Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has a long, rich history with the Pledge of Allegiance, but let's be honest: you go way back with your girlfriend, and you still forget her name sometimes, right?

I've watched this video several times now and I can't decide if the best part is at the end, when Rep. Akin makes a grunting noise ("wwwrahh") as he realizes his mistake, or if it's a few seconds later, when an unidentified woman yells out "That was awesome, Todd!"

Have the teabaggers discovered sarcasm? Is that possible?

(Via Townhall, which notes that "it's happened to all of us." Fair enough. I'm sure they'd say the same thing if Joe Biden gaffed the words to the Pledge.)

Michele Bachmann's Stanley Cup of Patriotism went down today and seemed, by all accounts, to be a resounding success for vague conservative ideals, drawing thousands of Teabagging protesters to the steps of the Capitol to yell and scream and play The Angry Game. Yay, angry!

A series of spot interviews suggests that the protesters have come to Washington from all across the country – Texas, Ohio, Oregon and the greater Washington area. It’s a generally older crowd, many in their 50s and 60s, predominantly, white, and many self-identified as Christians. They are fiercely conservative and deeply skeptical of the government, many of them adamantly opposed to abortion rights.

Whoa! They got white conservative Christians and Christian conservative whites! That's a broad coalition they've got there.

Many of the demonstrators, like Judith Garloch of Newark, Ohio, said they were opposed to an increasing government role in the health care. Many said they feared cuts to the Medicare program for Americans 65 and over… But Ms. Garloch, like many in the crowd who while visibly angry could not articulate the main problems in the health care system or how they should be solved.

To be fair, being informed and knowing what you're angry about are not requirements for The Angry Game.

All you need is a sign and a swastika.

I always thought Mayor McCheese was the worst mayor in the country. He's completely beholden to a corporation and has been letting the Hamburglar terrorize the streets of McDonaldland for years.

But has he even gotten so drunk that he broke a breathalizer machine? Nope. Has he ever flashed his tits to a crowded bar? Again, as far as I know, no.

So it would seem there are a handful of other mayors out there who blow the competition out of the water when it comes to sleaze, corruption and general bad decisions. There are ten of them to be exact, and they comprise Spike's list of the Top Ten Misbehaving Mayors.

From The CC Insider…

Wednesday night, the Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest went underway, and all of Washington's most famous celebrities people who are sometimes on C-SPAN competed to prove they are the funniest least boring person in Washington. The big winner of the night was Austan Goolsbee, an economist for the Obama administration. There's video of him yucking it up over here, but first Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber of New Lows (don't quit my day job, me), also performed stand-up! And there's video!

I'm not saying Joe's material is awful. I am just saying, as a plumber, shouldn't he be cleaning up shit rather than performing it?

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This probably won't come as any surprise, but you'll find the country's biggest dicks in Washington D.C….

(link probably NSFW)

In Alaska's defense, that cold weather can't be doing any good.

Best new YouTube genre: DIY documentaries of people going way out of their way to prove how utterly moronic, scarily racist, pathetically silly, willfully ignorant and generally horrible they are…

Wow! Just, wow! It's like a snow white sea of stupidity and ugliness. It almost makes you want to wade in, hop up on a burning cross and surf a swell of xenophobia all the way back to the 1950s, huh?

Watch How to Talk Like a Real American Genius, Part 1: The Phantom Menace.

(via The Public Record)