Don't Know Much About History

Well, at least something good came out of Glenn Beck's rally in DC. An old pal who also grew up in the DC area recently wrote:Great time at the Natural History Museum! The tea party folk kept everyone away from downtown and the tea party doesn't seem to believe in natural history, so the place was empty. In addition to the above links, if you missed it, here's The Daily Show's Beckapalooza

Blame

Another home run from The Daily Show:

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Steve Benen and other bloggers chronicle this sort of hypocrisy all the time - and Republicans practice it all the goddam time - but ain't nuthin' like The Daily Show treatment!

Comedy on The Oil Spill

The Daily Show is always good, but it's been superb on the oil spill:

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Some of the Democrats are to the right of Nixon, and economically, the Blue Dogs are to the right of Reagan. That makes the GOP – which is far right - completely reckless or

Corporate Theft

I'll be linking some pieces on Michael Lewis and his new book on the Wall Street collapse later, but this is a fantastic Daily Show segment on how some major corporations get away with what should be illegal.

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Stewart Takes On Thiessen

Marc Thiessen, a former speech writer for Rumsfeld and Bush, has been playing torture apologist since at least January 2009, but has gained prominence recently with a book and a columnist gig at The Washington Post. (Yes, The Washington Post fired Dan Froomkin, who fact-checked and debunked Thiessen, as well as WaPo columnist and torture apologist Charles Krauthammer - and then the WaPo hired

Obama Meets the GOP (The Comic Takes)

I posted Obama's meeting with the House Republicans earlier, but here's The Daily Show take:

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And here's Seth Myers in great form on Obama and the GOP on Saturday Night Live:

Our Trustworthy Media

The SNL spoof of Fox News election night coverage (from 11/7/09) was actually pretty good:Still, no one can touch The Daily Show. They spoof pretty much every political talk show, in perpetuity, near the end of this sequence (from 11/3/09):The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cIndecision 2009 - Reindecision 2008 And Beyondwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical

Glenn Beck, Stewart Style

This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm still not tired of it, and it's an instant classic. Stewart plunges into the demagogic truthiness of Glenn Beck:

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If you're not familiar with Glenn Beck's shtick, Crooks and Liars has a good collection.

CNN Leaves It There

I imagine most readers of liberal blogs have seen this already, but if you haven't, here's one of The Daily Show's best segments on a typical failing in the mainstream media. Fact-checking? What's that? (Most people following health care as an issue would know, roughly, the population of the United States and the number of people who are uninsured. Why don't paid journalists know this, and