Political Party: 3/26-4/1

Each week, Party Hard Politics will post the places where you can find the “Political Party,” all of the funny political, and occasionally not political, videos and links going viral across the Internet.  This comedy aggregation should serve to brighten your day a little as you take the time to read the rest of our (more substantive) posts.  Check out this edition after the jump!
1) President Obama’s Bracket To Date:

2) A hilarious Daily Show/Colbert Report toss flashback to August 2006:

3) “Drunk History” Featuring Will Ferrell: “On March 22, Jen Kirkman drank two bottles of wine and then discussed an historical event”:

4) First the Muslims get a Mosque in NYC, now the Jews want a “Thin Jew Line”?? What happened to the Land of the Free and Home of the Xenophobes? Courtesy of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart:

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5) Do you ever worry about putting too much personal information on Facebook? Don’t! You’re actually saving the CIA tons of money! Thanks to The Onion for filing this special report on the CIA’s Facebook program:

6) This week’s best headlines and quotes, courtesy of CNN’s “Political Circus“:

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich Attempts To Clarify His Position On Libya But, Wow, So Confusing!

AOL News: Nation of Islam Looks to UFOs to Save the World

The Guardian: Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves

Gawker: What an Italian Prime Minister’s Sex Party Looks Like

New York Daily News: Take that, Miley! State Senate approves bill to ban sale of salvia in New York

“According to a test in the new issue of Newsweek, 73 percent of Americans can’t say why we fought the Cold War — which sounds bad — until you realize that no one in the White House can explain to us why we’re fighting the Libyan war” — Jay Leno

“When we left, the world’s two biggest trouble spots were Wisconsin and the set of “Two and a Half Men.” And then suddenly, all holy hell is breaking loose [in Libya].” — “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart

“These are scary times. Did you ever think we’d look back at the BP oil spill as the good old days?”– Jay Leno

“I mean I just learned the word ‘bling’ about a month ago. … Whenever you learn a new word, you have to use it four or five times so it gets fixed in your head, and so I’ve used it, probably imperfectly from time to time, but I’ve used it.” — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to POLITICO

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty opened up to CBS about the morning he learned in 2008 that he wouldn’t be Sen. John McCain’s running mate: “She (Pawelenty’s Mazy) did her business and I picked it up with a plastic bag, and I thought this is the only No. 2 I’m getting this week.”

7) Have you considered not seeing Broadway’s Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark because of the physical risk? Fear not, Frank Gublin of the New York firm Gublin & Green has you covered:

8 ) “It was reported this week that the conservative commentator Glenn Beck may start his own cable channel when his contract with Fox News expires this year. Here’s a preview.” Courtesy of The New York Times.


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