Jon Stewart on Obama's Familiar Energy Independence Pledge

On last night's Daily Show, in response to President Obama pledging to get the US off oil, Jon Stewart played a series of clips showing every President since Nixon making essentially the same broken promise. But it goes even deeper than that. I heard an early draft of The Gettysburg Address had an entire paragraph about ending out dependency on foreign buggy whips. And at his first inauguration, George Washington promised to convert the entire country to zero-emission hydrogen-based typhoid fever.

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BP, Energy & Oil, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, George Washington, Gerald Ford, Gulf Coast, Jimmy Carter, Jon Stewart, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, The Daily Show, Video

SMBC: The Hills Have Washington Monument

Fox News and The History Channel should probably do a joint-study on this terrifying phenomenon…

Tags: Fox, George Washington, History Channel, Washington DC

Washington v. Tiger

Oh, I'm sure your liberal academic history books won't tell you the story of George Washington crossing the Bengal Tiger, now, will it?

I didn't think so. Figures.

(via The Daily What)

Tags: George Washington

The Best George Washington Moments from The Daily Show

Have you ever thought about how crazy it is that George Washington had the same name as the capitol of the country he ended up being president of? And then there later on turned out to be a whole state with that name. And then a monument!

Coincidences are so crazy!

Just a little something to wrap your head around while watching these Washington-themed clips from The Daily Show…

Dreaded Bliss

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Tags: George Washington, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Video

Jimmy Kimmel vs. Sarah Palin vs. Glenn Beck vs. George Washington

Jimmy Kimmel really has been one of the few bright spots lately in a world the seems increasingly to be sinking into a miasma filled with fetid Jay Leno offal and fetid tea bag effluvia…

(Thanks for the heads up, DCtonian)

Tags: Founding Fathers, Fox, George Washington, Glenn Beck, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Palin