Watch this hilarious video where Fox News host Gregg Jarrett interviews PBS’s Bonnie Erbe. Erbe keeps trying to talk about a real news story — the war between Russia and Georgia — but Jarrett keeps totally ignoring her and talking about John Edwards and his 2006 affair, as if Erbe doesn’t exist. When Erbe says “We […]
McCain and Obama will make their first joint general election campaign appearance on August 16 at a forum at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA, where they will be participating in a discussion of “compassion and leadership”. Why is this ironic? Because top right-wing evangelical leaders (including Mike Huckabee) are so pissed off about this that they […]
Just as McCain is learning how to manipulate the Internet by rewarding followers for carpet bombing political blogs, Obama seems to be getting the hang of using innuendo in press releases. Kinda like those negative ads that fuel racial fears by juxtaposing a black political candidate with a sexy young white woman. Hot on the heels of […]
© Mike Keefe In an interesting twist, his sentence was a surprisingly light 5.5 years, and since he has already been incarcerated for 5 years, he’s eligible for release in 6 months. Who wants to bet we’ll find some excuse to not release him?
It must be pretty frustrating when all your attacks start to backfire. How would you like to be one-upped by Paris Hilton? Or forced to admit that maybe keeping your tires properly inflated isn’t such a bad idea after all. So you’d think the McCain campaign would have thought twice before releasing a campaign ad […]
It isn’t often that irony hits this close to home, but the revelations in the Washington Post that McCain’s campaign is giving out prizes to people who spam political blogs explains some strange things that have been happening to PoliticalIrony.com over the last month. You can see it for yourself, on McCain’s official site. They even […]
In the last two days, two Republican governors who are often mentioned as potential running mates for McCain have come out with high praise for Obama. First, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Obama’s energy plan, despite the fact that McCain is trying to hammer Obama on this issue. About Obama’s plan to complete the Alaska […]
McCain is trying to make energy the centerpiece of his campaign, but his efforts seem to be a little clumsy. First he did a complete about-face on offshore oil drilling and decided to support it, despite voting against it in the past. Then he tried to blame Obama for high gas prices, running an ad […]
UPDATE: Was it the shock of learning they had acquired an Obama bumper sticker? The Straight Talk Express bus crashed into a minivan in Miami today. Does this mean they will take away McCain’s driver’s license? UPDATE 2: US News & World Report has a hilarious report on the bus accident in (of all places) […]
The Justice Department’s Inspector General has just issued its report on politicization at the Justice Department, which it found was “serious, significant, and systemic”. For example, the Bush administration put Esther Slater McDonald, a junior attorney who had been in the Justice Department for less than a month, in charge of hiring new law school […]
It is ironic that rising oil costs will finally do what global warming or even a tanking US economy could not do — slow down or even reverse globalization. Transportation costs have been so low for so long, people in the US don’t even notice anymore that hardly anything they buy in Wal-Mart is made […]
On Friday, Stephen Price, a reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper was kicked out of a media area at a rally for McCain. Price is black. All of the other reporters in the area were white. He was the only reporter asked to leave. All of his security and media credentials were in order. When […]
Most politicians have figured out that it backfires when you say something racist (the Republican Party has even issued rules to try to avoid future “Macaca moments”). The trick, however, is to somehow appeal to racist fears while not appearing to actually be racist. For example, in 2006, the Republicans ran a now-infamous negative TV […]
Was anyone else concerned when Rupert Murdock (owner of Fox News) bought the Wall Street Journal? Well, no need to worry. This morning’s front page story of the WSJ online finally exposes the real reason why Obama is not “fit” to be president — he’s not fat. Here’s proof (from the article): “I won’t vote for […]
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