Political Irony

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?

“Rush Limbaugh is in the news. Last week, Rush Limbaugh said that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a racist. But this week, Rush says he may support her. Yeah. Limbaugh says that he can’t support Sotomayor until he’s 100% sure she’s a racist.” – Conan O’Brien “Rush Limbaugh, you know Rush Limbaugh? The new […]

© Tom Toles

“Yesterday, Dick Cheney said his lesbian daughter Mary has convinced him to support gay marriage. Pretty cool, yeah. Yeah. Cheney made the announcement after Mary was spotted waterboarding him.” – Conan O’Brien “Former Vice President, current Wal-Mart greeter Dick Cheney, surprised everyone in a speech yesterday when he said that he supports a state’s right […]

“So Sotomayor is clearly a Latina woman. What affect will that have on her opposition? . Excellent question for the American-born judge.” – Jon Stewart “Now, folks, I’ve said it before, I am a member of a persecuted minority: white males. Last week, my people were marginalized even more when President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor […]

“Tonight was the last ‘Tonight Show’ hosted by Jay Leno. Out of respect to Jay, I’d like to do the first joke he told on May 25th, 1992, when he took over the ‘Tonight Show. He said, ‘This, of course, is the ‘Tonight Show,’ the one TV program Dan Quayle hates even more than ‘Murphy […]

“Hey, last night at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills, people paid $30,000 to attend a dinner and a discussion with President Barack Obama. The subject of the discussion? The struggling economy.” – Jay Leno “Let me tell you something, if you spend $30,000 on dinner, aren’t you legally a Republican at this point? I think […]