I Don't Like You Either

More Awards! GoLeft TV Chooses ALL of Fox News as "Media Moron of the Year" for the War on the "War" on Christmas

Via Video Cafe, this gift of seasonal awesomeness: 

Transcript is over here.

Department of Valedictions: This Final Christmas Under Bush, Give the Gift of Satire to a Fellow Progressive: "Songs of the Bushmen" by Harry Shearer

 Though it was nominated for a Grammy, we just don't think there's been nearly enough screaming about Harry Shearer's musical send-up of the Bush administration's main players.  If you've had all the peace and good will you can handle, you might enjoy a bit of black comedy, in diverse musical stylings. 

If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for a progressive friend, we don't see how you could do better than this album (available at I-Tunes):

Attackerman: "Dey Know (Blago)"

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

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.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Chris Matthews (An Updated Poetic Tribute)

by Damozel | Full disclosure:  Ashamed though I am to admit it, I am---like Nora Ephron---practically in love with Chris Matthews.  This does not make me blind to his faults (with his Hillary-hatred topping my personal list), but it does impel me from time to time to compose a poetic tribute.

This one, for which I tender in advance my profoundest apologies to the late and very great Wallace Stevens,  was composed in honor of Matthews' recently announced political aspirations and their (apparent)  soon-to-be-announced deferral or retraction. 

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."

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

Needful Diversions: Personalized Shakespearian Insults Applied & Illustrated

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Here is a sampler of awesome insults you can use. 

Thou warped tickle-brained varlet, W.

Thou mangled hell-hated joithead, Dick Cheney. 

Thou unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane, Karl Rove. 

Thou pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie, Condi Rice.

Thou craven common-kissing canker-blossom, Joe Lieberman.

Thou reeky plume-plucked miscreant, Ted Stevens.

Thou spongy rude-growing pignut, Norm Coleman.

Thou fawning earth-vexing dewberry, Sarah Palin.

 Thou bootless beetle-headed bladder, Hank Paulson.

Thou beslubbering beef-witted barnacle, Rush Limbaugh.

Thou cockered clapper-clawed bugbear, Bill O'Reilly.

Thou currish crook-pated clack-dish, Sean Hannity.

Thou vain spur-galled scut, Michelle Malkin.

I could go on and on.  It's like eating potato chips.

The Daily Show: Baracknophobia! "Obama Won; A Wingnut Bought a Gun"

"Worst Dr Seuss book ever...."  And the media's lame puns just keep a-coming.

Because Obama is "incredibly similar to Hitler."  Hitler comparison analyst John Oliver explains:

The High Cost of Every Day Low Prices

Time to resurrect this prophetic Jib-Jab song from 05.

Big Box Mart | Funny Jokes at JibJab

The Joe the No Show Haiku Project

by Damozel | Okay, everyone's read about Joe the No Show and has seen this:

But we  thought Ambinder's poetic tribute was a whole ship full of awesome, and maybe you didn't see that:

"Joe's with us today,"
Joe. Where are ya? Where is Joe?
Is Joe here with us?

Sadly, he has now been called out by Progressive Accountability---rightly---for calling it a haiku when it is NOT a haiku. 

CLAIM - Marc Ambinder Claims He Has Written a Haiku

FACT - A Haiku is 5-7-5, Ambinder dangerously misleads the American people by writing a "Haiku" that is 6-7-5.

Statement - "With only five days until the election this misuse of Japanese poetry could unravel the very fabric of American democracy.  We immediately demand that the first line be amended to "Joe's with us today" to comply with the use of syllables that the American people deserve and expect from The Atlantic."

I suggest these changes:

Joe?  Where did you go? today....
Joe. Where are ya? Where is Joe?
Is Joe here with us?

I think this is even more plangent than the original.

Ron Paul & The John/Jane Galts Hold Their Own Convention

by Teh Nutroots | Ding, ding, ding! Meanwhile, Ron Paul followers are assembling for their own convention.  Just thought I'd mention it.  It may be important later.

Nursery Rhymes for the Next Century: 'Freedom Shall Not Ring Tonight' & A Reply to Michael Novak

by Blue Stockings  |

:: Clears throat::

Freedom shall not ring tonight
Nor the Constitution stand
They're on the phone with the FBI
The press have all been banned

The watchdog's teeth have fallen out
And the courts have come to heel
The Decider's in the House tonight
While Congress sleeps at the wheel

What do we care for the Bill of Rights?
Just 'a goddam piece of paper'
Liberty doesn't need the law
If she's got the flag to drape her

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