Arianna Huffington: Hey, You Know What Jobless People Can Do?

With unemployment rates rising the highest in 34 years, Arianna wants
the jobless people to blog.

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Arianna Huffington

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Having Joe Biden As VP Is Going To Be Fun!

Jon Stewart should be happy:

I might point out, as I told you, we walked in. Since the race is over, no one
pays attention to me at all. So I'm -- maybe you will walk outside with me
or something later and say hello to me," prompting laughs from all, but
an especially loud one from Kaine.

The Great Schlep

A new video from Sarah Silverman is urging Florida Jews to vote for
Obama. Content warning:


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Silverman brings up Israel as a reason to support Obama. I would remind that
the candidate favored in Israel is not Sen. Obama. I wonder if liberal voters have
ever taken the time to think why Israelis prefer Republicans? Here's Jon Stewart
mocking the glowing reception President Bush received in Israel:



I think I have a clue into why Israelis prefer the Republican candidate:

Stop Whining About Palin Media

The news media has been whining about how they don't have access to Gov.
Palin. Kirsten Powers, a Democrat, argues the McCain camp is right in denying
the "gotcha" press their sound bite blood thirst. Here's an excerpt:

The idea of the unbiased reporter has become positively quaint. In New
York's 2005 mayoral race, the media's candidate was Mike Bloomberg -
no true conservative, but hardly the most liberal option. In the '08
Democratic primaries, it was Barack Obama - despite the paper-thin
policy differences between him and Hillary Clinton. (If reporters wanted
the most liberal candidate, they'd have backed John Edwards.)

In the 2000 presidential race, they mocked Al Gore, echoing GOP
attacks against his integrity and painting him as a serial liar, and did
virtually no vetting of George W. Bush.

When you're the press secretary on the campaign running against the
media's darling, there's almost nothing you can do to fight the pack
mentality. Each time your candidate makes a mistake, reporters will
blow it out of proportion - even as they ignore or write off your opponent's
similar mistakes.

There's a perpetual double standard. It's the mentality that led the
media to demand that Clinton drop out of the race while she was
winning states and racking up the same number of votes overall as
Obama.

Your only option is to bypass the media pack and go directly to the
voters, through stumping and paid media.

I agree with Powers. Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating for Palin not to do
any press. I'm just saying it's smart to limit press access. Our constitution protects
freedom of the press. However, I think it has become a huge monster that no one
knows how to deal with. Should public officials do press interviews? Yes! Does
a politician need to be on television everyday answering tedious gotcha questions?
No. It's an insane standard.

I wonder if Powers thinks this election cycle is particularly vicious? I would
agree with her that the pack mentality of the media has always been there and
sometimes it even favors Republicans. But in this campaign year, news organizations
not only seem to be biased but they have been outright advocating for one team.
I think that is somewhat new. They're almost acting like bullies. If you don't do
what we tell you, I will destroy you on my television show or newspaper column!
Take this for an example:



Why is Campbell Brown, a journalist, telling McCain how to handle his Vice-President
pick?

Why should Palin do interviews everyday when the media is obviously out for blood
right now? It's actually smart to limit access. Even liberal fake news anchor, Jon
Stewart, is telling the news media to calm down:

Jon Stewart Mocks Palin Pick

Three quick points about Jon Stewart mocking Palin:

1. I don't think the Palin pick was necessarily a direct appeal to Hillary voters.
   If he was trying to get a someone to appeal to Hillary voters, he would have
   chosen someone like Kay Bailey Hutchinson who is pro-choice and has more
   in common with Hillary. I think the move was more to energize the base,
   which he has. He's raised some doe. Conservatives not Hillaryites were asking
   for Palin.
   
   
2. Am I the only that thinks that if McCain chose Tim Pawlenty or Mitt Romney,
   Stewart would be the first one mocking him for picking "another boring white
   dude." Welcome, to the Good Ol' Boy club! LOL! I can hear the jokes already.
   So it was going to be a lose/lose anyway. So it's perfectly fine that Democrats
   have been playing identity politics all this election cycle because they really
   care about minority and women issues, unlike Republicans. Because let's face
   the facts all women are pro-choice and monolithic.
   
   
3. Funny how I've never heard one joke from Jon Stewart poking fun at Sen.
   Obama's inexperience. Can you honestly tell me that the majority of the American
   people knew who Barack Obama was a year and half ago? Apparently experience
   is now a must have.
   

Heartache: Late Night Comics Having a Hard Time Joking About Obama

A New York Times article reveals that late night comics are having a hard time
making jokes about Sen. Obama:

What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very
much, at least not yet.

On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe
into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image
depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin
Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from
both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.

Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television
hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy
quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman,
Conan O’Brien and others have delivered a nightly stream of jokes
about the Republican running for president — each one a variant
on the same theme: John McCain is old.

Mr. Carter explains why so little jokes about Obama:

Why? The reason cited by most of those involved in the shows
is that a fundamental factor is so far missing in Mr. Obama:
There is no comedic “take” on him, nothing easy to turn to for
an easy laugh, like allegations of Bill Clinton’s womanizing, or
President Bush’s goofy bumbling or Al Gore’s robotic persona.

I'll help these poor comedy writers come up with stuff. How about his perceived
arrogance. Jon Stewart joked about the his presumptuous presidential seal but
had to tell the audience "You know, you’re allowed to laugh at him." But how about
his Web site already selling leather-bound videos to speeches he made just a few
months ago! Surely, there are a few jokes they can come out of that.

Or how about the his gaffe about having been to 57 states:



If John McCain would have made this gaffe it would been all over the entertainment
media as proof that he's "losing his bearings," as Obama likes to put it.

Then there's also Obama's hyperbole about "healing" and "the ocean risings." I'm
sure soaring rhetoric is good enough to eek out one good laugh out of. I mean the
great and snarky comedienne Hillary Clinton did.

I have a joke that some comedy writers can steal and the progressive bloggers
will love:

President Bush is extremely unpopular these days. However, one of the
presidential candidates has been aligning himself with the president's policies
and this might be a bad political move for him. Oh, I'm not talking about
John McCain. I'm talking about Sen. Obama's 'move to the center.'

I'm really shocked that the late night comics are having trouble coming up with
jokes about Sen. Obama but have no difficulty saying that Sen. McCain seems
"mentally challenged." This is all so surprising.