall calls for repeal of indefinite detention provisions
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) on Thursday voiced his support for legislation that would prohibit individuals detained in the United States from being indefinitely detained or transferred to a foreign country. “Our Constitution is in many ways the most powerful weapon we have against those who mean us harm,” he said.…
Limbaugh broadcasts dead air during commercial breaks
The exodus of advertisers fleeing from Rush Limbaugh may finally be taking a toll on his radio show. Liberal watchdog group Media Matters noticed that on at least two occasions on Thursday, Limbaugh’s flagship station in New York, WABC, broadcast several minutes of dead air during commercial breaks. There were…
Local news station confirms: Obama footage ‘is not hidden’
Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night made the dubious claim that Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a former mentor of President Barack Obama, purposefully hid footage from the media in 2008. But Ogletree could not have suppressed the footage even if he wanted to. Local news…
O’Reilly: Fluke thinks she’s owed ‘lifestyle help’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Thursday said that Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke was wrong to want contraception to be covered by her health insurance, referring to the medication as “lifestyle help.” In a statement on his website over the weekend, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said he…
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