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Scott Prouty, 47 Percent Cameraman, Owes Thousands of Dollars and Sold Alcohol to a Minor

Scott Prouty, who changed the entire context of the 2012 presidential elections when he clandestinely videotaped Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney, has a few hiccups in his past. Let's not exaggerate the infractions. But still, interesting to note. Prouty -- who today lives in a swank condominium high ... More >>

Meet Scott Prouty: Five Things We Learned About the "47 Percent" Cameraman

Last night, we discovered the identity of the man who changed the outcome of the 2012 election, vanquishing Mitt Romney once and for all. His name is Scott Prouty. And he's from South Florida. YES. Tally a much-needed score for America's most-maligned state. See also: - Mother Jones' David Corn: ... More >>

Bigfoot Craigslist Ad Plagiarized? Sort Of

Move over Jonah Lehrer, Gerald Posner, and Jayson Blair. There's a new plagiarist in town.Last week, New Times revealed that a help-wanted ad on Craigslist from a nonprofit in Pensacola for a Bigfoot researcher was a well-crafted prank. We tracked down Tyler Reeves, the alleged brains behind the ad, ... More >>

Politics Meet Food Trucks at Lynn University Debate (Photos)

Thousands of students, political wonks, local campaign volunteers, faculty, and corporate bigwigs got together least evening to watch the third and final Presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton. Read Also:- Media People, Get a Free Beer at BurgerFi in Delray- Mitt Romney Eats Healthy ... More >>

Jared Chase, Brent Betterly, and Brian Church, "NATO 3," Charged with Terrorism in Chicago

Cops Say South Florida Protesters Busted in Chicago Are Terrorists; Friends Call Bullshit Three men formerly associated with Occupy Fort Lauderdale were charged today in Chicago with 11 counts including conspiracy to commit terrorism, possession of explosives, and attempted arson. Each is being held ... More >>

Chris and Jeff George's Pill Mill Operation: Your Pulp Reader

If you've been reading here for a while, you remember former New Times writer Tom Francis, who has since moved on to more mysterious plans elsewhere in the country. Whatever he's been up to, it's involved rooting around in the court records of Chris and Jeff George, the Wellington twins who are ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Secret Palm Beach Stump Speech: Destroy HUD, Pitch a "Republican DREAM Act"

It's amazing what a politician will say when he doesn't think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who's the subject of this week's cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his p ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets New Hairdo; Internet Goes Nuts

Normally, the Pulp would never consider a politician's hairstyle news, but U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) is a special case. For some reason, the internet hates her hair. Her tightly spiraled, dyed-blond curls have been called "angry perm" and "nappy," and Rush Limbaugh once accused h ... More >>

Old, Old Panther Euthanized at Palm Beach Zoo

Update, 12:25 p.m.: The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter says it has six panthers in captivity on its website; waiting for a call back to confirm, but it looks like there are some options to check them out in captivity after all.Original post:The only A panther in captivity in South Florida ... More >>

A Talking Head, Talking

Gingrich Loses Florida Republican Primary, Asks for Delegates Anyway

"​Andy Bernard does not lose contests. He wins them, or he quits them because they are unfair."-- Andy Bernard, The OfficeRepublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lost Tuesday's primary by 14 points, which means he doesn't get any of the state's 50 delegates and front-runner Mitt Romney can ... More >>

We Make Our Demands After Fox News Plagiarized This Website

Fox News stooped to a bit of copyright infringement last week in lifting a story from the Pulp. In response, we sent a letter to Fox this morning with a reasonable demand for compensation. ​Dearest Fox News,It came as some surprise to see your January 27 article titled "Epic Campaign Ad Brings Oba ... More >>

Allen West, Believe It or Not, Takes Up the Most Airtime of Any House Freshman

Harriet Tubman​Believe it or not, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" who compared being gay to liking ice cream and riding scooters, said gay soldiers can "change their behavior," called not-a-lady Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz the "most vile, unprofessional, and de ... More >>

Allen West, AKA Harriet Tubman, Sent His Own Brother to "Plantation Overseer" Maxine Waters

Harriet Tubman​As you may remember, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" -- said the other day that he was starting his own "underground railroad" to get black people away from the "21st-century plantation."Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a ... More >>

Five of the World's Largest Candies and Their Calorie Counts

When we said "giant candy cane" we meant the edible variety.​We live in a country where obese children are more of a concern than nuclear war. Americans spend $110 billion annually to shove Big Macs, super-sized fries, and milkshakes down their gullets in the hopes of doing what? Surely not mainta ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Ends Congress vs. Press Corps Softball Game With a Walk-Off

​Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz finally earned a victory against the press -- at least in the charity softball game she played last night.After two consecutive losing games and suffering a broken leg at the hands of Capitol Hil ... More >>

A Big Gay Parade

Four Foods to Put You to Sleep, Make You Fat, and Save Your Marriage

Marcia Cross needs a nap.​The Today Show on MSNBC reported this morning that women with sleep deprivation report higher problems with their marriage.Well duh. A lack of sleep makes anyone cranky and women are already doped up on estrogen which means that less quality melatonin-time, well... you ju ... More >>

MSNBC: South Floridian Oil Man May Have Bribed Jordanian Officials

King Abdullah II​Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officia ... More >>

Allen West On Keith Olbermann: Vengeance Is His

I'm digging up what one source called "game changer" in the continuing Scott Rothstein saga today, so in the meantime I'll give you the Reader's Digest version of this weekend's Allen West speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday. West hit a lot of ... More >>

UPDATED: Schools Threat Suspect Is Green Party Member

The woman charged by the FBI with making a threat that led to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools after hearing the words of right-wing talker Joyce Kaufman isn't a member of the Tea Party -- she's a member of the Green Party. Ellisa Martinez was arrested yesterday for ma ... More >>

Election Day Notes

Let's start this thing off with a couple of blog votes. On Amendments 5 and 6, it's pretty easy: If you like gerrymandering, vote against them. As for me, it's a yes vote on these two. On the judicial race between John Fry and John Howes for County Court Judge in District 1, I've made a decision. T ... More >>

Allen West Beats Out Bee-Crapping Dog for Dubious Cable TV Honor

​​Producers for liberal MSNBC pontificator Keith Olbermann have been following our extreme conservative candidate for Congress, Allen West, since April when the host devoted his "Special Comment" segment to the campaign comments where West encouraged supporters to make incumbent Ron Klein "scare ... More >>

Live-Blogging Crist's Independence Day

Sorry, that's the best we could do for a dramatic video lead-in on such short notice. Anyway, Charlie Crist's about ready to step to the mic and make it official. Follow us after the jump for the MSNBC feed and commentary.

Allen West Gets "Special Comment" Treatment by Keith Olbermann

We showed you the offending video a few days ago, and it landed right in the wheelhouse of MSNBC's fire-breathing liberal Keith Olbermann. This moment of infamy should help West burnish his right-wing ideologue credentials, but the former Army lieutenant colonel will need to move toward the center ... More >>

George LeMieux Talking Points Get Mangled on Cable News Show

Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn't been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress, but it's been p ... More >>

Metaphor Alert: Merry Christmas Arrested in Boynton

Flickr: DanCentury​Just because your name is "Merry Christmas" doesn't mean you can go resisting arrest during the holiday season. That's allegedly what happened in Boynton Beach, where a 44-year-old woman by that name -- who probably grows irritable every year at this time -- came out of her home ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Now a Lightning Rod in Party Politics Over Health Care

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyMove over, Alan Grayson. There's another Florida Democrat who's not afraid to ruffle Republican feathers -- West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In yesterday MSNBC segment (roughly 3:15 of the video above) she w ... More >>

Rubio Wins the Week in GOP Senate Race

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyU.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio scored two big endorsements this week, plus the criticism of from one of those Democrat-leaning MSNBC talking heads, which kinda counts as an endorsement. About 1:10 in the video above, Hardbal ... More >>

Teabag Gags And Other Important Democratic Functions

All this talk on the news about the right-wing "teabagging" protests is cracking me up. In fact I'm starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up w ... More >>

America is Watching Riviera Beach's Ass, Laws

There was a fantastic piece in The New York Times yesterday from former New Times managing editor Edmund Newton about a Riviera Beach law banning droopy drawers. The ordinance, passed last year with over 70% voter support, makes it illegal to wear pants low enough to reveal skin o ... More >>

Sorry, Chris Hansen. Internet Predators Not Biggest Online Threat To Teens.

The new study by Harvard's Internet Safety Technical Task Force doesn't come straight out and say that Chris Hansen (right) -- MSNBC's moral equivalent to Nancy Grace -- is completely full of shit, but it does say that America's children are not nearly as at risk from the so-called internet pr ... More >>

The Great Publix Fish Fillet Swindle

Last night I followed a craving for fish fillets into the deepest recesses of my freezer. (Do NOT make fun -- we are poor writers over here; in fact, some of us survive mainly on tuna fish sandwiches).  Now, look at the image below. Do you see the writing on the box?  I'm not talking abou ... More >>

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