Long hours, office politics, and food allergies are all in a day’s work as the group struggles to write jokes and survive within an environment that is a hotbed of neuroses…
As this day is about tradition, here is theToolz of the New SchoolSt. Patrick’s Day Special from my hometown Chicago, where they know how to have a St. Patty’s Parade (or two), seeing as how Los Angeles scrapped the parade this year due to budget woes.
All in the name of book sales and dominance, this video was made by a couple guys being edged out by Karl Rove’s new revisionist memoir Courage & Consequence on the Amazon top sales spot.
This story isn’t going away. Someone has to go to jail. It’s clear that Geithner acted as the “chief facilitator” of industrial scale securities flim-flam which led directly to the Great Crash of ‘08. He needs to be held accountable for his actions.
Tomorrow the indie political hip hop ensemble Flobots is releasing their follow-up to the stunning 2007 album, Fight With Tools. To help keep record stores around a little longer, the band is giving away this free poster if you buy the album in a participating indie record store. Here in L.A., the capital of the music industry, there are apparently no indie record stores around any more, so here is the poster of the album I will be downloading tomorrow, I guess.
10,000 people protest insurance companies’ grip on our health care and Congress—to no media coverage. Hotheads with teabags taped to their heads get not only wall to wall news coverage, they get a network lead-up from FOX News worthy of a Bowl game, with ample replays of their event. Why isn’t this newsworthy?
And this event has some smart, even camera-friendly dissent schtick going on here: Deputizing the entire crowd and sending them as a posse to arrest the heads of insurance companies?? You really don’t need to put much more on a press release than that to get some non-intrepid news producer there looking for an easy piece. No, at the very moment when determined leaders in Congress are still trying to revive a semblance of real health care reform, the networks would rather not touch on it. Wait--LOOK! Some nutty ex-Congressman talking tickling!
Apparently, it takes a mock right-wing blowhard to make up for the integrity that Clark Hoyt at The New York Times does not have to call out the media hoax that James O’Keefe III’s smear job against ACORN really was. Take it away, Colbert…
I don’t know what’s better — that my president lets Jay-Z hang in the White House Situation Room, or that the old right wing guard is predictably in apoplexy. Here, a rare smile from Hov.
Following the release of damaging slides from a recent Republican National Committee presentation in Florida–”Putting the FUN Back in Fundraising,” which encouraged using fear, the threat of Socialism, and “tchochkes” as effective fund raising tools–the RNC has been put on the defensive. Even the brash RNC Chair Michael Steele was contrite on FOX News, who had to dispatch one of their Most Attractive Blond Ladies Available to offer wide shots in a miniskirt to distract from the news of how utterly little the RNC thinks of its supporters, namely you, the viewers.
While the slides obtained by Politico cast an unflattering light on how the RNC apparently thinks of its donors as ego-driven and reactionary, the peculiar premium placed on “tchochkes” might be even more curious (for anyone who is not a grandparent, anyway). Is this the GOP secret to cultivating their base–stocking them up for their next yard sale?
Here are additional Power Point slides that have surfaced providing further insight into how the Republican National Committee thinks. Read More »
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