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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…
‘Third Eagle’ posts new song protesting ‘first gay president’ Obama
In a new song, the singer and songwriter who calls himself “Third Eagle” insinuates that President Barack Obama is a gay man who is waiting for the election to be over so he can leave his wife and start getting “oral” from a man named “George, Ed or Steve.” Third…
Ex-GE CEO Jack Welch accuses Obama campaign of falsifying jobs data
After this morning’s jobs report, which announced that the September unemployment rate fell to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent, retired CEO of General Electric (GE) Jack Welch accused President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Twitter of falsifying the new numbers. Welch posted on Twitter, “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago…
Jon Stewart: Obama should have just said ‘liar, liar’ for two minutes
On his show Thursday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted President Barack Obama’s lethargic performance at the first presidential debate. He slammed the President for losing despite the fact his challenger threatened Big Bird. “And here is the thing, Obama lost even though Romney was lying his ass off…
West Wing actor Richard Schiff: Romney like a used car salesman
West Wing actor Richard Schiff on Thursday night said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had the demeanor of a “car salesman.” “It’s so easy to pick a lie and stick to it,” he told Current TV host Cenk Uygur. “It’s much harder, if you have any semblance of wanting to…
Lewis Black: Romney won debate by looking mildly more alert
Thursday on CBS This Morning, comedian Lewis Black railed against the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney. He questioned why Americans were only able to listen to the candidates for two-minutes at a time, complaining that it wasn’t even possible to explain how to…
Fact-checkers have ‘field day’ after Obama-Romney debate
WASHINGTON — A $5 trillion tax cut, a doubling of the deficit, a $716 billion Medicare raid. Were the slings and arrows of the first US presidential debate pin-point accurate attacks, or fact-defying hocus pocus? A bit of both, to be sure. But with the figures flying Wednesday night, President…
Obama: ‘Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird’
President Barack Obama on Thursday stood up for Sesame Street character Big Bird after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney promised to end funding for public broadcasting. “I would stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney told debate moderator Jim Lehrer on Wednesday. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually…
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