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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Letterman — master of irony — responds to Palin

Sarah and Todd Palin wrote a nastygram to David Letterman about some jokes he made about their trip to New York. Letterman responds: UPDATE: The Empire Strikes Back! MSNBC has the details — scroll down to “Palin keeps up her crusade against Letterman“. Palin also denounced the media’s “political double standard” by leaving Obama’s children […]

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Conservative Alternate Reality

Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer says: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality. Ironically, I think he meant it as a compliment.

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Gingrich Disses Reagan!

Ronald Reagan, speaking to the United Nations on June 19, 1982: I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world. … My people have sent me here today to speak for them as citizens of the world, which they truly are, for we Americans are drawn from every nationality […]

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Why they hate us

© Mike Luckovich

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Do Republicans even know what Socialism is?

A while ago, the Republicans noticed that calling an opponent a “liberal” didn’t quite have the sting it once did, so they decided to simply replace the word “liberal” with the word “socialist”. Seriously. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of them bothered to look up what socialism means. This led to ironic situations where people […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“I know why you’re happy. That speech Black Elvis gave in Cairo. Wow, he is Jimi Hendrix with a Teleprompter, isn’t he? He was making good on a campaign promise to reach out to the Muslim world. Let’s just hope it works better with Muslims that it did with Republicans.” – Bill Maher “Did you […]

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The RightWingOverse Part II

© Tom Tomorrow See also The RightWingOverse, part 1.

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No Shirt, Sherlock!

© Walt Handelsman

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Obama Cleans up Hairy Problem in Iraq

Stephen Colbert reports from Iraq. The good part starts around 2:10. Also watch Colbert declare victory in Iraq. And if you want to see Colbert’s new do, see this clip.

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Political Casualty

This morning at LaGuardia airport in New York City, on her way to Congressional meetings in DC, Sonia Sotomayor tripped and fractured her right ankle. My question is, does this mean that in the future she will be leaning more to the right or more to the left?

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Free Market Capitalism – American Style

© Milt Priggee

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Late Night Political Humor

“Rush Limbaugh is in the news. Last week, Rush Limbaugh said that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a racist. But this week, Rush says he may support her. Yeah. Limbaugh says that he can’t support Sotomayor until he’s 100% sure she’s a racist.” – Conan O’Brien “Rush Limbaugh, you know Rush Limbaugh? The new […]

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Crossed Signals

© Joel Pett

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Pirates Arrrrrh Victorious!

The Pirate Party won enough votes in Swedish elections to give them two seats in the European Parliament. They managed to get over 7% of votes cast in Sweden. Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge declared “We’ve felt the wind blow in our sails.” In a similar election in Germany, the Pirate Party received 1% of […]

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The Wrong Foot

© Tom Toles

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