Stephen Colbert mocks the Bill O Reilly freaking out video

Good stuff:

You can find the original video of Bill O Reilly freaking out here

Fox News attempts to re-write history of George W., Daily Show looks at Fox instead…

Gotta love taking the piss out of Fox ‘News’:

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So d’ya know the way that the U.S., Canada and Mexico are actually the one country and are run by the overlords?

I love paranoia:

You are NOT the father!

Man, this show looks SO shit but this clip is just hilarious! Also, the Wikipedia page for this is absolutely brilliant, as it’s really badly written:

Usually, when the man is shown to be the father, the woman gets up, chases the man, victoriously declares that she told him so, and does the “give me yo money” dance which includes cash hand gestures. Then she challenges him to follow through on his claim that he will provide support to the child; there is usually no follow-up to see if this actually happens, possibly due to the rather large number of cases that appear on the show monthly. Upon such confirmation, most men accept the fact that they are the father. Conversely, when the man is proven not to be the father, it is common for the men to celebrate by performing dance steps or running in to the audience to high-five audience members while the women walk or run backstage crying, often collapsing (or sometimes even diving) to the floor into the fetal position. In such cases, the man rarely receives an apology.

Thrill to Hillary and her action movie lifestyle!!

Fucking hell, I love how she assumes everyone is a complete idiot…

George Bush don’t like black people

Man, I hadn’t heard this before but it’s great… A remix of the Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’ …

‘The Word’ on Obama’s ‘Race Speech’

Cian’s already talked about this, but Obama does it funnier (sorry Cian) (Also, I apologise for the fact that ‘funnier’ isn’t correct English)

The Most Important Issue in the U.S. Elections? Bullshit!

It’s kind of creepy the way that ‘fake’ news like The Daily Show, the Onion and the Colbert Report are actually more realistic than most of the ‘real’ coverage of this election:

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Is ‘the Surge’ working for reasons other than advertised?

While I’m somewhat dubious about the source (my own personal opinion of Alternet is that they let too much of their opinion creep into their articles rather than let the facts speak for themselves) these paragraphs in the middle of a piece attacking John McCain caught my attention

The “surge is working” narrative’s not reality-based, and when it comes to Iraq, we’ve seen the spin give way to the ugly facts time and time again.

That the troop escalation has been anything but a success is not an ideological claim, as supporters of the occupation charge, but numerical and chronological. The surge began last February, and there was something approaching a consensus at the time that the addition of about 20,000 combat troops — the rest were support personnel — would be a drop in the bucket in a country of 25 million people. Retired four-star General Barry McCaffrey said at the time: “I personally think the surge of five U.S. Army brigades and a few Marine battalions dribbled out over five months is a fool’s errand.” But the troop build-up continued in March, April and May.

The period that followed was a bloodbath — last June and July were the most violent summer months of any year of the occupation. August was one of the bloodiest months, period. Then, that month, the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mehdi Army to stand down. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths fell by about 50 percent the next month and decreased again in October and November. The militia is estimated to be 100,000 strong and is arguably the most powerful ground force in Iraq after the U.S. military. While the change can’t be wholly ascribed to any single factor — the violence has also decreased as a result of communities that have been fully “cleansed” of one or another ethnic or sectarian group — it’s clear that al-Sadr’s order, not Bush’s “surge,” was responsible for most of whatever “success” there may have been.

Finally, there is the masterpiece of propaganda known as the “Sunni Awakening.” Spun as a sign of success, the reality is that the U.S. military turned over some of the areas where they’d encountered the most violent resistance to local Sunni authorities — many of whom they had condemned as “terrorists” previously — and started paying their fighters to stop shooting at U.S. troops. In other words, the U.S. was defeated and surrendered territory to the “enemy,” effectively paying reparations to local populations and suffering fewer casualties as a result. There are many ways to define success, but defeat and surrender are not among them. Yet, in perfectly Orwellian fashion, after four years of saying that Iraq was mostly stable aside from a few local areas and the Sunni “Triangle of Death,” the administration simply stopped using the phrase and replaced it with talk of a “Sunni Awakening.” We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

In summary - is the ‘Surge’s’ success based on the U.S claiming success while it’s retreating? It’d be rather like ‘Tricky Dicky’s’ way of dealing with Vietnam where the aim was eventually not to win, but rather to stop the South Vietnamese falling immediately after the U.S pulled. Food for thought anyway…

Excerpt from ‘Bill O’Reilly, the opera’

This is hilarious:

Excerpt from “Mackris v. O’Reilly”, a baroque oratorio composed by Igor Keller. Libretto uses verbatim transcript of sexual harassment complaint brought against Bill O’Reilly in 2004