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Democrats couldn’t get laid in a house whose sole purpose is for free sex with legislators on finance committees

Jon Stewart tells it like it is. With 65% of Americans supporting the public option, 70% of doctors supporting it, even a plurality of Republicans supporting it, the President supporting it, and holding a super-majority in Congress, the Democrats are still doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: See also these […]

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The Child of Torture

There is just so much that is ironic and sad about this story on Liz Cheney that my head is spinning. First of all, she is giving a talk at a gathering of conservative women called “Smart Girls Summit“, and she is not just defending torture but being a shameless cheerleader for it, and is […]

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Hitler finds out about the Glenn Beck rumors

If you have no idea what this is about, read this and this. By the way the owner of the website http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com has found a lawyer and they have filed a response to Beck’s attempt to get the WIPO to take away the domain name. The response itself is a great read, especially considering it […]

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Be careful what you ask for, you might get it

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 […]

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Right-wing whips up census paranoia

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) […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“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 […]

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Gaddafi interpreter can’t take it anymore

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 […]

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Mein Health

© Matt Bors

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Stewart Targets Hypocrisy

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Late Night Political Humor

“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 […]

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William Safire’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoon

© 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.

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Ten Examples of Journalistic Integrity

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 […]

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Values Voter Summit Hotbed of Hypocrisy

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 […]

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Indoctrination?

© John Cole

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Out Foxing Fox News?

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 […]

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