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Limbaugh blames health care problems on “exercise freaks”

Rush Limbaugh talking about Obama’s plan to reform health care in the US: I’ll tell you why Obama wants to hurry. I’ll answer my own question. If he doesn’t get it done now he’s not going to get it done because everything he’s doing is falling apart. Everything he’s doing is crumbling. He’s in a […]

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Colbert in Iraq

“I am Stephen Colbert, and I am reporting for duty. Folks, right off the top, I want to thank the USO for bringing me and my show to our brave men and women in uniform in Baghdad, Iraq. Thank you so much. I have to say, this place is great. I’ve always loved the beach, […]

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UP

© Marshall Ramsey

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Listening to Karl Rove is dangerous to your health

Karl Rove is out with a new column in the Wall Street Journal called (unabashedly) “How to Stop Socialized Health Care“. What’s completely hypocritical of this is that Rove was one of the main promoters of the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003, which was the biggest move in 40 years toward what Rove now […]

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Our Health Depends On It

There are too many “facts” being thrown around in the healthcare debate, and not enough information for me to figure out which ones are true. This is made worse by “facts” that I know are false. For example, I keep hearing opponents of health care reform claim that if health insurance was provided by the […]

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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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