Scarborough Hired as “Daily Show” Head Writer
After a week of using various Joe Scarborough video on his Daily Show, Jon Stewart decided to take the natural next step. He hired him.
“With Bush out we were starving for a consistent source of hysterical content,” said Stewart. “We thought we found it with Jim Cramer, but he was just too much of a loose cannon. Then Joe Scarborough shows up and nothing our staff came up with provided as much killer stuff as Joe was giving us. We first thought of hiring the Morning Joe writers until we found out that Joe was coming up with the gags himself.
Stewart says he was impressed with Scarborough’s ability to come up with a new bits at the drop of a hat, tee it up and knock it out of the park.
“In one week he gave us the satirical shilling for their new sponsor, Starbucks, including a hysterically spoofy fawning interview with Starbuck CEO, Howard Read more
Rightwing Website Sells “Shoot A Liberal” Product
While Bill O’Reilly never seems to be able to find any hate-speech coming from the right, perhaps he might to want to check out Patriotshop.us a “Great Gifts for American Patriots” website that offers a “Liberal Hunting License” sticker that pictures a donkey in a target with five bullet holes through it. The license list the dates for the license, 2009 through 2013.
Nope, nothing here that might incite violence.
Steve Young is the author of “Great Failures of the Extremely Successful,” (www.greatfailure.com), an award winning TV writer and blogs the appropriately-named steveyoungonpolitics.com
Levittown Agrees To Accept Gitmo Prisoners
The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburban community of Levittown said Wednesday it has agreed to a U.S. request to temporarily house up to 17 detainees now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center on Cuba.
James Little, Middletown Township Supervisor, said the administration of President Barack Obama made the request last week and that Levittown was “honored and proud” to resettle the detainees as a humanitarian gesture.
“Look, we have plenty of room at the abandoned Read more
Obama Administration May Allow Bush Administration To Plead Guilty
The Obama administration is considering a change in the law to deal with calls for war crime trials that would clear the way for Bush Administration officials that could be facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.
The provision could permit prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques as well as the embarrassing takeover of the Bush administration by Vice President Read more
Scott Roeder Attorney To Use The O’Reilly Defense
While no final decision has been made, word from the Scott Roeder legal team is that the alleged killer of Dr. George Tiller will utilize what they’re calling the “O’Reilly Defense” to get their client off.
“It’s a variation of a Twinkie Defense,” said legal expert Jonathan Turley. “They will attempt to connect Mr. Roeder’s heavy intake of Bill O’Reilly combined with a talk-radio hate-speak rush to prove that Roeder did not have the capacity to make a rational decision when he shot Dr. Tiller. The deluge of ‘Tiller is a Nazi, mass murderer, baby killer’ verbiage by Mr. O’Reilly surely can drive one into a state of what we in the legal profession call junk food Read more
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