europe

7:32 pm July 23, 2008

Like so many McCain campaign disasters — choosing Phil “Poor People Suck” Gramm as financial adviser or announcing a press conference on an oil rig during a hurricane — it probably seemed like a terrific idea at the time: Harass Barack Obama into embarking on an international fact-finding mission thing, which would obviously provide so [...]

LOSING HIS MARBLES

John McCain’s Horrific Czechoslovakia Problem

by Jim Newell

5:30 pm July 15, 2008

60 comments 3841 Views

Yesterday, John McCain made a gaffe that no one cared about: he referred to the Czech Republic as “Czechoslovakia,” which is actually correct, but only if you think time froze in 1992. Does John McCain think this? Because today, for the second day in a row, he referred to that same country as “Czechoslovakia.” It [...]

AMERICA'S PUNDITRY

Jonah Goldberg: Why Is Ex-Slave Barack Obama Trying To Reinstitute Slavery?

by Jim Newell

3:00 pm July 8, 2008

127 comments 9333 Views

Dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb. That is one “dumb” for each paragraph of Jonah Goldberg’s Los Angeles Times column today. For the record, we did not expect it to be “good,” in the traditional sense — we didn’t expect to read it [...]

EUROPE

Italian PM Endorses McCain So He Can Look Younger In Relation

by Jim Newell

5:15 pm June 12, 2008

35 comments 1019 Views

Everyone in Europe is a socialist Liberal arugula-swilling white wine-eating gay elite terrorist statist freedom-hating fairy, except for one man: Silvio Berlusconi, who said today that he favors John McCain, and did so by mocking him: “I suppose I could express my own personal preference for one of the candidates, the Republican candidate, and this [...]

WHITE HOUSE

Germans Celebrate Obama In Special Way That They Don’t Understand

by Jim Newell

5:26 pm June 5, 2008

1 comment 2718 Views

Ha ha, here is some great newspaper from Nazi Germany that comically names the White House “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” because a slave may soon call it home. This is very offensive, according to the Internet, and of course we all know why: what a nasty way to detract from Obama’s writing skill, by comparing it [...]

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