What a day to be an American.

Today, at 3:00pm ET, the President of the United States stood up for equality and freedom under the law when he endorsed marriage equality. I’ll let him speak for himself, but please join me in showing your thanks by making a contribution to his campaign for reelection.

Mitt Romney doesn’t support marriage equality or civil unions. Hell, even George W. Bush endorsed civil unions and that was in 2004. Obama isn’t alone. Presidents Carter and Clinton and Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney support marriage equality. It’s just another reason we can’t afford to have Romney in the White House.

Here is a photo of me with Jimmy Kimmel at the MSNBC After Party following his roasting of the President and political, media, and celebrity class at the 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner (a.k.a. nerd prom.) You can see the rest of my photos after the jump. Be sure to comment and let me know what you think.

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Last month I was elected to the Victory Fund’s campaign board — a group of people dedicated to raising funds and supporting LGBT candidates for public office. Every time an openly LGBT person is elected to office, it makes it far less likely that anti-LGBT laws will pass in that legislative body. As part of the campaign board, I’ve committed to contributing $1200 and raising $5000 another annually.

Fortunately, we have many great candidates worthy of our help — and making history along the way. People like Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin who is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin and could become the nation’s first openly LGBT Senator!

Can I count on you to make a $25-50 contribution to help me reach my $5000 overal goal for the year and help make Tammy the first openly lesbian U.S. Senator in history?

DONATE TODAY

If you can give more, please do. Every dollar counts!

In response to a question posed by political comedian John Fugelsang on CNN about how Meh Romney could compete for the middle after the GOP primary had taken him so far to the right, the Republican front-runner’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said, “Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again.”

Of course Romney’s rivals pounced on the opportunity to use the advisor-generated gaffe to paint the former Massachusetts Governor as a flip-flopper — as if he needed another coat of paint. Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum even appeared at press events with their own Etch A Sketch toys to hammer the message home.

You may be asking yourself, “if Romney’s an Etch a Sketch, what does that make his rivals?” I’m glad you asked, because I have answers:

• Ron Paul would be Trivial Pursuit. Let’s be honest, his entire campaign is a trivial pursuit if there ever was one.
• Newt Gingrich is obviously Clue. After all, it was the geometry teacher, in the hospital bed with the divorce papers, that killed his first marriage.
• Rick Santorum is Rock Band. Since the instruments in the video game are fake, he doesn’t have to worry about them summoning the devil like the guitars and drums used in those liberal church bands.

And should Republicans find themselves at a brokered convention this summer in Tampa, I’ve got the two most likely candidates to step in and take the nomination as well:

• Jeb Bush would be Risk. It’s a Bush family tradition to play Risk with the country.
• For Chris Christie, I have just three words: Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Do you enjoy the Stephanie Miller Show? A lot of the fun audio clips (including my “He’s Frisch” theme song on Thursday mornings) were produced by my friends Shane and Danielle. They are competing for DFA scholarships to attend Netroots Nation and I can’t think of anyone more deserving. The first round of voting ends on March 21 at 11:59pm PST.

Please take a minute to vote for each of them and then get two friends to do the same.

• Shane-O: http://goo.gl/0YIX7
• Danielle the Leftneck Chick: http://goo.gl/7m5mx

Join in the fun on twitter using the #LimbaughFlashback hashtag or feel free to spread these far an wide on other social media or use them in blog posts and reporting. Most come from the Media Matters archive.

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Today, while guest hosting radio’s nationally syndicated Thom Hartman Program, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Oppenheimer of Salon and the New York Times. We discussed his profile of Maggie Gallagher. The interview went so well that I decided to clip the segment and share it here on my blog.

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