by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]
The Week+ in Political Limericks
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 9/11 Sympathizers, Al Qaeda, Alternate Reality, Automobiles, bankruptcy, Bilingual Education, Blame, Cars, democrats, Dick Polman, economy, Finance, FOX News, General Motors, GM, GOP, Immigrants, Judiciary Satire, Krauthammer, Latina, Law Satire, Leonard Bernstein, lies, Liz Cheney, Maria, Mark Krikorian, Media, Media Lies, Mike Huckabee, money, Names, National Review, news, Newt Gingrich, obama, Obama Nominees, Pronunciation, racism, Republicans Humor, Sean Hannity, smears, Song Parody, Sonia Sotomayor, Speaker, Supreme Court, Talk Show Hosts, Terrorism, Twitter, Values
The Week in Political Limericks
Posted on 15 May 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: Activist Judge, Cheney, CIA, Congress Humor, democrats, Empathy. Republicans, Employment, Feigned Outrage, GOP, Interrogation, Judges, Law Satire, liars, Lieberman, lies, Limbaugh, Mad Kane’s Political Madness, Madeleine Begun Kane, MadKane, Media, Michael Steele, Nancy Pelosi, obama, Orrin Hatch, Pete Sessions, radio, Rebranding, Republican Rebranding, Republicans Humor, Stocks, Supreme Court, Talk Shows, texas, torture, TV
by Madeleine Begun Kane
My Homage To Feigned Outrage
May 14th, 2009
Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) have been staging yet another temper tantrum. What’s their grievance du jour? Speaker Nancy Pelosi said CIA leaders misled Congress about interrogation techniques.
The CIA’s under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP’s crying:
She’s mean and must [...]
Just Smile and Wave Boys, Smile and Wave…
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By Denis Campbell
“Kill him” and “terrorist” were hollered by audiences this past weekend in stump speeches by Sarah Palin and John McCain. Just as when McCain was asked “how do we beat the bitch…” he smiled and waved like the mischievous penguins in the kids film Madagascar.
Sorry but threatening someone under United States Secret Service [...]
John McCain’s Obfuscation Talk Express
Posted on 05 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 19-months, 62-day, 7-days to scratch the surface of you, 8th month in a row of losses, against the 35-year head of the foreign relations commi, Alaska, Annie Oakley and her gun, Charley James, Comedy Central, Convention, democrats, Donna Reed Show style, eased on down the road, Economy shed 84000 Jobs in August, First Dude, George Bush, hate America, his policies, hopelessly lazy MSM bought the Republican storyline, I wish I was home, Joe Biden, John McCain no longer needs, Jon Stewart, Juneau, keep Sarah hidden from the media, King and Queen of the Republican Prom, liberal media, licking his chops, lie out of both sides of your mouth, lily-white, Madison Avenue, male dominated, matching her two years of executive experience, maverick, McCain, McCain-Palin airplane, mentioned 5-years as a POW at every stop, middle class America, misty-eyed around the flag, obama, Obfuscation Talk Express, obfuscation talk sprint, parallel universe, Pippi Longstocking rebelliousness, praise the talk show loons, re-started the culture wars, Republican talking head, Sarah Palin, she’ll run out of smart-ass 1-liners, showed disturbing images of 9-11, St. Paul, the press politely knows their place, they grow and consume you, tough policy questions, voted for 90+% of the time, Wasilla, whip up your base in fear, you refuse to address or acknowledge your past bullying, your trunk line system was overwhelmed
Balloons fell from the rafters in St. Paul where the Obfuscation Talk Express (Straight, had left the building) crowned the King and Queen of the Republican Prom and eased on down the road to a 1950’s, Donna Reed Show style, lily-white, male dominated, middle class America, where the press politely knows their place and doesn’t ever [...]
The GOP Barracuda Theme Song
Posted on 04 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 62-days, 9-week sprint to the finish, a verb and 9-11) Giuliani, ability, Barracuda Theme Song, Clinton-supporting Nevada women, CNN, Country first, crowd pleaser, democrats, Dick Cheney, diversity challenged, electoral count predictor, energised, Excel Centre, focus group, George Bush, Georgia, Governor Sarah Palin, gun-toting, hardly convinced that she was qualified to be vice pres, Hillary Clinton supporting women, hint of culture war, hitwoman, hockey Mom, Huckabee, it was snippy, Joe Biden, language and terror focus, left over from 2004, lily-white, McCain, Mitt Romney, moose hunting, Nevada, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, obama, Once she started mudslinging I thought it's the same ol, overly harsh "sarcasm" pervading her address, poise, pure red meat GOP partisanship, Republican, Republican National Convention, Republicans looked to redirect the anger with base-plea, Republicans seem to have lost the plot, right wing, Rudy (a noun, she's a good speaker, she's using McCain, the economy, The HUffington Post, tomorrow, two dozen women were reportedly between 30 and 60 years, Undecided, vintage 1992, warm-up act, Washington, weak supporters of Barack Obama, webcast live to reporters, were not as impressed, witness protection program, won over rabid faithful
Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]
Get Ready, ‘Cause Here They Come
Posted on 25 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 17-minute speech that made today possible, 40th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s tragic run for Pres, 45 years earlier The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 527 groups, 7 (or is it 8) houses gaffe, a noun a verb and 9-11, ABC’s This Week, Bill Clinton, born in Hawaii, Britney and Paris adverts, Colorado Rockies baseball team, Convention, democrats, Denver, Donna Brazile, George Bush the elder, George Stephanopolous, Invesco Field, Jr. delivered his seminal “I Have a Dream” speech, Karl Rove playbook, kitchen sink strategy, living abroad is somehow bad, lynched for hisd non-Christian peccadilloes, Mark Halperin, McCain, McCain’s “price-scanner moment”, Merle Haggard, Michelle, Mile High City, not American, obama, opened the door with his attack on McCain, patriotism, philandering, POW, problem is you just can’t get any of it into your damne, Republican bluff and bluster, repugnant attacks, Repugs, Rudy Guiliani, safe choice, serious, sober, spinning out lies, substituted by POW, surprise visit, Swift Boat, Ted Kennedy, the cost of a gallon of milk, The Kennedy family, united, US misery index, war room, “bad news for Obama”
The Democrats bring their convention today to Denver, the Mile High City. A place Merle Haggard once said about during an open air concert, “yes the air’s beautiful here, problem is you just can’t get any of it into your damned lungs!”
Tonight the convention will feature a retrospective look at The Kennedy family on the [...]
The Radioactive City Convention Hall
Posted on 14 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1 in 5, 80 lies in the first 36 pages, Broward County Florida, Bush, Bush/Cheney, Cheney, Chuck Hagel from Nebraska, clinton, democrats, Denver, Dr. John Corsi, eight Republican US Senators, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Georgia, Gordon Smith of Oregon, John Kerry, Kansas City, Kansas side, key foreign policy advisor, Larry Craig of Idaho, lobbyed by the government of Georgia, Maine’s Susan Collins, McCain, meddling, MediaMatters.org, Minneapolis, Missouri, not attending their party’s convention, not understanding the conflict, politics of destruction, President Saakashvili, Radioactive Convention Hall, Randy Scheunemann, Republican, Republican Convention, Rocky Mountain high, Russia, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, skip the festivities, smear book, St. Paul, support of US troops, Swift Boat, Ted Stevens of Arkansas, UN Security Council, Wayne Allard of Colorado, Welcome to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International A, Welcome to Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airpo
While the Democrats have planned a Rocky Mountain high for Denver (that is if the Clinton’s stop thinking everything is always about them and come back to the reality of planet earth), those heading to the Republican convention in Minneapolis (or is it St. Paul?) have been jumping ship like proverbial rats.
Senator Pat Roberts of [...]
The Race Card
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With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]
Senate Democrats Back Away from Climate Change Bill Filibuster
Posted on 09 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: Barabra Boxer, carbon caps, climate change, CO2, democrats, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, US Senate
It’s been a busy political tricks week where climate change was, in theory, a main topic in the US Congress. Unfortunately nasty Republican partisan politics emerged the winner during this lamest of lame duck session.
As oil topped $137 a barrel and $4 at the pump President George Bush began his farewell EU trip today with [...]
An Exhausting 7-Week Marathon
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: clinton, delegates, democrats, obama, pensylvania primary, super delegates
Fitting that the day after the Boston Marathon, 20 grueling miles to the top of Heartbreak Hill and then 6 long downhill miles, the Democratic candidates are near the line for the latest head-to-head battle in Pennsylvania.















































