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• RNC Day One: Total Anarchy

  We'll be embedded most of this week with the Lobbyists For McCain, who claim to be the real power behind George Bush's John McCain's campaign. Of course, it's a satirical group of people that don't support McCain and think lobbyists-- and money-- have too much influence in our government. They are nonpartisan. While thousands of protesters either stabbed cops, broke windows, or more likely walked peacefully, the L4M mainly stood off to the sidelines and kept everybody laughing and generally calming the atmosphere made all the more tense by the presence of Darth Vader dudes with batons... Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 11:21 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: satire, republicans, scanner brian, john McCain, minnesota, billionaires for bush, lobbyist, protest, conventions

• Man Sells His Soul To Hell (Pizza)

  We're not making this up (although CNN and the AP might be): a man named (Sir?) Walter Scott of Wellington, New Zealand, has sold his soul for $3,800... to a pizza place... named "Hell Pizza." Read More... Posted Jul 03 2008, 10:59 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: cnn, ebay, stupid, weird, billionaires for bush, New Zealand, auction, soul

• Video of the Day: No You Can't

  In response to the now-famous "Yes We Can" Barack Obama video, the people formerly known as the Billionaires for Bush have released "No You Can't." We bet you didn't know that our senior national political correspondent Brian Fairbanks was a Billionaire for Bush. And he's too shy to tell you that he was a co-creator of this video. Posted Feb 15 2008, 03:41 PM by Emily Farris with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: video, video of the day, vod, Barack Obama, GOP, brian fairbanks, yes we can, billionaires for bush, no we can't