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Limbaugh says Gov. Christie has 'man love' for Obama

Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's praise of President Barack Obama has been so effusive, he might just be going gay.

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Missouri Republican Party funds Akin ad featuring rape victim

The Missouri Republican Party is reportedly helping to fund a new ad for Rep. Todd Akin featuring a woman who says she survived rape and had an abortion.

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Fischer: 'Entitled' citizens will riot if Obama loses

Bryan Fischer, spokesperson and Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association, issued dire warnings about how "flash mobs" will riot if Obama loses the presidential election.

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Fox contributor in bear suit steals kids' Halloween candy to make 'point' about Obama

Showing up at a children's Halloween party in a bear costume and filming yourself stealing kids' candy is probably never a good way to win a political argument, but try telling that to conservative blogger and Fox News contributor Steven Crowder.

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Fox Business reporter: 'Mars wobbles' could be causing climate change

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sanday, a Fox Business stocks editor is pushing back on the notion that the super storm could have been caused by man-made climate change and suggests that it could have been related to "solar flares" or "Mars wobbles."

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O’Reilly producer interviews drunk partyers to gauge 'single lady' vote

It's no secret that women will be an important voting bloc next Tuesday when the nation goes to the polls to elect its next president. Wednesday on "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News's Bill O'Reilly wondered which way women will vote on November 6 and sent producer Jesse Watters to interview some young, single women voters.

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Romney: Seniors 'most likely' won't get to see doctor if Obama wins

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took his claim that President Barack Obama had stolen $716 billion from Medicare to the next level on Thursday and asserted that seniors "most likely" would not be able to see specialists if the president is re-elected.

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O'Reilly: Obama doesn't like Americans because blacks have 'grievance against whites'

With less than a week to go before election day, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is suggesting that the president of the United States doesn't like half of the country because African Americans have a "grievance against whites."

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Christian group fights Texas for banning 'Vote the Bible' shirt at polls

A Christian group in Texas is threatening to file a formal complaint with the Attorney General's office because a woman who lives near Austin was forced to cover up her "Vote the Bible" T-shirt after election officials suggested that it could be construed as illegal electioneering.

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Michael Moore slams CNN's Sandy coverage to Piers Morgan

Filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on Piers Morgan's CNN show, "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Wednesday and told the host that he thought that CNN's coverage of Hurricane Sandy was badly done. The network, he said, needs fewer "reporters standing in waist-high water, seeing if they're going to be blown over" and more "real reporting."

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NASA scientist: Candidates cowed by fossil fuel industry cash

Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies said Wednesday that climate change was not discussed in the 2012 presidential campaign because both parties were intimidated by the fossil fuel industry.

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Gov. Christie: 'I cannot thank the President enough'

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican once touted as a possible running mate for Mitt Romney, on Wednesday continued to praise President Barack Obama for the federal government's disaster relief efforts.

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Chris Matthews calls climate change deniers 'pigs'

Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” said that Hurricane Sandy is proof that climate change is real and called its deniers “pigs” in a highly charged segment on Tuesday.

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