HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- American politics either peaked or hit a nadir on Friday afternoon, depending on one's perspective.
A mock presidential rally held by a comedian, Stephen Colbert, and an ex-candidate accused of serial sexual ha ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 9:43PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert appeared on Friday's "Morning Joe" for a raucous, hilarious chat with the MSNBC show's hosts.
Appearing live in South Carolina, Colbert had the audience eating out of his hand from the very star ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 12:25PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 20, 2012 -- u, After a brief update on how well his pal Stephen Colbert is doing in the South Carolina polls, Jon Stewart got back to mocking the more traditional presidential candidates -- specifically Newt Gingrich -- on Th ...
Posted Friday, January 20th 2012 at 12:05PM
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THINK PROGRESS, January 19, 2012 -- A new PPP poll confirms what many have long suspected — that many Americans get their news from sources that hew to their pre-existing beliefs.
But this phenomenon was not balanced on both sides of the ideologic ...
Posted Thursday, January 19th 2012 at 12:31PM
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FACTCHECK.ORG, January 18, 2012 -- Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figu ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 9:49PM
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Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remembers jazz great Louis Armstrong traveling the world as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department.
Decades later, Abdul-Jabbar will do something similar.
Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Cl ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 8:06PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart's grand experiment in using satire as a political weapon continued Tuesday night on "The Daily Show," when the "Colbert Report" host dropped by to "not coordinate" with Stewart on h ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 12:12PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 18, 2012 -- Al Sharpton blasted Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, accusing the presidential candidate of using "racial demagoguery" to win votes in the contentious South Carolina primary.
Gingrich's highly charged exchange with Ju ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 12:01PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 16, 2012 -- How Stephen Colbert has managed to pierce the veil of dullness to actually demonstrate -- in an electrifying way -- just how dangerous and corrupt the current system of political campaign financing has become. He ...
Posted Monday, January 16th 2012 at 11:55AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 15, 2012 -- A fake run for president is nothing without fake attack ads, and "Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" is wasting no time in getting it's hysterical message out to South Carolinians.
In a ...
Posted Sunday, January 15th 2012 at 11:34AM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 14, 2012 -- Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about ra ...
Posted Saturday, January 14th 2012 at 9:25PM
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ALTERNET, January 13, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has once again used his comedic genius to expose the absurdity of politics, all the while testing just how far a comedian can make it in an election that is just as much a circus as the Colbert Report.
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Posted Saturday, January 14th 2012 at 10:14AM
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TRUTHOUT, January 12, 2012 -- Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South. She previously served on the facu ...
Posted Thursday, January 12th 2012 at 2:09PM
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Sean Hannity and Prof. Cornel West had a lively discussion about Herman Cain and President Obama on Hannity's Wednesday show. While the chat wasn't as explosive as West's epic conversation with Bill O'Reilly, things got pretty heated at times.
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Posted Thursday, January 12th 2012 at 11:54AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- "Rick Santorum offends black people. Gays, take the day off."
Rick Santorum has been defending allegations that he made a nakedly racist comment during a campaign stop in Iowa two days before the caucus.
The ...
Posted Wednesday, January 11th 2012 at 9:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 10, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry talked about her upcoming MSNBC show and her new book about stereotypes of black women on Monday's "Colbert Report."
When Colbert raised the subject of her new show, Harris-Perry specified ...
Posted Wednesday, January 11th 2012 at 8:56PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, JANUARY 5, 2012 -- Mitt Romney still says he’s unlikely to publicly release his tax information, even if he clinches the Republican presidential nomination, and Democrats have a pretty good idea why.
Romney is a privileged pos ...
Posted Sunday, January 8th 2012 at 10:29PM
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POLITIFACT, January 7, 2012 -- In a busy weekend before Tuesday's Jan. 10, 2012, New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates argued for the right to run against President Barack Obama in back-to-back televised debates.
But they didn't always do i ...
Posted Sunday, January 8th 2012 at 10:28PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- A bizarre incident took place during the 60 Minutes interview with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on New Year's Day: When Leslie Stahl asked Rep. Cantor whether he would be willing to compromise with Pres ...
Posted Saturday, January 7th 2012 at 8:28PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 7, 2012 -- The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills that said in response, "No, you pee in the cup."
One of the most ...
Posted Saturday, January 7th 2012 at 8:05PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, January 7, 2012 -- That didn’t take long.
As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage.
You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predi ...
Posted Saturday, January 7th 2012 at 2:48PM
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THINK PROGRESS, January 6, 2012 -- The Republican Party’s dogmatic Islamophobia is increasingly self-destructive. With the majority of rank-and-file Republicans insisting that Muslims innately pose a threat to American society, Muslim Republicans are ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2012 at 4:46PM
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THE DAILY SHOW, January 5, 2012 -- Nezar Hamze is a Florida businessman and Conservative Republican. His hero: Ronald Reagan. Recently, he was barred from the Broward County GOP because...he is a devout Muslim.
Jason Jones interviews Republican ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2012 at 1:34PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, January 5, 2012 -- In one of those random, pleasant, only-in-new-york moments guaranteed to make you smile, watch as a woman playing the ukelele, and a bongo player (apparently strangers) spontaneously collaborate on the train while ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 4:51PM
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