His relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been rocky, but Israelis seem to be warming to him. At least, they prefer him to Mitt, Newt, and Rick.
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The results of a poll of 500 Jewish Israelis, conducted by the Brookings Institution's Shibley Telhami:
Overall, among Israeli Jews, Obama led Santorum 34% to 21%, Gingrich 31% to 27%, Paul 34% to 24%, and Romney 32% to 29%.
The poll also found that Israelis want American support in striking Iran.
Asphyxiation by cake is not the way to go.
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His first priority is killing a plumber. His second is maintaining life on Earth.
“In one hour, Mitt Romney showed why women don’t trust him for one minute.”
Mitt Romney greets supporters during a campaign rally at Capital University today in Bexley, Ohio.
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Mitt Romney's decision to answer a confusing question about contraception is playing right into the caricature of him Democrats have been seeking to paint.
“In one hour, Mitt Romney showed why women don’t trust him for one minute," said Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter.
"It feeds into so many narratives we love," said one Democratic operative. "Now he's extreme — and a flip-flopper."
Romney supports the Blunt bill, which grants all employers a religious conscious exemption to providing contraception to their employees, though he said he opposed some non-existent bill that would allow employers to "ban providing female contraception."
Romney's campaign quickly spun into damage-control mode, saying it was a confusing question. Romney himself said he thought the local television reporter was talking about a state bill, not the one up for consideration tomorrow. He quickly corrected himself on local television, but not before the damage was done.
The full statement from Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter:
“In one hour, Mitt Romney showed why women don’t trust him for one minute. It took little more than an hour for him to commit his latest flip-flop. Even worse, he ended up on the wrong side of an issue of critical importance to women.”
“The Blunt Amendment would allow any employer to deny their female employees coverage because of that employer’s own beliefs. With his support of this amendment, Mitt Romney is taking important health care decisions about contraception, mammograms, and cervical cancer screenings among other issues out of women’s hands and into the hands of their bosses.”
“While Mitt Romney may be in a race to the bottom with Rick Santorum to see who can pander most to the far right-wing, his embrace of extreme policies like the Blunt Amendment would have real life consequences for millions of women."
It's never too early to train your children to make your coffee for you.
As if this photo wasn't enough evidence. My favorite part is when “SupercoolBeas” realizes that the knee he's grabbing is not his own and then tries to play it off like he's doing silent movie schtick. You're no George Valentin, Michael!
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Arpaio's posse claims “fraud” in release of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
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Source: @BenLaBolt
When did these become a thing? And, more importantly, where can I get them?
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This has to be from “Modern Family”. Plus, dolphins can stampede and Ron Paul's wife is still a teenager. These and other Buzz that flew under the radar await your clicking pleasure.
Dolphin stampede caught on camera. - [Discovery]
Fallout Boy front man laments being a has-been before thirty. - [RollingStone]
Angelina Jolie's legs are kind of camera hogs. - [Pajiba]
Cable companies don't seem to realize the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train. - [Uproxx]
Ten Hollywood men that didn't know when to say no to plastic surgery. - [RadarOnline]
Ron Paul's wife is only nineteen years old! - [DeathAndTaxes]
Robert Pattinson admits he likes strip clubs; Internet incensed and turned on. - [TheStir]
Celebrate Justin Bieber's birthday by remembering his fans are crazy. - [MTV]
Does a new Utah law make it illegal to be sexy? - [FoxNews]
Headline Story: The "Modern Family" took several shot that lampshade on-ride photos. - [Celebuzz]
Seem scary? That's what they're going for. Obama campaign pushes back on Blunt-Rubio bill, see Romney's support as advantage in November.
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Skinny-dipping, costumes, tears, and Tyra. ANTM is back, y'all! Here are all the crazy moments from last night's premiere that you need to see.
In case you hadn't heard, the latest cycle pits a group of American models against a group of British models and in the first episode of the season, Tyra dressed them all up in as many stereotypes as humanly possible, including: Pocahontas, Elton John, Andy Warhol, Amy Winehouse, Jackie O, and Princess Diana.
Cool tie clip, Bambino.
This is the skinniest known photo of Babe Ruth.
In speech to students at Iowa State University, Biden admits the administration got it wrong on the first try. Biden goes off script again.
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You can say a lot of things about Mitt Romney, but I'm not sure this is accurate. (via @GarrettNBCNews )
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Please let him know. Plus, Jose Canseco feels like it's 1988, Tyra Banks is convinced that Michelle Obama watches her show, and Snoop Dogg reaches out to Lana Del Rey.
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That's it, you guys. Music is over.
LINK: The Nickelback-Avril Lavigne duet will most likely sound like this.
Pretend to work by playing a game about pretending to work. Choose your own inception.
Defector Mike DeWine: “I think this is a very sad commentary on the Romney campaign.”
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Rick Santorum's campaign accused Mitt Romney of "dirty politics" after the Michigan Republican Party credentials committee voted to award both of the state's at-large delegates to Romney, which advisers say was the result of changing the rules after the votes were counted.
Romney came away with 16 of the state's 30 delegates, while early projections showed Romney and Santorum tied at 15 delegates apiece.
"I think this is a very sad commentary on the Romney campaign — that for one delegate they would break the rules, and risk tearing the state party apart for one delegate," said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who previously backed Romney.
Santorum adviser John Brabender said something like the rule change doesn't happen in the United States, "maybe in Iran or other countries."
"It is dirty politics, it is dirty tricks," DeWine added.
The campaign sent a letter to the Republican National Committee asking them to investigate the issue, but has not planned legal action as of yet.
Saul Anuzis, the Republican National Committeeman from Michigan and a Romney endorser, explained in the blog post that the explanation of the rules passed by the credentials committee on February 4th was incorrect, and that the committee always intended for the at-large delegates to be given to the winner of the popular vote.
The Santorum campaign rejected that explanation, alleging that members of the committee were in the tank for Romney — even if they haven't formally endorsed him.
Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul fired back at Santorum, repeating their charge that Santorum tried to "hijack" the process by recruiting Democrats into the race.
“Rick Santorum encouraged Democrats in Michigan to hijack the Republican Primary," she said. "Because his strategy failed and Mitt Romney won, he is now attacking the Republican Party. The Romney campaign respects the process as determined by the Michigan state party, and we are pleased that we have been awarded a majority of the delegates. We are now focused on the upcoming contests."
This guy is seriously running for the Republican nomination to represent Illinois in the House of Representatives. Here are some anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic and downright weird quotes from Arthur “Art” Jones, the 64-year-old National Socialist Holocaust denier who hopes to represent Illinois' 3rd Congressional District.
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BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, a HuffPo cofounder, recalls their brief partnership on the record for the first time. “At war with himself,” but at least it paid for the remodeling of his kitchen.
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Andrew Breitbart, the hyperactive, charming, and divisive creator of Big Government and its sister sites who died today at 43, also served as the link between two of the dominant media forces of the last decade: The Drudge Report, which he helped run for years, and Huffington Post, where he was present — briefly — at the creation.
Breitbart’s role as Drudge’s right hand is well known; less public was his brief, memorable stint as one of four partners in the Huffington Post in 2005. It’s a story that hasn’t been told in great detail, but BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who also co-founded the Huffington Post with with the site’s namesake Arianna Huffington and media business figure Ken Lerer, recalled that period in an interview today.
Breitbart’s role later became contested — he brashly claimed total credit for “the plan,” which his former partners denied — but he was an unmissable presence in the Soho office that was for a time Huffington Post’s New York headquarters. There, for a month in the spring of 2005, he worked closely with Lerer (who is now Chairman of BuzzFeed), and Peretti, a graduate of MIT’s media lab, to launch the site.
“He taught us a lot of things early on,” Peretti said, recalling how Breitbart showed them key features of the media ecosystem. “He explained about looking at the British newspapers late at night because they would sometimes break news before the U.S. papers. He cared about getting links up seconds or minutes faster than other publications and was obsessive about that.”
Breitbart was also a font of ideas, not all of which made it into practice.
“He wanted every commenter to have to pay $1 to comment, and the dollar would go to charity but the user’s true identity would be authenticated through a credit card,” Peretti recalled, noting that the idea prefigures current attempts to authenticate identity online.
He also proposed “a phone number where celebrities could call in and leave voice blogs that would automatically appear on the site ,” Peretti recalled. “He wanted that built before launch, and launch was four days away.”
His creativity, as many who worked with him know, could be hard to contain.
“He was just incredibly difficult to have in the office – he was totally ADD and would jump from idea to idea. He would spend hours playing fantasy baseball during the day. He was incredibly good at fantasy baseball,” Peretti said, but then started talking to another Huffington Post employee about starting a fantasy baseball company amid the Huffington Post launch.
There were also also ideological tensions from the start.
“He was at war with himself,” said Peretti. “He wanted to be sure Drudge respected what he did and that he could also make this new venture.”
“He was pretty loyal to Drudge, and protective of Drudge – he was completely obsessed in the early days of Huffington Post with trying to make Drudge love him while still doing Huffington Post,” Peretti said.
There were also big differences about the ideological slant of Huffington Post, which was kept deliberately vague, but which was launched in implicit opposition to President George W. Bush and aligned with the progressive movement. But Breitbart and Huffington had a personal relationship dating back to her time as a conservative — he had been her intern — and they hoped that his relatively liberal views on some social issues would provide common ground.
“He was terrified of the idea that Huffington Post was a competitor to Drudge. He thought that Huffington Post could be bipartisan and that Drudge would love the idea of these big boldface names blogging because he understands the value of that,” he said.
Breitbart had also hoped, Peretti said, to pull Drudge in a more entrepreneurial direction, and to persuade him to monetize some of his outgoing links by starting a kind of "Drudgewire," a site that housed wire stories that Drudge linked. Drudge, whose success is in part the product of resisting expansion and change to his core product, refused.
As Huffington Post’s other partners pulled the site in a more determinedly liberal direction, and as their relationships soured, Breitbart soon moved on. He returned to Drudge and created Breitbart.com, a version of the wire service idea.
And Breitbart, divisive as he was in public, was personally warm, open, and likable.
Drudge turned his page into a tribute Thursday to Breitbart’s “energy, passion and commitment.”
“My thoughts and prayers go out to Andrew Breitbart's family and friends, especially his wife Susie and their 4 beautiful children,” Huffington tweeted.
Peretti also parted on good terms with Breitbart, whom the three remaining partners bought out of Huffington Post soon after their working relationship collapsed, and before the site had gained any real traction
A year later, Peretti visited Breitbart home in Los Angeles, and Breitbart showed off his remodeled kitchen.
“Look what I did with my HuffPost money!” he said.
