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Saima Wahab

Season 17 • 08/07/2012

In her book, "In My Father's Country," Saima Wahab relates her journey from Afghanistan to Portland.

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Jessica Biel
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Jessica Biel reveals the secret to filming British hover cars in "Total Recall," and compares the statures of Colin Farrell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
08/02/2012
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Fast Feud Nation - Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
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Thousands turn out to support the First Amendment rights of Chick-fil-A president and gay marriage opponent Dan Cathy by contracting Type II diabetes.
08/02/2012
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A Leak of Their Own
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Fox News' Judith Miller explains why the Obama administration's leaks are jeopardizingly injurious to national security in a way Dick Cheney's WMD leaks were not.
08/06/2012
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Live at Red Rocks
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NASA's Curiosity rover successfully lands on the surface of Mars, statistically increasing the likelihood of someone at Mission Control getting laid.
08/06/2012
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Moment of Zen - Stella McCartney's Olympic Knickers
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Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira engage in some friendly, Olympic underwear-related banter.
08/06/2012
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A Leak of Their Own - License to Spill
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Jason Jones interviews former NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, a man at war with the Obama administration and wasteful domestic spying programs.
08/06/2012
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Fast Feud Nation - Chick-fil-A & Social Media
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Senator Lindsey Graham and other conservatives tweet their love of Chick-fil-A, but a gay-rights crusader speaks truth to powerlessness at a Chick-fil-A drive-through.
08/07/2012
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Moment of Zen - Dirty Liar
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Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus declines to address Harry Reid's attacks on Mitt Romney's tax history.
08/07/2012
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That's Amormon
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While CEO of Bain Capital, Mitt Romney bought and resold a telephone directory company for 25 times as much, earning the enmity of Italian shareholders.
08/07/2012
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Fast Feud Nation - Taco Bell Tweet & General Mills Protest
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Taco Bell employee Cameron Jankowski is fired for ruining a perfectly good order of Nachos BellGrande, and a man protests General Mills for its same-sex marriage support.
08/07/2012
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Saima Wahab
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Saima Wahab, author of "In My Father's Country," shares stories of growing up without equal rights in an Afghan village and later escaping amid the Soviet invasion.
08/07/2012
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Chris Rock
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Chris Rock discusses Julie Delpy's "2 Days in New York" and why he envies musicians' mandate to trot out the same material every performance.
08/08/2012
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Dick's Sporting Wood
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Amid conflicting reports of hardness, Al Madrigal analyzes rower Henrik Rummel's Olympic boner, which until proven otherwise is flaccid in the eyes of the law.
08/08/2012
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Wizards of I.D.
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Conservatives and their media division are up in arms over voter fraud -- coincidentally, almost entirely in swing states with Republican-controlled legislatures.
08/08/2012
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Wizards of I.D. - Voter I.D. Laws
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Jessica Williams explains how Republican state legislatures' voter I.D. laws will end the free ride for America's minorities and other disenfranchised demographics.
08/08/2012
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Moment of Zen - Hillary Clinton's Dance
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Hillary Clinton dances with a local singer while visiting South Africa.
08/08/2012
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Joanna Brooks
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In "The Book of Mormon Girl," author Joanna Brooks discusses her turn to liberalism at Brigham Young University and the evolution of Mormonism.
08/09/2012
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Double-Wide World of Sports
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Jason Jones reports from the 2012 Redneck Blank in Hebron, ME, where champions are crowned for toilet seat horseshoes, pickup truck dressage and wet t-shirt events.
08/09/2012
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Moment of Zen - Hannity's Negative Ad Prediction for Paul Ryan
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Following a Super Pac attack ad implicating Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in the death of a cancer-stricken woman, Sean Hannity speculates on grisly anti-Paul-Ryan ads.
08/09/2012
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Democalypse 2012 - Dog Days Edition - Mitt Romney & Wife Cancer
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In response to an incendiary Super PAC ad, Romney aide Andrea Saul highlights his Massachusetts health care law, sparking conservative outrage from Ann Coulter and Karl Rove.
08/09/2012
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Democalypse 2012 - Dog Days Edition
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The Obama campaign introduces "Romney Hood" and Mitt Romney coins "Obamaloney," but who's responsible for all the wife cancer?
08/09/2012
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