As he ordered sandwiches for a speaking event, the president said that mortgage refinancing would guarantee “an extra $2,000 in [a family's] pocket. Then they can buy more hoagies or go shop for some outstanding organic foods.” The president was speaking at a small business roundtable attended by the owners of D.C.-based Taylor Gourmet and Yes! Organic Markets. The sandwiches cost him a pretty penny, the Free Beacon reports:

The president spent $62.79 on sandwiches at Taylor Gourmet, and ordered a foot-long “Spruce Street” hoagie, “which has roast turkey, prosciutto, roasted red peppers, and sharp provolone,” according to the pool.

Watch President Obama order some hoagies (seriously…I know…slow news day) below:

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Apparently, an enterprising campaign staffer or consultant got into Biden’s coffee. That, or they finally persuaded him that soft-talking, commanding-presence Biden was not playing well:

One thing I do resent. I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in. I resent the fact that they think we’re talking about – we’re envy. That it’s job envy, it’s wealth envy, that we don’t dream.

Contrary to the tone of his speech, the Vice President was forced to scale back his dreams mid-sentence:

My mother believed and my father believed, that if I wanted president of the United States – I could be, I could be vice president of the United States.

The above quote has the dubious distinction of being the moment where Biden exhibited the most forethought of his career. He managed to correct himself less than a quarter second after a gaffe, thus nullifying the sound bite. Well played, Mr. Vice President.

My mother dreams as much as any rich guy dreams. They don’t get us. They don’t get who we are.

Applause, ladies and gentlemen, for 2012’s most ham-tacular campaign stop performance. In the roll of righteously aggrieved populist slash spectacularly wealthy and powerful office-holder: Joe Biden.

Remember during the 2012 cycle, when tea partiers across the nation were capturing the national zeitgeist with their angry town halls and protests, the talking heads were universally wondering why President Obama was not exhibiting the same flavor of rage?

Obama heard the message and, in a scripted moment of faux-perturbation, told NBC through pursed lips that he was traveling to the Gulf Coast amidst a catastrophic oil spill to learn “whose ass to kick?”

Yeah. That’s what this feels like.

One part manufactured rage mixed with few dollops of sound bites – unfortunately, the frothy stew that the Obama campaign was concocting was doomed from the start. The very mixing bowl into which they poured their latest concoction was tainted. Behold, “Angry Biden.”

I await the viral internet meme that will form around this episode in three… two… one…

Watch Biden’s rambling, gambling revival speech below:

h/t The Blaze

Said Huckabee:

Listen, you’re a person of faith and so am I. In his administration and now on his re-election campaign, President Obama has surrounded himself with morally repugnant political whores with misshapen values and gutter-level ethics.

The letter also announced “Obama Fundraising Watch” — which will go through Obama’s fundraising, scouring “every single line for fraud and abuse.” It adds, “When we find it…and we WILL find it…The whole world will hear about it.”

Huckabee said Obama’s fundraising “sent chills down my spine,” that he’s going to raise and spend “ONE BILLION DOLLARS.” And where is he getting that money? From “a mishmash of shady characters, corrupt contributors, far left bankrollers and financiers.”

He states, “My friend, I don’t trust President Obama. Do you?”

BuzzFeed later noted, “Jeff Marschner, a spokesman for Citizens United, ‘categorically denies’ the letter was sent by his organization.”

(H/T BuzzFeed)

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Kimmel described an argument that he had with Walters following the WHCD. Kimmel says that Walters was not happy about a joke that he made at the WHCD which lampooned her famous speech impediment.

The Stern Show hosts asked Kimmel to reiterate his joke, which he said was “talking about technology and, you know, how far we’ve come.”

“20 years ago, a ‘tweet’ was something Barbara Walters gave her dog,” said Kimmel recounting the joke. “She’s sitting in the office…”

“She thought that was bad,” asked Stern.

“She was unhappy – she even complained about it on the show the next day,” said Kimmel.

“What did she say,” Stern followed up.

“She said that she didn’t think it was funny and there was some reference to a physical handicap,” said Kimmel. “I don’t know if she’s considered handicapped.”

“She gets to park in that special spot,” said co-host Robin Quivers.

“And then they asked her to say it,” said Kimmel. “’Say treat three times in a row,’ and she’s like ‘tweet, tweet, tweet,’ and everyone claps like oh, see, there’s no speech impediment there.”

Meanwhile, Walters is unlikely to have exhibited nearly the outrage over a joke that Kimmel (probably wisely) decided not to tell at the WHCD.

Watch the segment below via SiriusXM:

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There’s not much to explain in the clip, because it’s all in Conrad’s look of horror: after pouting and noting that she is “so pale,” she is told she is actually on air, pouting about being pale. Her expression genuinely afraid, she begins to give a weather report without a hitch about the snowstorms near Seattle. It’s hilarious and unscripted and a reminder that we’ve all had one of those days.

The clip via ABC Texoma below:



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Hunter says that the president called him to make sure their relationship is going to be okay following the airing of the Robin Roberts interview in which Obama officially endorsed state-sanctioned gay marriage. When Mitchell asked the reverend if he had previously counseled Obama on the subject of gay marriage, he said no:

I’m a pastor in his life. So I don’t really talk to him about politics or policy. I just talk about his personal life and his understanding of the scripture. But he knew where I was on this. And that’s why he was calling, and I told him in the call, I can’t find this in scripture. [...] His basis for decision wasn’t just scripture. It was anecdotal. He talked about the friends he has and, of course, the servicemen. And he has a real heart in his role as president. Everybody has a quality. So, for him, that translated into marriage. For those of us who believe God defines what marriage is, that doesn’t translate.

Despite their disagreement on whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry, Hunter said that he understands where the president comes from and that Obama is a “very serious man”:

He wants to do the right thing. But for him, that doesn’t come straight just from scripture. For those of us are biblically obedient Christians, it does. For those who interpret scripture out of relationships and cultural trends and so on and so forth, there are other considerations that he made.

Clip below, via MSNBC:

Kelly kicked off the segment noting Obama’s answer on The View when asked how tight he thinks this election will be. He replied, “When your name is Barack Obama, it’s always tight” — with Joy Behar chiming in, “Hussein.”

In 2008, Monica Crowley said, the election was not close. “He’s trying to go back to what worked for him back then, but the problem for him now,” she said, “is that he has an actual record to run on.” To suggest that the people won’t vote for him because of his race or name, Crowley added, is insulting to the American people, and “bigoted in its own right.”

This is an opportunity to address the role of race in politics, Sally Kohn said. None of us want racial bias to be a factor, she said, but nonetheless race does play a role. Obama will be judged on many things, including his record, Kohn added — but to say he’ll also be judged on his race “is accurate.”

Crowley countered, that the U.S. remains a “merit-based and performance-based society.” She added, “This president has been an abysmal failure.” Kohn shot back by noting that Obama has improved the economy and added jobs, that his record is not completely lacking in that area.

Kohn further noted that had Hillary Clinton become president, we’d be judging her by her gender. But, Kelly noted, Obama had overwhelming support in 2008, and was the same color then. Crowley said the remark was “desperate,” and an attempt to change the subject away from substantial conversation.

The segment ended on a lighter note, recalling the time in 2008 when John McCain referred to Obama as “that one” — and Obama went on to joke about it.

Take a look, via Fox News:

Barbara Walters explained that Mitt Romney had already been on the show once, back in 2010, and that they were hoping he would appear again. She said she believed that his staff was currently going over dates.

And while they joked that some people were less friendly to conservatives than others (*COUGH* Joy Behar *COUGH*), Whoopi Goldberg said that she always enjoyed political guests whether they were Democrats or Republicans because all the ones who have come have had “a great groove to them.”

So, yes, I really buried the lede in this post. This was, officially, the first time anyone has ever, in the history of mankind, used the word “groove” while talking about Mitt Romney.

Watch the clip from ABC below:

(h/t HuffPo)

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According to Nielsen, 20/20 has beaten Dateline in its hour 14 out of the 19 hours that have been on this year in both total viewers and the key 18-49 demographic. It did even better among 25- to 54-year-old viewers, beating Dateline 15 out of 19 total hours this year. For those counting, that’s a victory almost 75% of the time in both total viewers and key demographics. It also grew in total viewers 7%, and among the key demos 19% (25-54) and 17% (18-49).

The numbers are not out of the blue; 20/20 has benefited significantly from a big push for exclusive coverage– co-anchor Chris Cuomo‘s exclusive interviews with Stefanie Mack and Tyler Clementi roommate Dahrun Ravi, extensive coverage of the Josh Powell murders, the aforementioned Costa Concordia, and a number of exclusive crime stories that go into the players and investigation in depth.

When the oil spill that happened in the spring of 2010, there was another moment to say, “Hold on a second, let’s re-look at energy policy in America. Should we be subsidizing companies that are risking our health immediately and in the long-term?” We didn’t do it. You’ve never seen the environmental movement more quiet during an oil spill. I guarantee you if John McCain had been president, with that oil spill, or George Bush had been president with that oil spill, I’d have been out there with a sign protesting. I didn’t, because of who the president was.

Pretty much the greatest unintentional description of partisan hackery since…ever. When people so closely identify with party politics and their leaders, then most issues become “My Idiot vs. Their Idiot,” instead of the actual questions at hand. Take, for instance, how much of the anti-war movement has suddenly disappeared since Obama took office, despite his policies mirroring many of Bush’s.

However, Jones does go on to say that he regrets the partisan blinders he once wore:

Well, that’s a bad, uh, that’s not good for the earth, it’s not good for the cause, it’s probably not good for the president. It’s certainly not the way we should conduct ourselves. And so, I’m very tough on progressive movements and leaders, including myself, who did not stand on principle, based on who we looked across and saw as president.

Hindsight is indeed 20/20, Mr. Jones. Once a Republican is back in office, you’ll be back at it again…protesting for the very same reasons you would have — but didn’t — under Obama.

And I’m sure the staunchly anti-war liberals who’ve suddenly gone silent under Obama will bemoan their silence once a conservative hawk is back in the Oval Office, parroting the same exact policies but with a distinctly Republican spin.

Clip below, via C-SPAN:

(H/T The Blaze)

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Lovitz explained that his background wasn’t a lavish one, but middle class, where his father told him, “after college, you’re on your own.” He reviewed the situation– explaining an anecdote of himself yelling at the President through the TV screen over saying rich people “don’t pay their fair share”– and doing a podcast about it. “Like Arnold Schwarzenegger says, nobody stops you in America,” Lovitz noted, and he felt that spirit threatened by the attacks on rich people from the chief executive. “I said what a lot of people are thinking,” he told Kelly, and explained that “a lot of people are thanking me… they feel like they are being vilified because they are successful.” He noted that he said the President was “amazing” in the rant, but that would never make the news.

As for pushback, Lovitz went as far as saying it may have helped his career, and explained that he would “never tell anybody who to vote for.” “I think I’m a different kind liberal in that I think people should be true to themselves… if you’re Republican or Democrat or conservative, you should be that.” Saying he was not “qualified” to tell people who to vote for, he noted he had about 10,000 new twitter followers, and there, “people say you’re a racist, you’re a Nazi– I’m Jewish, I’m a Nazi now– I mean, that’s the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard!”

The interview via Fox News below:

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During an interview with Montreal D.J. Aaron Rand on CJAD, Dean was discussing “geographic boundaries” when an audible impact occurred.

“I’m going to have to… goodbye… We just got hit by a car,” said Dean. He said that neither he nor the other driver experienced any injuries as a result of the accident.

Rand later recalled his thoughts to Openfile.ca: “I heard a thud and I figured somebody had just dropped something in the car,” said Rand. “Then I heard somebody say, ‘Oh no!’”

Listen to the segment below via CJAD:

h/t Talking Points Memo

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Beck played a clip of Matthews wondering if Palin had the intellectual capacity required to excel in a format like that of Jeopardy:

If she [Palin] were on Jeopardy right now and the topic were government – American government generally defined – would she look like an imbecile or would she look okay? Does she know anything?

I’d like to see her on a few episodes of celebrity Jeopardy. or It’s Academic with Mac McGarry. Just see if she knows anything.

While setting up the clip, the hosts continued to hear the “hoof beats” of an approaching stamped of what Beck characterized as “something bad” coming for Matthews.

They then played a clip of Matthews’ recent appearance on Jeopardy, but stopped themselves midway through his introduction when they learned that he was a speechwriter for former President Jimmy Carter. “Now I feel like a bully,” said Beck. “Now it’s unfair.”

“And he was a dietician for Jeffery Dahmer,” mocked co-host Pat Gray.

“He was the exercise coach for Pavarotti,” tagged Beck.

Back to Matthews’ Jeopardy performance, where he wrestled with the answer format before finally settling on the correct “what is” response after three attempts to answer the question, “at blank, soldier.”

“It starts with that’s Alex Trebek mocking him,” said Beck. “Pay attention now, dummy.”

Beck plays another clip of Matthews stumbling over the answer to the question, “full name of the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.”

“Gary Powers,” Matthews responded twice before the answer was stolen by CNN reporter Lizzie O’Leary who correctly answered “who is Francis Gary Powers.” Beck said that he, too, would have failed to answer that question correctly.

They proceeded to play several clips of Matthews failing to correctly answer questions, including “how many letters” in the word Istanbul, and eventually losing to former White House Press Sec. Robert Gibbs.

“I think Jeopardy is actually pretty hard,” said Beck. His co-hosts agreed, but mocked Matthews for suggesting that Palin would be so intellectually deficient that she would perform miserably on the program.

Watch the segment below via Glenn Beck TV:

h/t NewsBusters

Yes, thanks to Jest, we can now listen to what a Fifty Shades of Grey book on tape would sound like if Gilbert Gottfried was the one reading sexy lines like “slowly he inserts his thumb inside me, rotating it around and around.” Who wouldn’t want to pay for that?

Honestly, I’d buy it just to pretend it was actually written as Aladdin fan fiction. Oh, Iago! You naughty, naughty bird!

Watch the video from Jest below:

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Politico‘s Dylan Byers took a look at the rankings by number, and found Beck tied at #11 with Elton John for the most money made this year– an impressive amount, especially given that in 2010, at the peak of Beck’s fame, he made a comparatively paltry $32 million (and was on the cover of Forbes for it). Continuing to go down the list of most successful financially, one will find among those ranked below Beck Donald Trump, Lady Gaga, Roger Federer, and Beyoncé.

While his fame– or at least fame as considered in the political pundit world– has diminished somewhat, Forbes explains that his network, GBTV, really paid off, and that his publishing company is stronger than ever.

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In a segment on CNN deabating which presidential candidate voters would like more, Phillips asked her panel guests if voters would choose Obama or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the person they would most like to sit down and “have a beer” with them.

“While certainly personality does play a role in electing a president, we’ve seen that happen, I don’t think it plays a major role in electing a president,” said Dowdell. She says that despite the slow economic recovery, President Obama has been a “steady hand” and contrasts strongly with Romney.

“The main Republican argument against this President is he didn’t fix the broken mess left by a Republican president’s policies fast enough,” said Dowdell. “We don’t have a rich people aren’t rich enough problem.”

Wright responded by saying she agreed with Dowdell. She said that the election will not be about personalities, it will be about the economy and that is why Romney is pulling ahead in the polls.

“The President continue to run on personality, because that is all he has,” said Wright. “I’m going to say something that’s going to upset some people right now – the President from day one, starting in 2008, ran on his race. And when he got elected, he keeps going back to ‘I’m the first black president,’ to c from the American people and boost his personality polls.”

Dowdell said she was surprised by Wright’s response, because she says it is usually Republicans who are continually admonishing Democrats for “playing the race card.”

Watch the segment below via CNN:

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“Homosexuality is the one sin, the one habit, that is 24/7,” Cameron explained on the program. “While I’m not sure about the claims by the various people who have reported that Obama has at least participated at times with them in homosexual acts, this certainly lends some credence.” He did not elaborate on who the “various people” are, but the most “reliable” source a Google search could turn up on this is World Net Daily, so perhaps it’s best he didn’t try to justify this one.

He then went on to explain the “homosexual movement,” with which he appeared to be intimately acquainted (as an expert of course):

Mark my words clearly; the long term goal of the homosexual movement is to get every little boy to grab his ankles and every little girl to give it a try. They will not rest until every one of our children at least gets to try, has the opportunity and maybe is forced to at least once experience homosexual acts. There is no retreating from that, they made it very clear earlier on—now they don’t take about it—but that’s what they want, they will not be happy until they get it, marriage is just a step along the way.

It isn’t hard to see how this happened– how the more fringe anti-Obama elements decided that his declaration was a confirmation that he was secretly gay (hey, Newsweek did the same thing, albeit less maliciously and more metaphorically).

The clip from the Crosstalk program below:

[h/t Right Wing Watch via Queerty]

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Tennessee attorney John Wolfe, who is an official candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012, is drawing a surprising amount of support among Arkansas voters in the state’s fourth congressional district.

A Hendrix College-Talk Business poll of Democrats from May 10 showed Wolfe drawing 38 percent support to Obama’s 45 percent. 17 percent of fourth district Democratic voters remain undecided in that race. The poll sampled 418 likely Democratic voters and has a +/- 4.8 percent margin of error.

Talk Business notes that the poll was taken the day after President Obama’s highly publicized interview with ABC in which he expressed support for gay marriage rights.

Wolfe told Weekly Standard that “the momentum is good.”

Wolfe predicted that the voters would move his way in the final days before the May 22 primary, despite his shoestring campaign budget. “There’s not been a single TV ad. There’s not been a single radio ad,” he said.

Wolfe is also on the ballot in Texas’ May 29 Democratic primary.

h/t Weekly Standard

“So how about Mitt Romney, now he is against it,” Leno noted.

“Mitt Romney, I bet you if you put Mitt Romney in front of a gay organization, he would go, “Boy I like gays. I’m all for gays,” she ribbed.

“They are the right height,” joked Leno. “Gays are the right height.”

“I like the height on the gays. They are a great height,” Sykes added. “Exactly. He says whatever should be said in front of that organization. He’s like the Forrest Gump of candidates. He was in Michigan. ‘I like cars. My wife has a car.’ You know? He was in Wisconsin, ‘Had myself a grilled cheese sandwich today. That was nice.’ I would love to see him in front of NOW (National Organization of Women). Boy, women, boy I like women. You know, my wife has a vagina. I like that. I like that.”

Watch Sykes rip Romney below:

(h/t Newsbusters)

The president’s DNC acceptance is scheduled for September 6th in Charlotte, North Carolina. The same night that the likes of Justin Bieber and Katy Perry will gather at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to accept moon-men statuettes. According to CNN, however, MTV now plans to move its scheduled airing so as not to conflict with Obama’s speech:

An MTV spokeswoman told CNN the station would air the awards from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, rather than their usual 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. “to avoid conflict with the Democratic National Convention proceedings that evening.”

The Obama campaign had no comment.

Before any conservatives interpret MTV’s decision as proof-positive of the network being “in the tank” for the president, let me say that this is proof-positive of one thing: the free market in action. The acceptance speech will be a highly-watched affair, and the businessmen at MTV don’t want to risk the lower ratings by airing during a conflicting time slot.

That’s not to say that MTV isn’t in the tank for the president in other ways. They probably are…given their demographic. But sorry folks, this just isn’t an example.

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Curry quizzed Cohen about why he very seldomly spoke to the media as himself.

“Well, the movies I did up to now, they involved real people,” Cohen revealed. “And so we wanted to limit the exposure for lawsuits. At the moment, I think I have the Guinness Book of World Record for being the most sued actor in history. But basically if people saw that I was me, and that Borat was not a real person beforehand, they could injunction the movie and shut the movie down. This is a different kind of movie.”

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Curry asked Cohen what The Dictator was satirizing in particular.

“Well, you know, firstly it’s a comedy movie,” Cohen explained. “So the movie is there to be as funny as it can be. which is the same with all the movies. but the subject of the satire, of all these preposterous dictators who are feared in their own country and rule using violence and suppression are ludicrous characters. At the moment they’re being overthrown. Anything you can do to mock them and undermine that kind of false authority, I think is a positive thing.”

“You actually sought out terrorists to figure out how to be that character,” Curry noted. “That just sounds so risky?

“That was actually in Bruno…I interviewed a few terrorists, which was a little bit risky, yeah.”

“Did it help for The Dictator?” Curry pressed.

“The dictators, usually they fund terrorist groups. But I did do some research for this, yes. i mean it kind of backfired on Bruno because I had a terrorist group came after me and you know, decided to — to seek their revenge. But they haven’t got me yet. That’s why i’m here hiding in Cannes.”

Watch Cohen’s rare out-of-character interview below via NBC:

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It took about four words into the interview for Maher to drop the phrase “ejaculate in a vagina” in relation to Mitt Romney (unnecessary, but arguably relevant to gay marriage?), followed by “It’s two in the afternoon! We can be adults, can we?” O’Brien and Maher then tried to figure out just what Newsweek was on about when calling President Obama the “first gay president.” Maher understood how Clinton was the “first black president”: “he played saxophone… ate McDonald’s,” but with President Obama, he asked, “what does he do that’s gay?” The image of the President as a “gay angel” also didn’t do it for Maher: “why not just short-shorts and a penis-shaped lollipop?”

Maher then went on a bit of a rant about Mormonism after calling the claim that marriage is a “cornerstone of our civilization” a “rectum-derived statistic” (“that’s a very specific kind of think tank,” offered Andy Richter), stopping himself to add that “you know how I feel about religion– it’s all batshit,” but that Mormonism was “so stupid that Tom Cruise would not join it and Glenn Beck did.” The crowd reacted coolly to some jokes (“You know how it’s Mormon dogma? It’s strapped to the roof of the car”), with a reception O’Brien called “cheerful booing,” diffused as O’Brien explained that, as a Catholic, he was taught that “you eat a cookie and turn into Jesus.” Maher helpfully offered that this was not the way Transubstantiation works.

In the second half of the interview, the two discussed the bullying accusations against Romney, which Maher began to describe as Romney “leading this gang” before O’Brien cracked up imaging Romney as a gang leader. Maher also argued that he didn’t see the social issues to be particularly important, as the economy was considered the top issue in the election cycle until it “started getting better and Republicans went to Plan B: calling women ‘whores.’”

The interview via TBS below:

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“If you go to the White House official website, you will find biographies of all the presidents,” said co-host Steve Doocy. “All of these biographies were written by Michael Beschloss and Hugh Sidey. And they have been just the biographies of each of these presidents until recently when this White House decided to inject some of President Obama into the biographies of a whole bunch of president’s that he wasn’t directly involved in.”

Co-Host Gretchen Carlson read some edited portions of the presidential biographies from the White House website. The first was a portion from the biography of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations

Co-Host Brian Kilmeade read a portion of the edited biography of President Ronald Reagan:

In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary… Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.

Carlson said that edit was inaccurate, and Reagan did not call for additional taxes. Doocy read a statement from the Republican National Committee which called the Obama White House’s moves part of a “culture of narcissism.”

He went on to display a series of photographs from the RNC which portray Obama in great moments in American history, including on the surface of the moon with astronaut Neil Armstrong, In the Kennedy White House with Robert and John F. Kennedy discussing the Bay of Pigs invasion and alongside Teddy Roosevelt at the battle of San Juan Hill.

Watch the segment below via Fox News Channel:

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He was first asked about CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, who Williams described as being suspiciously “sunny” in his disposition. “Life’s too short, if you feel like something a dog left on the sidewalk, say it,” said Williams.

Williams had great praise for the CBS and ABC News teams. Letterman, in turn, complimented Williams on his Rock Center special on the assassination of the Osama bin Laden.

Letterman drew applause from the audience when he said that he felt Obama had demonstrated “great courage and great intelligence” when he “gunned down” bin Laden and asked “what more do you want to lead your country?”

Williams said that most uniformed military personnel would tell him under the Bush administration that bin Laden himself was not a priority. “What you now find out, interviewing everyone in that picture, that of course it was a priority but it was a renewed priority when President Obama came into office,” said Williams. “He inherited a different set of circumstances – combat was winding down, arguably, at least the first if not the second.”

Letterman said that circumstances in Obama’s first term were worse than those for Bush, so “why didn’t he go after him?”

Williams outlines just how low the chances were that Obama could have been able to corner bin Laden where he was in Pakistan.

Letterman questioned why Obama should not be able to use the killing of bin Laden as a campaign tool when he believed Bush’s team would have done the same thing in that position. “Remember the Iraq war, “mission accomplished,” well holy ****, the mission was not accomplished,” said Letterman. “They put a banner up on the SS Lincoln, George flies up on the thing. He was very cute.”

“What more do we want this man to do for us, honest to god,” asked Letterman to applause.

“And there you have it,” responded Williams.

The segment concluded with a discussion on gay marriage and Letterman attempting to get to the bottom of his confusion as to why some would oppose same-sex marriage rights.

Watch the segment below via CBS:

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“I don’t want another question about flooding, I don’t want any more questions about being vice president, and these kids! These kids with all these questions! I can’t take it anymore,” an exasperated Gov. Christie tells the camera as his aides suggest yet another town hall meeting. He decides to come up with a better idea, and heads to Newark from Trenton.

When he shows up in Newark and asks if he can help with any trapped people, “fires or problems or anything,” but is shooed away while the Mayor receives a venerable to-do list of disasters. Among the good deeds on Booker’s list today? Putting out a fire, shoveling snow, saving a falling baby and even making a critical guitar donation to a crippled Bruce Springsteen concert. How could Christie compete?

The sketch makes a bizarrely (for New Jersey politics) warm-hearted full circle, where Booker finds himself answering a call from Mitt Romney about being his Vice Presidential choice and has no idea how to respond. “Don’t worry, Mayor,” Christie interrupts, “I’ve got this.”
It’s got high production value, high cuteness value, and sets a brand new precedent in New Jersey politics for the “keep your friends close, your enemies closer principle”—after all, Booker would be a Democratic frontrunner should he choose to run for governor. For anyone who recalls the viciousness of the past gubernatorial campaigns (Corzine’s offensive on Christie was almost exclusively comprised of “but he’s fat!”), the collaboration will certainly come as a surprise. For the national media, though, the takeaway will be obvious: if Mitt Romney comes knocking on Christie’s door, he’ll answer with a cool, “I’ve got this.”

The video (via Christie’s YouTube account, of course) below:

Responding to Obama’s critical look at media sensationalism, Hannity said, “Somebody may want to remind the president, it is his administration that is responsible for a lot of those scandals.” Calling Obama a “cry baby,” he added, “Man up. Put your pants on, sit at the table. He got everything he wanted and he’s blaming ATM machines that were created in the 1980s.”

The discussion opened up to the panel, and Hannity was joined by Jennifer Stefano, a Tea Party activist, and Chris Hahn, a Democratic strategist. Hahn argued that every president has lamented that the media only covers bad news, including George W. Bush during his eight-year presidency.

Stefano interjected to express what she disliked about the speech in general. “When it wasn’t smacking of the pulpit, it was smacking of paternalism and pretention,” she said. Mocking Obama’s “lecturing women,” she said — after smacking down Hahn, saying she’s playing her “gender card” — her favorite line was when Obama said women have to fight not just for a seat at the table, but at the head of it. “Mr. President, weren’t you the guy who took out Hillary Clinton in ’08?” she asked. “An under-qualified male got a job from a far more qualified, far intellectually superior female.”

Amid Hahn and Stefano’s loud banter of sorts, Hannity interrupted, asking to go through the issues slowly. He then pointed out that Obama had a majority for two years, during which he got everything he wanted including health care and passing his budgets. And now? No jobs and an additional $5 trillion in debt. But he blames everyone but himself, Hannity said.

With the mention of jobs, the panel again grew heated, as Stefano immediately pointed out the largest group of people dropping out of the workplace are women. She again criticized the way Obama addressed women during his address. Hahn responded that Stefano is very “entertaining.”

Stefano asked, “Aren’t we as Americans better than this? Better than what this president is doing?” The vehement disagreement over debt and spending led once more to increased volume from all sides, before Hannity noting they were out of time.

Hannity turned to Greta Van Susteren‘s preview of her show, only to find that Van Susteren was thoroughly amused when she put in her earpiece and hear the demand to put pants back on. Oh, cable news.

Take a look, via Fox News:

The story originated with a blog post on the Obama campaign’s Keeping GOP Honest website. The post, entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors,” listed seven donors, including Frank Vandersloot, who was noted as being “a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”

Maddow noted that Vandersloot has said his business has suffered following this attack on him — and that Fox News is simply trying to gin up a scandal that portrays the president in a bad light. The message the network is trying to send, she said, is “Private citizens, if you donate to the Mitt Romney campaign, the president of the United States is coming after you.”

Fox has done five segments on the story, three of which Vandersloot was part of, Maddow noted. Yet this attack isn’t solid on more levels than one, she said. First of all, Vandersloot is a Romney campaign official, which makes him a public figure. But Fox was so excited to have a possible Obama scandal, she said, that they rushed to run the story before fully understanding it.

Maddow recalled that she did a segment with Vandersloot back when he was opposing a documentary about homosexuality, arguing that it has no place in the classroom. It’s not a smear, Maddow said, because his thoughts about gay rights are on record. In the past, he’d given Maddow a statement saying he supports equal rights but doesn’t support sexual concepts introduced to young students.

Furthermore, Maddow played a Fox segment that mixed Vandersloot up with the Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberley Strassel. The segment portrayed Strassel as the victim of the smear, when in fact, she’d simply written a column about Vandersloot.

Not stopping there, Maddow moved on to Vandersloot himself — who Fox is referring to as a target of “political terrorism” — and accused him of rewriting history. Since this story has been circulating on Fox, Vandersloot has been saying he’s seen the negative effects on his business following mention of him on the Obama campaign’s blog.

Maddow contradicted that. Following her story about him in March, she said, Vandersloot sent her an angry letter in which he said her reporting was inaccurate and that the story had negatively affected his business. That was far before the Obama campaign had mentioned him in April, Maddow observed, adding that he’d essentially made the same complaints months ago.

Maddow invited Vandersloot on the show, but received a response that said she knowingly spread false information about him. Later, he agreed to possibly phone in. Welcoming confrontation, Maddow challenged Vandersloot to come on the show and explain what she’s reported incorrectly.

So this story is possibly to be continued (and if it sounds convoluted and a little confusing, well, it is).

Take a look, via MSNBC: