McCain POW Footage Released

The French National Archive has released video footage of John McCain being interviewed as a Vietnam POW.  The Sky News report opens rather amusingly: The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette. I suspect he'll be forgiven. He also describes being shot down over Hanoi in 1967, and parachuting into ...

Hank Williams Jr. ‘McCain-Palin Tradition’ Video

Hank updated his classic "Family Tradition" for the 2008 presidential campaign: While better than some of his MNF "Ready for Some Football" tunes, I must say that I prefer the original. And it may backfire: the site of someone in a Redskins jersey singing the praises of McCain and Palin might just turn Texas (Dallas Cowboys) blue.

Lighter Side of the Financial Crisis

In this satirical video, British humorists John Bird and John Fortune, a/k/a "the Long Johns," explain the financial crisis. It's actually nearly a year old but it still works. Humor across the Pond is a tad different, not least of which is less fear of risking alienating racial sensibilities. The bit about the "poor black man in Alabama" in ...

SNL Parodies VP Debates (Video)

"Saturday Night Live" parodied the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, getting in good zingers against both. It's starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president. Fey again returned to "Saturday Night Live" to play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the sketch comedy show continued to pull out all the stops in its election ...

What Caused Our Economic Crisis Video

This video, called "Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis" (although, oddly, set to the tune of "Money for Nothing") is apparently all the rage (at least in my wife's office). It traces the subprime crisis to the Jimmy Carter era Community Reinvestment Act. To the extent this view is correct (and I suspect, like anything else complex, ...

Sarah Palin Swimsuit Video

The video of Sarah Palin (then: Sarah Heath) in the swimsuit competition of the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant is making the rounds: Per HuffPo, the announcer comments, "Sarah says she wants to prepare for a career in television broadcasting by majoring in telecommunications and political science. It is no wonder that she has also been recognized by 'Who's Who?' since she has ...

Sarah Palin Video (R-Rated)

I'm not sure who's behind this spoof video imagining how the conversation between John McCain and Sarah Palin, wherein he popped the question, might have gone.  It is both fairly amusing and decidedly not safe for work. Via Ann Althouse via Memeorandum

The Angry Left

I caught a bit of the Republican Convention last evening, including the Ronald Reagan tribute and as much of the Fred Thompson speech as I could take before shutting it off. I TiVo'd Joe Lieberman but it's iffy as to whether I'll get to it. Matt Yglesias points to a sound byte that I first heard on NPR this morning: ...

McCain ‘Broken’ ‘Family’

The McCain campaign has launched two new ad videos in consecutive days under the titles "Broken" and "Family." I find the juxtaposition amusing.  The spots themselves strike me as weak but, as I keep reminding myself, I'm not the target audience. "Broken" Washington's broken. John McCain knows it. We're worse off than we were four years ago. Only McCain has taken on big ...

Paris Hilton Campaign Video

Just when you thought Campaign 2008 couldn't get any dumber, Paris Hilton weighs in with a video: For those unable to watch the video, ABC News' Tahman Bradley has the rundown: Sitting on a lawn chair in a bathing suit, Ms. Hilton says to camera, "Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too. Only I'm not from the olden days ...