This is the sort of segment that Jon Stewart does best, but he must have a lot of help from busy staffers, digging up all those damning video clips.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
The SuperPAC strikes back
The second Colbert SuperPAC ad for Iowa should be here. If it isn’t, go to this link.
SuperPAC Wars: A New Hope
Stephen Colbert puts his mouth where my money is:
http://youtu.be/CrygYmTsTfU
Follow-up: Hey! The video’s been pulled. They could simply have prevented embedding which, ah, they have just done. But this link will work.
Does WikiLeaks watch the Watchmen?
Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen and V for Vendetta says, “With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is Western culture itself.”
The ‘internal affairs’ of ‘RENtOn 911!’
I first saw this story on the Daily Cartoonist, but it’s so strange that by now it’s probably getting wider coverage. In Renton, Washington, somebody has used Xtranormal animation to make parody videos of the police department. It’s apparently the work of an insider, and the chief isn’t amused. TV station KIRO7 broke the story. (Argh! The reporter says, “sign off on this,” an expression that drives me nuts. It should simply be “sign this.”)
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Today, the police chief defended his use of the courts for what seems to be a personal vendetta. This story has all the ingredients of a real-life Reno 911!
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Battle of the dead economists
The economist Paul Krugman is a Keynesian. He says government stimulus is the way to get the economy moving again, even if it means going deeper in debt. The prevailing policy in England, and now in America, favors Friedrich Hayek, who would recommend cutting back and riding out the downturn until the economy corrects itself. BBC Radio 4 sponsored an interesting debate on the merits and weaknesses of Keynes vs. Hayek
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