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“If, while Governor of Massachussetts, Romney shaved Barney Frank’s head, then you might have a story. …The Romney story means nothing, period.”
COVER STORY: OBAMA’S GAY-MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
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“Governor’s son pickets the pickets: Mitt Romney, son of Gov. George Romney, was one of the pickets who supported the Stanford University administration today in opposition to sit-in demonstrators.”
(via Patton Oswalt)
Mittens Romney is the rich douchebag villain of every 1980s teen movie.
Mitt Romney protesting protesters. Classic.
(via How the GOP lost a generation of voters | Death and Taxes)
nedhepburn: I wrote this. You should read it. The GOP lost an entire generation of Christian voters.
MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a conservative journalist for refusing to answer her questions.
The ThinkProgress team actually paused what we were doing to watch this throwdown (quite rare).
What a snob.
Gawker: Is This Deranged Anti-Gay Rant the Most Deranged Anti-Gay Rant?
“Stewart comes at religion with buckets of derision, but I do not find him offensive, nor should anyone who enjoys comedy. Like so many of the best comedians, he is an equal-opportunity hater. Sometimes it’s atheists he cannot stand, as in his bit about the beams in a shape of the cross that survived the Ground Zero wreckage, which the American Atheists did not want displayed. Sometimes it’s the Catholic church, which last November proved a useful point of comparison for the football culture at Penn State: “I get that it’s probably hard for you to believe that this guy you think is infallible, and this program you think is sacred, could hide such heinous activities, but there is some precedent for that,” Stewart said, referring to coach Joe Paterno and the sex-abuse scandal. “Yeah, and just like with the Catholic Church, no one is trying to take away your religion, in this case football. They’re just trying to bring some accountability to a pope, and some of his cardinals.” In both cases, it was the culture of certainty that Stewart was mocking, not the belief system itself. It was the human tendency toward hubris.”
“One former classmate and old friend of Romney’s – who refused to be identified by name – said there are “a lot of guys” who went to Cranbrook who have “really negative memories” of Romney’s behavior in the dorms, behavior this classmate describes as “like Lord of the Flies.”
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Track:
Shake, Rattle And Roll
Artist:
Big Joe Turner
Album:
Atlantic 1026; wr. Charles Calhoun
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“Shake, Rattle And Roll,” Big Joe Turner
