(From SNL)
There's a lot that rings true in the broad-brush parts Matt Tabbi's latest screed although I take exception to the most vicious bits, like the line about Palin “having the brains of an innertube.”
No, Palin is stupid like Ronald Reagan was stupid. Which certainly makes her smart enough to be dangerous.
Via SFDB, The GOP Plan, an unusually tough video from the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
I thought this one was unusually good, although (or perhaps because?) it seems a lot like an ad for some new second-rate sitcom.
Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations.
Funny-ish. Is the concept getting tired?
Incidentally, Rep. Alan Grayson has a cameo in that video, but he’s actually funnier on his own (or part of a double act):
Via Open Left, some truly terrifying photos of President Obama:
President Obama did Letterman; now Limbaugh is going on Leno.
Seems fair: Letterman gets the head of the Democratic Party, Leno gets the head of the Republican party.
Who would have guessed that Taylor Branch —Taylor Branch — had umpteen hours of secret tapes of Bill Clinton during his Presidency chewing over his plans and setbacks. History narrated as it happens by a master (but exhausted) talker. And now it's going to be a big book: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
It seems that Branch — an amazing historian and writing — had been friends with Clinton in their salad days, but they had drifted apart. Then Clinton pulled him back into the orbit, in the hopes he would become the court historian. And from the sounds of it, the President got both more and less than he wanted.
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