The Irish Barack Obama: Amazing Follow-Up

Astonishing news: The Corrigan Brothers will soon be spreading their single "There’s No One As Irish as Barack Obama” throughout the world, formally releasing it on 12 December.

We'd like to think that this dramatic development is due to Enduring America, which featured the single a few weeks ago, but apparently we have to share the credit with MSNBC's ‘Hardball’, Newsweek, the Late Late Show, Pat Kenny, and Ryan Tubridy and The Afternoon Show. The BBC's Andrew Marr, who of course is Britain's premiere music critic (having predicted the rise of Oasis in the 1990s*), anointed the band's inaugural performance as ‘the only YouTube video you have got to see’.

*OK, he didn't. But it makes for a far better story.

Actually, we understand that the breakthrough came on Election Night, when The Corrigan Brothers performed the track at a party in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral home of President-elect Obama. Impressing a crowd that no doubt far outnumbered the main victory rally in Chicago, TCB got themselves an invite to play an Obama Inaugural Party the day before the Great Irishman becomes the 44th President of the USA.

Only one downer to this Irish-American tale. We regret that TCB dropped the name under which they originally performed the song, Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys. Copyright be damned, surely this is a pop-culture reference to appeal to all audiences....

Why We Love Conservapedia: On Guard Against Atheists (and Liberals)

As the guardian of all things truthful against "liberal bias", Conservapedia would be expected to defend us from the scourge of atheism. Still you have to admire the tenacity of the fight as it identifies "Atheism and Communism", "Atheism and Mass Murder", and "Targeting of Young People by Atheists on the Internet".

One contributor was so diligent that he identified a medical condition suffered only by atheists:

''Atheistic fluff'' is a medical condition suffered by atheists.

As a consequency of renouncing God and accepting atheistic doctrines such as evolution, atheists often develop a layer of downy fluff, covering the groin, buttocks, and in some extreme cases, the face. -
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Charles Darwin developed a severe case of atheistic fluff, covering most of his body, after publishing ''The Origin of Species''. Some critics believe that Michael Moore may be suffering from atheistic fluff, despite his claim to be a Christian.


Darwin in an advanced stage of atheistic fluff

Atheistic fluff can be cured through abstinence, prayer and Bible study.-

Unfortunately, Conservapedia editors had an unexpected attack of caution and deleted this important medical evidence. On the other hand, they have maintained their vigilance against the related condition "Liberal Fluff", the entry for which reads:

Liberal fluffers are employed extensively in the entertainment industry in Hollywood, where they promote Hollywood values.

And speaking of liberals, Conservapedia has a helpful guide to their devious "Liberal Tools" , which apparently include:

1. Deceit
2. Halitosis.
3. Mumbling.
4. Interrupting speakers
5. Eating with their mouth open.
6. Holding conservatives to a higher standard than they hold themselves.
7. Bullying.
8. Hypnosis.
9. Censorship.
10. Custard.
11. Capturing and misleading youth.
12. Sowing division among conservatives, such as atheists complaining that one particular prayer
might offend someone of another religion.
13. Desensitization.
14. "Jamming", by Bob Marley.
15. Conversion.
16. Undermining religion.
17. Mocking conservative science.
18. Portraying criminals and miscreants as being conservative when, in fact, they are not.
19. Dismissing valid conservative criticism for no reason.
20. Knocking on doors and then running away.
21. Using the term "Karajou" as a pejorative.
22. Insisting on "globalist" terms and phrasing to the detriment of American English and meanings. This
is an anti-American effort to promote "one worldism."
23. Poisonous frogs.
24. The Gay Bomb.
25. Liberace.

Correction: It's the Irish Barack Obama (and Here's the Music to Prove It)

Readers in Dublin are buzzing* over the news of the not-quite-smash hit from Limerick group Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys (aha --- even a-not-that-side joke with the name), "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama".

*Our inside source in Dublin corrects us: "The word 'buzzing' should actually be 'embarrassed and ashamed'." We apologise for our initial error.

We've snared the music video for you --- and for anyone at Conservapedia who wants to set the record straight:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk[/youtube]

Why We Love Conservapedia: The Muslim Barack Obama

We find a sense of humour at Conservapedia, our bulwark against liberal bias --- "the truth shall set you free".

The entry for Barack Obama reads, "President-elect Obama could become the first Muslim President, and may be sworn into office at his inauguration on January 20, 2009, using the Koran."

(The editors even put up a supposed source for this "fact", which on closer examination is a Christian Science Monitor article headlined, "At swearing in, congressman wants to carry Koran. Outrage ensues." Only the sharp-eyed would notice that Barack Obama on Inauguration Day will no longer be a Congressman, and that the story actually refers to Democratic Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota.)

Some very po-faced readers, citing accuracy, credibility, blah blah blah, keep trying to modify the entry --- at least to the extent of taking the Koran bit out --- but the editors are dogged enough to keep restoring the humourous parody.

So, kudos to y'all at Conservapedia! The Onion would be proud of you.

Today's Moment of Political Wisdom: Why Liberal Women Hate Sarah Palin

Exactly, Mr Dennis Miller. The same reason why my mother despises Hillary Clinton. And why women hated Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. (And why I went off Adolf Hitler after he met that Eva Braun.)

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8kCKewWGbQY[/youtube]