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Maddow: Romney demanded opponents’ tax returns and lied about residency in 2002
On Friday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow waded in to the escalating political battle between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and presumptive Republican nominee for president, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA). On Thursday, Romney did something which he rarely does, which is to take…
Maddow takes a hard look at Romney’s dressage dodge
Thursday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow asked some probing questions about Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s relationship with his wife Ann’s Olympic dressage horse, Rafalca. The Republican presidential candidate has played an interesting shell game with his knowledge of the event that the horse is competing in,…
WATCH LIVE: Mitt Romney campaigns in Las Vegas
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to a crowd of supporters in Las Vegas, Nevada. KTNV reports that this is Romney’s second stop in Nevada in less than a month. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on Aug. 3. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Porn star Jenna Jameson backs Romney: ‘When you’re rich, you want a Republican’
A woman who was once considered to be the world’s most famous pornographic actress on Thursday endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a strip club in California. During an appearance at San Francisco’s Gold Club, “Queen of Porn” Jenna Jameson told WTSP that Romney was her guy. “I’m…
Obama gets personal over Romney’s ‘fairy dust’ tax cut
ORLANDO, Florida — President Barack Obama warned Thursday that Mitt Romney’s “fairy dust” tax cuts would swell his millionaire Republican foe’s personal wealth while sticking the middle class with the bill. In a punchy new personal attack ad running in battleground states, the Obama camp said Romney would hike taxes…
WATCH LIVE: Romney rolls out middle-class plan in Colorado
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign stop in Golden, Colorado, where he touted a new plan for strengthening the middle class, according to the Denver Post. The plan includes a “presidential accountability scorecard” designed to attack his opponent, President Barack Obama. Romney’s plan also promotes the controversial Keystone…
Chris Wallace: Romney aide a ‘hero’ for saying ‘kiss my a**’
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Thursday said that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s traveling press secretary was a “hero” after he told reporters at a holy site in Poland to “kiss my ass.” During a visit to a memorial to Pope John Paul II on Tuesday, the presumptive Republican presidential…
Colbert defends Romney aide’s outburst at ‘info-jackals’
Stephen Colbert said on his show Tuesday he didn’t see the big deal about Mitt Romney’s rash of miscues during his recent overseas trip, like his questioning of British readiness for the Olympics. “Why is that controversial?” he asked during his Colbert Report monologue. “Every week, Hank Williams Jr. questioned…
Romney claims he never spoke about Palestinian culture
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (MA) is trying to walk back remarks he made yesterday in Israel, according to Talking Points Memo. In an interview with Fox News’s Carl Cameron, Romney insisted that his remarks were misunderstood, that he “did not speak about the Palestinian culture or about the…
Jon Stewart picks apart Romney’s Olympic gaffe
Dubbing it “London Galling,” Jon Stewart reviewed Mitt Romney’s awkward weekend in London on The Daily Show Monday, starting with Romney’s infamous interview with NBC’s Brian Williams where he said some things were “disconcerting” about the city’s preparations for the Olympic Games. “This is no time to display your sophisticated…
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