THINK PROGRESS, November 22, 2011 -- Mitt Romney released his first campaign ad, which quotes President Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” But those weren’t Obama’s words; he was quoting a strategist for Sen. J ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 9:29AM
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POLITIFACT, November 23, 2011 -- On the eve of a presidential trip to New Hampshire on Nov. 22, 2011, Mitt Romney’s campaign released an ad targeting President Barack Obama. In the ad, the Romney campaign used a quote that prompted an immediate count ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 9:01AM
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THE LAST WORD, November 22, 2011 — Lawrence O'Donnell piled on Mitt Romney during his Tuesday show, saying the GOP presidential candidate had told a flat-out lie in his first television ad of the 2012 campaign.
Romney drew fire for the ad, which ...
Posted Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 at 12:38PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, November 23, 2011 — Democrats reacted ferociously on Tuesday to Mitt Romney’s first campaign commercial, which they said distorted comments by Barack Obama to make it look as if he was running away from his record on the economy.
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Posted Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 at 12:31PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, November 20, 2011 -- Although it seems extremely unlikely that Will Smith's "Just The Two Of Us" was written to score this brief video of Robinho, a forward for A.C. Milan, playing soccer with his son at his team's training complex, ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 12:52PM
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POLITICO, November 19, 2011 -- Newt Gingrich tonight said at an address at Harvard that child work laws "entrap" poor children into poverty - and suggested that a better way to handle failing schools is to fire the janitors, hire the local students a ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 11:35AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, November 18, 2011 -- When you're a president running for reelection, it apparently helps to be a hoops junky, especially when the National Basketball Association is on hiatus.
With scant press attention, the Obama for America camp ...
Posted Saturday, November 19th 2011 at 2:00PM
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November 17, 2011 -- Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney both claim President Barack Obama said that “Americans are lazy.” He didn’t. To the contrary, Obama has consistently and repeatedly praised American workers as the “mo ...
Posted Saturday, November 19th 2011 at 1:22PM
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If it feels like the 2012 Presidential election has been going on for years by now, the opening segment on Thursday night's "Daily Show" will remind you why. In another round of Indecision 2012 coverage, Jon Stewart laid out why the GOP really can't ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 11:07PM
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THINK PROGRESS, November 17, 2011 -- The right-wing Daily Caller website has been anything but kind to Occupy Wall Street, even going so far as to condemn the protest movement as generating riots, murder, and arson.
But when a couple of Daily Call ...
Posted Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 3:05PM
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Joyce Evans may currently be an anchor and reporter for Philadelphia's Fox 29, but back in the 80's she was working at Miami's Channel 6 News and covering a story outside of a police building.
This all seems standard enough, but we can't help but ...
Posted Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 2:00PM
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THE DAILY SHOW, November 16, 2011 -- Super committee deficit negotiations aren’t going well. At all. And guess who’s not surprised?
Jon Stewart, who rattled off the deficit-reduction groups of yore — including the five people you meet in heaven an ...
Posted Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 12:38PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, November 15, 2011 -- The Republican presidential candidates have served comedians a full platter of laughs this year — a steady diet of gaffes, misstatements, puzzled looks and long, awkward pauses.
To a remarkable degree, the cand ...
Posted Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 11:58AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, November 17, 2011 -- Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. economist hired by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to help craft health care reform, sharply criticized the Republican presidential candidate for distinguishing between his bill and Pres ...
Posted Wednesday, November 16th 2011 at 10:34PM
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POLITICO, November 15, 2011 -- President Barack Obama is so confident of the constitutionality of his health care law — and so happy to cast Mitt Romney as his human shield against the law’s critics — that he didn’t try to stop the Supreme Court from ...
Posted Tuesday, November 15th 2011 at 4:58PM
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THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- In most states, ex-convicts have to wait years after their release to have their voting rights restored, and many are disenfranchised for life. Yet they often have their right to bear arms automatically reinstated ...
Posted Monday, November 14th 2011 at 11:17PM
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THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- Former pizza executive Herman Cain has struggled with foreign policy throughout his campaign to be commander in chief, but never more so than an in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today in which h ...
Posted Monday, November 14th 2011 at 11:14PM
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THINK PROGRESS, November 14, 2011 -- Late last month, a national backlash forced Bank of America to abandon its plan to charge customers $5 a month to use their debit cards. But Huffington Post reports that the corporation has quietly been mining ot ...
Posted Monday, November 14th 2011 at 4:15PM
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MSNBC, November 11, 2011 -- Rachel Maddow proclaimed herself to be "shocked" by a recent, threatening comment made by Herman Cain's lawyer to any potential victims of sexual harassment -- so shocked that she devoted the first part of her Thursday sho ...
Posted Sunday, November 13th 2011 at 6:11PM
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This video might be the coolest part of your weekend.
Made with NASA photos taken 240 miles above Earth at the International Space Station, the gorgeous time-lapse documents some of the world's most stunning views. Pay close attention to the Auror ...
Posted Sunday, November 13th 2011 at 6:03PM
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THINK PROGRESS, Nov. 10, 2011 -- Across the country, police have used undercover and/or plainclothed police officers to monitor occupations and protests that are a part of the 99 Percent Movement.
In a video released last month, Oakland Police Of ...
Posted Sunday, November 13th 2011 at 1:35PM
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POLITICO, October 23, 2011 -- President Barack Obama marked the end of the Iraq War last week, but he left it to Hillary Rodham Clinton — whose support for the unpopular war in 2003 ultimately helped lift Obama to the White House — to answer tough po ...
Posted Sunday, October 23rd 2011 at 9:17PM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, October 23, 2011 -- Speaking with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the timing of the Obama administration’s effort to withdraw American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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Posted Sunday, October 23rd 2011 at 4:46PM
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