Politics

After conservative media outlets of Barack Obama speaking in 2007 on Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reported on a previously under-covered video of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) from last year.

Reacting to a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday by conservative columnist George Will, Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that he just might have a point about "Obama being an affirmative action hire."

Conservative allies Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham got into a debate on Tuesday morning's Fox & Friends over pundit Michael Savage, who O'Reilly called a "crazy right-wing talk-show host."

A tea party group in North Carolina is being criticized by local residents after it held a "machine gun social" to raise funds for conservative candidates.

On Tuesday morning's edition of "Fox and Friends," Scott Stapp, lead singer of the rock band Creed, announced that he is not voting for President Barack Obama in this fall's elections. The Florida-based rocker voted for Obama in 2008, but said that he now regrets it.

A Republican nominee for Congress is defending his decision to post a photo of his gun on Facebook along with the message, "Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. Obama."

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu on Tuesday blasted a poll that showed GOP hopeful Mitt Romney behind in New Hampshire by 15 points as a "piece of garbage."

Former Speaker of the House and erstwhile presidential candidate Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) accused President Barack Obama of having "almost a psychological need" to ignore "the realities of Islamic extremism."

Stephen Colbert started the week on The Colbert Report enraged at the "liberal hacks" at Fox News for their treatment of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday.

On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained why the Republican Party had halted its voter registration efforts in five major swing states.

MIT professor Noam Chomsky would vote for President Barack Obama if he lived in a swing state, but only to keep Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan out of the White House.

Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck says that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney's poll numbers have fallen as a part of a plan from God to make it obvious to the American people that divine intervention was responsible when Republicans take the White House in November.

As the Spanish government defends police response to anti-austerity protests surrounding the country's Parliament building, Russia Times and other outlets reported instances of police violence against both media members and demonstrators.