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Today’s fun video: Stewart skewers Obama for IRS, AP scandals

 

The Daily Show makes fun of President Obama's “I didn't know about this until I heard it on the news” explanations for recent scandals.

Today’s fun video: Obama fills in his bracket

 

In what has become an annual ritual, President Obama filled out his NCAA Tournament Bracket for ESPN earlier this week. (Spoiler alert: He says nice things about Gonzaga, but doesn't pick them to win it all.)

Which prompted the second annual ritual of Republicans complaining that the president was spending time filling out his bracket than doing something more important. To read the Politico roundup, click here.

But it seems the GOP misses an important element of this: Obama is giving thousands — maybe even hundreds of thousands — of college basketball fans a chance to say they're smarter than him when it comes to picking winners in the tournament.

Today’s fun videos: Evolution of dance evolution?

If you're on Facebook, someone has probably sent you a link to this video, with Jimmy Fallon and Michelle Obama doing the evolution of Mom Dancing.

 

Not to be outdone, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin now has her own video, which she calls The Evolution of Liberal Dance.

 

Which one you think is more funny may depend partly, although not entirely, on where you fall in the political spectrum.

Today’s fun video: When filibuster shoe was on the Democratic foot

Senate Democrats may decry the filibuster now, but in 2005, when they were in the minority, they were all for it. 

Note the young guy speaking in favor of it at the start. Sen. Patty Murray shows up about 1:40 in.

Today’s fun video: SNL’s new Obama

 

It's only 50 days to election, which means there are about 47 days for Saturday Night Live to find good political material for their opening sketches.

 

They've got a new Obama this year in Jay Pharoah — Fred Armisen did a good handoff — but Jason Sudeikis returns as Mitt Romney.

Today’s fun video: Biden messes up his WSUs

Vice President Joe Biden named the wrong WSU in a speech recently.

No, not our WSU. But who knew there were so many of them?

Crowd was quick to correct him.

Today’s fun video: SuperPACman

 

Spin Control returns after some light days with a fun video for your viewing enjoyment.

Why this video? you may ask.

Because Colbert “interviews” an old friend and colleague, Kim Barker of ProPublica, for part of the video. And, of course, because it's funny.

Fun video 2: SNL’s Moon President sketch

Saturday Night Live's opening sketch, as usual, was political.

Not the funniest ever, but a few good moments.

Today’s fun video: Is Muppet movie class warfare?

 

Some folks at Fox Business seem to think so.

Are they right, or is this a real stretch? Click on comment to weigh in.

Today’s fun video: Palin on polls

 

 

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's take on polls…with a slight problem on the spelling.

Today’s fun video: A whack at Gov. Perry

An independent conservative group, which apparently prefers Michele Bachman over Rick Perry as the Republican presidential nominee, has released a new video.

Perry, not surprisingly, has denounced it as “blatantly false.”

Most notable thing about this ad: The narrator has a great Texas twang. (So great that it might not be real?)

Today’s fun video: A 2-hour debate in 4 minutes

 

If you missed last night's GOP presidential candidate debate on FOX, from Ames, Iowa, here's a highlight reel courtesy of TalkingPointsMemo

Today’s fun video: What kind of a baby?

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., may have thought he was making a clever literary reference. He apparently didn't realize the connotations.

Lamborn later apologized.

Today’s fun video: July 6, quickly

 

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo, all you need to know about Wednesday, July 6.

Watch, then go back to sipping ice tea in the shade.

Today’s fun video: Palin explains Paul Revere’s ride

Sarah Palin explains the importance of Paul Revere. Did she get it wrong?

 

 

 

She says no, she didn't.

 

 

So it might not be the version you learned in American History (or American Lit). But it's not as if Henry Wadsworth Longfellow got it completely right, either. For the ultimate source of what happened on that night in 1775, go inside the blog.

Today’s fun videos: Stewart mocks Trump on pizza, Weiner on Twitter comments

 

Jon Stewart delivers a damning critique of Donald Trump.

Not for his aborted presidential campaign, his questioning of Obama's birth certificate or his coiffure. But for his pizza savvy. And it may be the most devastating Trump tromping of all time.

In a bipartisan move, he also asks the question that's on everyone's mind about Rep. Anthony Weiner's not quite unequivocal denial of that Twitter posting. Click here to see that inside the blog.

Today’s fun video: The Donald, we hardly knew you

Talking Points Memo prepared this two-minute “Greatest Hits” of the late, grate Donald Trump campaign.

Today’s fun video: Colbert on the politicizing of bin Laden’s death

For those who couldn't stay awake to catch the Colbert Report, here's his take on the suggestion that President Obama is using Osama bin Laden's death to boost his poll numbers.

Today’s fun video: Super Moon

There's nothing political about a full moon, even a “super moon” like we're scheduled to have on Saturday.

But this is a pretty good reminder to go out and look at the sky at moonrise tomorrow, because this is a rare phenomenon.

If the weather cooperates, that is.

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Jim Camden is a veteran political reporter for The Spokesman-Review.


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