Ahead on the 5/14 Maddow show
Tonight's guests: David Schulz, a media attorney for more than 30 years now representing the Associated Press Michael Isikoff, NBC News national investigative correspondent Dan Rather, anchor and managing editor of Dan Rather Reports on AXS TV And here's executive producer Bill Wolff to tell you why you'll want to hold tonight's show closer: ...
Morning Maddow: May 15
AG Holder will get a grilling at a House hearing today. USA Today compares how the IRS treated groups with liberal-sounding and conservative-sounding names. AP interviews first responders to the fire at the West, TX chemical plant. The heads of the board that reviewed Benghazi agree to testify before Congress. How the gun industry markets to kids. The mayor of ...
Tuesday's Mini-Report
Today's edition of quick hits: * Several violent clashes in Israel today ahead of what Palestinians call the "nakba." * Categorical: "White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that he could rule out any involvement by President Obama or West Wing staff in the IRS decision to target conservative organizations. Pressed during his daily press briefing if he could ...
Another GOP Obama Scandal Falls Apart as It Is Revealed the IRS also Targeted Liberals
The latest Republican Obama scandal is starting to fall apart too. The IRS didn't just target conservative groups. They also questioned the tax exempt status of liberal groups too.
Obama Student Loan Policy Reaps Bigger Profit Than Exxon
The Obama administration is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student loan borrowers, a sum greater than the earnings of the nation's most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets. Figures made public Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office show that the nonpartisan agency ...
Minnesota Legalizes Gay Marriage
Minnesota officially became the 12th U.S. state to approve same-sex marriage May 14 when Gov. Mark Dayton appeared before a jubilant crowd to sign a marriage equality bill into law. "What a day for Minnesota," Dayton told the spectators, who huddled on the steps of the State House in St. Paul. "What a difference a year and an election can ...
Jay Carney's day -- in 8 faces
It's been a very tough day for Jay Carney, who spent his afternoon answering -- or at least fielding -- more than 60 questions from the White House press corps on a series of bad stories ranging from the IRS scandal to the AP phone records dispute to Benghazi. Read full article >> ...
Jay Carney’s day — in 8 faces
It’s been a very tough day for Jay Carney, who spent his afternoon answering — or at least fielding — more than 60 questions from the White House press corps on a series of bad stories ranging from the IRS ...
Jay Carney's day -- in 8 faces
It's been a very tough day for Jay Carney , who spent his afternoon answering -- or at least fielding -- more than 60 questions from the White House press corps on a series of bad stories ranging from the IRS scandal to the AP phone records dispute to Benghazi. Read full article >> [Washington Post - Politics] ...
ABC Admits That They Never Read Benghazi Emails That They Smeared Obama With
After Jake Tapper exposed ABC's Benghazi email scoop as edited to make Obama look bad, ABC News admitted that they lied to America. They never actually read the original emails.
Stewart Tears Apart Obama: You Can’t Keep Saying You Found Out About News At The Same Time As Us!
Jon Stewart tonight targeted President Obama for his reactions to major administration scandals in the past week and how every time there’s a big news item involving his administration, Obama always seems to have found out about the news at the same time as the rest of the public did. Stewart found it odd that Obama wouldn’t have found out ...
Man dies after having sex with hornet’s nest
This isn’t sexy! Who would think this is enticing? I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one. Here goes: A 35-year-old Swedish man—who is only being named as Hasse—was found dead on his farm outside Ystad after making sweet, sweet love to a hornet’s nest. His body was found by a neighbour, who said Hasse was so swollen ...
Stay-At-Home Dads, Breadwinner Moms and Making It All Work
For decades, the role of breadwinner was reserved for men, but today, more than a quarter of American working women earn more than their spouses. That means more fathers are opting to stay home with the kids.
Study Demonstrates Smoking Pot Doesn’t Cause Lung Cancer, No Matter The Frequency Or Amount
Even regular marijuana smokers will be somewhat surprised by these results. The post appeared first on Addicting Info.
Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
On Tuesday, fierce consumer advocate and needler of banks Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out Wall Street regulators for their habit of giving tepid punishments to misbehaving banks, and asked the agencies to justify their policy of settling with the wrongdoers out of court. Warren sent a letter to the Justice Department, as well as to the Securities and Exchange ...
'If he were a woman, they'd be calling him the weakest speaker in history'
Watching House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) make strange comments this morning about the IRS controversy reminded me of something House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Chris Hayes the other day about the Speaker: "If he were a woman, they'd be calling him the weakest speaker in history." Asked why, Pelosi added, "Because nothing's getting done." That's true. We've talked ...
Leader Of Loaded Gun March Compares Himself To Gandhi
On July 4, Adam Kokesh hopes to lead 1,000 protesters armed with guns into Washington, D.C. to advocate for open carry. In Kokesh’s eyes, a crowd armed with guns compares to the nonviolent civil disobedience practiced by Mahatma Gandhi. Kokesh answered the Washington Post through a series of text messages: Suppose the D.C. police, as they have promised, block the ...
Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'? | David Dennis
The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can't easily relate to On 3 September 2005 – less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast – I began to understand that America cared little about what was happening in New Orleans. I was an undergraduate at Davidson College in North ...
A rapper’s red scare
Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco, who once called President Barack Obama a terrorist, is known for his outspokenness, provoking debates about politics, government and rap. In March, the on-again-off-again Twitter user drew fans in with a spirited Twitter discussion over violence in rap with socially conscious rappper Talib Kweli. But Fiasco's Twitter presence is now at threat, as his management ...
Liberal groups received same IRS letter that ignited Tea Party outrage
The maelstrom over the revelation that the IRS targeted anti-tax Tea Party groups applying for tax exempt status for scrutiny is showing no signs of slowing down, with Republicans seeing their chance to milk a scandal for political purposes. But while the politics is heating up, some important context is emerging, like the fact that liberal groups were targeted as ...
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
When you hear about foam in the context of food, you might think of molecular gastronomy, the culinary innovations of the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, who's famous for dishes like apple caviar with banana foam. But this post is about a much less appetizing kind of foam. You see, starting in about 2009, in the pits that capture manure under ...
Inspector General finds a confused, mismanaged IRS
Getty Images Following Rachel's reporting last night, an inspector general's report on the Internal Revenue Service sheds new light on the scrutiny political groups received when applying for tax-exempt status in recent years. The IG's materials are online here and here (pdf), but let's review what we now know. Ezra Klein had a good take on this. Much of the ...
Michele Bachmann Was Right!
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has been telling Minnesotans for years that gay marriage could find its way into the state if they didn't act to stop it. On Tuesday, Bachmann's prediction came true: Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) signed a bill that had been passed by the state Legislature, including by lawmakers who had worked alongside then-state Sen. Bachmann. Bachmann ...
