Tag: irony

TBogg has a great promotion for the teabaggers sent out by Human Events. It’s perfect for an early morning laugh. (and the irony that the main publication Ann Coulter works for is into tea bagging. Oh my!!!)

Hmmm somehow having this name out there today seems to have a very odd twist of irony: Joe the Plumber is scheduled to address GOP congressional aides today on the economic stimulus package, Politico reports. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, of Ohio, became a household name during the presidential campaign after a brief sidewalk debate with candidate […]

This headline from the AP pings out the ironic-a-meter: US anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped in Mexico Such a serious story, with such irony in the headline that it strikes me as funny.

Then that image may not be around today. Here is the irony of all ironies being reported by the London Times: Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda Security officials fear a ‘spectacular’ during the transition period Now let’s rewind to the summer of 2001 when Bush was handed a […]

I can’t say that this comes as any shock: In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer […]

Oh how sweet this is. McCain had a web ad out that twisted what Katie Couric had said about sexism in the campaigns. Well CBS complained to YouTube about the ad and YouTube acted properly and pulled it. **Hidden Irony – we are champion CBS, which is owned by Viacom, for actually having a video […]

John McCain is talking about skipping the GOP convention or having it postponed due to Gustav. Here is what he said: McCain told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” in an interview taped for broadcast Sunday that the convention could be rescheduled. “It just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy […]

A new 501c(4) has released an ad about Obama and Ayers. Well it turns out the ad may very well be illegal. How certain is this? Certain enough that even FOX turned down the ad. Now for the special irony in this story. The provision it may be illegal under is from 2003, a certain […]

I am amazed this story isn’t getting more play in the U.S. For years Sony BMG has gone after music downloaders and now it turns out they are the pirates: The story centres on French software developer, PointDev, which makes administrative tools for Windows. According to Ars Technica, the company recently received a call from […]

We have known for a long time that Matthews is goo-goo over McCain. I keep waiting for him to whip it out and rub one off every time he talks about McCain, but today he took this wild man love even a step further: MATTHEWS: I think there are ways to end it if we […]