The Republican reaction to Obama’s gun control measures

Needless to say, there has been a lot of negative reaction from the Republican party and Fox News to president Obama’s modest proposals to curb gun violence. Part of the reason is that they and others are in thrall of the gun lobby. But part of it is undoubtedly because they simply hate Obama and have gone all out to discredit him and oppose anything that he advocates, unless it benefits the oligarchy. This time they focused their ire and poured scorn on, of all things, the tear that he shed when talking about the deaths of elementary school children in Newtown.
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People behaving badly

The Daily Show came back from its vacation and caught up on all the news that happened over holidays, which resulted a montage of people behaving badly.

For starters, they looked at what happened with Steve Harvey, Bill Cosby, and Ethan Couch. The last named, for those who don’t know, is the young man who fled to Mexico in violation of the probation sentence he was given after he killed four people while driving drunk.
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Obama and Seinfeld go for coffee

Jerry Seinfeld has president Obama as his guest on his show Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. He usually picks his guests up in a vintage sports car and they go to a restaurant. In this episode, the first part went fine with Seinfeld driving a 1963 Corvette to the White House but the second part was thwarted because the security detail would not let them leave the grounds.
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