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Top Ten Videos of 2010: 6. The Daily Show, “Male Inequality”

January 2, 2011 | Comment

2010 was a big year for Jon Stewart, and thereby for The Daily Show. I didn’t think Stewart could top the October 30 Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear he and Stephen Colbert led, which drew a crowd of over 200,000 to the National Mall in Washington.

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Billboard welcoming RNC attendees to
Minneapolis in 2008
(Photo: Flickr/The Zeppelin)

As it turned out, Stewart outdid himself in December with an impassioned shredding of Senate Republicans’ unconscionable filibuster of the Zadroga Act to provide medical and financial aid to afflicted Ground Zero emergency workers.1

In 2010 The Daily Show also continued to do one of the things it has done brilliantly for several years: point out and mock people who claim to be oppressed, but clearly aren’t. Examples of such people might include certain investment bankers, Christian mega-churches, professional athletes, or many others that generally have it pretty good. In the case of my number six video of 2010, this treatment is given to a richly deserving group: middle-aged white men.2

Samantha Bee, the Daily Show correspodent in this segment, has long been one of my favorites. She had a few things of her own going on in 2010, most notably the publication of her memoir I Know I Am, But What Are You? Her promotion of the book included a wide-ranging interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air and a cute feature piece in the New York Times Magazine. Daily Show video clips featuring her are here; among those that especially crack my shit up are “Shame Parade,” “John McCain’s Air Quotes” (start at about 2:03 into the clip), and “Long Island Wants to Secede.”


Iran: Real Winners Don’t Blame

June 18, 2009 | Permalink

Day six of Iran’s post-election uprising, and all we can do is watch. Or at least, all we will — and indeed should do is watch.  Not until Tuesday, four days after the Ahmadinejad government released its incredible tally pronouncing its own reelection by a 63-34 margin, did President Obama comment on the situation. And very measured comments they were, with an emphasis on honoring the will of Iranian voters rather than condemning the ruling faction.

Even these mild pronouncements were immediately seized upon by the beleaguered Iranian incumbents, accusing the U.S. of fomenting the massive unrest they now face.
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I’m John McCain, and I Approved These Lies

September 12, 2008 | Permalink

As of right now, the McCain campaign is nothing more than a firehose of lies. Period.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and countless others from both parties have spoken highly of John McCain, praising his honor and dignity.  I’ll take it on faith that McCain may have once possessed those qualities… but not anymore.  There is not a shred of honor in how the McCain campaign is being conducted.  He may have handed off the reins to subordinates, but it’s his name on the door.  His staff and his campaign are his responsibility.

John McCain is a corrupt, unprincipled, ethically bankrupt old man.  His personal judgment is abominably bad.  And he is a liar.


Palin, Pigs and Pit Bulls

September 11, 2008 | 2 comments

You know what?  After the election, I think I’m actually going to miss Sarah Palin and John McCain.  Or rather, my blog will – with the way that campaign is representing her in the press, the jokes just write themselves.  By the tens.

So Obama remarked that McCain’s platform does not represent a proposal for change, as advertised, but rather is like putting lipstick on a pig.  The McCain camp seized upon this remark and expressed its absurd faux-outrage that the unbelievably, horribly, unforgivably sexist Democrat candidate had called Gov. Palin a pig.

Hurh?  Exactly.  Apparently, in the McCain worldview Sarah Palin owns the copyright on the concept of lipstick.  She laid claim to it at the recent GOP convention, where she attempted a curious combination of self-promotion and comedy by declaring that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was, in a word, “lipstick.”

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Sarah Palin
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A pit bull
(Photo: Flickr – audreyjm529)

Aside from being something less than a knee-slapper, this statement (like so many things Gov. Palin says) demonstrably inaccurate.  First off, she’s not interested in selling us on hockey moms as a group, she’s interested in selling us on herself.  With the pit bull thing, she’s trying to suggest that she’s tough, a badass.  But it doesn’t wash – there plenty of differences between her and a pit bull.

Top Ten Other Differences Between Sarah Palin and a Pit Bull

  1. Pit bulls don’t lie about their ear markings
  2. Palin: wants to be your V.P.  Pit bull: wants your B.L.T.
  3. Takes longer to train a pit bull to roll over for special treats
  4. One is often used as an attack dog by crooked scumbags… and the other is a pit bull
  5. Pit bulls generally produce a litter of five to seven pups… OK, bad example
  6. Palin: saw Juneau in person, decided to move there.  Pit bull: saw Juno on DVD, decided to nap
  7. Pit bulls produce pit bull shit; Palin leaves out the “pit”
  8. A pit bull doesn’t need a gun to take down a moose
  9. A pit bull would never hide its desire to receive a big barrel of pork
  10. You can spay a pit bull

That’s not all, either – not if you folks out there have any more to add.  Let’s hear ‘em!


AP Pollsters Go Off-Leash

July 9, 2008 | 2 comments

Amidst the multi-year media onslaught that our presidential election process has become, I’ve had to adjust my critical thinking filter to an even finer sieve than before. Sometimes it occurs to me that at least the news media is flooding the landscape with an issue that matters to people’s lives. At other times, though, the campaign overkill reaches such a level of absurdity that I wonder if perhaps these press hacks aren’t qualified to tell us about anything more important than Anna Nicole’s baby daddy, so maybe they should stick with that.

Consider for example this AP/Yahoo News poll and writeup published yesterday, which concludes that John McCain is the candidate of choice among pet owners.

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