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Are you fed up with the whole New Yorker cover thing yet?

© Ben Sargent

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How America Was Destroyed, and the nature of Satire

This cartoon is from April, but it is similar in nature to The New Yorker cover: © Ruben Bolling Ruben has an excellent article talking about satire and the importance of satirical intent. In his view, the satirical intent of The New Yorker cover is unclear, because you need too much context to understand what […]

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Liberals do eat their own

In Cannibal Liberals, Neal Gabler looks at how the worst attacks against liberals come from other liberals. But if that’s too many words to read, here’s a cartoon that pretty much conveys the same idea: © Lee Camp

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Late Night Humor

“Now McCain is coming under fire for comments made by his top economic adviser, former senator Phil Gramm, who called America ‘a nation of whiners’ and said the country is only in a ‘mental recession.’ Just a mental recession. Like the $5 a gallon gas, and the bank kicking you out of your house — […]

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Time for some campaignin’

Is it just me, or is JibJab not as good as they used to be? Oh well, this one is pretty funny. Plus you can put yourself into the movie, if you want.

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Are we safe yet? – When the government labels everyone a terrorist

According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), their terrorist list is growing by an average of 20,000 names a month. The ACLU says that over a million people are already on this list. Let’s get real. Either we are creating a quarter of a million terrorists every year, or else our government has gone […]

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Obama Phenomena – Brilliant!

© Tom Tomorrow

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Republicans selling fear

from wftv.com

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Cover Wars – the rebuttals

© David Horsey What I find ironic is that while the images in The New Yorker cover were completely false (Obama as a Muslim terrorist?), there is video of McCain singing “Bomb Iran”, and Cindy McCain admitted to being addicted to pain killers (after she lied about it). So, the real cover contains falsehoods, while […]

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Phil Gramm – Why does he hate America?

ABC news has a story about super-rich American tax cheats who got caught avoiding taxes by setting up bogus shell companies in Liechtenstein. What’s interesting to me is that the the accounts were set up for the Americans by none other than the giant Swiss bank UBS.  Hmmm. UBS, where have I heard that name […]

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No one ever lost an election underestimating the gullibility of the US media

Last week, NPR did a report on the economic proposals of McCain and Obama. McCain’s centerpiece is tax cuts for the wealthy, while Obama champions a tax cut for the middle class. NPR ignored the fact that McCain is now promoting the same plan that he opposed 8 years ago, and that Bush’s tax cuts […]

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Obama is not funny

One or two people have mentioned to me that I seem to be partisan in my selection of articles. It isn’t that I don’t have any articles making fun of Obama, they are just dwarfed in number by all the articles about McCain. Finally, I have a defense. The International Herald Tribune asks “What’s so […]

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Flip-flopping about flip-flopping

© John Cole

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Bush manages to be a liar and a weasel at the same time

We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It’s their government’s choice. If they were to say leave, we would leave. –George W. Bush, 24 May 2007 So now that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has asked […]

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Should the president be computer literate?

And if that weren’t enough, how about this spoof — it is 3AM and McCain can’t read his email: http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/its-3am-and-joh.html

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