Chris Matthews Beams: President Obama’s Smile ‘Worth Five to Ten Points’ On Election Day
| On Monday's Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews gave President Obama' an early Valentine, fawningly gushing over the political power of his toothy grin. "I think that smile of his is worth five to ten points in the general!" Matthews exclaimed. He added the caveat , "Hs campaign strategists might feel differently." |  |
Live Stream: New York Giants Victory Parade
| On Sunday, the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots, 21-17, in Super Bowl XLVI. It was the fourth Super Bowl victory in the team's history. On Tuesday, the city of New York will honor the champs with a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes, followed by a presentation at City Hall, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present the team with keys to the city. The party will continue into the afternoon, as the Giants will be honored at their home venue in New Jersey, MetLife Stadium. |  |
Karen Handel Resigns As Senior VP Of Susan G. Komen
| Karen Handel -- a controversial figure throughout the debate on Susan G. Komen's decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screening services -- has offered her resignation today. |  |
Gipper Move: President Obama Won’t Unilaterally Disarm On SuperPACs
| The influence of independent expenditure groups like PACs and SuperPACs has become a major factor in this year's presidential election. Consequently, the news that President Obama has decided to encourage donations to the Priorities USA Action SuperPAC is dominating political news today, with handwringing on the left and the right about the President's prior vocal opposition to outside groups. Philosophically, he's just taking a page from Ronald Reagan's book. |  |
Dana Perino Outraged That M.I.A., ‘Not Even An American,’ Performed At Super Bowl
| It is the biggest secular holiday of the year, so naturally much of today's The Five revolved around last night's Super Bowl events. The crew particularly stopped on the first case of indecent conduct during the Halftime Show since Janet Jackson exposed her breast to America: British/Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. giving the finger to the camera, as she does in the music video for the song being performed, "Give Me All Your Lovin'." Most found it vulgar on its face, but Dana Perino objected not to the gesture but to M.I.A.'s presence at all: why would Madonna perform with a rapper who was "not even an American?" |  |
GOP Congressman Fooled By Year-Old Onion Story On Planned Parenthood ‘Abortionplex’
| Back in May of last year, The Onion wrote a silly article satirizing the growing ridiculousness of the charges being levied against Planned Parenthood entitled "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex." Unfortunately, due in part to the anti-PP tidal wave being brought forth by conservative media and the sad fact that there were still people in 2011 that didn't understand The Onion or satire, a number of people thought the article was real, sharing it on social media platforms. |  |
Ann Coulter: ‘Conservatives Should Be Celebrating’ Romney, ‘Most Conservative [Candidate] Left’
| Ann Coulter has spent much of the recent turn of the Republican campaign out and about campaigning for Mitt Romney, and today she took her mission to Hannity, where she even had a story about confronting Romney himself and warning him to be "as right wing as I tell everyone you will be." |  |
Ice Cold: Maria Menounos Loses Super Bowl Bet, Wears Only A Bikini In Times Square
| Poor Maria Menounos. Not only are her eyes seared by Mario Lopez's blinding smile on a nearly daily basis, but she also lost a Super Bowl bet. And, somehow, that meant standing in the middle of Times Square in a bikini. |  |
GLAAD Demands CNN Fire Roland Martin Over David Beckham Tweet
| The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has called out columnist and CNN contributor Roland Martin for a Tweet he made during last night's Super Bowl. |  |
CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield: Would Steve Jobs Have Allowed Apple Sweatshops To Go On? ‘Did He Not Care?’
Joe Scarborough Slams Birth Control Mandate: The Catholic Church Is Being Attacked By Far Left
| On Tuesday's Morning Joe, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski continued to tackle the controversial birth control mandate that has many religious groups and institutions -- such as the Catholic Church -- speaking out against it. |  |
Tom Brady’s Wife Caught Cursing, Blaming Patriots Receivers For Super Bowl Loss
| It's the day after Super Bowl Sunday, so the media is busy wringing every last drop of hype out of its annual High Holy Day, dissecting ads, gasping at MIA's middle finger and Madonna's near-faceplant, and this: Gisele Bundchen, wife of losing Patriots QB Tom Brady, was caught on tape saying, through a barrage of Giants fans' heckling, that "My husband cannot f**king throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time!" |  |
Aasif Mandvi Dishes The Dirt On Jon Stewart: ‘The Man Smells Like Paprika’
| On Monday, CNN took a look at how the Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi became its "Senior Muslim Correspondent" (hard-hitting pieces on the "Terror Aisle," for one) and allowed the comedian a chance to promote Today's Special, a romantic comedy featuring a variety of Muslim characters. |  |
Report: Mitt Romney Hasn’t Answered A Question From A Voter In Three Weeks
Bernie Goldberg Fumes To Bill O’Reilly Over ‘Bigotry On The Right’: ‘I’m Sick Of This’
| After a heated segment on the calls by conservative groups to have Ellen Degeneres removed from a JC Penney ad campaign, Bill O'Reilly invited regular Bernie Goldberg on to talk about the fight between Planned Parenthood and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, to showcase "the other side of intolerance." But Goldberg had a few words to say about Degeneres, too-- namely, that "there is a strain of bigotry running through conservative America" that he was just "sick of." |  |
Bill O’Reilly Compares ‘Witch Hunt’ To Fire Ellen DeGeneres From JC Penney Ads To McCarthyism
| Bill O'Reilly had a particularly pro-Hollywood night tonight, as far as The Factor is typically concerned. After a segment in which he defended Clint Eastwood from claims that his Super Bowl ad was subliminal Obama campaign propaganda, O'Reilly had on Sandy Rios of Family-Pac Federal to explain the call from conservative group Million Moms to get Ellen Degeneres fired as JC Penney spokeswoman, and he was not happy with their argument. "I don't think that's the spirit of America," he objected to Rios, who argued that Degeneres represented immorality. |  |
Newt Gingrich Says He Won’t Sing To Americans Because ‘Obama’s Already Punished Them Enough’
| GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Ohio, was a guest on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, and hit on topics ranging from his disdain for attack ads to a possible rise in the polls for Rick Santoum. Host Steve Doocy, however, started the segment off by asking if Gingrich would ever follow in the footsteps of Mitt Romney and belt out a pro-America tune anytime soon. |  |
Fox & Friends Hosts Spend Three Minutes Talking To An M&M
| Tuesday morning, Fox & Friends welcomed Ms. Brown -- a computer-generated, glasses-wearing candy -- on the show as a guest, to talk about the history of M&M's and basically plug the candy in what amounted to a three-minute commercial. A terrible, awkward three-minute commercial. |  |
Texas Rep. Joe Barton Defends Highway Project After Being Named In Earmarks Report
| The Washington Post has launched an investigation into congressional earmarks, finding that these are sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers' homes -- projects like, in the case of one Georgia politician, securing "$6.3 million in taxpayer funds to replenish the beach about 900 feet from his island vacation cottage." |  |
Romney And Gingrich Advisors Trade Body Blows On MSNBC
| Mitt Romney surrogate and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu went head-to-head with Newt Gingrich campaign adviser Bob Walker on MSNBC Monday morning as the two disagreed on the state of the ongoing GOP race. |  |
