Videos of the Week - PUMA Powered Edition

Welcome to an all-new Videos of the Week. I've been writing about PUMA all week (click here if you missed it), so it seemed natural to dedicate this week's VOTW to the passionate former Clinton supporters, and their wayward sister, The Anti PUMA.

This is a surprisingly rich topic, but I also saved room for some new hilarity from Barely Political, more McCain madness, The Onion gets in on the values voter issue, and an outbreak of substance on The View.

First up is a clip of a PUMA rally in San Francisco. I'm sure you would agree, aside from badly needing some chanting lessons, the PUMAs put on a good show.



Next up is a truly hilarious video (with an overly long intro) that has to do with PUMA Action Pants? Huh?



I love that video soooo much. I wonder who those girls are voting for?

This next clip is PUMA's introduction to the world, featuring Will Bower. It is the funniest thing I've ever seen. OK, that may be overstating it a little. You tell me.



Wow, taken to the woodshed by Cavuto! How embarrassing. They should stick with Darragh for all of their TV spots. She knows how to put a professional gloss on this.

OK, let's take a PUMA break to check out the latest from my pals at Barely Political. Here's their take on that New Yorker cover.



It's 3am. Your children are sleeping. There's a computer in the White House, it's saying, "You've Got Mail," and John McCain keeps walking out to the curb in his pajamas to check the mailbox.


This next clip features the much-talked-about clip from The View. Most of the attention has been focused on the fact that Elizabeth Hasselbeck cried during the clip, but I'm more interested in what she had to say.



This dovetails with my own view, but I would add that, for now, it's our job to explain it to our kids. The black community has legitimate voices on both sides of the issue, and they will surely have to work it out. While others are certainly entitled to their opinions on the matter, it is ultimately not our place to lecture black folks on the use of a word that was taught to them by torturers, and is seen by some as a vestige of defiance to them.

Time to lighten things up with The Onion. The big copycats did a PUMA video of their own this week.


'No Values Voters' Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

Wait, sorry, those people aren't quite as self-destructive as the PUMAs. Sorry.

Here's a genuine PUMA video. As I said earlier, Darragh Murphy is much more adept at making this whole thing seem less marginal. It helps to have an uncritical Fox anchor leading the questioning. Hey, they do go on Fox a lot, don't they? Huh. Imagine that.



This week, we all learned a little bit more about John McCain's sense of humor, with the revelation that he believes women like to be raped, especially by animals. That's how he makes people laugh, but what makes him laugh?



Was that a PUMA Daily Growl, too?

I want to include one of the many PUMA slide shows, because I think they display the real tragedy at work here. These are Hillary Clinton pictures, mixed with PUMAganda shots and set to music, and they show the deep affection and sense of loyalty that many of these supporters feel for Hillary, admirable qualities that are being twisted and used against them by McCain, as he relies on PUMA to "beat the bitch."



To conclude, I give you a video player, chock full of hilarious John McCain Green Screen Challenge videos. Enjoy, and I will see you next week.