Video of the week: July 2009 Archives

I previously posted a video of a crazy guy at a public meeting, and mentioned that you see that a lot when you cover municipal politics. Here's another ... archetype, I guess you'd call it, of the public meeting speaker.

These types can be amusing, unless you're a reporter who needs to get back and file a story about the meeting you're covering, and deadline is rapidly approaching. In that case, you should make sure the local cable access station doesn't catch you mouthing obscenities on-air. It looks unprofessional.

I happen to think Ricky Gervais is one of the funniest human beings on the planet. I admire the way the best humorists can make you laugh even as they make you deeply uncomfortable.

I was taking some vacation time in West Virginia (no, I WASN'T really in Argentina), which is why the blog has been a bit inactive lately.

I had this whole bit worked out where I would predict things that would happen -- ie: Sarah Palin announced today that she's returning to her home planet -- and the blog would post them on the appropriate days. But I couldn't make that part of the blog work. Sorry.

Well, I'm home just in time to post the Video of the Week. Maybe I'm cheating, posting my second video from The Onion in a row. Frankly, I'm trying to take care of the backlog of stuff waiting on my return, so I don't have a lot of time to dig around for new videos right now.

And this one is pretty funny. Though I doubt I'm the only guy whose reaction on first seeing it was:"Ouch!"

I think "The Onion" is still my all-time favorite Website. It blows my mind how they manage to be so funny every week.

In recent years, they've added spot-on videos satirizing TV news, including their take on C-SPAN.

I have to admit, people don't make it easy for you when you're a politician. You keep a grueling schedule, especially during campaigns. Somebody always has a camera pointed at you. You can be poised and articulate 99.9 percent of the time. But make one verbal screwup and suddenly the video's all over cable news and the Internet, making you look like a boob in perpetuity.

Which, of course, isn't going to dissuade me from posting this: