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Parody: Flavor Flav moderates ‘Insane on the Campaign’ debate
After making a musical parody of Occupy Wall Street in November, the Cult Comedy Picture Show released their latest video on Tuesday, which pokes fun at the Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. The musical parody is based on Cypress Hill’s hit single “Insane in the…
Gingrich, Perry ‘fail to qualify’ for Virginia poll
US Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have failed to qualify for the party’s Virginia primary election, local media reported early Saturday. NBC News reported that the Virginian branch of the Republican Party made the decision because the former speaker of the House of Representatives and the Texas…
White House hopeful Perry rips Obama on pipeline
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Texas Governor and Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama for delaying the approval of a controversial US-Canada pipeline. “This president is driven by his environmental left-leaning base that’s putting pressure on him,” Perry told roughly 100 people at a campaign…
Rick Perry ‘retires’ to collect state pension while still governor
Texas Governor and current Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appears to have pulled something of a fast one on his state’s taxpayers by officially “retiring” earlier this year so that he could begin collecting an annual pension of $92,376 at the same time as he continues to draw his $150,000…
Huntsman accepts Romney’s $10,000 bet
Multimillionaire White House hopeful Mitt Romney owes rival Rick Perry some money, according to Jon Huntsman. Romney offered Perry a $10,000 bet during the Iowa Republican debate on Saturday over whether he said in his book that the health insurance mandate he signed into law as the governor of Massachusetts…
Fred Karger mocks Perry for having ‘most disliked’ ad
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger released a video on Saturday mocking Texas Gov. Rick Perry for having the most disliked video on YouTube. Karger was the first official entrant in the GOP 2012 race, as well as the first openly gay presidential candidate of a major political party. He…
Romney slammed over $10,000 bet
DES MOINES, IOWA — Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire White House hopeful, was slammed as elitist and out of touch after offering rival Rick Perry a $10,000 bet during a heated debate. Democrats could not contain their glee as the offhanded remark went viral on the social networking site Twitter as…
‘Middle class’ Romney tries to bet Perry $10,000
Most Americans these days can barely afford a friendly wager of $5 but Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has claimed he’s part of the middle class, tried to bet fellow-candidate Rick Perry $10,000 Saturday night. During ABC’s debate at Drake University in Iowa, Perry noted that Romney had suggested…
Parody ad: ‘God does not believe in Rick Perry’
Reacting to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s latest advertisement, which assails what the presidential candidate calls President Barack Obama’s “war on religion,” liberal satirist Andy Cobb published his own take, which concludes that “God does not believe in Rick Perry.” “Perhaps this is a good time to remember that gay and…
Barney Frank casts GOP candidates for ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Retiring Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) joked Sunday that he was casting a remake of “The Wizard of Oz” starring Republican presidential candidates. “I look at the Republican debate — I’ve been casting ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” Frank told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour. “Obviously, Mitt Romney is the tin woodman without a…
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