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Video: PUMAs, Birthers, Tea Parties Get Their Own Sci Fi Series - V!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyScience fiction has a long tradition of embedding political messages into far-out scenarios. Most recently, The Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica remake held a mirror up to many of the Bush era's dilemmas.Now, it looks like ABC is putting out a remake that flips the script. See if you can catch the oh-so-subtle parallels in this trailer for V:Let me start off by saying that I will totally be watching this. Wild cylons couldn't keep me away. Phasers are set on "Teh Awesome!" You get the picture.The original V had cool effects (for the time), a mean streak of black humor, and a heavy hand ...
East Coast Birthers Beef With West Coast Birthers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn the "I Love the 2008 Campaign" department, the "birthers" are alive and not so well. Politico likens the current schism between rival Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists to the hip-hop beefs of the 90's. East Coast Birther chief Philip Berg has filed suit against West Coast Birther poobah Orly Taitz, whose name sounds like an inflammation best treated with some Gold Bond powder. Among the complaints is the charge that Taitz called Berg a "Shyster." That's not to be confused with the more recent adjective form, "Shysty." YesToDemocracy.com is all over it, as usual: Ladies and ...
Obama's Wikipedia Page Lacks References to Ayers, Birth Certificate
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyFox News delivers a much more researched report of a story originally broken by by World Net Daily regarding some recent developments to Barack Obama's Wikipedia page: Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama's page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past ...
Upcoming Movie to Tell Story of Barack Obama's Birth
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Honolulu Advertiser, the same paper that ran President Obama's birth announcement, is now reporting that some University of Hawaii students are casting roles for what may be the Greatest Political Story Ever Told: Casting is underway for a student-made film inspired by the Island birth of Barack Obama. Students in the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Academy for Creative Media program are making the Advanced Production film, "Born In Hawaii." They are currently casting and soliciting donations from the community. "Born In Hawaii" is a fictional story based loosely on the nurses who worked at ...
CPAC Crowd Applauds Suggestion That Obama's Birth Certificate is a Fake
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyApparently the birfers (or as I always preferred "birthers") are not only lurking on the internet. A loud (but hopefully small) contingent of them showed up at CPAC today. Watch this short (and hopefully totally out of context) video of America's Survival's Cliff Kincaid as he suggests that Obama might not have been born in Hawaii.(h/t Think Progress via tweet by allahpundit)I want to stress that in my heart of hearts, I do not believe this reaction to the fabricated conspiracy theory is representative of all, or even most of the thoughtful conservatives who attend CPAC. ...
Barack Obama's Real Birth Certificate Could Be Made of Kleenex
By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily...for all the difference it will make now.My friends at YesToDemocracy.com have been following the obsessed believers (called "birfers") in the whacked out conspiracies about Barack Obama's birth certificate for a long time now. The birfers' struggle to unseat Barack Obama remained under the sanity radar until around the time our Liza reported on them. Their court-clogging antics have been good for some chuckles, and not much more.But in these last hours before Barack Obama is inaugurated, I'd like to indulge them, and perhaps even vindicate them.Let's just assume Barack Obama's birth ...
Top 10 Political Machine Scoops of 2008
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyOver at Politico, Michael Calderone has a list of the Top 10 Scoops of the Year:1. Couric and Palin (CBS News)2. McCain's houses (Politico)3. Obama on "bitter" small-town Americans (Huffington Post)4. Palin's shopping spree (Politico)5. Clinton camp turmoil (Washington Post and The Atlantic)6. Jeremiah Wright tapes (ABC News)7. Network TV's military analysts (New York Times)8. McCain's inner circle (New York Times Magazine)9. Edwards' extramarital affair (National Enquirer)10. Powell's endorsement (NBC)I immediately noticed that none of these were from The Political Machine. That's somewhat ...
New Troll-Suit Challenges Barack Obama's & John McCain's Eligibility
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOur court system has become an internet message board writ large, and there are two new trolls spamming Lady Justice. From the Indy Star: As officials in Washington prepare for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, two Indiana men have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to throw out the election results. ...The Marion County suit contends neither Obama, a Democrat, nor Republican Sen. John McCain proved he was a "natural born citizen," a constitutional requirement to qualify for the presidency. They also claim neither candidate was eligible to be elected president because both were ...
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