Category Archive 'Satire'
22 Oct 2010

Beltway Adventure

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Iowahawk reprises the ancient distributed computing, pre-PC era game Adventure in an updated context.

You have to be pretty old to remember the original, but it’s hilarious if you do.

YOU ARE IN AN OVAL OFFICE. THERE IS SNOW OUTSIDE. YOU ARE BEHIND A DESK. ON DESK THERE IS A BUST OF CHURCHILL.

YOU HAVE A CONGRESS.

YOU HAVE A SENATE.

YOU HAVE A MEDIA.

YOU HAVE A TELEPROMPTER.

YOU HAVE A MILITARY.

YOU HAVE A BIG JET.

YOU HAVE $3 TRILLION OF GOLD.

YOU HAVE 82% APPROVAL HEALTH.

THERE IS 7.2% UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE FOREST.

YOU HAVE A RACE CARD.

YOU HAVE INAUGURAL PARTY LEFTOVERS.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

>EAT LEFTOVERS

>RETURN BUST

19 Oct 2010

Campaign Ad

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WKUK just in time for election season offers a cynical campaign ad parody identifying with superb accuracy just who is characteristically running for public office.

Hat tip to Bird Dog via Karen L. Myers.

29 Sep 2010

Who Knows What They’ll Tax Next?

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Qui sait ce qu'ils taxeront ensuite ?

Satirical video from French taxpayers organizations: http://www.lecri.fr et http://www.contribuables.org

Hat tip to David Wagner.

08 Sep 2010

“The Forgotten Man”

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Several Progressive presidents are applauding Barack Obama. Poor James Madison is trying to retrieve the Constitution from under Obama’s foot. Lincoln and Washington look decidedly upset.

Kitsch, of course. But a vivid and amusing expression of the American popular experience of the Age of Obama.

Hat tip to Cindi Ryan.

16 Aug 2010

“The Race Card is Maxed Out”

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Jon Stewart (of all people) comments sarcastically on the Rangel/Waters ethics investigations.

5:49 video

25 Jul 2010

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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Texas ranches invasion story is a hoax. (Confederate Yankee).

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Get your free Rod Blagojevich ringtone.

Top favorites:

“I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden.”

“I’m stuck in this (expletive) job as governor now.”

“Only thirteen percent of you all out there think I’m doing a good job. So (expletive) all of you.”

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Unmarried ladies with attitude: Jane Austen’s Fight Club 3:22 video

Hat tip to Walter Olson.

07 Jul 2010

“Money For Nothing” (A Dem Strait Rock Video)

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4:49 video

30 Jun 2010

The Secret Journolist Archive Revealed

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Iowahawk claims Andrew Breitbart’s $100,000 reward and defiantly skips the anonymity offer.

KEITH OLBERMANN: I can’t tell you how shocked and appalled to hear that there may have been some kind of compromising leak of off-the-record conversations from Journolist, involving David Weigel. Is this true, David?

DAVE WEIGEL: ya i guess so

KEITH OLBERMANN: I can only imagine the career damaging consequences of such a terrible breach of journalistic confidentiality! I suspect that your job at the Post is in serious jeopardy.

DAVE WEIGEL: look man can u come back later?

KEITH OLBERMANN: I’m only here to give you my help, David. Sensing your plight I asked my producers at MSNBC to offer you a recurring job as a contributor on Countdown.

DAVE WEIGEL: srsly??

KEITH OLBERMANN: Absolutely! And at the same pay. All you have to do now is tender your resignation at the Post before they have a chance to fire you, and we’ll have you on the air as soon as we can locate a makeup technician skilled in your condition.

DAVE WEIGEL: wow keith! what can i do to thnk u?

KEITH OLBERMANN: Oh, I’m sure it will all work out splendidly. I’ll drop by in my van to pick you up tomorrow at 11 pm sharp.

EZRA KLEIN: gee Keith ur really a pretty good guy after all

KEITH OLBERMANN: Don’t mention it, lads. Say, would any of you boys care to join me over at Chatroulette tonight?
SPENCER ACKERMAN has left the room
MATTHEW YGLESIAS has left the room.
ERIC ALTERMAN has left the room.
JOSH MARSHALL has left the room.
DAVE WEIGEL has left the room.
ERIC BOEHLERT has left the room.
EZRA KLEIN has left the room.

KEITH OLBERMANN: hello?

Read the whole thing.

18 Jun 2010

How To Get a Job In the Obama Economy

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American Solutions has the answer.

This is the form letter American Solutions provides:

To: Rahm Emanuel
Chief of Staff to President Obama

Dear Mr. Emanuel,

I’m writing you today because I want my very own taxpayer funded government job with benefits. I’ve heard a lot about all the jobs “created or saved” by the Stimulus, but am frustrated that I am still out of work. It seems the only sure-fire way to get a job is to challenge a White House favored Democrat in a U.S. Senate Primary and hope the White House can offer me a position in the Obama administration not to run.

I don’t necessarily want to be a Senator, but who wouldn’t want the above-average salary along with the rich health insurance and pension benefits?

Now I will not say that you should offer me a job in the Obama administration or I’m going to run. That would be illegal, although that doesn’t seem to matter much. White House lawyers have blessed the earlier White House job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak to get him out of the Senate race against Arlen Specter. It also seems that someone at the White House offered Andrew Romanoff a position to not run for the U.S. Senate seat from Colorado.

I need a job. As long as President Obama’s stimulus isn’t doing anything to create new jobs in the private sector, I’ll take an Obama job, even if it means I have to run for Congress.

Sincerely,

PS: How about an Ambassadorship? I didn’t donate any money to the campaign, but I love foreign travel.

16 Jun 2010

Soccer Comes Out of the Closet

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We knew it all along. The Onion has the story: 2:24 video.

Hat tip to Sarah Jenislawski.

13 Jun 2010

BP Coffee Spill

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BP Spills Coffee: 2:48 video. Unfair, but funny.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

09 Jun 2010

Obama Opening Up a Can

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The idea of Barack Obama taking Spike Lee’s advice predictably inspires ridicule.

1:50 video

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