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S.E. Cupp wrongly tells a nun welfare increases poverty
Working off the conservative premise that food and medical assistance deprograms ambition and debases economic mobility, MSNBC’s right-wing commentator S.E. Cupp tried to tell a nun on Thursday that helping the poor leaves them worse off. That didn’t exactly fly with Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun who’s part of…
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Maddow slams Cain over sexual harassment
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night blasted Herman Cain for the way he has handled the ongoing sexual harassment scandal. Cain’s lawyer said any woman who is considering coming forward with new allegations against the embattled Republican presidential candidate should “think twice.” In addition, Cain’s campaign has set up…
WATCH LIVE: Huge asteroid makes rare Earth flyby
A massive asteroid, named 2005 YU55, is expected to zoom past Earth today. Watch live coverage from the Clay Center Observatory below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Maddow explains how Wall Street firms defrauded investors
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained how dishonesty and fraud in Wall Street tanked the U.S. economy. Internal emails show that Wall Street firms told their investors to purchase stocks in certain companies, but not because those stocks had good potential. The stocks were owned by…
Maddow compares ‘Occupy Oakland’ to 1930s ‘Bonus Army’ protest
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on her show Wednesday night highlighted the similarities between the recent crack down on “Occupy Oakland” protesters and the crack down on the “Bonus Army” protesters in 1932. The “Bonus Army” was comprised of war veterans who camped out near the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.…
Maddow invites Romney to ‘man cave’ for sex education talk
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seems to be confused about how birth control works. So on Thursday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow invited him to a place where he might be more open to learning: the man cave. A woman at a town hall event in Iowa Thursday told Romney that his…
Michael Moore: Historians going to wonder why the rich overplayed their hand
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said Tuesday night that the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration in lower Manhattan and other cities continued to grow because Wall Street had ruined the lives of so many people in the middle class. “I think historians when they look at this time, they’re going to wonder…
Cain still believes ‘liberals want to destroy this country’
It was quite the interview new Republican presidential frontunner Herman Cain had with David Gregory on Meet The Press Sunday morning. When Gregory asked Cain about his previous comments on liberals wanting to destroy America, Cain did not back down from those statements, highlighting likely cuts to defense spending as…
Anita Perry: GOP attacking husband ‘because of his faith’
Texas First Lady Anita Perry says that her husband is being persecuted by the media and the Republican establishment “because of his faith.” “It’s been a rough month,” Anita Perry told supporters at North Greenville University Thursday. “We’ve been brutalized, eaten up and chewed up in the press.” “After Rick…
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