Watch The Comedic Stylings Of Two World Leaders Bomb In Succession
A lame joke about cricket is met with a lame joke about baseball. The proverbial tumbleweed bounces through a joint press conference with Obama and Cameron.
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Obama Gets Mad, Again
On Monday, a frustrated Obama weighs in on IRS and Benghazi.
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Obama Slams IRS For Allegedly Targeting Tea Party Groups: "Outrageous"
“I have got no patience with it, I will not tolerate it, and we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this,” says the president.
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Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Know What A Smartphone Is
Newt Gingrich doesn’t know what a smartphone is and he made a video to talk about it. Below is an moment by moment breakdown.
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Clinton Loyalists Watch Ready For Hillary PAC Warily
Some former Clinton aides and fundraisers deride Ready for Hillary as an amateurish group of posers, but the PAC is gaining steam. “What, who are these people? These people are untested.”
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Museum Drops Hamas Honor After Criticism From Jewish Groups
The Newseum hard at first argued that other groups consider two slain cameramen journalists. “A dark day,” says the ADL. [Updated]
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Dennis Kucinich Slams Obama Administration On Benghazi: "I’m Offended By This"
The progressive former Congressman hit the Obama Administration for their Libyan policy and for their response to the attack.
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Pro-Israel Group Sees “Same Conduct” In IRS’s Tea Party Campaign
Z Street charged in 2010 that the Obama Administration was persecuting it for its policy views. Does Israel activism “contradict the Administration’s public policies?” an IRS agent allegedly asked.
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Socialist Occupy Movement Writer Inspired Syrians To Hack ‘The Onion’
No sense of humor.
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Zambia Could Become The Next Uganda On LGBT Rights
The situation for LGBT people in the southern African country has rapidly deteriorated in the past month. “At this point, we need all the help that we can get from the international community,” an activist says.
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Bush Press Secretary Pans White House Press Team For Friday Blunders
A carefully constructed news day at the White House careens off course. Fleischer says Carney brought the pain on himself for “throwing gasoline on a fire.”
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Susan Rice Barely Discussed The Possibility That Al-Qaeda Was Involved In Benghazi When She Was On Sunday Shows
The White House press secretary said Susan Rice discussed the possibility that al-Qaeda might be involved in the Sept. 11 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi. But outside of a brief mention on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rice mostly did not discuss the involvement of al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda affiliates.
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Jason Richwine Resigns From Heritage Foundation
A spokesman for the D.C. think tank said Friday that the immigration expert “decided to resign” after week of controversy.
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Jay Carney Invokes Mitt Romney To Slam Republicans’ Response To Benghazi
The White House press secretary used the former Republican presidential nominee’s response to Benghazi as a way to attack Republicans for allegedly politicizing of the September 11th Benghazi terrorist attacks.
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Watch The State Department Spokesperson Who Asked For Talking Points Edits Defend Susan Rice
The briefing was on September 17th, the day after Rice’s sunday show appearances.
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The Time President Obama Made An Auditing Joke
President Obama was giving the commencement address at Arizona State University in 2009 where he joked about auditing the president of ASU and their board of regents . The IRS apologized today for unfairly targetingTea Party groups with extra scrutiny about their tax status.
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CNN’s New Morning Show Promo Is Basically A Target Commercial
Where have you heard this jingle before?
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"Star InfoWars" Is The Funniest Thing Political Nerds Will See This Week
Emperor Palpatine was a member of the Bilderberg Group.
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Tea Party Leader Demands Apology From Obama For IRS Targeting
Tea Partiers and conservatives howled last year they were being targeted by the IRS. Turns out they were right. A campaign watchdog calls the revelation “troubling.”
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Republicans Ask: Where Is John Boehner?
Worried rank-and-file Republicans say the speaker seems to be “a bit checked out” as new legislative battles loom. His allies say he’s working behind the scenes to move the conference forward.
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Think Tank Could Pull Event From Newseum Over Hamas Memorial
“I know the difference between a reporter and a terrorist propagandist,” May says.
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Hillary Clinton To Speak At Hamilton College’s "Great Names" Lecture
Attendance will be free and open to the public. Clinton’s husband gave the same lecture at the upstate New York school nearly ten years ago.
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Here’s Video Of Another Time The Heritage Analyst Said Blacks and Hispanics Have Lower IQs
Jason Richwine, a senior policy analyst at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and co-author of a controversial report on the economic costs of immigration reform, said at a 2008 event that the “most important way” race was different was in IQ. He made similar comments in a 2009 PhD dissertation, which have received attention this week.
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Five Ways America Has Changed Since Obama Announced His Support For Marriage Equality
From Washington state to Washington, DC, and from the Rhode Island statehouse to the Supreme Court of the United States, the country is very different from just last May.
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Minnesota House Passes Marriage Equality Bill, 75-59
The Senate will vote and is expected to pass the bill Monday, and Gov. Mark Dayton has said he will sign it. Minnesota would be the 12th state, plus DC, with marriage equality.
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Heritage Immigration Implosion Could Pull In More Anti-Immigration Scholarship
Conservatives face questions over the people they’re relying on to support their opposition to immigration reform. One says Hispanics have a lower IQ than “native white Americans.” Another says pregnant women shouldn’t be allowed in the US.
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The Government Is Selling THE REAL Air Force One Online For Only $50,000
Flew multiple presidents for +30 years.
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Schumer Refuses To Say Whether He’ll Vote For Same-Sex Couples’ Protections In Immigration Bill
Sen. Chuck Schumer says while he strongly supports protections for same-sex couples, his “Republican colleagues feel very strongly that if this is in the bill they would not be able to support it.”
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Rachel Maddow In 2006: “I Want The Next President To Be Like George W. Bush”
From the book, Air America: The Playbook: What a Bunch of Left Wing Media Types have to Teach you about a World Gone Right.
