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KitchenAid in hot water after inappropriate Twitter jab at President Obama

KitchenAid, a U.S. company famous for its high-end mixers and other baking and cooking equipment, has landed in hot water after a controversial (and since-deleted) joke about President Barack Obama’s grandmother went out via the company’s account on the social medium Twitter during Wednesday night’s presidential debate. According to Think…

Coulter on debate: Michelle Obama ‘wanted to go home with Mitt’

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter says that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s victory over President Barack Obama at Wednesday night’s debate was so absolute that Michelle Obama wanted spend the night with the GOP hopeful. “The fact that Obama didn’t prepare, this is like him not being prepared for the attack…

Colbert: George Will ‘screwed the pooch’ by writing his racist ‘post-racial’ column

Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took on a recent column by “Washington Post columnist and cursed ventriloquist’s doll” George Will, in which Will “screwed the pooch,” by Colbert’s reckoning. The column averred that President Barack Obama has his race to thank for his consistently higher poll…

Chris Matthews: ‘Where was Obama tonight?’

An angry Chris Matthews derided President Barack Obama’s performance Wednesday night following the first debate between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. “I know [Obama] likes to say he doesn’t watch cable television, but maybe he should start,” Matthews said on MSNBC’s post-debate coverage. “I don’t know how he let Romney…

Obama zings Romney: Are you keeping your plans secret because they’re too good?

President Barack Obama on Wednesday took a jab at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, joking that the GOP hopeful must have refused to release details about his policies because they were “too good.” During the first 2012 presidential debate in Colorado, Obama noted that Romney had vowed to repeal health…

Romney: ‘I love Big Bird’ but I would still cut PBS funding

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney repeated his pledge to cut funding for public television during Wednesday’s debate with President Barack Obama. “I would stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney told moderator Jim Lehrer. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not gonna keep…

Romney: Obama is like a boy who doesn’t tell the truth

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney began his first face-to-face debate with President Barack Obama by comparing the commander in chief to a boy who often said “something that isn’t always true.” After Obama asserted that Romney’s budget could not cut $5 trillion in taxes and raise military spending by $2…

Watch live: Romney and Obama face off in first presidential debate

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama met on Wednesday for their first of three presidential debates. Watch live, broadcast on YouTube.…

Life of mouse at stake in online election parody

WASHINGTON — A little white mouse risks being devoured by a hungry snake in an online parody of cutthroat American politics that went online Wednesday just hours before the US presidential debate. Snakeormouse.com invites visitors to cast ballots on whether the “MouseOn President” will be fed to the “Friends of…

Obama wanted civilian trial for Osama bin Laden

President Barack Obama hoped to put terrorist leader Osama bin Laden on trial in a civilian court if he was captured alive, according to an upcoming piece in the November issue of Vanity Fair. “We worked through the legal and political issues that would have been involved, and Congress and…