Here’s what I’ve collected since the last time I did a video dump. Sorry some of it may be a bit dated. So much creativity is flowing out there these days, and I haven’t been able to do a roundup in a while!
The Daily Show: The Drill Pickle, Hannity and Palin, Bill Clinton, Around the World in a Day, McCain Suspends Campaign, Bob Schieffer, Bush & the Economy, Florida Focus Group, World War I, Kill Bill, Gams and Gammer, Bailout Bill Passes, Common Man-Off, Nate Silver, The Stupid Vote, Sarah Vowell goes back to the 30s to be reassured, World War II, Michelle Obama
Real Time: New Rules (Levi Johnston), Bush in Drag, New Rules (Ebony and Irony), New Rules (Preach Around)
The Young Turks: McCain and Spain, Debate I Wrapup
The Late Show: Bill Clinton, Chris Rock, John McCain, McCain: Take Two, Brian Williams
Sarah Silverman: The Great Schlep
The Colbert Report: Colbert Suspends His Show, Teen Talk Voter Abstinence
The campaigns, 527s, news channels, volunteers and comedians have been spewing video like an open hydrant lately and I’m going to try to round up the last week’s worth here (wish me luck!).
Obama: McCain’s Lobbyist Campaign, Community Organizing, Education, On Letterman, 1982, What is Change?, On Tax Plans, What Economy Are You Talking About?, McCain’s Fundamentals, Another four?, Equal Pay, Old Boys Network, Hope
Biden: America Needs More
McCain: Bloodthirsty Warmonger, On GOP Diversity, Bush-McCain Republicans, Hot Blooded!, The First Family of War, Going for the Pedophile Vote, Squirming, Protecting Sex Offenders, John McCain’s Lies, Recycled Bush, Lies exposed, Women’s Issues, Out of Touch, McCain’s Honor, On Palin’s Experience, Subtle Racism, Rove: McCain has gone too far, Rape Kits, Medical Records, Romney on McCain, Who’s better off?, Fall From Grace, McCain is a Republican, Carly Fiorina, Buh-Bye, Carly!, Stay the Course!, Invented the Blackberry, Lying Their Way to the White House, ABC: McCain Flip-Flops, WHAT? Spain is in Europe?!?
Palin: Forced Gestation, Pentacostal, Wolf Hunting, Sound Familiar?, Bridge to Nowhere, Palin is a Liar, Book Banning, Charging Rape Victims, Hardball: Who is She?, The Bush Doctrine, Drags Out an Old Canard, Pork is Yummy!, On Special Needs, Pray For Us, Sarah!, The Todd, Her First Ad
Rachel: Lipstick, The Fundamentals Are Strong, Commissions
Palin spoofs: Palin in Four Minutes, Vlog, Palin is a Liar, Gina Gershon, The famous SNL skit
Stewart: McCain 2008 = Bush 2000, John McCain, Reformed Maverick, McCain’s Acceptance Speech, Palin is the Bush Doctrine, McCain’s Change?, Generic Off
Colbert: Repo Man, How Dare You?, McCain Attacks Obama
Bill Maher: New Rules (Republican Convention), New Rules (Cities vs. Small Towns), With Paul Begala
Craig Ferguson: Cut to the Chase
The Young Turk: It’s Not Just George Bush
While we here at Chez 10K have been distracted by the TV (for weeks, really — first by the Olympics and then by the Democratic and Republican conventions, respectively), the creative among us have been churning out the videos. Here’s a sampling:
He opened the show last night. Crooks & Liars has the video (and if one video isn’t enough, check out Bill Maher’s season-closing show over at One Good Move).
UPDATE: The General says “Al Gore must be stopped!”
A Joan Osborne earworm has been playing in my head ever since I read Sam Harris’s provocative There is No God (And You Know It) on the Huffington Post this morning. I’m still wading through the comments, but the responses to the post are, I think, the best part.
I don’t really care what my neighbors believe as long as they are good people — in theory, at least. I mean, it shouldn’t matter. If the dude across the street wants to worship Jesus, Buddha or the honeysuckle bush behind his house, who am I to stop him? What he believes and how he attends to those beliefs should have no bearing on my ability to go about my daily business. The problem is that there are a growing number of people in the world who do want to intrude on my personal business, and further, want to use their belief systems as a source of public policy, and they’re becoming more and more insistent about it, and many people continue to die as a result.
It can be hard to separate the message from the messenger, just as it’s hard to distinguish the fanatic from the object of his obsession. That is why, I think, we are seeing more public criticism of religion from atheists. Back when people were fairly private about religion, most atheists were content keep their thoughts about religion to themselves. But that is no longer the case. Religion is increasingly in our schools, courtrooms, pharmacies, and in the highest reaches of our government. Anyone who is not alarmed by that probably hasn’t given it a whole lot of thought.
Religion itself is fairly harmless, but combined with a love of money, politics or a desire for power, it becomes a very dangerous thing, as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and others of their ilk are so fond of demonstrating. It would be one thing if James Dobson actually focused on the family. But he doesn’t. His blatantly political agenda calls for such things as the elimination of the Department of Education and the barring of women and homosexuals from military service. Where in the Bible is the issue of public vs. private education discussed? And I’m afraid that until the real Christians rein in the pseudo religious leaders and politicians who use Christianity to line their pockets and enhance their power, the division between the religious and the secular in this country is only going to get wider and more combative. And people like me, who would ordinarily identify as Christian, will become more and more reluctant to do so.
UPDATE: See the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and New York Times for articles about Dobson’s involvement in recent political controversies.
UPDATE: video of an interesting discussion with Bill Maher, Salman Rushdie, Ben Affleck, and Andrew Sullivan
“Michael Brown must unresign so he can be publically fired. We are not letting you off that easy, Brownie. You can’t just slink off midway through your service — this is FEMA, not the Texas Air National Guard.” — Bill Maher
Here’s an exerpt (some of it sounds kinda familiar):
Is George Bush purely evil? Of course not. And that’s what’s so evil about him. He doesn’t twirl a mustache and smirk and cackle… well, he doesn’t twirl a mustache. He’s like the Peanuts character, Pigpen — wherever he goes, he stirs up such a humongous mess, it can only be cleaned up by Halliburton.
But he is not pure evil, because evil is a chain. Did any one person doom New Orleans? No. It’s a chain. People vote for a corrupt leader, a corrupt leader puts unqualifed cronies in high places, and when those cronies fuck up, evil gets done. The devil didn’t fly up from hell and knock a hole in that levee. The levee just didn’t get built because the money for it went to rich people’s tax cuts and pork projects and corporate welfare.
Evil isn’t Salem’s Lot, it’s Trent Lott. This week an ailing American bald eagle was found to be dying from mercury poisoning (republicans immediately tried to blame it on the eagle’s “lifestyle choices”). But it’s worth noting that also this week, the White House threatened to veto limits on mercury pollution. Now, pure evil would be if George Bush sat around the White House saying “Let’s poison eagles.” And even I don’t believe George Bush would do that. Cheney would do that. And even he is not pure evil. Dick Cheney doesn’t hate poor children and caribou — they’re just in the way.
Bottom line: some people think satan is real and some people think global warning is real. If you think stopping gays from “doing it” is more important than the icecaps melting, the boogey man is you. — Bill Maher September/16/2005
