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Chris Hayes: Why Republicans hate Clint Eastwood’s commercial
Dirty Harry has turned against the GOP. That’s basically the message in last night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, during which guest host Chris Hayes examined the popular Chrysler Super Bowl ad featuring Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood. His conclusion: Eastwood’s sideways endorsement of the auto bailouts punches conservatives where…
Romney: Komen ‘wrong’ to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that it’s “wrong” for organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings for poor women. During an interview with conservative radio host Scott Hennen on Monday, Romney said he disagreed with the Komen Foundation reversing their earlier…
Hannity: ‘It’s end time in America’ if Obama re-elected
Republican opinion host Sean Hannity continued Monday night with his usual criticism of President Barack Obama, telling viewers that America would end if the president is elected to a second term. The Fox News personality was joined by former Bush political adviser Karl Rove, who expressed his disapproval of Clint Eastwood’s popular…
LGBT activist interrupts Gingrich speech in Minnesota
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was interrupted by LGBT activists while he was giving a campaign speech in Minnesota. “Hey Newt, why do you support discrimination against gays and lesbians all the time?” a young man yelled at Gingrich. The crowd at the event responded with loud boos and began…
Olbermann mocks GOP lawmaker for linking to satirical ‘Abortionplex’ article
On his show Monday night, Current TV host Keith Olbermann lampooned Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) for mistaking an article from the satirical news outlet The Onion for real news. Fleming or his staff posted a link to the article, titled “Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex,” on the conservative congressman’s…
Tammy Duckworth: Rep. Walsh just ‘a megaphone for the tea party’
Lieutenant Colonel Tammy Duckworth said Monday that the residents of Illinois’ 8th congressional district had “buyers remorse” because they didn’t realize Republican Rep. Joe Walsh was going to be a “cheerleader for the tea party.” “They thought they were voting for someone who would go and represent them, which is…
Scott Rasmussen: Obama very likely to be reelected if trends continue
Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports predicted on Monday that President Barack Obama would win the 2012 election if the economy continued to improve. The latest Rasmussen poll showed Obama with a 7 point lead over the Republican frontrunner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. “The trends are moving in President Obama’s…
Gingrich calls Egyptian trial ‘the Obama hostage crisis’
At a campaign event in Golden, Colorado on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich likened the planned trial of 19 Americans in Egypt to the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, calling it “the Obama hostage crisis.” “This reminds me exactly of Jimmy Carter and the Iranian hostages. You now have…
Atlanta police investigate hate crime caught on tape
An apparent hate crime captured on digital video and published online this week has triggered an investigation by the Atlanta police, a department spokesman told reporters. The video, published to the Worldstar Hip Hop website on Sunday, shows a group of males beating another man as he exits a grocery…
Rove: I’m ‘offended’ by Eastwood’s inspiring Super Bowl commercial
Republican strategist Karl Rove says the he was personally “offended” by an inspiring Chrysler advertisement starring Clint Eastwood that aired during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI. In the ad, Eastwood talks about how the the auto companies in Detroit — and Americans in general — are rebounding after the 2008…
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