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Beware of the Balcony at the 9:30 Club

Posted: November 10, 2008 in Humor, Music
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You might want to bring an umbrella…

A drunken Jersey City councilman was arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington nightclub, police and club sources said Saturday.

Councilman Steven Lipski was caught relieving himself onto several revelers at the 9:30 Club during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band Friday night, club sources said.

“He was very drunk,” the source said, noting that it wasn’t the first time Lipski had caused a ruckus at the popular concert venue.

“We’ve dealt with this man before,” the source added. “He’s never peed on anybody, but he gets really belligerent and drunk.”

I’ve been to many shows at the 9:30 Club – it’s my favorite concert venue. I’ve also seen some pretty strange crowds there and other shows, but this guy is on a whole other level.

Mistakes Were Made

Posted: November 3, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Humor, Joe Biden, John McCain, Quotes, Sarah Palin
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Earlier, I posted a link to Politico’s list of the biggest gaffes of the campaign, while adding my own to the list. TIME Magazine has put together a much more thorough version of that list, which is well worth reading.

I had forgotten so many of these gaffes, and how they dominated the campaign cycle at one point or another. My revised list of big gaffes, based on political fallout or humor:

John McCain’s “Fundamentals of our economy” comment
Hillary Clinton ducking sniper fire in Bosnia
Phil Gramm’s “Nation of whiners” comment
Barack Obama’s 57 states comment
Mark Penn’s Colombian deal
Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric
Barack Obama’s “Bitter” comment
Sarah Palin’s wardrobe
Joe Biden’s international test
Sarah Palin’s prank call
Mitt Romney: “Who Let the Dogs Out”
Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment

One-Liners and Gaffes

Posted: November 2, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Humor, Joe Biden, John McCain, Sarah Palin
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Politico compiles the best of the 2008 cycle. They focused on the two presidential nominees, but I would expand the list to include some of the other characters we’ve seen in the 2008 race.

ONE-LINERS
Joe Biden hits Rudy Giuliani: “A noun, a verb and 9/11”
Sarah Palin on the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull.
Bob Casey at the DNC: “That’s not a maverick, that’s a sidekick.”
Mike Huckabee: “Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office.”
John McCain on following Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell.

GAFFES
Sarah Palin’s entire interview with Katie Couric
Hillary Clinton invoking the assassination of Bobby Kennedy during the primaries
Barack Obama’s “bitter” comments at a fundraiser
Carly Fiorina saying John McCain and Sarah Palin couldn’t run Hewlett Packard
John McCain: “Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran”

Sarah Palin Gets Punk’d

Posted: November 2, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Humor, Sarah Palin
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A Canadian radio host/comedian manages to crank call Sarah Palin while impersonating French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

The Obama campaign’s response:

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Asked by ABC News if he’d heard the prank call played on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told reporters that he’d heard parts of it.

His response?

“I’m glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama,” Gibbs said.

D’oh!

Posted: October 29, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Humor
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Serious wrong number…

A flier sent by Michigan Democrats featuring a photo of Barack Obama that urged voters to submit an absentee ballot application includes a telephone number connecting callers to a phone sex line.

Equal Opportunity Offenders

Posted: October 26, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Humor, Joe Biden
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Saturday Night Live has a little fun at Joe Biden and John Murtha’s expense.

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Following the example set by Tina Fey’s devastating mockery of the Sarah Palin interview with Katie Couric, Biden’s SNL impersonator Jason Sudeikis uses Biden’s own words during the skit.

Separated at Birth

Posted: October 20, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Humor
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Howard Dean’s infamous “I Have a Scream” speech after the Iowa caucuses back in 2004:

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) at a recent McCain event

A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

Posted: October 16, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Humor, John McCain, Photography
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I really don’t know what to make of this. Photo by Reuters.

D’oh!

Posted: October 11, 2008 in Humor
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Some funny pictures compiled at QandO Blog. The video is priceless.

Osama for President?

Posted: October 11, 2008 in 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Humor
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From the Albany Times Union:

TROY — It could have been Ovama or Ofama. Or even Olama.

But with one “s” the Rensselaer County Board of Elections turned a single wrong letter into a national embarrassment Friday.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s last name is spelled “Osama” on some 300 absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County hilltowns.

Is it a Freudian slip, intentional gaffe or a mistake? Voters are sure to have opinions, and one politician pointed out that the letters “s” and “b” are not exactly keyboard neighbors.

“Of all the letters to hit by mistake,” County Democratic Chairman Tom Wade said. “Unfortunately it is a mistake which negatively impacts our Democratic candidate for president.”

The typo was first reported Friday on timesunion.com, and quickly grabbed national attention.

“It was crazy, everybody across the country called,” said Edward McDonough, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner. He said calls came in from The New York Times, the New York Post, Daily News, Wall Street Journal and Court TV.

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