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Is Stephen Colbert‘s satirical presidential run in South Carolina a veiled slap at Mitt Romney? MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell spoke with former Clinton Administration staffer Robert Reich on The Last Call, and examined the mischievous late-night host’s modus operandi.

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Chris Matthews gathered two prominent Democrats in Robert Reich and Bill Richardson and continued to wonder what is President Obama waiting for to propose a jobs program and address the unemployment crisis in America? Matthews suggested he’s been advocating Obama get behind such a plan immediately, but admitted “I don’t know what he watches or listens to.” And hopefully Obama wasn’t watching today’s Hardball, otherwise he might be none too pleased with Matthews’ tongue-lashing about the President making an allegedly inappropriate joke.

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Sarah Palin sure knows how to get the pundits all fired up. With the mere mention of her contemplating a run for President, pundits from across the political spectrum are racing to comment, and are often taking unpredictable stances.

In October, 1991, James Fallows wrote a hilarious takedown of the Economist that ran in the Washington Post’s Outlook Section. The essay attempted to explain why perfectly intelligent people, like Harvard’s Robert Reich (who at the time was in the middle of a squabble with Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson), would say things like: “I, for one, [...]