The winner of the prestigious award for most ironic political statement comes from President Bush, who said in an interview Tuesday that he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from collapse: I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system. Yes, he really did say that. UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan adds: […]
Just after the 2004 presidential election, the BBC published an article where it asked various americans why they voted for Bush. In hindsight, some of the answers are now comical, but one of them is downright prescient. Tim, from Los Angeles, answered: I voted for Bush to usher in the complete and utter destruction of […]
Thumbing his nose at the country, President Bush awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to convicted felon Chuck Colson. Colson, who was Nixon’s lawyer during Watergate, has been described as the “evil genius” of the Nixon administration. He tried to hire thugs to beat up anti-war demonstrators, plotted to firebomb the Brookings institution, and was eventually […]
Here’s another one of those stories that truly wins the irony award. In Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog (subtitle “I keep track of Condoleezza’s hairdo so you don’t have to”) is a story about a recent service at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. The title of the article is “Programming Note: This Week, the Part […]
In an interview with conservative talk-radio host Glenn Beck, Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher admits that he was used by the McCain campaign: When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans did not want that to happen. I asked him some pretty direct […]
A Fox News reporter goes to the McCain-Palin headquarters in Arlington VA where they are selling off the old office equipment, and buys a used Blackberry phone that has a dead battery. When she charges the phone, she discovers that it has over 50 private phone numbers and two months of internal campaign emails. Curious, […]
“Economy not looking good. Some bad job numbers. Employers cut over 500,000 jobs. This is the worst job loss in 34 years. The only bright side, at least Bush is losing his.” -Jay Leno “This weekend, at a Kennedy Center Awards ceremony, Barbra Streisand kissed President George W. Bush. Yeah. The ultimate liberal kissed President […]
#1 and winning a special award is William Kristol, who at the end of 2006 boldly predicted that Hillary Clinton would be president and that “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary”. Then, after Obama took Iowa, he completely flip flopped and predicted that Clinton would lose New […]
On Saturday, a series of unlikely circumstances resulted in Louisiana electing the first Vietnamese American to Congress. Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao defeated nine term Democrat William Jefferson. Among the things that are interesting about this campaign: Cao is a refugee from the Vietnam War who came to the US as a child, and whose father spent […]
A representative of the Catholic Church in England, Christopher Jamison, has attacked Disney, claiming the company has corrupted children and exploited spirituality to encourage consumerism. He cited films such as Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmations that seem to feature moral battles, but in reality get into children’s imaginations and make them greedy for the merchandise that goes […]
Yes, I know, he did preside over two wars, including one that he started illegally. But all that is water under the bridge to Pastor Rick Warren, who is awarding our president the International Medal of PEACE. The award was for the work that Bush has done to fight AIDS, a program that has done […]
One of the ornaments that was accepted by Laura Bush to hang on the White House Christmas Tree says “Impeach Bush” on it (albeit in small letters). According to the artist who created it “Apparently, they didn’t read it — or Laura Bush is more progressive than I believed.” From the Washington Post.
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