Arizona State University has a history of giving honorary degrees to new presidents, but they've refused to hand one to President Barack Obama . The Daily Show visited the ASU campus to explore why the president wasn't worthy of the honor. (Getty Images) more pics » Read Full Story
President Barack Obama 's refusal to prosecute the architects of the Bush administration's torture policy is not going down well with his party or any commentator/pundit with the slightest liberal bent. After releasing Bush administration memos last week that explain, justify and document the United States' torture of terror suspects, President Obama said it was time to move on. Ever the horrified voice of reason, Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the decision last night in a scathing... Read Full Story
Rush Limbaugh announced on his popular radio show Wednesday that the high taxes being imposed on people who make more than $500,000/year are too much and that he will be leaving New York City. Jon Stewart celebrated in style, by telling Rush he was never welcome in the first place. Read Full Story
Mad Money host Jim Cramer just can't let go of that beating he took from Jon Stewart last week. Watch him defend himself and CNBC as he accuses Stewart of being "naive and misleading." Read Full Story
Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher 's recent remarks about homosexuals not being allowed near his children have not gone down well with conservative talk show personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck . Hasselbeck called is "an ignoramus statement" Thursday morning on The View . "I was even a person who thought 'you know what? Power to Joe the Plumber' at that point. Well Joe the Plumber is not invited around me." Here's an excerpt from Joe's interview with Christianity Today : In the last month, same... Read Full Story
David Letterman must have been feeling feisty. He invited Bill O'Reilly over for a verbal boxing match Tuesday and ended up calling him a "goon," and saying he's "too smart" to believe what he says. Skip to about 2 minutes in to see the goon comment. "In my mind I think of you as a goon. But then when you look at this picture [on the cover of Bill O'Reilly's new book, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity ], look at how sweet and adorable this kid is. And it breaks my heart because have a sweet and... Read Full Story
Rush Limbaugh raised some Hell at CPAC Saturday by once again stating that he hopes Obama fails as president. RNC Chairman Michael Steele went on D.L. Hughley's fledgling CNN show later that night, and when Hughley referred to Limbaugh as "the de facto leader of the Republican party," Steele went on a tangent. Read Full Story
Police say a woman jumped into a polar bear enclosure at Berlin Zoo and was bitten several times on her arms and legs. The woman was bitten Friday by one of the four older polar bears in the enclosure and not by the famous Knut, who took Germany by storm as a cub after he was hand-raised by a keeper. Heiner Kloes, a zoo spokesman, said keepers pushed the bear away and pulled the woman out from the enclosure, which is surrounded by a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall. The woman was... Read Full Story
While visiting France over the weekend, President Barack Obama held a town hall style meeting where he took questions from the audience. One woman informed him that his name means "peach" in Hungarian. Even he didn't know that. Read Full Story
