blowhards

I truly love good satire and Jon is really good at that. Go watch Phil’s clips today. Simply Stewart at his best, hoisting blowhards on their own words.

I am an unabashed fan of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I make no apologies for it. I know people don't like him, but frankly, they're just wrong. (I'm kidding, of course).

Last night, in their continuing coverage of the Republican National Convention, the Daily Show did what it does best and hoisted political blowhards by their own petards (Non-English major translation: let them hang

The New York Times takes us on a trip down memory lane and reminds us that Sam Nunn’s current alleged placement on a short list of potential runningmates for the Democratic Presidential nominee is nothing new:

Last night Jon Stewart took on the slam “liberal elite,” expressing what I’ve felt for years (and which my friend Mack articulated so well in this post).

Because Texas Republicans are afraid of Obama, and voted for her to try to stop him?

I watched Barack Obama’s speech on race today and came away very moved. He eloquently explained the context of some of Rev. Wright’s so-called controversial sermons, the context which still informs much of the African American experience today.

Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times may just be warming up to evangelicals as he points out that church leaders like mega church pastor Rick Warren are coming around on seven key humanitarian issues:

Scorning people for their faith is intrinsically repugnant, and in this case it also betrays a profound misunderstanding of how far evangelicals have moved over the last decade. Today, conservative Christian churches do superb work on poverty, AIDS, sex trafficking,