"You know, Sarah Palin just can't seem to get it, on any front. I think she's an attractive person, she is articulate," Clyburn said on the Bill Press radio show, according to The Hill. "But I think intellectually, she seems...
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We're doing a two-fer today because this ad is just hilarious. Bill Brady is battling it out with Pat Quinn for the Governor's seat in Illinois. If you haven't been paying attention, running as a Dem for the Governor of...
I can't begin to describe how awesome it is to see an ad start with the words, "I am not a witch." Have we forgotten the lessons of LBJ's Pig Fucker Strategy?...
This guy clearly has a bright future at Fox News. It's hard to prove that Media Matters is funded by George Soros when it isn't. Step 1) "Ambush" the subject and ask a question that has no basis in reality....
President Obama stops a speech at a fundraiser for Barbara Boxer to address a heckler. It's funny and he's right, people need to get their expectations in check and FOCUS on those who oppose repeal, not those who support it....
As we all know well now, John McCain can be a surly bastard, especially when he's in trouble. This week, as Tea Party-ish challenger J.D. Hayworth creeps dangerously close in the Arizona primaries, John McCain unleashes a scathing video calling...
I would watch this every day if it were on American TV. This is a perfect way to get the news. Clarke and Dawe: Lending merry-go-round...
Exploitative use of federal employee: CHECK Cynical pandering to base elements and fringe characters: CHECK Stunted speech and uncomfortable body language: CHECK Forced "plain speak" and folksy common sense: CHECK Yep, McCain's in trouble... John McCain for Senate Ad: Complete...
Somebody from the Bush camp should put a cork in Rick Perry's mouth. The current Texas Governor (and rumored GOP presidential contender) tries to go to bat for his pal and Gubernatorial soul brother George W. Bush and instead asks...
My tax bill this year was noticeably lower than it was last year or the year before. So, tax returns having been due last week and all, I figure I'll celebrate by sharing this video from people who apparently hold...
Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and reprised her role as the half-term Governor in The Sarah Palin Network. Set yer TiVos, and such....
Wow, it's a wild time in American politics. What with health care reform on the brink of disaster only to be saved at the last minute by some negotiations and cajoling (this is when having "Chicago machine pols" in the...
I can't help but quote him these days because he's the only sane person on the Conservative side I can find. Andrew Sullivan takes on the RNC's dopey Ten Commandments for being a Reagan Republican...or whatever. He takes on each...
My fears that she's an actual political threat allayed (for now), I can watch the Sarah Palin Show for pure entertainment value. This week, Sarah gets booed and heckled by a crowd who waited in line to have their copies...
In an update to a previous story, the owner of GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com has won a lawsuit filed by Beck in--get this--international court. The site's owner, Isaac Eiland-Hall, a 34-year-old computer-science student in Panama City, Florida, was surprised that he was being...
This about sums it up, doesn't it?...
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This is awesome. Conservative activist and filmmaker John Ziegler and David Keene, the Chariman of the American Conservative Union get into a dust-up over Keene's criticism of Palin and hilarity ensues. KEENE to Ziegler: You are a liar! ... [grabbing...
When is she going to run for the Senate? Al Franken has already blazed the trail... Best line from the video: "So now maybe it's time for you to move out of your house that is a city." Via Huffington...
Saturday Night Live gives Obama's first year a brutal assessment. The White House might have an argument for Fred on this one, but it's funny that we have half the country thinking Obama is taking on too much and the...
Nobody can say he's inconsistent. Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Via Andrew Sullivan...
Hitler finds out about the Glenn Beck 1990 Rumors Via the Glenn Beck 1990 Project...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, President Obama, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Qaddafi and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on the last working day of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila,...
"I had a great meeting with Joe Perry and his wife Billie - and will never forget their support during the campaign! " Via TwitPic...
In case you don't have a Facebook account, here's the video everyone's sharing. Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell...
From the Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day files... Glenn Beck and I actually agree on something! Apparently, we both feel that a President McCain would have been worse for America than either a (second) President Clinton...
Oh HELL yes: Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)...
The birther movement confounds me. Not that there are people out there dopey enough to believe and support the idea that the President of the United States is a foreign born agent who has usurped the Constitution and duped...
Joan Walsh at Salon has been monitoring Rush Limbaugh's obsession with ass play of all sorts and captured this gem from El Rushbo: "You're trying to make this whole health care debate about me. I didn't start anything. As usual,...
Obama: Geee-Odd Daaay-Ammm! Sarkozy: Mon Dieu! *Credit on awesome caption: Puppa Monkey...
We at POLJUNK have our hands full what with all the right-wing violence erupting around the nation and the release of Neil Young's Archives Vol.1. It aint' easy keeping up with international affairs too. But we try and here's how...
Andy Samberg better watch his back, yo. Via Talking Points Memo...
While nothing particularly newsworthy (this is FOX News, after all...) was divulged in this exchange between former Minnesota Governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura and FOX New's Sean Hannity, it was fun to watch Hannity get his ass handed to...
Obama gets in a couple of pretty good bits at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner: "I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days," he said to...
With a wave of desire to secede from the United States sweeping through the ranks of the Republican Party, perhaps it is time for them to heed the time-honored maxim, "America, love it or leave it." But, if they left,...
I have a friend who tells this hilarious story of when he was a kid a mentally challenged neighbor asked him if he'd like to join his Clown Corps. At 12 all my friend could imagine was the ridicule...
...And if the Right wants to call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Socialist Party," do we get to rename Texas, "Teabaggeristan?" The following comic relief comes to you by way of the Huffington Post:...
This is too funny not to mock. GOP Chairman, and consummate unintentional punchline, Michael Steele is asking supporter to join him in tea bagging the President. Yes, TEA BAGGING. From this week's GOP email newsletter: So on this Tax Day,...
Barack Obama's campaign inspired millions. Shepard Fairey's iconic rendering of Obama seems to have also moved other would-be artists to take brush in hand. Check out this gallery of...um...art. Bad Paintings of Barack Obama. My favorite: Maybe we wish now...
The President marred an otherwise pretty interesting appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when he fumbled an attempt at self-deprecating humor by comparing his miserable bowling skills to being on par with what you'd find in the Special...
This is just too crazy to fully explain with text. The Village Voice's Alan Scherstuhl edited the "sexiest" parts of Bill O'Reilly's awful novels and posted the best bits online. You simply have to hear this. "Off With Those Pants":...
Jim Cramer is awfully sensitive, and get a load of Joe Scarborough criticizing the Daily Show. Jon Stewart is maybe the last "comedian" on TV you want to pick a fight with right now. Jim Cramer Responds to Jon Stewart...
Big fun at CPAC. Dig the stickers you can get, they're HILARIOUS. I'm talking to Jake about selling conservative wares. I mean, it's easy pickin'... More at Talking Points Memo...
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The Onion: Cheney Dunk Tank Raises $800 Billion For Nation: "The water's great," Cheney said moments after being dunked by third-grader Sean Biller, who traveled all the way from Denver for his chance to meet the former vice president. "Hopefully...
There's a great show on local Chicago PBS called Check Please where regular people pick their favorite restaurants and then review them with two other guests. Back in 2001, State Senator Barack Obama was on the show. But his episode...
I recently moved from my beloved Chicago to the Peoples Republic of Portland and it all happened as my former neighbor (literally--we lived two blocks away) was being hauled away to the pokey. The Rod Blagojevich story is Chicago...
The genius of this passage from Politico floors me. I laugh every time I see it: "How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?" Boehner asked. "How does that stimulate the economy?" Boehner said congressional Republicans are...
I recently had to admit to friends that I had broken the first rule of political junkydom: keep your sense of humor. A little backstory: my parents both separately made harmless little cracks about Barack Obama in the days following...
CNN and almost every other news outlet today reported that Sherry Johnston, mother of Levi Johnston of Bristol Palin baby-daddy fame, was arrested on drug charges by the Alaska State Police. To be precise, CNN reported that Ms. Johnston was,...
From Glorious Noise: We're as patriotic as the next guy. We put country first as much as possible, of course, but before we've had that first cup of java, we're really not much use to anybody, much less to the...
You may have noticed ads to the right from an outfit called "Sodahead" that posit questions for your feedback. Today asks if we're ready to "kiss our paychecks goodbye" now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the united...
Sarah palin is responding to the flood of funny and soemtimes disturbing reports from Mccain staffers on her knowledge and ability as thier VP pick. She specifically dismissed reports that she didn't know Africa was a continent. PALIN: That's kind...
The Onion: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job: [...] As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny...
Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein mocks McCain's rushed interview process with Sarah Palin. According to reports, the two only met once and she was anything but his first pick. McCain subsequently caved to advisors who pushed a candidate...
Obama campaign volunteers loaded while phone banking? Maybe. Who cares if it's real or not, this is funny. Drunk Dialing for Change...
Quote of the day: "By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in Kindergarten." --Barack Obama in Raleigh, NC today Any wonder why he's kicking so much ass...
The Onion, January 17, 2001: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' "We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two," Bush said. "Much work lies ahead of us:...
Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you. What do you do? OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it. MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I'm a...
Given a softball by John Murtha's recent remarks that western PA is full of racists, John McCain even misses that. It's sad, just sad......
Video: Daily Show: Understanding Real American in Wasilla Via Sullivan....
A few weeks ago John McCain bailed on a David Letterman appearance to "get back to Washington" and broker a deal for the recent economic bailout. Lettermen got wise to the thing and sure enough ran a live feed of...
If you love smart, funny, cutting, and utterly unmerciful poltical writing, then you're probably already a fan of Matt Taibbi. He fills the void left by Hunter S. Thompson and then tops it off with whip smarts. A classic example...
Dig this funny slide show explaining in very...simple...terms this whole ACORN hullabaloo. Money quote: Well, no. They were registrations for people who don't exist. So they're probably not gonna show up on election day. Unless my applications were magical and...
Bill Ayers walks with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their son Zayd Dohrn, 4, Barack Obama outside Federal Court in New York in this May 17, 1982, photo. Courtesy of Donaldson...
You read that right: John McCain as the Penguin Because it's just too funny not to post. VIA Best Week Ever...
Get your "head" shots ready. Now casting....
It was bound to happen, but I can't tell who this benefits most: people who want to paint Sarah Palin as an emptyheaded robo queen, or people who want to humanize her to bored Americans sick of politics. Video Footage...
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Video: Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, September 13, 2008 Who doesn't love Tina Fey? I swear that's why Palin is as popular as she is: she reminds everybody as Tina Fey. But with guns....
Democrats have been freaking out about the kind of week Obama's had since the Republican convention and Sarah Palin swept the media's attention. Obama has a message for us. Via Pundit Kitchen...
Now THIS is a hard hitting ad. And well done to boot! Norm Coleman: Running Man...
Video: Jon Stewart Via Salon....
From the "huh...who knew?" files: Country singer Toby Keith backs Barack Obama and says he's a Democrat to boot. While promoting his new movie "Beer for My Horses," Keith seemed to throw his support to the Senator from Illinois. "So...
Video: Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad from Paris Hilton, Chris Henchy, and Adam "Ghost Panther" McKay See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die...
In a strange, and almost elementary school-styled op-ed for the Washington Times, Jon Voight seems to be exposing himself as an easily manipulated doofus and political neophyte. That he has an Academy Award in his closet seems to be the...
I hate to think that our race for the Presidency boils down to style and perceived personality. Heaven knows the "have a beer with" test has doomed us to 8 years of George W. Bush, but a politician's ability to...
In what must be one of the most pathetic smear attempts in years, some right wingers are actually trying to paint Barack Obama as—get this—a Marxist. On right-winger Mike Gallagher's radio show today, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)...
Andrew Sullivan has a growing list of awards he likes to give out. There's the Malkin Award, the Yglesias Award, and now...The Hewitt Award. As Sullivan describes it, "The Hewitt Award, named after the absurd partisan fanatic, Hugh Hewitt, is...
Mitt Romney appears to be a souless political machine. He has no known heartbeat and is rumored to be powered by lima beans alone. But he has some funny writers. At Wednesday night's Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington,...
Gotta love YouTube mash-ups. If you're following the whole "Hillary in Tuzla" hub bub, this is for you. Hillary in Tuzla: The Movie...
President Busha dn Vice President Cheney might want to think twice before visiitng the Vermont towns of Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro. Voters in both towns voted to indict both men for what they say are "violations against the constitution" and...
I love interviews with Georgia Republican Jack Kingston. He's a buffoon and completely unaware of his own ignorance, which makes watching his interviews like watching an exercise in social retardation. Last night on MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams, Kingston laid...
Astonishing. Seriously, take a minute and watch this homemade campaign ad for Hillary Clinton. Who says user submitted material isn't as good as the pros' stuff? I guarantee this will get more mileage than that awful "Hillary Just Quit the...
A reader at Talking Points Memo comes up with an brilliant idea: I actually like the idea of a unitary executive, because it implies that there could be a unitary citizen. I have begun to consider myself a unitary citizen....
Well, Super Tuesday is here and I am just in from voting. Things were brisk in Chicago's 47th Ward but there wasn't the snaking line of rowdy teenagers that I expected. Just the same, EVERYONE in my polling office was...
This is a significant milestone: The first time I watched a clip of Ann Coulter commenting on an issue without my head exploding. Which isn't to say I agreed with her, but it was certainly entertaining without any bile rising...
Nice video mash-up of that creepy Tom Cruise Scientology video and Hillary Clinton's "breakdown" a few weeks back. I don't know what it means but they both kinda give me the willies. Again, VIA Andrew Sullivan...
Bill Maher, telling it like it is, on Conan O'Brien: Politicians always try to say that you can reconcile faith and science, and you can't ... you can't be a rational person six days of the week and put on...
Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld creator Larry David is out stumping for Obama and told students at Dartmouth College, "If you don't vote for Obama, I'm never doing the show again." Please, people...don't let this happen....
There are lots of reasons to hate the blogoshpere. There's a lot of weirdo bullshit out there, especially when it comes to politics. But there's also a lot of really funny one-liners floating about, and that's what I love about...
Here's your Friday video fun. A new documentary by Morgan Spurlock - of Supersize Me fame - chronicles the efforts of Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping to bring American consumers to their senses in a new documentary,...
Reason.tv is also highlighting this gem: A Keith Olbermann interview from 2006 with Dr. Claudia Jensen, who advocates for using cannabis as a treatment for ADD and ADHD instead of Ritalin, which is basically speed. And she has some credibility:...
Courtesy of TPM, a funny montage of clips surrounding Karen Hughes announced departure from the State Department (why was she ever allowed in there in the first place?): In the first season of 30 Rock, there's a bit where Tina...
If you have yet to be tazed by an officer of the law - or even a fellow citizen, in states that allow "regular" folks to own and use tasers - or haven't yet tazed a fellow American, don't worry....
I don't really watch SNL much anymore, but when I catch it, I like the stuff that Andy Samberg does. Last Saturday night, he did a short on the recent NYC visit by Iran's president. Sad to say, but it's...
