“I’ve never done twerking in my life and I don’t intend to take it up.”
— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted on a conference call, responding to the Miley Cyrus impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
“I’ve never done twerking in my life and I don’t intend to take it up.”
— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted on a conference call, responding to the Miley Cyrus impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Michele Bachmann celebrate the government shutdown by throwing a raucous house party on Saturday Night Live.
Jon Stewart absolutely takes apart former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan.
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Jon Stewart asks, “Can anyone do their job in that town?”
The Week: “In a short, seven-minute video, Christie manages to make fun of his own political aspirations, adoration of Bruce Springsteen, lovefest with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and the idea that the suit makes the man — and he does it with the help of Alec Baldwin, James Carville, Jon Bon Jovi, Saturday Night Live’s Bobby Moynihan, celebrities not generally associated with Republican politics. The premise of the skit is that Christie’s enviable popularity is intimately tied to the fleece he wore in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to a joke President Obama told about not wanting to get a drink with the Republican leader, the Washington Post reports.
Said McConnell: “I’m shocked. He’s obviously not seeing my soft side.”
If you didn’t see the president’s speech, it was very funny and worth watching.
President Obama and Conan O’Brien were very funny at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night.
Margaret Thatcher refuses repeated requests by an interviewer to jump into the air.
The Quincy Patriot Ledger reports Massachusetts sheriff Joseph McDonald (R) is defending a joke he made about President Obama during a breakfast for Republicans when he said the ghost of Abraham Lincoln visited Obama in his dreams and gave him advice on how to improve the country: “Go to the theater.”
Said McDonald: “It was absolutely in jest. It was a joke. It wasn’t a new joke by any means.”
He added that references to Lincoln’s assassination in a theater have been used to make fun of the sitting President’s job performance since the late 19th century.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wrote late last year to the Pentagon with “an unusually credulous query” on behalf of a constituent who saw a news article on Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits, Wired reports.
Wrote McConnell: “I would appreciate your review and response to my constituent’s concerns.”
The article was actually a not-so-subtle parody which even quotes a fake military spokesman: “By allowing the detainees to use the Department of Veterans Affairs, we hope to completely crush their souls with bureaucracy.”
Sen. Marco Rubio visits Saturday Night Live and attempts to give his rebuttal to the State of the Union again, but runs into the same water issues.
Jon Stewart comments on Pope Benedict’s surprise announcement that he’s stepping down to read books and pray:
“”Isn’t that what the pope was doing? Sounds to me like the only thing he’s losing in retirement is the waving.”
Saturday Night Live planned a skit making fun of the Senate Republicans’ grilling of defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel but it was cut from the show at the last minute.
It was released later online.
“I say to all the late night guys, all of them have their shots with me, as long as they’re funny I don’t mind… If you’re going to be thin skinned about that stuff in this job then you’re not going to last long.”
— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), in an interview on Extra, about fat jokes.
Just out for the Kindle: The President of Vice: The Autobiography of Joe Biden by The Onion.
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic “was caught unawares by the cheeky prank during an interview for Croatian television,” The Sun reports.
“He thought he was in the studio to answer questions on Balkan politics — but instead was treated to a full-frontal from the show’s sexy presenter.”
Gawker: “The prank worked like a charm, with the randy Dacic unable to help
sneak a peek at the femme fatale’s drawers (or, rather, her lack
thereof).”
Jay Leno: “It looks like President Obama is going to pick John Kerry as our next secretary of state. This is a very strategic move when it comes to our foreign policy. Obama plans to use Kerry; see, he will bore our enemies to death.”
More hidden camera videos of Mitt Romney surfaced on Saturday Night Live.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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