The Daily Show: The News Better Run

From The CC Insider…

You already knew The Daily Show had "the best fucking news team ever," but last night you got expensive in-your-face graphics that told you, and that's really what journalism is about, right?

I, for one, love when they do sketch-type stuff like this on The Daily Show. I wish they did more of it. I wish they did like 36 hours of sketches per day. In my kitchen. I also wish marshmallows could read. Why don't any of my wishes ever come true? I should probably read The Secret again.

Yet Another!!! Sad Desperate Bitter Ad From John McCain

And this one stars Britney Spears and Paris Hilton…

Oh, didn't you hear? It's 2003.

Anyway, I gotta open a window and let some of the deperation out of here.

Seriously, what is wrong with the McCain campaign when their strongest line of attacking Barack Obama is pointing how much everybody else in the world seems to love him. There's something off-puttingly freaks and Geeks about that.

Update: John McCain's old strategist John Weaver weighs in on McCain's brilliant new attack ad against himself…

"John's been a celebrity ever since he was shot down," Weaver said. "Whatever that means. And I recall Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush going overseas and all those waving American flags… For McCain to win in such troubled times, he needs to begin telling the American people how he intends to lead us. That McCain exists. He can inspire the country to greatness…

"There is legitimate mockery of a political campaign now, and it isn't at Obama's. For McCain's sake, this tomfoolery needs to stop."

I, for one, hope the tomfoolery doesn't stop. I'd hate to have to go back to writing my own jokes.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Comedy Central to Show Political Ads

The CC Insider is reporting that The Huffington Post reports that Comedy Central is reporting it will broadcast political ads during the campaign season for the first time in the channel's history.

The first political ad, shown on both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, was paid for by the group MoveOn.org, which seems to be some sort of trucking industry lobby.

As the political season winds down, other networks are sure to also broadcast ads from the following third party candidates, should they raise enough cash to do so.

Ralph Nader, Independent
History Channel

Bob Barr, Libertarian Party
Home Shopping Network

Roger Calero, Socialist Worker's Party
Fox News

Cynthia McKinney, Green Party
Disney Channel

Charles O. Baldwin, Constitution Party
C-Span 6

Matthew Jay Borman, American Party
American Channel

John R. Crockford, Peace and Freedom Party
Adult Swim

See MoveOn's ad, which features Willow's Wiccasexual girlfriend (Amber Benson) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on the Insider.

Get Your "Get Your War On" On

From the CC Insider…

If you somehow don't know David Rees's work, give yourself a gutter ball in the Wii Bowling game of life, because he's amazing and you're a loser. His My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable had already made him great, but it was Get Your War On that elevated him to the Thomas Nast of the Internet.

The comics are smart, confrontational and, above all, hilarious, and now they're an animated web series, brought to you by the fine people of 23/6…

If Only a Republican Had Been President on 9/11

From Florida, with love…

Wait a minute! Maybe this billboard is trying to tell us that Mohamed Atta and all the rest of the extremist Muslim hijackers were Democrats. That kinda makes sense. Because, c'mon, only a Democrat can hate America enough to do something like they did.

No, that can't be right. Democrats are all atheists.

(via Think Progress)