FOR THE entire primary season, Mitt Romney twisted himself into a political pretzel to be pure enough for the right wing base. It was a feat of wonder when you compared the man who was governor of Massachusetts. The general election audience was never going to buy wingnut Mitt and the family knew it. They [...]
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Are You Traditionally Religious? Almost 20% Say No
THE KEY word is “traditional.” Those days have ebbed. However, a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted jointly with the PBS television program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, finds that many of the country’s 46 million unaffiliated adults are religious or spiritual in some way. Two-thirds of them [...]
Obama Hits Romney On Women’s Equal Pay and Health Care [Video]
REPUBLICANS HAVE been targeting women through far right wing laws in legislatures across the country, including in Virginia, with A.G. Ken Cuccinelli moving on women’s clinics. It’s now a dog fight here in Virginia, with pitches like what Obama made on Friday a very powerful message in the state. Transcript to the video above: OBAMA: [...]
This Woman Could Be Executed at Any Moment
SHE TURNED her home into a refuge for people fleeing the fighting in the border state of South Kordofan, according to the report in Foreign Policy by Christian Caryl. The horror and violence is typical of what you’ve heard or read. The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir has made her pay for it. Note: That’s [...]
Anchorwoman Fights Back Against Criticism Over her Weight [Video]
“The truth is I am overweight,” said Ms. Livingston, 37, during the morning broadcast on WKBT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Lacrosse. “You could call me fat and yes, even obese on a doctor’s chart. But to the person who wrote me that letter, do you think I don’t know that? That your cruel words are [...]
Top Story: Romney’s Best Debate Hope, Gear Up the Old Etch-a-Sketch
TAKING A PAGE from the playbook on his late move on young immigrant visas, Mitt Romney needs to unload his wingnuttery and embrace his alter ego, Governor Mitt from Massachusetts, then offer a mea culpa for falling off the right-wing cliff. Don’t worry about Barack Obama in the debate. The troubles Romney has are real [...]
Scott Brown Names Scalia as Model Justice, Crowd Explodes [Video]
“Excuse me, I’m not a student in your classroom,” he told the Harvard Law School professor. [Boston Globe] THE WORD “independent” came out of Scott Brown‘s mouth as many times as he could think to fit it in. However, that didn’t stand out as much as his belligerence that makes a lie out of his [...]
Bill O’Reilly Opines on Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Leslie Stahl Interview [Video]
“…and Arnold Schwarzenegger getting beat up by a small lady.” – Bill O’Reilly THAT WAS the intro to one of Bill O’Reilly’s segments on Monday night. “A small lady” referred to veteran journalist, broadcaster and “60 Minutes” contributor Leslie Stahl. No one should be surprised at the sexist lead-in to a segment on a womanizer, [...]
News Desk: “Half the Sky” on PBS
Watch Women Are Not the Problem, They Are the Solution on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality — which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds — present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to [...]
Todd Akin! Oh, No You Didn’t!
HE JUST can’t help himself. From the Kansas City Star: “I think we have a very clear path to victory, and apparently Claire McCaskill thinks we do, too, because she was very aggressive at the debate, which was quite different than it was when she ran against Jim Talent,” Akin said. “She had a confidence [...]
The Right Rallies for Missouri’s Todd Akin, NRSC Issues New Statement
“What’s the moral case for not backing the Republican nominee picked by the people of Missouri?” – Newt Gingrich NATIONAL REPUBLICAN stars from the far right, from Senator DeMint to Rick Santorum, have decided to throw down for Todd Akin. After the final deadline recently passed, with polls showing Claire McCaskill clearly ahead, Newt Gingrich’s [...]
News Desk: Claire McCaskill Ad Hits Todd Akin on Social Security, Minimum Wage, and “Legitimate Rape”
THIS AD is strong, to the point and uses Todd Akin’s own words to make the case he’s bad for Missourians. It begins with Akin on Social Security, then on Medicare, then on the minimum wage, and yes, it goes to Akin’s insulting legitimate rape comments. This is one race where I’m actually rooting for [...]
Warren Responds to Scott Brown’s Character Assassination
ONE THING that happens when a good candidate starts losing a grip on an election is that he or she is forced to go against their own image. That’s happening in Massachusetts. Scott Brown has always had a nice guy image going for him. Up against it in the polls he’s decided to go nuclear, [...]
Bill Clinton on CGI: “We Just Keep Pushing These Rocks Up the Hill”
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this election campaign, it’s that a few words from Bill Clinton can do a man a lot of good… All I have to do is wait a few days for the bounce.” – Mitt Romney FROM CNN’s Piers Morgan to “Morning Joe,” including a second session with Morgan [...]
Top Story: President Obama’s Address to U.N. [Full Remarks]
PRESIDENT OBAMA spoke to the United Nations today, his remarks are below. He began by talking about the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens, emphasizing the work he did in a country he loved. Obama went on to say that the attack in Benghazi was “an attack on America.” The President went further, saying the attack [...]
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