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The Unemployment Game Show: Are You *Really* Unemployed?
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Are you *officially* unemployed? The reported rate actually excludes millions of jobless Americans.
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Sen. Sanders: Break up the Banks!
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More than a year has gone by since Congress passed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. The Federal Reserve has committed trillions of additional dollars in virtually zero-interest loans and other assistance to large financial institutions resulting in the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of the world.
President Bush and Ben Bernanke told us we needed to bail out Wall Street because we could not allow big financial institutions and insurance giants to fail because if they failed it would have led to the collapse of the U.S. and...
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Al Franken's SUPPLY SIDE JESUS: An animated comic strip
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Al Franken has gone out of his way to appear staid and ... "senatorial" since his campaign to represent Minnesota in the upper house of the U.S. Congress, but we remember the days when Al Franken used his humor to make a point. This here video is an old little gem -- Al Franken's animated comic strip, "Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus." Enjoy!
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T-Pain Puts Obama On Auto-Tune
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This is how Obama needs to take his health care plan to the people! Sing and rhyme styles.. Ahh yeah, not a whole lot of hard-hitting alternative news in this one. This is just for fun..
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Star Wars - The Environmentalists Version
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Derrick Jensen imagines Star Wars, as if it was written by environmentalists. “I don’t know if you know this, but the original draft of the movie star wars was not written by Lucas, the original draft was written by environmentalists. And it’s a little bit different”
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Bill Maher: Democrats Have Moved To The Right And The Right Has Moved Into A Mental Hospital
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Bill Maher followed up last week's criticism of President Obama on Friday by taking on the entire political spectrum, accusing Democrats of selling out and Republicans of being "religious lunatics and Civil War reenactors." He began the segment ("White Men Can't Harumph") by addressing the response to his critique of Obama: "It made some liberals very angry, my phone rang off the hook, my email filled up and Nancy Pelosi got so mad her face moved. Look, folks, I like Obama too, I'm just saying let's not make it a religion. And as far as you...
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Bill Maher Takes On Obama: "This Isn't What I Voted For"
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On his HBO show Friday night, Bill Maher complained about President Obama's frequent public outings. He compared the president to Lindsay Lohan: in the papers a lot but not doing very much. "This is not what I voted for," Maher said, arguing that Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on health care, banks, or climate change. "What he needs in his personality is a little George Bush ... What we need to do is to marry the good ideas that Barack Obama has with a little bit of that Bush attitude and...
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Jon Stewert Hammers Jim Cramer, CNBC
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Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism. It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks" on CNN's "Crossfire," the since canceled political commentary program.
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George Bush's Nightmare Before Christmas
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The Bush administration isn't about to let democracy or the will of the people stop them from further ruining this country before they leave office. Knowing he can't get his long list of favors to his Republican cronies through Congress, Bush is doing a last minute end-run, jamming as many rules through the executive branch as he can during his waning days in power. These so-called "midnight regulations" will allow factories to pollute more, further restrict women's access to abortion services, cut off aid to needy families in the middle of a...
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Chocolate News: Advice to Obama
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Comedy Central's DAG gives his advice to our new President. For some reason this made me well up with tears. The sheer joy of most of the country right now is just electric. You can feel it everywhere, and we all know why.
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What would a McCain-Palin "Hail Mary" TV ad look like?
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Hat tip (H/T) to Marc Maron & Sam Seder of Air America Radio's Maron v. Seder Show for this hilarious and easily believable parody peeking into the minds of the Maverick & Co. Serriouslly!!!
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Colbert Report: Naomi Klein Warns of Wall Street Shock Doctrine
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Naomi Klein wants us to be prepared for when leaders try to take advantage of us in moments of crises. Her new book, "The Shock Doctrine" documents how governments have a long history of using national crises to push through pro-corporate and authoritarian legislation. For example, pushing through the Patriot Act after 9/11. Naomi Klein is great in this clip. In the familiar spirit of Bill O' Reilly, Colbert doesn't usually give his speakers much time to talk, but Klein nails all of her points and makes some great comments on the recent Wall...
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Your New Job
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Think your boss is bad? This CEO thinks hand sanitizer is healthcare coverage and soda is an employee benefit. We all know something's out of whack when CEOs rake in hundreds of times what their employees earn, and workers get the boot just for talking about unions. It could almost be a bad joke if it weren't such a serious problem. That's why we're hoping you take a minute to join one million people in support of the Employee Free Choice Act after you watch this video we made with the award-winning producers at Brave New Films. Click the...
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Hipster Olympics: A battle of Apathetic Grandeur
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A double, triple (?) dose of irony is used to capture the essence of the hipster in the yearly "Hipster Olympics" - quite a tee off of champions - the kind who don't stand for anything. Pretty funny stuff. I can't help but want to say to these people, "Hey! Haven't you heard? Caring is the new apathy!" I don't think they'd get it.
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Our Founding Illegals
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Fark TV takes a comical look at some of the first immigrants ever to reach our shores.
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Incarcerex - when the goin's get tough, take some drugs
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A funny parody of the relentlessly silly drug commercials Big Pharma is always clogging up the airwaves with. Tell Congress it's time for a new bottom line in U.S. drug policy, one that focuses on reducing the problems associated with both drugs *and* the war on drugs. Take action at http://www.drugpolicy.org
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The Empire Strikes Barack
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The second installment in a Star Wars themed parody of the 2008 presidential election, featuring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others.
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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election.-- From The Onion.
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Bill Richards Presents: Bipartisanland!
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Bipartisanland is a magical place of compromise and cooperation, where anything - from torture to tax cuts - is OK, as long as both political parties agree on it. Bill Richards is a cartoonist from Atlanta, Ga. Visit his Web site: http://billrichards.wordpress.com
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The Onion: Torture Made Green
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Panelists discuss ways to wage a greener war in Iraq, such as driving biodegradable tanks and shocking detainees' testicles with wind power.
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