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Clint Eastwood on RNC Speech: Anyone 'Dumb Enough' to Ask Me to Speak at a Political Convention Gets What They Get
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/18/12 01:40PMFrench Court Orders Gossip Magazine to Hand Over All Topless Photos of Kate Middleton Within 24 Hours
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/18/12 08:10AMSecret Footage of Romney Was Filmed at Estate of Sex Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager
Louis Peitzman · 09/17/12 09:04PMClint Eastwood Still Won't Admit That His RNC Speech Was Terrible
Louis Peitzman · 09/17/12 08:22PMOlympic Gold Medalist Shaun White Charged With Being Drunk and Obnoxious
Louis Peitzman · 09/17/12 07:15PMAmerican Idol Judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj Already Hate Each Other
Louis Peitzman · 09/17/12 06:37PMTexas Woman Sues Walmart for Ripping Up Her Real $100 Bills Without Checking If They're Fake
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/17/12 04:15PM13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage
Max Read · 09/17/12 11:19AM"MUSLIM RAGE," screams Newsweek's new cover story about last week's violent anti-American protests. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the well-known anti-Islam activist, is here to tell "us" (The_West) how to "end it." And it's true, isn't it? All Muslims are constantly raging about everything. So to pay tribute to Ali's article — which describes the protesters as "the mainstream of contemporary Islam" — and the subtle, smart cover that accompanies it, we've collected 13 striking, powerful images of MUSLIM RAGE.
Stuart Stevens Is the Reason Mitt Romney's Campaign Is Terrible, According to Sources in the Romney Campaign
Taylor Berman · 09/16/12 11:07PMAccording to multiple Romney sources cited in a damning Politico report, Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's chief campaign strategist, is to blame for Romney's gaffe-laden campaign. The sources in the article, which includes the sort of shit flinging you'd expect to read after a candidate loses, not before, fault Stevens for Romney's mediocre speech and Clint Eastwood's spectacular performance art piece at the RNC, amongst other campaign snafus.
Maureen Dowd May Or May Not Be Anti-Semitic, Depending on Whom You Ask
Taylor Berman · 09/16/12 08:28PMMaureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times created a mini-shit storm today, with several political pundits accusing her of using anti-Semitic imagery to make one of her typical points, which is that Romney is bad, etc. Basically, Dowd said Dan Senor, one of Romney's advisors, was a "neocon puppet master" who was trying to help neocons "slither back" into power. According to several "experts on American-Israeli relations," this sort of language is similar to ancient anti-Semitic imagery, like when Matt Taibbi called Goldman Sachs a vampire squid.