Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

People are complicated. Love is not.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Consistently wrong since 2002

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

“But what about the lurkers?”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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  4. 4.

    BombIranForChrist

    I can’t stop watching this. The Hillary portion is friggin’ hilarious.

    This will do more damage to the Post than a hundred scathing articles. Good satire is so, so powerful.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Jake

    Does anyone have a link to the original source video that inspired this? I know WaPo edited it or pulled it at some point.

  6. 6.

    BethanyAnne

    @SGEW: I love the Regulation Vacation Celebration. I’ve wanted to ask a Libertarian why they don’t up and move to Somalia for years.

  8. 8.

    Joshua Norton

    I saw one of an old goober screaming that the government had better keep their hands off his Medicare. Lordy, how I wish that one was a parody.

  10. 10.

    Dave C

    What are the chances that Dana Milbank sees this for the truly apt parody that it is and chooses to do the right thing, never showing his face in public again?

  13. 13.

    Michael Scott

    If Milbank and Cillizza weren’t immune to ridicule, they wouldn’t have made more than one of these execrable videos already.

  14. 14.

    Rosali

    Andy Cobb needs to get a tv contract. He’s hiarious. Check out his channel: AndyCobbonUTube

  17. 17.

    Crashman06

    That video was quite a bit funnier than I thought it would be. Glad I had the door closed so no one could hear me laugh.

    Fight David Ignatius on World of Warcraft. Ha!

  19. 19.

    daryljfontaine

    @Hunter Gathers: My thoughts exactly.

    “Jesus, you overcompensate for having what’s basically a monkey’s job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You-You’re so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work at a newspaper, Dana! And badly, I might add! I blog for the same shitty newspaper, badly as well.”

    D

  20. 20.

    Tim in SF

    I went on youtube first and watched an actual episode of Mouthpiece Theater so I could better understand the parody.

    (truthfully, I watched half of one episode – it sucked too hard to watch a whole episode, even though I usually like Chris Cillizza when he’s on Olberman. Aaaanyways…)

    that parody was so funny beer shot out my nose.

  23. 23.

    SGEW

    That parody was so funny beer shot out my nose.

    No, no, no! It was so insightful and trenchant that beer shot out of your nose. Trenchant as hell.

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    Perhaps I just have a stronger naso-gastric passage than many, but I was able to contain all the fluids in my body.

    I did chuckle, which is more than 90% of the things claiming to be funny on the internet cause. Milbank and Cillizza are far funnier, although not in the way they intend.

  25. 25.

    Violet

    Trenchant as hell! Love these guys. Satire can work wonders. I wonder if WaPo is watching?

  27. 27.

    nonymouse

    strange error messages are back

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  28. 28.

    Morbo

    Lead singer from Cannibal Corpse has 4 lvl 70’s and 3 in the 60’s, what do you think of that, Ignatius?

  30. 30.

    anya

    The blockquote is not working but here is an interesting story– turns out the Birthers used a real birth certificate for their forgery. From ABC (Australia)

    “MARK COLVIN: An unsuspecting Adelaide public servant has found himself swept up in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office.

    A movement known as the Birthers, which originated in California, is attempting to prove that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, therefore making him ineligible to be President.

    In a bid to stake their claim they released what appeared to be a Kenyan birth certificate with Obama’s name on it.

    Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.”

    Check out the full story here: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2646009.htm

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    Dave C:

    What are the chances that Dana Milbank sees this for the truly apt parody that it is and chooses to do the right thing, never showing his face in public again?

    About the same as the chances of Sarah Palin never seeking the media spotlight again. I.e., zero to none.

    .

  33. 33.

    JK

    @matoko_chan: @Duncan Watson:

    David Ignatius is a pompous, preening sissy who doesn’t have a fucking clue about World of Warcraft.

    Millbank and Cillizza should join the circus because they’re just a pair of clowns.

    The Washington Post has devolved into a putrid, steaming pile of excrement.

  34. 34.

    matoko_chan

    Duncan…..i know that.
    I don’t think Ignatious could ding 60 even when the 3.2 nerf leveling patch goes live on the realms.
    lawlz, scrubs are everwhere.
    ;)

  36. 36.

    4jkb4ia

    I suppose everyone thought “Dan Froomkin Memorial Studio” was too obvious to mention.

    When EW posted one of these things I said that TPMTV has actual wit and Mouthpiece Theater only has smarm. But a reason for Mouthpiece Theater is to compete with the TPMTVs as well and not let the video field be taken over by non-newspapers.

  38. 38.

    Polish the Guillotines

    High-friggin’-larious.

    New tag suggestion for blog entries debunking craptacular journalism: Post’d.

  39. 39.

    matoko_chan

    AND i have a dreamstate druid with a 2200 arena rating.
    I could pwn TNC naked.
    that is the coolest thing about warcraft….even grrls can have an e-peen.
    ;)

  40. 40.

    slag

    @4jkb4ia:

    I suppose everyone thought “Dan Froomkin Memorial Studio” was too obvious to mention.

    It’s that kind of attention to detail that makes truly great humor.

  42. 42.

    joes527

    @anya:

    Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.”

    It is the AUSTRALIAN Birth Certificate that is a forgery. Planted to discredit the valid Muslim Birth Certificate for Barry O.

    Don’t you even read freerepublic?

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    “Inadvertantly revealing the dying heart of our industry two minutes at a time!”

    Milbank and Cillizza are patently immune to mockery, but here’s hoping their paymasters get ten thousand forwards of this plus some semi-drunken ‘reenactments’ at their next Hamptons/Martha’s Vineyard/Hilton Head bash.

  44. 44.

    angulimala

    OFf Topic:

    Anyone got any good Japanese gore movies to recommend?

    I just saw “The Machine Girl” and “Tokyo Gore Police” and I’m in the mood for some more in the same vein.

  45. 45.

    General Winfield Stuck

    O/T

    Definition of Chutzpah

    Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer suspended from the force for his e-mail likening Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to a “banana-eating jungle monkey,’’ has filed a lawsuit against the Police Department, police commissioner, and mayor, saying the city violated his civil and due process rights.

    Them “Banana-eating jungle monkeys” was a gettin’ him down.

  46. 46.

    MikeJ

    @General Winfield Stuck:
    From the article:

    According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress,

    Post traumatic stress? Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

  47. 47.

    Cat Lady

    @Anne Laurie:

    Oh yes, please FSM, this. However, considering their paymaster has tried pimping them out to the health care lobbyists already, shame and mockery seems inadequate IMHO.

  48. 48.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @MikeJ:

    Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

    Yup, and I expect they will. What a WATB.

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    “According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress,”
    …
    Post traumatic stress? Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

    Barrett was in the National Guard before he decided to email his heartfelt sentiments about racial comity to the Boston Globe. From what I heard, the Guard discharged him before the local newsmedia could even get clips of Menino on the air. I suspect Barret’s lawyer didn’t expect a whole lot of sympathy from the hard cases at the Guard, for some reason.

  54. 54.

    Tim P.

    Looking at the views on the Youtube video is also a stark reminder of how few people are actually in our little bubble. Also.

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