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ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Friday on “The View” that Michelle Obama was one of the most vilified first ladies in history.” Hostin said, “When you think about Michelle Obama in particular, I think she was one of the most vilified first ladies in history.” Co-host Joy Behar said, “No, Eleanor Roosevelt has that distinction.”

Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night, Sarah Palin was defiant in the face of the recent attacks on her in the aftermath of Tucson shooting, saying that her critics were “not going to shut me up.” In her first public interview since issuing her video response to the Arizona shooting, Palin spoke out on “Hannity” against critics who have called her campaign rhetoric “vitriolic” and made subtle and not-so-subtle inferences that such language in some way motivated alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people and injured many others, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on Jan....

EXCERPTS “She’s hard-working, focused, trying to do things that are good for the American public, and for average working people, and she’s being vilified. I think that’s unfortunate,” Hoyer, the House majority leader, told The Hill as he campaigned in his home district. (snip) True to form, Hoyer refuses to entertain any post-election scenarios, leaving no daylight between himself and the Speaker. “What I’m thinking about is winning this election,” he said. “I believe we’re going to have the majority. I think Nancy Pelosi’s going to be Speaker.” Asked about reported challenges to his own leadership post, Hoyer laughed and...

Doctors demand Obama apologyPitching government control, President falsely accuses doctors of conspiring to make children sicker WASHINGTON -- Dr. Richard S. Kerr, M.D., a West Virginia Libertarian Party member and a retired doctor with 36 years experience, asked President Barack Obama Thursday to apologize for comments made in his Wednesday night press conference accusing doctors of conspiring to make children sicker for profits. “President Obama should be ashamed of himself for trying to scare Americans into supporting his government takeover of medicine by falsely accusing doctors of making children sicker. I have never heard a more disgusting or blatantly phony...

Short: I'll be vilified for this - but I just can't walk out now By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent 19 March 2003 Clare Short's version of events goes like this: she was writing her resignation statement when suddenly she decided to stay in her job. Having nearly completed the draft valediction, she thought: "We've got to look after the people in Iraq; we've got to drive forward the peace process to get the Palestinian state; we've got to make sure there's not a humanitarian disaster." Resignation, the Secretary of State for International Development decided, would be "cheap" and "cowardly"....