Jon Stewart talks about Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention in the latest installment of his “RNC 2012 – The Road to Jeb Bush 2016” in a piece entitled “A Fistful of Awesome”, noting that “Amid the tired rhetoric, empty platitudes, and frantic attacks, a fistful of awesome emerges at the Republican National […]
Aside from all the buzz surrounding Clint Eastwood’s empty chair speech, the GOP could have done a lot better than Clint Eastwood to act as their “Star Headliner” at their recent national convention in Tampa. Although Eastwood has historically backed Republican politicians beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and continuing with both Nixon campaigns, […]
Rachel Maddow reports on how Rove managed to launch Republican extremism back into the news cycle after Karl Rove made a quip about Rep. Todd Akin before a reporter this week, suggesting the embattled senatorial candidate may be found “mysteriously murdered”. You can see the segment below. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and […]
As reported last Friday by Bloomberg Businessweek, conservative strategist Karl Rove joked about murdering embattled Rep. Todd Akins (R-Mo.) whose controversial comments about “legitimate rape” and pregnancy drew the ire and condemnation of the GOP. Rove explained to an audience dotted with hedge fund billionaires and investors—including John Paulson and Wilbur Ross—how his super PAC, […]
Bill Maher wondered how we can trust Republicans with the future when as far as we can tell, their world ended the year Reagan left office on this Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. In this episode, Maher slams Republicans for running away from all of the recent leaders of their party and recent presidential […]