Alberto Gonzales, Bush’s former Attorney General, who resigned in disgrace 16 months ago, whose famous repeating of “I don’t recall” to Congress showed that he has the memory capacity of someone who has been repeatedly struck on the head, who was ultimately responsible for the scandalous purge of US Attorneys, who filled his department with […]
The Republicans are demonstrating that they have no desire or ability to play nice politically. This week, the Minnesota election board announced that after their recount of the extremely close Senate race, Democrat Al Franken is ahead by 50 votes. There is still the question of a thousand or so improperly rejected absentee ballots, but […]
In a classic case of irony, U.S. prosecutors are pushing for a sentence of 147 years in prison for someone who was just convicted of torturing people. The defendant is Charles Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Emmanuel was born in the US, but the torture was committed when he was chief of […]
Even though most people probably just want to forget about the Bush presidency (what were we thinking, anyway?), there are two wrap-ups that are definitely worth reading: The first is AlterNet’s “The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency” with some outrageous lines like “One of the Bush administration’s favorite pastimes over the past […]
Go read it in the Washington Post! Just to give you a taste, here’s the summary: How weird a year was it? Here’s how weird: O.J. actually got convicted of something. Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times. On several occasions, “Saturday Night Live” was funny. There were a few […]
Here’s an amazing audio recording of Ronald Reagan, campaigning for Harry Truman for president and Hubert Humphrey for Senate in 1948. How many people know that Reagan was originally a Democrat?
An article in The Guardian gives a scary view at the depths that the US media will sink in order to kiss up to the Bush administration. The article is about the $70M lawsuit that Dan Rather is bringing against CBS for breach of contract. Rather was fired the day after the 2004 election because […]
Normally it is the liberals who are doing all the infighting, with conservatives all reading from the same talking points. But James Dobson’s Focus on the Family has pulled an interview with Glenn Beck from one of its websites in response to protest from a group of their followers that claims that “Mormonism is a […]
Four police officers have been suspended with pay after being caught on videotape stealing toys from the Toys for Tots program in Washington DC. Ironically, this is the first year that the police had been involved in the program. From WTOP, DCExaminer, and Raw Story.
© Tom Tomorrow I love his panel on Ann Coulter. I never posted that news to Political Irony, because I hate to make fun of other people’s misfortune (even someone as vile as Ann Coulter). But this is panel is a perfect twist to the story that is not only ironic, but is funnier than […]
Sometimes, all you need for irony is a headline: Candidate For RNC Chair Sends Out CD With Song Called “Barack, The Magic Negro” Good thing they are working hard to dispel all those rumors that they are secretly racist.
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