November 2, 2007, 6:58am
Welcome to Halloween in the online video era, where the Web kids in the political arena just can’t resist the temptation to get cheesy with their messages.
From the National Republican Congressional Committee:
From the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee:
Categories: Politics, Friday Fun
October 5, 2007, 6:53am
For some bizarre reason, journalists at The New York Times and elsewhere are starting to pay attention to the way Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laughs. Patrick Healy dubbed it “the Clinton cackle,” and both Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich also mentioned Clinton’s laugh in recent columns.
Comedian Jon Stewart may be the brains behind the current obsession with Clinton’s laugh. He did an entire skit on the subject. Numerous other video clips of the laugh, some of them mean-spirited, are surfacing online, too. Here’s one:
Categories: New York, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Friday Fun
September 28, 2007, 8:15pm
As a former reporter and editor at the sober-minded, just-the-facts-ma’am Congressional Quarterly, I almost fell out of my chair after seeing the new online video to promote PolitiFact, a joint product of CQ and the St. Petersburg Times, which have the same parent company in Florida.
It’s not your typical YouTube political video, and it’s definitely not your typical CQ promotional campaign. We’re talking pop music; musicians cleverly masked as the most famous liars of modern American politics (Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon, George “No new taxes” Bush, and Bill “I did not have sexual relations” Clinton); and references to the YouTube political celebrities of 2008, “Billiam The Snowman” and “Obama Girl“; and a catchy albeit cheesy tune titled “Gimme The Truth.”
Plus this from James Kotecki on Playbook TV: “The Republicans couldn’t care less about black people, and the Democrats want your second-graders to be gay and married.”
Categories: Friday Fun
September 7, 2007, 7:31am
What could be more fun on a Friday than watching Sen. Ted Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, singing “We Are The World,” courtesy of “Reliable Sources” at The Washington Post.
Categories: Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, Friday Fun
June 15, 2007, 7:02am
I loved the “Underdog” superhero cartoon when I was a kid. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is playing that role in the 2008 presidential campaign (as are a whole bunch of other candidates), so it was only a matter of time before some creative mind put two and two together and came up with, uh, six.
Ron Paul as underdog — that’s definitely not good math. But it does make for some Friday video fun.
Categories: Presidency 2008, Friday Fun, Ron Paul, Rep. Ron Paul
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