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								<title><![CDATA[O'Reilly: Media Did Not Focus On John Kerry's Wealth ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Bill O&apos;Reilly does his &quot;Talking Points&quot; segment on how the media didn&apos;t focus on John Kerry&apos;s wealth, but how they are now focusing on Mitt Romney&apos;s wealth. ]]></description>
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								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>O'Reilly Factor</category>
								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:28:59 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA["Hannity" Special: How Much Do Americans Really Know About Obama? ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ FOX News&apos; Sean Hannity and a panel of conservative guests take an &apos;in-depth&apos; look at President Obama and his past. Later in the show, FOX News asks people in the street what they think of Obama&apos;s past after reading passages of his autobiography to them. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:19:14 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Krugman: GOP Congress Trying To "Bring Down America" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Paul Krugman on Republicans in Congress: &quot;Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles, Manchurian candidates for I don&apos;t know who -- if their real job is to bring down America because they&apos;re really are doing the best they can.&quot; ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/19/krugman_gop_congress_trying_to_bring_down_america.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444709</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Martin Bashir</category>
								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:12:24 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson: "Four Years In Office Is What I Call Vetting" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Mother Jones&apos; David Corn and the Washington Post&apos;s Eugene Robinson join Hardball to talk about anti-Obama conservatives&apos; obsession with resurrecting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, and conservative claims that President Obama was never properly vetted. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/19/eugene_robinson_four_years_in_office_is_what_i_call_vetting.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444708</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Hardball</category>
								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:06:03 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Krauthammer: Biden "Needs An Adjustment In His Medications" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I have no idea what the hell he&apos;s talking about,&quot; syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about Vice President Joe Biden&apos;s rant against Romney at a campaign event earlier this week.

&quot;Speaking as a layman, I think he needs an adjustment in his medications,&quot; Krauthammer said on the &quot;Special Report&quot; panel this Friday. &quot;This makes no sense whatsoever. He says, &apos;what rich person, what any person has said the middle class doesn&apos;t have any dreams or not have any dreams and denies it?&apos; I have no idea what this is about, except a rant against the rich. And the irony of it, at the beginning of the rant he starts by saying he&apos;s out their to refute the charge and that he and other Democrats are resentful envious class warriors and then he says, &apos;I resent the rich&apos; as a way of refuting that. I&apos;m not sure he even knows what he&apos;s saying.&quot; ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/19/krauthammer_biden_needs_an_adjustment_in_his_medications.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444707</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[ckbidenmeds_444707]]></video_guid><category>Special Report</category>
								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 13:11:36 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Maher: If I Had A Son "I Hope He Would Act Like" Trayvon Martin ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;There is lots of new evidence that was made public this week in the Trayvon Martin case. He did have marijuana in his system, a drug that has never made anyone on planet Earth violent. And at the moment that he confronted, or was confronted by the wannabe cop loser who was stalking him, turns out he probably did beat the dog shit out of that guy. I just want to say if I had a son he would not look like Trayvon Martin, but I hope he would act like him,&quot; Bill Maher said on Friday&apos;s broadcast of his HBO show &quot;Real Time.&quot; ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/19/maher_if_i_had_a_son_i_hope_he_would_act_like_trayvon_martin.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444706</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[maherlooklikehim_444706]]></video_guid><category>Real Time</category>
								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 12:56:42 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Rather: "My Goal Was To Be An Honest Broker Of Information" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Bill Maher: And the book, &apos;Rather Outspoken,&apos; it&apos;s a funny title to me because when I watched you all those years, I thought of you as a straight down the line journalist. You certainly weren&apos;t in the world we are in today of FOX News and MSNBC, you just reported. What do you think of opinion news by the way?

Dan Rather: Well, look, it&apos;s a free country and I think it has it&apos;s place. It&apos;s not my kind of journalism, it&apos;s not what I&apos;ve dedicated myself to and I appreciate you saying that. When I was in the anchor chair and a field reporter before that, my goal was to be an honest broker of information. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 12:00:21 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Sen. Johnson Gives GOP Weekly, Slams Obama For Economic "Failure" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ GOP: In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) discusses Senate Democrats&apos; refusal to pass a budget.

Sen. Johnson says: &quot;It has been over 3 years since the Senate passed a budget. Think about that. Even though families and most businesses produce budgets to help control their finances, the largest financial entity in the world is operating without one. Why? Because Democrats in the Senate refuse to be held accountable. They either don&apos;t have a plan, or they simply do not want their fingerprints on one.&quot;

He adds: &quot;For his part, President Obama has done nothing to encourage the Senate to pass a budget. Just this week in the Senate, the President&apos;s budget lost by a vote of 0 - 99. Last month, it failed in the House by a vote of 0 -- 414. And last year, his budget lost 0 - 97 in the Senate. This is a stunning repudiation of his leadership.&quot;

He concludes: &quot;We can do better than this. America should do better. It is time to return to the values and principles that made this country great. I grew up in an America that valued hard work and celebrated success. America became the economic engine of the world, not because of government, but because millions of Americans had the freedom to pursue their dreams. We can reclaim this heritage once again and build a society where hard work is rewarded and every American has the opportunity to succeed. Republicans are ready, willing, and able to lead this noble effort.&quot; ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/19/sen_johnson_gives_gop_weekly_address_slams_obama_for_economic_failure.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444704</guid>
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								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:28:41 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Obama Weekly Address: GOP, Lobbyists Delaying Wall St. Reform ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ For the past three and a half years, we&apos;ve been fighting our way back from an historic economic crisis &amp;quot;&amp;ldquo; one caused by breathtaking irresponsibility on the part of some on Wall Street who treated our financial system like a casino.  Not only did that behavior nearly destroy the financial system &amp;quot;&amp;ldquo; it cost our economy millions of jobs, hurt middle-class families, and left taxpayers holding the bag. 

Since then, we&apos;ve recovered taxpayer dollars that were used to stabilize troubled banks.  And we&apos;ve put in place Wall Street reform with smarter, tougher, commonsense rules that serve one primary purpose:  to prevent a crisis like that from ever happening again.  And yet, for the past two years, too many Republicans in Congress and an army of financial industry lobbyists have actually been waging an all-out battle to delay, defund, and dismantle Wall Street reform. 

Recently, we&apos;ve seen why we can&apos;t let that happen.  We found out that a big mistake at one of our biggest banks resulted in a two billion dollar loss.  While that bank can handle a loss of that size, other banks may not have been able to.  And without Wall Street reform, we could have found ourselves with the taxpayers once again on the hook for Wall Street&apos;s mistakes.

That&apos;s why it&apos;s so important that Members of Congress stand on the side of reform, not against it; because we can&apos;t afford to go back to an era of weak regulation and little oversight; where excessive risk-taking on Wall Street and a lack of basic oversight in Washington nearly destroyed our economy.  We can&apos;t afford to go back to that brand of &amp;quot;&#152;you&apos;re-on-your-own&apos; economics.  Not after the American people have worked so hard to come back from this crisis. 

We&apos;ve got to keep moving forward.

We&apos;ve got to finish the job of implementing this reform and putting these rules in place.

These new rules say that, if you&apos;rea big bank or financial institution, you now have to hold more cash on hand so that if you make a bad decision you pay for it, not the taxpayers. 

You have to write out a &amp;quot;living will&amp;quot;&#157; that details how you&apos;ll be wound down if you do fail. 

The new law takes away big bonuses and paydays from failed CEOs, while giving shareholders a say on executive salaries. 

And for the first time in our nation&apos;s history, we have in place a consumer watchdog whose sole job is to look out for working families by protecting them from deceptive and unfair practices.

So unless you run a financial institution whose business model is built on cheating consumers, or making risky bets that could damage the whole economy, you have nothing to fear from Wall Street reform.  Yes, it discourages big banks and financial institutions from making risky bets with taxpayer-insured money.  And it encourages them to do things that actually help the economy &amp;quot;&amp;ldquo; like extending loans toentrepreneurs with good ideas, to middle-class families who want to buy a home, to students who want to pursue higher education. 

That&apos;s what Wall Street reform is all about &amp;quot;&amp;ldquo; making this economy stronger for you.  And we&apos;re going to keep working &amp;quot;&amp;ldquo; to recover every job lost to the recession; to build an economy where hard work and responsibility are once again rewarded; to restore an America where everyone has a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.

I believe the free market is one of the greatest forces for progress in human history; that businesses are the engine of growth; that risk-takers and innovators should be celebrated.  But I also believe that at its best, the free market has never been a license to take whatever you want, however you can get it.  Alongside our entrepreneurial spirit and rugged individualism, America only prospers when we meet our obligations to one another; and to future generations.

If you agree with me, let your Member of Congress know.  Tell them to spend less time working to undermine rules that are there to protect the economy, and spend more time actually working to strengthen the economy.  Thanks and have a great weekend. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:25:48 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA["Real Time" Panel On Greece, Debt Crisis In Europe ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ CNBC&apos;s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, host Bill Maher, Fmr. Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ), Dan Rather, Joel Steil and Jeremy Scahill weigh in on the Euro debt crisis in the &quot;Overtime&quot; portion of HBO&apos;s &quot;Real Time.&quot;

&quot;I think that we can look at Europe and say if we don&apos;t curtail our spending in someway -- we have more time than they do. They&apos;ve run out of time but we have time and we should look at that,&quot; Caruso-Cabrera said about the financial situation in the U.S. and in Europe. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/real_time_panel_on_greece_debt_crisis_in_europe.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444694</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:32:07 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Facebook Stock Tips From Toure And Krystal Ball ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Toure and Krystal Ball tell us what we should know about the Facebook IPO. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/facebook_stock_tips_from_toure_and_krystal_ball.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444693</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Dylan Ratigan</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:24:46 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[RNC Chair Priebus: Obama "In Love With The Man In The Mirror" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I want to talk about the economy, I want to talk about jobs and I want to talk about this president&apos;s failures in fulfilling promises that he made. Look, this president&apos;s in love with the man in the mirror and what comes out of his mouth but what he&apos;s not in love with is following through for the American people. We know that. People can&apos;t put a full tank of gas in the car. They&apos;re not buying groceries the way they ought to. People aren&apos;t making what they should. I&apos;ve got a feeling, just a hunch, that the president has a whole lot to do with that and people hold the CEO and the man in charge of this country accountable. And look, Stephanie Cutter said in a video that was released today from last week that the economy is a challenge. That&apos;s why the president doesn&apos;t want to talk about it,&quot; RNC Chair Reince Priebus said on CNN&apos;s &quot;Situation Room&quot; today. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/rnc_chair_priebus_obama_in_love_with_the_man_in_the_mirror.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444692</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[manmirrorreince_444692]]></video_guid><category>The Situation Room</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:55:33 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[American Crossroads Ad: Obama Adds Himself To Bios Of Presidents ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ American Crossroads: America&apos;s fourth greatest President strikes again. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/american_crossroads_ad_obama_adds_himself_to_bios_of_presidents.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444691</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:10:03 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Obama Deputy Campaign Manager: Economy "Will Continue To Be A Challenge" For Us ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I have to say also there are also disadvantages to being an incumbent. The economy, you know, will continue to be a challenge as we continue to fight out this race over the next six months,&quot; Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in the past week. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/obama_deputy_campaign_manager_economy_will_continue_to_be_a_challenge_for_us.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444690</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:16 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Politico, MSNBC: Is Race Involved With Ethics Complaint Against Black Reps? ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Politico&apos;s Manu Raju appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to talk with guest host Craig Melvin about a possible racial element behind five black members of Congress being targeted in an ethics investigation. 

MSNBC&apos;s Melvin seemed caught up with the racial aspect in the case.

&quot;Are black lawmakers being unfairly targeted for ethics investigations in Congress?&quot; he asked Raju.

&quot;Five black lawmakers currently under scrutiny in some shape or form by the Ethics Committee. First of all, is this an unusual number?&quot; Melvin also asked Politico&apos;s Raju. Read the transcript below.

&quot;Are black lawmakers being unfairly targeted for ethics investigations in Congress?&quot; MSNBC&apos;s Craig Melvin asked. &quot;Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is now calling for members of the House Ethics panel to temporarily step aside. The Congressman, writing a letter, saying in part, quote, &apos;I write to express my deep and abiding concern with the protracted length, abnormal number, motive, and fairness of pending matters.&apos;&quot;

Five black lawmakers currently under scrutiny in some shape or form by the Ethics Committee. First of all, is this an unusual number? 

Raju: Well, that&apos;s what Cleaver wants to find out. There are at least five, remember the Ethics Committee is a very secretive committee. There could be even more. And the question is whether or not there are.

You know, Cleaver, there are questions about whether this is racially motivated or not and a lot of these members are senior members of Congress, people who have been around for a long time, people who have been targeted over the years, and when you&apos;re that senior and you&apos;re that powerful, sometimes things like -- you get hit with some ethics complaints. 

The other question is whether or not it&apos;s coincidence and Cleaver thinks it may not be. 

Melvin: The Congressman cited the case specifically of Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) who has been under investigation for the better part of three years. Are there no rules covering investigations like this and how long they could drag on? 

Raju: They could drag on for years. That&apos;s part of the concern that Waters has. It&apos;s very critical for her, remember she is in line to become the top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, a very powerful committee if the Democrats win control of the House, she would become chair of the committee. 

If this investigation were to continue to drag on, it could be difficult for her to ascend to that spot potentially. Her critics could use that against her. She think she&apos;s been unfairly targeted, of course this has to do with allegedly back in 2008 she improperly intervened on behalf of a minority owned bank in which her husband served on the board and owned stock. She said she didn&apos;t do anything wrong and she says that this investigation has been completely mishandled and there&apos;s an outside council investigating this investigation right now as well. 

So, look, these can drag on for a while and these are very uncomfortable for members of Congress because they get dragged through the headlines on this. 

Melvin: Last question, Congressman Cleaver has called on Ethics to make their affidavits, specifically in the Waters investigation, to make those affidavits public. Would transparency in these investigations be a good thing or could it open a whole new can of worms and undermine the process?

Raju: The concern is it could undermine the process. If all the times there are little pieces of information floating in the press or someone says something about an investigation, suddenly it could blow up into a major story, even if there&apos;s maybe nothing there, that&apos;s the concern that lawmakers have. At the same time, folks want to know are my members of Congress being looked at for potentially doing something unethical? It&apos;s a fine line they have to balance.

At the end of the segment, Melvin had to apologize for showing the senior Jesse Jackson instead of his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., in a graphic of the five members of Congress under investigation. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:41:14 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Lovitz: Obama Selling A "Victim Mentality" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;What I find is he&apos;s hypocritical with saying, you know, &apos;the 1% don&apos;t get us,&apos; and he&apos;s a multi-millionaire now. &apos;You know, they&apos;re not paying their fair share of taxes, now I&apos;m going over to George Clooney&apos;s house to get money from millionaires and billionaires,&apos; and he collected $15 million,&quot; Jon Lovitz said on &quot;Hannity&quot; last night.

&quot;&apos;Wall Street are the bad guys, but now I have to go to a dinner with Wall Street people to get money for my campaign,&quot; Lovitz said as if he were Obama.

&quot;I just think he should, instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, &apos;Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let&apos;s look at what you&apos;re doing, let&apos;s teach you how to succeed. Let&apos;s give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims, a victim mentality is what he&apos;s selling and nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed,&quot; Lovitz said. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/lovitz_obama_selling_a_victim_mentality.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444688</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:02:45 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Malkin On NATO: When Was The Last Time A Tea Party Needed Riot Police? ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Michelle Malkin: It does raise this question, and I think we all know the answer of when the last time a Tea Party event required thousands of riot police to guard against anarchy? It&apos;s never happened. And that&apos;s why it still irks me that there are supposedly good faith people out there that make these moral equivalencies between the Tea Party protesters and this increasingly violent and anarchic occupy movement.

The Occupy people will be there in Chicago. They&apos;ve been gearing up for this, pretty much all year and there is a blurred like, Neil, between the people who pose as mainstream, peace-loving occupiers black bloc types who are professional agitators. And who have caused, in the past several years, millions of dollars worth of property destruction and damage in the name of protesting global injustice, and of course protesting capitalism itself. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/malkin_on_nato_when_was_the_last_time_a_tea_party_needed_riot_police.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444687</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:16:19 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[CNBC On Facebook: Underwriters Will Come In To Support $38 ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ CNBC reporter: Here&apos;s one interesting point I want to make for the guys that you deal with in the 5:00 hour. I mean, one guy just told me he thinks this is going to become a huge day trading story. That trading the momentum around the stock is going to be very easy to do and it&apos;s going to become incredibly popular trade. 

Melissa Lee: Especially if you believe that the underwriters will come in to support $38, you know that&apos;s the floor in the stock. There&apos;s no downside pressure on the stock. There&apos;s no short-selling, there&apos;s no options, that&apos;s it. So you&apos;ve got a range that you&apos;re playing right now. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Biden Doesn't "Blame People" For Voting For A Felon Over Obama In WV ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Reporter: In the West Virginia primary a lot was made that this guy in a Texas prison cell was able to grab 40% of the vote in the presidential primary. What do you make of that?

VP Joe Biden: Look, I come from a household where whenever there is a recession, somebody around my grandpop or my dad&apos;s table lost their job, a brother, a sister, a friend, or a neighbor. When you&apos;re out of work, man it&apos;s a depression. A lot of people are still hurt because of this God awful recession that we inherited that cost 8.4 million jobs before we could get going. And so, I don&apos;t blame people. They&apos;re frustrated, they&apos;re angry. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/_biden_doesnt_blame_people_for_voting_for_a_felon_over_obama_in_wv.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444685</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:47:33 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Romney Outlines "Day One" In First Ad ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Romney: Mitt Romney has outlined a bold agenda to spur economic growth and create jobs. On his first day in office, he will approve the Keystone pipeline, introduce pro-growth tax reforms, and repeal Obamacare. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/romney_outlines_day_one_in_first_ad.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444669</guid>
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								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:46:38 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Dionne: There Is An Effort To Keep Liberal Catholics Off Catholic Campuses ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Chris Matthews and E.J. Dionne discuss Kathleen Sebelius being invited to speak at Georgetown University. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/dionne_there_is_an_effort_to_keep_liberal_catholics_off_catholic_campuses.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444658</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Hardball</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:01:11 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Klein: Romney Has Forgotten What Republicans Thought Of Bill Clinton ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Ezra Klein and Jared Bernstein discuss Mitt Romney&apos;s comments about Bill Clinton. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/klein_romney_has_forgotten_what_republicans_thought_of_bill_clinton.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444657</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:52:48 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[O'Reilly: The Working Class Has Real Power In America ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ O&apos;Reilly says the Obama administration is trying to &quot;demonize&quot; the rich. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/oreilly_the_working_class_has_real_power_in_america.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444656</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:47:41 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA["Special Report" Panel On America's Demographics ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ The panel discusses America&apos;s changing demographics. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/18/special_report_panel_on_americas_demographics.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444655</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:46:23 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Warren: Scott Brown Doesn't Want To Talk About "Real Issues" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Ed Schultz, MSNBC: His (Scott Brown&apos;s) campaign right now, seems to be focusing on one issue, claims about your heritage. Your response to that?

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senate candidate: Right. You know, I think it&apos;s clear that Scott Brown and the Republican Party would rather talk about anything other than real issues that are going on in this country. They don&apos;t want to talk about how the financial regulations have not been adequate to keep banks like JP Morgan Chase from loading up on risk. They don&apos;t want to talk about the votes last week, to double the interest rate on student loans. They don&apos;t want to talk about how America&apos;s families are getting hammered. They don&apos;t want to talk about how it&apos;s not a level playing field, they just want to find something else to talk about. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/warren_scott_brown_doesnt_want_to_talk_about_real_issues.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444654</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[3942xwarrenednatmay17_444654]]></video_guid><category>The Ed Show</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:27:14 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Matthews: Romney Slamming Wright &amp; Obama Is Attack On "His Race" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ CHRIS MATTHEWS: That was his tribute to Black History Month? Whacking at the guy for his minister. Whacking at him for his philosophy and his religion? What, he was allowed to do it in February? And now he&apos;s declaring this, &apos;oh, we don&apos;t attack each others religions&apos; in May. Why do you so loosely let him skip away from the standard he set? Trash the guy&apos;s religion! And his race, perhaps, in this regard. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/chris_matthews_romney_slamming_wright__obama_is_attack_on_his_race.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444653</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[matthewsblackhistorymay172012_444653]]></video_guid><category>Hardball</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:09:33 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Krauthammer: Super PAC Ad Is Legitimate, Romney Wise Not To Run It ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I think it would be completely legitimate but I think Romney is wise not to do it,&quot; syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer said tonight. &quot;Look, I think there is an appalling double standard here. Its ok for The Washington Post to run a 5,000-word front page story on a prank that Romney, at the age of 15, committed. And yet it&apos;s somehow illegitimate, the low road or whatever for people to bring up the fact that the adult Obama had a 20-year relationship with a racist, anti-American preacher whom he considered, spoke about, wrote about as his mentor and spiritual advisor. That is a double standard unlike any I&apos;ve ever seen. Now John McCain accepted it in his campaign.&quot;

&quot;I think it&apos;s mistake and I think it&apos;s legitimate in a case of a man unknown as Obama to ask, where there was no history, there was no legislative achievements or signature, intellectual achievements. He wrote two books that were both about himself incidentally, which might have been a clue. But other than that, we didn&apos;t know him and [it is] illegitimate to ask about his associates? How else would you know him? Him and William Ayers. But McCain accepted it. I thought it was a tactical error and I understand the noble intent that was behind it,&quot; Krauthammer said on the &quot;Special Report&quot; panel segment tonight.

&quot;But today, I would say tactically it&apos;s a mistake because we know who Obama is. He isn&apos;t the unknown of &apos;08. He&apos;s got a record and you don&apos;t have to bring it up. But in principle, if you wanted to, it would be completely legitimate and I think the double standard ought to be denounced rather than accepted as everybody including Romney does,&quot; he said. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/krauthammer_super_pac_ad_is_legitimate_romney_wise_not_to_run_it.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444652</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[ckwrightmay172012_444652]]></video_guid><category>Special Report</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:45:45 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Hannity To Romney: Do Not Ignore The Rev. Wright Audio ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Sean Hannity, on his radio program today: &quot;I just disagree with Governor Romney on it and let me just make a couple of points here. Nobody has to tie Obama to &apos;somebody who is like family to me,&apos; Jeremiah Wright because Obama has already done that himself in his own voice quoting rights incendiary statements. Writing books from his sermon. The Audacity of Hope.&quot;

&quot;&apos;White folks greed runs a world in need.&apos;&quot;

&quot;You know, he likes so much he borrowed the title for a second book. So, you know, to say that is not relevant, I think is wrong. To say that it needs to be repudiated in people shouldn&apos;t talk about it, well I think John McCain made that mistake back in 2008. I think a full vetting of the president while focusing on the main issues: The economy, national security can be done. There is plenty of air time here. There&apos;s plenty of time to discuss all things. After all Governor Romney, they&apos;re going after your record back in 1965 and I think is more knowledge better for the American people are is a bad for the American people? I think it&apos;s it&apos;s good.&quot; ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/hannity_to_romney_do_not_ignore_the_rev_wright_audio.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444649</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:35:48 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Fireworks: Martin Bashir And Koch Representative Battle ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ MSNBC&apos;s Martin Bashir interviews Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/fireworks_martin_bashir_and_koch_representative_battle.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444648</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Martin Bashir</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:07:47 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Rubio To Geithner: The Crisis Is Not Admitting There Is A Crisis ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) addressed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner&apos;s recent comments that there is no crisis, saying, &amp;quot;I think for the Secretary of the Treasury to say that there is no crisis when this government will again this year spend over a trillion dollars more than it takes in, I think that right there is the crisis.&amp;quot;&#157;

RELATED: Geithner: &quot;I Don&apos;t Understand&quot; Why Debt Ceiling Debate Is Back ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:48:57 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Geithner: "I Don't Understand" Why Debt Ceiling Debate Is Back ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ U.S. Treasury Secretary speaks with the PBS NewsHour&apos;s Jeffrey Brown Thursday at Marlin Steel Wire Products, a factory in Baltimore. Transcript below.

JEFFREY BROWN, PBS NewsHour: Here we are again this week where the debt limit question has bubbled up. Do you see --

TIMOTHY GEITHNER: Can you believe it?

JEFFREY BROWN: Can you believe it?

TIMOTHY GEITHNER: I can&apos;t. I can&apos;t. I don&apos;t understand it. I don&apos;t understand it.

JEFFREY BROWN: You can&apos;t because, you can&apos;t understand because --

TIMOTHY GEITHNER: Because look at how much damage it caused the country last August. I mean, it was terribly damaging for the country. And the idea you can govern effectively at this time in American history -- you know, we&apos;re fighting wars. We&apos;ve got a major financial crisis in Europe. We have all of these challenges for the rest of the country with political politicians threatening to default if we don&apos;t adopt a partisan political agenda. It&apos;s deeply irresponsible. There&apos;s no basis for it. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/geithner_i_dont_understand_why_debt_ceiling_debate_is_back.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444646</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:46:22 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Ben Stein: Obama Not That Smart ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &amp;quot;I would say he&apos;s a smart man. I mean, he&apos;s not in the same league of presidential genius as Nixon, for example, but he&apos;s smarter than the average bear, as they say,&quot; Ben Stein said on FOX News&apos; &quot;O&apos;Reilly Factor&quot; last night. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/ben_stein_obama_not_that_smart.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444645</guid>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:58:34 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Carville, Matalin Star In Maker's Mark Commercial ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Text: It isn&apos;t about the Tea Party. It isn&apos;t about the Green Party. It isn&apos;t about the Independent Party. It isn&apos;t about the Libertarian Party. It isn&apos;t about the Democratic Party, and it isn&apos;t about the Republican Party, but it is about The Cocktail Party! Maker&apos;s Mark proudly supports The Cocktail Party. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:52:31 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Toure On Summer Death: Kill Disco Movement Put People In The Closet ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I have never seen a movement in America to crush a musical genre in a way that this almost organized anti-disco movement rose up and people wearing death to disco t-shirts and really what Donna Summer and others were doing,&quot; cultural critic Toure said about the death of Donna Summer on MSNBC today.

&quot;And it was almost like, you know, &apos;get back in the closet, you can&apos;t have something for yourself.&apos; And it reminds me of the discussion around marriage equality, &apos;You can&apos;t have this for yourself. You can&apos;t be out and normalized in the public, you must be in the closet and quiet about what you love,&apos;&quot; he added. ]]></description>
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								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Andrea Mitchell</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:41:54 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh: Biden Went Nuts In Ohio ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ RUSH:  It&apos;s working!  It&apos;s working!  We&apos;re coming back!  We&apos;re coming back!  Jobs are starting to come back. This is off the rails.  Oh, by the way, news flash just breaking on the Bloomberg wire.  Hewlett-Packard considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, 8% of its workforce. The day after Joe Biden says things are really starting to come back, signs of life and hope in the heartland, jobs are starting to come back, the ones that are coming back, the kind of jobs you can build a middle class family on.  Hewlett-Packard laying off 8% of its workforce.  Again, there are very few times I wish this was a television show.  This is one of them.  I wish you could see Biden&apos;s eyes.  It&apos;s hard to describe with inoffensive language.  He just doesn&apos;t seem all there, folks, and the theories abound that he&apos;s trying to save his spot on the ticket here, that he&apos;s really worried. ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/rush_limbaugh_biden_went_nuts_in_ohio.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444642</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Rush Limbaugh</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:06 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Tapper: Difficult To Tell Difference Between White House And Campaign ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Here you have the President attending a fundraiser ah of the president of Blackstone group, not just a member, but (a) the president who presumably made money off of the same deals and (and) (and) I just didn&apos;t understand the difference between good private equity firms (acceptable ones) and bad ones,&quot; ABC&apos;s Jake Tapper said on Laura Ingraham&apos;s radio program today.

&quot;It&apos;s difficult, in an election year to the tell the difference between the White House and the campaign,&quot; he said. ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:46:02 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Biden On Auto Bailout: Obama Closed Plants, Laid Off Workers ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ VP Joe Biden: &quot;In the president&apos;s sense of a distressed company, he says everybody is in on the deal. GM and Chrysler had to make some tough decisions. They shed some dealerships, they closed plants -- two in my own state. Auto workers lost their jobs, a heck of a lot of them. Bond holders, bond holders -- the so-called big guys -- they lost money, too. But everybody was in on the deal.&quot; ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:39:17 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Romney: Obama Campaign Based On "Character Assassination" ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Mitt Romney holds a press conference to respond to a report that a Republican group planned to run ads against Obama linking him to Jeremiah Wright.

&quot;I read the article on the aircraft. As I read the article, I want to make it very clear, I repudiate that effort. I think it is the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign. I hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues and about a vision for America. I&apos;ve been disappointed in the president&apos;s campaign to date which has focused on character assassination,&quot; Romney said at a press conference.

&quot;I just think we&apos;re wiser to talk about the issues of the day,&quot; Romney added.

CNN reports: Billionaire Joe Ricketts on Thursday rejected an ad proposal by high-profile Republicans billed as a provocative campaign against President Barack Obama that would run around the Democratic National Convention.

Earlier Thursday The New York Times reported Republican strategists were working with billionaire Ricketts to run commercials &quot;linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.&quot; ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:18:25 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA[Obama Campaign's Stephanie Cutter Again Calls Out Rove's "B.S." ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Karl Rove&apos;s group Crossroads is spending $25 million from secret donors to tear down the president in a new ad. Time to tear this thing apart,&quot; Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in a new web video.

&quot;So another special interest attack ad, another set of outright distortions and another time when I need to ask you to do what you do best: get the president&apos;s back,&quot; she said. &quot;Karl Rove is relying on you to do nothing to call out his B.S., and I know you&apos;ll prove him wrong.&quot; ]]></description>
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								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:26:31 -0500</pubDate>
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								<title><![CDATA["Morning Joe": WH Not Engaged ]]></title>
								<description><![CDATA[ Morning Joe panel discussion on how the White House is not engaged with the Congress after Obama&apos;s budget failed 99-0 in the Senate (May 17, 2012). ]]></description>
								<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/17/morning_joe_wh_not_engaged.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">700444637</guid>
								  <video_guid><![CDATA[]]></video_guid><category>Morning Joe</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:22:35 -0500</pubDate>
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