Strip HTML from text

I have left the print statements and main in for now, in case you would like to test further. 
The test case attached contains an image that should be removed entirely, and two HTML links.
![screen shot 2014-11-22 at 3 19 12 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7966567/5155502/f1d8bb26-725a-11e4-95aa-3c8d473e621a.png)

can we remove this?