Ringing in 2009 with a video of Scarborough getting slammed by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Author - Bob Cesca
New Years Eve Thread
Open thread for blogging about your New Year's Eve festivities -- or whatever you want to talk about. After all these years, I'm still trying to figure out how the whole ball-dropping thing.
Context and the Magic Negro Song
Here's a clip of Bill O'Reilly being deliberately thick about the Saltsman song parody thing. What O'Reilly and, frankly, both of his panelists don't get is that in addition to the racially...
Prime Time Awesome
Awesome Political Speech of the Year: A More Pefect Union, by Barack Obama
Afternoon Awesome
Awesome Mini-series of the Year: John Adams
New Huffington Post Column
The Most Ridiculous Political Quote of 2008 Enjoy -- and don't forget to Digg it.
More 2008 Awesome
Awesome Cable News Moment of the Year (possibly of all time): Keith Olbermann announces Barack Obama's election night victory.
Blog Awards
Always a bridesmaid, never a whatever. Two of the blogs I contribute to were nominated for blog awards this year: Crooks & Liars and, of course, The Huffington Post. Huzzahs all around!
Heh.
MSNBC lower-third graphic just now: Blagojevich Senate Pick Burris: "I don't have any taint" Jeez. How does Burris find shorts that fit?
Morning Awesome
Awesome Song(s) of the Year: It's a tie! Foo Fighters, Long Road to Ruin (above) Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Possess Your Heart (after the jump)
Midnight Awesome
Awesome Stranahan Video of the Year: It's 3:02 (I'm running out of "awesome" slots for all of the videos I want to post before 01/01/09.)
Answer for BooMan
BooMan asks: What exactly is a Magic Negro? According to Wikipedia: The magical negro (sometimes called the mystical negro or magic negro) is a supporting, often mystical stock character in fiction...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery. And socializing. Tonight! The Blagojevich Taint is back.
Franken Up by 50, Lizard People Sad
And the recount is over, minus some haggling over 1,350 absentee ballots. However, Sam Stein reports: Should Franken emerge victorious after the issue of wrongfully rejected absentee ballots is...
What's John Bolton Up To These Days?
Saying batshit crazy things. Like always.
Vote for 'Doof of the Year'
Who is your choice for 'Doof of the Year 2008'? The nominees are as follows. Feel free to add your own. ( polls) UPDATE: Bumped.
Epic Fail
I can't imagine why President Bush was unable to reach even a tenative accord between Israel and the Palestinians. He couldn't even nail the photo op.
Afternoon Awesome
Awesome TV Series of the Year: Mad Men From the Season 2 finale, Meditations in an Emergency.
Doof Quote of the Day
It's only 9:30 a.m. eastern time and we already have a winner. “When I heard about the ["Magic Negro"] story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the...
Cable News Hackery
I didn't see much of the morning cable news shows, but apparently there was a higher than usual concentration of hackery and intellectual violence. From Leigh in the comments: ...over at CNN this...