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Obama zings Romney: Are you keeping your plans secret because they’re too good?
President Barack Obama on Wednesday took a jab at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, joking that the GOP hopeful must have refused to release details about his policies because they were “too good.” During the first 2012 presidential debate in Colorado, Obama noted that Romney had vowed to repeal health…
Romney: ‘I love Big Bird’ but I would still cut PBS funding
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney repeated his pledge to cut funding for public television during Wednesday’s debate with President Barack Obama. “I would stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney told moderator Jim Lehrer. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not gonna keep…
Romney: Obama is like a boy who doesn’t tell the truth
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney began his first face-to-face debate with President Barack Obama by comparing the commander in chief to a boy who often said “something that isn’t always true.” After Obama asserted that Romney’s budget could not cut $5 trillion in taxes and raise military spending by $2…
Seth McFarlane: Obama could come to debate ‘with his penis out’ and still beat Romney
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is so confident about President Barack Obama’s re-election that not even walking onstage “with his penis out” could make him lose Wednesday night’s debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman recently asked MacFarlane to use the voice of Family Guy character Stewie…
Romney aide dismisses Soledad O’Brien questions as ‘spin’ and ‘talking points’
Wednesday morning, Virginia State Assembly member Barbara Comstock, an adviser to former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s presidential campaign appeared on CNN’s “Starting Point.” When the interview got heated, the former lobbyist and Republican strategist accused anchor Soledad O’Brien of using political “spin” and anti-Romney “talking points” as her interview technique.…
Ryan promises anti-LGBT group: Romney will ‘protect traditional marriage and rule of law’
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Tuesday promised the president of the anti-LGBT rights group Focus on the Family that a President Mitt Romney would allocate the “proper” resources to prevent gay men and lesbians from having equal marriage rights. “Focus on the Family has been behind the scenes…
Dan Cathy on LGBT equality: Chick-fil-A supports ‘biblical families’
Chick-fil-A founder Dan Cathy recently said that his company funded groups that oppose equal rights for LGBT people because it wanted to “support biblical families.” In one of his first on-camera interviews since he told the Baptist Press that Chick-fil-A was “guilty as charged” of working to prevent marriage equality,…
Richard Belzer mocks Fox News with Nazi salute on live TV
Law & Order actor Richard Belzer on Wednesday may have crossed the line when he appeared on New York City’s local Fox morning show and made a joke about rape and then gave a Nazi salute to the Fox News Channel. Rosanna Scotto, co-host of Fox 5′s Good Day New…
Supporters at Romney rally tell cardboard Obama to ‘Go back to Kenya!’
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday hurled racist and offensive insults at a life-sized, cardboard poster of President Barack Obama while they were waiting for the GOP hopeful to speak in Denver. The liberal group ProgressNow Action brought the Obama poster and a video camera to the…
Ann Coulter ‘horrified’ she ever dated liberals
On Tuesday’s edition of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything,” guest Ann Coulter said that she is “horrified” that she ever dated liberal men, but that it was “a long time ago.” Coulter was appearing on Behar’s show to promote her new book about U.S. race relations, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery…
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