Dick Cheney in 1994, talking about invading Iraq: Dick Cheney in the last few weeks: Now here’s where it gets interesting. When Cheney attacked Colin Powell and declared that he’d rather have Rush Limbaugh as a spokesperson for the Republican party than Powell, he royally pissed off Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff […]
It is interesting watching the debate about health care reform, especially because it is hard to tell who is actually trying to reform the US health care system, and who is just looking out for their own interests: One of the most ironic things is how the government and the media (even including those people […]
Well, if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican. – Dick Cheney, on whether Colin Powell or Rush Limbaugh is a better spokesperson for […]
And over at Forbes Magazine, Bruce Bartlett points out the irony of the fact that there were no tea parties during the Bush years. UPDATE: This photo spawned a discussion in the comments about Libertarianism, Somalia, and Anarchy, which led to this classic Andy Singer comic:
At last, the media is finally poking fun at our president in a way I can really appreciate! Over at McSweeney’s, read “My Pitches for Political-Satire Skits Playing on President Obama’s Foibles” Someone finally had the guts to take off the kid gloves and end this insipid love affair the media has with Obama.
First there was the irony of Bristol Palin going on national TV as an advocate for sexual abstinence. I didn’t mention it in here, because I have a lingering case of Palin burnout. But when the story moves into hypocrisy, I just can’t resist. It turns out that the campaign that Bristol Palin was participating […]
The term “blowback” was originally used by intelligence services to describe violent, unintended consequences of covert operations. A big example of this was the CIA financing and training insurgents in Afghanistan to fight a guerrilla war against the USSR, who then turned around and joined al-Qaeda. Indeed, Osama bin Laden himself was one of those […]
It is nice to know that politicians are still adept at the art of doublespeak. The latest example of this is from Senator James Inhofe (R-OK): There is no evidence more visible that the American people are already rebelling against the far-left agenda than Senator Arlen Specter switching parties to become a Democrat [sic]. He […]
Last week during an interview, Senator Dick Durbin admitted that the government is pretty much completely controlled by the banks: And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly […]
This one really makes my head spin. The Republicans seem to have found those WMDs that they had been looking for so hard. A few days ago, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter stunned everyone by switching parties (leading to puns such as the Politico headline “GOP is Specter of its old self“). The former moderate Republican […]
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court upheld new stricter rules against obscenity on television. Previously, so-called “fleeting expletives” were allowed occasionally. For example, what prompted the lawsuit were live broadcasts of awards shows where “foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood” (as Justice Scalia put it) let slip the F-word. One instance was musician Bono saying that an […]
Jon Stewart has the clearest (and most enjoyable) explanation of the Jane Harman influence scandal: Yes, that is an image of someone strangling a manatee.
First Sean Hannity called waterboarding to “dunking somebody’s head in water“. Then Charles Grodin went on Hannity’s show and asked him (since Hannity claimed that waterboarding was such a benign thing) would he be waterboarded? Hannity said yes (several times) and said he would do it for charity. Grodin immediately called his bluff and asked […]
“Next month in Toronto, Canada, former President George W. Bush will debate former President Bill Clinton. The question of the debate — is it worse to lie to your wife or lie to the entire country?” – Jay Leno “Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, once two of the most powerful men in this country, are […]
I am not making this up! “The Irony of Satire” is the actual name of a study done at Ohio State University on “biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report”. The study compared conservatives and liberals, and how they reacted to Stephen Colbert. Interestingly, both groups thought that Colbert was funny. But […]
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