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Video: Rachel Maddow Extended Interview With Jon Stewart

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook In this exclusive, unedited interview, Rachel Maddow shares her in-person observations of the Supreme Court, and[Read More…]

CNN Video: Fact-checking Bachmann’s Obamacare claims

Is Obamacare going to kill people? Only in the mind of Michele Bachmann. See if you can make sense of her remarks. If you do, please illuminate me. Please, please, leave your comments below. Please let me know if, and why, I am wrong. Because I’m dying to know.

SPLC: White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to Texas A&M

Only in Texas? Hardly. But still disturbing. From the Southern Poverty Law Center: In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a “strongest skinhead” contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and[Read More…]

Help Bring A Long-overdue End to the FOX TV Show COPS

I believe this is important enough to pass on to the larger audience. Remember Bowling for Columbine? We’ve never, ever seen Corporate Cops. This show "relies heavily on degradation and mockery of suspects, presumption of guilt, and audience identification with unfailingly “good guy” police protagonists." Help bring an end to[Read More…]

How Will Pope Francis Wear the Shoes of the Fisherman?

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, S.J., in 2008. (Wikipedia) Updated at 11:49 a.m. to reflect that Pope Francis is not the first non-European pope ever, as the original commentary erroneously stated. How will Pope Francis wear the Shoes of the Fisherman? Will the example of this pope, a friend of the poorest[Read More…]

George Will’s Revisionist Watergate History (Media Matters)

George Will is rewriting history. American history. Watergate history. Will the Washington Post hold him accountable? From MediaMatters.org: George Will is under fire for distorting the history of Watergate from an expert source — Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate task force. Will, in a March 6 column, deceptively portrayed Robert Bork[Read More…]

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