Politics (Un)Seriously

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki uses uses “It’s a Wonderful Life” to inspire Americans to pull their money out of large banks. Stephen Colbert uses the same film classic to bolster his opposing argurment.

 

 

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Move Your Money - Eugene Jarecki
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In the aftermath of the attempted terror attack on Christmas Day aboard a U.S.-bound plane, everyone is talking about a failure to "connect the dots." Stephen Colbert shows how easy it is with the right placemat...

 

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Failure to Connect the Dots
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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has praise for the military and appreciation for Americans who support the troops, regardless of politics. Jon Stewart wants to know if it's time to get some stuff out of that storage unit in Yemen.

 

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Mike Mullen
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Blogger-on-the-right Erick Erickson of RedState.com tells Stephen Colbert what's wrong with the Republican National Committee's "purity test," since "checking the box" is more about money than ideology.

 

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Erick Erickson
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Yes, it was quite a decade and yes, there are some important mid-term elections coming up this year. But leave it to "Saturday Night Live" to mash up an ominous-looking movie trailer with an ominous political prediction...

 

 

It wasn't just on the political front -- which did have its own off-the-wall moments... JibJab's take on 2009.

The prospect of the Senate staying in session until Christmas Eve to pass a health care bill had Illinois Democrat Roland W. Burris waxing poetic on the floor Tuesday morning with a set of verses in the style of " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

Taking liberties with Clement Clarke Moore's poetic meter and rhymes, Burris began, "It was the night before Christmas, and all through the Senate / The right held up our health care bill, no matter what was in it."

The breadth of legislation Congress tackled this past year was, well, breathtaking. TARP. AIG. Stimulus. "You lie!" "You apologize!" Even monkey-bite bills. And let's not forget those ubiquitous charts on the House and Senate floors... OK, who took the charts?

 

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Exclusive - The Work of Congress
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Did we really live through all this? The Daily Show recaps Barack Obama's first year in office - from the inauguration to Sonia Sotomayor to the Iranian elections.

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Decade in Review - 2009
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A recent article in the New York Times noted that "it was only when Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, reviewed his annual list of the year's most notable utterances that he detected an unexpected pattern -- a disproportionate number of South Carolinians" accounting for three of the top 10 "most famous or important or revealing" quotations of 2009. ... "Coincidence? Probably not after the year that South Carolina has endured."

The Times piece went on to cite a rather salty Daily Show excerpt from August on the Palmetto State. So for a look back, here's the clip: 

 

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Thank You, South Carolina!
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