Showing posts with label Roundup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roundup. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

LiberalViewer Sunday Clip Round-Up 30: Obamacare, NSA Spying - Bill Maher, Glenn Greenwald & MORE!


11/03/13 clips: Seth Meyers, Keenan Thompson, Jay Pharaoh, Kerry Washington on Saturday Night Live; Bill Maher, Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rob Reiner on Real Time with Bill Maher; Sen Rand…
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LiberalViewer Sunday Clip Round-Up 30: Obamacare, NSA Spying - Bill Maher, Glenn Greenwald & MORE!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Party Like It"s a Government Shutdown: Late-Night Comedy Roundup




No FCC. No EPA. No anything, really.


The late-night hosts take advantage of the government offices that are shuttering their doors. And if that means a few dolphins suffer, so what?


Jon Stewart, along with every other cable news show, counts down the hours, minutes, and seconds of shutdown-mania.


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Party Like It"s a Government Shutdown: Late-Night Comedy Roundup

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

John Kerry"s "Mr. Magoo" Foreign Policy: Late-Night Comedy Roundup




While most late-night shows tape before he spoke, President Barack Obama’s Tuesday Oval Office address was fodder for The Tonight Show’s Jay Leno and The Late Show’s David Letterman. Leno brought polls into his joke, while Letterman’s Top Ten list enumerated things Americans don’t want to hear in such an address.


The news that Syria may agree to give up its chemical weapons in order to avert strikes was a main topic Wednesday evening. Leno wondered if the time conditions Secretary of State John Kerry were actually concrete, while Conan O’Brien highlighted Russia’s role. Letterman suggested that a new condition from Syria would involve Miley Cyrus, as well. The Daily Show compared Kerry’s ‘rhetorical’ — and possibly accidental — solution to the impaired but lucky 1960s cartoon character Mr. Magoo.


Fast forward to 3:00 to see Letterman’s list of things you don’t want to hear in an Oval Office address.


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John Kerry"s "Mr. Magoo" Foreign Policy: Late-Night Comedy Roundup

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup




This week saw the resurfacing of an unfortunate episode that many had thought was over, or had at least conveniently forgotten about. I’m talking, of course, about our still-sputtering economy. On Wednesday, President Obama gave what was billed as a major speech, in which he called on Congress to end the ongoing partisan gridlock and do something for the middle class, but offered few specifics on how to make this happen. In reality, the speech was mostly a pre-emptive strike in anticipation of upcoming budget and debt ceiling battles. But few in the country were paying attention, too caught up in the latest revelations in the summer’s worst sequel (yes, worse than The Hangover Part III), Weinergate II: The Rise of Carlos Danger. The outpouring of ink and airtime provoked by some naked selfies and sleazy sexts proved once and for all that what America’s job crisis really needs to move to the top of the agenda is a good sex scandal.


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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup