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Al Gore and Current TV hosts Cenk Uygur, Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and John Fugelsang react to Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention.
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Al Gore weighs in on whether George W. Bush should be blamed for the "serious problems in our democracy" and mentions global warming as an example of how the media fails to focus on facts as he leads Current TV's coverage of the Republican National Convention alongside a panel that includes Current hosts Cenk Uygur, Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and John Fugelsang.
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Nobel Prize–winning economist, New York Times columnist and Princeton University professor Paul Krugman analyzes Paul Ryan’s budget with Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm as part of Current TV’s coverage of the 2012 Republican National Convention.
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Al Gore and Current TV hosts Cenk Uygur, Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and John Fugelsang react to the final speeches of the evening — from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ann Romney — at the Republican National Convention.
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Al Gore and Current TV hosts Cenk Uygur, Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm, John Fugelsang and Joy Behar discuss the lack of accountability in today's political climate during Current's coverage of the Republican National Convention.
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Current TV co-founder Al Gore welcomes viewers to Current TV's 2012 convention coverage, which he is leading alongside a panel comprising Current TV hosts Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, Cenk Uygur and John Fugelsang. In this clip, Uygur describes how Current viewers will experience the intersection of TV and social media.
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By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
There are 82 days until the election, and the messaging coming from Mitt Romney's campaign is now "incoherent."
That's according to top Republican strategists and operatives in D.C. — not part of the Romney team — who are increasingly nervous and frustrated about a campaign they believe is coming off the rails. The Romney messaging snafus, they note, have been relentless. Just this week, the Romney campaign repeatedly alternated between embracing Paul Ryan's Medicare plan and distancing Romney from it.By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
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By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
In their first interview together, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan gave CBS News a segment that could have re-aired on "The 700 Club."
When Ryan and Romney spoke, they used more messianic buzzwords and phrases in ten minutes than evangelical preachers sometimes deliver in an hour. Ryan told interviewer Bob Schieffer that he wants "to help get people back on the path in life." When asked about the impact of this race on his family, he said, "We've dedicated much of our lives to saving this country." A few seconds later, Ryan described his career path and said, "I felt a calling to public service."By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
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By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate is just the latest proof that the Romney campaign is in deep trouble.
It's an old axiom in politics that politicians or government leaders issue good news on a Sunday night or weekday to get maximum media exposure. If you have bad news, you release it Friday night or Saturday morning when the media exposure and news consumption will be minimal.
Yet Saturday morning, in Norfolk, Va., there was Romney delivering his pick of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee. I'm told that over the past 48 hours the Romney campaign reviewed the latest polling — including a Fox News poll showing him behind President Obama by 9 points — and decided the bottom was falling off. Months of hammering President Obama over the economy hadn't worked. And the media's continued focus on Romney's record at Bain and his still unreleased tax returns have taken his unfavorable ratings higher than any presidential challenger since polling began on this metric more than 30 years ago.By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
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By Victor Balta / current.com / @VictorBalta
In today's edition of conservatives' willful and enthusiastic disregard for facts, TheTeaParty.net is sharing a photo on Facebook of George W. Bush with a caption that reads:
Unemployment in 2007 when I left office was 4.7% and today almost 4 years later, unemployment is at 8.3%. 17 million were on food stamps when I left office and today 43 million people. Click "LIKE" and "SHARE" if you miss me yet.
As of this writing, nearly 75,000 people "liked" the photo, and another nearly 20,000 shared it.
The problem is that in a span of 34 words (taking out the "Click 'LIKE' and 'SHARE'" bit), there are three blatant lies that render the entire premise of the argument completely invalid. What's worse is that anyone with two minutes, an ounce of intellectual curiosity and the ability to Google something can find out the truth:
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By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
With just 88 days until the presidential election, karma has finally caught up with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
During the Republican primaries, Romney and his super PAC eviscerated GOP primary opponents with a relentless barrage of negative and often misleading ads.
This one, before the Iowa caucuses, hammered Newt Gingrich for all of his "baggage" going into the race. It ripped Gingrich for everything from taking money from Freddie Mac to teaming up with Nancy Pelosi on global warming legislation to supporting taxpayer-funded abortions.
The ad also calls Newt a "half-baked" conservative.By David Shuster / current.com / @DavidShuster
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By Jonathan Kuperberg / current.com
The roster of Republicans calling on Mitt Romney to just release his tax returns already continues to grow.
From pundits to fellow pols, this is no longer a case of the right eating its own. This actually might be conservatives calling for what is fair and reasonable. We never thought we would include Texas Gov. Rick Perry on a list of things that are reasonable, but there is a first time for everything.
1. Texas Gov. Rick Perry – The former presidential candidate is all about transparency — in this case. "I’m a big believer that no matter who you are, or what office you’re running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life so that people have the appropriate ability to judge your background and what have you," Perry said.
2. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley – When Bentley was recently asked if he thinks Romney should release his tax returns, he said: "I do. I release my tax returns. I may be the only public official in Alabama that does, but I release mine every year, and I just believe that people should release their tax returns."By Jonathan Kuperberg / current.com
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By Victor Balta / current.com / @VictorBalta
At a campaign stop over the weekend, President Barack Obama suggested the nation's richest people might have had some help from other individuals and even the government on the path to wealth.
"You didn't get there on your own," Obama said. "I'm always struck by people who think, 'Well, it must be because I was just so smart!' There are a lot of smart people out there. 'It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.' Let me tell you something: There are a whole bunch of hard-workin' people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help!
"There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges."
Right on time, conservatives answered the dog whistle — led by Rush Limbaugh, who fired off the requisite:
"I think it can now be said, without equivocation — without equivocation — that this man hates this country. He is trying — Barack Obama is trying — to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream."
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
Wednesday marked the launch of the first-ever super PAC that supports those who identify as lesbian, the Lesbian Political Action Committee. The LPAC has already garnered support from openly gay celebrities, including actress Jane Lynch and tennis star Billie Jean King.
Although political action funds have certainly become much more specifically targeted in the past year, we wanted to ask the LPAC why a lesbian-oriented fund is necessary at this point in this election cycle.
We talked with LPAC spokeswoman Sarah Schmidt on Wednesday morning:By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
Refreshed from his own posh New England summer vacation, Mitt Romney hit the Hamptons this weekend in a cash grab sponsored by billionaire supporters David Koch and Ronald Perelman.
By sundown Saturday the presumptive Republican nominee had added at least $3 million to his war chest, reports the New York Daily News. By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
Friday's jobs report showed that only 80,000 new jobs were created in June and that the unemployment rate remained stagnant at 8.2 percent.
"Viewpoint" host Eliot Spitzer responded to the figures on Friday afternoon.
"The crisis of job creation continues. We're going to dig into what levers are left for a government that has pretty much pushed every button that is politically and fiscally possible. … So now what?" Spitzer said. "It's a sad state of affairs, the American economy. There’s no wage growth, no job growth.By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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By David Shuster / current.com
Washington, D.C., is now in full speculation mode following Ann Romney's comments to CBS News that her husband is considering several people, including women, for the vice presidential nomination.
Many of my journalism colleagues have shifted into overdrive to try and glean who is on the Romney female "short list." Based on discussions with strategists, political types and informed friends, here are my best bets. Let me be clear, I don't have any firsthand knowledge about the Romney vetting process or the discussions under way in his campaign about a possible woman running mate. Still, in the spirit of this idle holiday week, let the parlor games begin!
1. Condoleezza Rice. I suspect that the former Bush 43 national security adviser and secretary of state is Romney's VP "dream pick." She would help him make crucial inroads with strong Obama voting blocks — African Americans, women and younger voters. Plus, Rice would give Romney some cover for his lack of foreign policy experience. (I know, her warnings about mushroom clouds if we DIDN'T invade Iraq are a historic blight. But trust me, most Republicans don't care — and if they do care, they blame George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.) The bottom line with Rice, however, is that she knows firsthand that the job of vice president is awful compared with that of secretary of state. Instead of traveling around the world and talking about the global policy issues of the day, the VP goes to awful dinners on the home front and asks a lot of folks for political donations.If it weren't for the nice digs at the Naval Observatory and being next in line for the presidency, the job of VP would be a step down from what Condi Rice experienced in the Bush administration. So it's no wonder she has stated repeatedly, most recently to CBS News, that she doesn't want the VP nomination and won't consider it under any circumstances.By David Shuster / current.com
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
The Nuns on the Bus pulled into House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's Virginia office Sunday on what would be the final full day of their nine-state bus tour across the country.
Though the lawmaker had been notified that the sisters would be passing through his district, right in the parking lot of his Glen Allen office to be exact, neither he nor his staff was present for their event. This is the third in a trifecta of rebuffs from Republican lawmakers along this trip that began in Iowa on June 17.
While visiting Wisconsin, the sisters tried to meet with Representative Paul Ryan, whose budget is one of the main things the journey is meant to call attention to. The nuns are hoping to raise awareness of the social injustices inherent in the Ryan budget, which has already passed the House of Representatives.
By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
In a landmark 5-4 decision that was a clear victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld the 2010 health care law on Thursday morning.
The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and held that the law was a valid exercise of the legislature's power to tax.By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
Today is the big day. All eyes, cameras and social media streams are turned to the Supreme Court as they prepare to announce their decision on the Affordable Care Act. As you wait with bated breath, we have a few things you can do to prepare for this landmark announcement besides refreshing your Twitter feed.
1. If refreshing your Twitter feed is all you want to do, The Washington Post has crafted a stellar Twitter list of reporters and influencers to follow for live updates and commentary throughout the morning.
2. If you believe in the power of crowd sourcing, follow Intrade's market predictions. As of this morning the site reported a 71 percent likelihood of SCOTUS ruling the individual mandate as unconstitutional.By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza
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