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FUNNY SPEECHES

Presidential Candidates Roast Each Other At Alfred E. Smith Dinner

Friday, October 17th, 2008

So sure, he was dreadfully awkward and only vaguely humanoid on the David Letterman, but that’s because the pampered plutocrat John McCain feels weird around people who fly coach. Later on yesterday he went to a fancy white-tie dinner and had a rip-snorter of an evening, indeed! MORE »


HILLARY CLINTON

Clinton Staffers Pull Trigger On Hilarious Racism

Monday, February 25th, 2008

That cane is loaded with terrorismChristmas came ten months early this morning, when the Internet’s Matt Drudge claimed that some Clinton staffers had circulated this fantastic photo over the weekend of Barack Obama in his element on a trip to Kenya in 2006. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe slammed the Clinton campaign for “shameful offensive fear-mongering,” when really it’s just kind of funny. [Drudge Report]


FLORIDA

Our National Voting Shame: Nobody Knows When To Do This Crap

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Rudy Giuliani, elected Emperor of Florida six weeks agoAwesome Tuesday has turned into Hungover Wednesday. As we sit in our easy chairs with comically large ice packs held to our skulls, let’s remember one important thing: however empty-brained and regretful we feel today, we can still take heart that we are smarter than thousands of morons across this great nation. Because as Walnut King John McCain might say, my friends, my friends, the Super Tuesday voting confusion did not end with the states of Texas and Washington. Who are the country’s stupidest voters? Click the clicky and we’ll join you after the jump. MORE »


FUNNY

We “Discuss,” You Decide

Friday, December 7th, 2007

yes, we did think this would be more fun than the standard weekly wrap-up pieceNow that there are three of us writing here full-time, we’ll admit that things might be just a tetch competitive at Wonkette HQ. Rather than settling our differences with soda bottles and sneak attacks again this week, we decided to leave it to readers to decide, with a poll, which of your editors found the funniest picture this week. (Why, yes, it is kind of a slow news day).

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DEMOCRATS

Obama Clearly Not Ugly Enough To Raise Big Money

Monday, April 2nd, 2007


The message from the New York Post could not be clearer: Barry Hussein Obama is far too pretty to raise the big bucks necessary to win the nomination and then lose the election to Tommy & Fred Thompson. MORE »


FUNNY

All I See Is A Plain Vanilla Man!

Friday, July 28th, 2006

You’re going to get it e-mailed to you eventually, so just bite the bullet and watch Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Colbert Report. Be proud: She gives as good as she gets and gets into the flow of even Colbert’s most caustic jokes. MORE »


CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Cheney Totally Doesn’t Get Condi ‘n’ Chertoff’s Inside Jokes

Thursday, July 6th, 2006


Vice President Dick Cheney, left, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff wait for the arrival of President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the East Room of the White House Thursday, July 6, 2006 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


REMAINDERS

Remainders: Politics Is What Politicians Do Late At Night

Monday, June 19th, 2006

* Pretty soon the 4am “make millions in your spare time” infomercials will feature Drudge. [Logged Hours] MORE »


REMAINDERS

Remainders: Tupac Would Roll Over In His Grave, If He Were Really Dead

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

* G to the W-B, President number 4-3, keepin’ it real up here in DC. [Atom Films] MORE »


REMAINDERS

Remainders: Fresh Fruit from Crazy Schemes Edition

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

PROTESTS

Drudge Concocts Headline Showing Waggy Fit

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Very Punny Matt
And no, we don’t know what that officer is holding. We doubt if Matt knows either. MORE »