The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Is this an impeachable offense? No. Will Hillary Clinton’s evident involvement in the revision of the administration’s line on Benghazi harm her presidential chances in 2016? No. Will this be of great political utility to Republicans? No. Will [...]
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Israel Launches Airstrikes Inside Syria *Update – Video*
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against targets inside Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told NBC News. It’s believed the primary target was a shipment of weapons headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, they said. A senior U.S. official said the airstrikes were believed to be [...]
Hillary’s Mark Penn Question Answers Itself
The question for someone considering whether or not to support Clinton in 2016 is, will a Clinton 2016 campaign pass the Mark Penn Test? The Mark Penn Test, which I just invented, determines whether or not a person should be trusted with the presidency, based solely on one criterion: Whether or not they pay Mark [...]
Jon Stewart Stands Up for Egypt’s Satirist Bassem Youssef, Sparks Twitter Fight with Morsi [Videos]
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook THE SEGMENT is scorching. Stewart came to the aid of his comedian friend Bassem Youseef in Egypt, which sparked a Twitter fight between the U.S. embassy and Pres. Morsi’s office. The embassy’s official Twitter feed took a bit [...]
Top Story — Netanyahu and Obama Agree, Israel’s Right to Self-Defense is Sacrosanct, Meets with Abbas *Updates*
“Netanyahu has been able to get a bump every time he says no to the president. When he upbraided him in the Oval Office, he got a 10 percent rise in the Israeli public opinion. That is unheard of,” said Martin Indyk, Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Israel, during a roundtable discussion in Washington last week. [...]
Showbiz Beat: Jon Stewart Taking 12-Week Summer Hiatus to Direct Political Feature Film
THE REPORT is an exclusive from Deadline. Stewart has written the script, and will direct Rosewater, an adaptation of the book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival. Published in 2011 by Random House, the book is Maziar Bahari’s harrowing ordeal of leaving London in June 2009 to cover [...]
Celebrating Movies with Oscar, and Seth McFarlane
THE HOSTING gig for the 85th Oscars, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science [yes, they take themselves very seriously], this year jumped around until Seth McFarlane showed up on SNL and rocked the house. Tonight’s as big as it gets for someone who’s either going to lodge into everyone’s mind as [...]
News Desk: Ben Affleck’s “ARGO” Wins Best Film at Britain’s BAFTAs [AFP Report]
Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ named best film at BAFTAs (via AFP) Iran hostage crisis drama “Argo” won the best film prize at Britain’s BAFTA awards in a further boost for US actor-director Ben Affleck’s movie ahead of the Oscars later this month. At a rainy but celebrity-packed ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on [...]
Israel Warplanes Strike Inside Syria [Video]
Watch Israeli Warplanes Strike Weapons Convoy in Syria on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. THE PBS News Hour report with Margaret Warner above will give you the best idea of what happened. There has been analysis, including some quoted at the Council of Foreign Relations, that Assad falling would make things more difficult for [...]
Secretary Clinton’s Full Remarks on Benghazi to Senate Foreign Relations Committee [Video Update]
SECRETARY CLINTON’s full remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are below. The ARB, the declassified Accountability Review Board Report on Benghazi is now online, as is Secretary Clinton’s letter about the ARB to Senator John Kerry, who has been nominated as her successor, from back in December. Other documents are available as well. Thank [...]
News Desk: Sen. Schumer Encourages Colleagues to Confirm Chuck Hagel *Updated*
“Based on several key assurances provided by Senator Hagel,” Mr. Schumer said in a prepared statement, “I am currently prepared to vote for his confirmation. I encourage my Senate colleagues who have shared my previous concerns to also support him.” Mr. Schumer is likely to have influence over many of his Senate colleagues, particularly Democrats, [...]
Bill Kristol is Leading Chuck Hagel Swiftboating, Launches Cable Ad Campaign [Video]
What I will say is this: Kristol is offensive, wrong, and this kind of swiftboating must stop, now. I know Chuck Hagel, and consider him a friend. I’m also Jewish. I know who Senator Hagel is, and what he stands for. I also know anti-Semitism when I see it, and for William Kristol to use [...]
Weekly Standard Plays Lap Dog to Iranian Propaganda Press and AIPAC
WHY WOULD the Weekly Standard choose to parrot Iran’s propaganda news organization by repeating their outlandish claims about former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s likely pick for Secretary of Defense, after Leon Panetta? It’s not easy trumpeting Iranian propaganda and AIPAC, while hitting Obama and a leading former Republican senator, all in the same [...]
John Kerry is a Better Choice for State Than Susan Rice
The problem with making Susan Rice secretary of state isn’t Benghazi. It’s war. Rice, like her “mentor,” former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and the current secretary, Hillary Clinton, has supported just about every proposed U.S. military intervention over the two decades. The president should nominate someone that occasionally opposes a war. [...] Rice is [...]
U.S. Warships to Mediterranean, As Israeli Iron Dome System Proves Successful
“Some people think… Israel [is] testing the rockets that would be fired against [Iran] from Gaza, next from Lebanon,” Ignatius said during a roundtable discussion. “So we may see something with Lebanon soon because it’s a preliminary; this is a, kind of, warm-up round for the real conflagration that’s ahead that involves Iran.” [CBS News] [...]
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