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The Peace Corps' Most Famous Alumni
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsThe Peace Corps is mourning the loss of Sargent Shriver, the organization's first director and a member of the Kennedy family by marriage. The list of past Peace Corps volunteers includes some now-prominent individuals, several of whom point to their work with the organization as a formative experience in their lives. Surge Desk recalls some of the most famous Peace Corps alumni. Chris Matthews The host of MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" volunteered in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970. Chris Dodd The politician, who ran for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, ...
Palin Rolls Out All-Media, All-the-Time Campaign
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyOver the past few days, Sarah Palin has rolled out a new phase of her political strategy -- a full-blown use of all media platforms to keep herself in the public eye. With the debut of her eight-part family series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," which drew a record-high nearly 5 million viewers to The Learning Channel on Sunday (against Sunday night football and the CBS and ABC hits "Undercover Boss" and "Desperate Housewives''), Palin can chalk up another media victory. But it is a mega-profile in the New York Times Magazine, released online Wednesday in advance of publication in print this ...
John Heilemann's Theory on Why Democrats Won't Fix Social Security
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe full 18-member deficit reduction commission has yet to vote on it, but the two chairmen of the bipartisan group President Obama's appointed -- former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson -- released their proposal last week. One part of the plan includes gradually raising the Social Security retirement age (for full Social Security benefits) to 69 by 2075. Predictably, liberals were angry at the commission. In fact, some bloggers dubbed them the "Catfood Commission." When you consider a) how bad our financial situation currently is; b) that ...
Chris Matthews Criticizes Obama for Using Teleprompter
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn Wednesday night's edition of "Hardball" (video below), host Chris Matthews echoed criticism of President Obama's Oval Office speech on Tuesday that had previously come from conservatives -- that Obama is too tied to his teleprompter. Matthews said: You know, sometimes I really support the president in a lot of his views, in fact all of them almost. But I have to tell you . . . if he doesn't get rid of that damn teleprompter, it's like an eye test. He's just reading words now. It's separating him from us. . . . You go to a meeting with him, I'm told, businessmen are invited to meet him at ...
Lynn Sweet on 'Hardball': Rod Blagojevich Trial in Chicago and Audio Evidence
By Colin McDonald - Politics DailyPolitics Daily columnist and Daily FLOTUS writer Lynn Sweet appeared on "Hardball With Chris Matthews" on Wednesday to discuss the latest news and evidence from the Rod Blagojevich trial in Chicago. Click play below to watch the video: ...
Chris Matthews' Documentary 'Rise of the New Right': A Curveball From the Left
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIf MSNBC was looking to officially become the cable channel of the far left, it may have finally succeeded Wednesday night with the airing of Chris Matthews' documentary "The Rise of The New Right." MSNBC -- the network whose hosts routinely mock Tea Party activists as "Tea Baggers" -- aggressively promoted the documentary, with Matthews appearing on "Morning Joe" and "The Daily Rundown" Wednesday morning, as well as throughout the day. Matthews clearly believes, as "Hardball's" website says, "the new right is an emerging fact of life in 21st century." As such, it was time to launch a ...
Michele Bachmann Confuses Barack Obama for Herself
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyRep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is back in the news with yet another moronic gaffe, which can only mean one thing...It's a day ending in -y.Bachmann, speaking at an anti-tax rally in Minnesota, declared yesterday that President Obama would go down as one of the "greatest dividers we've ever had in the history of our country."Check it out...Although we normally think Bachmann falls somewhere on the sanity scale between Jim Bunning and Vincent Van Gogh, we think she may have a point here.After all, Obama did get about as divisive as a politician can get when he appeared on Hardball last fall and ...
Rick Santelli Whines For 'Respect' From Robert Gibbs
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyRemember big, bad, ranting badass Rick Santelli calling for a crackdown on extra bathrooms? And remember Friday, when Press Secretary Robert Gibbs handed his ass to him? Well, now Rick is soiling his diapers about respect. Here's Santelli on Hardball, whiffing:So, after all of his bitching at the beginning of the clip, when Matthews asks him what the solution is, he wants to redistribute the wealth. Glad we got that cleared up. Tommy on: Daily Dose I I TwitterOrder The Audacity of Democracy Starring Tommy Christopher ...
Senator Chris Matthews?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA new poll of a hypothetical match-up between television host Chris Matthews (D), and Republican Senator Arlen Specter may give "Hardball" fans something to cheer about. According to the findings, Matthews only trails Specter by 13 points, 40%-27%. Matthews, of course, is a talking head who is routinely criticized by people on the left and the right for his often over-dramatic on-air analysis, and his tone-deaf assessment of politics on the written page. But the "Senator Matthews" title has always appealed to Chris, as he told Stephen Colbert:"Well, you know, when you grow up, some kids want ...
Matthews Manhandles Ellen DeGeneres
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThanks to Radar Online for pointing out this train-wreck of a clip from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, in which Chris Matthews appears to get a feeling up both of his legs, then...well, here's Radar's characterization:In this clip from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, blustery Hardball shouter Chris Matthews dances with the cheerful chat hostess to the funk of "Get Up Off Of That Thing" and then appears to choke her as a preparation for bending her over and attempting congress from the rear. There's got to be someone out there for whom this represents the apex of eroticism. The rest of you can consider ...
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