SlateV puts a new spin the first 100 days meme with its Worst 100 Days video. As the video points out, no one had it worse than William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the United States, who caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died a month into office.
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Earlier this month, CQ Politics Spy Columnist Jeff Stein broke news that California Democrat Jane Harman was wiretapped while discussing a deal with accused Israeli spies. Since then, the story has taken on a life of its own, with the New York Times and various other media outlets following up on Stein's report. But now the Big Daddy of journalism has decided to weigh in: the Daily Show. Jon Stewart puts a hi-larious spin on this complex story, even creating a helpful visual matrix linking Harman back to the Mighty Morphen Power Rangers. Check it out.
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President Obama will hit his 100-day milestone in office Wednesday, and Jon Stewart wants to know what news anchors and pundits will obsess over next. Cue the swine flu outbreak. Please resume your regularly scheduled freak out.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Snoutbreak '09 - The Last 100 Days | ||||
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Some of our favorite videos from the 2008 election were the Presidential and VP Debates in Song and Dance by New York-based musician Michael Gregory. Gregory takes clips from newsmakers and incorporate them into his ditties via auto-tuning, a technique to correct vocal and instrumental pitch. Now he's back, this time auto-tuning the news. His latest spot features Katie Couric (who Gregory says has a great voice for auto-tuning) and tackles gay marriage, the Somali pirates and marijuana.
SlateV's newest superhero, Newly Frugal Guy, will fight for your right to wrack up large deficits on defense and military spending and then complain about putting some moolah in the social services coffers.
The Onion News Network reports that outsourcing has hit a new level, with individual employees now shipping their work overseas. Accountant Donald Felton describes how he sends his spreadsheets to a man in India, who in turn has become so prosperous that he now sends Felton's work to even poorer people in Indonesia and Afghanistan. Now THAT's globalization. (This post written by an outsourced Burmese comedy blogger).
More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas
More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas
Even better than saving the planet from surefire environmental disaster is saving the planet from surefire environmental disaster while laughing. Luckily, the Huffington Post has made being eco-friendly eco-funny by compiling some of TV's best jokes from Earth Days past. From David Letterman's "Top 10 Earth Day Pickup Lines" to 30 Rock's playful jabs at Al Gore, you'll be spewing carbon dioxide out of your funny hole.
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The Obama administration released a handful of CIA memos outlining the harsh techniques the former president's administration used against enemy combatants to get them to speak. So guess which one of them everyone is mad at...
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets testy during a press conference in support of gay marriage. The mayor spent over a minute staring down a reporter in a wheelchair whose tape recorder accidentally started playing.
In a surprise move, the US Treasury Department has issued an immediate recall of all US currency. Treasury spokesman Ronald Schuler announced that officials will be sending Americans bags with $ signs on them to stuff the money into, and warns that all US bills have been coated with a secret dye that will "become extremely deadly Friday at exactly 12 noon."
Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars
Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars
Or Rep. Dan Maffei's evil twin does, anyhow. Stephen Colbert strikes again, getting another member of Congress to say ridiculous things on camera. Colbert had Maffei, an avid Star Trek fan, dress up like his own evil twin in honor of the episode "Mirror, Mirror" where the members of the Starship Enterprise get transported to an alternate universe and confront Spock's diabolical doppelganger. Of course credit also goes to Maffei, who we commend for his sense of humor. Or should we be commending his twin?
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Better Know a District - New York's 25th - Dan Maffei | ||||
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Obama Girl, that sexy siren from the election who was solely responsible for delivering Barack Obama the male vote, is back. Now she's promoting energy conservation in a catchy tune called 'Save Your Energy.' So fellas, it's time to ditch that Hummer and break out those compact fluorescent light bulbs.
President Obama is as cool as the other side of the pillow, which may be good for governing but is terrible for comedy. The late shows must be counting their blessings that Joe Biden is in the White House. SNL's latest send-up of the gaffe prone Vice President imagines the scene in the Oval Office when Obama returns from his trip to Europe.
Rep. Gary Nelson, R-CT (5) introduces the Gary Nelson Personal Pay Raise Act. "I think we can do better for me. We HAVE to do better for me," says an emotional Peters. The powerful Gary Nelson Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Nelson is expected to take up consideration of the bill early next week.
Rep. Gary Nelson (R-CT) Introduces The Gary Nelson Personal Pay Raise Bill
Rep. Gary Nelson (R-CT) Introduces The Gary Nelson Personal Pay Raise Bill
Aspiring politicians, here's everything you need to know to ruin the good name of your opponent. All you need are "rumors and innuendo, a catch-phrase, and something your opponent said to take out of context."
As part of its awareness campaign on the national debt, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation launched a tongue-in-cheek web site featuring the accountants Owen and Payne. These two crazy guys take to the streets to explain why every American owes $184,000.
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As president, George Bush was not alone on the international stage in the gaffe department. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been making Italians shake their heads for years. For every Bushian "too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country," Berlusconi had his own "I'm paler" in response to a question about how his response to the economic crisis has been different from Barack Obama.
Now Italy is in a tizzy over footage of Berlusconi being rebuked by the Queen of England during a group photo at the G-20 meeting (video below). Coupled with the PM telling Italian earthquake victims that they should view the experience as a camping weekend, late night comedians sure are glad at least one of the world's gaffe leaders is still around.
Now Italy is in a tizzy over footage of Berlusconi being rebuked by the Queen of England during a group photo at the G-20 meeting (video below). Coupled with the PM telling Italian earthquake victims that they should view the experience as a camping weekend, late night comedians sure are glad at least one of the world's gaffe leaders is still around.
Jon Stewart takes to task those on the right who are calling Pres. Obama a tyrant. "I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing," Stewart says, after showing a montage of Fox's Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and Rep. Michele Bachmann criticizing Obama. "And I feel for you, I've been there."
But, Stewart does note that being in the minority can have its upsides: "Sometimes you can take advantage of it. Make a career out of it. You can do pretty well."
But, Stewart does note that being in the minority can have its upsides: "Sometimes you can take advantage of it. Make a career out of it. You can do pretty well."
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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Tom Brokaw had a favorable view of Obama on the international stage. But what's more extraordinary, Stephen Colbert, the famous NObama-tron, approved of the president's overseas trip...
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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SNL had some fun with President Obama's announcement last week that his administration was effectively taking control of GM and Chrysler and that if the car companies did not meet governmental conditions they would be forced into bankruptcy. SNL's Obama picked the winners and losers of other industries - Jeans: Levi's, Yes; Wrangler's, No. Ball point pens: Papermate, Yes; Bic, No. Political media sites: CQ Politics, Yes; Politico...
You've heard of Twitter (if not, where the heck have you been?!?!?!). Now check out Silicon Valley's newest rage, Flutter.
Barack Obama's budget director Peter Orszag was on the Daily Show last night to explain the president's new budget. Upon hearing that the national deficit is currently $1.3 trillion a year, a started Jon Stewart asks, "how many testicles am I supposed to have? And should I be able to taste them?"
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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In his first trip overseas as president, Barack Obama commits what is likely to be considered one of the biggest gaffes in US foreign relations history. You have to see this.