Category Archive: Political News

Jan 06

Spotlight: The Rachel Maddow Show, schooling Fox’s Dick Morris

Maddow schools Fox’s Dick Morris after getting angry letter from his lawyers (via Raw Story )

>by: David Ferguson |Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:07 EST|

Friday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow answered a letter from Dick Morris’ lawyer demanding a correction to an earlier segment.  Maddow was more than …

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Dec 30

A Representative Congress: Enhancing African American Voting Rights in the South [...]

>by Drew Spencer, Rob Richie  | Published November 27, 2012 |

In southern states, racially polarized elections remain an active part of political life. Since 1965, the Voting Rights Act has guaranteed that African Americans in the South cannot be shut out of elections either through direct barriers to voting or through discriminatory districts that …

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Dec 23

Exposed: NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre

Posted: 12/22/2012 12:46 am EST   |  Updated: 12/22/2012 11:20 am EST | Huff Post Media |

Thanks to Puerto Ricans for Obama 2012 for sharing this…

Lawrence O’Donnell condemned NRA president Wayne LaPierre for Friday his press conference about the Newtown massacre in a special edition of his MSNBC show.

O’Donnell does not …

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Dec 15

Highlight:Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States

>by Ezra Klein on December 14, 2012 at 2:07 pm |

When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”

Let’s be clear: That is …

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Dec 11

Expose Santorum: Making False Claims Against Obama

>by Aphrodite on 10 Dec 2012|Class Warfare Exists |

Meet the Press is where politicians come on TV and rattle off their talking points…featuring David Gregory as the wallpaper.

NBC host David Gregory allowed former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) to get away with making false and misleading claims about Sharia law and President Obama’s stance on radical …

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Dec 02

Spotlight Tom Ricks: Blasting the Media Talking Points regarding Benghazi attacks

>by Hamed Aleaziz and Hayes Brown on Nov 26, 2012 at 2:39 pm

Tom Ricks, author and Pulitzer prize winner who has reported for the Washington Post, lambasted Fox News’s coverage of the Benghazi attacks in an interview with the conservative network on Monday. Ricks, who has written extensively on the American military, called the …

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Dec 01

Spotlight Media: NY Times, Wash. Post, WSJ Hide Compromise [...]

>by Remington Shepard |November 30, 2012 12:43 PM EST|[The DLU, you get the bitter and the sweet - Gbismarc!]

Major papers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, are hiding compromises in a White House proposal on federal spending and budgets, claiming that the proposal was “loaded with …

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Nov 30

Spotlight Jason Easley: Obama’s Gets Payback For 2010 Bush Tax Cut [...]

>by: Jason Easley |November 30th, 2012 |

Remember in 2010 when House Republicans used the threat of throwing millions into poverty at Christmas in order to get the Bush tax cuts extended? President Obama does. In 2012, he is getting payback.

Here is the video from NBC News:

During his remarks the president admitted …

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Nov 25

Spotlight: Why Karl Rove’s New Plan to Save the Republican Party Will Fail

>byIrin Carmon | Salon | November 23, 2012  |

Republicans think it will be easy to come back — just appeal to culturally conservative Latinos! It will fail.

Drop the anti-immigrant rhetoric! Focus on the “family values”that Latinos supposedly share with the party! But that magic solution to Republicans’ demographic problem that some conservatives are …

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Nov 24

How fighting income inequality became Obama’s driving force

>By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Friday, November 23, 5:19 PM |Re-Post November 23, 2012 DLU| When Barack Obama published his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” about racial identity in 1995, he talked with his neighborhood newspaper in Illinois, the Hyde Park Citizen, about the economic disparities he had seen while exploring the world as a child and young …

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Nov 23

Spotlight: How President Obama Won a Second Term

Political strategist James Carville breaks down where the Republicans went wrong – and what it means for the future >by Tim Dickinson| November 23, 2012 7:00 AM ET |

Two weeks after Barack Obama won a second term, political analysts are just beginning to assess the surprising scope of his victory. By routing Mitt Romney by …

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Nov 22

Spotlight White House To Boehner: Obamacare Not Part Of Fiscal Cliff Deal

>by Sam Stein| Posted: 11/21/2012 2:36 pm EST Updated: 11/21/2012 2:49 pm EST |

The White House and congressional Democrats are balking at the idea, floated by House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday, that changes to the president’s signature health care law should be on the table during lame-duck talks over taxes and the deficit.

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