Hoyle: The Good, Humble American’s Humility Problem For once it’d be nice to hear a candidate eschew the traditional platitudes and say: “American people I have nothing but love for y’all, but you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about.” Dan Hoyle would vote for him. Read more More
Jon Stewart & The Daily Show Take On New Media Narrative: “Obama Doesn’t Get It” Jon Stewart and The Daily Show’s writers turned their post-shellacking coverage to President Obama’s post-mortem press conference and the national news media’s latest lame narrative that the president just doesn’t get “it.” Read more More
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, But FOUR Dead Candidates Won Elections on Tuesday Nationwide, six deceased candidates ran on Tuesday, with four of them actually winning. In some cases a special election will be held, in some the governor will appoint someone, and in one they’re just going to Weekend at Bernie’s the dead winner for four years. Read more More
Jon Stewart: “You Realize Your Metaphors For GOP Victory Kill Thousands Of People” Jon Stewart recapping the midterms noted that the Fox News hyperboles grew from a “wave” to “tidal wave” to a “tsunami” to an ”earthquake” — all metaphors that “killed thousands of people.” Read more More
History in Alaska: GOP Senator Loses Primary, Likely to Win as Write-In Candidate Nobody has been elected to the U.S. Senate as a write-in candidate since 1954, when South Carolina voters sent Strom Thurmond to the Senate. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska may be about to change that. Read more More
[VIDEO] Tired of Politics Already? Here’s a Dog Catching Salmon on Flooded Road! Must be a slow news day…it’s not like there was a mega-election that changed the face of the nation or anything. But here’s “A dog named Honey fished for salmon as they swam across a flooded road in Washington state.” Read more More
Man Up: New Speaker EmoBoehner Declares Victory, Weeps Like Girl with Skinned Knees Sharron Angle famously told Senator Harry Reid to “man up” in their only debate before last night’s election. Maybe she should have saved that advice for Presumptive House Speaker John Boehner. Read more More