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Showing posts with label Rachel Maddow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Maddow. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Conflict of Interest: Clarence Thomas’ Koch Brothers story doesn’t add up

February 14, 2011 · Posted in Breaking News, News and Current Affairs, People, Political News, Politics, The Supreme Court 

Clarence Thomas doesn’t talk — at least not during Supreme Court oral arguments. But a speech he appears to have given at an event hosted by the Koch brothers, the anti-Social Security, anti Clean Air Act, libertarian oil and paper magnates who have become key sponsors of tea party conservative groups  – and conflicting statements he gave about it — may soon cause him some headaches. Breaking overnight on the New York Times website (with a hat tip to Rachel Maddow, who reported on it in the closing minutes of her show on MSNBC…) as written up by investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau:

WASHINGTON — Discrepancies in reports about an appearance by Justice Clarence Thomas at a political retreat for wealthy conservatives three years ago have prompted new questions to the Supreme Court from a group that advocates changing campaign finance laws.   READ MORE

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher Discuss Her New Book, Ronald Reagan, Iran-Contra and Dick Cheney


By Heather 



Rachel Maddow highlighted part of an event that took place earlier this week where she sat down with Bill Maher at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA to promote her new book Drift. They discussed Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal and the fact that the one person who bought Reagan's excuse that anything a president does when it comes to national security is legal, was Dick Cheney.
I hope the rest of the event is posted on line somewhere because I'd really love to get a chance to watch the whole thing. I'll add a link here if I find it.   Check here