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Rachel Maddow - lowest ratings since her show began

The May ratings for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow (pictured) were her worst monthly showing since The Rachel Maddow Show debuted in 2008.

Partly to blame for Maddow’s drop are the continuing woes of All In with Chris Hayes, which began in April to replace Ed Schultz and has been a ratings flop.

Maddow, liberal media’s poster child, even finished behind perennially struggling Piers Morgan.

The snippy Maddow comes off as a “know-it-all” and maybe she really is with her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford.

Apparently it takes more than an Oxford DPhil degree to boost ratings.

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Larry King back on TV

Thanks to the Kremlin, Larry King (pictured) will be putting his suspenders back in front of the TV cameras.

The Russian government’s English language news channel RT said Wednesday it has signed a deal with Mr. King to begin airing his on-line talk show, “Larry King Now” on the broadcaster’s U.S. arm, RT America, starting in June. The channel will also carry a new program called “Politics with Larry King.”

Mr. King, who turns 80 this year, spent 25 years as the host of “Larry King Live” on CNN before the show mercifully ended in 2010.

We hope it will be a late-nite show that way he can put us to sleep whenever we get insomnia.

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Obama suggests expansion of drone killings

On Thursday the president defended his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective and lawful.

He also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted killings.

Full report here.

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Mr. Obama appears to enjoy threatening Congress with his drones.

400 pound Union President naps during his 4 hour work day

Union President Mark Rosenthal naps during his 4 hour work day while 'earning’ his $156,000 a year salary.

Rosenthal is head of Local 983 of District Council 37, New York City’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union.

The union represents 3,000 workers — mostly Parks Department peace officers and maintenance workers and NYPD tow-truck operators and other traffic agents that are among the lowest-paid city workers.

They may be the lowest paid in the city but they still hand over $1,080 in annual union dues that pay for Rosenthal’s salary and perks.

Photos show the 400 pound scarf 'n snore Union Prez

Rosenthal eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it.

Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, “I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.”

He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.

Needless to say Mr. Rosenthal is not the poster boy for Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against large soda’s to prevent New Yorker’s from getting fat.

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Holder had to go judge shopping to get search warrant for Fox reporter

The Eric Holder’s Justice Department had to go judge shopping to get a search warrant to search the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen.

Two judges separately declared that the Justice Department was required to notify Rosen of the search warrant.

The effort by the Justice Department to obtain the controversial court order was arduous, contentious and unsuccessful until finally a third judge caved in granted the warrant.

Link here and here.

Ten reasons why Dave Letterman isn’t funny anymore

Targeting the Tea Party

Jay Carney respnds to the humorous collection of 'the many faces of Jay'

Not to be out done, we made our own 'many faces of Jay’ collection shown below.

Now there are four investigations into IRS scandal

Capitol Hill aides spent their Memorial Day weekend scanning hundreds of pages of documents related to the IRS scandal.

This is in preparations for a frantic month of June involving many simultaneous investigations into government wrongdoing.

By the time lawmakers return to session next week, at least four different investigations will be underway.

The report at the link below says at least five different IRS offices including Cincinnati, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois and El Monte and Laguna Niguel, California improperly targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny between 2010 and 2012.

The IRS’ shenanigans, chronicled in a damning report by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George, started when a “team of [IRS] specialists” came together in April 2010 to process the tax-exempt nonprofit status of conservative groups that might be “potential political operations” (page 13 of the IG report). The IRS added “additional specialists” to this effort in December 2011.

That’s why Lois Lerner (pictured above) hid behind the fifth amendment refusing to answer questions prompting the IRS to put her on ‘administrative leave’ in an attempt to protect the IRS from further embarrassment.

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IRS targets conservative groups