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Two Great Political Limericks from Sunday

Posted on 23 March 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane

by Madeleine Begun Kane

Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done without them.”

Fuming About Hume (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane

The blogs are a threat to the news
Cuz they’re slanted, says Hume, in their views.
A fellow from Fox
Casting “partisan” knocks?
To Hume I must say, “Brit, j’accuse.”

Dear Maureen Dowd, I Don’t Like Your Tone
I’d hoped that Maureen Dowd was all done with her Michelle Obama biceps obsession. But apparently not. In her latest column, Dowd insinuates that Michelle’s “sinewy arms” belong in the Oval.

Dear Maureen Dowd, I Don’t Like Your Tone
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Dear Maureen, please I’m begging, enough!
Yes, the First Lady’s biceps are buff.
But I really don’t need
To constantly read
About “sinewy arms.” Stop the fluff!

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Madeleine Begun Kane is the 2008 Robert Benchley Society Humor Award winner and is a New York City-based humor columnist, recovering lawyer and musician whose columns, political song parodies and satirical poems have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, websites, and anthologies. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists honored her work as a humor columnist in 1996. Her personal humor site, www.madkane.com has garnered awards from USA Today, Shift Magazine, Maxim Magazine, and About.com's Political Dot-Comedy Award for Best Parody. She believes a limerick a day keeps Republicans at bay -- at least, she hopes so. That's why she writes so much lefty political verse for her Mad Kane's Political Madness Blog: http://www.madkane.com/madness/ . She also posts non-political humor on her Mad Kane's Humor Blog: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/. Mad Kane lives in New York City with her humor-inspiring husband Mark, who puts up with her writing song parodies and light verse during dinner, even though the poor guy thought he was marrying a nice Jewish lawyer.
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