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CNN declares war on annoying politicians with its own ‘Too Many Cooks’ parody
03.20.2015
11:59 am
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OK, this is borderline awesome. On its official YouTube account, CNN yesterday released a pretty darn good parody of Too Many Cooks, the one-off viral video that Adult Swim released late last year that poked fun at cheesy 1980s sitcom opening credit sequences. In CNN’s version, which repurposes both the title and much of the theme music of the original, the video appears to be a comment on what is sure to be a crowded and noisy primary season for the election of 2016. With no presidential incumbent in the race, the Democratic side, in terms of official candidates, features little more than the presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, although that may change (and there are theoretical challengers floating around), while the Republican side really does lend itself to a “Too Many Cooks” treatment.
 

 
The video is a good excuse to throw every embarrassing clip they could find into a single video—for instance, Marco Rubio reaching for a glass of water, John McCain dancing a weird little jig, and so forth. Since the whole point of the video is to surpass anyone’s reasonable attention span, the video lasts a little under six and a half minutes (about half of the original “Too Many Cooks”) and features pretty much every notable political figure since the mid-1990s who is still active (and a couple that are not).

CNN’s version stays surprisingly faithful to the original, as you’ll see when you give it a look.
 

 
via The Daily Dot

Posted by Martin Schneider
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03.20.2015
11:59 am
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Anti-gay bigot Tony Perkins is teaching his kids not to be gay!

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I can only imagine that it was complete pandemonium in the hallways of CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC yesterday as the word filtered out through well-connected Washington media-types that President Obama was coming out of the closet in favor of gay marriage.

If you were a booker at CNN, what’s the first thing you’d do on the occasion of a sitting American President forcefully (if only rhetorically) endorsing marriage equality? Why, of course, you’d scramble to invite a small-minded Christianist bigot like Tony Perkins to offer HIS opinions, wouldn’t you?

And that’s just what CNN did… THREE TIMES.

I can’t think of a more important and relevant voice on the whole matter than Tony fucking Perkins, can you? It’s logical: The President of the United States says something important, lets get a non-entity who runs and is the figurehead/mouthpiece of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as an anti-gay hate group to puke his opinions into viewer’s homes.

Point, counter point, CNN style. No wonder no one watches anymore.

At least, though, when Piers Morgan drew the Tony Perkins card that day (imagine his reaction!) he had some fun with it. At a certain point during this interview, Morgan deftly sank his teeth into Perkins’ ass (metaphorically speaking of course) and did not let go.

It gets really good when Morgan asks Perkins how he’d react if one of his own five children announced to him that they were gay and you see Perkins bridle uncomfortably at the suggestion, pursing his lips and getting very terse with Morgan. Perkins claims that his children would not be gay because he and his wife have been “teaching them the right ways.” (Five kids? What are the odds that one might be gay? Good luck with that Tony!)

Why the hell was this clown on CNN three times in less than 36 hours? What a failure on every level for CNN, even if their anchors DID give him shit. The CNN bookers really need to enter this century and tell this reedonkulous asshat to shove off.

But anyways, I really hate this guy. It was good fun to watch him squirm here.

(And if you enjoyed this, too, here’s MSNBC’s Martin Bashir making mincemeat of religious conservative Rep. Joe Barton of Texas (the fucking idiot who apologized to BP) and his reference to a non-existent Bible verse to bolster his threadbare “moral” arguments for an austere Republican budget that would end Meals on Wheels and free school lunches for poor children.)
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.10.2012
05:54 pm
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Crackpot apocalypse prophet William Tapley on CNN
06.09.2011
11:57 am
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William Tapley, the 71-year-old retired furniture engineer from Forestport, NY and self-described “Co-prophet of the End Times” and “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse” actually made it on to CNN the other day.

And here, I thought he was just another obscure Christian crackpot making preposterous “biblical” predictions in YouTube videos, that we and a few other sites linked to just to goof on him…

Now, Billy the Tap is goin’ international!

Even though Tapley is, of course, being ridiculed here, I’m sure in his mind, this will be interpreted as a good thing anyway, because his God’s message will be “getting out there” more. Even though he must get slammed with “you’re an idiot” type comments and emails all day long, I’ve never seen Tapley address the subject of people ridiculing him. I guess he’d have to be impervious to Internet hecklers in his role as “Co-prophet of the End Times” and “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse.”

All part of God’s plan… All part of the plan!
 

 
More William Tapley on Dangerous Minds

If You Use Condoms, You Will Not Be Raptured

Via Christian Nightmares

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.09.2011
11:57 am
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CNN gets ‘sign-bombed’ in Wisconsin!
02.24.2011
04:55 pm
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Too, too good.

Via Joe.My.God

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.24.2011
04:55 pm
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News shocker: CNN accidently airs diarrhea scene from ‘Dumb & Dumber’
12.10.2010
02:05 pm
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Is this CNN’s desperate attempt to grab Fox viewers?

Turns out, CNN intended to use the ‘Dumb And Dumber’ scene to introduce a piece about men’s digestive diseases and someone slipped the clip into the wrong spot. Laughter ensues.
 

 

Via HD

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.10.2010
02:05 pm
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Shitty typo on CNN
08.16.2010
07:52 pm
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(via TDW )

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.16.2010
07:52 pm
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They Report, You Decide (or something like that…)
08.19.2009
03:25 pm
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It’s always instructive to compare how a particular news story is reported by different media outlets. Case in point, how CNN covered Barney Frank’s town hall meeting with some of his less intelligent constituents in Dartmouth, Massachusetts vs. the way Fox News handled the same story. Any commentary would be entirely superfluous, but it does go to show why flipping the channels can provide interesting insight into how opinion is manufactured. (And bravo to Frank for calling these folks out on their total know-nothing idiocy).

First CNN:


Then Fox News (featuring zany idiot Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.19.2009
03:25 pm
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