Holy crap. You can't get much more self-satirical than this. The president is trying to take credit for following the strategy and the tactics put into place by George W. Bush. At some point the...
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Chris Wallace Debunks Crazy Unskewed Conspiracy Theory
Here's Fox News anchor Chris Wallace totally deflating Mike Gallagher's desperate theory that the polls -- all of them except Rasmussen -- are biased and inaccurate. As a bonus, here's Chris Christie...
Republicans are ‘Unskewing’ Reality to Match Their Self-Deception
My Monday column unskews the Unskewed Polls website and how Republicans are desperate for polls that match their fictitious view of the president. Last week, when the conservative British commentator...
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Romney is Practicing ‘Zingers’ for the Debate
Yes. The most unfunny man on the planet is practicing pre-scripted 'zingers' to use on the President of the United States during the first presidential debate on Wednesday. Believing that the debates...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Final Sacrifice" Not much by way of content today. We're busy packing up all of our outrage and blockquotes into a van, etc, and moving the blog to a new host, so don't expect...
Stephen Colbert on ‘Skewed’ Polls
Seriously -- other than Louis CK, Stephen Colbert is the funniest man on television. "Professor Poppycock Gobbledeegook."
Fox News: In the Tank for Obama
Fox & Friends, and much of the wingnutosphere, thinks the polls are rigged to support President Obama. Parroting the latest Republican meme that national polls oversample Democrats, host Steve...
The Most Hilarious Headline of the Week
And here it is. Try not to laugh. Mitt Romney to 'fact check' Obama in debate Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first presidential debate next week, casting...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag is Less ‘Ladylike’ Than Last Week
Questions for me, Chez and Ben from the heaping stenchy Mail Bag: 1) What changes do you think might be coming in the cabinet for Obama's second term (if he wins)? -N 2) Hey guys, did you see that...
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Food for Sleepless Thought
Maybe all the Republican whiny diaper crying about the polls is cover for the disenfranchisement effort. Maybe I'm paranoid, but this is a chilling thought -- and nothing should be left up to chance...
The Republican War on Math Continues
All of the pollsters are conspiring to win the election for the president. Erickson, Editor-in-Chief of RedState.com and CNN political contributor, accuses the media of a “confirmation bias” that...
Patrick Stewart on The Daily Show
Utterly awesome. Patrick Stewart "replaced" John Oliver on The Daily Show to illustrated the NFL referee strike. Watch here. Because it's awesome.
It’s the ‘Very Special Episode’ of the Mitt Romney Campaign
My Thursday column documents the fuzzier, cuddlier, more "empathic" version of Mitt Romney: I've admittedly lost track of the ongoing series of Mitt Romney "reboots." With each iteration we've heard...
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Hilarious and Frustrating Daily Show Clip
This clip from last night's The Daily Show is both. The premise is that President Obama's re-election chances should be in peril because of a "stagnant economy" and global turmoil, the Obama-as...
On CNN, Romney Lied About Lying
This is just about as meta as Romney's ever been. On CNN, Jim Acosta asked Romney about his welfare reform lie and Romney said his campaign always corrects the record. Acosta asked if that included...
