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Snark O' the Day: Obama's Birth Certificate---The Ongoing Questions

Now that Obama has a real scandal on his plate, this birth certificate one looks sort of sad and sketchy and tattered.  At the rate we're going the Right will be calling for impeachment before he's inaugurated.... But anyway, here's Gavin M. bringing the eyerolling fun. 

Dept of Valedictions: Bush Dances (April 25, 2007)

Lest we forget.

Dept of Valedictions (the Present Day): President Goofus & President Gallant

Obama unveils a stimulus package.

Bush unveils his self-portrait and says something (intentionally) funny.  Jon Stewart: "Is it possible that his entire administration was a set-up for that joke?"

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - President Goofus and President Gallant

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Rove & O'Reilly: The Dire Economy is Just a Media Ploy to Make Obama Look Better Than Bush

So...we can all stop worrying.  Santa Claus WILL come down your chimney as usual with his bag full of toys for your kids and a new job and a new mortgage for you!  There WILL be presents under your tree and a turkey dinner (with razzleberry dressing) on your table! 

Would Papa Bear or Karl Rove misrepresent the facts?

Think Progress has thoughtfully published a transcript:

Joe the Plumber Rips on McCain; Thinks Palin is "the Real Deal"

"Who in the what now?"  I hear you thinking.  "Joe the---oh, you mean this guy?"

No:  Joe.  JOE WURZELBACHER. Joe the Plumber?  McCain's pal?  Remember him?  Sure you do.  Big block-headed guy---claims to be a plumber--- summoned up out of obscurity by McCain during one of the debates?   Nothing? 

The Department of Valedictions Daily Show Threefer (Dec. 2006): When Bush Was in "Listening Mode" About Iraq

In celebration of Gen. Shinseki's selection, let us ride the Wayback Pony to that later time when everyone knew he was right.  Rumsfeld wanted to take his hand off the bicycle seat; Bush wanted to hear "from as many ideas and opinions as possible." And he wasn't going to stop fighting and put diplomats on the ground till all violent means were utterly exhausted!

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Mess O'Potamac - Listen, Bush Will

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Dept of Valedictions: Rove Plans to Call Out Bush Haters in His New Book; PLUS!! Bonus Harry Shearer Music Video ("Rove" Sings "Turd Blossom Special")

We've been trying very hard not to think about the "Bush legacy project," since its very existence defies common sense, decency, geometry, and reality.  We're afraid of getting sucked into some GOP black hole of revisionism and coming out on the other side in a world like Camazotz in A Wrinkle in Time where everything is controlled by "Bush's Brain" and all the moms stay home, the dads all go to work, and everyone does everything in exactly the same way and at the same time, all the time. And (channeling Berke Breathed now) is compelled every Sunday to attend the Christianist Church of his or her choice (no Quakers on Bush World).

Attack of the Blue Meanies (Mean Progressive Blogger Round-Up)

So mean.  No wonder the wingnuts moan, rage, and clutch their pearls.

Prop 8: The Musical

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Why Do the Wingnuts Rage?

Roy Edroso has a theory:

As they're big on displacement, whenever some atrocity occurs wingers accuse liberals of showing insufficient outrage. It's not so much a policy prescription as an accusation of psychological unfitness because, though we agree that we would rather kill terrorists than let them kill us, we don't express it in blood-curdling howls...

Best of the Concern Trolls

It started with a Nov. 25th challenge from Pinko Punko at 3Bulls!:

I think we should have a contest. Troll or Concern Troll comments on these classes of generic blog post:

Needful Diversions: Remembering Odetta Holmes

One great musician, gone from us on Tuesday.  

InstaSnark

Heh.  Indeed.

Heh heh.  INDEED.

UGH.  Um---::suppressing gag reflex::--- indeed.

Only Obama can save us from the disappointment of Bill Richardson's beardlessness and "the Curse of Taft."  But will he act in time? 

The Wall Street Jackass ("This is me not listening to you") saves Bush the trouble of writing his own resume....

Speaking of Wall Street and jackasses, Blue Texan discusses Noonan's post hoc ergo propter hoc argument that at least Bush kept us safe, except of course--as he points out---for the people in New Orleans' 9th Ward during Katrina and the kids we sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.   P.S.  At her "sparkling" GOPfest, she still could not see the foreclosure signs.  Walk her out in the morning dew, this morning.

Concern Troll Olympics!  Read 'em all!  Collect 'em!  Trade 'em with your friends!

In the Great White North, Jeff Fecke heralds the coming of a new right wing douchebag.

Snark O' the Day: The Supremes to Consider the Obama Birth Certificate "Controversy

Bark Bark Woof Woof woofs about this glorious waste of taxpayer dollars in the interests of settling once and for all a "worrying" "issue":

The United States Supreme Court is going to decide whether or not to hear a case claiming that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible to serve as President of the United States...

This Just In: The RNC Spent More on Palin than You Made in the Three Years Before the Lay Off

They didn't exactly put it that way, but that's what it comes down to. 

It's getting kind of hard to keep track of all the numbers, but Politico seems to have done the math:

Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Twice Hangs Up on a Call From Obama; We Blame Palin

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, one of our Florida GOPpers, hung up twice on the President-Elect, thinking she was being punked and pranked and pwned. (Politico)   Oh, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Tch.

Judicial Watch: Clinton Ineligible to be Secretary of State!!!!!!!!

With Judicial Watch on the case, can anything save Hillary now?  BZZZZZZT!  She's out---and on a technicality!

Gawker has the nutshell version of the underlying law.  ABOVE WHICH NO ONE, NOT EVEN HILLARY CLINTON, IS!!

Colbert: A Man Called Plaxico

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

The Word - A Man Named Plaxico

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Dept of Valedictions: Bush Rocks Out ("It's the End of the World As We Know It')

And he feels FINE! 

Follow-up to Bush classic "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

Ride the Wayback Pony: More Nixon Tapes! (Snark O' the Day)

Remember back in the day when we only got to hear the tapes with the expletives deleted? 

But we always knew there would be more and now they're here!  For the best round-up of Nixonian quotables for the aspiring Republican pol, see Amygdala. The thing about Nixon you have to like---if, that is, you subsequently lived through Reagan and Bush---is that he didn't bother to conceal his ruthlessness or cynicism under a genial mask or a crimp-browed chimp-like smirk of good-natured puzzlement. 

Jon Stewart: Is MSNBC Fox News for Progressives?

We love MSNBC---but then we're progressives.

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

MSNBC Replaces Fox News

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin Busy Stumping for Saxby Chambliss; Spokesman Says "State Business is Unaffected" by Her Absence

Man, Palin and her people don't give the political comics and satirists a chance, do they?  They're out there in the ring all the time, in clown make-up, orange wigs, and comical two-foot long shoes, falling off bitty little bicycles, sitting down on whoopee cushions, falling off the tight ropes, dancing with pink French poodles with ruffles round their necks, and using the safety net as their personal trampoline.   

Needful Diversions: A Charlie Brown Christmas ("Hey Ya")

Via  Skippy, an internet Christmas special:
Yeah. We needed that.

Ride the Wayback Pony: Bush Being Briefed on the Potential Collapse of the New Orleans Levee (Daily Show 4-7-2006)

Remembering W as he was when it was his world and we just lived in it. 

Hurricane Katrina - Tape Delay

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Stand-Up Comedy

Dept of Valedictions: Bush is Still in Office for 50 Days, So Let's Watch His Cover of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Again

The Rude Pundit Ponders Bush's Place in History

In his interview with his sister, Bush discussed how he wishes to be remembered.   If he were someone else, I'd find the hopes he confides  rather touching.  But he's Bush and I find the whole thing disturbing and embarrassing and distressing in light of the, you know, FACTS.

Give the man this.  At least he didn't say he wants to be remembered as a man who left the world a little better than he found it.  (He might have implied it, but he didn't actually say it.)

Snark O' the Day: GM Constructs a Memory Hole (Agitprop)

If you hadn't just lived through 8 years of Bush and Cheney, you wouldn't believe this could be possible.

Since you just have, your outrage and incredulity meters shorted out a long time ago and there's nothing left of them but a few busted springs going boingy-boingy-boingy 24/7.   You'll probably just say, "Huh."   So I'm noting this for later, when we've all had our sense of moral outrage restored at least to pre-Katrina levels.

The Philosophy of Gestures: Econobloggers Weigh in on AIG's PR Sleight of Hand

Hey, AIG found out a way to carry out a stunning public relations ploy by giving up their bonuses, while totally paying themselves big bucks as "retention bonuses"!   Ad-mir-able!   Deb Cupples discusses it here.

At Angry Bear, rdan quotes self-serving statements of AIG execs made to FT, in which they explain how retention bonuses are way better. 

Jon Swift: Why Bush Should Pardon the Wal-Mart Shoppers

Our co-blog Buck Naked Politics rounded up blogger commentary on the trampling/stampeding death one Wal-Mart employee as a result of over-enthusiastic Wal-Mart shoppers here.  Mr. Swift has a somewhat different take.  Like William Kristol, who urged Bush to pardon wiretappers and torturers (see our nutshell summary), Mr. Swift would like to see Bush pardon the Wal-Mart shoppers and---following Kristol's lead---award the offenders the Medal of Freedom.

Sadly, No! Appeteasers

"After following his work for a few years, it seems fair to say that Pastor Swank’s default discursive mode will soon be indistinguishable in tone from the ravings on a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s soap." (Gavin M., Happy Swanksgiving)

"Blatt is the kind of guy that, had he been born a turkey..., he would have spent his formative years dreaming of growing up to be a spokesman for Butterball.   (Clif,  The True Meaning of Thanksgiving)

"I don’t know about you, but I’d rather convert to Mormonism than attend a Republican punk rock concert or watch a conservative performance artist perform. And what would a conservative performance artist do exactly? Smear her chastely-clothed body in crude oil while chanting “Drill, Baby, Drill”?"  (Clif,  Young, Dumb, Hung, and Full of _____)