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Posts Tagged ‘politics’

SUMMER OF CELEBRITY DEATH

Ted & Barry On the Flickr

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Hey don't bring POLITICS into this!
The official White House Flickr photo-porn stream has crassly brought POLITICS into the death of famous politician Ted Kennedy, by posting a set of pictures titled, “Remembering Senator Kennedy.” Yeah, more like “Remembering the Politician Ted Kennedy, instead of the apolitical national mascot we all loved as our own sort of Col. Sanders or whatever.” God, these Obamas …. [White House Flickr]


PETULANT CHILDREN

Palin Locked In DEATH MATCH With Republican Fundraisers

Monday, June 8th, 2009

She will cancel on her own funeral.Will Sarah Palin appear at a fancy fundraiser tonight for the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee? No way in hell, unless she changes her mind! First she was invited to headline at the event, and she said yes, but then she said no because she was so “overexposed,” so events organizers booked Newt Gingrich instead because Newt Frigging Gingrich is a less “controversial” speaker. But the drama was just beginning! MORE »


FILM AND STAGE

Why Politics, Old Women and the Holocaust Are Meant For DC

Friday, May 8th, 2009

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Tonight through May 10: A festival about political films, here, in the nation’s capital? They just love to keep us on our toes! The inaugural “Politics on Film” festival is this weekend and a dozen different films, including four international movies, will be screened at E Street Cinema, the Navy Memorial Auditorium, and at George Washington University. Best bets include, Abraham Obama, Leif Letzebuerger (aka Charlotte: A Royal at War) and What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a film about how Kansas has single-handedly ruined America. MORE »


MODERN ART FORMS

Ron Reagan Not Impressed With Rahm Emanuel’s Dancing

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Everybody in America knows exactly three things about Rahm Emanuel: he sent a dead fish once to somebody he did not care for; he is kind of a dick to everyone, but in a good way; and he used to be a dancer. But but! Some important details regarding that third point have come to light — details that the American electorate has a right to know. MORE »


AMERICA IS SAVED

Stephen Colbert Mathematically Proved To Influence American Politics

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

The Great InfluencerDemocratic politicians appearing on the comedy teevee show The Colbert Report got an average 40 percent bump in contributions in the month following their visit, while Republican politicians got an average of nothing. This just goes to prove that Republicans do not watch The Colbert Report, or if they do, they end up contributing to Democratic politicians. Read a PDF of the research report here. [American Political Science Association]


THE CABLES

John McCain Hates ‘The Bloggers’

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Here is John McCain lamenting the Information Age in typical hilarious old-man fashion. First there are “the cables,” and then talk radio, and of course bloggers, whom he hates. Finally, something we can all agree on. [YouTube via BuzzFeed]


HILLARY CLINTON

Geraldine Ferraro Rails Against Sexism Again

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

DEMOCRATS

Muppets Debate Clinton vs. Obama

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Clinton Caught In Millionth Bosnian Lie!

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

pwnedHa ha, it turns out that Hillary Clinton even lies with her lying about her harrowing overseas adventures. First she says she once ran screaming through the streets of Tuzla smeared with the blood of Bosnian snipers as she singlehandedly brought peace to Northern Ireland; then she says she was the first president’s wife to visit a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt. Wrong again, Pantsuit! That honor goes to Pat Nixon, who visited Vietnam with Sinbad way back in 1969. MORE »


BARACK OBAMA

Obama Makes His Secret Service Guys Poop Across The Street

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Here they are, looking for a place to squatWhen most people hear “Barack Obama’s neighbor,” they probably think of slumlord Tony Rezko, whose wife sold the Obamas a patch of dirt once. But it turns out that the Obamas’ Chicago home sits across the street from a synagogue where the presidential candidate’s Secret Service detail occasionally uses the head! Hear what the kindly rabbi neighbor has to say about Our Barry after the jump. MORE »


DEMOCRATS

Get Ready For Vice President Barack Obama!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

America's first woman dictatorTake heart, sad Barry fans: even though your guy lost everything except Vermont last night, he will be President someday–after groundbreaking President Hillary Clinton expires of old age. This morning Senator Clinton hinted that she might add Barack Obama to the ticket if the people of Ohio allowed it. MORE »