Last night's "Saturday Night Live" was full of great impressions, starting right away with the cold opening. Abby Elliot broke out her spot-on Rachel Maddow in a sketch where she interviews John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and embattled Rep. Charles Rangel ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 10:03PM
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Last night's "Saturday Night Live" did one of the best parodies of the controversial TSA pat-downs yet, turning flyers' fears of unwanted touch into a commercial for a sensual experience. What starts out looking like a sex hotline or escort service a ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 9:51PM
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POPE BENEDICT XVI: “IT IS THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF NATIONS TO GUARANTEE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OF THEIR CITIZENS REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OR THEIR ABILITY TO PAY.”
At an international papal conference on health care ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 10:59AM
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MADISON, Wis. — A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said.
Steven Cowan, 67, was arre ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:11PM
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Democrats still searching for a silver lining to the waxing they took last Tuesday can cheer up a bit. According to a new poll, the public may already be experiencing a bit of buyer’s remorse about the choices they’ve made, and Republicans seem t ...
Posted Saturday, November 13th 2010 at 12:27PM
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IN ONE INSTANCE, BUSH RELATES THE POIGNANT DETAILS OF A MEETING BETWEEN AFGHAN PRESIDENT KARZAI AND A TAJIK WARLORD ON KARZAI’S INAUGURATION DAY. EXCEPT BUSH DIDN’T WITNESS IT BECAUSE HE WASN’T THERE.
When Crown Publishing inked a deal wi ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 9:34PM
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Middle School football in Texas. One team performs this amazing trick play and scores. What do you think? Fair or foul? ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 11:16AM
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LEGENDARY MUSIC ICON QUINCY JONES VISITED THE COLBERT REPORT AND SHARED HIS WONDERFUL STORIES ABOUT WORKING WITH MUSIC GIANTS LIKE RAY CHARLES AND SINATRA AND HIS GRAND NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH LUCILLE BALL ON ONE ARM AND LORETTA YOUNG ON THE OTHER. ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 9:35AM
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Rachel Maddow, Nov. 9, 2010—IT WAS CALLED THE “SAVE OUR STATE” AMENDMENT TO THE OKLAHMOMA CONSTITUTION. SAVE OUR STATE FROM WHAT? FROM SHARIA LAW.
Munir Awad, council of American-Islamic Relations, talks with Rachel about the lawsuit challe ...
Posted Thursday, November 11th 2010 at 9:53AM
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The votes are (mostly) counted. The Republicans have clearly and decisively won. But did the Democrats actually lose?
They lost the election, certainly. And many of them lost their jobs. But the point of legislating isn’t job security. It’s le ...
Posted Saturday, November 6th 2010 at 11:11AM
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POLITICIANS AND PRESIDENTS HAVE TRIED AND FIALED FOR DECADES TO ENACT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. THIS TIME THEY SUCCEEDED. THEY WEREN’T GOING TO GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. IT COST THEM A MAJORITY—BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.
D ...
Posted Saturday, November 6th 2010 at 10:53AM
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On Thursday's "AC360," Anderson Cooper debunked the false story about the supposedly enormous price tag for President Obama's ten-day tour of Asia, and slammed conservative politicians and pundits for spreading the myth.
Cooper opened his show by ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 2:10PM
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Like any team that loses, even dethroned champions, they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get right back into it. There is another vote in two years.
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Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 11:18AM
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Rachel Maddow and historian Michael Beschloss take a long look back at the historic accomplishments of the Democratic Congress. They showed they valued policy over politics.
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Posted Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 at 4:01PM
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WASHINGTON, October 29, 2010 -- There may be something rotten at McDonald's -- and it's not a year-old Happy Meal.
The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees' paychecks that threatened lower wages and benefits if R ...
Posted Friday, October 29th 2010 at 7:46PM
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“MR. PROFITT: YOU HAVE ASKED THAT I APOLOGIZE TO YOU. THIS IS NOT THE APOLOGY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BUT I DO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. YOU AND I ARE BOTH HUMAN BEINGS AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THESE TWO FACTS, TO ME, ARE FAR MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THE LAB ...
Posted Friday, October 29th 2010 at 7:42PM
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Midterm elections are an embarrassment of riches for fact-checkers — this year more than others. With Democrats fighting desperately to keep control of the House and Senate, and a torrent of money from corporations and other undisclosed, unaccounta ...
Posted Thursday, October 28th 2010 at 11:39AM
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I confess, I find it dispiriting to read the polls and see candidates, mostly Republicans, leading in various midterm races while promoting many of the very same ideas that got us into this mess. Am I hearing right?
Let’s have more tax cuts, unl ...
Posted Thursday, October 28th 2010 at 11:34AM
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An off-duty police officer who got into a shootout with an armed robber as the officer was getting her hair done in a beauty salon in Brooklyn on Saturday night shot the gunman’s revolver out of his hands, police officials said on Monday.
A susp ...
Posted Tuesday, October 26th 2010 at 10:36PM
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Jon Stewart and his news team talked about the controversy surrounding Juan Williams' firing from NPR over his comments about Muslims. Samantha Bee explained that the comments were "direct violations of NPRs 'never say anything interesting' policy."
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Posted Tuesday, October 26th 2010 at 10:28PM
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A TROUBLING SIGN FOR DEMOCRATS HEADING INTO THE ELECTION IS THE TAX CUTS THEY PASSED HAVE LARGELY GONE UNNOTICED. IN A RECENT POLL FEWER THAN 1 IN 10 KNEW THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAD LOWERED TAXES FOR MOST AMERICANS.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. ...
Posted Monday, October 25th 2010 at 9:57PM
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RACHEL MADDOW: One of the unusual, unexplained things about this year's election is the absence of "Macaca' moments. There have been a lot of times when candidates say extreme things about race. But this year they really haven't suffered any negati ...
Posted Friday, October 22nd 2010 at 12:59PM
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NPR’s decision on Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel’s decision on Thursday to give him a new contract put into sharp relief the two forms of journalism that compete every day for Americans’ attention.
Mr. Williams’s NPR ...
Posted Friday, October 22nd 2010 at 12:40PM
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