Archive for the 'Video of the Day' Category

Video of the Day: “My mommy doesn’t need fixing”

Posted by Michael Happy on December 6th, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8CGeC2M_U&cc=1

Michelle Bachmann gets exactly what she deserves from an 8 year old boy. Her expression at the 35 second mark says it all.

Unfortunately, it turns out that embedding this video here means that the annotations function cannot be activated. Watch it with subtitles here.

TRANSCRIPT:

0:00 Michele: What’s your name? Elijah: Elijah.

0:04 Michele: Elijah? It’s really good to meet you— what?

0:08 Lora: (To Elijah) Don’t you have something you’d like to say?

0:15 Elijah: (Quiet whispering) Michele: I can’t hear him.

0:19 Lora: You can say it louder, go ahead. Michele: No, it’s alright. You said it, but

0:24 you know, I- I think I, my ears were too far away. Do you wanna come over real quickly?

0:32 Elijah: My mommy— Miss Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.

0:36 Michele: … Ba-bye.

Video of the Day: “Nothing great has ever come from the 99%”

Posted by Michael Happy on November 28th, 2011

The Beatles vs this buffoon.

View from ISS

Posted by Michael Happy on November 14th, 2011

Time lapse view of Earth from the International Space station over a two month period.

Paul Krugman’s Vid Pick of the Day

Posted by Michael Happy on November 13th, 2011

Paul Krugman has a Nobel Prize in Economics and, besides writing a column for the New York Times, keeps a personal blog, “The Conscience of a Liberal.” He regularly posts music videos in some way relevant to what he’s writing about, and they are always excellent picks.

Today it’s Canada’s Arcade Fire performing “Wake Up” at the Choacella Festival in California.

Previous Krugman musical post here. Earlier Arcade Fire post here.

Video: Demonstrator Shot with Rubber Bullet in Oakland

Posted by Michael Happy on November 7th, 2011

There is no ambiguity here. The man recording this scene is shot without provocation, and the video captures the officer who shot him.

He was shot with a rubber bullet, which police in Oakland last week were denying they use on protesters.