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Former NFL player: I should have revealed I was gay while playing

Former National Football League (NFL) player Wade Davis has come out publicly to reveal that he is gay, and shared with CNN Wednesday morning that he should have revealed it during his playing career. Davis, who played for Tennessee, Seattle, and Washington D.C. in his brief NFL career from 2000-2004,…

Allen West: Nugent has no ‘ill will’ toward Obama

Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Thursday defended conservative rocker Ted Nugent after he got the Secret Service’s attention by saying that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) should defeat President Barack Obama and other Democrats and “chop their heads off in November.” During an interview on…

Romney: Obama trying to ‘bribe the voters’ with benefits

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of trying to “bribe the voters” with benefits and “checks from government.” During his victory speech following the Nevada caucuses, the candidate told a crowd of supporters that voters shouldn’t expect a “free ticket” when he is president. “I…

Romney: I ‘misspoke’ about the poor

A day after insisting that the media had taken his comments about not being concerned for the poor out of context, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shifted positions on Thursday, claiming he simply “misspoke.” On Monday, Romney had told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he wasn’t running for president to help…

Maddow: Republicans nominating ‘Thurston Howell’ for president

On Wednesday on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney announced to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he’s “not concerned about the very poor” because they have a “safety net” in our society. On Wednesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel put the remark in context…which is to say that she noted how…

Bachmann tells CNN’s O’Brien her ‘gotcha questions are bizarre’

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien probably won’t go down as Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) favorite interviewer anytime soon. The fading GOP presidential candidate was not impressed by O’Brien wanting to discuss her positions on social issues Tuesday morning, labeling them “gotcha questions.” “You said, at the Educators Conference in 2004, ‘Gays live…

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