Republican candidate Mitt Romney has been under attack of late over his personal fortune and how he came to it — so it may not have been altogether wise for him to go in front of a camera and say that he isn’t “concerned about the very poor”. While Romney, who was being interviewed on CNN, [...]
To celebrate the 90th birthday of American actress, Betty White, NBC aired an evening of festivities including a playful video tribute from President Obama. Watch the nation’s charmer-in-chief mock critics who cast aspersions on his nationality, as he demands to see the long form birth certificate of the much-loved TV personality. Doubtless Donald Trump will be happy to [...]
In the latest gaffe of what has become an error-strewn campaign, Rick Perry has suggested Turkey “is being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists”. Showing a somewhat curious understanding of American foreign policy, Perry choose to overlook Turkey’s longstanding position as a NATO ally to the U.S, going onto claim: “Not only [...]
The band that brought you Liar Liar point out a few home truths.
Watch as children fall asleep to Gove’s lecture on school reform policy. At least Ed Balls played the drums.
As anticipation mounts for tonight’s Iowa Caucus, Scrapbook’s attention has been drawn to a campaign claim by the gaffe-prone former Republican frontrunner Michele Bachmann that is as spine chilling to lefties as it will be hubris to British Conservatives. Pledging a raft of policies which would make her idol proud and with an expression of [...]
The antidote to the tedium of annual current affairs round-ups, here is the April installment of Scrapbook’s Top 12 Political Cock-Ups of 2011. Cameron came under fire back in April after telling shadow minister Angela Eagle to “calm down dear” at Prime Minister’s Questions. Desperate to “win back the wimmin” the PM later defended his [...]
With the British National Party hanging over a financial abyss, our opportunities to laugh at Nick Griffin may soon be rationed. Let’s squeeze one more into 2011, with a reprise of Nick Griffin’s bizarre rendition of the nativity story: An evil man stroking a cat. Does he remind anyone else of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld?
