The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook IN CASE you missed it, though I’m pretty sure you didn’t, a cruise ship from Carnival Triumph claimed non-stop coverage on CNN this past week. It was center stage at Fox News Channel as well. But [...]
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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 [...]
WABC’s Hate Radio: Mark Levin Calls Obama Muslim Brotherhood “Sympathizer”
YOU CAN’T get anymore disgraceful than the vicious invectives that Mark Levin spews every day on WABC’s hate radio. Citing hard right Tea Party extremists in Congress, Reps. Bachmann and Gohmert, Levin once again quoted the outrageous charges that the U.S. government had been “infiltrated” by the Muslim Brotherhood, then claimed President Obama was a [...]
Tea Partier Ted Cruz Plays Sean Hannity and It Turns Into a Train Wreck
THIS IS what happens when a Tea Party politician listens to too much wingnut radio, then tries to mimic one of the hosts. It ends up in a train wreck, which certainly was the case with Senator Ted Cruz when he tried to corner Chuck Hagel, but ended up causing a mess for himself. Hagel [...]
Top Story — The Incredible Shrinking Stature of John McCain
“One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. .. Our mission has failed…” – William F. Buckley “You’re on the wrong side of it, and your refusal to answer whether you were right or wrong on it is going to have an impact on my judgment on whether to vote for your [...]
Chuck Hagel Confirmation
STARTING OFF today listening to Senator Jim Inhoffe, all I could wonder is how anyone could trust someone like him with our foreign policy. His insulting diatribe against Hagel was a very low point for Senate speak. Buzzfeed has an incredible article about Chuck Hagel and the course he taught at Georgetown. It says more [...]
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 [...]
Andrea Mitchell and the Clinton Interview [Video]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy IT’S THE last time I’ll get to use the Paul Szep graphic of former Secretary Clinton holding up the world, because it’s now Secretary John Kerry. NBC’s grand dame of foreign policy taped her interview with the outgoing secretary as the incoming was [...]
Lindsey Graham Needs an Intervention
“I haven’t forgotten about Benghazi. Hillary Clinton got away with murder, in my view.” – Senator Lindsey Graham THE SOUTH Carolina senator has Benghazi pneumonia and it’s tilting into a cancer. That the insipid little man can accuse Secretary Clinton of murder in public goes down in the annals of Clinton hatred that proves these [...]
News Desk: Bashar al-Assad War Crimes Mount
“This is another new massacre that has been committed in Syria, adding to the constant massacres that have been occurring, while the world watches silently and the international and Arab community are being hypocrites,” the Syrian Observatory said in statement. [New York Times] ACTIVISTS ARE claiming today that a “massacre” has occurred, adding to the [...]
John Kerry, President Obama’s Easy Nomination
“Over these many years, John’s earned the respect and confidence of leaders around the world. He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job-training,” President Barack Obama said when he nominated Kerry last month. “I think it is fair to say that few individuals know as many presidents and prime ministers or grasp our [...]
Israel’s Upcoming “Seinfeld Election”
Thanks.“@taylormarsh: What are Israeli elections about? “It’s a Seinfeld election,” it’s about nothing; political “awakening” in next 2 yrs — Alon Pinkas (@AlonPinkas) January 7, 2013 THE ISRAELI elections are on January 22 and there’s a consensus running through the discussion on what’s at stake. Analysts across the board are saying they’re about nothing. The [...]
News Desk: “Compelling Case” Syria’s Assad has Used Chemical Weapons
THE EXCLUSIVE report is from Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has learned. United States diplomats in Turkey conducted a previously undisclosed, intensive investigation into claims that Syrian President [...]
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, [...]
Right Smears John Brennan as “Arabist,” Ignores Purge of “Arabist” James Baker Wing
IF YOU want to start dissecting what’s happened to the sane branch of the Republican Party, it dates back to Georg H.W. Bush and James Baker, a time when realism in foreign policy took over for Ronald Reagan’s ramshackle militarism that led to Iran-Contra and near impeachment. The big story in the Republican Party over [...]
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