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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie slams Democratic convention ‘BS’
Mitt Romney brought out the big guns in the battleground state of Ohio in the form of bombastic New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who blasted Democrats for their excessive “BS.” Never one to shy away from a good barb, Christie took the stage before Republican nominee Romney and launched into…
Tea party activist: DNC full of communist activity
Tea party activist and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi believes the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was a “remarkable demonstration” of “communist activity disguised as patriotism.” In a video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, he noted that the Democratic Party Platform of 2012 initially did not contain the word “God” nor…
‘Fox and Friends’ hosts compare Granholm speech to ‘Dean scream’
Friday on the Fox News morning show “Fox and Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson asserted to viewers that former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s Democratic National Convention speech was the same sort of career-harpooning moment as the infamous “Dean scream” from the 2004 Democratic primary. After Kilmeade…
Cardinal Dolan uses DNC closing prayer to attack LGBT community
Even though the Democratic Party took a major step forward this week by supporting marriage equality in their official platform for the first time ever, Cardinal Timothy Dolan could not resist taking a shot at equal rights for the LGBT community during his closing prayer at the party’s convention after…
R.E.M. orders Fox News to stop playing ‘Losing My Religion’ during DNC
The American rock band R.E.M. on Thursday demanded that Fox News “cease and desist” using their song “Losing My Religion” during its coverage of the Democratic National Convention. “R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’ was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night,” a statement on the…
Jon Stewart tears apart RNC with comparison to Clinton’s math-filled speech
On his show Thursday night, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show praised former President Bill Clinton for delivering a speech to the Democratic National Convention that contained math. After lampooning Clinton’s long speech, which had “more false endings than a James Brown concert,” Stewart quipped that Clinton said more about…
Watch from the convention floor: James Taylor rocks the Democratic delegates
Folk singer and guitarist James Taylor helped create a party atmosphere at Democratic National Convention on Thursday afternoon, receiving an enthusiastic response from attendees inside the packed arena. As the headline music act at the convention in Charlotte, the long-time environmental activist took the stage nearly five hours before President…
Democrats insist Jerusalem omission in platform ‘not deliberate’
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A top Democratic official said Thursday that a decision to ditch a party policy naming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, later ordered reversed by President Barack Obama, was not deliberate. The official weighed in on a row which rattled the first two days of the Democratic National…
Moms booted from Michelle Rhee’s film screening during Democratic Convention
Two Democratic moms who oppose the privatization of schools say that security personnel escorted from an event at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week after organizers learned they opposed charter schools and other education “reforms.” Mecklenburg ACTS co-chairs Pam Grundy and Carol Sawyer told Raw Story that both…
Jon Stewart: Democrats have so many Latinos they’ve got doubles
On his show Wednesday night, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show noted that the Democratic Party was so “effortlessly diverse” that they had back-ups. “Remember the fuss at the RNC over the rising Latino star Marco Rubio,” Stewart asked. “Well, the Democrats have not only a rising Latino star of…
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