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Same-Day Voter Registration: A Secret Gay Plot?
TPM · 11/08/11 12:26PMFlorida Governor Transforms Into 'DJ Govvy Gov,' the World's Uncoolest DJ
Lauri Apple · 11/08/11 06:20AMArtsy Pol's Naked Internet Pictures Excite His Republican Foes
Lauri Apple · 11/06/11 02:06PMCain Supporters Counter Inferior Blacks With New Ad
Lauri Apple · 11/04/11 09:55AMIn a brand-new blockbuster ad—titled "High Tech Lynching," in a nod to legendary American victim-of-libruls Clarence Thomas—supporters of Ann Coulter Academy of Superior Blackness graduate Herman Cain rail against all the imaginary sexual harassment allegations their man has been facing in the wake of lying litigant-to-be(?) Politico's lie-filled reports.
'G.O.P. Is the New Black,' According to Billboard
Max Read · 10/29/11 08:33AMHey there, African-Americans! Did you know there's a whole political party devoted more or less entirely to increasing the wealth of the richest people in the country by preying on the racism of middle- and working-class white folks? And if that doesn't convince you to vote for Republicans, what about these snazzy billboards?
Rick Perry Isn't Sure If Obama's Birth Certificate Is Real
Lauri Apple · 10/23/11 01:10PMToday's edition of Parade magazine features an interview with Republican presidential candidate/sultan of Texas Rick Perry, who says he went out to dinner with bloviating birther Donald Trump and now isn't totally sure if President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya or on Mercury or what. Donald Trump is that persuasive.
NJ Republican Pol Having a Rentboy Scandal
Lauri Apple · 10/22/11 03:27PMAnother day, another weird sex-related news story starring a Republican politician from New Jersey. Today's installment stars Medford mayor and one-time Congressional candidate Chris Myers, who allegedly has a thing for blue Calvin Klein underpants and also rentboys—though maybe not, because have you heard about the nefarious things people do with this Photoshop computer-program stuff?
Women Should 'Be a Whore in the Bedroom,' Says GOP Candidate
Lauri Apple · 10/21/11 05:20AMNew Jersey state senate candidate Phil Mitsch knows just what America needs to get his awful state back on track: tax reductions, something called "mandatory mortgage loan modifications on at risk residential properties," and more cooperation from the ladies. "Women, you increase your odds of keeping your men by being faithful, a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom," he recently tweeted.
The RNC Jumps on The 'Occupy Wall Street Is Anti-Semitic' Bandwagon
Remy Stern · 10/19/11 10:45AMThe Republican National Committee is joining in with the right-wing bloggers who have sought to paint the Occupy Wall Street protesters as an anti-Semitic mob, condemning Democrats who it says "have spent the last week championing the ‘Occupy Wall Street' movement, yet in the midst of protestors' extreme anti-Semitic, anti-Israel comments, they've been silent."
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Max Read · 10/18/11 06:45PMIs James O'Keefe a Fugitive?
John Cook · 10/10/11 04:38PMAs we mentioned earlier, right-wing hitman James O'Keefe was spotted lurking at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan's Liberty Plaza today. That might not be good news for O'Keefe, since he's on probation and requires the permission of a federal magistrate judge to leave his home state of New Jersey. And guess what? To judge by his court file, he never got permission. Oops.
Herman Cain Wins Florida Straw Poll
Lauri Apple · 09/24/11 06:11PMTea Party Debate Crowd on Uninsured Sick Americans: Let Them Die!
Matt Cherette · 09/12/11 08:41PMWolf Blitzer is "watching very closely" in Tampa, Florida tonight as he moderates a CNN/Tea Party debate between the remaining Republican presidential candidates. On the topic of healthcare, Blitzer asked Congressman Ron Paul what he'd do if an otherwise healthy 30-year-old man without health insurance needed six months of intensive care to survive: "Are you saying that society should just let him die?"
Allen West Is Worried That You'll Forget About 9/11
Jeff Neumann · 09/08/11 05:47AMNoted Islamophobe Allen West must not own a television or a computer. Yesterday, West was stirring up one of 2010's dumbest controversies at an anti-Ground Zero Mosque meet-and-greet in DC, where he remarked, "We must never let events like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 go away. We must never forget the things that happened on those two days..." Call me crazy, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon.