Here’s a young mother of two children who lives in Venice, La., speaking at the Gulf Emergency Summit on June 19, videotaped by PBS News Hour.
Arnesen apparently was handpicked by BP officials to be one of the Gulf residents to whom they could hand-feed their corporate propaganda, so she was invited “behind the enemy lines,” as she puts it, given a security clearance and allowed to witness BP operations strategy meetings, take tours of the affected areas via helicopters and boats and generally swallow a bunch of bullshit.
Unfortunately for BP, Arnesen is “not at all impressed.” Watch her deliver an inside report from the belly of the BP beast…
Even by teabagger standards, this guy is off the charts. I’m surprised he didn’t have an aneurysm on the spot. Even Glenn Beck would tell him to calm down (well, at the risk of being called a “parasite Socialist” and “Communist cockroach”). The fun begins about 45 seconds in… And really, who could argue with [...]
Turns out the Massachusetts teabagger who got thrown out of House gallery and arrested for railing about the health care bill vote has a job working for a small Massachusetts town — as an administrator for federal grants. From boston.com: William Gunn is angry about big government, the bailouts, and especially the big health care [...]
One of Bonedaddy’s favorites regular features from The Dave Chappelle Show was “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories.” Charlie is the older brother of comedian and actor Eddie Murphy. When Eddie’s career began skyrocketing in the ’80s, Charlie was there, working as part of Eddie’s entourage. In “True Hollywood Stories,” Charlie recounts his experiences playing basketball [...]
As I wrote in this post about the very beginning of my stand-up comedy career (such as it was), Dave Chappelle was a regular at the comedy club in Washington, D.C., where I made my debut. This was back in 1991, so Chappelle was only 17, based on the birthdate given for him on his [...]
I love stories about regular people standing up to the sleazy practices of corporate America, particularly banks. A recent favorite was the tale of Ann Minch, the California woman who told Bank of America to get fucked after the bank jacked up her BofA credit card interest rate to 30% for no reason other than [...]
Has there ever been an annual charade more insipid or cynical than Fox News shout-fest bully Bill O’Reilly’s grandstanding efforts to gin up a scary “War On Christmas”? Here’s O’Reilly’s latest pathetic effort to position himself as the Christian holiday’s noble and heroic defender:
I live in New York’s 20th Congressional District, where a special election was held on March 31 to fill the seat recently vacated by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand, of course, was named by Governor David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton as New York’s junior senator after Hillary was tapped by President Obama to be secretary [...]
The conservative columnist longs for the day when manly men inhabited the White House… Will’s “final thought” on Obama speech and aftermath: “I don’t know when men started to hug each other, but hug they do, and look at that.” Indeed, who can deny him his point? They don’t make presidents like they used to.
I’ve always loved “clueless” television characters for the sublimely uncomfortable moments they create. One of my all-time favorites in this regard is Hank Kingsley, played by Jeffrey Tambor on HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show in the ’90s. In the HBO series, Hank is the bumbling second banana on a nighttime talk show starring Larry Sanders [...]
