NBC's "Saturday Night Live" offered viewers a parody movie trailer Saturday evening of the disaster film "2012." The premise: former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck have been elected President and Vice President, and the world is coming to an end as a result. The "credits" jokingly showed the film created by the DNC, and authored by MSNBC's Keith...
James A. Roppo, the Vice President of Island Def Jam Records, was charged with failure to send a tweet on Friday. Young Island Def Jam Records star Justin Bieber was to visit a Long Island mall Friday to sign autographs. The crowd of 3,000 teens and their parents grew unruly as they waited for the 15-year-old star to show up. The New York Daily News reports that police think Roppo should have sent...
Liz Cheney said on Fox News that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, should run for President in 2012. In fact, that’s apparently in the Mayan calendar too. Dick Cheney becomes president, then the world ends… - Jay Leno
On the weekend that next year’s Rhodes Scholars are announcd, Elliot Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust and executive vice president of the Aspen Institute, writes in the Washington Post that he is greatly disappointed that a few Rhodes Scholars have gone into business. Yes, you read that right. He’s disappointed that even a few [...]
Today, of course, is the anniversary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century — the assassination of President Kennedy here in Dallas in 1963. For 46 years, one of the things that has bothered conspiracy theorists is the behavior of Vice President Lyndon Johnson on that day. In a recent documentary on the History Channel , it was suggested that Johnson hastily arranged to take...
France: White Supremacist Leader: "Rama Yade Is Fueling Unpatriotic, Racial Discord" Marine Le Pen, the vice president of the white supremacist party National Front today called for the abolition of dual citizenship by denouncing the supporters of Algeria in France and remarks attributed to moderate-conservative French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade (pictured right) (article in French)....
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak at next year's Bakersfield Business Conference, joining a growing list of political heavy-hitters including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Country music performer Ronnie Milsap also has agreed to take part in the conference, event organizers announced.
By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , a great excerpt from Sully: [H]ere’s Andrew Sullivan on why the Cheney clan is waging a death struggle against transfering Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil : What Cheney fears, I suspect, is that Gitmo will be shut down, that history will record it as the lowest point in US human rights ever, that the Cheney family will be tarred as the brand that destroyed America’s...
Listening to a Cheney give advice about how to "win" in Afghanistan is rather like asking an arsonist what to do about your house as it burns to the ground.
By Mike Dorf The recent procedural theatrics over starting Senate debate on the health care bill provide only the latest occasion for reflecting on the oddity of the cloture rule , which effectively requires 60 votes to accomplish anything in our upper house. A naive reader of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution would think that all it takes for the Senate to act positively on a bill is for a...
The daily show official website The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Joe Biden Pt. 2 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis This is a great interview with the vice president. it clearly shows Jon Stewart political clout. it was a excellent journalistic incite into the problems of the two party system that plague our [...]
Despite carving out a niche for himself as a leading progressive voice in Congress, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) rarely goes in for headline-grabbing proclamations or sharp political rhetoric. So on Sunday, when Brown stated his concern that some of the president's economic consultants were too focused on Wall Street at the cost of small business, it hardly seemed like some flippant remark. "I...
I'll not focus on the movie itself. " The Best Years of Our Lives " (1946) is a bold classic directed by William Wyler , which symbolizes life in America in the years that followed the end of WWII . What's amazing about this movie is how clearly it depicts changes in American mores that were happening much before the ascension of the flower power generation. True revolution really happens...
Come see the show if you get a chance. Sue, Sukey, Carol and I are in it. Rec¢· la· ma¢·tion Cheryl Weiss, Curator Santa Maria -- The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission presents Rec¢· la· ma¢·tion, a mixed media exhibition of regional artists curated by Cheryl Weiss, Professor of Art, Allan Hancock College and Vice President of the Nipomo...
Al Gore appeared twice on Saturday Night Live to promote his new book. Gore first played himself in a skit. He was a guest hawking his new book, Our Choice , on the talk show, "What Up With That?" Gore's acting was not good. Gore appeared again just a few minutes later on "Weekend Update," talking to Seth Meyers. In honor of NBC's Green Week, Gore was there to discuss issues facing...