FOX News gets caught again with fake B-roll footage. This time, they’re splicing several rallies from the 2008 campaign (you can see people holding McCain-Palin signs and, in one clip, even a teleprompter) into a story on Sarah Palin’s book tour to claim that Palin is getting “huge crowds” at her book signing events. Like, “entire high school gymnasium” huge.
Jon Stewart recently called out Sean Hannity for using footage from a September 12 teabagger rally for a story about a smaller rally on November 5.
Birther Lawyer Orly Taitz to Appear on Colbert Report
Yes, according to her own blog, Orly Taitz will be on The Colbert Report in the coming days. (She says that the show is “taping Tuesday,” so I don’t know if it will be on Tuesday night or later in the week.) Taitz is “a Laguna Niguel dentist with a law degree from an online academy” and the author of several unsuccessful lawsuits to remove Barry “Obama” Hussein from the office of President of the United States, which he totally stole because is Kenyan? Indonesian? Well, he is definitely not American! (He is.)
This should be good.
For a little preview of what Dr. Taitz is getting herself into, here’s Jon Stewart:
Update: Bonus birther fun! Here is Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., being laughed at while accosting Chief Justice John Roberts for not doing enough to stop Barack Obama from becoming president. (She actually alleges that the Supreme Court is in on the whole conspiracy.)
Happy July 3rd, America! Today is the day where we proudly take off work, because what’s the point of independence anyway if we don’t get a day off, right?
This Les Otten character, who is running for Governor of Maine, stole Barack Obama’s internets basically wholesale. Otten may deny that he copied Obama’s logo and website design (bullshit!) but he won’t deny all the press coverage his campaign’s gotten because of it. (Les Otten/Barack Obama/Google News)
Jon Stewart does not care for America’s Governor™ Mark Sanford. Specifically, why does this Sanford character not just shut up about his affairs and let us mourn Michael Jackson in peace?? (TPMtv)
Researchers at Britain’s National Archives have discovered an original printing of the Declaration of Independence. Apparently Her Majesty’s Government has just been taking our word on the whole “independence” thing for the past couple hundred years, so it’s nice to know they finally have it on paper. (AP)
Your Vatican is investigating its nuns for… not being nun-ny enough? It’s not really clear, not even to the nuns, why this investigation is taking place, other than because the male-dominated Catholic Church is bored. Or possibly becuase the nuns don’t hate the gays hard enough. Anyway, keep up the good work, I guess. (New York Times/Pandagon)
Next time you go to Disney World, check out the Obamatron 9000, Disney’s new Barack Obama robot, in their “Hall of Presidents” exhibit, according to this report from CNN’s Rob Marciano, the world’s most obviously bored television reporter. (CNN)
Jon Stewart interviews Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, who comments on his relationship with the Obama administration and hilariously refers to himself as “a queen.” (The Daily Show)
Another roadblock to Change We Can Believe In: The White House runs on clunky old computers with Windows 2000. (Washington Post)
Caroline Kennedy is no longer running for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. And by “running for,” I mean “asking Gov. Paterson to appoint her to.” (CNN)
Oscar nominations are out, and it looks like Milk, Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire will battle it out for “Best Picture” against that movie where Brad Pitt keeps getting younger and some other thing. (Variety)