Palins, David Letterman Continue To Take (Sometimes Cheap) Shots

  • Yesterday, Sarah and Todd Palin got incensed about another David Letterman joke in which he suggested A-Rod impregnated her daughter at a Yankees game. (The daughter in attendance was 14-year-old Willow.) Gross. [Politico, LA Times]
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If The Presidential Race Wasn't Enough Of A Joke For You, We've Got Some …

  • P.U.M.A. hunter Katie Halper put together a campaign commercial for John McCain so that his female supporters all understand what they're voting for — including unequal pay, a lack of reproductive choice and half-assed health insurance coverage. Politics starts at home, ladies. [Katie Halper]
  • Actual McCain staffers and …
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John McCain Now Throwing More Than Dirty Looks At Obama

In the waning hours of the political campaign, with his political star already eclipsed by the popularity of his own running mate and his insistence on abandoning most of the principles he used to swear he stood for, John McCain has gotten a little desperate. Or, rather, his campaign staff has, since John McCain… Read…
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McCain Campaign, CBS Journalists Are Unashamed Of Their Own…

When the chips are down and all the prayers to God to win the election and protect you from witchcraft haven't worked, everyone knows it's time to call in the big guns: the forces of evil. And, if they're too busy helping the Axis of Evil get nukes and shit, well, then you can always call in the forces of pettiness and … Read…
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Paging Jeremiah Wright: There's A White Guy Stealing Your Show!!!

And in the end, it was a white Catholic guy who drove Barack Obama to quit his radical, black Muslim separatist Church of Latter-Day Erstwhile Standup Comedians. Anyway, meet Father Michael Pfleger. He doesn't even preach at Trinity Church, he's just a regular on their "You Can't Do That On The Vatican" open mic nights,…

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Dear Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Get Over Yourself Already

It's pretty clear that Elisabeth Hasselback hates Barack Obama. And on The View today, she all but called the front-runner for the Democratic nomination a conceited asshole while getting into a very heated conversation with Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepard and Joy Behar regarding Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It isn't just that …

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Anne Lamott Tells Stephen Colbert That God Is, In Fact, A 'She'

Writer Anne Lamott — whose 1994 book Bird by Bird is well-known and much-loved by millions of frustrated, (mostly female?) writers — appeared in all her dreadlocked-glory on last night's Colbert Report to plug her new book Grace, Eventually, and talk politics, Sunday school, Jeremiah Wright and the fact that God is a…

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Friends: How Many Of Us Have Ones Like Jeremiah Wright?

So tonight, while Hillary Clinton dishes with Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Obama is going on TV to chat with Meredith Vieira about the Rev. Wright debacle in a segment to air tomorrow on Today, a segment I'm quite sure Michelle will be able to use as a meaningful opportunity to convey just what is so depressing about the…

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