Mitt Romney: I don’t know what I said, but I stand by it, whatever it was
Mitt Romney, asked this afternoon whether he stands by his use of Jeremiah Wright to attack President Obama on Sean Hannity's radio show in February:
Uh, I'm actually going to to, I'm not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by wha...
Midday open thread
Today's comic is Pray for Reign by Mark Fiore:
Bad news for racists:
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
New 2011 cen...
James O’Keefe makes another lie in North Carolina ‘sting,’ gets another state investigation
James O'Keefe (mugshot)
Man, "journalist" James O'Keefe stepped in it—over and over and over—in his effort to expose voter fraud in North Carolina during last week's primary. There's just one fraud here, and it's clearly O'Keefe.
A brief recap: O...
Mitt Romney: The next thing you know, President Obama is going to pin me down and cut my hair
Hair length beyond reproach
Mitt Romney whines:
In the campaign, instead of talking about our respective ideas, what's [Obama is] doing is trying to attack me on a personal basis.
And:
Character assassination has become the nature of [Obama's] campai...
Mitt Romney tries to erase his Jeremiah Wright attack
Mitt Romney may have come off sounding like a robot, but in his most recent response to this morning's report about Joe Ricketts' plan to inject Jeremiah Wright into the 2012 campaign, he finally repudiated the Republican billionaire's plan:
I repudia...
Mitt Romney’s weird Clinton embrace
Bright idea, Mitt. Bright idea. (Darren Hauck/Reuters)
Turns out it wasn't a simply a one-time delusional blurt: Mitt Romney's attempt to embrace Bill Clinton—and drive a wedge between President Obama and the Clintons—actually reflects a serious ...
Today in Congress: NDAA amendment-palooza, plus ‘painless filibusters’ on Fed Board governors
Recapping yesterday's action:
The major business in the House yesterday was the passage of its horrible version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill. It only took Republicans an hour to destroy the thing, so they moved on after that ...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Honesty in punditry
Visual source: Newseum
Today we have a little help in deconstructing the pundits.
This is Geoffrey Pullam, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and taking apart George Will for lying:
The domain of language already provides plentiful evidence...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Honesty in punditry
Visual source: Newseum
Today we have a little help in deconstructing the pundits.
This is Geoffrey Pullam, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and taking apart George Will for lying:
The domain of language already provides plentiful evidence...
Open thread for night owls: The newest birther conspiracy
Talking Points Memo:
“Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marr...
