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LIKE MAH STATUS. O’Donnell replays Sacha Cohen’s ambush interviews of Gingrich, Paul. By Stephen C. WebsterThursday, December 29, 2011 12:28 EDT In a segment Wednesday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell replayed two infamous clips of comedy staged by Sacha Baron Cohen, in which he interviews both former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) as characters from his former show on HBO.
In the first interview, O’Donnell focused on Cohen’s chat with Gingrich as the character Ali G, an under-educated British hipster who jokingly tried to convince Gingrich that if a woman were elected president, she’d be too in love with Saddam Hussein to actually lead. The second clip was from the film “Bruno,” in which Cohen played a homosexual Austrian fashion critic on a mission to launch a television show in America. Paul’s apparent personal revulsion at Cohen dropping his pants in the middle of what was supposed to be an interview was quite palpable.
O’Donnell argued that Paul’s unease was “evidence” that he’s otherwise uncomfortable around homosexual people. Dennis Leary’s parody sends jihadist Charlie Brown to hell for Christmas. By David EdwardsWednesday, December 28, 2011 12:21 EDT Comedian Dennis Leary took a shot at Muslims over the Christmas holiday with a video that turns cartoon character Charlie Brown into a stereotypical bearded Islamic radical intent on killing Americans. On his Whosay website a few days before the Christian holiday, Leary posted a parody of the classic seasonal television special A Charlie Brown Christmas that depicts various members of the Peanuts gang as Muslim terrorists. “I’m so depressed,” Charlie Brown tells Lucy as the video begins. “I think I’m losing my faith in Christianity.” “Have you ever considered converting to Islam?” Linus asks Charlie Brown. In the classic cartoon, Charlie Brown tries to save a wilted Christmas tree, but in the retelling, Leary replaces that tree with a homemade bomb that fails to explode.
Linus’ monologue about the meaning of Christmas becomes a rant about the “duty of the jihadist.” “Isn’t he the cutest radical Islamist you’ve ever seen?” David Edwards. Indict Bilderberger, BC Attorney General, CFRO-FM: coverup for Elizabeth Windsor. Tribunal to indict Vancouver Bilderberger Jim Pattison, B.C. Attorney General lawyer, RCMP, CFRO-FM staff for aiding coverup of Aboriginal child genocide by Elizabeth Windsor, Head of State of Canada, and by Vatican By Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd VANCOUVER, B.C. – The International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and State (www.itccs.org) will indict Vancouver, B.C. billionaire and Bilderberger Jim Pattison, Freya Zaltz, a B.C.
Attorney General lawyer infiltrating public radio stations in Canada, named RCMP officers aiding and abetting Aboriginal genocide, and CFRO-FM staff and Board Members, including program director Leela Chinniah for aiding and abetting the coverup of genocide of First Nations children in Canada by Elizabeth Windsor, Head of State of Canada, and by Vatican. In an exclusive interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, Med, Rev. Interview with Rev. Readers can listen to the exclusive interview with Rev.
In his interview Rev. Rev. Australian Electronics Retailer Runs The Most Bluntly Inappropriate Ad Of Christmas. Colbert guest editorial: Naming rights, state mottoes and the GOP primary + video - Editorial Columns. As a proud son of South Carolina I must address recent unsubstantiated rumors published in The State that I, Stephen Colbert, tried to buy the naming rights to the 2012 Republican primary. First, never trust anything in a newspaper — except this column, and possibly “Mallard Filmore.” And second, these outrageous and scurrilous rumors border on libel, even if they are, technically, true.
I don’t want to talk about it. Here’s what happened: I have what’s called a super PAC — a political action committee that can receive unlimited funds to spend on political speech in unlimited quantities. Enter Colbert Super PAC.™ South Carolina has two state mottos. For this all important first-in-the-South primary, the Palmetto State was not prepared in resources, but Colbert Super PAC was. So I called up the South Carolina GOP and said, “How much cash would you have to raise to keep your promise to counties? I said, “I can cover that. Well, they didn’t call me back. . ( ) Corporations are people. The S.C. Al Jaffee’s Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions: Video from Heeb Storytelling.
Photo by Seth Kushner For whatever reason, I’ve been lucky enough to work and jam with lots of my heroes, in this case, the 91-year-old laugh machine AL JAFFEE. Jaffee invented the MAD “Fold-In,” which he started in 1964 and has done over 400 since. He’s also the author of eight volumes of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. A month prior to this performance at the 12/21/10 HEEB Storytelling Live Comics Edition at Joe’s Pub (full recap ), I interviewed him on stage at Drew University and told him about the upcoming event I was producing. Not missing a beat, Jaffe goes “I’d like to try that.” In the car back from the talk, we decided on doing some of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions live, which he’d done before, with me being the straight man, a la Mel Brooks / Carl Reiner’s 2000 Year Old Man, and voila: From AL JAFFEE'S MAD LIFE Interactive NY TIMES feature “ Fold-Ins, Past and Present “ (use mouse to fold the Fold-In!)
Al Jaffee & Michael Kupperman in Conversation at The Comics Journal. Proof That CNN Staffers Don't Read CNN. Bizarre: New Mexico news station treats ‘Pedobear’ as real threat. By Stephen C. WebsterWednesday, November 30, 2011 15:01 EDT A television news station in Albuquerque, New Mexico ran a story this week that has many people familiar with Internet culture shaking their heads in confused dismay.
Just to be clear, the character “Pedobear” is not a real cartoon, nor is it a calling card for pedophiles. It is a satire of pedophiles, not by them. Pedobear is the Internet’s way of making fun of something awful — in this case, sexual crimes against children. But to KRQE News in Albuquerque, if you see one, you should be very, very careful — and they’re not joking. In a segment aired Monday night, the station reported that two Pedobear stickers had been spotted on two vehicles in Albuquerque, and a print shop had recently begun selling them.
So, you know: the threat is clear, and serious. (To be fair, police in California issued a similar warning about Pedobear in 2010, which was of course picked up by local news stations that also failed to get the joke.) DUI? Dealing Drugs? Better Call Saul! Sketchy Lawyer Billboards. Women For Herman Cain. Old Murder House Theater Presents ALIENS ON ICE Review. If you’re not familiar with the name, Old Murder House Theater is a group of Austin-based actors who turn big genre movies (mainly 80’s stuff, but there’s no hard-and-fast rule about that decade) into gloriously unhinged, wildly entertaining stage shows. In the past, the OMHT guys have performed their versions of Die Hard, Home Alone, Robocop, and Jurassic Park onstage, and the results have never been anything less than impressive. Their most recent adaptation took place this weekend, and—all hyperbole aside—it might have been the single greatest piece of live entertainment ever performed in front of a paying audience: James Cameron’s 1986 classic, Aliens…on ice.
Read on for the review (and a whole bunch of footage), after the jump. I couldn’t tell you why, but prior to the show, I’d expected Old Murder Theater’s Robocop to be a parody, something that mixed original dialogue with some of Robocop’s more popular catchphrases. So, with that in mind, let’s check out some of this footage. Bachmann: ‘Absurd’ to waterboard me to prove it’s not torture. By David EdwardsFriday, November 18, 2011 10:39 EDT Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pretty sure waterboarding isn’t torture — but she says it would be “absurd” to find out for herself.
During a recent CBS/National Journal debate, the candidate enthusiastically said she supported the interrogation technique. “It was very effective,” she claimed. “It gained information for our country.” Speaking to Fox News several days later, Bachmann defended herself by comparing waterboarding to President Harry Truman’s decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II. Both then-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee John McCain agreed during the 2008 campaign that waterboarding was torture. In an interview this week, the Des Moines Register editorial board asked Bachmann about the matter again.
“Is it uncomfortable?” “Because again, this is done under monitored conditions, where – is it uncomfortable? Photo: Rep. (H/T: Gawker) Mexican Government Warns of Water That Turns People Gay. Born this way is a lie. We all know it, and now the Mexicans in Huarmey, Peru know it too. Peruvian mayor Jose Benitez is blaming the high mineral levels in the area’s drinking water for a perceived increase in the number of gay men residing in his town.
Benitez made the revelation at the launch of a local water access project, where he noted high levels of strontium in the tap water. The drinking water comes from Tabalosos, a town which a Lima-based television station once claimed was inhabited by 14,000 gay men. Unfortunately strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality,” Benitez is quoted by LGBT Asylum News as saying. “Young people have low self-esteem by this stigma.” It’s not the first claim about homosexuality to emerge out of Peru. In 2009, Bolivian president Evo Morales said that hormones injected into chicken can not only turn people gay, but bald as well. Dr. In other Mexican News:
The Brick Testament. The Saddest Excuse In Recent History For Driving Drunk. Parents outraged by cursing baby doll | The Mommy Files. One of these dolls belongs on Santa's naughty list. Parents are outraged by a potty-mouthed doll on Toys R Us shelves. One of the You & Me Interactive Triplets is supposed to babble and coo when you squeeze her, but she seems to drop the “b” word and say “Hey crazy b****!” Toys R Us, which is selling the dolls for $39.99, says it’s just a bunch of gibberish and plans to continue selling the dolls.
Many parents disagree. “I did hear that. “That doll should be burned,” a woman told WKMG/TV-CBS in Orlando, Fl. Burning the talking doll seems extreme. Does this doll need her mouth washed out with soap? Atlas Shrugged’ DVDs Recalled Because of Ideology Error. Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler. Iggy Pop’s old face is the new face of Paco Rabanne’s fragrances. Graffiti. The Most Shamelessly Offensive License Plates Ever Seen. 10 more of the most inappropriate license plates ever seen on the road. Nicest, or incest? Can it not be both? A car isn't just a mode of travel, a status symbol, or an occasional setting for uncomfortable sex — it's also a vehicle of personal expression. And while some drivers spell out their entire political philosophy in dozens of topical bumper stickers, others can tell you everything you need to know about them with one jaw-droppingly tasteless license plate.
What? Who dey? What a smartass. Wow. 606 is a pretty slutty count for anyone. If only it were this easy to find in real life... 5MLP3NIS also can be written as H0N35T Do not ask for whom the hearse honks... If this car cuts you off, just say you understand it's having a hard day. Reason #4,563 not to go to Kansas... Opinion | Save the children by fighting 'truthiness' TRUTHINESS is hurting America. And I'm not going to take it anymore. According to Wikipedia, this term, coined by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, is "truth" that a person feels intuitively "from the gut" or that "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness could be heard on a recent weekend when NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me" posed the following question: "(Presidential candidate) Herman Cain ... said that even though 'I don't have the facts to back this up,' he believed: A.
B. C. D. The correct answer is B. On Oct. 3, I was named the 2012 Washington State Teacher of the Year. It's simple. In this 21st century, we consume information by turning to a screen instead of a newspaper or book. Thanks to the Web, anyone can create ideas and information. I teach digital citizenship and information literacy, which are about being safe, responsible, effective, informed and active as part of our society.
Truthiness is a pox on our society. If Church Signs Were Honest About The Latest Rapture Prediction. If church signs were honest about the latest Rapture prediction. posted 10/21/2011 Believe it or not, that Rapture crap is happening again. After Harold Camping's last Rapture prediction was proven to be nothing more than a wildly lucrative senior moment, Camping announced that he simply forgot to carry the one, and the real rapture is actually supposed to happen today. We wanted to see if his theories might be backed up by our favorite source of bombastic religious hysteria, church lawn marquees. Unfortunately, most of the country's churches have chosen to withhold comment.
So we decided to do the commenting for them. Bill O'Reilly Shouldn't Take U.S. Soldiers Burning His Books Personally - Global. "Help Wanted" Signs From People Who Clearly Need Help. Help Wanted signs that make unemployment more appealing. posted 10/19/2011 Coming across one of these ridiculous signs is like seeing a Craigslist ad in the wild. If you're navigating the job market right now, well, these certainly won't help — but at least they'll make you feel better about where you're not working. Posted on 5/3/11: Jillian Tamaki Sketchblog » Blog Archive » Have a Sexy Little Halloween. How Zombies and Superheroes Conquered Highbrow Fiction - Joe Fassler - Entertainment.
Realistic stories once dominated American literature, but now writers are embracing the fantastical. What happened? Reuters In 2010, scientists from the University of Bristol demonstrated that genetically modified crops can—and do—pass their DNA onto other organisms . Through a process called horizontal gene transfer, altered genes break the species boundary, introducing foreign mutations into the wild. Horizontal gene transfer is a good metaphor for something that's happening in literature, thanks to writers like Justin Cronin, Benjamin Percy, and Colson Whitehead—whose new novel, Zone One, comes out this week. The trappings of genre fiction—monsters, masked marvels, gizmos, and gumshoes—are no longer quarantined to the bookstore aisles reserved for popular fiction. To understand why this is significant, it's important to stress how rare genre interpolations were in late 20th-century fiction.
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Random bits - k o. How to Explain Yourself. TV Caption Confuses Esteemed Former President With Esteemed Pioneer Of Funkalicious Beats. Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention?: Alonzo Bodden: Movies & TV. Nina Paley’s Blog. Letterman: Cheney’s book tour coming to a cardiac unit near you | Raw Replay. Scott Adams Blog: the creator of Dilbert, Wally, Catbert, the Pointy Haired Boss and all your favorite cubicle companions. Cyriak. GEEKY.