Politico: Rick Santorum contacted Google, says company spreads ‘filth’ A Google search for Santorum has generated some inappropriate results since gay columnist Dan Savage organized an online campaign to link graphic sexual terms to the socially conservative senator’s name. Now, the Republican presidential candidate says he’s convinced Google could do something to remedy the issue, […]
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Bachmann Continues Her Brave Fight Against Vaccination
Michele Bachmann commits another crime against video in this washed-out statement that was apparently recorded on a RAZR in a busy airplane hangar. In it, she stands her anti-vaccination ground, and tries to coin the phrase “Perrycare.” Everybody dig the crazy-eyed vacuum: Bachmann is starting to make Sarah Palin look like Abraham Lincoln.
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Barry Manilow Is a Big Fan of Ron Paul
Today in celebrity endorsements: Grammy award-winning musician Barry Manilow told The Daily Caller that he agrees with “just about everything” 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul says, calling him a “solid” contender for the highest office in the land. “I like him. I like what he says, I do. I like what he says. […]
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Newt Gingrich Wins!
Newt Gingrich has hopped in front of Michele Bachmann for a blistering-hot fourth place showing in a new Public Policy Poll, according to Republican election blog The Primary Event: Full results from the poll: Rick Perry (31 percent), Mitt Romney (18 percent), Ron Paul (11 percent), Gingrich (10 percent), Bachmann (9 percent), Herman Cain (8 […]
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Why Does Anyone Listen to James Carville?
Here’s histrionic piece of shit James Carville on CNN today: People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: […]
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Taiwanese Animators Introduce Their Viewers to Rick Santorum
Everyone’s favorite animation studio after Pixar is going to aniprofile all the GOP candidates. I’m thinking they went with Rick first because Mr. 2% isn’t long for the race. Can you guess who shows up in the third reel with something frothy? A whole bucket of it! That must have been some weekend.
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Stewart Is Joking, Right? They Didn’t Do That, Did They?
CNN didn’t really use a fighter-jet-flyby graphic at the start of the Teabagger debate on Monday night, did they?
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Teabagger Debate Roundup
Mitt Romney is still sailing along, looking presidential. He got a couple great shots in on Rick Perry without seeming like a creep. Rick Perry wants to smash Mitt Romney’s sneering face in with his best pair of baby-otter-skin cowboy boots. He does not take direct criticism well, and he got nothing but direct criticism […]
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“Are you saying that society should just let him die?”
The GOP base cheers for death. The answer to the question—”Are you saying society should just let him die?”—is, “YEAH!” And what if it was a kid whose dad didn’t have insurance that covered his dependents? And what if this man’s kid wasn’t insured not because dad didn’t think that anyone in his family could […]
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Jon Stewart on Mitt Romney’s Job Creation Plan
This is really something. I read Mitt Romney’s job creation plan, but I didn’t watch it. It looks like a disaster! Jon Stewart has been getting on my nerves lately—his centrist, fuck-the-media schtick feels like, well, a schtick to me—but this is classic Daily Show:
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Let’s Just Start Calling Train Wrecks “Republican Debates” From Now On
Here’s where we are after last night’s debate: Rick Perry is the front-runner, even though he couldn’t answer a question to save his life. All of his answers had something to do with how awesome Texas is, even if the questions were about how Texas is last in the nation on high school graduates. He […]
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The Republican Debate… in 45 Seconds
You’re goddamn RIGHT I watched the entirety of last night’s GOP debates—because I loooooove watching a train jump the tracks and flip, flip, flip before bursting into flames. However, I can totally understand if you had better things to do. On the other hand, if you’re feeling bad about supposedly being “uninformed” or whatever, you […]