As we learned last week, name calling of any kind can be both unwise and mean-spirited.After her husband/Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum went back on his comment about President Barack Obama being a snob for wanting everyone to have the opportunity to go to college, Karen Santorum said her spouse should have labeled the presidents actions as snobbish rather than categorize him as a snob.

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On Monday’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough launched into a discussion on voter identification regulations and voter fraud with guest Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orelans and current president of the National Urban League.

Morial argued that restrictions on the kind of identification voters must present are unreasonable and show racial discrimination. “You’re talking about not any ID,” he said. “In Texas, a student ID is no good, but a concealed and carried gun permit is good. This is not just any photo ID, this is a photo ID that meets a certain set of very specific requirements. So 1 in 10 Americans do not have this kind of voter ID.

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On the eve of Super Tuesday, Rick Santorum joined the Fox and Friends crew to talk about his campaigning in Ohio. He also commented on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor‘s endorsement of Mitt Romney, elaborating on how Romney’s economic plan simply wouldn’t accomplish anything.

Keeping to his usual talking points, Santorum mentioned Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts and his support for President Obama‘s plan. He then went on to address the ballot issue his campaign has encountered in Ohio: due to eligibility requirements, he may not be counted in several congressional districts in the state. Santorum quickly dismissed this as a significant problem:

We were able to get on most of the ballots. But we’re not this big of an organization that can spend endless amounts of money to get on ballots that early on in the campaign.

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During Monday’s news updates on Fox Business Network’s Imus In The Morning, host Don Imus went off on Rush Limbaugh‘s weekend apology to Sandra Fluke, calling Limbaugh a “fat, gutless, pill-popping loser.”

Imus expressed anger over Limbaugh’s apology, pointing out that it was done on his website and not in person.

“A lame apology on his website, in which he says he didn’t mean to personally attack her,” Imus said, “is gutless.” Imus took issue with Limbaugh’s “sustained, vile, personal attack” on Fluke over three days, and said that if he’s going to apologize, you have to “go sit down with her” and apologize.

RELATED: Rush Limbaugh Apologizes For Calling Sandra Fluke A Slut

“He’s a fat, gutless loser,” Imus added, “and if I’m running a radio station, he’s not on it… until he does that.”

Later in the show, during another news report, Imus added a few nuggets to his argument.

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This is the kind of story that makes you proud to be an American. A pair of thieves got more than they bargained for when they snatched a cash box full of about $200 in Girl Scout cookie money in a Texas Wal Mart parking lot on Saturday. Scout Iravia Cotton punched one of the thieves in the face through the passenger window of the getaway car, while fellow scout Rachel Johnson jumped on the getaway car, and was dragged as the thieves sped off (she was treated on the scene for minor injuries).

From The Houston Chronicle:

Around 1:52 p.m., a dark-colored, late-model Toyota Camry pulled up next to the Scouts selling cookies outside the Walmart at Grand Parkway and Bellaire.

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The Monday edition of CBS This Morning featured something of a point/counterpoint concerning HBO’s Game Change, with Senator John McCain slamming the film and director Jay Roach fiercely defending it.

Host Charlie Rose asked McCain why he wasn’t going to see the biopic based on his campaign. “Because it’s based on a book that is full of unattributed quotes, things that absolutely never happened,” McCain explained. “And if it’s based on that book — which I was briefed on — then, of course, it can’t be accurate.”

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Gayle King spoke with director Jay Roach later in the program and defended the veracity of his film.

“What’s interesting, there has been a lot of controversy from the Palin camp,” King noted.

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In a wide-ranging appearance on Fox & Friends Monday morning, Donald Trump went through topics ranging from Star Trek legend George Takei to his robocalls in support of Mitt Romney. But he saved his juiciest comments for the end, when he slammed political commentator George Will for saying the Republicans should give up on trying to win the White House and instead focus on winning the Senate and the House.

Host Brian Kilmeade worked the awesome segue from asking Trump to re-tweet himself and Steve Doocy to Will’s comments.

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“What’s your reaction?” Kilmeade asked.

“I think he’s a totally overrated fool,” Trump said.

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GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich was a guest on Monday’s Fox & Friends, and hit on a host of issues, from gas prices to a possible PBS debate. He also took time out to bash the “elite media” for driving the main themes of the 2012 election thus far. Through it all, he managed to work in some obvious digs at frontrunner Mitt Romney.

Fighting through a coughing fit, Gingrich revealed that, tomorrow night, he was going to challenge the other candidates to a debate next week in either Mississippi or Alabama.

RELATED: Gingrich Scolds David Gregory: Why Is Rush Limbaugh The Great National Crisis Of This Week?

“I don’t think that Romney can just hide behind millions of dollars of paid ads,” Gingrich said.

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Al Gore‘s Current TV is taking the next step toward fulfilling its promise of a 24-hour slate of progressive news and commentary with the announcement that the network will debut a morning programming block featuring progressive radio veterans Bill Press and Stephanie Miller. Beginning in early spring, Press will anchor the 6am-9am time slot, with Miller holding down the 9am-12pm hours.

Current will simulcast both hosts’ radio programs, with Press’ Current broadcast to be dubbed Full Court Press, while Miller’s show will be called Talking Liberally: The Stephanie Miller Show. Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Stephanie Miller is a well-known figure among liberals and progressives, thanks to a long broadcasting career that currently finds her on XM’s America Left.

Bill Press is one of the more obvious choices to help launch Current’s foray into dayside programming. One of the few progressive radio hosts to have found widespread success, he’s also a fixture in Washington, DC, a crucial feature if Current is to challenge the dominant (in terms of relevance) Morning Joe.

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On CNN’s Starting Point Monday morning, Soledad O’Brien grilled Republican Congressman Eric Cantor over his recent endorsement of Mitt Romney, asking whether the former Massachusetts governor was a “true conservative.”

“Sounds like you’re saying the economy, the economy, the economy. I’m curious to know if you’re also saying that by your support, it’s really Mitt Romney who is the true conservative here,” O’Brien questioned.

“Mitt Romney — again — Soledad, not to be repetitious, but he’s got a plan,” Cantor said. “There is no plan like his. There’s certainly no plan like his coming out of the White House.

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In a post titled “Rush Limbaugh Isnt the Only Media Misogynist,” Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers (who had been a very outspoken voice against former congressman Anthony Weiner for what she characterized as the “sociopathic” and “misogynistic” behavior he demonstrated upon being outed for conducting inappropriate online communication with various women) notes a double standard in the way those on the right — like, say, Rush Limbaugh — are held to account for instances of misogyny versus those media personalities on the left.

“[I]f Limbaughs actions demand a boycottand they do,” she asks, noting that even more groveling should still be required on his part, “then what about the army of swine on the left?”

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Powers recalled several instances of gross misogyny committed by big names on the left, including Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Matt Taibbi, Chris Matthews, and “the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny”,” Bill Maher. She highlighted instances where Maher went after both high-profile Republican women — like, perhaps most famously, Sarah Palin — and women in general, including those who have the audacity to breastfeed their children in public. Recalling a mean-spirited he’d made at the expense of Rick Santorum’s wife, Powers asked viewers to “[i]magine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obamas name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job.”

It isn’t that there is no one out there calling out those on the left for misogyny, she writes, but “the real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause.

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In the aftermath of the tornadoes that devastated parts of the Midwest, television evangelist Pat Robertson is adding his two cents about the situation. Not enough people prayed, he said because if they had, God would have intervened.

During an episode on The 700 Club, Robertson questioned by people would knowingly live in tornado-prone areas to begin with. “Why did you build houses where tornadoes were apt to happen? he asked.

Then, when asked about people wondering why God didn’t intervene during such a tragic disaster, Robertson responded, “If enough people were praying, [God] would intervene.

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced in a tweet Monday morning that “President Obama will hold a news conference with the White House press corps tomorrow afternoon.”

The presser will be the first full news conference of the year, and the fact that it falls on “Super Tuesday,” when Republican presidential candidates will vie for 419 delegates, is sure to cause a stir.

The possibility that the President’s press conference could steal some of the Republicans’ media thunder is something of a double-edged sword, of course. On the heels of his speech to AIPAC this weekend, the President will likely want to talk about foreign policy, and get out his message on the economy and energy. However, when news is made at these press conferences, it isn’t usually because things stayed on-message.

Aside from his own message, though, the President will likely be prepared for any number of questions that could dominate the news cycle, and which could be to his benefit, depending on how he answers them.

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On Friday, liberal radio host Mike Malloy had harsh words for tornado victims, mocking the Christians who were affected by the storms that have killed dozens. Their God keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement in Alabama, and Mississippi, and Arkansas, and Georgia, and Oklahoma, Malloy angrily sniped. You know, the Bible belt, where they aint gonna let no goddamned science get in the way, it says in the Bible, blah blah blah blah blah. So, according to their way of thinking, God with his omnipotent thumb reaches down here and so far tonight has smashed about 20 people into a grease spot on highway 12, or whatever the hell highway they live next to.

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Malloy is nationally-syndicated with affiliates throughout the country as well as on XM Satellite and Sirius Satellite Radio. This isn’t his first brush with controversy, making provocative comments in 2010 when he compared George W.

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Anyone vaguely familiar with Rick Santorum will know that one of his main criticisms of Mitt Romney has been about health care. Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts has drawn ire from his opponents and Santorum, the self-proclaimed “consistent” conservative, has regularly attacked Romney for providing the blueprint for “Obamacare.” And for being a flip-flopper. Well, according to a Mother Jones report, Santorum hasn’t always been so consistently conservative about health care reform.

Back in 1993 (when Hillary Clinton was tackling the health care issue), Santorum appeared on The Editors, a television program in Pittsburgh. During that interview, Santorum, who was running in a Republican Senate primary, observed that government intervention is necessary in the health care system.

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Rick Santorum is worried about how entitlement programs are affecting Americans. And to make his case, he’s comparing them to drugs. Speaking at a church in Oklahoma on Sunday, Santorum likened President Obama (and his health care plan) to a drug dealer who wants to get Americans addiction to entitlement programs.

The comparison Santorum made:

Thats how they see you, as people, to get hooked like a drug dealer — someone to become dependent on them. And once that happens, they got you [...] America is changed forever.

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The View had newly famous Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke on the show today, after Fluke was referred to as a “slut” and a “prostitute” by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show last week. After the show began hemorrhaging sponsors, Limbaugh issued an apology to Fluke, saying that his language was meant as an attempt at humor. The panel had her on to comment on the controversy, which she characterized as “an attempt to silence me, [and] to silence the millions of women and the men who support them [in the belief that] contraception is an important helathcare need that they need to have met in an affordable and accessible way.”

Related – Rush Limbaugh Apologizes For Calling Sandra Fluke A Slut

Barbara Walters read Rush’s statement, and then asked Fluke if he had called her personally to apologize. She said he hadn’t yet, and that she preferred if he didn’t contact her personally. She also said that she wasn’t taking his apology very seriously, as it seemed prompted by the loss of sponsors rather than sincere regret on Rush’s part.

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On his radio show Monday afternoon, host Rush Limbaugh explained his motivation for apologizing to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student he had referred to as a “slut” and a “prostitute” over her testimony regarding birth control.

RELATED: Rush Limbaugh Apologizes For Calling Sandra Fluke A Slut

Limbaugh said his apology — which he posted online over the weekend — was sincere and “heartfelt.”

“I don’t expect, and I know you don’t either,” he told listeners, “morality, intellectual honesty from the left. They’ve demonstrated, over and over, a willingness to say or do anything to advance their agenda; it’s what they do. It’s what we fight against here every day. But this is the mistake I made: in fighting them on this issue last week, I became like them.

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Rush-roh! The fallout from embattled conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh‘s verbal assault on Georgetown law student and activist Sandra Fluke just got real. Online behemoth America Online has just announced that they are suspending all advertising from Limbaugh’s show, the largest company to do so since the controversy exploded late last week. The announcement is a bad sign for Limbaugh, whose less-than-convincing apology doesn’t seem to be working.

The announcement from AOL, via Facebook:

At AOL one of our core values is that we act with integrity. We have monitored the unfolding events and have determined that Mr.

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Conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh has always enjoyed a certain immunity to public pressure because of his total dominance of talk radio, but this past weekend, he felt compelled to issue a walletfelt apology for a sustained three-day verbal assault on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke that included calling hera “slut” and a “prostitute,” and demanding sex tapes for his own personal use.

The Young Turks‘Cenk Uygur sees the apology not just as a response to advertiser pullouts, but as an indication that Limbaugh’s ratings are actually a lot weaker than people realize. He issued a $10,000 challenge for Limbaugh to prove his self-proclaimed 20 million listeners.

While people with functioning brains are doubting the sincerity of Limbaugh’s apology, most seem to be missing the significance of it. As far as I can tell, Limbaugh has only apologized two other times, and not in response to public pressure.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Limbaugh apologized to then-Sen.

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