progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
October 26, 2012 Leave a comment
TheObamaCrat just posted this promo for Key & Peele which I’d never seen. The plot is fairly obvious from the start, but it’s still sharp and funny.
It also gives me the opportunity to point out (belatedly) that Key & Peele were featured on an episode of WTF with Marc Maron, about a month ago.
October 24, 2012 1 Comment
Rachel Maddow visited the self-described “sixty-five year old male voter” David Letterman last night. Topics included Maddow explaining how Romney’s plan for the auto industry was to rely upon non-existent private funding, how Ted Kennedy put together RomneyCare, and how Romney relied upon hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding for the Salt Lake Olympics in 2002. Extras included a visual contradiction of Romney’s claim that Syria is Iran’s path to the sea, and Letterman going off on the lack of discussion of global warming and gun control.
October 22, 2012 Leave a comment
While we wait a few more minutes for Debate Three, here’s a comic look back at Debate Two, as presented by the folk at Saturday Night Live.
That is, if this post even posts! I’m flying back to San Francisco at the moment, making use of inflight internet. Sure, it’s probably giving us all cancer, but at least we’re getting entertained along the way. 
I think SNL did a pretty good job, satirizing the questioners as well as the questioned.
October 7, 2012 Leave a comment
From Obama’s hems and haws to Romney’s robotic stare, SNL did a decent job yesterday. It’s not laugh-out-loud, but definitely amusing. They present a strong contrast between Obama’s excessive geniality and Romney’s machine-like falsehoods.
October 4, 2012 4 Comments
Like most progressives, I was disappointed that President Obama did not attack Mitt Romney with more force yesterday. It’s good to see that Obama is hitting back today, and my gut instinct is still that he’ll still carry the election day. Today’s reaction demonstrates that his campaign gets it, even if he lost it for an evening.
I have two thoughts emerging in response to the debates.
1. Progressive can’t rely on President Obama alone. There need to be an ever-increasing number of progressive voices out there, so that the weight of a single debate lessens. I say that with the belief that the campaign cycle moves quickly and Obama’s loss will probably count for less than some pundits (and most conservatives) think.
2. Progressives need to continue to push President Obama from the left. Obama has a worrying tendency to endorse conservative Tea Party idea about the importance of reducing the deficit before the economy improves. Bowles-Simpson is B.S. — it’s bad politics and bad policy. Plus, he responds more to criticism than to compliments, which is why I actually think that the result of yesterday’s debate will make him much sharper next time around, and criticism from the left can actually improve his political success, as it did when loud-mouthed lefties pushed him into getting rid of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
September 28, 2012 3 Comments
Have you seen how well President Obama is doing in the polls, historically speaking? Have you seen how Republican media outlets such as Fox News have argued that the polls are skewed? Yesterday, Stephen Colbert gave a comedic rundown of the conservative takes on polls.
