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Sunday, July 13th, 2008I guess this is kind of funny? Sort of?
I think the problem here - and why the cover is neither offensive nor hilarious but just sort of baffling - is that whichever editor approved this cover doesn’t quite get satire.
See, if this cover were a work of satire, then the artist would have taken something […]
Fight for those rights / FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Friday, July 11th, 2008Speaking of whether or not Obama is a genuine Amurrican - Ben Craw over at the brand spankin’ new TPMTV blog demonstrates what anyone who’s ever interned over at TPM knows - that he has an almost magical ability to summon up just the right YouTube video for any occasion. To whit:
I think that pretty […]
Mortal Kombat
Thursday, July 10th, 2008I think at some point a couple days ago, McCain assembled all of his various spokespeople in a room and said, “Alright, here’s the deal: the douchiest surrogate gets to be vice president.”
Lieberman came out of the gate swinging - he, after all, is an established master of the douchey arts. “I see nothing wrong […]
Aw, nuts!
Thursday, July 10th, 2008“Say,” you’ve probably wondered, “I wonder what Jesse Jackson’s up to these days.”
Well, as it turns out, he’s found a lucrative career being fucking terrifying.
To quote Jackson on the topic of Barack Obama: “I want to cut his nuts off.”
He’s apologized, of course. But I think that was a mistake. After all, cutting people’s testes […]
Not a salacious tell-all!
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Today’s Maureen Dowd column brings to mind a few questions.
Still, it’s not a salacious tell-all, and words like “smear” and “gossip” are misplaced. It’s a well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid facade of the first lady, a women’s book-club novel by a young woman named Curtis Sittenfeld who has written two best […]
Obamadolatry
Friday, July 4th, 2008Despite recent FISA-related wankery, I’m still an Obama supporter. And although I can’t stand Rolling Stone’s music coverage, they’ve got a great political section - largely in part to Matt Taibbi. But despite all of this, it’s hard not to be embarrassed by the magazine’s misty-eyed hero worship of Obama.
This is the cover of a […]
“Have a barbecue” is the new “have a beer with”
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008From the AP:
People […] barbecue […] Obama […] McCain
Unfortunately, that’s as much as I’m allowed to quote, but you get the picture. Right?
Anyway, the real story here is that apparently pollsters spend a lot of their time sitting around and coming up with the stupidest poll questions they can. Future polls will include questions like, […]
Doocy? More like Douch-ey!
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Okay, so that was a little immature. But there is no denying that Steve Doocy is, indeed, a douche. And if you think saying so is immature, then check out what he and his pals over at Fox and Friends are up to.
The crime here isn’t so much photoshopping actual journalists to make them uglier, […]
Jeff Goldberg needs some new material
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Seriously, this whole “implying my political opponents are terrorist sympathizers” thing is getting way old. He just pulled the same old trick in his latest post, except with Saddam Hussein instead of Hezbollah.
A small indication of the political leanings of some Aspen attendees: At a session with Jim Wallis, Michael Cromartie and our very own […]
Fauxtrage
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The past couple of days have been great for Jeremiah Wright?
Why? Because we now know he will no longer go down in history as being at the center of the stupidest controversy of this election. And I have the montage to prove it.
You think watching seven minutes of this is unbearable? Let’s all bow our […]
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