Last night, while Bill O'Reilly was theorizing that David Letterman may have gone sour on President Obama, the talk show host was a few blocks away, making fun of all of those wacky Republicans with Keith Olbermann. The two discussed Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally (which Olbermann hilariously posited was merely about restoring...
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One could argue that the only thing President Obama has going for his these days is the fact that the GOP can't seem to dig up a viable leader for their party. Or at least a leader who actually wants to run for election (as opposed to, say, ratings). Obama strategist David...
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According to the New York real estate website Curbed, Rachel Maddow and her partner have bought a new New York apartment from none other than REM's Michael Stipe. Located on Jane St. in the West Village they snagged the "two combined units" for $1.25 million, less than the $1.325 million...
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Happy Birthday, President Obama! Tomorrow, our 44th president turns 49, and Rush Limbaugh would really love to wish him many happy returns, sincerely. Actually, that's not true: This morning, Limbaugh refused to send good wishes to the President, because he doesn't believe tomorrow is his birthday, since "we haven't seen any proof of...
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I'm afraid I must agree with the learned, now-facially hirsute Jon Stewart: Nothing President Obama does will ever make his critics happy. In an appearance on The View, President Obama spoke with rare honesty about the issue of race, but got "Breitbarted" for his trouble. The media have gone into...
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Poor Rush Limbaugh! He is being forced to talk about the Shirley Sherrod even though he "hates" the story, he "despises" this story, he thinks it's a "distraction." Before you collapse from shock, here's why Limbaugh thinks it's a waste of his time.
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While President Obama may be trying to avoid diving into the racial fray right now, Rachel Maddow jumped right in last night. In a fairly devastating segment Maddow tied this week's Shirley Sherrod debacle to previous cases, dating back to the Sixties, of politicians and the media using "scare white...
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On his radio program yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took a segment to sing the praises of the recently deceased George Steinbrenner, a "cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires." It didn't take long for Al Sharpton to call for an apology and liberal websites to go on the offensive, and now Limbaugh...
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Rush Limbaugh's style is so often confrontational that it takes a few seconds to get used to him when he has nice things to say about the object of his commentary. Today, he had nothing but praise for the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a "cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires."
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to sue McDonald's into abandoning the Happy Meal. The group believes the toys in the meal are enticing children into eating potentially dangerous junk food; McDonald's, calling the suit "frivolous," has no intention of breaking tradition. But who are the "Center for Science...
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