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Posts Tagged ‘everything old is new again’

PAT BUCHANAN

McLaughlin Group Immortalized In Andrew W.K.’s Rock Song

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

John McLaughlin wants to party all the timeDo you know who watches The McLaughlin Group? If you guessed “Not us,” you’re right! But a certain filthy-jeans-wearing writer of party anthems named Andrew W.K. counts himself among those who waken every Sunday to the dulcet tones of old people screaming at each other. And now he has made a musical song based on Pat Buchanan and John McLaughlin’s crazy rantings! MORE »


BARACK OBAMA

Obama Is a New Kind of Candidate with the Old Kind of Staffers

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

From the same folks who brought you video of Rudy’s BFF John Deady comes video of Obama’s staff trying so damn hard to control the Obama message that they try their darndest to control Suzanne Goldenberg, a reporter for a British Labour newspaper. It, um, isn’t very successful and her full piece, that starts off being about Obama’s optimistic message, turns into one chronicling the stupidity and paranoia of his staff. This is sorta especially off-message, since Obama is supposedly the anti-candidate-y candidate and message control is so old school, but there’s no irony to see here, people (especially once they boot you out of their offices or corral you in the press pen). MORE »