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Obama wants to know ‘whose ass to kick’ over oil spill
President Barack Obama would have already fired BP CEO Tony Hayward if it were up to him. Critics have called for Hayward to be canned following a string of insensitive and clumsy comments. “The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation…
James Cameron: US shouldn’t be relying on BP’s underwater intel
James Cameron offered to help BP find a solution to their leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico but the company turned him down. Now the Academy Award-winning director is taking his suggestions directly to the media. “You had a brainstorming session that I understand lasted more than ten hours.…
BP CEO: ‘It wasn’t our accident’ but we’ll clean spill; Liability waivers were ‘misstep’
British Petroleum is warned to stop distributing oil spill settlement agreements The CEO of British Petroleum told NBC’s Meredith Vieira that his company wasn’t responsible for creating the oil spill but they are responsible for cleaning it up. And he told ABC that liability waivers that fishermen were being asked…
Jay Leno invites Karl Rove to bondage club
NBC’s Jay Leno pulled GOP strategist Karl Rove into the controversy over a political consultant who charged the Republican Party $1,900 for a night at a bondage-themed L.A. night club. “Somebody ought to lose their credit card, their RNC credit card,” Rove said on The Tonight Show Monday night. “Find…
Axelrod: Israeli settlement plan ‘an insult’
The Obama administration isn’t backing down on criticisms of an Israeli plan to build 1600 new homes in East Jerusalem. Israel announced the plan just as Vice President Joe Biden was visiting the country. President Obama’s chief political adviser condemned the move Sunday. “This was an affront, it was an…
Howard Stern: Jay Leno ‘makes me want to vomit’
Even while appearing on daytime morning television, controversial radio host Howard Stern can’t seem to refrain from using unsettling imagery. Stern on Tuesday unleashed a slew of scathing criticisms at comedian Jay Leno, the morning after Leno’s return to NBC’s “Tonight Show.” “Just the mere mention of Jay Leno’s name…
Cantor: We need ‘to get people more uninsured’
Republican House Whip Eric Cantor may have made a Freudian slip Sunday when he told NBC’s David Gregory that the GOP wants to “get people more uninsured.” Gregory asked a panel to comment on what he called the fundamental tension of the health reform debate. “The tension seems to be…
Van Hollen: GOP ‘high on their own hype’
The anti-incumbent feeling in the U.S. will not lead to Democrats losing the House, according to Rep. Chris Van Hollen. The Democratic senator from Maryland said last fall that anyone who thinks Republicans could take control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections is in “la-la land.” He didn’t…
Karen Hughes: Bush rescued the economy
George W. Bush rescued the economy from collapse, according to Karen Hughes. Bush’s former campaign director attacked President Barack Obama on NBC Sunday, defending the record of her former boss on the economy. Speaking about Obama’s successes, journalist Mark Halperin praised the current president’s handling of the economy. “He’s done,…
Bush warns: Watch out for ‘shysters’
President George W. Bush is warning Americans not to fall for scams trying to raise money off the disaster in Haiti. “I need to put a pitch in for the clintonbushhaitifund.org,” Bush told NBC’s David Gregory. “One of my concerns around any crisis is that shysters show up and take…
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