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, Stewart changed his tune.
"As it turns out," ...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 11:13AM
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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 proposition is now a Republican article of faith.
Her ...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 9:02AM
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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 president and anti-apartheid icon who has largely re ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 2:13PM
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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 going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your w ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 8:53AM
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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 job at FOX NEWS, Van Jones has challenged him to deb ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 8:43AM
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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 upon the release of Clemons' book, "Big Man: Real ...
Posted Monday, June 20th 2011 at 9:09AM
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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 there are days when I say one term is enou ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 11:57AM
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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 made him one of rock’s most beloved sidemen, die ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 11:06PM
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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 where defendants named in indictment die.
The ord ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 10:36AM
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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 intend to ignore threats of arrest and reactionar ...
Posted Friday, June 17th 2011 at 11:10AM
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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 a distant cousin as a teenager, had a daughter and ...
Posted Wednesday, June 15th 2011 at 8:19AM
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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 housewife with six children, who suffered from various ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 9:58PM
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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 GOP debate on Monday night. Santorum is well known ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 2:30PM
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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 YouTube to organize a mass mobile protest defying t ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:06PM
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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: Why did Omar bin Laden, Osama’s fourth son, ch ...
Posted Sunday, June 12th 2011 at 11:57AM
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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 pleading for a change in the attitudes of religious ...
Posted Saturday, June 11th 2011 at 9:47PM
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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 stimulus bill which failed to get people back to w ...
Posted Monday, June 6th 2011 at 10:25PM
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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 famed “Midnight Ride.”
Describing Re ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 7:53PM
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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 Americans back to their roots.”
Y ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 7:49PM
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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 election-law changes that, by design or effect, ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 11:05AM
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"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 very easy to understand. Say the phrase "debt cei ...
Posted Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 11:15AM
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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’s documentary history of African-American ...
Posted Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 11:02AM
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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 frequent guest on Schultz's show, but it was still s ...
Posted Friday, June 3rd 2011 at 10:30AM
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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 Edwards and haircuts, Sarah Palin and clothes — ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:25PM
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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, Stewart became apoplectic while reacting to Trump and ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:12PM
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