Hey, Glenn! Don’t let the crazy hit you in the crazy on the way out, you big crazy: (Via Wonkette.) Beck’s actual final minute-and-a-half is after the jump. He went out with a whimper, almost literally.
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Sarah Palin Babbles for Seven Solid Minutes After the Sarah Palin Movie
Somebody just posted video of Sarah Palin’s speech after the first Iowa screening of the Sarah Palin lovefest documentary, Undefeated. She’s certainly not trying out a new stump speech here; it’s just a seven minute disjointed babble about hating government, with the same tired shots at “the lamestream media” and railing against that “hopey changey” […]
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Michele Bachmann Rewrites History Again
Another day, another amateurish mistake from Michele Bachmann: Michele Bachmann made what appears to be another gaffe on history. When asked by ABC this morning to explain why she once said that the nation’s Founding Fathers fought tirelessly to end slavery, Bachmann replied: Well if you look at one of our Founding Fathers, John Quincy […]
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Google Introduces Their Social Network; What Do You Think?
Today, Google announced their new attempt at a social network, which they’re calling “The Google+ Project.” It’s not open to the public yet, but they issued a series of videos explaining the idea behind the whole thing. Here’s the first: Basically, it allows you to put your friends in different “circles” (coworkers, family, girl friends, […]
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Michele Bachmann Compares Herself to John Wayne Gacy
Well, it sure didn’t take long for Bachmann to make her first serious campaign error: Oliver Willis says: In the video below, Bachmann compares her spirit to that of John Wayne, who she says is from Waterloo, IA. Except the John Wayne from Waterloo is not the legendary actor but instead the notorious serial killer. […]
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Romney and Bachmann Neck-and-Neck in Iowa…
…and Bachmann doesn’t even officially start running for president until tomorrow. New York Times says: The Iowa Poll in the Des Moines Sunday Register — the first survey of the season — shows that Mr. Romney and Ms. Bachmann lead the crowded Republican field. Mr. Romney had 23 percent of support, and Ms. Bachmann had […]
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DC Comics Aborts Superman Comic Introducing a Muslim Superhero
Another month, another Superman controversy. This week, DC Comics was supposed to publish an issue of Superman in which he met a west coast-based superhero named Sharif. The story was supposed to revolve around the fact that some citizens don’t trust Sharif because he’s Muslim. When the issue hit the stands, comics fans realized that […]
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“Extreme Couponer” Vs. Walmart: Who’s Right? Who’s Wrong?
Consumerist brought this sordid story to my attention. I hate Walmart. I worked for Walmart, and it was one of the worst months of my life. That said, I want to ban April Cuevas from everywhere, too. The customer is not always right, but Walmart is never right. Right? This is a great moral quandary, […]
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Republican Candidates Respond to President Obama’s Speech
Unsurprisingly, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty both came down on the right of President Obama’s Afghanistan speech last night. Pawlenty, especially, sounds like a neocon: “When America goes to war, America needs to win. We need to close out the war successfully.” Romney, who is running on a platform of fiscal conservatism and running America […]
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Sarah Palin Continues Her Undefeated Streak
Real Clear Politics reports that Sarah Palin has quit her bus tour halfway through, thus continuing the undefeated streak that she began when she bravely quit her position as governor halfway through her first and only term: In an apparent repudiation [sic; that should obviously be “refudiation”] to those who dismissed her trip as a […]
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Obama to Withdraw 33,000 Troops from Afghanistan
Politico says: President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Wednesday his plan to withdraw by the end of 2012 the 33,000 additional surge troops sent to Afghanistan, with at least 5,000 personnel — a brigade — to exit by the close of this year, administration officials told POLITICO. Obama has yet to determine the […]
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Michele Bachmann’s Campaign Fails at Recent History
Michele Bachmann’s campaign on Twitter: My favorite Canadian blogger: Uh, guys — we did have a stimulus. We passed stimulus in 2009 as part of the budget, at practically the same time that the USA did: $40 billion in spending and $20 billion in tax cuts for a total of $60 billion in stimulus spending […]