There Is a Breach in the President's Facebook Account

Like about 33 percent of the people who comment on shoddily-written political humor blogs, I have pretty much no capacity for determining what is intended as satire and what is an actual earnest piece of journalism or opinion.

Therefore, I can only assume that Slate.com hacked into the president's Facebook account and published the results. And that, to me, seems like it might be some kind of treason. You should ashamed of yourself, Slate!

This was my particular favorite part…

It's funny because it's true (that sitting through Terminator: Salvation was painful to a degree that was in all likelyhood comparable to what it must feel like to have your fellow citizens get together to vote your rights away).

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Facebook, Guantanamo Bay, House of Representatives, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Senate, Slate, Terrorism, Torture

The West Wing, Obama, and Plagiarism

This morning, Slate offers us the argument that, appearances to the contrary, Obama did not plagiarize his whole campaign from Jimmy Smits fictional campaign on The West Wing. No, no, The West Wing plagiarized Obama's campaign from the future. Watch.

Tags: Barack Obama, Slate

Maybe Comedy Central Should Give Him a Special?

In Slate today, John Dickerson asks the burning question is Mike Huckabee "Too Funny To Be President?" We won't spoil the article by telling you the answer, but here are a few of Huckabee's zany one-liners, as cataloged by Dickerson.

• "If you think that Medicare is expensive now, wait until 10,000 aging hippies a day find out they can get free drugs."
• "I may not have any foreign policy experience, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night."
• and his imitation of a 1960s Arkansas car mechanic confused about seat belts: "You wanna do what? You wanna put in a strap so you tie yourself down in that car?"

For a special thrill, listen to the podcast version of this article to hear Dale Willman do his impression of Huckabee's impression of the mechanic.

Tags: Mike Huckabee, Slate

Everybody Loves Biden, Says Biden

According to John Dickerson's usual round-up of the week's best campaign ads over at Slate, Joe Biden claims endorsements from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

Did you catch the South Park reference?

Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Slate

Outland Investigations: And the Oscar Goes to…

No idea why we're just seeing this video from our friends at Slate now, but, man, are we glad we did…

What did this commercial cost to make? $75? And that money certainly didn't go toward the actors. Hey, and now Ron Paul can make 57,333 more just like it.

Tags: Ron Paul, Slate