You might recall the Situation Room Meme — this was Before Weiner, so we’ll understand if it slipped your mind — which involved the Internets trying to top each other’s replacement of characters starring in the Bin Laden Death Watch. One of our favorites was the Superhero Situation Room, starring Barack Obama as Captain America.

But hey, any wimp can doctor a photo. It takes a real jock to update a 1954 socialist realist statue.

‘Banksy of Bulgaria’ Turns Soviet-Era Statues into American Superheroes [Comics Alliance]

We are told that Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News Sunday. And then we are told this:

Host Chris Wallace pressed Stewart on why he didn’t consider The New York Times and The Washington Post biased for asking readers to help read Sarah Palin’s email trove.

“They never said ‘help us go through the 2,000 pages of the Obama health care bill,'” Wallace noted.

Perhaps because the Palin email trove was a mere 22,199 pages longer?

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WaPo wizwonk Ezra Klein, Thursday:

I wish we could all agree to stop jumping on things like Mitt Romney saying “I’m also unemployed.” It’s pretty clear from the context that he was making a joke. Jokes sometimes misfire, or read strangely when pulled out of context and printed in the paper. In the interest of having our candidates speak like something other than robots, we should cut them some slack.

Well, um, no.

We actually try to be somewhat fair in our mocking, so when we took up Mitt’s remark yesterday, we made sure to note that — as reported — his audience appreciated his joke as given.

And then we proceeded to provide Mitt a new orifice.

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After Michele Bachmann won Monday night’s debate by not seeming as batshit crazy as we’ve come to expect, political journalists have been churning out instant backgrounders. The best so far, by general acclaim, was published yesterday by BeastWeek’s Michelle Goldberg, who provides some details that may not be familiar to those of us who only started paying attention after Bachmann managed to out-crazy Tweety.

Take, for example, the celebrated Bathroom Hostage Crisis, which deserves pride of place in any Bachmann bio:

A few dozen people showed up at the town hall for the April 9 [2005] event, and Bachmann greeted them warmly. But when, during the question and answer session, the topic turned to same-sex marriage, Bachmann ended the meeting 20 minutes early and rushed to the bathroom. Hoping to speak to her, Arnold and another middle-aged woman, a former nun, followed her. As Bachmann washed her hands and Arnold looked on, the ex-nun tried to talk to her about theology. Suddenly, after less than a minute, Bachmann let out a shriek. “Help!” she screamed. “Help! I’m being held against my will!”

Bachmann was serious. She called the police. And the police investigated. Finally, the DA blew it off. Seems her captors were just a couple of nice ladies who wanted to ask questions. Just like they said.

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Continuing our theme of ignoring things that nobody would have noticed in the first place, we’re going to pass on the shocking! web video that TPM called “Willie Horton on steroids”, but which is so over-the-top silly and profoundly incomprehensible that we have a sneaking suspicion it was produced solely to get outraged! Lefty coverage and raise money for the SuperPAC that made it, rather than having anything remotely to do with the California Republican campaign it supposedly supports.

Really, folks: This ain’t no Demon Sheep.

In its place, we present a hard-hitting video that speaks to the issue most concerning Americans today.

[via Comics Alliance]

Desperate for a break from the Shlongathon — Did anything happen yesterday? Yes. Yes it did. — Lefties have decided to make an example of Eric Bolling of Fox Business Network, who—

Hold on. Show of hands: Who here knows who Eric Bolling is? Uh-huh. And who has seen Fox Business? Mmmmkay. And who has even heard of Fox Business? Right.

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Dick		Role
	Anthony Weiner	Launched the Battle of the Bulge.
	Andrew Breitbart	After proclaiming to take the high road, showed the Cock Shot to Opie & Anthony.
	“Dan Wolfe”	Discovered the Dick Tweet; disappeared after his own past turned out less than upstanding.

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