Candace Gingrich-Jones is a gay rights advocate and said she would not support her brother’s presidential run.
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The Journal vs. Fox (Huh?)
The Wall Street Journal’s yahoo cousin, Fox News, embarrasses the family.
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The Barney Frank Greatest Hits Reel
You knew it was coming. Some fabulous news organization would assign someone to come up with the Barney Frank YouTube highlights. Here it is at HuffPo. And here HuffPo’s Ryan Grim fondly recalls being chewed out by the honorable member of Congress from Massachusetts, adding a few others’ such memories: Politico’s Glenn Thrush describes walking […]
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A Quick-Step Forward
Dancing with the Stars challenges ballroom dancing’s rigid gender roles.
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“Pepper Spray…It’s a Food Product, Essentially”
Fox News host claims UC Davis students were sprayed with derivative food product.
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Michele Bachmann Plays Candidate Word-Association
Bachmann stopped by “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”.
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Coulter’s Race Relations
Conservative writer claims, “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks” in interview.
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In Defense of Rachel Maddow
After Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C., last year, Rachel Maddow convinced Stewart to sit down with her for over an hour to discuss politics and the media. She dedicated her entire show that night to the interview. I don’t see how anyone could have come away from that interview thinking Maddow […]
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It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
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All the President’s Frenemies
In publicly attacking Obama are Tavis Smiley and Cornel West upholding the tradition of MLK or acting out of personal pique—or both?