A while ago, the Republicans noticed that calling an opponent a “liberal” didn’t quite have the sting it once did, so they decided to simply replace the word “liberal” with the word “socialist”. Seriously. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of them bothered to look up what socialism means. This led to ironic situations where people […]
On Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News, actor Craig T. Nelson (Coach) declares that he isn’t going to pay taxes anymore, because he doesn’t like what the government is doing with his money. He rants that no one takes responsibility anymore. He then drops a stunningly hypocritical line: I’ve been on food stamps and welfare, […]
A year ago, David Barstow reported in the NY Times reported on how the Pentagon was manipulating the news by planting retired generals into major networks as independent analysts, and that in many cases the networks themselves were complicit. What made this even worse was that this story was completely suppressed by the networks in question, including […]
In January 2001, mere days before Dubya took office for the first time, satire magazine The Onion published a then-funny piece about president-elect Bush giving a speech assuring the country that ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’. Bush pledged to end the Clinton era — “eight long years characterized by unprecedented […]
Dear World: The United States of America , your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the software responsible was replaced Tuesday night, November 4. Early tests of the newly-installed program […]
The “Big Lie” is a propaganda technique defined (by Adolf Hitler no less) as a lie so colossal that no one can believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. The principal of the big lie (defined by Joseph Goebbels) is that if one needs to “lie, one should lie big, […]
Exactly two years ago, the polling firm SurveyUSA interviewed 30,000 voters spread evenly by state, asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Here are the results: In this poll, Obama took his home state of Illinois, his birth state of Hawaii, and DC, for a […]
It was bad enough that the largest newspaper in Alaska endorsed Obama, but now this? This is the governor’s mansion in Juneau, Alaska: This is the house across the street: Thanks to Don (aka Mr. Ed).
This interactive game is fun, and the (unnamed) creators promise to add new features each day until the election. Can you: summon Joe the Plumber? torture Katie Couric? uncover the nuclear codes? set off nuclear armageddon? get Palin to say “something-stan” and “cactus-stan”? find all five people Palin calls mavericks? shred Roe v. Wade? UPDATE: […]
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