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Fox News host: Dems ‘invented’ war on women because ‘stimulus didn’t work’
One Fox News host on Monday asserted that Democrats had concocted the “phony” Republican war on women to divert attention from high gas prices and a slow economic recovery. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy noted that gas prices on Catalina Island in California were around $7 a gallon and…
Herman Cain calls on Romney to pick Allen West for VP
After failing at his own attempt at the presidency, Herman Cain is now offering campaign advice to likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. During an interview with radio host Steve Gill on Monday, Cain called on Romney to pick tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) as his vice presidential…
Local Fox affiliate calls neo-Nazi org a ‘civil rights group’
The Fox affiliate in Orlando, Florida made a glaring mistake Sunday afternoon, labeling a neo-Nazi organization as a “civil rights group” in both a broadcast and online report. The National Socialist Movement (NSM), labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “neo-Nazi group” that idolizes Adolf Hitler, was included…
Black church protests Hank Williams Jr. for calling Obama Hitler
Members of an African-American church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama showed up at a Hank Williams Jr. concert on Saturday to speak out about his racially offensive lyrics and his comments about President Barack Obama. “It was a peaceful protest,” Christ Baptist Church’s Reverend Ransey O’Daniel told Raw Story. “We just wanted…
SNL mocks Romney for pandering to everyone
In a send-up of Mitt Romney’s presidential aspirations, Saturday Night Live mocked the Republican frontrunner by displaying parody clips of a campaign tour in which “he claimed to be interested in things we know he is not interested in.” Speaking before the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to…
Tulsa, OK police make arrests in alleged racially-motivated killings
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma have announced the arrest of two white men suspected of killing three African-Americans and wounding two others in an apparently random shooting spree on Friday that had terrified local reisdents. According to the Tulsa World, Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested in the…
Cleaver: ‘Wrong’ for Dems to accuse GOP of ‘war on women’
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), the chairman of the congressional Black Caucus, condemned some in his party’s claim Sunday morning that the GOP is waging a “war on women.” Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Cleaver originally criticized conservative evangelical activist Ralph Reed’s claim that President Barack Obama was waging…
Andrew Sullivan: Politicization of Christianity fuels atheism in U.S.
Columnist and author Andrew Sullivan said Sunday that atheism was growing in the United States because more and more people saw Christianity as an organization intent on gaining political power. “I think our ability to be reasonable in politics and faithful in religion, and to keep those two things separate,…
Billy Graham’s daughter: ‘I would not vote for an atheist’
The daughter of televangelist Rev. Billy Graham says that it’s important to discriminate against candidates who are atheists because politicians “should have a fear for almighty God.” In an interview with Ann Graham Lotz on Sunday, NBC host David Gregory noted that her father had advocated using every form of…
Cardinal Dolan on secularism: Santorum had ‘good point’ about vomiting
The archbishop of New York on Sunday agreed that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum had a “good point” when he said that John F. Kennedy’s speech about the separation of church in state made him want to “throw up.” In a 1960 speech, Kennedy had assured Southern Baptist leaders that…
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