From the incomparable Betty Bowers:

Meet Tonya Jenkins. She died of shock this morning. You see, the poor thing had spent the past two years getting all of her information from Sean Hannity. She would then go to her favorite website, Free Republic, and read thousands and thousands and thousands of vitriolic posts, all containing no facts inconsistent with Mr. Hannity’s and no opinions that caused Tonya to rethink her own.

Tonya went to bed last night with a tumbler of cold tequila and a head full of comfy knowledge. She knew that the Lord Jesus would answer her prayer to never let no colored Muslim communist terrorist be no durn president. She was certain she would wake up to find that sassy Sarah Palin and her running mate, a wonderfully mavericky war hero, had been elected instead. In her Christian heart, Tonya was confident that Americans were every bit as racist as Republicans hoped they’d turn out to be, as the much discussed, posted about and wished for “Bradley Effect” would work its reactionary magic at the polls. Read on...

From The Onion:

The pardon assures that Libby will not face any more repercussions for his role in the Valerie Plame scandal or be eaten on Thanksgiving.

From The Onion:

With the economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whether it's time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in the desert.

This is why Palin should have won the election...Michael Palin, that is. ;)

In an effort to reach out across the aisle and work with Michelle Malkin, I am offering to join in on the "Send a message to Sarah Palin" that she's part of as a way to bridge the gap between our differences.

I'd like all C&L readers to send a message to Sarah Palin, thanking her for helping Barack Obama win the Presidency in such a dominant fashion. We couldn't have asked for more. She did a great job in making sure that Obama did receive a mandate by the American people to try and help heal this great nation from all the damage done to it by Conservatism and Conservatives like Michelle.

I'd personally like to thank the wonderfully insightful interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric that really made it clear how qualified she was to be Vice President. So go here and join me in sending a lovely message to Sarah Palin.

I think we must all begin to do what we can to help heal this country and stop all this partisan bickering.

You know I loves me some Keith Olbermann, but I think when he got to the point where he was doing a Campaign (Special) Comment daily and got pulled off debate coverage by Brokaw because of fears that he would not be able to keep from editorializing that a SNL spoof was coming up.

Ben Affleck tries to hold onto Keith's gravitas as he delivers his #5 story, does Worst Person in The World and delivers a Special Comment against the president of the co-op to which he applied. I lost count how many resignations he called for. Ouch.

With all this talk of "real Americans" and the superiority of small town values, The Daily Show's Jason Jones went straight to the heart of these values -- Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

A place where no means maybe; where strangers are just friends you haven’t thrown up on yet.

You can see more of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report at Indecision'08. And you can read Jon Stewart's clarification of his "F*ck you" to Sarah Palin at an appearance at Northeastern University at HuffPo.

[Note from Dave: I was present, observing in the back, while Jones was interviewing customers at the Mug Shot Saloon in Wasilla. (You can see some of it in the unfortunately brief video I made of my time in the Mug Shot here.) Most of the interviewees, I think, were alternately excited and amused at the idea of being national TV. Considering that they were some of Palin's biggest fans, I suspect they were about as amused at the outcome as Mark Chryson was.)

I forgot to post the Batman vs. The Penguin, the Debate video clip. Notice anything similar?

Penguin: ...but I intend to stick to the issues. Now what are the issues? There is only one. Batman. Who is he?

Who is that Obama? Has the Penguin been hiding out in Alaska all this time? Only Batman and Sarah Palin know for sure.

See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die

Warning: Strong Language, NSFW (h/t Renee)

The Bus Project saw that hacky special by John Stossel suggesting that maybe we shouldn't allow young people the right to vote and they decided that they were mad enough to get even.

Love the correspondent's moustache. So Stossel-like.

You can join The Bus Project to mobilize the youth vote (and hell, encourage people of all ages to get out and vote) and have fun too with their Trick or Vote! campaign.

A Dramatic Reading Of Wasilla City Council Minutes (h/t EB)

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Apocalypse John (Strong Language Warning)

Gotta love The Onion.

(NSFW: Language)

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Amy Poehler brings back her Hillary Clinton with Tina Fey's eerily accurate Sarah Palin to castigate the media for their sexist coverage of the presidential campaign. Like Clinton, I'm a little surprised that this has become an issue now, especially after how much grief I got for complaining about it six months ago.

PALIN: Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight.

CLINTON: And I was told I would be addressing you alone.

PALIN: Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together, what with me being John McCain's running mate...

CLINTON: And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama, as evidenced by this button.

PALIN: But tonight, we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign.

CLINTON: An issue that I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about.

PALIN: You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything...

CLINTON: Anything...I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.

PALIN: And I can see Russia from my house.

CLINTON: I believe global warming is caused by man...

PALIN: And I believe it's just God huggin' us closer.

CLINTON: I don't agree with the Bush Doctrine...

PALIN: And I don't know what that is.

CLINTON: But Sarah, one thing we can agree on is that sexism can never be allowed to permeate an American election.

PALIN: So please, stop Photoshopping my head on sexy bikini pictures.

CLINTON: And stop saying I have cankles.

PALIN: Don't refer to me as a MILF.

CLINTON: And don't refer to me as a "FLIRJ". I Googled what it stands for and I do not like it.

PALIN: Reporters and commentators, stop using words that diminish us, like "pretty", "attractive", "beautiful"...

CLINTON: ..."Harpy", "shrew", "boner-shrinker"...

Originally spotted (with a different candidate) at The General's. Open thread below...