He looks at the charges and countercharges that are being made against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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I know that there are a lot of George Carlin fans out there and I think they will enjoy this clip of him being interviewed by Jon Stewart in 1997 that has him look back on his 40 years in comedy. (Via Andrea James)
I tend not to pay much attention to Sarah Palin anymore. Her shtick has worn so thin that it is hard to even laugh at her ranting. She never has anything interesting to say and her incoherent speech style long ago ceased to have the novelty that made it worth listening to. But sometimes she reaches new lows that I think are worth sharing.
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog attended the Republican National Convention and spoke to media and delegates in his own inimitable style.
Triumph is funny. I find it interesting psychologically that when a puppet says something it is funnier than if the comedian operating the puppet (Robert Smigel) were to have said the same things himself. Perhaps the fun is in having people look at and respond to the puppet when the actual person speaking is right there next to it.
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On his show Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver said Donald Trump risks facing humiliating defeat in his campaign for a job that he would be bad at and that he should seek a face-saving way out. He says that his campaign made four good points and now the best thing he could do is drop out of the race, and he gives suggestions for how to do so in a memorable way.
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In this essay, Neal Pollack explains what made him switch.
So it is with the utmost intellectual and moral authority that I can state that Donald Trump represents the greatest threat to the Republic’s moral standing since the rise of pay-per-view motel porn. While we managed to endure that other scourge, and even thrive with it, my considered opinion is that Trump would finish us off. And not in a porn kind of way.
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This clip where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog stages a fake focus group in which supporters of Donald Trump are assembled to give feedback on proposed campaign ads has got wide play. The ads that the Trump supporters are shown are, of course, fake and are increasingly outrageous.
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