Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Covering M'assa
WASHINGTON (AP), March 10, 2010 -- With a fervor that some observers found surprising, Democratic Party leaders uniformly applauded New York Rep. Eric Massa's stunning all-out media blitz in the wake of his decision to resign from Congress Monday. Even the sordid nature of Massa's interviews and the apparent sex scandal from which they sprung couldn't restrain Democrats' glee. One doesn't have to grope too far to find multiple reasons for why they're simply tickled to death. It's not just another sneaky way to lower the number of votes needed to pass health care reform (while simultaneously changing the topic); it's not just a move to effectively get the "apparent hanky-panky with male staffers" storylines, uh, behind the party.
Nope, most important of all, Massa's resignation finally takes attention away from the problems of Gov. David Paterson, now-former House Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel and Rep. Gregory Meeks. "It was a real mensch move on the part of that ole white Massa to take away some attention from all the New York black politicians who've gotten into so much trouble over the last month," said fellow Caucasian Democratic New Yorker Rep. Jerry Nadler.
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Nope, most important of all, Massa's resignation finally takes attention away from the problems of Gov. David Paterson, now-former House Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel and Rep. Gregory Meeks. "It was a real mensch move on the part of that ole white Massa to take away some attention from all the New York black politicians who've gotten into so much trouble over the last month," said fellow Caucasian Democratic New Yorker Rep. Jerry Nadler.
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Labels: Charlie Rangel, David Paterson, Eric Massa, Gregory Meeks, satire
Friday, December 11, 2009
A Whiter Shade of Fail
The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson made this point -- the unbearable whiteness of being a Tiger Woods 'ho -- in a serious and earnest manner. He thus failed miserably.
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On the other hand, this satirical outlet delivers with Onionesque accuracy. Best line: "Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today’s black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women."
This line also has a painful "truth-in-comedy" aspect to it as well: "Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines."
On a slightly related (in the Tiger category), I was at a "holiday" (sorry, Mr. O'Reilly) party last night and a soon-to-be-married guy observed, "One lesson to be seen in this is that for a married person, it's very stupid to cheat with people who have far less to lose than yourself." Actually, that holds true for any successful individual in a supposedly "committed" relationship. This could explain why Derek Jeter is pretty smart to date fairly well-known female celebrities -- actresses, models, singers, etc. Even when they break up, it's rare to hear any of them trash him in the gossip pages. Maybe it's because he's a gentleman; maybe it's because there's an unspoken MAD (mutually-assured-destruction) understanding between exes.
So, financially and socially-successful cheaters, caveat emptor: Try to engage in SAF -- Status Appropriate F*****!!! Another way of saying this is, "The easiest way to f***-up your life is to f*** down."
Labels: Al Sharpton, satire, Tiger Woods
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A Yankee Accomplishment...
...as seen by The Onion. As much of a Yankee and Jeter fan as I am, I must admit that this was very funny.
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Labels: Derek Jeter, satire
Monday, January 12, 2009
Call Me "Sen. Burris"!
Senate Democrats cave and agree to seat Blagojevich-appointed Roland Burris.
No word on whether Burris will be forced to give up his seat in the chamber if Robert Byrd comes in asks for it. Also, in compensation for how poorly they've treated their newest member, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid suggests senators give Burris separate bathroom and water fountain!
Our long national nightmare is over!
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No word on whether Burris will be forced to give up his seat in the chamber if Robert Byrd comes in asks for it. Also, in compensation for how poorly they've treated their newest member, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid suggests senators give Burris separate bathroom and water fountain!
Our long national nightmare is over!
Labels: Democrats, race, Roland Burris, satire
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Chocolate Prophecy
I've become a fan of Comedy Central's new Chocolate News created and starring Living Colour alum David Allan Grier. His opening "rant" always concludes with a demand that some individual or business not "lose your damn mind" with respect to some black issue.
Last week's segment seems strangely clairvoyant in light of today's Blagojevich indictment:
Like Grier said, Obama is at the top of his popularity right now -- or was last week. This week, he will inevitably face "What did he know and when did he know it?" questions related to the Blago scandal. Worse, much of the national press corps is already in Chicago covering transition stuff. It's so easy for them all now to switch over right away into Scandal Mode. Even though Blagojevich is the indicted one, it's much easier for lazy journalists to use the phrase "Obama seat" to describe the scandal.
Oh well, the Era of Good Feeling was great while it lasted.
Honeymoon is now officially over -- even before the presidency has begun!
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Last week's segment seems strangely clairvoyant in light of today's Blagojevich indictment:
Like Grier said, Obama is at the top of his popularity right now -- or was last week. This week, he will inevitably face "What did he know and when did he know it?" questions related to the Blago scandal. Worse, much of the national press corps is already in Chicago covering transition stuff. It's so easy for them all now to switch over right away into Scandal Mode. Even though Blagojevich is the indicted one, it's much easier for lazy journalists to use the phrase "Obama seat" to describe the scandal.
Oh well, the Era of Good Feeling was great while it lasted.
Honeymoon is now officially over -- even before the presidency has begun!
Labels: Barack Obama, corruption, satire, scandal
Monday, December 08, 2008
The War On Christmas' Latest Leader...
...is the man who discovered the war a few years ago: Bill O'Reilly presents The Great American Holiday Quiz!! We can't even have a Christmas quiz? What is this country coming to? How could this great piece of humanity betray us this way?
Who will stand up for the true spirit of Christmas now?
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Who will stand up for the true spirit of Christmas now?
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, hypocrisy watch, satire
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Al Qaida Nader
So nice to see who's bringin' racial slurs back! Not so long after Ralph Nader called Obama an "Uncle Tom", Ayman al-Zawahiri -- Number 2 guy in Al Qaeda -- calls him a "house negro."
Al Sharpton denounced his fellow "Al": "Americans must be united with our President to stamp out terrorism and racism of any stripe."
Not for attribution, an Obama spokesman claims that the president-elect's response is: "You can call me WHITE HOUSE negro, M.F.-er -- while I can call you dead!"
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Al Sharpton denounced his fellow "Al": "Americans must be united with our President to stamp out terrorism and racism of any stripe."
Not for attribution, an Obama spokesman claims that the president-elect's response is: "You can call me WHITE HOUSE negro, M.F.-er -- while I can call you dead!"
Labels: Al Qaeda, racism, satire, terrorism
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Holy Debate Prep!!
Getting ready for tonight's debate finale:
And, on a sad, related note, Neil Hefti, R.I.P.:
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And, on a sad, related note, Neil Hefti, R.I.P.:
Labels: Batman, debates, satire
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
NBC Bails on the Bailout Skit
See details here on the missing SNL bailout/subprime video.
UPDATE: NBC restores the video, albeit slightly edited. Go to this blog to find the original and compare and contrast (right around the 5:05 mark). Basically, the "People who should be shot" chyron has been removed, as well as "Mr. Sandler" thanking Barney Frank "and many Republicans as well for helping block congressional oversight of our corrupt activities."
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UPDATE: NBC restores the video, albeit slightly edited. Go to this blog to find the original and compare and contrast (right around the 5:05 mark). Basically, the "People who should be shot" chyron has been removed, as well as "Mr. Sandler" thanking Barney Frank "and many Republicans as well for helping block congressional oversight of our corrupt activities."
Labels: bailout, satire, Saturday Night Live
Monday, October 06, 2008
SNL "Bails" On The Democrats --UPDATED!!
ADDENDUM (10/7/08): Had to take this post down to do some fiddling with it. NBC has taken the bailout skit video off its site and its co-owned HULU video portal (see below). However, Michelle Malkin provides transcript and videoshots.
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While Saturday Night Live did offer up another great Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin skit this week (with Jason Sudekis doing a rather hilarious Joe Biden), it also included a lengthy, complex, skit on the bailout and the subprime policies that precipitated the crisis. It was not exactly flattering to congressional Democrats:
Whoever wrote this skit knows their stuff, because there are details in it that would go over the head of all but the most intense political junkie.
UPDATE: The scrubbing of this video has been pretty complete. In addition to it vanishing from NBC and Hulu, all versions of it posted to YouTube return the following message: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal." Interestingly, many other SNL skits from this season -- particularly the Palin/Fey ones -- are still up there on YouTube. Now, there may be legitimate legal issues involved. Two characters lampooned happen to be real-life couple Herbert and Marion Sandlers who made billions off of subprime mortgages they sold to Wachvia. A caption on the skit reads, "People who should be shot." Ooops
Anyway, Michelle Malkin takes that and adds the Soros factor to assess what may have happened.
UPDATE II: Shh...don't tell anyone, but right click on this link and "Save As" to your computer.
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While Saturday Night Live did offer up another great Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin skit this week (with Jason Sudekis doing a rather hilarious Joe Biden), it also included a lengthy, complex, skit on the bailout and the subprime policies that precipitated the crisis. It was not exactly flattering to congressional Democrats:
Whoever wrote this skit knows their stuff, because there are details in it that would go over the head of all but the most intense political junkie.
UPDATE: The scrubbing of this video has been pretty complete. In addition to it vanishing from NBC and Hulu, all versions of it posted to YouTube return the following message: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal." Interestingly, many other SNL skits from this season -- particularly the Palin/Fey ones -- are still up there on YouTube. Now, there may be legitimate legal issues involved. Two characters lampooned happen to be real-life couple Herbert and Marion Sandlers who made billions off of subprime mortgages they sold to Wachvia. A caption on the skit reads, "People who should be shot." Ooops
Anyway, Michelle Malkin takes that and adds the Soros factor to assess what may have happened.
UPDATE II: Shh...don't tell anyone, but right click on this link and "Save As" to your computer.
UPDATE III: Late Tuesday afternoon, NBC released the following statement: "UPON REVIEW, WE CAUGHT CERTAIN ELEMENTS IN THE SKETCH THAT DIDN'T MEET OUR STANDARDS. WE TOOK IT DOWN AND MADE SOME MINOR CHANGES AND IT WILL BE BACK ONLINE SOON."
Stay tuned.
Labels: political humor, satire, Saturday Night Live
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
The Newest Political Superstar
Labels: John McCain, Paris Hilton, Presidential politics, satire
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
The FBI's Powder Keg
Tired of being blamed for multiple screw-ups -- Wen Ho Lee, Richard Jewell, Stephen Hatfill -- the FBI has had enough:
Oh, wonderful. Think we know where this one's heading?
Anyone going to that press briefing Wednesday might want to make sure they've got their mouthguards on. Otherwise, things might get ugly.
[Everybody, run for your lives!!! The spores...the spores...the spores have been released!!!
[Confused Bureau officials didn't understand why releasing the evidence (anthrax) on a researcher who was already dead might be deemed excessive by the public...
[FBI Director Robert Mueller was said to be preparing an apology to the families of the unintended victims at the press briefing...]
(Grammatical hat tip to Jeff Stier)
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Under pressure to make public its case against a U.S. Army scientist in the 2001 anthrax murders, the FBI is preparing to release its evidence on the researcher, who killed himself before he could be charged, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.Wow. Think about that: "The FBI is preparing to release its evidence on the researcher!!!!" "The evidence... includes antrax spores."
The evidence could be released as early as Wednesday and includes anthrax spores found in the office of Bruce Ivins that were linked through DNA matching to the spores sent through the mail, the officials said.
Oh, wonderful. Think we know where this one's heading?
Anyone going to that press briefing Wednesday might want to make sure they've got their mouthguards on. Otherwise, things might get ugly.
[Everybody, run for your lives!!! The spores...the spores...the spores have been released!!!
[Confused Bureau officials didn't understand why releasing the evidence (anthrax) on a researcher who was already dead might be deemed excessive by the public...
[FBI Director Robert Mueller was said to be preparing an apology to the families of the unintended victims at the press briefing...]
(Grammatical hat tip to Jeff Stier)
Labels: anthrax, FBI, RichardJewell, satire, Stephen Hatfill, Wen Ho Lee
Monday, July 14, 2008
Coverin' Up
The Huffington Post interviews New Yorker editor David Remnick on this, to me, very funny cover.
Quite amusing is a response in this Wall St. Journal blog where a writer says that, because "there are too many ignorant people in this country to understand 'satire'," the cartoon can't count as satire. The writer adds "New Yorker=Fox News."
Oh, well, of course...
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Quite amusing is a response in this Wall St. Journal blog where a writer says that, because "there are too many ignorant people in this country to understand 'satire'," the cartoon can't count as satire. The writer adds "New Yorker=Fox News."
Oh, well, of course...
Labels: satire, The New Yorker
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Pre-Debate Sh*ts & Giggles
Before the likely final primary debate (our long national nightmare is almost over), here's some light stuff.
This is a good synopsis of Saturday Night Live's return episode -- and includes a clip of the SNL send-up of last week's Clinton-Obama debate (including "Campbell Brown's" admission that media was "in the tank" for Obama) and Tina Fey's de facto endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
And here's Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar's rejoinder to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's video of the fun she likes to have with Matt Damon.
Yeah, both YouTube clips contain easily-identifiable bleeped language.
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This is a good synopsis of Saturday Night Live's return episode -- and includes a clip of the SNL send-up of last week's Clinton-Obama debate (including "Campbell Brown's" admission that media was "in the tank" for Obama) and Tina Fey's de facto endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
And here's Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar's rejoinder to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's video of the fun she likes to have with Matt Damon.
Yeah, both YouTube clips contain easily-identifiable bleeped language.
Labels: Jimmy Kimmel, satire, Saturday Night Live, SNL
Thursday, February 14, 2008
A Few Good Baseball Men
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Nigeria Is So Yesterday...
I assume everyone else's e-mail boxes are filling up with letters like these:
"Dear Heart,
My name Inika Djibouti Obama. This letter may come to you as a surprise, since we do not know each other. I am the second cousin of Barack Obama Sr. and the former treasurer of Kenya. The recent electoral disturbance in my country has forced me out of my possession and necessitated that I flee my homeland.
I have in my possession 100 million USD that I do not wish to fall into the hands of the opposition leader. As you might understand, I cannot give these funds to my kinsman, because of some strange law called McCain-Feingold.
Your name was given to me as someone whom I can trust. I am hopeful that you can take these funds into your posssession, for an appropriate percentage as thanks for your kind and brave service.
Please send me your contact information...
Yours in holiness,
Inika Djibouti Obama"
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"Dear Heart,
My name Inika Djibouti Obama. This letter may come to you as a surprise, since we do not know each other. I am the second cousin of Barack Obama Sr. and the former treasurer of Kenya. The recent electoral disturbance in my country has forced me out of my possession and necessitated that I flee my homeland.
I have in my possession 100 million USD that I do not wish to fall into the hands of the opposition leader. As you might understand, I cannot give these funds to my kinsman, because of some strange law called McCain-Feingold.
Your name was given to me as someone whom I can trust. I am hopeful that you can take these funds into your posssession, for an appropriate percentage as thanks for your kind and brave service.
Please send me your contact information...
Yours in holiness,
Inika Djibouti Obama"
Labels: Barack Obama, Kenya, satire
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Official YouTube Cheap Shot
Capping a not-so-good week for America's Mayor, here's a quite amusing, though mildly unfair (to McCain) clip:
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Labels: GOP 2008 President, Rudy Giuliani, satire, YouTube
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The sequel to "Obama Girl"
Forget the primaries! The 2008 contest has been determined.
It's Rudy vs. Barack...and their, uh, posses are already fighting it out!
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It's Rudy vs. Barack...and their, uh, posses are already fighting it out!
Labels: Barack Obama, Presidential Race, Rudy Giuliani, satire
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The N-Word
Between Michael Richards and Don Imus, there's been a fair bit of controversy over the last several months on what words can be used, by whom and in what setting. Well, this video helps clarify things with respect to that word that got Kramer in trouble (white people, please pay close attenion):
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Labels: "N"-word, comedy, humor, satire
Monday, April 30, 2007
"Truest Things Said In Jest" Dept.
America's finest news source weighs in on the troubles in the Middle East.
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Labels: humor, Middle East, satire
