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Kucinich defends tea party groups on ‘Fox News Sunday’
After years spent as one of the nation’s most ardently liberal members of Congress, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) became a paid Fox News contributor at the start of this year, and on Sunday his new role cast him as a defender of the tea party, accusing the Internal Revenue…
Allen West: IRS targeting of tea party is part of auto bailout conspiracy
Former Congressman Allen West on Sunday (R-FL) said that an admission by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it had improperly scrutinized tea party groups was part of a wider conspiracy that included President Barack Obama’s administration forcing Republican-owned car dealerships to be shut down during the auto bailout in…
Gates: Benghazi-obsessed Republicans have ‘cartoonish’ view of military capability
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told CBS News that Republican lawmakers who are blasting President Barack Obama’s administration for failing to take military action during last September’s surprise attacks in Benghazi have a “cartoonish” view of the military. “I listened to the testimony of [Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta]…
George Will floats impeachment after IRS targets tea party groups
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama could be impeached after it was revealed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted tea party groups. The Associated Press learned last week that the IRS had apologized for what it was an “inappropriate” investigation into whether tea party…
Kristol shreds Karl Rove’s super PAC over anti-Hillary Benghazi attack ad
Conservative Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is lashing out at Karl Rove and his American Crossroads super PAC for using last year’s attacks in Benghazi to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential race. During a Fox News panel segment on Sunday, Kristol complained that…
Fox News conducts Mother’s Day interview with adulterer Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford, the South Carolina congressman-elect who notoriously lied and said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was actually in Argentina having an affair, on Sunday compared Fox News to The National Enquirer after a host asked him if he had set a date to marry his mistress.…
Republican rep. falsely claims ‘no one is calling for military action in Syria’
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Sunday insisted that “no one is calling for military action in Syria” even though several lawmakers have called for a strike on the country’s air defenses to create a no-fly zone. During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked…
Maher: Class inequality may have helped Cleveland kidnapper hide victims
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher and a panel made up of writer Glenn Greenwald, commentator Joy Reid and National Review writer Charles Cooke discussed whether class issues played a role in the case of the three women who were held prisoner in the…
Maddow: For GOP, ‘Impeach Obama’ urge is a form of incontinence
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow chided Republicans for their constant calls to impeach President Barack Obama. She likened the right’s continuous cries for impeachment to an involuntary tic, an accidental soiling of oneself, like a person who poops or pees themselves a little when they…
Maher slams Fox News’ Benghazi coverage: ‘I still don’t know what the scandal is’
Bill Maher accused Fox News of playing up the September 2012 attack on an American consulate building in Libya during the panel discussion on Real Time on Friday. “If you watch Fox News, this story was like, ‘They saved Hitler’s brain’ times ‘Men walk on the moon’ — it was…
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