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Fox News apologized not once but twice Saturday night for false statements about European Muslims made repeatedly during the network’s broadcasts last week. Because Fox disseminates lies and misinformation so regularly and apologizes so rarely, the fact that it issued two “wea culpas” on the same night — albeit during the weekend while no one was watching — appears to be significant. Of course, Fox is not revealing why it issued the apologies, nor whether it did so under pressure and, if so, from whom.

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Americans’ Satisfaction With Security From Terrorism Is Down

January 19, 2015 Buck Banks

59%

Americans’ who are satisfied with the nation’s security from terrorism, down 10 percentage points from 69% last year, and back to its 2008 level, according to Gallup.

Kaiser Poll: Republicans Love Obamacare

January 17, 2015 Jon Ponder

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Government Small Enough

January 16, 2015January 16, 2015 Pensito Editors

The Republicans: Dedicated to Making Government Just Small Enough to Fit in Your Vagina.

Noonan: There Is No Such Thing as ‘Romneyism’

January 16, 2015January 19, 2015 Buck Banks

There was something known as Reaganism. It was a real movement within the party and then the nation. Reaganism had meaning. You knew what you were voting for. It was a philosophy that people understood. Philosophies are powerful. They carry you, and if they are right and pertinent to the moment they make you inevitable. … There is no such thing as Romneyism and there never will be. Mr. Romney has never encompassed a philosophical world. He has never become the symbol of an attitude toward government, or an approach to freedom or fairness. “Romneyism” is just “Mitt should be president.” That is not enough.

— Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal.

GOP Developing Oppo Research on Bill and Hillary Clinton

January 16, 2015 Buck Banks

Listen, we’re writing a Hillary Clinton book now, we have a research team that’s in Little Rock, so we’re not going to be shy about it… We’re going to be active. We’re going to get whatever we have to to share with the American people the truth about Hillary and Bill Clinton.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, telling Bloomberg that the Republican party has already started a major opposition research effort against Hillary Clinton.

Year: 2015

In Interview with Mike Huckabee, Jon Stewart Plays Clip of Huck Jamming on ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ with Ted Nugent

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Even Their Fans are Tired of the New England Patriots Playing in the Super Bowl

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Obama Approval up to 50%

50%

Pres. Obama’s approval rating, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Analysts say the renewed support is largely based on improving economic news. It’s also likely he has rallied his base, especially Latinos, with a series of bold initiatives announced over the past few months.

Did News Corp’s Muslim Billionaire Investor Force Fox News to Apologize for Anti-Islam ‘Errors’?

Americans’ Satisfaction With Security From Terrorism Is Down

59%

Americans’ who are satisfied with the nation’s security from terrorism, down 10 percentage points from 69% last year, and back to its 2008 level, according to Gallup.

Kaiser Poll: Republicans Love Obamacare

Government Small Enough

Noonan: There Is No Such Thing as ‘Romneyism’

— Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal.

GOP Developing Oppo Research on Bill and Hillary Clinton

Listen, we’re writing a Hillary Clinton book now, we have a research team that’s in Little Rock, so we’re not going to be shy about it… We’re going to be active. We’re going to get whatever we have to to share with the American people the truth about Hillary and Bill Clinton.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, telling Bloomberg that the Republican party has already started a major opposition research effort against Hillary Clinton.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%