The big breaking political news yesterday was that Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) is reconsidering his decision not to seek re-election due to the toiletgate scandal. He’s fighting the charges and might not resign. Republicans may cringe but, never fear, You Tube already has a proposed campaign song ready for him to use:

Comedian Jerry Lewis, who set a record for raising millions during this weekend’s Muscular Dystrophy telethon has apologized for an anti-gay slur dropped as a kind of throw-away line during one of the TV fundraiser’s unscripted moments. See our earlier post HERE that explains the controversy, looks at Lewis’ career and contains an excellent video tribute to him and his former comedy team...

Comedian Jerry Lewis broke his own fund raising record this weekend on the Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy — but he’s now under fire for an offhand remark. CNN reports: The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Tuesday denounced comedian Jerry Lewis’ use of the word “fag” on Lewis’ annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy and called on him...

A reader suggested video for on TMV since it would certainly generate some discussion given TMV’s ideologically diverse readership (we know some people on all sides are bound to want to leave their analysis of it in comments). This video of Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends has received more than 1,600,000 viewings on You Tube. The song is presented in as an anti-war video. The song won...

Michelle Malkin has an item that is sure to be talked about on rage-loving talk radio shows and on many weblogs today (after all it is a “slow” holiday weekend and weblogs increasingly resemble a form of printed talk radio). It’s now verbal war between Geraldo Rivera and Malkin — and Geraldo is spitting mad. Literally. She cites this quotes from this Boston Globe article: Rivera,...

Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) is reportedly set to resign today. And it’s good thing for him and the GOP: the late night comics are having a ball — and so are posters at You Tube. Just watch this highly viewed song parody now all the rage on You Tube:

Oh, those late night comedians love the scandal surrounding Republican Senator Larry Craig’s airport men’s room arrest. Here’s a long list of their jokes. Some are quite adult oriented (go to the link and read the entire list). Most of the jokes are essentially about hypocrisy or are new gay or recycled stock gay jokes. Here are a few of the tamer and funnier ones: “How about that poor...

An extensive website interview with The Stuff of Thought’s Steve Pinker, noted cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, is HERE.

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz: Gonzales to Spend More Time Eavesdropping on His Family ‘Domestic Surveillance Begins at Home,’ Former A.G. Says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned today, effective immediately, telling reporters that he wanted to spend more time eavesdropping on his family. Mr. Gonzales, a champion of domestic surveillance and warrantless wiretaps...

As a performer in my other incarnation, I study classic and contemporary comedians…and seem to keep coming back to one comic/tragic figure. It’s Lou Costello, the rolly-polly part of the famous Abbott and Costello comedy team that dominated radio and movies in the 40s, appeared on early TV, broke up in the mid-fifties and ended definitely in 1959. It’s because in March 1959 Costello died of...

Miss Teen South Carolina definitely sounds like she has a bright future as a White House spokesperson:

The Moderate Voice runs guest voice columns from time to time by readers who don’t have their own sites or by people who want to contribute to the voices and perspectives offered to TMV’s ideologically and demographically diverse readership. This is in another one of the reviews by Dan Schneider, who has his own site HERE and whose reviews have been popular on TMV. DVD Review Of A Certain Kind...

Once upon a time, on the the Iberian peninsula, in what is now southern Spain, Jews, Muslims and Christians lived in harmony, and the mild tension between them led to creativity. It became a kind of garden for the flowering of art, architecture, business, ideas, music, a (often grudging) respect for other religions — and a nest for the Renaissance. People lived side by side, living under Islamic rule...

It’s Saturday and time to kick back a bit. So why not educate yourself? Here are some fascinating Presidential facts:

I actually got some blogging done while in Rehoboth, but the internet was so spotty I couldn’t reliably get the posts online. So here’s a wrap-up of the posts I did: Tony Perkins lauds a soldier for “tak[ing] on Guantanamo”. How does one “take on” an isolated, extra-legal island prison we already own? Fred Thompson supporters seem to think “he’s tall” is...

The media is filled with stories today about the death of Elvis Presley 30 years ago today. On that day I was in Spain, writing for The Christian Science Monitor, living in a “train apartment” — a long apartment with rooms off it — in the white collar Madrid neighborhood of Carbabanchel. I was always some 20 years behind on my music and, true to form, I “discovered” Elvis...

Yesterday we did THIS POST on the death of show biz producer, pioneering TV talk show host and businessman Merv Griffin. And we got emails from readers (particularly young readers) want to know more. SO: FIRST be SURE TO READ skippy’s post — a must read post for show biz and comedy buffs and aspiring show biz types. Skippy (who writes in lower case)puts it perfectly in perspective: Griffin truly...

Actor Kevin Spacey: Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee:

Merv Griffin, the former singer who became a television staple in the 60s and into the 70s with his popular variety/talk show and and who later went on to become a show business business giant has died: Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82. Griffin...

It’s a tragedy some people are nearly forgotten. Timmie Rogers was a hugely popular, crowd-pleasing African-American comedian who appeared often on The Ed Sullivan Show during the 1950s and 1960s with his catchphrase tagline: “Oh, yeah!” But he was a quadruple threat: comedian, singer, dancer and composer. He was a smash performer. Details on him on the web are sketchy but here’s a tiny...

Weird Al Yankovic FAT music video — a takeoff of Michael Jackson’s “Bad.”

Here’s a story about someone. Every day when I wake up I thank God this guy is alive: As a full-time entertainer, Joe Gandelman travels across the country year round, but not alone. He is accompanied by his colleagues John, Edwin the Elephant, Smiley the Bulldog and his Uncle Sydney, to name a few. Gandelman is a ventriloquist and he has been entertaining crowds at the Finney County Fair three times...

You Tube has a couple of gems: rare vintage videos of one of the greatest song satire composers/performers in concert.Tom Lehrer was popular in the 1950s and 1960s (he abandoned his performing career) but WAY ahead of his time. Except for a few dated topical references, these songs hold up. This is my first time SEEING Lehrer perform…and as an entertainer myself I am struck by his showmanship. Here are...

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A heated confrontation (what else on TVpolitical talk shows?) between Fox News talk powerhouse Bill O’Reilly and Democratic Senator Chris Dodd over O’Reilly’s latest rage campaign, this time against the YearlyKos convention and Daily Kos (O’Reilly uses the graphic to suggest the whole site is like that). But this time someone finally NAILS IT. Chris Dodd cuts to it and notes what O’Reilly...