Just last week The Daily Show caught Hannity running video from the 9/12 “teabagger” rally and claiming it was from Michele Bachmann’s much less attended “housecall” rally against the House healthcare bill. Media Matters reported that this was just the “tip of the iceberg” and gave previous examples.
Now they are at it again, running old McCain/Palin campaign footage and claiming it is from the “huge crowds” Palin is drawing on her book tour.
Bacon in a can! WANT! You can already get ready-to-eat bacon in vacuum-packs which are much easier to store than cans. But… cans can last for ten years! Nevertheless… Tactical Bacon. Tac Bac. That’s basically impossible for me to pass up.
You can get it over at ThinkGeek. Buy me some too.
Speaking of food, the folks over at Mint.com have a clever little chart showing the second quarter reversal of a five month downward trend in dining out. The chart is based on aggregate information from over 1 million Mint.com users. Neat!
In other quickies, Cheney is still a lying liar. Every time the man opens his mouth he admits to war crimes… yet he’s a free man. President Clinton’s marital indiscretions brought DC to a screeching halt, but we can’t just take a tiny little peek into the crimes admitted to by the closest we have to a super-villain? I don’t think I’ll ever understand it.
I haven’t posted about it, and I can’t really put what I take away from the passing of Michael Jackson any better than Jay Smooth did in this video, so I’m just going to let him say it:
