First, the politicians appeared on the comedy shows… and now the comedians and talking heads can themselves represent the political debate. The laugh-ability of politics is almost getting too serious, or the other way around? At least it’s often funny, like this memorable moment:
Jon Stewart: Once you allow in a vacuum of power, what will assume [...]Democratic and Republican Views at Comedic Loggerheads originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, a FREE daily e-letter, offers a "uniquely refreshing" perspective on the global economy, investing, and today's markets.
First, the politicians appeared on the comedy shows… and now the comedians and talking heads can themselves represent the political debate. The laugh-ability of politics is almost getting too serious, or the other way around? At least it’s often funny, like this memorable moment:
Jon Stewart: Once you allow in a vacuum of power, what will assume [...]Democratic and Republican Views at Comedic Loggerheads originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, a FREE daily e-letter, offers a "uniquely refreshing" perspective on the global economy, investing, and today's markets.
January 04, 2010, 0:00 a.m. Will the American People Finally Revolt?Federal indulgence and incompetence are too vast to catalogue. By Deroy Murdock Where is Nelson Mandela when we need him? In an especially memorable moment in Clint Eastwood’s fine new film Invictus, South Africa’s first black president (exquisitely portrayed by Morgan Freeman) inspects his first official paycheck. “This is terrible,†Mandela says. He decides he earns too much money and subsequently donates a third of his salary to charity. Thus was born the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Mandela’s humility and fiscal restraint would be as exotic in the nation’s...
The most memorable moment for local talk show host Fred Honsberger involved an elderly woman named Grace, Hillary Clinton and a turkey gobble. It was around Thanksgiving, and Honsberger had decided to give away turkeys to his KDKA listeners by playing turkey-gobble sound bites between calls. When caller Grace decided to begin a tirade about how the conservative Honsberger should lay off his criticisms of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, he inserted a gobble sound into her diatribe. After only a brief pause, she continued with her "blah, blah, blah," Honsberger said, so he played the gobble again. Her response: "I...
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