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Feeding the Lions to the Christians

© Nick Anderson

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Michael Palin for President

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Watch Out Mr. Bush!

© Tom Toles

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If Karl Rove worked for the Democrats

From 23/6.

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Finger puppets – tired of political spin? try folding!

Check out this great site that lets you make your own cut-out finger puppets of the McCains and the Obamas. Are you tired of the candidates being puppets of faceless multinationals? Now you can control the candidates. Make them say or do anything you want! From folduscandidate.com.

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Palin’s big speech

Someone at 23/6 got ahold of the acceptance speech written by Sarah Palin, before it got replaced by one written by one of Dubya’s ex-speechwriters: © Lee Camp UPDATE: He also found the first draft of McCain’s speech.

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Late Night Political Humor

“Governor Sarah Palin gave her speech tonight at the GOP Convention, and it gave people who didn’t know anything about her the chance to finally meet her, you know, like John McCain.” -Jay Leno “I gotta admit, she looked very comfortable at the podium ’cause it’s kinda like Alaska: you look out on that convention […]

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Is abstinence-only sex-ed working?

© Asaf Hanuka (translated)

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Was Jesus a rabble rouser?

Last night at the Republican convention, the punch line of jokes seemed to “community organizer”: Rudy Giuliani mocked that someone with an Ivy League education would work as a community organizer, bringing laughter and guffaws from the convention floor. Sarah Palin also received laughter when she said “ I guess a small-town mayor if sort […]

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Rugged Individualism and Self-reliance in the Welfare State

© Jeff Danziger Is this why people say “you’d have to pay me to live in Alaska”? In addition to being #1 in pork barrel spending, Alaska is the only state that has neither a state sales tax nor any personal income or capital gains taxes. A few weeks ago, Gov. Palin arranged a special […]

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Palin’s speech proves she can lie

Let’s ignore for a moment whether Sarah Palin’s speech at the republican convention was well-written (it was written by a former speechwriter for Dubya) or well delivered. What bothered me about it was two things. First, other than talking about her family and attacking Obama, she didn’t really say anything. No issues, no idea of […]

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Cindy McCain’s $300,000 outfit

It’s a good thing someone is paying attention to these details! Vanity Fair has done an estimate of the cost of the clothing worn by Cindy McCain and Laura Bush. Laura Bush, obviously trying hard to not appear elitist, wore clothing with an estimated cost of between $3500 and $4300. But Cindy McCain apparently didn’t get […]

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Karl Rove appears bitterly divided on the experience issue

Jon Stewart takes on Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, and Sarah Palin’s gender card. Rampant hypocrisy exposed! If you can’t get enough of pundit hypocrisy, watch Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough drink the kool-aid and do a complete 180 over Palin. Four days ago, they were laughing about her possible VP nomination, saying that she was […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“As you all by now, John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate. From what I understand, President Bush very upset with the choice. He said, ‘Alaska? Why couldn’t he have picked someone from America?’” -Jay Leno “And we’re learning more and more about Governor Palin. Apparently her […]

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The (Republican) Survivors of Hurricane Gustav

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