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THE DAILY SHOW, June 21, 2011--In his recent debate with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Stewart said that "Fox News viewers are the most consistently misinformed media viewers." On his show last night,

THE LAST WORD, MSNBC, June 21, 2011--"You cut taxes and tax revenues increase." President George W. Bush. Do Tax Cuts INCREASE the amount of money the government receives in taxes? This proposit

HUFFINGTON POST, June 21, 2011 — A healthy-looking Nelson Mandela met with Michelle Obama and her daughters on Tuesday, an unexpected encounter between the first lady and the former South African pres

Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornings You're g

MSNBC, June 20, 2011--Two years ago, Glenn Beck's manufactured crusade against activist Van Jones cost the White House advisor his job in the Obama administration. Now, with Beck about to lose his jo

Bruce Springsteen famously said of Clarence Clemons, "You want to be like him, but you can't." That about sums it up. Here is a very funny and thoughtful interview Jon Stewart did with him in 2009

By JUAN WILLIAMS for FOX NEWS, June 19, 2011—Last week the First Husband and First Daddy, better known as President Obama, was asked if losing next year’s election would devastate him. “I’m sure

NEW YORK TIMES, June 18, 2011--Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, whose jovial onstage manner, soul-rooted style and brotherly relationship with Mr. Springsteen ma

POLITICO, June 17, 2911—A federal judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. Such requests are procedural and routine in case wher

HUFFINGTON POST, June 17, 2011--Saudi Arabian “freedom drivers” plan to take to the streets Friday -- in their cars. It’s the official start of theWomen2Drive campaign, in which some Saudi women inten

NEW YORK TIMES, June 15, 2011--She was born in a mud hut in an isolated hamlet in Africa with no electricity or running water, a 10-minute hike to the nearest road. Unschooled, she was married off to

By DAVID S. REYNOLDS, NEW YORK TIMES, June 14, 2011—The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housew

CNN's Don Lemon asked Republican presidential candidate if he has any gay friends on Monday. Lemon, who publicly revealed he is gay in May, was speaking to Santorum in New Hampshire ahead of CNN's

NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 2011--The Arab Spring is inching its way into Saudi Arabia — in the cars of fully veiled drivers. On the surface, when a group of Saudi women used Facebook, Twitter and You

NEW YORK TIMES, June 12, 2011—Author of GROWING UP BIN LADEN: OSAMA’S WIFE AND SON TAKE US INSIDE THEIR SECRET WORLD by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Jean Sasson, answers questions. Q: Wh

HUFFINGTON POST, June 11, 2011— Since his retirement as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has become one of the world's most prominent figures ple

POLITIFACT, June 3, 2011—The Democrats’ massive stimulus program passed two years ago was a dud, according to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. "They (Democrats) passed a nearly $1 trillion stim

THINK PROGRESS, June 5, 2011--As ThinkProgress reported, during a June 2 stop in Boston on her “One Nation” bus tour, Sarah Palin managed to spectacularly flub the historical account of Paul Revere’s

TALKING POINTS MEMO, June 3, 2011--In what is somehow “not a publicity seeking tour,” Tea Party maven Sarah Palin is traipsing around the nation’s historic landmarks in her “One Nation” bus to “take A

POLITICO, June 5, 2011—The push to rig the 2012 presidential election is under way. There’s nothing illegal about it: Across the country, state legislatures are embroiled in partisan battles over e

"One is reminded of Patrick Henry's courageous cry, 'Give me liberty and I don't want liberty.'" The thing that makes a story like Anthony Weiner's alleged, uh, johnson, so captivating is that it's

NEW YORK TIMES, June 3, 2011—Theologians and clergy members of every religious stripe may debate the existence of God until the cows come home. But as demonstrated by “Rejoice and Shout,” Don McGlynn’

MSNBC, June 2, 2011--For a second, it seemed like our TV might have to be adjusted, but that really was Al Sharpton filling in for Ed Schultz on Thursday night. Sharpton has been an increasingly fr

NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 2011—Woe to the politician who claims to be fiscally responsible, in touch with regular folk, and turns out to have some pricey habits. Think Newt Gingrich and Tiffany, John Ed

For all the inexplicable things Donald Trump has done in the past, none sent Jon Stewart over the edge quite like the way he ate pizza alongside Sarah Palin. On The Daily Show Wednesday night, Stew