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Wonkette's Top 10 Political Vids for 2008....

They start with Sean Hannity being chased by angry Republicans.....so you know you're going to enjoy this Very Special New Year's collection.

Needful Diversions: The Large Hadron Collider Rap

Lyrics & credits after the jump:

Department of Viral Videos: 'Some Say the World Will End in Fire'---An Animation of an Asteroid Crashing into Earth

Via.  At least it appears we'll go out to Pink Floyd.

2008's Most Risible Moments in Politics (with Video Evidence!)

The HuffPost has Daniel Kurtzman's list with a whole string of videos. We posted quite a few of these here, but it's so nice to have them all lined up in one place.

Bonus:  HuffPost's best You Tubes of 2008.

Department of Needful Diversions, Presenting: The Beijing Olympics (Alternate Universe Version)

This is a whole ship full of awesome, and we found it via The Red Tory 3.0.

The Red Tory said, and it was a true word:

I think this deadpan (東京オンリーピック　開会式＜フルバージョン＞) animated take-off of the Olympics may be one of the subversively funniest videos of the year....

As he says, "the giant motorized pigeons feasting on acrobats [and]...[t]he giant Buddha sweeping teams of competitors off his tongue into the Olympic pool" are alone worth the time.  But there so much more. 

It is a veritable televisusal feast.

Department of Valedictions: Meanwhile, Kristol Waves a Fond Farewell to Cheney....

Cheney is a douchebag wrapped in an enigma and dipped in a mystery, but Bill Kristol is still just a douchebag.  Amazingly, Fox News viewers and others still listen to him, proving that what we suspected about them all along is TRUE.

From Think Progress, this delightful wingnuttery on the half-shell:

Attackerman: "Dey Know (Blago)"

Like Ackerman said, he's so gangster.  Via HuffPost.

Dept of Valedictions: It's Herbert Hoover Time! or, Even Dick Cheney is Sometimes Right

Via HuffPost:

Senate Republicans' dramatic revolt against a White House-backed auto industry rescue plan is fraught with political risk.

Colin Powell Speaks About Limbaugh, Palin, and the Military's "Don't Ask--Don't Tell" Policies

In an interview with Fareed Zakaria, Powell slams Palin and Limbaugh and says the military should rethink its "don't ask--don't tell" policies.   HuffPost has relevant portions of the conversation here.

Dept of Needful Diversions: You're Probably Fed up with the Blagojevich Scandal, So Check Out the Hamster on a Piano, Eating Popcorn

I posted the video in its original form ages ago at my first blog, but here it is with the musical accompaniment that---pace HuffPost--- has caused it to go viral.

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

Lest we forget.

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? 

Needful Diversions: Remembering Odetta Holmes

One great musician, gone from us on Tuesday.  

Dept of Valedictions: Bloggers on Bush on Bush

As DaveNoon says,  "I suppose everyone has a punch-the-wall-with-your-face moment in this interview."    The transcript is here.

The Rude Pundit nailed perfectly its most remarkable aspect.

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."

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

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

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

SC Gov Laughs Merrily at the Idea of Palin as the GOP's Future

by Blue Stockings |  First, check out his opinion piece at Politico, where he mentions her along with other "quiet" GOP reformers busily enforcing those ends-in-themselves for the unreflecting "thinkers" of the GOP, small government and lower taxes. 

I am struck by how many of my colleagues around the country were quietly advancing the kinds of reforms and conservative principles that Washington politicians would do well to emulate.

Continue reading "SC Gov Laughs Merrily at the Idea of Palin as the GOP's Future" »

by Teh Puppet Mistress | H/T Radio Free Mike.  What makes it awesome is that it is running to the Benny Hill theme.

by Teh Nutroots | Hey, it's Sarah Palin day!

This is pretty awesome too.

by Blue Stockings | Palin is interviewed. Turkeys are slaughtered in the background. I'm just not sure how to interpret that. Or rather, I can't improve on HuffPost.

Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes. Watch the video below to see for yourself. Be warned, it's kind of gruesome.

Yeah, it is. But maybe it will do people good to see where their food comes from?

Via Crooks & Liars:

by Teh Nutroots | Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  I love watching them clutching madly at straws, only to end up sticking them in their hair.  Via Sadly, No!, here's Powerline's latest air brick:

by Nicholas | A great post-election wind-up at Real Time.

Crooks and Liars has the complete transcript.  Best line:

The hard core Republican base is like a stalker. Rejection just makes them crazier.

Well, there's this:

by Blue Stockings | Oh, Chris Matthews.  All is forgiven.  While we mention this video elsewhere, I just had to post it here and for prosperity.  Or if not for prosperity, for my own entertainment.  When I'm feeling blue, or down, or pessimistic that the wingers will go on causing trouble, I want to have it within easy reach.

H/t Rising Hegemon, where Res Ipsa Loquitur writes:

Wow, I just read at John Cole that this jackass is in line to lead the House Republicans? You know, I'm trying not to get all puffed up, what with president-elect Barack Obama, the increased Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, the impending smackdown of Joe Lieberman, and the coming civil war in the Republican party, but these guys are just making it too easy.

by Nicholas | "Mad as a box of frogs," said the bloke who posted it, and he didn't mean Dimbleby.  I cannot improve on this as a summary.

by Nicholas  |  OMFG!!  It looks as though John McCain’s dignified concession speech is about as good as it gets as far as the Republicans are concerned.  Of course, any losing side in an election will hold an inquest, examine where its weaknesses were and generally make plans to do better next time.  One or two sacrificial heads may roll -- that is to be expected -- but in general it’s always a good thing to keep recriminations as restrained as possible

Things in the Republican camp may be a bit more vigorous than that right now.  If we are to believe what we read and hear (And why shouldn’t we?  The meltdown is delicious!) there is a  vast build-up of latent hostility between the McCain camp and the Palin camp that is about erupt into a bout of name calling , finger pointing and backstabbing .  And Sarah herself it seems, is not the adorable bimbo everyone thought she was.  Okay, she was a bimbo, but not adorable (Well, some people thought she was adorable. I always found her repulsive).  We all know that she had no idea what the function of the Vice President is, and that she seemed to think that the First Amendment existed to protect her from the probing questions of reporters.  Now it appears that she didn’t know which countries were included in NAFTA.  And she thought that Africa was a country, not an entire continent.  Yes, she could always be advised about these facts but surely, someone who wanted to understudy the presidency, who has reached the age of 44 and who has been through university, should already know these things.  These aren’t arcane details of something outside the mainstream -- these are essential facts.

Have a look at this page from the Huffington Post and make sure you play the clip from The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News network, which isn’t exactly known for its love of the Democrats.  Tantrums?  Paper throwing?  Making her staff weep?  So much for adorable.  America had a narrow escape last Tuesday. 

Obama:  Yay!

by Blue Stockings | I'm not sure how we managed to miss this, but it should become a classic. It begins:

Come with me to the pumpkin patch
And see what is most scary!
The GOP turns ghouls to glee
And bites off the heads of fairies!  (More at Jesus's General)

The picture alone is worth a click.

Jesus's General has also posted---approvingly of course---the video of the mean lady who sent tiny Obama supporters off weeping and candyless.  That'll teach the little socialists not to share!

by The Puppet Mistress | Via Rumproast.

Needful Diversions: Sometimes I Get Tired of Politics So Here, Instead, is a Shrimp Running on a Treadmill

by Teh Puppet Mistress | H/T Radio Free Mike.  What makes it awesome is that it is running to the Benny Hill theme.

Katie Couric Talks to David Letterman About the Palin Interview

by Teh Nutroots | Hey, it's Sarah Palin day!

This is pretty awesome too.

Talkin Turkey: The Sarah Palin Turkey Slaughter Incident

by Blue Stockings | Palin is interviewed. Turkeys are slaughtered in the background. I'm just not sure how to interpret that. Or rather, I can't improve on HuffPost.

Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes. Watch the video below to see for yourself. Be warned, it's kind of gruesome.

Yeah, it is. But maybe it will do people good to see where their food comes from?

BraveNewFilms: Joe Lieberman Must Go!

Via Crooks & Liars:

Powerline: "Undisciplined" Speaker Obama Should Take Precise and Careful Speaker Bush as a Model

by Teh Nutroots | Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  I love watching them clutching madly at straws, only to end up sticking them in their hair.  Via Sadly, No!, here's Powerline's latest air brick:

Bill Maher's New Rules for 11-7: Republicans Must Not Spend the Next Four Years Plotting to Bring Down Obama

by Nicholas | A great post-election wind-up at Real Time.

Crooks and Liars has the complete transcript.  Best line:

The hard core Republican base is like a stalker. Rejection just makes them crazier.

Well, there's this:

Tweety Tears Eric Cantor a New One

by Blue Stockings | Oh, Chris Matthews.  All is forgiven.  While we mention this video elsewhere, I just had to post it here and for prosperity.  Or if not for prosperity, for my own entertainment.  When I'm feeling blue, or down, or pessimistic that the wingers will go on causing trouble, I want to have it within easy reach.

H/t Rising Hegemon, where Res Ipsa Loquitur writes:

Wow, I just read at John Cole that this jackass is in line to lead the House Republicans? You know, I'm trying not to get all puffed up, what with president-elect Barack Obama, the increased Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, the impending smackdown of Joe Lieberman, and the coming civil war in the Republican party, but these guys are just making it too easy.

Election Night Hilarity at BBC News: Gore Vidal vs. Anchor David Dimbleby

by Nicholas | "Mad as a box of frogs," said the bloke who posted it, and he didn't mean Dimbleby.  I cannot improve on this as a summary.

Hell's Bimbo

by Nicholas  |  OMFG!!  It looks as though John McCain’s dignified concession speech is about as good as it gets as far as the Republicans are concerned.  Of course, any losing side in an election will hold an inquest, examine where its weaknesses were and generally make plans to do better next time.  One or two sacrificial heads may roll -- that is to be expected -- but in general it’s always a good thing to keep recriminations as restrained as possible

Things in the Republican camp may be a bit more vigorous than that right now.  If we are to believe what we read and hear (And why shouldn’t we?  The meltdown is delicious!) there is a  vast build-up of latent hostility between the McCain camp and the Palin camp that is about erupt into a bout of name calling , finger pointing and backstabbing .  And Sarah herself it seems, is not the adorable bimbo everyone thought she was.  Okay, she was a bimbo, but not adorable (Well, some people thought she was adorable. I always found her repulsive).  We all know that she had no idea what the function of the Vice President is, and that she seemed to think that the First Amendment existed to protect her from the probing questions of reporters.  Now it appears that she didn’t know which countries were included in NAFTA.  And she thought that Africa was a country, not an entire continent.  Yes, she could always be advised about these facts but surely, someone who wanted to understudy the presidency, who has reached the age of 44 and who has been through university, should already know these things.  These aren’t arcane details of something outside the mainstream -- these are essential facts.

Have a look at this page from the Huffington Post and make sure you play the clip from The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News network, which isn’t exactly known for its love of the Democrats.  Tantrums?  Paper throwing?  Making her staff weep?  So much for adorable.  America had a narrow escape last Tuesday. 

Election Night Speeches: Obama's Victory Speech; McCain's Concession

Obama:  Yay!

Jesus's General: A Wingnut's Halloween Carol

by Blue Stockings | I'm not sure how we managed to miss this, but it should become a classic. It begins:

Come with me to the pumpkin patch
And see what is most scary!
The GOP turns ghouls to glee
And bites off the heads of fairies!  (More at Jesus's General)

The picture alone is worth a click.

Jesus's General has also posted---approvingly of course---the video of the mean lady who sent tiny Obama supporters off weeping and candyless.  That'll teach the little socialists not to share!

Needful Diversions: It's Halloween, So Here's a Terrifying Cackling Retromercial

by The Puppet Mistress | Via Rumproast.