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Countdown" host Keith Olbermann Friday evening accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of using her daughters, as well as the brouhaha surrounding jokes made about them by "Late Show" host David Letterman, to further her political career. In a twelve minute segment about the former vice presidential candidate, Olbermann called her, "Sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching" as well as a "delusional lunatic." Potentially even more disgraceful, in Olbermann's almost unimaginably perverted view, Letterman is actually "the victim" who has "continued to take the high road" in this sordid affair. The video of...

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is losing the credibility battle, but that's not all she stands to lose -- her speakership is on the line. "We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used," Pelosi emphatically told the American people on April 23. Three weeks later when that statement unraveled, Pelosi's behavior became bizarre, insisting her congressional colleagues, the director of the CIA and government personnel are all lying.while only she is telling the truth. "They mislead us all the time," she said referring to...

W.H. concedes Sotomayor misspoke By: Carol E. Lee May 29, 2009 03:50 PM EST White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to tamp down criticism over controversial comments Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in 2001, regarding whether a Latino judge might render “better” rulings than a white judge, saying the judge would choose different words if she could give her speech all over again. “I think she’d say that her word choice in 2001 was poor,” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. “She was simply making the point that personal experiences are relevant to the process of judging, that...