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On Wednesday, Iowa voters were the first in the union to ink their index finger, so to speak, handing Mitt Romney a win with one of the barest margins in recent history - just eight votes - but for all intents giving Rick Santorum the decisive moral victory.
Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry rounded out the top five. A mediocre cache of candidates in 2012 for sure, but in a lot of ways that makes it all the more frightening, mainly (but not exclusively) for gays in America.
Some 60,000 people caucused for Romney and Santorum; the difference between the two was less than half a Duggar family. That’s the family famous for 19 Kids and Counting, the reality series about evangelical Christians Jim Bob (yes, really) and Michelle Duggar and their brood of nineteen children (yes, really really). Twelve Duggar children travelled to Iowa to support Rick Santorum, trumpeting his socially conservative religious views.
You may not have time to watch this whole interview between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly but it’s worth a look if you get the chance.
Whether you’re actually interested in US politics or media or not, it’s a fascinating and civil exchange between two men who are arguably the two most influential commentators in America (assuming you take Oprah out of the equation).
One is a political satirist turned sometime serious political commentator and the other is political commentator who sometimes sounds pretty funny.
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Ryan says:
O’Reilly for (as interesting as he can be) is a bully who just cant stand the slightest attack on him even though he sits at that perch firing off smears and personal attacks which he claims he never does, “pinheads”, left- wing loons” “bombthrowers”. Fox News isn’t really hard news… Read more »
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Matt says:
when you reside on the far right everything is apparently skewed left (much like how everything is apparently skewed right if you reside on the far left) Read more »
This poster depicting Barack Obama as the Dark Knight Joker is currently causing a stir in America and the rest of the world.
Debate on the subject has been raging online and in papers on what the poster means, from those claiming it shows a backlash against Barack Obama to arguments that it is a popularised racist attack on the President.
But perhaps what is most interesting about the poster is that we’re even surprised that people are now openly mocking the American President. The debate itself is probably an indication of how incredibly popular Obama still is.
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Ben says:
Dick I don’t want to bash America. There will be many books written about why Americans elected Obama, few will find it was a wholehearted endorsement by white America of black America and its politicians. My point about interracial dating is that it an indication of a society’s perception of… Read more »
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