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Bill O'Reilly rips Bachmann for 'crazy' rant about Obama's dog walker

Conservative Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday blasted Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for "obscuring" important issues by falsely claiming that President Barack Obama had someone designated to walk his dog.

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West Virginia paper's anti-LGBT column wants death for 'n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops'

A newspaper in West Virginia is defending its decision to publish a reader's racist and homophobic comments, which called for "queers" to be put to death along with "n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops."

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Jimmy Fallon to replace Leno as NBC's 'Tonight Show' moves to New York

NBC has committed to moving The Tonight Show to New York and replacing longtime host Jay Leno with current Late Night host Jimmy Fallon.

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Texas state senator: Close abortion clinics because sometimes men have anal bleeding

A Texas state senator said Tuesday that she supports a bill which would force nearly all of the state's abortion clinics to close, namely because if a man ever suffers from anal bleeding after a colonoscopy, trained surgeons are needed to help him.

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Pastor Hagee: Sodom and Gomorrah was 'God's pilot study' for judging 'homosexual society'

Conservative Pastor John Hagee on Tuesday explained that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Bible says that God destroyed by fire, was a "pilot study" in how to deal with "homosexual society."

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Christian radio host: 'God guided' History Channel to prove Obama is Satan

A Christian radio host who is dedicated to covering the Second Coming of Jesus Christ says that "God guided" the History Channel to create a Satan character that resembled President Barack Obama.

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Virginia gubernatorial candidate slammed for linking slavery and abortion in speech

Virginia Attorney General and presumptive gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R) was soundly criticized by both state Democrats and reproductive health advocates following the release of a 2012 speech in which he compared the fight to abolish slavery with anti-abortion policies.

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Rand Paul aborts his own pro-life views live on CNN

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on CNN's "Situation Room" Tuesday evening to discuss the Life at Conception Act, but he ended up surprising the political world by floating a seemingly pro-choice argument.

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'Morning Joe' sorry for editing Pelosi to falsely claim she wanted Iraq invasion

The hosts MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday apologized after selectively editing a clip of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to suggest that she had wanted President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.

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Priebus: Obama won women because Republicans lost the 'emotional' vote

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday continued his effort to reach out to minorities and women voters by suggesting that his party had failed to win over "cultural" and "emotional" voters in 2012.

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Maddow to Rumsfeld: Talk about reflux, gardening, boils, anything but Iraq

On Tuesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed how, ten years after the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. and the media are still struggling to come to terms with exactly how the nation was led to war on such flimsy evidence and who to blame for the resulting mess.

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Fox News guest: Gun background checks for mental illness will include abortions

A Fox News guest on Tuesday warned that a Democratic plan to expand gun background checks would allow the Ku Klux Klan to control black people and keep firearms out of the hands of women who had an abortion.

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Ed Schultz calls Politico 'nothing but a bunch of freaking whores'

Finally freed from his weekday job at MSNBC, progressive radio host Ed Schultz brandished a particular bitterness toward Washington D.C. insider website Politico on Tuesday, calling them "nothing but a bunch of freaking whores" over a report claiming his split from the network was not voluntary.

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