Democrat pulls ahead in GOP stronghold - Phil Fairbanks, reporter for The Buffalo News, talks with Rachel Maddow about new polls showing Democrat Kathy Hochul ahead of Republican Jane Corwin in the special election for traditionally Republican NY-26.

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Brennan: Al Qaida 'mortally wounded' but not dead - John Brennan, the White House adviser on Homeland Security says that al Qaida "may be a mortally wounded tiger that still has some life in it." Watch his entire comments during a House White briefing.

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Beck attacks Planned Parenthood - The Fox host went after the organization, and the cable news anchor who covered the story. Guess who? Msnbc’s Lawrence O’Donnell has the Rewrite.

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‘Transitioning off’ Beck - Fox News has finally decided to get rid of this sick, paranoid conspiracy fantasizing wing nut. Good riddance to bad, smelly garbage!

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‘Zany talk’ to hamper GOP hopefuls? - Gingrich and Huckabee are just plain evil. It amazes me how naive and ignorant so many people are to fall for these clowns. During the 2008 campaign I actually new some people who were simpleminded enough to be taken in by Huckabee. They both throw out a little religious sounding red me and they fall for it. Some people are easily manipulated.

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A great discussion of Huckabee's lying racist rant and his further lies to cover it up. This guy is the worst. He is horrible.

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The lie that won’t die - A Hardball panel discusses why the GOP won’t let the Birther controversy end. Like many of the evangelical right Huckabee is a flat out liar who give a bad name to true Christians. These are evil people.

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Republican House Leader Boehner On Job Losses: ‘So be it’

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The Evil Fruit of American Evangelical Christianity - Rachel Maddow reports on the murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato and the role of American evangelicals in spreading violent hate to Uganda. Noted is the ability of the U.S. government to apply financial pressure to ensure Kato's work was not in vain.

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With Egypt in disarray, Beck traffics theories - The nuttiest nut on American T.V. You have so see this to believe it!

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Health Care Backlash - Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, discusses the new legal implications of the health care backlash.

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Glenn Beck: ‘I was a very bad man’ Guess What, He Still Is!

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Olbermann: Violence and threats have no place in democracy - n the aftermath of the shooting of 19 people in an attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”

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Is Michelle Bachmann The Next Face Of The GOP? - Though the congresswoman is playing coy on a possible White House run, she was tapped by John Boehner to serve on the House Intelligence Committee. NBC’s Michael Isikoff and Shushannah Walshe of the Daily Beast join Hardball’s Chris Matthews to discuss what the lawmaker is up to.

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A New Tone For The New Congress, Ignorance - Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.,who will read the entire Constitution to open the 112th Congress on Wednesday. Rep. Goodlatte also wants to repeal the U.S. tax code. He’ll tell Lawrence why.

You have got to see this whole video.  It is scary how uninformed so many of our legislators are.  If this wasn't so dangerous I would be laughing until my sides hurt.

John H. Armwood

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‎'Two bombs worth' of nuclear material secured - Rachel Maddow interviews Thomas D'Agostino, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, about the removal of weapons grade uranium from Ukraine, avoiding a potential global catastrophe.

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Richardson on Koreas: ‘Time has come for diplomacy’ Dec. 23: Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson – who recently spent five days in the North – joins msnbc’s Tamron Hall to discuss Pyongyang's charge that the South is trying to initiate conflict.

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Hardball's Chris Matthews: Tax deal was ‘smart’ thing for U.S.

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Republicans have seen the enemy and it is them - Rachel Maddow reports on Republicans grandstanding against spending earmarks, including their own. Senator John Kerry joins to discuss the Republican effort to sandbag Congress including important legislation like the New START treaty.

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Michael Moore explains to Countdown’s Keith Olbermann why he contributed bail money for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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