Tweet Untweet: A Trillion-Dollar Olive

Hey Whole Foods CEO, you think Obama is fascist, you should take a look at your olive bar prices.

— Doug Perkins (@DoctorDoug) January 17, 2013

Tags: Barack Obama, Fascism, Health Care, Tweet Untweet, Twitter

SNL Weighs in on Arizona's New Immigration Law, Enforces Godwin's Law

I generally don't watch Saturday Night Live live on Saturday night these days, partly due to my Reaganomics theory of SNL viewing: If you're willing to wait a few days, the six-minutes of bits worth watching will trickle down to you via the Internet. (I'm pretty sure that's how Reaganomics worked, isn't it?) Sure, I might miss this week's installment of "The Big Ear Family" (or whatever) in which Miley Cyrus (or whoever) says something mildly out of character, but it frees up a lot of extra time for me to be cranky and judgmental.

That said, I just now discovered this bit about Arizona's not-at-all-racist new anti-brown-people law from Saturday's Weekend Update…

"I know there's some people in Arizona worried that Obama is acting like Hitler, but could we all agree that there’s nothing more Nazi than saying 'Show me your papers?' There's never been a World War II movie that didn't include the line 'show me your papers.' It's their catchphrase. Every time someone says 'show me your papers,' Hitler's family gets a residual check."

To be fair — as some Reddit commenters have already pointed out — there's maybe a few other things that are "more Nazi than saying 'Show me your papers,' " but I get his point.

Tags: Adolf Hitler, Arizona, Fascism, Germany, Immigration, Nazis, Racism, Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers, WWII

Jon Stewart Parodies Glenn Beck

Last night, Jon Stewart dedicated the first fifteen minutes of The Daily Show to Glenn Beck. As you know, Glenn Beck is a conservative libertarian television host on the Fox News cable network. He also may or may not be, as him name suggests, a genetic amalgam of Glenn Close and Beck gone horribly awry.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Tags: Communism, Fascism, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Nazis, The Daily Show, Video

Quote Unquote: Mussolini Sticks Up for Himself

Just accidentally stumbled across this quote…

"I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler."
…..– Benito Mussolini

Hey, who can blame Il Duce? Can you imagine how mortifying it would be to show up at the Axis Spring Pageant and discover that you and der Führer were wearing the exact same antisemitic gown?

On a somewhat related note…

Tags: Adolf Hitler, Fascism, Italy, Quote Unquote, Racism, WWII