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20080123
-
 John
Edwards
-  Entertainment
- TV
-  Politics
-  2008
Election -  North
Carolina - "John
Edwards, Funny Guy." ... "Former Senator [of North
Carolina and 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards
did not receive an endorsement from David Letterman on CBS’s “The
Late Show” Tuesday night, but he did receive eight valuable minutes
to woo voters." ... "Mr. Edwards’ jokes earned several rounds of applause
from an approving audience." ... "Mr. Letterman, who had a long feud and
subsequent truce with Ms. [Oprah] Winfrey, extolled the talk show’s virtues,
saying: “She’s admired and she’s beloved and she’s a role model for men
and women all over the world now.” With the timing of a stand-up comedian,
Mr. Edwards interrupted: “You think you’re not?”" ... "The line gave Mr.
Letterman an uproarious laugh and a nod of approval. “Oh my God,” the host
said, “he’s a funny guy, isn’t he?”" -By Brian
Stelter -NYTimes
Watch: John
Edwards on the Dave Letterman Show via YouTube.
-
 Stephen
Colbert -  Hillary
Clinton
-  Barack
Obama
- Civil
Rights -  History
- Humor
-
-  Writers
-  Union
- Entertainment
-  Song
- Religion
-  Medical
-  University
-  South
Carolina -  Business
- 2008
Election - Politics
- "Colbert's
Civil Rights MLK Day Writer's Strike-Busting Writerless Show — In Song."
... "[Stephen Colbert,] After paying his respects to Monday's debate
and busting out a pretty darn good Tom Cruise imitation, Colbert made a
segue which, in retrospect, was brilliant: Moving from [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton and [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's bickering over who loved
Reagan more to the evidence provided by Tom Brokaw's book, Boom!
Voices of the Sixties, which, in addition to quoting Hillary Clinton
discussing how [former Republican President] Ronald Reagan finessed
the balance of his role "beautifully" on page 404, contains an early segment
devoted to the Reverend Andrew Young, the "last surviving member
of Martin Luther King's inner circle at the Southern Christian Leadership
Council," and lifelong, steadfast civil rights activist. Colbert got to
that — eventually — after first introducing a documentary-style segment
(in the style
of Brokaw's "1968" documentary, complete with soundtrack) about the
Charleston Hospital workers union strike of 1969, which was settled by
the young, er, Young, who negotiated with a vice president of the associated
Medical University of South Carolina — "the only administrator willing
to meet with Young was the newly-appointed vice-president of the medical
college, who had taken up the position just days before the strike was
called." The two worked behind the scenes to finally end the strike — and
on the hundredth day, they came to an agreement, awarding raises to the
striking workers." ... "That administrator? James Colbert — Stephen's
father." -By Rachel Sklar
-HuffingtonPost.com
Watch Colbert
Report:
 "A-It's
All About Stephen."
"B-Interview
- Ambassador Andrew Young."
"C-Let
My People Go."
20071101
-
 Dennis
Kucinich -  Ron
Paul
- 2008
Election - Poll
- Humor
- "Colbert
Tops Kucinich and Paul in National Poll." ... "Colbert
tops GOP [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rep. Ron Paul,
36% to 32%, while he outpaces Democratic [2008 Election Presidential Candidate]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich by 37% to Kucinich 32%. In both cases, Rasmussen found,
Colbert eats into their "base.""
-EditorAndPublisher.com
20070411
-
2008
Election - Don
Imus -
 Media
- Television
- Humor
- Business
- Employee
- Language
- Censorship
- Politics
-  Women
- University
- Sports
-  Daughters
- Human
Rights -  People Illinois
- "Obama:
Fire Imus: [Illinois Democratic Senator and Democratic
Presidential candidate] Obama [is] First White House Contender to Call
for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur." ... "In an interview with ABC News
Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of
talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus'
show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television." ... ""I understand
MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say
that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they
made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would
hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."" ... "Obama said he appeared
once on Imus' show two years ago, and "I have no intention of returning.""
... ""He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of
the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with
today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who
I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or
less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested
in supporting."" ... "Tuesday, the basketball team held a press conference."
... ""I think that this has scarred me for life," said Matee Ajavon. "We
grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to
change that."" ... ""What we've been seeing around this country is this
constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have
to think about," Obama said." ... ""Insults, humor that degrades women,
humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn't fun," the senator
told ABC News." ... ""And the notion that somehow it's cute or amusing,
or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize
is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional
lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really
have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information
are we feeding our kids," he concluded." (1, 2)
-By Jake Tapper with contributions by Clayton Sandell
-ABCNEWS.com
20060330
-
 Antonin
Scalia
- Photo
- Journalism
- Free
Speech -  Law
- Politics
- Language
- Humor
- People
-  Massachusetts
- "Photographer:
Herald got it right." ... "Amid a growing national
controversy about the gesture U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
made Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross [Boston, Massachusettes],
the freelance photographer who captured the moment has come forward with
the picture." ... "“It’s inaccurate and deceptive of him to say there was
no vulgarity in the moment,” said Peter Smith, the Boston University assistant
photojournalism professor who made the shot." ... "Smith was working as
a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper
at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice
how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge
given his public worship." ... "“The judge paused for a second, then looked
directly into my lens and said, ‘To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ”
punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin,
Smith said." ... "The Italian phrase means “(expletive) you.”" (1, 2)
-By Marie Szaniszlo -BostonHerald.com
-
Free
Speech - Civil
Liberties - Prison
- Humor
-
 Iowa
- "Man's
naughty comment on tickets lands him in front of judge."
... "A Grundy County [Iowa] man's act of civil disobedience almost landed
him in jail Monday." ... "Judge Jeffrey Harris ordered him [John Gould]
to pay $76.20 in fines, surcharges and court costs. The court turned down
Gould's request to pay within six weeks." ... "So Gould wrote a check for
the full amount. He added the words "eat (scatological term deleted)" on
the memo line." ... "Harris rejected arguments by Gould's attorney, Brandon
Adams, that the message was protected free speech under the 1st Amendment
to the Constitution." ... "The judge sentenced Gould to five days in jail
but gave him the option of purging the decision if Gould apologized to
the Clerk of Court and the court." -By Jeff Reinitz
-WCFCourier.com
20051222
-
 Oregon
-  Kansas
- Religious
-  Science
- Education
- [satire alert!-] "Passion
of the Spaghetti Monster." ... "Bobby Henderson is
holed up in the boonies -- Corvallis, Oregon -- hard at work on his next
entry into the fray over just what students should learn about the origin
of species." ... "When the Kansas Board of Education proposed balancing
evolution instruction by teaching intelligent design, said to be a scientific
theory that supports an "intelligent creator" of all life, the decision
outraged many, including 38
Nobel laureates (.pdf)." ... "Henderson responded with a satirical
letter
to the Kansas board demanding equal time for a different, "equally scientific"
theory of intelligent design, in which a Flying Spaghetti Monster created
the world." -By Kathleen Craig
-Wired
20051104
-
 CA
- Autos
- Transportation
- People
- "Man
fined for using a dummy to poach on commuter lane."
... "A 28-year-old Petaluma [California] man was pulled over Wednesday
and slapped with a $351 fine for using a kickboxing dummy dressed in a
Miami Dolphins windbreaker and baseball cap to poach on the commuter lane."
-By Suzanne Herel -SFGate.com
20050721
-
- 
- Karl
Rove -
- 
- 
- 
- (satire alert!-) "Karl
Rove: the real story." ... "I feel it's time for
me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove's conversation
with columnist Robert Novak in which Novak reportedly told Rove that CIA
operative Valerie Plame had been responsible for her husband Joseph Wilson
going to Niger to debunk the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein was
shopping for uranium in Africa to make nuclear weapons and that's why America
invaded Iraq, and Rove said, "Yes, I've heard that, too."" -By
Garrison Keillor via -IHT.com
20050226
-
-
-
- Utah
- "Underwater
bike ride to launch students' eight-week crime spree."
... "Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the
attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming
pool and curse on a crazy-golf course." ... "In the far more conservative
- and landlocked - state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when
they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting." ... ""There are thousands
of stupid laws in the United States, but we are limiting ourselves to breaking
about 45 of them," said Richard Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall." -By
Gerard Seenan -Guardian.co.uk
20040130
-
2004
ELECTION -
- "Politics
as punch line: Young voters are turning to comics
like... Jon Stewart, Dennis Miller, and Bill Maher as an alternative to
the news anchors." ... "Philosophy major Joe Harper has never voted in
a presidential election. He doesn't know yet whom he'll vote for this fall.
He is clear on one thing, however." ... ""I'm not watching the evening
news to figure it out, that's for sure," says the 21-year-old college student.
His favorite sources of information about the candidates are the ones increasingly
favored by the under-30 crowd, the comedy of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show"
and "anything" from Bill Maher. "I trust these guys," says Mr. Harper.
"Their stuff is funnier, but it's also truer."" -By
Gloria Goodale -CSMonitor
20031208
-
-
- "Bush
Whacked Online: Search Engine Trick Lists President
as ‘Miserable Failure’" ... "Type in "miserable failure" on the Google
Web site and the first Web link most likely to show up will take you directly
to the official online biography for the current occupant of the Oval Office.
(The trick will also sometimes work on Yahoo! and other search engines.)"
... ""This is not a political statement from Google, but rather a reflection
of a recent Web phenomenon," says a spokesman for Google in Mountain View,
Calif. "In this case, a select group of Web masters used the words [miserable
failure] to describe and link to George Bush's Web site."" ... "In other
words: the president has just been the latest victim of a "Google bomb,"
a crafty but simple manipulation of how the well-known online search engine
works." (1, 2,
3))
-By Paul Eng -ABCNEWS.com
Google
Search:
20031201
-
-
-
- Free-Speech
- "Texas
court to rule: Can fiction be libel?" ... "Shortly
after a Texas county judge had 13-year-old Christopher Beamon jailed for
five days for writing a Halloween essay about the shooting of a teacher,
the Dallas Observer parodied the news item with a fictional account of
its own." ... "In a satirical piece, the same judge, Darlene Whitten, was
portrayed jailing a 6-year-old girl for writing a book report on Maurice
Sendak's children's classic "Where The Wild Things Are," said to contain
"cannibalism, fanaticism, and disorderly conduct."" -By
John C. Ryan -CSMonitor
20030812
-
-
- "To
Fox, 'Fair and Balanced' Doesn't Describe Al Franken."
... "In the dry corner of business law called trademark litigation, Fox
v. Franken is an unusually lively document. Along with mundane accusations
of unfair competition, the lawsuit includes some especially derisive remarks
about the defendant, Al Franken, the political satirist." ... "The court
papers were filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan and became public
yesterday. In the lawsuit, a judge is being asked to decide an important
question: who has the right to use the word "fair" and the word "balanced"
together, connected by the word "and"?" ... "Lawyers for Fox News Network,
part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, contend that Mr.
Franken should not be allowed to use those words in the title of his new
book due in stores next month, "Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Penguin)." -By
Susan Saulny -NYTimes
via -Google-News
-
-
- "Fox
Sues Humor Writer for Using 'Signature' Slogan."
... "Fox News Network is suing humor writer Al Franken for trademark infringement
over the phrase "fair and balanced" on the cover of his upcoming book,
saying it has been "a signature slogan" of the network since 1996."-Reuters
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