The Fear is palpable on the National Mall tonight; the crew rocked the sound check with Steely Dan’s Bodhisattva. Well, at least when we were walking by. WASHINGTON D.C. — We landed at Dulles in a 35 m.p.h. crosswind. I know this because the pilot came on and praised his first officer for doing a “heckofa job” landing that bitch. …
You’d think that having spent $140 million dollars of her own money trying to become governor of the most economically dysfunctional state in the country, Meg Whitman could come up with a media campaign that brands her as an original candidate, someone with the creative chops to think outside the box. But in what has to be the most brilliant, …
Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Islamophobiapalooza www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Here’s a couple of clips from last night’s Daily Show that capture the absurdities of the current wave of Isalmophobia sweeping the US, and the desire among both Christians and Muslims for bringing this sorry world to an …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Weekend at Burnies www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Debating the nuances of evolutionary religion While the context is the Mad Pastor Terry Jones‘ proposed burning of the Quran this Saturday, Jon Stewart and John Oliver take a peek under the hood of what The …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Fux News has managed to hoist itself on its own cynical, hypocritical petard once again, this time over the potential funding of the Park 51 Islamic cultural center. Jon Stewart connects the dots above. About …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Jon Stewart & Anderson Cooper Look at Gaping Holes – Security<a> www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Jon Stewart opened his show last night featuring clips of Rep. Louis Gohmert (Wingnut-TX) railing on about terror babies, Chinese plots to feed us our pets, bestiality, necrophilia, …
