Remember Barack Obama’s Abercrombie boys? Of course you do. But what about those Detroit Red Wings guys? No? Well, comedian Jon Glaser and some other guy (who dat be?) are here to remind you.
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John McCain stopped by The Daily Show Wednesday to remind us what a pig he is.
“Today there was a very attractive young woman with a tee shirt that said ‘John McCain Doesn’t Represent Me’ … So I called on her and asked her what it was that she’d like to say. That’s the essence…”
I realize the man is, what, 120-years-old? But can’t he at least try to hide his old-fashioned way of thinking for a few minutes? Like we really needed to know the woman was attractive. Because that has SO MUCH to do with what she had to say.
When Jon Stewart cut McCain off to actually ask him what the woman (who, in case you forgot, was very attractive and young!) had to say, a surprised McCain nervously chuckled, “She said, ‘Why did I want to discriminate against women?’”
I don’t get what’s so funny about that question. But I probably shouldn’t be worrying my young pretty little head, now should I?
I have a feeling McCain will be moving into the White House in a few months and I am terrified. TERRIFIED.
“Doesn’t elite mean ‘good?’ Is that not something we’re looking for in a president anymore? … I know elite is a bad word in politics. You want to go bowling and throw back a few beers. But the job you’re applying for—if you get it and it goes well—they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don’t actually think you’re better than us, then what the fuck are you doing? … [N]ot only do I want an elite president, I want someone who is embarrassingly superior to me.”
- Jon Stewart
Faux reporter (and real comedian) Eugene Mirman traveled to Pennsylvania for the Democratic Debates.
At last, a reporter who isn’t afraid to do whatever it takes to bring us the scoop!
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That Hillary Clinton has quite the sense of humor, doesn’t she? Yes, siree, Bob. But you should never vote for the candidate you’d most like to “have a beer with.” And that’s why I’m voting Nader no matter what.
So if you haven’t seen will.i.am’s little viral video of glorious propaganda “Yes we can“, you obviously live under a rock. Here are a few amusing spoofs.
Tim Gunn has been making the rounds lately, and that makes me happy. Because Tim Gunn is great. I just want to hug him, and mind you, I’m not a huggy person. Anyway, he recently talked with Newsweek about fashion in politics, and simply put, the man speaks truth. Here are some key moments:
Is there any female [in politics] who pulls it off well?
I think Hillary should be taking a lesson from Nancy Pelosi, I really do. She, for me, is fashion on the Hill. She has a femininity yet a professionalism, and she has style. She’s also not afraid to be a woman, and she celebrates it. She’s not ever remotely vulgar or provocative in what she wears, but I have to say, she’s a very sexy woman.What’s your take on the current candidates, as a group?
I look at them and I feel like they’ve stepped out of the 1980s. And what really disturbs me, deep down in my very core, is whether these candidates really think that having people talk about your clothes in a positive way could be a bad thing. To think that they might answer yes horrifies me.I hate to keep focusing on Hillary, but is there anything she’s doing right?
[Pauses] You can say I responded with utter silence. [Laughs] But let me put it this way: her clothes fit her, she does have a polish, and she’s well groomed. Those things are all good. But it’s like she’s wearing a whole body of Kevlar and she wants to make certain as much of her is protected as possible. I just want to say to her, “Hillary, don’t be afraid to wear a dress!”What would you say a politician should avoid wearing, at all costs?
Well, I hope no one’s going out on the campaign trail wearing a pair of Crocs.I love you. Are you referring to the Bush photo?
Yes. And now you must ask me whether I was surprised, because the answer is no. I will summarize his entire fashion presentation in one phrase: shlumped-over and drooling. I hope I don’t end up in some Iraqi prison for saying that.
But wait — there’s more! He also stopped by The Daily Show to talk to Jon Stewart about New York Fashion Week — the “Super Bowl of fashion,” Gunn says, where people go to “get fashioned,” joked Stewart.
Gunn offered this refreshing insight into the world of fashion:
“I’m the first to encapsulate this realistically. Nobody needs it. We need clothes, do we need fashion? No. And fashion, when it’s good, comes out of a context that’s societal and cultural and historic and economic and political — so it’s of a time and a place.”
“In Virginia, a State Board of Elections spokesperson said nearly a thousand people called yesterday asking “Why aren’t my polls opened, and where do I go to vote?” Because it isn’t February 12, and nowhere, because you are a moron.
But the biggest losers of all were in Florida, which eagle-eyed readers will recall held a primary last week. Just try telling that to the drooling oldsters who called their elections boards yesterday insisting they had a right to vote.
Compounding the confusion in Florida is that it contains an Orange County, and its residents do not know if they perhaps live in Orange County, California instead.”
[via Wonkette]