Geraldo on Fox and Friends this morning: “The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy.”
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Mitt Romney makes the required pilgrimage Saturday to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where “Hair and clothing styles related to a counterculture (as determined by the Student Affairs Deans’ Review Committee) are not acceptable.”
Is Mitt’s lack of any political core or center, paradoxically, making it hard to tack to the center post-primaries?
I think virtually anything can be written off from a politician’s high school days, as long as there’s some reckoning with it. What surprised me most about yesterday’s revelations was that the Romney campaign did not choose to address this on its own terms. Read More
I started to do a post yesterday on how muted the right wing response has been to President Obama’s same sex marriage shift. Back in the day, the House conference would have held a candlelight vigil for traditional marriage on the Capitol steps, protests would have been organized, right wing groups would have leaped at the fundraising opportunity, and the entire wingnut Wurlitzer would have been cranked up to maximum volume. It’s a sign of how far we come that not even Fox News could rouse itself to make a big deal about it, as Jon Stewart brilliantly points out. Watch.
If you’re playing catch-up on the JPMorgan debacle like I am, Heidi Moore’s explainer is a good place to start.
The Justice Department went after Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio back in the ’90s in a case depressingly similar to the one it filed against him yesterday, but DOJ let him slip through its grasp back then in what nearly everyone agrees was a big failure. The U.S. attorney in Arizona at the time? A rising star named Janet Napolitano.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) describes to a billionaire contributor — captured on video — how dismantling collective bargaining for public employees is the first step in his strategy to “divide and conquer” labor unions and turn Wisconsin into a right to work state.
Fox News knows who the real victim is in the DOJ’s lawsuit against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged abuse of Latinos’ civil rights.
That would be… Sheriff Joe. Watch.