Today’s wrap-up of the best video clips from the campaign trail and beyond.
Up first is the talk of the day, with McCain getting stood-up by ‘Joe the Plumber’ at a rally in Ohio:
Things get even worse for McCain when one of his reps gets caught out in a CNN interview:
What if Diablo Cody, David Lynch and [...]
New York, Thurs 30 Oct 08, 7:30am
You know the end is nigh when the comics come in carrying knives.
The angriest man on US TV isn’t Bill O’Reilly — a blowhard so reliably turned up to 11 on the volume knob that he’s both unwatchable and beyond registering. That is to say, he’s recognisably phoney, and [...]
New York, 29 Oct 08, 1:05am
Three items noted:
1. In yuppie Chelsea: balding chubby man, leaning towards hip, if not groovy, loudly into his cellphone: “Where’s my door? Pedro, it’s been four months…”
2. In Greenwich Village: Blur of motion on sidewalk. A tall bearded man in tree-hugger fashionware pivots on one lanky leg and punts his [...]
Our daily round-up of the best video clips from the campaign trail and beyond.
First up, Obama hits back at comments that he is a “socialist” at a rally in North Carolina:
David Letterman and Bill O’Reilly discuss Sarah Palin:
The Republican reaction to Palin’s remarks that she intends to remain a national political figure:
And Indecision2008 looks at the key [...]
New York, 29 Oct 08, 9.35pm:
Earlier today on Fifth Avenue:
New York, 20 Oct 08, 9:30pm:
Yes I watched it on FOX and, no, they didn’t censor any of it — not the segment with the mother struggling to feed her family, not the old couple whose manfolk had to come out of retirement to earn money for the wife’s medications, not the bit where Mark, [...]
Our daily round-up of the best video clips from the campaign trail and beyond.
First up is Michelle Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno:
John McCain and Sarah Palin’s joint interview on CNBC:
Sarah Palin looks surprisingly uncomfortable while trying to dance and sing along to the song “Redneck Woman”:
And for your daily dose of cheese, here are [...]
New York, 28 Oct 08, 9.45am:
My queasy fascination with Sarah Palin seems to be a perversion shared not only by a great swathe of wet-liberal Gothamites, but most of America. The blogosphere is sick with it — a search produces over 41 million listings with 160,000 in the news category. Cable news is obsessed with [...]
With Obama’s $3-million, half-hour ad set to air in the US later this week, it’s seems like a fitting time to look back on simpler days, when a cartoon and a catchy jingle were the cutting edge of political advertising.
New York’s Museum for the Moving Image has created a fantastic archive of US presidential campaign ads from the [...]
New York, 28 Oct 08, 1:30am
Do you recall that bit in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life when Death comes a-calling to a country cottage where a dinner party is going on? The Grim Reaper is there to take them all away — it was the salmon mousse. But the house guests are not to [...]
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