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View the full archive of Better Bad News CHANGE THAT CHANGE CHANGE THAT CHANGE: The Obama “change administration” purge of progressive democrats gets skewered in a BetterBadnews video satire making the rounds on YouTube and Blip.tv David Sirota and Steve Hildebrand, discuss recent changes to the change administration and tell each other gently to “STFU”. Rahm Emanuel threatens to explode if anyone tries to eat the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BERKELEY KID CALLS OBAMA KID Berkeley Kid comic has a question for Malia Obama. Malia takes the call. Short clip produced by BetterBadNews. Political satire Better Bad News is HALF TRUE MORE OR LESS 100% OF THE TIME. Special thanks to We Are Change That Change, Galen Corr and Berkeley Community Media. Tags: berkeley, betterbadnews, hyper-inflation, comic, malia, , obama, , [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US ADMITS ANTHRAX LETTER WAS FALSE MUSLIM ATTACK Weaponized anthrax spores mailed to two congressmen and several members of the news media in September 2001 included hand lettered notes with the salutation, “ALLAH IS GREAT”. But according to a New York Times investigation, the FBI now believes that the crime was committed by a military lab employee named, Bruce Ivins, who is alleged [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ANXIETY DRUG PLAN TO COVER PRE-EXISTING FEARS The discussion broke down when a weak minded individual resorted to using his cell phone gun to settle a dispute he was having with himself. The BetterBadNews panel examine how misinformed and abused populations can combat their pre-existing fears by self medicating to the point of mental oblivion. But is this political satire or journalism? Was it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KLONOPIN USERS DANGEROUSLY CALM IN EMERGENCIES Two Questions: 1. When is the best time to panic? 2. Ridiculing Obama from the left - blasphemy or treason? If George Carlin were alive he would explain it like this: “In keeping with Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo, the torture of US detainees will now only take place everywhere else”. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS : The BetterBadNews panel discussion on pre-panic planning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KLONOPIN USERS DANGEROUSLY CALM IN EMERGENCIES Two Questions: 1. When is the best time to panic? 2. Ridiculing Obama from the left - blasphemy or treason? If George Carlin were alive he would explain it like this: “In keeping with Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo, the torture of US detainees will now only take place everywhere else”. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS : The BetterBadNews panel discussion on pre-panic planning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MIND CONTROL FOR DUMMIES The compromise legislation establishes a half-truth commission to examine half of the crimes committed during the preceding 8 years. The remaining crimes  having to do with false Muslim attacks, weaponized anthrax letters, rigged elections and the improbable suicide of WTC Building 7 will not, as it stands now, be reviewed by the commission. Welcome to BetterBadNews [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EXPANDED ANXIETY DRUG COVERAGE TO INCLUDE PRE-EXISTING FEARS The discussion broke down when a weak minded individual resorted to using his cell phone gun to settle a dispute he was having with himself. The BetterBadNews panel examine how misinformed and abused populations can combat their pre-existing fears by self medicating to the point of mental oblivion. But is this political satire or journalism? Was it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US ADMITS ANTHRAX LETTER WAS FALSE MUSLIM ATTACK The anthrax letters were mailed with a  message, supposedly written by military lab technician, Bruce Ivins, that included the phrase, ALLAH IS GREAT. But no Muslims were involved if Mr. Ivins was responsible for the crime. Apparently the FBI now believes that the 2001 anthrax attack was an inside job.  Mr. Ivins improbable suicide also means [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BERKELEY KID CALLS OBAMA KID Berkeley Kid comic has a question for Malia Obama. Malia takes the call. Short clip produced by BetterBadNews. Political satire Better Bad News is HALF TRUE MORE OR LESS 100% OF THE TIME. Special thanks to We Are Change That Change, Galen Corr and Berkeley Community Media. Tags: berkeley betterbadnews hyper-inflation comic malia obama [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CHANGE THAT CHANGE CHANGE THAT CHANGE : The panel examines how to recognize an inflated change bubble before it bursts. Rahm Emanuel  threatens to explode if anyone tries to eat him. Robert Rubin and Larry Summers are hard to swallow. An hour later you feel ripped off again. Hope addicts in denial get help by calling 1-800 ABDUCT ME before making [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THIRD PARTY AD MOCKS TWO PARTY ADDICTS Third party candidates in 2008 saw many voter produced ads like this BetterBadNews satire zapping voters in denial about  their addiction to two party politics unable to accept help from a rescue party. DON”T BLAME ME. I’M A THIRD PARTY VOTER. Tags: betterbadnews green keep sheehan cindy debate war [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NAOMI WOLF DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE BIG LIE On October 13 2008 Naomi Wolf and Daniel Ellsberg seasoned the public discourse with a disturbing narrative about the shift to fascism and the end of democracy in the United States but with no mention of the Big Lie. Daniel Ellsberg went so far as to offer unsupported assertions that muslims attacked the United States [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website COMPASSIONATE MARTIAL LAW PROMOTES IRONY FATIGUE This 4 minute Betterbadnews clip examines irony fatigue and compassionate martial law. As the dollar continues its transformation into the amero, satirist Kurt Reinhardt and Berkeley kid comic Galen Corr examine how most families resemble a police state and why swing voters insist on trading a bad war for a Better Bad War. The world [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BERKELEY KID PUTS BIG BROTHER ON TERROR WATCH LIST Berkeley kid wants to know, “Am I on the watch list”?  Big Brother gets a time out for putting  800,000 names on a suspected terrorist watch list. Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh consider how family values will be affected if the neo-cons uncork the nuclear genie. Religious war mongers get worked over by the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POLICE ATTACK BERKELEY TREE SITTERS Calling all citizens: Reinforcements needed to help save old growth oak trees in Berkeley threatened by University of California Police. Berkeley native american activist Zachary Running Wolf vs UC campus police chief and the University Board of Regents, determined to build a new athletic center on sacred ground. Tags: save the oaks berkeley [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNRULY CHILD MOCKS STAND DOWN GENERATION WARNING: The unruly child depicted in this episode is not an unruly child but he plays one on BetterBadNews whenever he feels like it. Nancy Pelosi and George Lakoff are equally mocked as strict and nurturing parents who have failed their children. “Nancy pelosi is standing down without permission”. Berkeley kid comic mocks the baby boomers for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JESSE VENTURA vs RALPH NADER AND CYNTHIA MCKINNEY 2008 THIRD PARTY Candidates Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader must be curious: Is Jesse Ventura re-entering politics or just hawking a book? Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, is Ventura’s new book title but on the network blather shows he talks like a candidate pitching campaign themes. But is Jesse Ventura running for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING METAPHOR WINS 2008 ELECTION BETTERBADNEWS panel taunt TV network comics JOHN STEWART, JAY LENO AND DAVID LETTERMAN for failure to mock an obvious and deserving target of public ridicule: The 9/11 Commission Report. Is late night television part of the cover up? In This Episode: Professional politicians are profiled as professional tag team wrestlers pretending to be mortal enemies but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING METAPHOR WINS 2008 ELECTION BETTERBADNEWS panel taunt TV network comics JOHN STEWART, JAY LENO AND DAVID LETTERMAN for failure to mock an obvious and deserving target of public ridicule: The 9/11 Commission Report. Is late night television part of the cover up? In This Episode: Professional politicians are profiled as professional tag team wrestlers pretending to be mortal enemies but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website