After getting pummeled with criticism on all sides for his decision to air a gun violence video that featured only black shooters on Meet The Press, Chuck Todd reversed course and apologized for airing the video.
In a desperate attempt to hide their role in pushing the GOP’s racist rhetoric, Fox News is claiming that the Confederate flag is the flag of the Democratic Party.
Add Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) to the list, as it’s revealed that he took thousands from the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).
The media is freaking out because President Obama used the N-word in an interview. No one seems as freaked out that Republican presidential candidates and Republican members of Congress took money from a conservative hate group, referenced by alleged terrorist Dylann Roof in what appears to be his manifesto.
John Oliver said that the Confederate flag is one of those symbols that should only be used to help us identify the worst people in the world.
The Republican Party is being rocked by the news that three presidential candidates and several members of Congress took campaign donations from white supremacist group referenced by Charleston shooter Dylann Roof in his manifesto.
The Council of Conservative Citizens says blacks are “the laziest, stupidest and most criminally-inclined race in the history of the world”
It’s way past time that Americans stop being bullied by the disgusting, immoral greed of the NRA and that members know this is not the old NRA.
At a local function, I stalked Mike Huckabee to within about 2 feet. We shook hands and had a brief chat. Huckabee wants the 2016 presidential nomination, just as he did in 2008 when he started strong and dropped out in March.
I’m beginning to think the Republican Clown Car of Candidates is a deliberate campaign strategy that is somehow beyond the comprehension of most regular-thinking mortals.
According to a recent ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Bush administration officials did take part in “grave constitutional violations” after the 9/11 terror attacks. The Appellate Court revived a ‘long-running’ lawsuit against the Bush administration brought by mostly Muslim immigrants
Chuck Todd intentionally aired a racist video featuring all black shooters on Meet The Press, and in the face of a mounting public backlash refused to apologize.
“Like many of you, I was so overcome, how to turn grief, confusion into purpose and action. But that’s what we have to do.”
Bernie Sanders took down Donald Trump and took back Rockin’ In The Free World by using the song with Neil Young’s permission at his rally in Denver.
Incoming privilege on display. President Obama “carries his own background into race, and he’s not seen as a neutral observer,” according to Chuck Todd’s Meet The Press panel.
Rick Perry imploded today when during a Fox News Sunday interview he tried to blame his stupidity on the fact that he has a bad back.
Bernie Sanders drew a bigger crowd than any Republican candidate, as 4,500 supporters filled his event in Denver.
Cruz says the flag is “a question for South Carolina” to decide but as I recall, that issue was settled in 1865 and SCs flag then was white
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
If Republicans continue to ignore working women, and Hillary Clinton becomes the 2016 Democratic nominee, the GOP will be in world of hurt.
A friend wrote, “Hatred is at fault for a lot, but I really think it’s important to define this particular act of terrorism as racism. Not just a generalised hatred, but a very specific form of hatred, aimed at a large group of innocent people.
One of the deadliest and most dangerous diseases in our Country is racism, and I believe it’s important for our society to own up to it.” She is right.
The Charleston massacre surprised some around the world who thought an African American President meant the nation’s days of racism were history
FBI director James Comey determined that the mass murder of nine black people in their place of worship, including a Democratic state Senator who was working to get police to use body cameras after the shooting of an unarmed Walter Scott, is not terrorism.
Assuming that Roof wrote the manifesto, there can be no question that the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church was motivated by racism.
Mr. Charles Cotton wrote in a concealed handgun forum that Clementa Pinckney bears blame because he “voted against concealed-carry.”
On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Bernie Sanders admitted the secret to the success of his presidential campaign. He is telling voters the truth.
The empty souls of the Westboro Baptist Church are going to picket the funerals of the nine people murdered in a terrorist act, which they say is a lesson to stay away from Hillary Clinton fundraisers.
In the face of the stunning cowardice of almost all of the Republicans running for president in 2016, we get this from Mitt Romney of all people, “Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred.”
Far from even admitting black people were killed because they were black, conservatives didn’t even want to admit the killer was white
One of the great hypocrisies behind MSNBC’s decline is their willingness to fire liberal hosts for telling the truth while giving corporate favorites and liars like Joe Scarborough and Brian Williams chance after chance.
Each week Friday Fox Follies’ biggest challenge (aside from too much crazy for one column) is creating humor from the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans, with varying degrees of success. However, the news this week broke my heart.
In a bizarre rant, Erick Erickson suggested that accepting transgenderism means America can no longer distinguish between “good” and “evil”.
Labeling a racist killer as mentally ill absolves the majority white culture of taking any responsibility for the actions of its members.
Even though the shooter has admitted that his motivation for murdering nine African-Americans at a South Carolina church was racially motivated, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has disqualified himself from office by refusing to say that the killings were racially motivated.
Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz told reporters Friday in a gaggle on Air Force One en route San Francisco that the president has said before he believes “the Confederate flag belongs in a museum, and that’s still his position.”
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders drew big applause from the crowd at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Conference when called out Republicans by saying that only cowards would get elected than pass laws to suppress the vote.
Fox News has not uttered the words domestic terrorism in relation to the Charleston shooting, but the Department of Justice is investigating the incident as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism.
A new CBO report shows that Republicans want to repeal your healthcare so they can add $353 billion over the next ten years to the deficit. It is projected to add $3 trillion to the deficit in the ten years after that.
So to blame Obama for any failure to change the laws is to lash out at one of the few people willing to take on the NRA. That’s not helping.
The coalition of progressive groups that tried to draft Elizabeth Warren to run in 2016 has officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
Everyone from President Obama to the mayor of Charleston has made a specific point of saying the aftermath of a racially-motivated gun massacre of nine innocent and unarmed African Americans is a time for healing. Although they said the right thing, everyone is certainly sincere and they mean well, and they truly hope to comfort the victims’ families, survivors, and distressed Americans suffering the same pain, disgust, outrage, and sadness they feel after every other senseless gun slaughter. However, there is no healing for this sick, violent, and racist nation, and everyone knows it.
The State of Texas won’t allow the Confederate flag on its license plates, while South Carolina won’t even lower their’s to half-mast
The KKK as a visual entity has all but disappeared. As a symbolic entity of the continuing hatred of blacks by a majority of the Republican Party, the Klan mindset thrives. Roof, sadly, is not an exception in his extremism.
Donald Trump couldn’t attract enough “real Americans” to cheer for him at his presidential campaign announcement, so he hired a bunch of actors to stand around and cheer at fifty bucks a pop.
Reverend Pinckney was a dedicated pastor and a committed public servant who made it his life’s mission to help others.
Even after the murder of nine African-Americans in a hate crime, South Carolina Republicans are refusing to take the Confederate flag down from the state capitol, but one picture shows why the flag should come down right now.
“This time we have to find answers together. I pledge to you, I will work with you—those of you who are local officials, those of you who are thinking hard about your own communities. Let’s unite in partnership, not just to talk, but to act.”
What I don’t understand, however, is why the President, in his comments on Thursday morning, one day after the massacre, didn’t spend more time addressing the glaringly apparent racial aspects of this event that have already been openly acknowledged by authorities.
The Bidens urged, “But as a nation we must confront the ravages of gun violence and the stain of hatred that continues to be visited on our streets, in our schools, in our houses of worship, and in our communities.”
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has canceled his scheduled campaign event in Charleston, SC this weekend and is urging his supporters to donate to the Emanuel AME Church.
Conservatives wasted no time trying to dismiss racism as a factor in the shooting instead calling it an attack on Christianity.
It looks like NBC is intentionally trying to destroy MSNBC as the network has demoted Brian Williams from evening news anchor to breaking news/special reports anchor at MSNBC.
The media’s attempt to deny the discussion about hate being directed at black people jumped the shark today when a CNN anchor Chris Cuomo (who used to be co-anchor for ABC’s 20/20) tweeted that we can’t be sure the shooter and mass murderer is white. He could be in disguise.
In his remarks after the Charleston church massacre, President Obama displayed his leadership by discussing the nation’s easy access to guns in relationship to the number of mass shootings in the United States.
Early Thursday morning, officials had already called the mass shooting and killing of nine people in a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina a hate crime.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Pope Francis today for delivering a powerful message on climate change. Sanders also reminded Republicans that they invited the Pope to address them and urged climate change deniers to listen to what Francis is saying.
Susan B. Anthony List has called a rape exception “abominable,” “regrettable,” “just wrong” and “completely intellectually dishonest.”
Police in South Carolina have stated that the killing of nine African-Americans at a black church in Charleston was a hate crime.
It took CNN hours to provide live coverage, but they were better than MSNBC and Fox News who stuck with replays of taped shows and did not provide live coverage of a horrific mass shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, SC.
Last weekend, the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona put the official celebratory touches on a revolutionary transition that occurred during May’s municipal elections. In Madrid, 71 year-old retired judge Manuela Carmena’s supporters leveraged a bit of the Obama slogan magic (“Yes We Can!”) in a jubilant mayoral oath of office ceremony that promised real populist change for the third largest city in the European Union.
A PPP poll finds that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is America’s favorite Supreme Court Justice and Clarence Thomas is the nation’s least favorite.
The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has announced that due to high demand their upcoming events in South Carolina and Nevada were moved to larger venues.
A new report from Americans For Tax Fairness uncovered Walmart’s vast network of international subsidiaries that Walmart is using to hide $76 billion in order to avoid paying taxes in the United States.
Donald Trump wants Oprah Winfrey to be his running mate, but instead of Oprah, resident Republican crazy person Sarah Palin stepped up to champion his candidacy.
The momentum behind the Bernie Sanders campaign for president is spreading from New Hampshire to South Carolina as interest was so high in Sanders’ message that the campaign was forced to move his upcoming speech in Charleston to a larger venue.
A PPP poll finds Hillary Clinton leading all other presidential candidates in the Democratic primary and in the general election race..
Republicans keep saying their costly and far-fetched Benghazi obsession is all about transparency. And yet, once again, they are refusing to show the public the full transcript of a deposition.
The end is coming for both Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio as Limbaugh has seen his show demoted and shipped off to another low rated small station. Boston has become the latest city to send Limbaugh into a dark corner of the radio dial.
The vote in the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday was an overwhelming bipartisan statement that the President’s 2009 executive order banning torture must be ensconced in permanent law to prevent a Republican administration’s repeat performance in the future.
Andrea Tantaros wondered, “If I self-identify as a cat, a feline, do I have to pay income taxes? I mean, I’m just wondering.”
Senator McCain defended his support for the TPP, by arguing that cheap goods are more important than protecting American workers.
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
Neil Young’s manager has confirmed that Donald Trump used his song Rockin’ In The Free World without his permission. Neil Young has also endorsed Bernie Sanders.
Darrell Issa threw a tantrum today after he was escorted out of the room for trying to crash a closed-door deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Senate Republicans are having a hard time agreeing on what to do if the Supreme Court guts Obamacare in the upcoming King v. Burwell ruling.
During his announcement that he is going to run for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump used Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World. It is a safe bet that Trump both had no idea what the song means and didn’t get Young’s permission to use his music.
Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign with a rambling, and insane rant that claimed that Mexicans are bringing rapists into the United States. Trump also declared his love for Chinese communism and said that he should be president because he is really rich.
Bernie Sanders continue to pack the house wherever he campaigns as the Democratic presidential candidate recently drew the same size audience that Hillary Clinton did when both candidates were campaigning on the same evening in Iowa.
Beck, spokesman for patriarchal control, says “the [gay] agenda is control and the destruction of anyone else who disagrees,”
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear North Carolina’s appeal to restore a law that would force a woman to view a sonogram of her fetus.
Jeb Bush launch his presidential campaign with a thud, as the former famous governor with the famous last name, took the stage and could not explain why he is running for president.
47 of 53 Kansas lawmakers who signed pledges not to raise taxes violated their pledges by voting for a package of regressive tax increases.
As Republicans are working the Supreme Court to take Obamacare away from everyone in states that have not set up their own exchange, a new Commonwealth Fund survey has found that Obamacare is actually really liked.
Walker’s attempt to abolish unions and ordering the arrest of protestors exercising their Constitutionally-protected freedom to assemble peaceably to seek redress of their grievance against a Koch puppet acting like Hitler actions that have already cost Wisconsin taxpayers $45,000 with another $1 million on the near horizon.
After sitting on the fence on the issue of President Obama’s trade agenda, Hillary Clinton sided with the liberals in her party against the current trade legislation that the White House and Congressional Republicans are pushing.
Jeb Bush is trying to fool voters into forgetting that he is a Bush by leaving his last name off of his campaign logo and not featuring his last name in his campaign video.
The latest Morning Consult poll of New Hampshire found that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is running closer than the experts expected to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. Sanders trails Clinton by just ten points, 42%-32% in the Granite State.
If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you’re in the wrong country
So, here’s where we are on the subject of giving our country away to the super wealthy. If Democrats don’t show up at the polls in HUGE numbers in 2016, those of us who have clucked that the sky really IS falling will have failed to accomplish anything.
Today, more so than at any time in the nation’s history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the nation’s laws on the Christian religion to discriminate against Americans who do not fall into the mold of a religious Republican.
A District Court Judge has ruled that Walmart broke California law when the company failed to pay its drivers for all the tasks they do.
Sen. Lindsey Graham did a service for his country today by showing how out of touch Republicans are with reality as he tried to attack Hillary Clinton while calling for more Americans to die in the Middle East. Graham demonstrated the deluded party wide thinking that should be a reminder to every American why they can’t elect a Republican to be president.
The worst fear of the Koch brothers has always been that people will learn about their activities and fight back. On Face The Nation, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that people are fighting back and his campaign now has more than 200,000 donors.
Paul Ryan fell apart on Fox News Sunday and when pressed refused to say that he would guarantee Obamacare subsidies for the people who might lose them.
Chris Christie broke out the old Republican myth that giving people anything will destroy America by suggesting that the country doesn’t need tuition free college and that people have to “earn” their education.
Conservatives want you to believe that American history consists of the mighty white Northern European male imposing his will on a continent
Fox News responded to a detailed speech by the Democratic frontrunner by bashing her remarks for talking about too many things.
