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Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Press Conference

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 10 (Comedy News) - Jon Stewart's ongoing field day with the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal continued Wednesday night, with Stewart ripping apart the GOP presidential candidate's damage control...

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Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Sexual Harassment Scandal

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 01 (Comedy News) - Given all the parodies of pornography that involve a pizza delivery guy, it's only natural that Jon Stewart would get some material out of presidential...

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Jon Stewart Takes On Fox News' Reaction To Nancy Grace 'DWTS' Nip Slip vs. Chaz Bono (VIDEO)

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Sep. 28 (Comedy News) - Stewart picked up where his fellow "Daily Show" correspondent Lewis Black left off, taking on the outrage over Chaz Bono's gig on "Dancing With The Stars" vs. that of Nancy Grace's recent wardrobe malfunction on the same show.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Will Media Learn Anything?

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mediactive - By Dan Gillmor - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - In the days ahead — and especially after New York prosecutors drop their increasingly pathetic case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as they surely will — you’ll see some media coverage of journalism’s role in this debacle. There will be a few notes about how everyone rushed to judgment. But almost no one will be asking more basic questions about the way journalists go about their business in criminal cases. You will see little or no self-reflection about the way reporters work in concert with law enforcement in almost all such cases, in ways that are designed by the police and prosecutors to stack the deck against the accused. It starts with the “perp walk” — the parading of the accused before cameras. Try this thought experiment. Imagine you’ve been arrested, and have spent a night in a filthy jail cell, getting maybe an hour of sleep in the clothes you were wearing the day before. Or, perhaps, you’ve been told to put on an orange jump suit that prisoners wear. Either way, now you’re shackled and frog-walked into a van that takes you to the courthouse. Then you’re manhandled out of the van and are frog-walked through a gauntlet of cameras and shouting reporters. How do you imagine you’d look, whether or not you were innocent? You’d look guilty as hell, because the perp walk is designed to make you look guilty. (For more on perp walks, see this piece from the Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins.)

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. sex scandal. Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage. Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation.

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Eve Ensler Responds to Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Eve Ensler. Amy Goodman - Jun. 07 (Interview) - On Monday Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a housekeeper, a Muslim African woman, working at his New York City hotel. "I think what's amazing is that a woman has come forward to prosecute and that a female judge held it, and I think that is where the world has changed," says our guest, V-Day founder Eve Ensler.

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Sisterhood and the SEALs

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Heather Mac Donald - May. 28 (Opinion) - It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male.

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Jon Stewart Compares Head Of IMF's Sex Scandal To Bin Laden Porn Story (VIDEO)

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 17 (Comedy News) - "You know you're in bad shape when your sex scandal comes out the same weekend as Osama bin laden's, and you're the one that looks like an a**hole," Stewart said.

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Speaking of Sex

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

thehumanist.org - By Barry F. Seidman, Arnell Dowret - Mar. 08 (Interview) - Our ancestors spent their lives in groups, generally of under 150 people, where they would have known everyone very well, very intimately. So even if they had several ongoing sexual relationships, they would have been more intimate in many ways than the casual relationships that people experience these days. We evolved as sharing everything before the advent of agriculture, including sexual pleasure. Then with the agricultural revolution, which was only about 10,000 years ago (a period that’s only 5 percent of our existence as anatomically modern humans), we took a 90-degree turn off the path that we had been on for a very long time, and everything changed. And that's when we became possessive about each other, about sexuality, and also about paternity and land and housing and animals and all these things that entered human life with the advent of agriculture.

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The Attack on Lara Logan: War of the Words

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Laila Lalami - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - A woman has been raped—what should the reaction to such a heinous crime be? Blaming its victim? Disparaging the country she’s in? Looking for a scapegoat? Stunningly enough, all of these reactions have been voiced since yesterday, when it was revealed

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New TSA Scanner Makes Airport Security Far Less Sexy

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wonkette - By Riley Waggaman - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - The TSA is experimenting with new, less gaterapey scanners, “which discontinue the display of personal body characteristics while still promising to catch questionable objects.” This is good new for people who have personal body characteristics! Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Committee on Keeping the Homeland Safe and Sound, was excited to hear about these new developments. Also, now these scanners won’t give you (too much) cancer?

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Combating Gay Teen Suicide: What Parents Can Do

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dr. Harold Koplewicz - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - Over the past few weeks it has been impossible to miss the flood of news stories about gay teens ending their own lives after enduring anti-gay bullying. Eighteen-year-old Tyler Clementi, 15-year-old Billy Lucas, and 13-year-olds Asher Brown and Seth Walsh were living in different corners of America -- New Jersey, Indiana, Texas, and California -- but each of them was subjected to the same kind of intolerance and cruelty, which included callous disregard for their online privacy.

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Colbert Mocks O'Donnell For Equating Masturbation With Adultery (VIDEO)

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephen Colbert - Sep. 16 (Comedy News) - Last night on "The Report," Stephen Colbert welcomed the election season by praising Phil Davidson's electrifying stump speech for Stark County treasurer in Ohio, and ripping into the Tea Party winners in Tuesday night's primary elections.

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How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Danah Boyd - Sep. 07 (Opinion) - For the last 12 years, I've dedicated immense amounts of time, money and energy to end violence against women and children. As a victim of violence myself, I'm deeply committed to destroying any institution or individual leveraging the sex-power matrix that results in child trafficking, nonconsensual prostitution, domestic violence and other abuses. If I believed that censoring Craigslist would achieve these goals, I'd be the first in line to watch them fall. But from the bottom of my soul and the depths of my intellect, I believe that the current efforts to censor Craigslist's "adult services" achieves the absolute opposite. Rather than helping those who are abused, it fundamentally helps pimps, human traffickers and others who profit off of abusing others.

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Allegations against WikiLeaks founder and spokesperson Julian Assange

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

WikiLeaks - Aug. 21 (Statement) - On Saturday 21st of August, we have been made aware of rape allegations made against Julian Assange, founder of this project and one of our spokespeople. We are deeply concerned about the seriousness of these allegations. We the people behind WikiLeaks think highly of Julian and and he has our full support.

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Was Hitler A Homosexual? 'The Daily Show' Investigates (VIDEO)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Jones - Jul. 29 (Comedy News) - Jason Jones sat down with Defend the Family President Scott Lively to talk about the much-debated topic. While many oppose gays in the military because of a moral stance, Lively's reason for restricting gays is that the Nazis, including Hitler, were gay themselves, and used gay men in their armies because "open homosexuals are distinct from everyone else, men and women, in being exceptionally brutal and savage."

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Rep. Souder And Mistress Recorded Video Praising Abstinence

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Justin Elliott - May. 18 (Opinion) - Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) had an affair with a part-time staffer named Tracy Jackson, Fox is reporting. Jackson played the role of interviewer for a Souder Web video show on the issues of the day -- including one on the value of abstinence.

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Mocks Rekers's Rentboy Romp, BP, Greece, And More (VIDEO)

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 07 (Comedy News) - While it was tempting to just discuss the fact that Roland Martin inexplicably wore an ascot on national television, Jon Stewart had his hands full during last night's opening segment. Moronic "wannabombers," Greece's economic downfall, George Reker's rentboy romp, and BP's attempt to cap the oil spill were all covered and mocked mercilessly - and hilariously.

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The Obama Mandate: End Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

rhrealitycheck.org - By Jodi Jacobson - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - Let’s get rid of that wasteful Washington spending. And I have a concrete suggestion that will save over $200 million in cold hard cash right away, plus billions of dollars in future healthcare and related economic costs! Sound too good to be true? Really, it’s not a gimmick. It’s very simple: We just need to zero out funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the next budget cycle.

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Tobias & Bush, Torturing Africa With Abstinence

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:46:35 -0700

AlterNet - By Bruce Wilson - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - Since the early days of the Bush Administration, Randall Tobias played a significant role infusing Christian right ideology into US international programs providing sexual education, HIV/AIDS prevention, and family planning: the body count, in the end, may be considerable. But don't worry, the dead won't be American. Back in April 2004, Tobias sparked a controversy by declaring, at the Berlin Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS that "Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective... It's been the principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only to look at what's happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that has not been working."

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