Barack Obama told 60 Minutes that former presidents had advised him that "There's a certain loneliness to being the President." This video from the G20 Summit, "Sad President Bush," achieves through pictures and music the near-impossible: it's almost enough to melt the heart of even the stone-coldest liberal:
Awww. Poor President Bush! What is happening? Music and pictures are so powerful! (Via this guy who thought of it, and this guy who made it. Good job, guys. Cognitive dissonance achieved.)
Nobody expects the CBS Evening News to be hilarious, but last night's tongue-in-cheek report on the ongoing war between three competing "largest ball of twine" makers who totally hate each other made me laugh out loud -- especially when the guy with the misshapen ball inspires controversy over what constitutes a "ball" of twine:
By the way, this is what the evening news is covering now. How long do you think they were sitting on this crucial story, just waiting for the election to end?
Oh miracle of miracles, this sluggish Monday morning has been saved! Joe Scarborough said "fuck you" on Morning Joe this morning, then didn't realize it, while everyone else realized it, and then they had to explain it to him! YAY:
Listen carefully from about 1:05 - 1:26, where you can clearly hear the talking heads try to whisper to Joe what he said without it getting picked up by the microphones. And I love how he blames it on Ambien. (Thanks for the tip, Nick!)
Barack Obama joined with his wife and daughters to vote for himself (presumably) in this historic election this morning, and Fox News was there -- seemingly against their will, as they narrated the segment complaining and whining about how they "weren't even planning to show Obama today" but because they had to fill air time and McCain wasn't around, they had to give positive attention to Obama as he (presumably) enjoyed the moment of showing his young daughters how to vote:
The woman was particularly annoying with her hopes that McCain and Palin watch this and do the same thing so they can give them "equal time." Guess what Fox News, it was 7:50 am, so John McCain wasn't up yet. Literally. He gets up at 9. And let's call this what it is: a Fox News temper tantrum about being forced to cover what has been for every other network a symbolic and uncontroversial news event. Whiny. Babies.
Okay, not to be all Andy Rooney, but when I was a kid we weren't even allowed to celebrate Halloween, we had a "fall festival" where we dressed up as Bible characters and sang "El Shaddai" and ate S'mores while the unanswered doorbell tolled incessantly as a constant reminder of our exclusion from every kid's favorite holiday. But that story isn't even messed up anymore, now that the phenomenon of little girls wanting to dress like sluts for Halloween is apparently such a huge deal that they had to have an entire segment on CBS This Morning about how to force your daughter to keep her goddamn clothes on until she's old enough to be a real stripper, which, if you need this advice, she will be:
There's a French guy who got the idea to perform serious public dances with heavy dirt-loading equipment, and if you can watch this without laughing, I salute your dedication to the arts and the ancient and mysterious ways of The Dance:
This performance does look fun to watch, but as a silly fun thing or a parody of how seriously pretentious people can sometimes take art (so. much. restraint.)
"The audience was mesmerized as man and machine twirled and teased in an elegant pas de deux." It's funny because the audience looks less "mesmerized" and more "What the hell is that? This popcorn is yummy." And also, in 2008, it's simply impossible to say the sentence "man and machine twirled and teased in an elegant pas de deux" without anticipating an immediate spit-take.
Well, this happened today. The less said the better for your viewing pleasure:
As usual with these things (of which I guess I'm an "aficionado!"), it's not the crime as much as the uncomfy seconds afterwards that bring us so much joy. It's okay Kyra Phillips. If Tiki Barber can get away with saying it on purpose, you can certainly re-cun-cun-cover from this one. Tonight might be a good night for Kyra to go out drinking with the gals and casually initiate a "No, MY day was worse than y'all's" one-up conversation. (Via RadarOnline.)
At a rally in Florida this morning, Sarah Palin defended her gaffes, saying she was "Just trying to keep Tina Fey in business." She kinda hammed it up, too:
Haha, you can tell it kind of gets to her! While Sarah Palin's ridiculousness has launched Tina into the stratosphere, I don't know if the recent Emmy winner who just signed a six million dollar deal for just the idea of a book needs Sarah's help to stay in business. And Tina herself has said she hopes to get out of this particular business on November 5.
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