Saturday Night Video – Second City does BP
June 16, 2012 Leave a comment
I like the idea and some of the execution, but this Second City satire of BP’s ad campaign takes its funniest line from Chris Rock’s Bring the Pain. Maybe it’s an homage.
Can Republicans Save the Country from Civil War?
March 25, 2012 4 Comments
Newt Gingrich. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Newt Gingrich, in his attack on President Obama’s Trayvon Martin address, is the latest to join Marco Rubio, John Boehner, and scores of other patriots in and out of office to blast the President’s divisiveness. Gingrich pointed out that the speech, in which the President referred to shooting victim Martin’s race, was
nonsense dividing this country up.
Wednesday Night Video – Stephen Weber, “Shit My Republicans Say”
March 7, 2012 Leave a comment
Perhaps NSFW.
H/t: pass the doucheys on the right-hand side
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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Keystone XL, the Catholic Church, and more…
February 18, 2012 2 Comments
MONDAY (Feb. 13, 2012)
The guest was activist Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and one of the forces against the Keystone XL pipeline.
I love that Stephen Colbert manages to regularly include activists in his entertainment.
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Best of the Week: The Daily Show on Whitney Houston, Insider Trading, and more…
February 18, 2012 Leave a comment
MONDAY
On Monday, Jon Stewart chastised CNN for sending a roving reporter onto the streets to alert people to the death of Whitney Houston:
You can’t just wander the streets with a camera crew surprising people who don’t know somebody famous has died!
He also took on the supposed outrage by the Catholic Church that their affiliated institutions would have to provide contraceptive services as part of their health care:
Rep. John Fleming Tangles With Satire (Satire Wins)
February 8, 2012 3 Comments
Did you hear the one in which Louisiana Representative John Fleming read an article about Planned Parenthood building an Abortionplex? Rather than recognizing it as satire of the religious right’s skewed perception of the family planning clinic, he posted it as fact on his Facebook wall.
