So I just stumbled on these yesterday Remember that horrific rendition of U2’s One as sung by a banking executive that made the internet rounds about a year ago? This is better.
And this one’s pretty good as well - Tony Blair and The Clash.
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One of my all time favorite bits by one of my all time favorite comedians - Eddie Izzard.
Haven’t you ever wondered what 1500 Philippino prisoners dancing to the original choreography of Michael Jackson’s Thriller would look like?
So it’s the 4th of July, and in the spirit of national pride, I thought it might be appropriate to remember a simpler time - a time when we had a war on a different noun, that being communism. Of course, we vanquished that enemy, and, in the process, didn’t manage to get ourselves involved in drawn out war based on false pretenses.
So in honor of Independence Day, I give you What It Means To Be an American (1952) from the Prelinger Archives.
http://www.archive.org/download/what_it_means_to_be_an_american/what_it_means_to_be_an_american.flvThere’s a whole lotta’ white people in that film. It’s like Triumph of the Will (1935), without all of that Hitler baggage…
So if you managed to dodge the big story about Rosie O’Donnell leaving The View, a story that should be filed under Who Gives a F*&@?), you might have heard that John McCain has officially announced that he is running for President of the United States of America - and thus, increasing by one, the list of candidates for whom I will not vote in 2008. Sorry John, you lost me a Bomb Iran. Actually you lost me before that, but I was being cute.
Of course, things really don’t bode well for you when, on the day before you officially announce your candidacy, you get slapped around by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
I really want to like McCain. He’s an ally in the low power FM battles, and the McCain-Feingold Act was, if nothing else, I step in the right direction. Then, however, he plows right into continued support for a war that has never made any sense.
After watching McCain’s appearance on The Daily Show, I made it a point to catch Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War last night - a report about the media’s complicity in the Bush administration’s push to invade Iraq. I highly recommend it.
