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Polls Show That Many People Apparently Believe Health Care Reform Has Been Repealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Do you remember that time that the House passed a symbolic repeal of the Affordable Care Act, that didn't go anywhere, because Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is still the President of the United States? Now, if you are aware of that vote, riddle me this: Are you left with the impression that the Affordable Care Act was actually repealed? If you answered "No," congratulations -- you are apparently in the smarter four-fifths of Americans.

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Obama Urged To Pardon Tom DeLay ... I Think Because Of Tucson? It's Really Confusing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is well-known for tightly controlling rank-and-file Republicans with his "hammer," and "Dancing" with...

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Virginia Delegate Wants To Bring Back Confederate Money, Or Something

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

As longtime Eat The Press readers may know, I have lived most of my life in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I schlepped around this state for many years...

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SHOCK: Daily Caller Reporter Figures Out Food Stamps Can Actually Buy Food

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

For reasons beyond my understanding, the Daily Caller has a post up today that purports to investigate what a person can buy with food stamps. Well, ...

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Bristol Palin Is Ruining 'Dancing With The Stars' For Sally Quinn

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

God bless the slow week that is the Thanksgiving Holiday, because it's the best possible time to learn what Washington Post etiquette doyenne and prof...

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CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

What's CNN got planned for the upcoming election? Well, like last time, when they summoned animated "holograms" of Jessica Yellin and Will.I.Am, the network will dazzle us with crazy technology until we bleed from the brain.

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Washington Post Will Doggedly Pursue Both Sides Of 'Should Gay Teenagers Commit Suicide?' Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

The Washington Post is just diligently exploring both sides of the issue! You did know that there are two completely rational sides to the debate over teens committing suicide because of homophobic bullying, didn't you?

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Elderly Men Now Just Beating Each Other Up Over Political Yard Signs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

We're in the homestretch of the 2010 campaign season, so you know what that means: thousands of you are planting thousands of yard signs, all over the...

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The Washington Post Invites Anti-Gay Editorial On 'Coming Out' Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Yesterday was National Coming Out Day - a day devoted to supporting the members of the LGBT community who are our family, friends, and loved ones. It...

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Washington Post Reporter Says He Was Elated To Learn Of Homeless Man's Death [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Last week, we made note of St. Petersburg Times reporter Andrew Meacham who, when confronted by callous reader comments on the death notice of Neil Al...

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Oliver Stone Is Apparently Not Clear On The Concept Of 'Blogging'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Of the reasons why one should avoid Oliver Stone's new movie, Wall Street 2: Long Day's Journey Into A Night Of Money Not Sleeping Or Something, I find Stone's treatment of the world of blogging to be the most hilarious.

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Jan Brewer's Debate Disaster Becomes Fodder For Ads (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

It's been a couple of weeks since Jan Brewer crashed and burned in what would end up being the only debate in the gubernatorial race she's in with Dem...

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Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

The story of how one lone idiot, pimping an 18th-century brand of community terrorism, held the media hostage and forced some of this nation's most powerful people to their knees to fitfully beg an end to his wackdoodlery is an extraordinary one.

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Baltimore Sun's Use Of English Language Confuses Readership

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

The Columbia Journalism Review tips readers off to the incredibly true story of that time the Baltimore Sun used a word in a headline that completely perplexed its readership.

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Explaining Jan Brewer's Debate Performance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Yesterday, we brought you word of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her terrible, horrible, no good, bery bad debate performance, in which she entirely spaced on her opening statement. But what really went wrong?

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Jan Brewer Starts Badly, Finishes Worse, In Last Night's Arizona Gubernatorial Debate (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Last night, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer got down to debatin' with her opponent, Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard, and Ben Smith has video of ...

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Jeff Greene, Florida Senate Contender, DENIES Rumors Of Awesome Parties On His Vomit-Caked Mega-Yacht

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Down in Florida, the Democratic primary race between Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene has turned into a full-tilt frenzy over what did or did not go on a...

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Right-Wing Writers Explore The Depths Of Dementia

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

When they stop firing David Frum and start listening to Jon Henke, the right is going to establish some quality media outposts. Until then, we'll all get to enjoy the high weirdness of people like Human Events's David Goldman.

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Shirtless Beer-Drinking White House Staffers Become Politico 'Big Picture' Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Of all the stories that Politico ran today, this one, entitled "Are Obama staffers overexposed?" is, without a doubt, the Politicoiest! Now, you mi...

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David Nesenoff, Rabbi Who Filmed Helen Thomas, Once Imitated A Mexican In Terrible Comedy Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

2010-06-08-linkinspull.jpgIf I had to offer an opinion of the content of the video, I'd say that Nesenoff isn't exactly poised for a future at the Upright Citizens Brigade.

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Gorilla-Costume-Clad Neighbor Creates Today's Great Moment In Photojournalism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

You might not normally be interested in a local news story from the New Hampshire Union-Leader about a beach house that "was gutted this morning after...

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Jonah Goldberg Has Issues With Dragons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

O-kay, here is how we are going to deal with this, in three easy steps: Step One: Michael Brendan Dougherty, January 21, 2010: First, you're obsesse...

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Sally Quinn's Overshare Column Becomes Fodder For Workplace-Issues Live Chat

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Last week, in a puzzling editorial decision, the Washington Post gave in-house social gadfly Sally Quinn the column space to overshare at length about...

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Somehow, This Sally Quinn Column Is Happening In The Washington Post

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

What is happening in the Washington Post today? Is "Sally Quinn" and "massive personality disorder" trending on Google or something? Because there is a column, that is happening in our lives, dedicated to sorting out some sort of mix-up that happened with the weddings of various people, associated with the Family Quinn.