O.J. Simpson Guilty on All Counts
Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘im. O.J. Simpson was found guilty on all twelve counts in the Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping trial thirteen years to the day of his acquittal in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
This is delayed justice as far as I am concerned. He got away with murder eleven years ago.
http://www.dailymotion.com/videox303i8Check out a clip from one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits — O.J. Simpson returns to NBC Sports after the murder trial.
Just a few weeks ago, Saturday Night Live joked about the media attention the first O.J. Simpson trial received and the difficulty such a high profile case would have on finding jurors who did not think Simpson murdered his ex-wife.
Don’t Vote
Nobody is listening anyway…
But in all seriousness, the voter registration deadline is fast approaching for many states. Register, then, vote!
The Debates, Part II
Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) and Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) will square off in the “Show Me State” at the Washington University in St. Louis. The debate will be moderated by PBS’ Gwen Ifill.
McCain Plays Politics at a Time for Leadership
John McCain’s political stunt to “suspend” his campaign could not be any more transparent. As we noted yesterday, McCain’s campaign was operating like normal in the field, and surrogates were still lobbing their dishonest, misleading attacks against Senator Barack Obama. Even The Daily Show with Jon Stewart mocked McCain’s move as a ten day delay to a major crisis where the Republican presidential nominee shifted from declarations that economic “fundamentals” are “strong” to warnings that this is the greatest crisis to face the nation since the Second World War.
The New York Times reported on rundown of events at the White House summit that included McCain, Senator Barack Obama, President Bush, and congressional leaders.
Mr. Boehner pressed an alternative that involved a smaller role for the government, and Mr. McCain, whose support of the deal is critical if fellow Republicans are to sign on, declined to take a stand. [...]
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Senate banking committee, denounced the session as “a rescue plan for John McCain,” and proclaimed it a waste of precious hours that could have been spent negotiating. [...]
Mr. McCain was at one end of the long conference table, Mr. Obama at the other, with the president and senior Congressional leaders between them. Participants said Mr. Obama peppered Mr. Paulson with questions, while Mr. McCain said little.
TIME Magazine columnist Joe Klein ripped John McCain’s injection of purely partisan politics into a fragile Congressional negotiation.
McCain’s erratic, and irresponsible, behavior this week isn’t happening in a vacuum. This isn’t just politics–even George W. Bush, who never failed to take a partisan advantage in his presidency, realizes that. It is a time for leadership [...] We’ve seen nothing like that from McCain. Just histrionics.
Meanwhile, John McCain’s idea to solve the crisis? More deregulation and more corporate tax giveaways:
McCain Solution: Deregulation, Corporate Tax Breaks
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) injected presidential politics into the bailout negotiations with his latest antics.
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, poignantly observed tonight that between the announcement by Congressional leaders of both parties that an agreement was reached and the collapse of said agreement late tonight — John McCain landed in Washington, D.C.
The Return to Normalcy: Seven Years Later
Seven years ago today, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart returned to the airwaves for the first time after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Host Jon Stewart gave quite an emotional and heartfelt speech to open the show.
Read the full transcript of Stewart’s remarks here.
Tina Fey’s Spot On Palin Impersonation
Tina Fey made a special appearance in the opening sequence of Saturday night’s Saturday Night Live as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), and her impersonation was spot on.
October 6, 2008