• 31 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    VEEPStakes 2008

    ABC gives a quick review of what John McCain, Barack Obama, and the voting pubic look for in our vice presidents. Some potential contenders--Mitt Romney for the Republican party, or Governor Tim Kaine for the Democratic ticket? But then ABC has some fun with the news, and shows a blooper reel of emb

  • 31 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Beijing Olympics Trap American Athletes

    The OnionNewsNetwork reports this morning on the danger American athletes may be in at the Beijing Olympics. Between the holes the Chinese are digging, and the pollution in the cities, these real games look more vicious than the trailer to BarelyPolitical's Candidate Girl Olympics. Internati

  • 30 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    New Sexy ID Verifies Safe Sexual History

    This fascinating tidbit appeared late last night on FoxNews. A new license proves to prospective bed partners that the licensed has been recently tested for STIs. And I think you know what that means. Sexy, political humor. Check it out

  • 30 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    The OTHER Stupid Thing Senator Ted Stevens Said

    Sen. Ted Stevens (R, AK) has an emerging news story/scandal. But we're at least as interested in the ridiculous things Stevens said about the internet 3 years ago--when he called it a "series of tubes." Will, who sent this video remix to me, couldn't believe I had never seen it. Political hu

  • 28 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Opposes Questions about Gay Adoption in All Circumstances

    In an awkward appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," John McCain is asked to clarify his position on gay adoption. While affirming that he supports traditional, two parent families, he also also says, "it's not the reason why I'm running for president of the United States." Not

  • 28 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Sexy, Swinging Senior Voters

    CBS profiles another group of swing voters--the forgotten Florida elderly. By election day, approximately 35% of the Florida population will be over 50. These seniors play golf, do the two-step, and vote at high rates . . . in Miami-Dade. Political humor. Check it out

  • 28 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Obama and McCain Fight for NO VALUES VOTERS

    In this edition of WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, the Onion News Network brings us a piece on the "No Values Voters" Search For the Most Evil Candidate. Disappointed so far with the elevated, positive discourse of this presidential election, the "No Values Voters" are waiting for things to get ugly. But i

  • 25 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Fox News' Educational Typo

    Perhaps to show the pressing need for actual "education," Fox News misspelled the word. Congrats to bhglitter for spotting the funny and ironic Fox News segment on "eductaion." Check it out.

  • 24 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Read My Lips: Politics by Slam Poetry

    This YouTube video from AdymPerry features black and white lips rhyming about the American political scene. Anything else I said might ruin it for you. Political humor. Check it out.

  • 24 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Wall Street's Drunken Bender

    At a Houston fundraiser last Friday, George Bush analyzed the state of the US stock market. Thinking no cameras were on, Bush candidly said, "There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk . . . and now it's got a hangover." The analogy continues. Political humor. Check it out.

  • 24 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Flips Out Video

    John McCain Flips Out Video You tell us if you think this funny John McCain video is real or not? We think it's fake. Sound too much like Bill O'Reilly. McCain Flips Out Bill OReilly Remix - Watch more videos

  • 23 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    The Mainstream Media Has a Crush on Obama

    This "Obama Love" video comes from John McCain's campaign. It picks up the story that the media likes Barack Obama so much, they get to go on trips with him, interview him, publish his opinion editorials, and can only criticize him for not being easy to make fun of. If you want to read some

  • 23 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Says, I Told You So

    In this video from Monday, the Veracifier shows that McCain knows how to stay on message. In "TPMtv: McCain Responds... And Responds...," John McCain tells various news programs that Barack Obama was wrong, wrong, wrong in his criticism of the war. In case you didn't know, McCain supports the

  • 23 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Got a question for Al Franken and Norm Coleman?

    In this video, YouChoose08 announces an opportunity to engage YouTube viewers in the Minnesota race for the US Senate between Republican incumbent, Norm Coleman, and Democratic challenger and career satirist, Al Franken. If the race didn't already have comedic potential, Norm Coleman has rel

  • 22 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    SEN JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD

    In a year of great, unbelievable headlines about the sexual misadventures of public officials, the National Enquirer still manages to shock and awe. I know it's not a video, but John Edward's Los Angeles hotel tryst still makes quite a story. Thanks to Jeremy for sending this. Political humo

  • 22 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    McCain calls Obama the One Morpheus Not Happy

    McCain calls Obama the One Morpheous Not Happy In an article today in the New York Times, a John McCain Aid is quoted as calling Barack Obama "The One" This got us here at BarelyPolitical thinking.... Barack Obama The One Matrix T Shirt Obama Matrix Shirt 13.99 at our store. Maybe

  • 20 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Voted Best Obama Shirt on Streetwearlink.com

    Voted Best Obama Shirt on Streetwearlink.com Hey, how cool is this? Streetwearlink.com just voted our Crush on Obama shirt the "Best Obama T Shirt!" Their explanation is cool as to why we deserve this honor. Check it out.

  • 18 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Bush and McCain Make the Grade

    Can our next president fail his way to the top? Is it okay for him to be a C student at Yale, or 5th from the bottom of his class? In this more than "satisfactory," funny video, "McDumb as Bush," jedreport compares the school records of George Bush and John McCain

  • 18 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Islamic MILFs Uniting

    Islamic MILFs Causing Trouble We could not make this up. This is a legitimate news story. There is a group out there called The Moro Islamic Liberation Front. MILF. We swear. Here is the wikipedia about MILF. And click here to read the article about them. MILF open to forging ‘unity of purp

  • 18 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Viagra T Shirt

    John McCain Viagra T Shirt The John McCain Viagra T Shirt has been relaunched. Why? Because it's funny. It's also relevant lately after McCain's refusal to talk about the drug.

  • 17 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    2009 McCain Health Clinic for Women

    In this video, bravenewpac shows us what the McCain Women's Clinic would look like. This video, the first in a series, is informative about McCain's very long anti-choice record, and it's also surprisingly light-hearted and funny. Check out what Planned Parenthood has to say about John McCain's reco

  • 17 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Jib Jabs Joins The Race

    Jib Jabs Joins The Race Check out the new Jib Jab VideoSend a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today!

  • 17 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Get out there and register to vote

    Cool new video. Make sure ya'll register to vote! Right Here!

  • 17 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Obama Girl at Netroots

    Girl at Netroots Will you be at Netroots this weekend? So will Obama Girl. Catch you there.

  • 15 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Had a Bad Day Err Week

    So, I'd been feeling imbalanced blogging primarily about John McCain's gaffes. But then I saw this recap of McCain's week from thywyyy, set to the tune of Daniel Powter's "Bad Day." YouTube can really emphasize the humor of relentlessly negative media commentary, Phil Gramm, Viagra, birth co

  • 15 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Stand Up Comedy

    John McCain Stand up comedy. In this BarelyPolitical.com video, John McCain joins a stand-up comedy tour. Ever take a dump in a hammock? What's the difference between Obama and Miley Cyrus? All these questions and more get answered.

  • 14 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Is Awkward about Viagra

    When reporters started asking John McCain about Viagra, I was really hoping it was going to lead to a Bob Dole-esque endorsement of the product. However, this awkward moment is good too . . . If insurance companies unfairly pay for Viagra, but not contraceptives, John McCain does not want to "Straig

  • 13 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Recover from Your Mental Recession

    This week, the most senior economic advisor to John McCain said that Americans are not in a true recession: they are simply whining about the financial equivalent of depression--the "mental recession." Fortunately, Lee Stranahan offers us the solution to our financial problems in this video. Just be

  • 12 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Would Perhaps Imagine that We Are in a Recession

    In this clip from tpmtv of MSNBC's Morning Joe earlier this week, John McCain showed a rare moment of uncertainty . . . about the economy. With 75% of Americans believing the country is in a recession, McCain may or may not agree with them depending on the precise definition of the term.

  • 12 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Jesse Jackson Obama Talks Down to Black People

    In this weird television moment, Jesse Jackson whispers about Barack Obama's attitude toward black people. And then Jackson takes it to a new level, saying that he wants to "cut his nuts off." Ouch

  • 10 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Barack Obama Wants to Teach Your Kids Spanish

    Barack Obama wants to run a new kind of campaign based on hope and "change." Namely, he hopes to win the presidency by changing the electorate--replacing English votes with Hispanic ones. Thanks to JJ8722 for showing us that Obama would rather win the Hispanic swing vote than appeal to white America

  • 10 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Windswept Obama Girl and Long John McCain

    Hey guys, I hope you had a Fourth of July filled with fireworks and fun! We're having a great summer so far at BarelyPolitcal, and here are two new videos for you. Check out the unstoppable, undeniable sexiness of ladies man and presidential candidate Long John McCain (We LOVE him!). And if you'

  • 10 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Nuclear DANGER at the India Pakistan Border

    Here's a great parody from the OnionNewsNetwork of one of the world's many ongoing, critical emergencies--in this case, the aggression between India and Pakistan and the potential for their border skirmishes to result in nuclear war

  • 10 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    John McCain Jokes about Smoking Out the Iranians

    Informed that cigarettes were the biggest American export to Iran, McCain joked with a reporter that maybe sending over cigarettes was an ingenious war tactic by the Bush administration to kill Iranians . But don't worry, this video clip from Salvatrucho213 is not offensive because John McCain speak

  • 09 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Fox News Hates that Michelle Obama Hates America

    Today, BraveNewFilms came out with this look at the right wing media coverage of Michelle Obama, called "Sorry FOX, we won't let you trash Michelle Obama." And it's hard not to conclude from this that Fox News regards Barack Obama's wife as anything but a bitter, mean, angry black woman. But don't w

  • 09 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    BarelyPolitical Gives Free Ipod to Random YouTube Subscriber

    Hooray! This month's lucky iPod winner is Jim Howard! And if spreading the love weren't enough of a thrill, Jim has an active blog that he fortunately featured us on. So you don't have to take our word for it that BarelyPolitical gives away one free iPod a month to a random subscriber to our YouTub

  • 08 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Thanks for the Sexy Wonky Count Barackula Tees

    We got an awesome surprise at BarelyPolitical today, and we owe Count Barackula a BIG, BIG thank you for sending over a box of their sexy, cool tee shirts. Count Barackula for President! Woohoo! Mine is baby Democratic blue, and I'm very excited about it. You can get your own at countbarackul

  • 08 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Register to Vote

    Register to Vote Before you know it November will be upon us. The big day arrives, you throw on your Obama or McCain shirt, grab your ID and head out to the voting booth. Don't get turned away because you didn't register.

  • 08 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Red State Update on Iraq and the Presidential Election

    In this most recent Red State Update, Barack Obama flip-flops on his Iraq timeline and his plan to accept federal campaign financing, while John McCain tries to make the election about something other than hope. But what would Jesus do if he were running for president?

  • 08 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Hot Headed Senator McCain

    Set to the tune of "Hot Blooded," this funny musical video is a quick biography of "Senator Hot Head," John McCain. Highlights include a McCain volcano, commentary by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on McCain's temper, and the lyrics "Vote for me, and we can go bomb Iran."

  • 04 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Bush Tours America to Survey the Damage Caused by His Presidency

    Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

  • 03 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    BarelyPolitical Girls Are YouTube Video Women

    McCain Girl, McCain Hulk and Obama Girl are featured in this Women of YouTube podcast from movio.com. Yes, we really are that sexy funny

  • 03 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    The Real Real Clinton Obama Phone Call

    BarelyPolitical Uncovers the leaked phone call between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Bill's apology is sometimes awkward, but always funny. The two are mostly complimentary and even a little "gay."

  • 03 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Best Early Political Campaign 2008 Videos

    I thought I should give a nod to part one of PoliticsTV's 2008 Web Video Odyssey, which began with George Allen's use of the "Macaca" slur. Since then, it's been great to see how the presidential campaigns have tried to keep up with the pace of new media, announcing their candidacies onlin

  • 02 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    2008 Web Video Odyssey Part Deux

    For July 4, the folks at PoliticsTV have come up with this amazing, thoroughly empowering tribute to Obama Girl and all things politically comedic: 2008's Best Campaign Web Videos So Far -Pt 2."Obama Girl, the Empire Strikes Barack, Barocky, Young Hillary Clinton

  • 01 Jul

    Blog: Barely Political

    Bill Clintons Secret Call to Barack Obama

    In this exclusive, "leaked" footage from jimghenderson, we see what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton really talked about in their formerly secret phone call. Filled with references to Clinton's 1990s dalliances, slang, and tang, Clinton talks about such serious topics as vice-presidential candi

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