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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- American politics either peaked or hit a nadir on Friday afternoon, depending on one's perspective. A mock presidential rally held by a comedian, Stephen Colber

HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert appeared on Friday's "Morning Joe" for a raucous, hilarious chat with the MSNBC show's hosts. Appearing live in South Carolina, Colbert had the

HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- u, After a brief update on how well his pal Stephen Colbert is doing in the South Carolina polls, Jon Stewart got back to mocking the more traditional presidential

THINK PROGRESS, January 19, 2012 -- A new PPP poll confirms what many have long suspected — that many Americans get their news from sources that hew to their pre-existing beliefs. But this phenomen

FACTCHECK.ORG, January 18, 2012 -- Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush t

Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remembers jazz great Louis Armstrong traveling the world as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Decades later, Abdul-Jabbar will do something sim

HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart's grand experiment in using satire as a political weapon continued Tuesday night on "The Daily Show," when the "Colbert Report" hos

HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Al Sharpton blasted Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, accusing the presidential candidate of using "racial demagoguery" to win votes in the contentious South Carolina prim

HUFFINGTON POST, January 16, 2012 -- How Stephen Colbert has managed to pierce the veil of dullness to actually demonstrate -- in an electrifying way -- just how dangerous and corrupt the current syst

HUFFINGTON POST, January 15, 2012 -- A fake run for president is nothing without fake attack ads, and "Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" is wasting no time in getting it's hy

NEW YORK TIMES, January 14, 2012 -- Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Amon

ALTERNET, January 13, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has once again used his comedic genius to expose the absurdity of politics, all the while testing just how far a comedian can make it in an election that

TRUTHOUT, January 12, 2012 -- Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politi

Sean Hannity and Prof. Cornel West had a lively discussion about Herman Cain and President Obama on Hannity's Wednesday show. While the chat wasn't as explosive as West's epic conversation with Bill

HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- "Rick Santorum offends black people. Gays, take the day off." Rick Santorum has been defending allegations that he made a nakedly racist comment during a campai

HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry talked about her upcoming MSNBC show and her new book about stereotypes of black women on Monday's "Colbert Report." When Colbert raised th

TALKING POINTS MEMO, JANUARY 5, 2012 -- Mitt Romney still says he’s unlikely to publicly release his tax information, even if he clinches the Republican presidential nomination, and Democrats have a p

POLITIFACT, January 7, 2012 -- In a busy weekend before Tuesday's Jan. 10, 2012, New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates argued for the right to run against President Barack Obama in back-to-back

HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- A bizarre incident took place during the 60 Minutes interview with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on New Year's Day: When Leslie Stahl asked Rep. Cantor w

HUFFINGTON POST, January 7, 2012 -- The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills that said in resp

NEW YORK TIMES, January 7, 2012 -- That didn’t take long. As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You

THINK PROGRESS, January 6, 2012 -- The Republican Party’s dogmatic Islamophobia is increasingly self-destructive. With the majority of rank-and-file Republicans insisting that Muslims innately pose a

THE DAILY SHOW, January 5, 2012 -- Nezar Hamze is a Florida businessman and Conservative Republican. His hero: Ronald Reagan. Recently, he was barred from the Broward County GOP because...he is a d

HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- In one of those random, pleasant, only-in-new-york moments guaranteed to make you smile, watch as a woman playing the ukelele, and a bongo player (apparently strang