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Bush U.N. speech calls for religious freedom

President Bush called for religious tolerance at the U.N. Interfaith Dialog Conference today. “Freedom is God’s gift to every man, woman, and child — and that freedom includes the right of all people to worship as they see fit,” Bush said in his speech. Bush told the conference that ability…

Perkins and Savage in heated debate over gay marriage

CNN’s Anderson Cooper attempted to moderate a debate between Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and author Dan Savage about gay marriage. Perkins believes that the legalization of gay marriage is a “confrontation of religious liberties.” Savage countered that Perkins was trying to remove individual liberties from political process. This…

Daily Show mocks Scarborough with profane tirade

Jon Stewart highlighted a video clip where Joe Scarborough used the word “fuck” on live television on Monday morning. The Daily Show noted that the Supreme Court had ruled on the use of profanity. The show created an expletive-laced skit of how the justices might have commented during their ruling.…

Turley: Law could unravel ‘complex web’ of Bush regulations

Prof. Jonathan Turley talks about an obscure law that will easily allow Congress to undo any last-minute regulatory changes by Presdient Bush before he leaves office. This video is from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast Nov. 12, 2008. Download video via RawReplay.com…

Colbert explains why GOP is the ‘pity party’

Stephen Colbert believe that Republicans have been victims of Democrats’ lack of power for the last eight years. This video is from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast Nov. 12, 2008. Download video via RawReplay.com…

O’Reilly gives airtime to crazy ‘f*ck Obama’ video

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly aired portions of a video from a hip-hop website that call Barack Obama the antichrist. In the video a woman teachers a young girl to repeat various slurs about the president-elect. “Are we going to hold people accountable for this stuff? So, if you find out that…

Begich ahead by 3 votes in Alaska

After the latest vote counting, Mark Begich is leading Sen. Ted Steven for Senator of Alaska. 43,000 absentee votes were counted today. The board of elections says an additional 35,000 ballots will be counted in the next week. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Nov. 12, 2008. Download video…

Helen Thomas returns to White House

Legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas returned to the White House today. For the past several months, Thomas has been recovering from a stomach infection. The 88-year-old Thomas has covered nine presidents and plans to be there to cover Barack Obama. She said Obama won’t get much of a “honeymoon”…

Turner to Dobbs: You’re ‘mean and nasty’ to illegal immigrants

Ted Turner talked to CNN’s Lou Dobbs on Tuesday night to talk about his new book. Turner had appeared on Letterman the night before and took a shot at Lou Dobbs when he remarked, “You ever watch Lou Dobbs? It’s not funny is it?” Dobbs asked Turner what he didn’t…

Idaho students chant ‘assassinate Obama’ on school bus

Matthew Whoolery couldn’t believe it when his second and third grade children told him what students were saying on the school bus. “They were chanting on the bus, ‘Assassinate Obama. Assassinate Obama.’ Then adding in a name sometimes of a classmate on the bus, ‘Assassinate Obama and Kate.’” Whoolery told…