My son is a huge fan of Hillary Clinton and took it pretty hard when she lost to Barack Obama. He's even threatened to vote for John McCain. Well, Saturday the DNC and Howard Dean brought their cross-country "Register for...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 19, 2008 09:03 PM
Pres. McCain@3AM: Toles nails it again. Thanks for the memories: Tiger Stadium in Detroit may not survive the month. God's way of telling you that you have too much time on your hands: You are this guy putting lyrics...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 17, 2008 01:28 PM
Yeah, you heard that right: “a satire of a misperception.” I heard someone this evening give that pretty nuanced explanation of the (now infamous) political cartoon on the cover of this week's New Yorker magazine. And I "get" it --...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 14, 2008 09:10 PM
The indispensable John Amato at Crooks and Liars has the video: JOHN MCCAIN: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”Shocking that the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 6, 2008 01:43 AM
I'll be away from any computers for the next few days. In the meantime, I thought I'd entertain you with a few of my favorite video clips -- short, sweet and mostly funny. This first one is the opening title...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 26, 2008 08:41 AM
Slow time new you say? Waiting to see if the majority party can pull off what the GOP has successfully done in the Senate a record number of times this session and get their act together long enough that Senators...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 25, 2008 04:39 PM
Pro life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no Headstart, no...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 23, 2008 03:12 PM
For those who refuse to grok what Publius put so well at Obsidian Wings, without Habeas Corpus, you could dress anyone up in a false nose and throw them on the fire, even if you're lying about being turned into...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 19, 2008 12:50 AM
It's surprising to me that many people assume that John McCain is pro-choice. He is not. And the sooner people "get" that, the better. This video helps. Pass it along....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 10, 2008 02:56 PM
by Mark Adams I remember it almost like it was yesterday, trying to outdo other bloggers with cute little names for the guy I called Scotty McManequin: Scott-bot 3000, McClellatron, Scottie McLiar, McClerrator -- good times. Today, Politico's Mike Allen...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 27, 2008 09:31 PM
So McCain's campaign is being run by agents of a foreign government -- including the Saudis. No, I'm not making this up. Hillary Clinton wants you to know that Karl Rove thinks she'd be the toughest candidate vs. McCain...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 20, 2008 08:54 AM
I just took The Bush-McCain Challenge -- an online quiz to see if you can tell the difference between George W. Bush and John McCain. I got 2 out of 5 questions right. Check it out, and see if you...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 16, 2008 11:45 AM
Jacki Schechner nails it: Why is it we can't just call it like it is? White, uneducated, poor voters in West Virginia don't identify with the suburban-raised, Wellesley and Yale Law educated former First Lady and Senator from "the big...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 15, 2008 10:59 AM
Playing out the string: Chuck Todd has it right when he says, "Perhaps the best way to think of today’s West Virginia primary is like the final football game of the regular season, which really won’t impact the teams...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 13, 2008 10:03 AM
For those of you curious about how exactly Obama could help pay off Hillary's $20 million debt without breaking the law and/or draining his own treasury, it works like this (HT to Walter Shapiro): he asks his own maxed-out,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 12, 2008 07:49 AM
Is there a housecat alive that, considering the alternatives, didn't feel like s/he hit the Lotto? I mean, does it get any better than this?...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 2, 2008 08:50 AM
I've always felt that the job of government is to keep an eye on business and the job of the independent press is to keep an eye on government. So when I see the traditional media being lazy and self-loathing...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 29, 2008 09:59 AM
...or, if not, how I imagine it would be. From some video I shot on St. Charles St. in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, 2007 (I think). The soundtrack is from a group called Leningrad: Zvezda Rok-N-Rolla, from the soundtrack...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 27, 2008 02:44 PM
Condi Rice is being touted as a credible pick for John McCain's VP. But I think it might be a better idea (for her own sake) to resign and get a really good lawyer. And not travel abroad any time...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 16, 2008 05:06 PM
I recently found this video produced by the New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau. It came with this message -- pass it along! Hello all. Hope all is well on your end. We're hoping to crack consciousness on YouTube as...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 15, 2008 02:44 PM
It's incidents like this that make the New Hampshire primary worth the price of admission every four years. On January 3, 2008, John McCain (flanked by Joe Lieberman) waded into a quagmire that now threatens to bring his candidacy to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 8, 2008 10:08 AM
I looked for a video of Rev. King's last speech, given on the night (April 3, 1968) before he was murdered. You've seen it perhaps; it still moves me deeply every time I watch it. The following clip includes the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 4, 2008 01:10 PM
Michael Barone resuscitates the Jefferson-Jackson divide in the Democratic party and calls it the Academic-Jacksonian divide. He then uses it to explain the respective appeals of Obama and Clinton. His article has a lot of other stuff in it --...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 4, 2008 09:46 AM
From the inestimable Mark Adams: I've seen you say on more than one occasion that voting with your heart over your head is not necessarily a bad thing. While I agree it's reality, I think people would feel insulted when...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 3, 2008 01:07 PM
by shep ”Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by…knock[ing] down objects...” I hope that most people outside CNN and MSNBC and Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews, etc., etc., have finally learned what the game is...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 2, 2008 12:21 AM
Apparently McCain has said (on multiple occasions) that that al Qaeda is going to Iran where they are being trained and then sent back to Iraq. That's simply wrong -- and Joe Lieberman corrected him on one of those occasions,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 20, 2008 02:31 PM
Hulu.com has opened the doors on their joint-venture, broadcast TV video sharing site. It's not bad, although the pickings are pretty slim right now. Anyway, I thought the following sketch from SNL was pretty funny... "This place is like a...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 13, 2008 03:10 PM
Jon Stewart compares and contrasts the reception our president gets when visiting Iraq...and the reception recently received by Iranian President Ahmedenijad. "Hey Iraq: After we built you an entire Green Zone....It would be nice, when our sworn enemy visits your...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 6, 2008 02:03 PM
Last night, Feb. 19, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave speeches after the results were announced in the Wisconsin primaries. The following 6 minute video intercuts those three speeches in a way that gives new meaning to the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 20, 2008 12:14 PM
Susan Jacoby has written an article in the Washington Post that is one of those "woe is me" pieces about how stupid we're becoming. Problem is, this isn't anything new. Every older generation has looked at the younger one with...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 18, 2008 10:11 AM
Mardi Gras is early this year. It'll be here February 5 -- brrr, it's going to be cold. Here's a video I shot from my first Mardi Gras in 2005. Laissez les bon temps roulez!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 21, 2008 01:45 PM
Dang. This is why I try so hard (yet fail so often) to not predict the outcome of political campaigns. So, let's recap. Hillary Clinton wins this year's "Comeback Kid Award," doing something the original Comeback Kid never did: win...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 9, 2008 07:21 AM
Maybe I've just reached my limit on whatever it is that the candidates are dishing out in the run up the Iowa caucuses. I have no idea who is going to win (nor do I want to hear why your...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 24, 2007 10:55 AM
(Cross posted at Daily Kos, with poll) By now you know how the Clinton campaign has smeared Barack Obama. If not, read this diary. To be blunt, I am shocked -- but not surprised -- that she's resorted to this....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 13, 2007 12:52 PM
"Aliens Conquer The Earth And Ban Computers! Wait...No writers. We'll have to make that a reality show."...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 16, 2007 04:59 AM
Today, Thursday, Bush will at the scene of the California wildfires. This is such a familiar scene that I thought I'd reprise Jon Stewart's observation about the meta-president:Some leaders are men of words; others are men of action. President Bush...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 25, 2007 06:44 AM
Randy Paush is dying but he wants to tell you what he's learned about living. Randy is a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. In September, he delivered his "Last Public Lecture", entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." This talk was modeled...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 24, 2007 06:08 AM
More information is better. But only if you have the ability to find what you are looking for when you need it. Michael Wesch: This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 22, 2007 08:01 AM
Josh Marshall checks out Giuliani's foreign policy team. Why not? It's the key to knowing what to expect if Rudy gets in. Bottom line? It's everyone and anyone who was too crazy to make the cut with the Bushies....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 16, 2007 06:22 PM
Congratulations to Al Gore. Wow -- an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Nobel all in one year. Not even Liza Minelli did that. Why is everyone so upset with Ann Coulter? She's only said what any Christian learns from the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 12, 2007 07:57 AM
Jon Stewart was on fire with this segment from Tuesday night:Some leaders are men of words; others are men of action. President Bush is a man who uses words to describe actions...The President is not there to take action, apparently...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 10, 2007 06:56 AM
MSNBC: A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 9, 2007 07:47 AM
by shep Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine theory is fine as far as it goes. And the video is a powerful way of illustrating the story of the Republican betrayal of America. But change, even fairly radical change for the worse,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 3, 2007 05:51 PM
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Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 3, 2007 12:54 PM
Masala Sound System featuring Cinq G, performing "Od Tarnobrzegu po Bangaldesz" blew me away. It is something I had never seen or heard of before: Polish "ragga-bhangra" music -- a fusion of funky Indian music performed by Poles -- and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 22, 2007 05:45 AM
(Cross posted at Daily Kos) I made this using an online video mashup application at www.dylanmessaging.com/create. Go ahead make your own. And pass this along to your like-minded friends....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 15, 2007 07:21 PM
From Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films:"It's just not possible." That was the sentence we heard over and over from families who had firefighter sons, brothers, husbands and fathers killed on 9/11, from experts on emergency response, and from investigative journalists....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 7, 2007 05:14 PM
Tim Grieve:The job numbers for August were released this morning, and they show that the economy actually lost 4,000 jobs last month. It's the first time in four years that the economy has actually lost jobs in a month, and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 7, 2007 09:26 AM
It's questions like this one that probably are the reason Giuliani chickened out of the CNN/YouTube Republican debate. P.S. Remember the little kerfuffle that happened when Moore and GOP savior Fred Thompson traded videos a while back? Whatever happened to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 2, 2007 06:45 AM
Random thoughts:Thompson "shakes up" his staff? A bad sign, especially considering he isn't really even in the race yet. Worse yet: he appoints Michigan's Hack-tacular ex-Senator Spencer Abraham as his campaign manager. Clearly, Thompson is trying to send a message...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 26, 2007 08:30 AM
I read this morning that John Conyers is close to initiating impeachment hearings from the House Judiciary Committee. Not sure this is accurate, but this video sums up just some of the reasons why he should get started right now....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 22, 2007 01:56 PM
Patrick Fitzgerald for ... Attorney General? Hillary asks SecDef Gates if he supports Under Secretary Edelman's smear of her. I think she's being far too 19th-century-polite. I would have gone all Harry Truman on his -- and Edeleman's -- ass....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 20, 2007 10:25 AM
by shep I want to tell you how much I enjoyed Washington Week this past Friday, June 29. I especially enjoyed the closing segment on the subpoenas of the President's and Vice President’s offices for records related to Congressional oversight...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 2, 2007 10:06 AM
My money and Miss Julie's (and Bill's!) was on Smashmouth's I'm A Believer. Has there ever been a bad version of that song? I'll save you the suspense: she picked You And I by Celine Dion, which (oddly enough) was...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 19, 2007 01:21 PM
The following video was produced in 2005 by two Japanese comedians, Jin Katagiri and Kentaro Kobayashi. Trevor Corson: Japanese viewers recognize this [video] as satire. But some have worried, in their comments on the Internet, that Westerners might take the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 19, 2007 05:37 AM
As I've mentioned before, I've been using Google Reader to keep up with the blogs I read. They have a neat feature called "Trends" that tracks my reading habits. Accordingly, here are the blogs from whom I read the greatest...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 4, 2007 09:25 AM
I thought Fred Thompson's video rebuttal of Michael Moore was pretty skillful. But I hadn't seen this video from Hillary Clinton. Yes, yes -- totally different topic but isn't she great? P.S. Don't forget to vote to choose Hillary's campaign...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 3, 2007 01:50 PM
Highlights from the joint interview (their first in over 20 years) between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the Wall Street Journal D5 conference....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 31, 2007 11:54 AM
There have been horizontal touch-screen computers before. But what MS has done here is get the table-top to interact with physical objects (cell phones, cameras, etc) to do things like upload and download photos between the devices -- using nothing...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 30, 2007 07:42 AM
"The War Prayer," a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The piece was left unpublished by Mark Twain at his...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 28, 2007 03:04 PM
by Mark Adams Isn't it obvious to all that Minority Leader, John Boehner (R-OH-8), is a sloppy drunk? The Politico notes that Boehner's habit of breaking down happens more often later in the afternoon. The peanut gallery at Think Progress...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 25, 2007 08:11 AM
by Mark Adams Cross-posted and KOS-Posted Well, maybe not in my neighborhood, but certainly my fellow Kossack Konspirator, Ara's neighbors should be taking notice of this:As part of his ongoing efforts to fight poverty in America, Senator John Edwards will...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 2, 2007 11:50 PM
Did you see the Moyers show on the Iraq war? If not, you can watch it again on PBS and also online. Christopher Hitchens has a new book blasting religion. Problem is, he's plenty cozy with the Family Research Council....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 1, 2007 06:54 AM
I was never much of an Elvis fan. And I am definitely not a Celine Dion fan. But the genius behind this video should definitely get a Special Effects Oscar. Here's how they did it:...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 30, 2007 12:36 PM
by shep Yup, if you don’t have an important face-to –face meeting at the office tomorrow, or the next day, or the next…tell your boss you’d like to work from home. In the age of ubiquitous high-speed home internet access,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 22, 2007 10:06 PM
Bill Moyers is ready to let 'er rip:Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq War to the American public, with a special focus on how the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 15, 2007 12:42 PM
by shep First off, congratulations to the now released British sailors and the British government for not starting World War The End of Civilization As We Know It. Obviously, had it been up to some of your seasoned veterans and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 7, 2007 07:23 PM
UPDATE: Ara Rubyan here saying "hello!" to all the readers of Justin Webb's America. Glad you stopped by. As you might discover, I'm a political junkie just like you. So, if you're interested in American politics, browse my blog by...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 30, 2007 03:47 PM
Not all of them were political ads per se. Instead, this is a colleciton of "high-impact" political/viral video from the Internet. Oddly missing is the 1984 Hillary-Big Brother mashup, but maybe this report was done before that hit the big...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 28, 2007 05:42 PM
You sly bastard you! No wonder he ran for president! (Click to play video)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 28, 2007 06:42 AM
As we know now, the House voted to give the Commander in Chief everything he asked for in the way of Iraq war funding -- and more. But you don't hear much about this fact from the traditional media. Over...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 27, 2007 09:21 AM
Derrick has a great post about how YouTube Won’t Be Able to Match the Appeal to Advertisers of the News Corp/NBC Video Site. That said, I wouldn't count Google out just yet. Here's why: Clearly the NBC/News Corp venture is...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 27, 2007 06:29 AM
Way back in the day (c. 1974) I spent a summer in Beirut as an exchange student. It was the summer after the Yom Kippur War and it was also the summer that Yassir Arafat began building up the PLO...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 23, 2007 11:08 AM
The weasels that work at network TV think this is all about chasing after the audience that fled broadcast television for the Internet. Fox parent News Corp. and NBC Universal said Thursday they will launch a free online video site...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 22, 2007 04:01 PM
by Mark Adams The orchestra is certaily tuning up in anticipation of Alberto Gonzales' resignation with names being floated for his replacement according to McClatchy Newspapers. I wouldn't bet against Jeb being tapped, absurd as that might sound. It's really...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 20, 2007 09:38 AM
Amnesia (David Byrne) Peace on earth, soon we will be Where nothing worries us Lazy days, cool is the breeze Across the universe Armies of soldiers are sleeping tonight And moonlight is kissing their eyes When you awake you...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 19, 2007 01:17 PM
I use Google Reader to scan news and blogs I'm interested in. This morning I came across these two line items:According to Forbes, this is the richest year in human history Zbigniew Brzezinski believes that the war in Iraq may...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 15, 2007 08:54 AM
Fact is, the war's over. All that's left is, well, the shouting. C'mon -- Saddam is dead, there are no WMDs, Iraq has a democratic government. Mission Accomplished, right? Declare victory and come home already. In that context, the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 14, 2007 11:32 AM
by Mark Adams Halliburton will move HQ to Dubai | The Agonist: "Waxman plans hearing on Halliburton move. ~ Think Progress" All I ask it that they take the Dick they road in on......
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 11, 2007 08:01 PM
End the war, end the occupation."I believe the vote should be a vote of conscience," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, one of 71 members of a liberal coalition opposed to the war. "My vote would be for a safe,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 10, 2007 09:17 AM
by Mark Adams The Coultergeist isn't unreasonably paranoid -- because we ARE coming to get them. SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN A BARREL: "Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 9, 2007 12:52 AM
Here's the video from the first part of Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Selma. A couple of things that jump out.I like how he divides the civil rights movement into the "Moses Generation" and the "Joshua Generation." As great as...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 6, 2007 10:01 AM
Senator Obama speaks at Selma and galvanizes the crowd:What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham...stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, "You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 5, 2007 03:47 PM
by Mark Adams Cross-posted Ara has the video of a Barack Obama rally with some 15 to 20 thousand very enthusiastic supporters in Austin, Texas. Impressive crowd. What his advance people lack in experience, cash and infrastructure (and he's getting...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 25, 2007 07:40 PM
There was a lot of anticipation surrounding Obama's appearance in Texas -- and look what happened:More than 20,000 supporters filled Auditorium Shores to hear him speak. The crowd shows Obama’s appeal crosses boundaries of age, race and gender. Long lines...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 24, 2007 06:28 AM
Lots in the news recently about how rocky is the road travelled by Google in trying to make YouTube an online video money-making powerhouse. The always-excellent Internet Marketing Monitor has catalogued a series of "setbacks" suffered by Google recently: Viacom...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 22, 2007 03:22 PM
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Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 19, 2007 06:43 AM
Back in the mid-90s, Al Franken and Arianna Huffington shared a bed. Repeatedly. Arianna:[W]e were both married. And, long before Pam and Tommy Lee or Paris Hilton, we always made sure we had a camera to record our liaisons. Shocking...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 16, 2007 07:13 AM
Barack Obama:This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. By ourselves, this change will...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 11, 2007 03:37 PM
Senator Barack Obama (D- IL) will formally announce Saturday that he's running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. As for those who think his resume is a bit thin, the candidate turns that around:[T]he brevity of his political résumé...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 9, 2007 09:10 AM
I see where YouTube has been told to remove Viacom clips. I mean come on, isn't Sumner Redstone like -- what? -- 138 years old? Google should wait til he passes on and then just buy Viacom and be done...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 4, 2007 01:25 AM
From Beet.TV:Bob Metcalf, the inventor of Ethernet, says he's long had a vision of the Internet as a delivery platform for video. Sure video takes more bandwidth, but it's still all about the Ethernet packets which carry the data, he...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 4, 2007 01:06 AM
I'm no expert on military strategy and/or tactics and so I mostly steer clear of the topic. But after watching the following video and reading the story after that, it's pretty clear (once again) that we're wasting our time in...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 27, 2007 04:05 AM
(Click to see larger image) Glenn Greenwald:Yesterday, Party loyalist Hugh Hewitt unveiled what he and his comrades are calling "The Pledge" -- a creepy, Soviet-sounding declaration of loyalty, all based on Gen. Petraeus' decree, that vows to repudiate any Republican...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 25, 2007 08:01 AM
by Mark Adams This "plan" kill two birds. The wingnuts will be happy with it because we'll stop seeing the daily doom-n-gloom of a hundred funerals a day -- because the media will stop reporting all the "bad news" from...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 23, 2007 12:51 PM
Recently, a good friend of mine asked me what I thought of Barack Obama. This is a gentleman (my friend, not Obama) with whom I manned the barricades in the early 70's. But now he's become quite the middle-aged conservative....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 19, 2007 02:45 PM
Colbert on O'Reilly is a funnier show than O'Reilly on Colbert....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 19, 2007 06:18 AM
John Hodgman: For those of you who are unfamiliar with the program, American Idol is an old-fashioned screaming contest for children ... [and] at the end of the contest, the winning child is stoned to death, thus ensuring a...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 18, 2007 03:14 PM
As many of you know, over the last few months I have been thinking hard about my plans for 2008. Running for the presidency is a profound decision - a decision no one should make on the basis of media...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 16, 2007 10:07 AM
by Mark Adams The General directs us to remember the wisdom of MLK. I believe that there is no coincidence that the theme, the three-word slogan that launched John Edwards' candidacy for president last month can be found in Martin...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 15, 2007 07:44 AM
We've quoted the Times tech writer David Pogue in discussing the iPhone. Turns out Pogue has more than a little Tom Lehrer in him -- he can sing and he's funny!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 15, 2007 07:24 AM
Assif Mandvi: "Obama is young and handsome and charismatic. But you cannot deny that his last name is only one tiny consonant away from the first name of one of our sworn enemies. In this age of terror, can we...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 11, 2007 12:06 PM
This is...incredible. The aspect ratio in this following video is messed up, but the glimpse you get of this device is breathtaking. P.S. Do you think it'll run that fast on Cingular's slowish network? Man. I want one of these....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 11, 2007 11:54 AM
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame unveiled its 2007 class of inductees Monday:R.E.M. -- check. Van Halen -- check. Grandmaster Flash -- check. The Ronettes -- check. Patti Smith -- check.Where's Iggy and the Stooges?Monday’s announcement leaves Iggy Pop...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 9, 2007 09:57 AM
by Mark Adams "That's Bullshit!" John Edwards, never afraid to speak his mind, or truth to power. UPDATE (from Ara): Here is the Olbermann video Edwards G.A. Roach is referring to: "The Beginning of the End of America." OLBERMANN: Habeas...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 9, 2007 12:03 AM
This is the Top Ten list of most popular videos I created in 2006. They were posted on both YouTube and Google Video. 10. Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival This is a 5-minute preview of the films being shown at...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 31, 2006 09:19 AM
Without further ado (or waiting til Dec. 31), here are E Pluribus Unum's most-read posts of 2006: 10. Dad Gave Me The Keys (Mark Adams)Wow, a real blog. How cool is this.Mark's debut at EPU! Dude -- how cool are...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 29, 2006 12:17 PM
I'd like to remember Gerald Ford as the complete opposite of the man he succeeded in office: Ford was a plain-spoken, down-to-earth guy who made himself accessible to the people. Of course, if you are of a certain age, you...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 28, 2006 07:07 AM
There were other singers, there were other dancers, there were other writers, there were other band leaders, there were other arrangers. But no one put it all together to create such a ferociously intense expression of pure joy, yearning...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 25, 2006 05:32 AM
Who will rock the nation and who will kneel before the Rasputin of Riffs? 1. Battle of Titans (above) 2. Countdown to Guitarmageddon 3. Robert Schneider 4. ShredDown 5. Chris Funk 6. Bring Him A Guitar Hero 7. The Judgement...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 22, 2006 10:52 AM
The first video from the new Beatles CD, Love. [Not sure what that "floating-bubble" effect is supposed to be, but you can dispense with it by clicking the "videos" link on the viewer bar, then (in the resulting screen) clicking...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 22, 2006 07:23 AM
Together we won the first round in the battle for Net freedom. But the phone and cable giants are launching a counterattack. We need to raise the alarm and send a clear message to our new Congress: Make Net Neutratlity...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 20, 2006 06:41 AM
Yeah, yeah, you -- YOU! -- get named Person of the Year by Time Magazine and what did you do? You lost the war. Steven Colbert: American people, you should be ashamed! The president went and bit off a big...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 19, 2006 09:55 AM
This is U2's new video, titled Window in the Skies, entirely made of classic footage of musical legends. The lip-synching is a nice touch and it looks like everyone is there (in order of appearance):Frank Zappa Billy Holiday Simon and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 18, 2006 03:21 PM
Lots of trial balloons floating out there saying that Bush will lead the way forward in Iraq by sending more troops. Not sure what they'll do there -- secure Baghdad? That doesn't make sense because we don't have enough troops...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 18, 2006 08:33 AM
John Edwards is set to announce his run for the presidency ... and word is that he'll do it from the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. The stagecraft of his announcement meshes with his message of One America --...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 17, 2006 07:03 AM
Bush: "One fellow with an opinion suggested makin Osama bin Laden president of the world. I disagreed. Heard an interesting opinion from another fellow who wanted to blow up the moon with a rocket. I believe he's wrong."...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 15, 2006 09:15 AM
...and Jon Stewart lets him have it with both barrels. "The Secretary's 6 year reign of condescension is drawing to a close. But before leaving office (in what can only be described as a huff) the Secretary took one last...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 13, 2006 11:51 AM
by Mark Adams It's rare that I disagree with Glenn Greenwald, who concludes Did Rahm Emanuel lie about his knowledge of Mark Foley? Yes.: " Certainly Emanuel attempted to create a false impression while staying, repeatedly, on point --...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 10, 2006 11:43 AM
I'm on the festival committee and volunteered to produce the web site and this video. Check it out (that's me doing the voice-over!)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 6, 2006 12:56 PM
The Washington Examiner editorial board thinks the 6 imams who got yanked off a US Airways flight in handcuffs (and no offer for a replacement flight home) got what they deserved. Unfortunately for the airline, the Examiner won't be the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 4, 2006 10:14 AM
Wolf Blitzer interview of Seymour Hersh. (Partial transcript below the fold.)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 20, 2006 06:16 AM
From the NY Daily News:For all the focus on the Democrats, a former Bush official who predicts a coming bloodbath between the White House and disgruntled conservative Republicans brushed off the Pelosi-Hoyer tussle as much ado about process. "The Democrats...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 17, 2006 02:56 PM
I'll tell you how old I am: I'm familiar with Mark Mothersbaugh primarily through the music he scored for the kids' cartoon show Rugrats, which my kids (and I) loooooved. Later in his career, he scored all the Wes Anderson...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 17, 2006 06:31 AM
Hoyer beats Murtha. Honestly I'm thrilled that there is a Democratic Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. The rest is detail. As for the traditional media calling it "a setback for Pelosi," get a life -- she's the Democratic...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 16, 2006 02:12 PM
Damn -- this video came out before I could do one myself. And/But from the looks of it, it's more original (if not with more interesting people) than what I would have done. P.S. This is the best cut from...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 14, 2006 10:06 AM
Lou Dobbs interviews James Webb, Friday, Nov. 10.WEBB: I believe you measure the health of your society, not at its apex but at its base. You can't, any longer, measure the health of our society simply by what's happening in...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 11, 2006 07:43 AM
I'll be writing something about Net Neutrality soon, but in the meantime, watch this and Save The Internet:...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 10, 2006 11:22 AM
Stephen delivers a parting shot, a warning to America, if you will:Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world. A world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 8, 2006 03:37 PM
I made the video, David Byrne made the music. Hope you like it -- tell me what you think. Amnesia (David Byrne) Peace on earth, soon we will be Where nothing worries us Lazy days, cool is the breeze Across...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 3, 2006 12:53 PM
VoteVets is running this powerful ad now: Because of Iraq, Osama bin Laden is still a threat. Because of Iraq, our military is spread too thin. Because of Iraq, there are more terrorists in the world. Because of Iraq, America...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 1, 2006 01:19 PM
Iraq is the central issue in this election and the choice is simple: if you think Iraq is going fine, if you want to stay the course, then vote for the Republicans. But if you think we need to change...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 1, 2006 12:58 PM
At this point, Kerry should get off the stage as quickly and as gracefully as possible. The longer he's in the news-cycle, the more this becomes about him. And this is NOT about him. It's about Iraq, stupid. So Kerry...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on November 1, 2006 10:25 AM
With polls showing a Senator George Allen meltdown 7 days before the election, his campaign is getting, well, kind of jittery:Senator George Allen made a campaign stop in Charlottesville, NC, Tuesday morning... As Senator Allen was exiting a ballroom, coming...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 31, 2006 01:55 PM
Holy cow -- first Florida, now Texas: KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly. Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 31, 2006 11:10 AM
(cross posted at Daily Kos)On October 28, the Miami Herald reported that electronic voting machines in South Florida were changing Democratic votes into Republican votes. Don't let this happen again! On November 7, make your vote count and COUNT YOUR...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 30, 2006 05:34 PM
(cross posted at Daily Kos)<br>Net Neutrality has been called the First Amendment of the Internet. Here's what that means: Once you have paid to connect to the Internet, you have the same access to the superhighway that everyone else has....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 30, 2006 05:37 AM
<br>Today, I found a way to put the big yellow digg button (showing the number of diggs) right in the body of the article itself ( What's that you say -- " What is digg.com?" Digg is a user driven...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 29, 2006 03:32 PM
<br> Keith Olbermann:We began this week with reports that a mainstay of American politics was in failing health. And all too soon it was clear that the worst was true and that the nation had lost an old and honored...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 28, 2006 12:31 AM
(cross posted at Daily Kos) Jim Caviziel, star of Passion of the Christ, appears in an anti-stem cell ad with a creepy subliminal message. I won't provide a link to the full ad -- it's easy enough to Google. But,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 25, 2006 07:55 AM
(Cross posted on Daily Kos) OK, he showed one of my videos, and really just part of it, but still...crum-believable!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 22, 2006 02:37 PM
Here's Bush saying he's never been "stay the course" and then a video compilation of all the times he (and other Republicans) have trumpeted that lame "policy."...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 22, 2006 10:07 AM
Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special comment... Full transcript follows:...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 19, 2006 06:50 AM
Now that its deal with McDonald's has expired, Disney is cutting trans fats and empty calories from any food that they license....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 17, 2006 11:49 AM
[I posted the following piece earlier today as a comment on a blog devoted to marketing and advertising. As we have discussed this topic on a number of occasions, I am taking the liberty of posting it here.] Regarding the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 13, 2006 02:36 PM
This excellent 30-second spot will be aired on CNN in about a dozen congressional districts. It was produced by the September Fund, a 527 organized by Harold Ickes, a close advisor to Hillary Clinton....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 12, 2006 02:26 PM
The tragedy of Cory Lidle's death should not be minimized or ignored. But there are bigger questions that all of us should be asking: Five years after 9/11, how is it that a plane could get so close to a...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 12, 2006 02:55 AM
Keith Olbermann interviews Richard Wolffe, senior White House correspondent for Newsweek magazine, about Bush's press conference on Wednesday... Wolffe: The idea that Democrats are going out there, as he put it today and he's put it before, that they are...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 12, 2006 02:09 AM
Search giant reportedly in talks to acquire video site for $1.6 billion. Lots of entertainment execs have said that whoever buys YouTube will be up to their asses in lawsuits because most of the content on YT is infringing on...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 6, 2006 11:51 AM
I upload a lot of videos and I receive almost as many back again in response. Recently, someone sent me the following video because...well, God only knows why. I'm about as far from being a Republican as you can imagine....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 6, 2006 03:04 AM
Jon Stewart: "Today it came out that Foley finger-banged two high school sophmores from the Model U.N. on the catwalk of the Rotunda. However, Foley has announced today that his mother smoked while pregnant. So, again, I don't see how...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 5, 2006 12:05 PM
by Mark Adams Just calling it a "sex scandal" doesn't do the Foley mess justice -- neither does the word "hypocrisy." We need new words. The last time the House of Representatives changed hands, a bunch of Congress Critters were...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 3, 2006 02:37 AM
(Video included below) (Cross posted to Daily Kos) If I were a Democratic challenger for Congress, I'd use any (or all) of the following issues to beat my Republican opponent like a rented mule. In no particular order:The latest Abramoff...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 1, 2006 09:18 AM
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Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 30, 2006 02:42 PM
The video is short -- just 5 minutes. Watch the whole thing, then share it with your friends. Just click the SHARE button (lower right corner of video screen) and insert the appropriate email addresses. Don't wait -- the election...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 29, 2006 11:42 PM
Keith Olbermann:The nation's freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation's "marketplace of ideas" is being poisoned, by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 26, 2006 12:30 AM
Now you can post any of our stuff on Digg. What is Digg?Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 12, 2006 09:27 AM
(Click to watch video) History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government, by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds,...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 12, 2006 06:48 AM
by Mark Adams WaPo: Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold' Today, however, no one person is in charge of the overall hunt for bin Laden with the authority to direct covert CIA operations to collect intelligence and to dispatch JSOC units. Some...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 10, 2006 11:38 PM
It is widely understood that every time Bush mentions Bin Laden's name, Bush's numbers go up. So the Gang of 500 is all a-twitter that Dear Leader's ballsy move, the transfer of several terror suspects from the CIA-secret-prisons-that-don't-really-exist over to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 7, 2006 02:39 PM
by Mark Adams Just to prove there are indeed still Neanderthals roaming the streets of Toledo, The Blade ran this letter to the editor: Once the "honeymoon" period is over and the curiosity seekers have tuned out, CBS Evening News...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 6, 2006 09:40 AM
by Mark AdamsThe modern equivalent of Neville Chamberlain at Munich:When you coddle madmen, you end up paying a terrible price.Field Marshall von Rumsfeld's insulting screed was a call to arms for the Liberal Blogtopians, editorial writers and Keith Olbermann. He...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on September 1, 2006 11:12 PM
I won't be able to hear the wind again, here in Baton Rouge, without thinking of the day Katrina hit Louisiana. I shot this video in my back yard at about 7:30 am on August 29, 2005. Less than half...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 29, 2006 09:22 AM
Cenk Uygur explains....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 17, 2006 10:33 AM
Darksyde:One second Reagan is up there standing toe-to-toe with the Rooskis, negotiating cool as a cucumber with 20,000 nukes pointed at him, and the next thing I know, the likes of Limbaugh or the crew at Powerwhine and Freeperland, are...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 14, 2006 07:34 AM
Keith Olbermann:If today's events make you wonder whether we might again be accused of being too focused on yesterday's threats rather than anticipating tomorrow's, you would not be alone. Five months ago, our senior investigative correspondent Lisa Meyers, wanted to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 11, 2006 11:26 AM
Big-Eyed Beans From Venus by the incomparable Captain Beefheart. This is an astonishing performance either despite (or because of) the fact that the video footage appears to be of a completely different song. P.S. News reaches us that Captain Beefheart's...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 2, 2006 07:51 AM
Is this the best, or what? Click image to view my video....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 23, 2006 05:56 PM
by Mark Adams The wheels of justice, crushing the dreams of an imperial presidency. (By a Judge named Walker -- of the "W" Bush, Walkers, who stuck it to Assistant AG, Peter Keisler, the guy who's up to replace John...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 21, 2006 12:36 AM
I've adapted the "Had Enough?" video series to promote the candidacy of Patrick Murphy (PA-08). Patrick Murphy is an Iraq war vet who supports Murtha's withdrawal plan, and a dynamic, young speaker who has the potential for progressive greatness. Patrick...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 20, 2006 08:14 AM
I'm working on it. Watch this video in the meantime. There. Doesn't everything look bigger already?...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 18, 2006 09:38 PM
This is a new, "universal" version of the "Had Enough?" videos I did to promote various Congressional candidates. This one is new and somewhat different. It's something I came up with after reading Kevin Phillips' excellent book, American Theocracy: The...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 16, 2006 12:35 PM
I produced this 30-second Internet video to promote Paul Hodes for Congress (NH-02). Paul is one of the DailyKos "Netroots Endorsed" candidates. Visit his website and find out more....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 12, 2006 08:07 PM
Please take a moment today and contact your Senators about HR 810, the single most important piece of stem cell legislation before Congress. From StemPAC:This is the one that would rescind President Bush's draconian restrictions on stem cell research. This...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 11, 2006 07:52 AM
I produced this 30-sec. Internet video to promote Linda Stender's campaign in the New Jersey 7th....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 7, 2006 08:35 AM
I've watched a lot of television cartoon shows in my time. No, I didn't watch Scooby-Doo, but I did watch Augie Doggie (and Doggy Daddy). And these days, I'm watching Sponge Bob as well as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 7, 2006 06:36 AM
I produced this 30-sec. Internet video to promote Jerry McNerney's campaign in the California 11th. He is challenging Richard Pombo. He's leading Pombo in the polls (46 to 42 percent, according to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research) but he'll need your...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 6, 2006 08:51 AM
I produced this 30-sec. Internet video for Nancy Skinner's campaign in the Michigan 9th. She is challenging Joe Knollenberg. The MI-9 has been steadily trending Democratic, Kerry got 49% of the vote, Senator Levin carried the district in 2002 and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 2, 2006 04:34 PM
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Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 29, 2006 03:18 PM
Oh, crap.Washington -- The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday rejected a network neutrality amendment, handing cable and phone broadband access providers yet another victory over a coalition that has demanded the application of strict nondiscrimination standards against entities that control...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 28, 2006 04:26 PM
Here's a video my daughter and I shot while I was in Detroit. The memorial was something we found by accident in Farmington Hills right outside Heritage Park. I don't know who put it up. The music is from Bruce...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 26, 2006 10:51 AM
Pitchfork Media:So now we're making use of our video-inspired sloth, sharing 100 of our favorite music videos; simply, dozens of clips that, for various reasons (because they're so good, because they're so bad, because they feature the Jacksons imagining themselves...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 24, 2006 04:51 PM
(Cross posted at Daily Kos) From Ron Suskind's book, The One-Percent Doctrine:What the CIA had learned over nearly a decade is that bin Laden speaks only for strategic reasons -- and those reasons are debated with often startling depths inside...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 21, 2006 11:41 AM
by Mark Adams UPDATED... The latest from Leopold and Co. on the Karl Rove non-indictment via Kevin Drum . . . Maybe the indictment was sealed, since about that time a "Sealed vs. Sealed" indictment was issued from the same...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on June 12, 2006 07:52 PM
Latest video mashup -- The Ten Commandments as a teen sex comedy:...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 20, 2006 05:03 PM
10. Post office wall has several photos of you sleeping 9. Your houseplant occasionally sneezes 8. Domino's keeps delivering to unmarked van parked across the street 7. Birthday card from your mom has several words blacked out 6. You get...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 19, 2006 10:16 AM
The race for mayor of New Orleans is nearing its conclusion. Last night the two candidates (incumbent Ray Nagin vs. challenger Mitch Landrieu) faced each other in their final debate. You should care about this because we're all residents of...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 17, 2006 08:15 AM
On my birthday a couple of weeks ago, Miss Julie surprised me with a copy of Blame the Vain, Dwight Yoakam's new CD. I've been having a blast listening to it. Great arrangements, great songs, love his voice and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 10, 2006 01:57 PM
Secretary Jackson Fabricated the Entire Story, Spokesperson Claims, Contradicting Prior Response Very unprofessional (at best) and very likely illegal (at worst). But no worries -- Congress will never investigate. Leader of Iran lectures Bush on being a good Christian This...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 10, 2006 05:43 AM
The video on the left is of the original event; the video on the right is of the analyst, Ray McGovern, being interviewed afterwards by Anderson Cooper of CNN....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 5, 2006 08:49 AM
For those of you who think Stephen Colbert was rude and unfunny at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Assoc. Dinner last weekend, watch the video of Bush's appearance there in 2004. He was really funny -- in fact, he killed...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 5, 2006 06:29 AM
The mast-head on Andrew Sullivan's blog quotes George Orwell: "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." Well, he's struggling with the obvious all right -- and losing:One thing that today's high gas prices strongly...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 4, 2006 02:20 PM
The Unclassified Media Project publishes meaningful messages in various media including audio, video, and print. [Note: Click the play button, then click the Pause button and wait a minute or two for the entire video to load -- then click...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 4, 2006 07:03 AM
Thought you'd enjoy this musical interlude from one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Steve Earle. The song is called Jerusalem: [Note: Click the play button, then click the Pause button and wait a minute or two for the entire video to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 3, 2006 08:47 AM
by Mark Adams In response to Helen Thomas's dogged determination to get the President to answer why he wanted to go to war since every proffered rationale for the Iraq invasion has proved fallacious, Bush stated emphatically that neither he...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 2, 2006 07:33 PM
YouTube.com (at C-Span's request) has taken down the videos linked below. But Crooks and Liars still has their link up. C-Span also has the show on their site. Google Video also has it. 1. Click the "play" button to view...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 1, 2006 11:50 AM
Miss Julie and I spent the day at Jazz Fest in New Orleans yesterday. The first post-Katrina crowds were huge, with 2 out of 3 people coming from somewhere other than New Orleans -- good news for Festival organizers and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 30, 2006 01:22 PM
Click the image to watch the video. Here's the transcript, but honestly, it doesn't do it justice. You have to see Kristol go beet red and stammer after Colbert opens up on him. Colbert is on fire!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 28, 2006 04:27 PM
by Mark Adams Pink, your favorite Party Girl has done it. Crooks and Liars has the video of THE Anthem we've been waiting for. (BTW, she looks stunning.)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 24, 2006 12:08 AM
[Note: I'll be away from my computer for the rest of this week. In the meantime, here is one of my more popular videos from the past.] See if you can spot me: I'm the butterball in the sailor suit....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 21, 2006 07:48 AM
[Note: I'll be away from my computer for the rest of this week. In the meantime, here is one of my more popular videos from the past.]...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 20, 2006 07:45 AM
[Note: I'll be away from my computer for the rest of this week. In the meantime, here is one of my more popular videos from the past.] I'll bet you can't sit still for it!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 19, 2006 07:31 AM
Kinky Friedman's got some new campaign videos....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 13, 2006 10:32 AM
Miss Julie and I are residents of Louisiana...and you might as well be, too. The difference is, we're grappling with Bush's response to a mega-disaster RIGHT NOW, whereas you can only HOPE he'll be there when YOU need him.The Bush...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 13, 2006 09:13 AM
Chris Matthews schmoozes his best buddy, Tom DeLay, just before Hardball goes on the air. P.S. Watch DeLay's eyes glitter when the topic turns to Hillary. [Click image to watch video] (HT to Harry Shearer)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 5, 2006 01:50 PM
"...and the Nazi Party...completely shut out." Samantha Bee has the complete report. "A sad day in Israel...for the Nazi Party."...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 31, 2006 06:21 AM
[Click image to watch video.] Lara Logan:...Our own editors back in New York are asking us the same things. They read the same comments. You know, are there positive stories? Can't you find them? You don't think that I haven't...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 26, 2006 07:49 PM
[Click image to watch video.] I don't agree with much of anything that the Family Research Council advocates. I don't much care for its Executive Director Tony Perkins. I think they stand for a dangerous confluence of religion and government....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 24, 2006 07:13 AM
Bush got a standing O the other day when he said that the media was at fault for relentlessly presenting the bad news from Iraq at the expense of the good news. No surprise there: it was just another cheap...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 24, 2006 06:46 AM
After watching Bush trudge through the latest round of speeches, a "town hall meeting" and a White House press conference, it's easy to see that (as Howard Kurtz puts it) people have tuned the guy out. Can you blame them?...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 23, 2006 07:41 AM
[Click image to watch the video.] Watch the whole clip:TDS has patched together years of Bush's speechifyng on Iraq into one seamless clip that is as hilarious as it is scary....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 23, 2006 02:12 AM
[Click the image to watch the video] Russ Feingold on the Daily Show Wednesday evening:Stewart played a clip from a recent news conference of House Majority Leader John Boehner, in which the Ohio Republican said of Feingold, "Sometimes you begin...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 23, 2006 01:54 AM
I've been away for about a week, reading only USA Today while I was gone. When I got back and touched base with the usual blogs, I was struck by the intensity of feeling that accompanied certain stories, most notably...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 5, 2006 04:14 PM
Although this short film wasn't nominated for an Oscar, it has to win some sort of award for the shortest, funniest, film of the year. Make sure you don't have a mouthful of coffee when you watch this. (requires Quicktime)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on March 3, 2006 07:19 AM
We're away from Louisiana during Mardi Gras this year, so I thought you'd enjoy a reprise of last year's celebration. Laissez les bon temps roulez! (Video by Instant Video Generator)...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 28, 2006 06:34 AM
Bush:I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company," Bush said. "I am trying to conduct foreign...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 22, 2006 06:31 AM
Bill Maher interviews Sen. Russ Feingold. Watch the video -- it's a great shot of adrenaline and straight talk from a Democrat who calls it the way he sees it. Click the image (left) to watch the video -- it's...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 19, 2006 08:13 AM
If you watch this and you're not tapping your toe within moments, well, you have no pulse. Here's Xeni's take on it:In the "MP3s" section of Baidu and Yahoo China, I stumbled on Taiwanese pop star Jay Chow (aka Zhou Jie...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 15, 2006 07:19 AM
Marty Kaplan slams it home:Wingnut crybabies are whining that W got dissed at Coretta King's funeral. What did they expect -- praise for his civil rights record? Honor for his warrantless wiretapping? Encomia for widening the gap between rich and...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 8, 2006 12:48 PM
10. Plans to release next threatening videotape in high-definition 9. In the seventies, had a gay fling with the blind sheikh 8. Secretly likes Kosher pickles 7. Middle name: Duane 6. Stole "Death to America" catchphrase from Fran Tarkenton 5....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 7, 2006 08:58 AM
Mardi Gras is just around the corner and Krewe du Vieux will be there:New Orleans has learned a lot this past year. We’ve learned new meanings for “open house” and “waterfront property”. We’ve learned that there are nine different types...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 7, 2006 08:21 AM
Digby:The lesson of Watergate for the chagrined Republicans was that they needed to be more forceful in assuming executive power and they needed to be more sophisticated about their campaign espionage. This is what they've done. Anybody who even dreams...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 6, 2006 07:38 PM
I'm not suggesting that Karl Rove held back this video in the vault. I'm not suggesting that he waited until the day before the SOTU to release it. I'm not suggesting that. It would be wrong and unfair to do...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 30, 2006 02:58 PM
"Live! Pandas! Live!" You can watch live images of Mei Xiang, a giant panda, and her cub, Tai Shan, at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 24, 2006 07:50 AM
My nephew, Ben, was featured last week in "Your Take" on Download.com for a music video he directed and co-produced with musician Phil Snapp. Check it out!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 23, 2006 09:05 AM
Jon Stewart takes a look at the race to fill Delay's spot. Click here to watch the video....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 19, 2006 07:09 AM
(Click image, left, to watch video excerpts in WMP. Click here to watch in QT.) Today, the American Constitution Society and the Liberty Coalition hosted a speech by Fmr. Vice Pres. Al Gore at the DAR Hall in Washington. Gore...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 16, 2006 03:47 PM
The Campaign for America's Future is running a TV ad calling for Tom DeLay's resignation from Congress. Among other things, they say that DeLay took "one million dollars from Russian tycoons to allegedly influence his vote." DeLay is threatening to...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 11, 2006 01:18 PM
(Click the image, left, to view the video) Howard Dean speaks bluntly:BLITZER: Should Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff...give that money to charity or give it back? DEAN: There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, not...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 8, 2006 05:01 PM
I'm stuck at home with pneumonia and can't be with my mother on her birthday -- she lives 1400 miles away in Detroit. My sisters and brother are there and I'll miss them too. I made the following 2-minute video...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 7, 2006 07:23 AM
Jack Cafferty (click the picture, left, to watch the video): Who cares if the Patriot Act gets renewed. Want to abuse our civil liberties-Just do it! Who cares about the Geneva conventions? Want to torture prisoners-Just do it! Who cares...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 28, 2005 03:42 PM
From the White House website comes painful proof that the guy will look right into your eyes and lie with impunity:Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 20, 2005 12:25 PM
I had an opportunity to visit New Orleans today and see the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Click below to see the shapshots I took in the city, as well as Chalmette (St. Bernard Parish) and the Lower Ninth Ward. Rock...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on December 6, 2005 07:27 PM
Yesterday, I caught a snippet of a TV photo-op of Bush with some foreign dignitary in the Oval Office. The sound was off when I saw the video; and/but the thing that jumped out at me was that it appeared...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 18, 2005 08:05 AM
Maybe you're like me -- you've heard that iPods can play video and you thought, "So what? Who wants to watch a 2-1/2" screen? Not me. Shoot -- just buy a hand-held TV -- what's so new about that?" But...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on October 15, 2005 03:26 PM
This 45-second video was shot out the window in our office at home in Baton Rouge. It was taken Monday morning at about 7:30 am. You can see our house in the lower right corner and our neighbor's house...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on August 29, 2005 08:06 AM
My son is a film-maker, although he doesn't use film, per se. What he makes are digital movies. We talked about how this is a great time to be a film-maker because digital content can be produced and distributed is...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 26, 2005 12:36 PM
Conan O'Brien, in Newsweek:TiVo, the digital recorder with a brain, will continue to evolve with alarming speed. Super-TiVos will arrange marriages between like-minded viewers and will persuade mismatched couples to throw in the towel and start seeing other people. Tough-talking...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 22, 2005 05:49 PM
If you've wondered how we got to a future where American religious fundamentalists are fighting Islamic religious fundamentalists, then you should read the transcript of this BBC documentary by Adam Curtis:At the heart of the story are two groups: the...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on May 15, 2005 07:10 PM
This is more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. I'm just saying. P.S. Turn up your speakers....
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 19, 2005 04:54 PM
Just press "play," spend 3 minutes watching Mardi Gras 2005 while listening to The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. I dare you sit still!...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on February 12, 2005 02:36 PM
Many in the Bush-based community suggest that anti-war progressives are against the establishment of a democratic Iraq. Of course, this is hogwash (and simplistic hogwash to boot). If anything, progressives believe that there should be more to American foreign policy...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on January 3, 2005 09:43 AM
Lots of talk about dumping "Dick" Cheney from the GOP ticket. But, so far, there are no serious takers on that bet. Lenore Skenazy writes this in the Daily News:For now, the President insists no. Cheney's his man. Gotta stay...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on July 14, 2004 10:55 AM
Michael Duffy writes in Time magazine about CP Abdullah's visit to Crawford, and its aftermath:Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts — a photo album and two videocassettes — each...
Posted in E Pluribus Unum on April 28, 2002 11:24 AM