LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. Winner 2013 Webby Awards for Best Political Website
May 25, 2013

 Choose a size
Text Size

Trending:     chris hedges     economy     elizabeth warren     politics     robert scheer
Most Read

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

'Left, Right & Center': Obama Ends the War on Terror

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
New York City’s Summers May Heat Up

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
A Call to Action
Act of Congress

Digs

Truthdig Bazaar
The Bases of Empire

The Bases of Empire

By Catherine Lutz
$17.28

more items

 
Tags

Tag: Humor

Cold-Filtered Economics

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain unveiled details of his economic policy today, telling an audience in Ohio that if elected he would support a real-estate tax holiday for beer heiresses.

Posted on Jul 6, 2008 READ MORE  |  3 COMMENTS


A Revolutionary Campaign

Republican presidential nominee John McCain officially kicked off his general election campaign today, promising to bring his race for the White House to “all 13 colonies.”

Posted on Jun 22, 2008 READ MORE  |  12 COMMENTS


Kennedy
AP photo / Steven Senne / file

Kennedy Feels ‘Like a Million Bucks’

Ted Kennedy was in good humor following brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center on Monday, joking with his wife, “I feel like a million bucks. I think I will do that again tomorrow.” Kennedy’s neurosurgeon said the operation was a success. The senator will now begin radiation and chemotherapy treatments.

Posted on Jun 2, 2008 READ MORE  |  3 COMMENTS


Her Own Worst Enemy

Responding to a chorus of outrage touched off by her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) made a bold attempt at damage control today by distancing herself from herself.

Posted on Jun 2, 2008 READ MORE  |  21 COMMENTS


Fighting Until the End, and Then Some

Just moments after former presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for president, Hillary Clinton vowed to “continue the fight” for Edwards’ endorsement.

Posted on May 25, 2008 READ MORE  |  11 COMMENTS


Bush Stands Firm on Environment

The president has confirmed that his gutting of the Endangered Species Act is part of a broader plan to phase out the environment entirely by the time he leaves office.

Posted on Mar 30, 2008 READ MORE  |  11 COMMENTS


Monster Community Weighs In on Campaign Controversy

The satirist reports that monsters all across the country are offended by the remarks of a Barack Obama campaign aide in which she called Hillary Clinton a “monster.”

Posted on Mar 16, 2008 READ MORE  |  12 COMMENTS


50 Suggestions for McCain’s VP

Comedian Will Durst offers up a short list, from Colin Powell to the Verizon guy.

Posted on Mar 12, 2008 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


How Much Is That Superpower in the Window?

The satirist reports that New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is still trying to decide whether to buy the U.S. presidency, with the sticking point being the steep price.

Posted on Jan 21, 2008 READ MORE  |  15 COMMENTS


Clintons

Voters Care About Bull****

The Onion pokes fun at the nonsense issues, costume pageantry and theatrical pandering that have taken over the American electoral process.

Posted on Dec 11, 2007 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS


The Not So Almighty Dollar

Talk about how the almighty have fallen. The dollar is headed downhill faster than Bode Miller on a set of rocket skis. Think nose dive. Plummetville. Plunge City. Belly Floppo Rama. Recession is such an ugly word.

Posted on Dec 2, 2007 READ MORE  |  31 COMMENTS


Hillary’s Supermarket Conundrum

Campaign-trail satire: Paper? Plastic? Both? Neither? The senator finds it’s hard to do a bit of shopping when a world of voters is looking on.

Posted on Nov 18, 2007 READ MORE  |  17 COMMENTS


A Dictator Gets Tips From an Old Pro

Bush, citing his own years of expertise, flies to Islamabad to offer wisdom on how to eliminate democracy.

Posted on Nov 11, 2007 READ MORE  |  13 COMMENTS


Hillary’s Unassailable Strategy

In a strategic masterstroke to avoid missteps, Clinton will spend the rest of her campaign encased in a soundproof glass box.

Posted on Nov 4, 2007 READ MORE  |  13 COMMENTS


Al Gore and the Blue Sky Theory

Funnyman Durst sends up the absurd criticism of Al Gore and the Nobel Prize.  Why stop at global warming when there’s plenty in the world of science and nature to deny?

Posted on Oct 21, 2007 READ MORE  |  9 COMMENTS


Daily Show

‘Daily Show’:  Craig Trapped in the Closet

Don’t watch this “Daily Show” clip while ingesting beverages—the R. Kelly impersonator’s vibrato-tastic adaptation of “Trapped in the Closet” you’ll see here, laden with sociopolitical commentary about certain embattled senators plagued with recent men’s-room-related woes, may cause you to, as the youngsters say, “snarf.”

Posted on Sep 12, 2007 READ MORE  |  4 COMMENTS


Down to Their Last Billion

The satirist reports that, desperate to protect their endangered fortunes, thousands of the nation’s leading hedge-fund managers converged on Washington today in “The Million Mercedes March.”

Posted on Sep 9, 2007 READ MORE  |  31 COMMENTS


Domestic Surveillance Begins at Home

The satirist writes that just-resigned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ motivation is that he wants to spend more time eavesdropping on his family.

Posted on Sep 2, 2007 READ MORE  |  9 COMMENTS


McCain site
cracked.com

The Worst Candidate Websites

Cracked.com has a review of the candidates’ websites, including “awkward attempts at hipness” and “weirdest moments.” John McCain’s virtual outpost, for example, won this critique: “The main image from the pre-site landing page essentially says, ‘Welcome to the online obituary for the late Senator John McCain.’ ”

Posted on Aug 10, 2007 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


Bush Strips Libby of Nickname

The satirist pokes fun at the Libby verdict and the president’s rush to distance himself from a liar.

Posted on Mar 11, 2007 READ MORE  |  22 COMMENTS


Cooper
anthroblogs.org

When It Rains It Pours

Satirist Andy Borowitz riffs on the news networks’ ratings-oriented weather obsession.

Posted on Feb 12, 2007 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS


Atheist Proselytizing

Atheist Proselytizing

Australia’s John Safran goes door-to-door in Salt Lake City, trying to convert Mormons to atheism. Hysterical. (There are lots more Safran vs. religion videos in the YouTube “related” column.)

  • In the scene above, an old man hits Safran with a rake.

  • Posted on Nov 30, 2006 READ MORE  |  26 COMMENTS


    CIA Uses Humor to Recruit

    The Central Intelligence Agency is using a tongue-in-cheek personality test to attract applicants. “You don’t have to know karate or look good in a tuxedo to work at the CIA,” the personality quiz says.

    Posted on Nov 27, 2006 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


    Satire: Bush Gets Grounded

    In yet another setback for President George W. Bush, his father, former President George H.W. Bush, appeared in the Oval Office today and demanded that his son give back the keys to the White House at once.

    Posted on Nov 19, 2006 READ MORE  |  15 COMMENTS


    Jon Stewart Fox News
    From crooksandliars.com

    Jon Stewart Skewers Fox News on Tasteless Segment

    When Fox News decided to juxtapose busty bikini babes and news of a serial killer manhunt on the same screen, the savior from Comedy Central made wonderful mincemeat of the situation.

    Posted on Mar 29, 2006 READ MORE


    Quote of the Day

    Question: Why does Bush always sound like he’s talking to 5-year-olds?
    Answer: “That’s the way these issues were explained to him.”—Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter

    Posted on Mar 12, 2006 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


    View older articles:  <  1 2

    View the most popular tags overall?

    Newsletter

    sign up to get updates


     
     
     
     
    Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
    © 2013 Truthdig, LLC. All rights reserved.