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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Stewart mocks McCain 4.0

But the best part is Jon Stewart’s dig at Fox News at the very end: How stupid do we have to be?

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Can McCain or anyone else back this up with one single example?

McCain must be learning from the Palin Playbook — ignore reality. But in the interest of fairness, can he, or anyone else, produce a single example to back up his claim that people at Obama rallies have called him a terrorist or a traitor? And why didn’t Dana Bash not challenge him on this?

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One down, one to go

© Tom Toles

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Guilt by Association

© Stuart Carlson

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Late Night Political Humor

Sarah Palin “Tomorrow, America’s most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she’ll get out on the ice and skate around reporters’ questions, so it should be interesting.” -Jay Leno “The other big story, of course, this week is how nasty and angry the […]

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What happens when you steal an Obama sign

From ivy_windchaser This is a followup to my story about a friend of mine, who installed a huge solid metal sign to replace Obama signs that were stolen. UPDATE: The person who made this sign wrote an interesting article about it.

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Palin’s alternate reality where war is peace, black is white, and up is down

The Anchorage Daily News is astounded at Sarah Palin’s response to the Troopergate report: Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. Palin’s response is the kind of political “big lie” that George Orwell warned against. War is […]

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Sarah Palin is a nice looking parrot

John Cleese says that Sarah Palin could be a Monty Python sketch: From Seesmic.

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If the shoe fits, walk away

© Tom Tomorrow

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You don’t say!

This morning in Virginia Beach: Sarah Palin: “Since he won’t say it on his own behalf, I’m gonna say it for my running mate here: There is only one man in this race who has ever really fought for you.” John McCain (taking the mic): “I’ve been fighting for this country since I was 17-years-old and […]

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With friends like these, McCain doesn’t need enemies

Conservatives speak out on McCain: From the Jed Report.

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How the markets really work

Here at Political Irony, I love it when comedians hit the nail on the head better than the pundits or other experts.  Here are two British comedians — back in 2007 — who exactly describe what was about to happen in the financial markets. Plus it is extremely funny (in a scary kind of way).

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Quote of the Week

“My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.” – John McCain today © Matt Davies

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Late Night Political Humor

“Beautiful day in New York City today: it was 73 and sunny. John McCain, 73 and cranky.” -David Letterman “But this is a good part of the campaign. Things are really getting nasty in the campaign. You enjoy it when it gets nasty? Listen to this: today John McCain tried to link Barack Obama to […]

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Sarah-gogue

© John Sherffius

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