Yesterday, Alan Grayson (D-Fla) said that the Republican health care plan was “1. Don’t get sick. 2. If you do get sick… 3. Die quickly!” Here’s the video (short, and pretty funny): Republicans immediately demanded an apology from him. So today, Grayson apologized: As Act Blue says, it probably was not the apology they were […]
You might watch this and laugh at their easily disproved lies. For example, Michelle Bachmann saying that she doesn’t trust ACORN with her information, when ACORN has never collected census data. But what’s really ironic is that if Bachmann succeeds in getting right-wingers to avoid the census (which, by the way, is against the law) […]
“President Obama made a big speech. He welcomed the members of the U.N. General Assembly to New York, and he said, ‘I’d like to encourage you to do some shopping while you’re here.’ I think it worked because China immediately bought eight banks, two car companies, and the state of Wyoming.” – Conan O’Brien “And […]
The translator broke down during Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s speech at the UN, shouting into his live microphone “I just can’t take it any more” in Arabic. Ironically, the translator was one supplied by Gaddafi, who refused to use the regular UN interpreters. Those who have translated for Gaddafi in the past empathized with the […]
“Hey, listen to this. You know the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin? Boy, I know her. She’s traveling all over the world now, speaking gigs. And she went to Hong Kong and gave a speech and people who heard the speech said it was articulate, it was well-prepared, it was compelling. It’s a year […]
© Chon Day In rememberance of political columnist William Safire, who died yesterday at the age of 79, we present his favorite New Yorker cartoon. Even though this cartoon by Chon Day was published in April 1945, the recent financial meltdown for which nobody seems responsible makes it timely today.
The media is often my favorite whipping boy, tool of corporate interests. But ironically, while this blog is neither mainstream nor an actual news source, I am by definition part of the media. So I think it is only fair that I post this video that gives ten examples of journalistic integrity, many (surprisingly) from […]
We already reported on Mitt Romney doing a full flip-flop at the Values Voter Summit earlier this month, but we almost forgot this little gem. At the summit, Bill O’Reilly received a “Media Courage Award” from the right-wing Family Research Council. But you might not have heard about it, because the award ceremony (including the […]
So recently, Fox News decided to not air Obama’s speech on health care reform, even though pretty much every other channel did show it. Fox also passed on a few other speeches by Obama. For example, for the memorial service for Walter Cronkite, Fox decided not to air the remembrance from Obama, and instead announced […]
“It’s opening week at the U.N., ladies and gentlemen. Security is very tight here in New York City. A lot of dictators all over the city. You know what I’ve noticed? Dictators tend to be tiny. Have you noticed this? Kim Jong Il, a tiny little guy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Another guy like this: Mayor Bloomberg.” […]
Teabagger dream, or nightmare? A BBC comedy with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie: Is it just me, or are there two insults against Americans in here? The second one is the obvious one, where the policeman asks him to fill out a form (rather then fill in a form, as the British would say) and […]
It didn’t take very long for the conservative Republicans in the SouthEast, who have been yelling a lot lately about how Government is never the answer, to change their tune and beg for government assistance in the wake of widespread flooding. But I resisted posting a story about that, since I hate to hit people […]
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