Republicans may be cruising for a bruising in 2012: We’ve reached the part of the Western where the townsfolk, long intimidated by a gang of bullies, suddenly find their courage and fight back. A snowballing of suppressed rage bodes ill for the Grand Old Party. And remember America’s most famous political upset, in 1948. Almost no one thought Democratic President Harry Truman would get a second term. But after railing against the “do-nothing” Republican Congress, he won the election — and Democrats took majority control of both the House and Senate besides.

Clipgate — If Barack Obama really believed in his jobs bill, he should have presented it in a leather-bound volume with gold filigree and illuminated initials. So says Fox, so to speak. The Fox goon machine went on a comical goose-stampede berating Obama’s clipped-Up bill. See videos below. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full [...]

“Time magazine this week published ‘Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience,’ a photo-rich commemorative edition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. No identifiable African Americans are pictured in its 64 pages.” — TheRoot.Com This glaring omission feeds into the stereotype that African Americans aren’t patriotic. Blacks are as “red, white, [...]

“The hot new gossip today is that Sarah Palin, the conservative darling, former vice presidential candidate, and unofficial Tea Party head once had a brief fling with Glen Rice, a former professional basketball player. Using reporting from a forthcoming book The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, the National Enquirer published a story claiming [...]

A new book reports that Sarah ‘DEATH’ Palin “hauled basketballer Glenn Rice’s ass down in 1987.” According to the National Enquirer, the upcoming Joe McGinniss book on Sarah Palin, the prolific NBA “three point shooter” Glenn Rice, “banged” the “KILLA from Wasilla” senseless — while he was in college and Palin was a sports reporter [...]