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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Late Night Political Humor

“Hillary Clinton is denying rumors that she will replace Joe Biden as the Vice President in 2012. It’s fun to have a Clinton denying stuff again.” – David Letterman “The Department of Labor has launched a new website to help unemployed Americans. President Obama said the website is amazing and he can’t wait to check […]

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Islamophobics Anonymous

© Brian McFadden I’ll take a mosque over a mega-church any day. I get the sinking feeling that the majority of Americans don’t have the wisdom to recognize a wedge issue when they see it.

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And THIS is how Carter repays us?

A few weeks ago, the conservative Right Wing News released their poll of right-wing blogs to determine the worst Americans of all time. Topping their list, ahead of “all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history” ahead of Timothy McVeigh, Benedict […]

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The greatest threat against America are the tens of millions of Americans who won’t turn out to vote this November effectively giving power to 87,000 angry assholes

[reprinted from Margaret and Helen] 100 Grand Bore Margaret please tell Howard that 100,000 people will show up to a tractor pull if the entry fee is cheap enough. Big deal. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ignore them and have some pie. As I see it dear, if more […]

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You Are What You Eat

This site reported last week on yet another example of RAI — Republican Attendance Inflation — where a commissioned count of the attendees at Glenn Beck’s White Civil Rights Rally pegged the number at 87,000, but Glenn Beck himself declared the number to be 300,000 to 500,000 people (naturally, Michele Bachmann wins the “most inflated […]

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WTF?

Are we really this stupid?

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Will We Ever Learn?

© Don Wright I guess not as long as it is so easy to buy elections in the US. © John Sherffius

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Dan Rather on how corporate media is destroying democracy

Dan Rather hits the nail on the head. I have worked in and with corporate-owned media, and have seen the same things. You don’t need to believe in any kind of conspiracy — either right or left wing — to understand how the slavish obsession with profits of our corporate controlled media is destroying the […]

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The Impracticality of Alternative Fuels

© Mike Thompson Between wars in the middle east, pollution, and taxpayer subsidies to oil companies, I don’t think most people realize how much our addiction to petroleum actually costs us.

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Taking this Lying Down?

© Jimmy Margulies The same people who opposed every effort to fix the economy are now profiting from the bad economy.

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Best of Daily Show v. Fox News

Jon Stewart seems to be the only media personality willing to take on Fox News, so it’s a good thing he does it so well. Here are some of the best clips from the Daily Show showing the hypocrisy and outright lying coming from Fox News, often in their own words: 1. Fair and Balanced? […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Last night in only his second Oval Office address, President Obama announced the end of Operational Iraqi Freedom. He said we have given the Iraqis a Western-style government. Well, we certainly have, haven’t we? Their economy is in shambles, their Congress is corrupt, the country is broke, welcome aboard!” – Jay Leno “Before President Obama’s […]

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#1 Story Censored by Mainstream Media

© Lee Judge

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Talk to the Hand

© Ed Stein I love reading Ed Stein’s comics on his website, because he usually includes extra information. Here’s what he included for this one: It’s not even a question that the national economic policies of the last few decades have favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. We’ve seen an astonishing […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“I just got back from vacation. I went on vacation the same time as President Obama. We both had to get away from it all and not do anything of significance. And now we are back and still not doing anything of significance.” – Craig Ferguson “President Obama was in New Orleans for the fifth […]

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