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Make your own Political Hallowe’en masks

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Every election year, masks of the major candidates are popular Hallowe’en costumes. But why buy an expensive mask, when the Chicago Tribune has masks of Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin you can download and print out for free! UPDATE: © Clay Bennett

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Batman and the Penguin pre-enact the debate

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Amazing! They anticipated both the “who is batman?” argument and the “enthusiastic fans” argument.

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Late Night Political Humor

Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Economy “This economy is crazy. Are you with me on that one? This is what I saw today. I saw a Lehman Brothers executive walking around town wearing a sign that read, ‘Will work for a seven-figure bonus.’” –David Letterman “President Bush announced today he is going to have the Federal government put $250 […]

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What we know about Joe the “Plumber”

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

McCain spent more time talking about Joe the Plumber than Sarah Palin in the debate tonight: From Jeff Seemann at Daily Kos (and MoBuck.com). But not the real Joe. UPDATE: Joe the Plumber has been confirmed as Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. The New York Times has turned up that he is not licensed, either as a […]

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Maybe the problem is just that McCain is a smear magnet?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

© Steve Sack

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Late Night Political Humor

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Economy “Former President Jimmy Carter blasted President Bush, blaming the financial crisis on him. Carter called this the worst financial crisis since the Carter administration. Good news, the stock market went up over 900 points today. That’s good news. This is the best thing to happen to the John McCain campaign since … actually, […]

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Stewart mocks McCain 4.0

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

But the best part is Jon Stewart’s dig at Fox News at the very end: How stupid do we have to be?

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One down, one to go

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

© Tom Toles

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Guilt by Association

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

© Stuart Carlson

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Late Night Political Humor

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Sarah Palin “Tomorrow, America’s most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she’ll get out on the ice and skate around reporters’ questions, so it should be interesting.” -Jay Leno “The other big story, of course, this week is how nasty and angry the […]

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Sarah Palin is a nice looking parrot

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

John Cleese says that Sarah Palin could be a Monty Python sketch: From Seesmic.

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If the shoe fits, walk away

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

© Tom Tomorrow

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How the markets really work

Monday, October 13, 2008

Here at Political Irony, I love it when comedians hit the nail on the head better than the pundits or other experts.  Here are two British comedians — back in 2007 — who exactly describe what was about to happen in the financial markets. Plus it is extremely funny (in a scary kind of way).

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Late Night Political Humor

Monday, October 13, 2008

“Beautiful day in New York City today: it was 73 and sunny. John McCain, 73 and cranky.” -David Letterman “But this is a good part of the campaign. Things are really getting nasty in the campaign. You enjoy it when it gets nasty? Listen to this: today John McCain tried to link Barack Obama to […]

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Sarah-gogue

Monday, October 13, 2008

© John Sherffius

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