More from Fox’s “Half Hour News Hour,” this clip attempts to derive laughs from the idea of “President Rush and Vice President Ann Coulter.”
I’ll grant there is much humor to be wrested from that hypothetical (and horrifying) scenario, most of the jokes probably having to do with making Oxycotin available over-the-counter and installing …
You may have heard that Fox News has hired “24” producer Joel Surnow to create what everyone kind of has to call “a conservative Daily Show.” As anyone who has dabbled in comedy can tell you, starting out with a political objective or message is pretty much death for the funny. What makes something like the Daily Show work is execution, …
Gawker has already made the best joke you can about this:
The implicit compliment the NY Post is paying to Clinton may explain why Media Matters is not already on top of it.
Fidelis (“a Catholic-based advocacy organization established to help elect pro-life, pro-family and pro-religious liberty candidates to public office”) has announced that they will be using the resignations of Edwards’ bloggers (the second as of today) as a springboard for a series of ads, designed to draw attention this pressing …
Well, it looks like we’ll be invading Iran, huh? In other news, our former colleague Mike Allen got a nice little shout out for a venture those in DC may have heard something about (unofficial t’script thanks to pal MM):
bush (calling on allen): michael, who do you work for?
allen: politico.com, mr. president.
bush: politico.com? do
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Slate sums it up:
As part of the new security measures, Qanbar also said the government reserves the right to listen in on phone calls, open mail, and break into homes and cars.
Insert “American-style democracy” joke here.
I’ve talked about this before, but one of the things that surprised me the most about Washington, once I started to get to know it beyond monuments and museums, was how Congressmen are just like us. Which is to say, kinda stupid, if not actual idiots. One can chose to be amused by their antics (“I was on my way to a vote, officer!” and …
A colleague observing the Libby trial writes:
Is it just me, or does this excerpt make it sound as though Bob Woodward conducts his interviews while plainly drunk?
Woodward is heard asking about Wilson and how he happened to make the trip. Armitage tells him: “his wife works at the agency” and says that she specializes in weapons of
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Reporters’ comments on the bitter cold in Springfield during Obama’s announcement Saturday mostly amounted to color: The temperature gave another dimension to descriptions of the event and gave journalists a way to contextualize the enthusiasm his candidacy currently draws. The media’s complaints, though I’m sure quite genuine, seemed …
Here at Swampland HQ, there is a topic that we turn to almost as often as politics, and that is the fountain of awesomeness that is Wizards superstar Gilbert Arenas. Imagine my joy at another blogger creating a way — a dubious yet enjoyable way — to bring Swamplanders’ two favorite subjects together:
*The “Black President” Factor:
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Hey, have you heard this?
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included “reporting of dubious quality or reliability” that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community,
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The consensus among those on the right-hand second row of the court room yesterday was that the defense’s rambling, repetitive approach to cross examination is a deliberate strategy to wear the jury down — to lull them into reasonable doubt by making Fitzgerald’s crisp narrative (Basically: “He lied. And he meant to lie.”) seem like a …
I received a voicemail from Chris Matthews last week (that I only got around to listening to yesterday, sorry) asking me if I really thought it was fair to characterize his statements in June 2003 about Wilson and the Vice President as “attacks.” He raised a good point in that he was not “attacking” the Vice President in any personal way …
