HUFFINGTON POST, August 30, 2012 -- Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential candidate repeated ...
Posted Thursday, August 30th 2012 at 10:59AM
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MEDIA MATTERS, August 29, 2012 -- ROLAND MARTIN (CNN contributor): Just curious -- how do you deal with folks who lie? So, for instance, I heard one of the women say, "Oh my God, taxes have gone up." You look at the stimulus bill, actually, 40 perce ...
Posted Wednesday, August 29th 2012 at 8:32PM
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HARDBALL, August 29, 2012 -- Hours after Hurricane Isaac hammered its way through New Orleans on the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Melissa Harris-Perry tweeted that her new home had been destroyed by the storm.
Harris-Perry and her ...
Posted Wednesday, August 29th 2012 at 7:34PM
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 27, 2012 -- Unpopular with minorities, Romney targets the white vote. Rachel talks with columnist Bob Herbert about how Romney's path to victory means he has to increase white voter turnout.
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Posted Tuesday, August 28th 2012 at 5:14PM
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HARDBALL, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews discusses GOP playing the race card to stir up old racial resentments among white voters with former GOP chairman MIchael Steele and analyst Howard Fineman.
Feisty debate on accuracy of Romney ads clai ...
Posted Tuesday, August 28th 2012 at 10:28AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 27, 2012 -- As the Republican convention gets underway today in Tampa, we can expect to hear the politicians and delegates gathered there--including GOP nominee Mitt Romney--rail against "ObamaCare", insisting that what we nee ...
Posted Monday, August 27th 2012 at 11:10AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 27, 2012 -- Chris Matthews exploded at Reince Priebus on Monday's "Morning Joe," tearing into the Republican National Committee chairman and accusing his party of playing the race card.
The MSNBC host was livid over Mitt Ro ...
Posted Monday, August 27th 2012 at 10:55AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 25, 2012 -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The even ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 2:09PM
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SLATE, August 24, 2012 -- Larry Wilmore is most recognizable these days as a “senior black correspondent” on The Daily Show. He was also a writer, producer, and occasional guest star on The Office—and he won an Emmy for The Bernie Mac Show, whi ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 11:14AM
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POLITICO, August 22, 2012 -- President Barack Obama continues to beat Mitt Romney among African American voters with a staggering 94 percent to 0 percent lead, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — which gives ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 10:47AM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 19, 2012 -- Earlier today, Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) claimed that “legitimate rape” does not often lead to pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
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Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 8:56AM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 20, 2012 -- Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin (R-MO) and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan both cosponsored the bill that introduced America to the despicable term “forcible ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 8:55AM
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HARDBALL, MSNBC, August 21, 2012 – Chris Matthews talks to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on what can be done about recent voter suppression laws that would disenfranchise thousands in November. ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:56PM
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By Benjamin Todd Jealous, HUFFINGTON POST, August 22, 2012 -- "To him, your celebration is a sham; ... your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...."
In 1852, Frederick Douglas spoke these words to express the sentiments of the American Sl ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:55PM
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By Harold Meyerson, WASHINGTON P OST, July 24, 2012 -- Suppose Mitt Romney ekes out a victory in November by a margin smaller than the number of young and minority voters who couldn’t cast ballots because the photo-identification laws enacted by Re ...
Posted Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 at 3:54PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 21, 2012 -- Gabby Douglas' historic Olympic performance has turned her into America's new golden girl. She's on cereal boxes, murals are being painted in her honor and she's practically BFF with First Lady Michelle Obama. Need ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 4:10PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 18, 2012 -- When Congressman Paul Ryan has been asked the past few years about the value of stimulus to the sagging economy and the nation's jobless, the Wisconsin Republican has dismissed it as meaningless, and dubbed it "sug ...
Posted Sunday, August 19th 2012 at 12:48PM
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CNN, August 15, 2012 -- Soledad O'Brien got into a heated shouting match with Romney surrogate John Sununu on Tuesday, and she's slapping back his claims about Medicare.
The CNN host and Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire, clashed over t ...
Posted Friday, August 17th 2012 at 11:18AM
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POLITIFACT, December 10, 2011 -- Medicare, the health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, constitutes a massive and growing share of federal spending. Yet Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that in the more than four decad ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 11:08AM
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SALON, August 14, 2012 -- As Democrats go on the Medicare offensive after Mitt Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of the GOP’s Medicare-transforming budget, to be his vice-presidential nominee, Romney has fired back with with a predictable br ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 10:59AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 13, 2012 — Gabby Douglas admitted indulging in post-Olympics fast food to the wrong person: First lady and healthy eating advocate Michelle Obama, who teased the gymnastics champion.
"You're setting me back, Gabby," Obama ...
Posted Monday, August 13th 2012 at 8:50PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 13, 2012 -- Now that Mitt Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, Ryan’s radical budget constitutes Romney’s economic platform. The Ryan-Romney budget is based on a number of false and dangerous notions ...
Posted Monday, August 13th 2012 at 7:01PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, August 12, 2012 -- As Mitt Romney stood before the USS Wisconsin Saturday morning, months of speculation about how far the presumptive Republican presidential nominee might go to court Latino voters came to an end.
Rep. Paul Ryan, ...
Posted Sunday, August 12th 2012 at 6:19PM
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THINK PROGRESS, August 11, 2012 -- Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate 42 year-old Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as “the most extreme budget plan passed by a ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 11:14AM
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