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Jon Stewart mocks the ‘empty-headed puppets’ who indoctrinate Americans
On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked conservatives apparent obsession with cutting funding for PBS. He showed that Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs had criticized President Barack Obama for advocating an end to $4 billion in subsidies for oil companies, but Dobbs was enthusiastic…
Polls indicate post-debate bounce for Romney
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama but it is too early to know how significant or lasting the bounce for the Republican challenger will be. Gallup’s September 30-October 6 poll of registered voters across the nation showed Obama had…
Romney pretends Obama’s free trade agreements simply don’t exist
In a key foreign policy speech Monday morning, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney claimed President Barack Obama “has not signed one new free trade agreement in the past four years,” and promised to “reverse that failure.” However, Congress passed and Obama signed three major trade deals in 2011, giving American…
Obama jokes about poor debate performance at Hollywood fundraiser
President Barack Obama made a thinly-veiled joke at his own expense, acknowledging his poor debate performance against Mitt Romney last week at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles. Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry and Earth, Wind and Fire were among acts who played for the president on Sunday, while Hollywood A-lister…
Team Obama steps up attacks on ‘dishonest’ Romney
President Barack Obama’s campaign intensified attacks Sunday on Mitt Romney’s honesty as it tried to halt the Republican challenger’s momentum after a strong first debate performance. Romney’s people hit back, and did so sarcastically, depicting Obama’s people as childish sore losers after he came across as flat, nervous and unassertive…
Melissa Harris-Perry calls George Will out
Melissa Harris-Perry took conservative pundit George Will to task on her show Saturday morning for saying President Barack Obama still had good job approval numbers because he is black. “the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in…
Bill Maher rips Republican strategist Frank Luntz in interview
Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher interviewed Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz, author of Words that Work: It’s Not what You Say, but What People Hear, a book that details how winning in politics increasingly depends upon how your frame your argument and…
Maddow: Right wing copying Iranian mullas by creating their own reality
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow compared so-called conservative “poll-truthers” to the mullahs and theocrats of Iran, who would rather construct an artificial, sanitized Internet than risk having their fellow Iranians access the wider internet and be exposed to new information. Iran, Maddow began, is about…
Maher: Anniversary sex left Obama ‘spent’ for debate
Wednesday’s first presidential debate, Bill Maher said Friday, was a marked contrast: while Republican Mitt Romney showed what he looked like “all charged up,” President Barack Obama, Maher said, looked like he’d spent Maher’s million-dollar donation on weed. Maher also cracked that the timing of the debate — it was…
Jack Welch: I have no evidence jobs numbers were doctored
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch admitted to Hardball host Chris Matthews Friday that he had no evidence to support his accusation that President Barack Obama’s administration had falsified new employment statistics, yet refused to take it back. The report, released Friday morning, placed the national unemployment rate at 7.8…
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