I love those moving typography videos all over YouTube, so when I saw this one using the audio from Dawkins answering the “most simplest” question, “What if you’re wrong?” I had to post it. If you haven’t seen the original verbal smackdown, you can watch it here.

And as a bonus, I also found this version, which was animated South Park style…

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Richard Dawkins Typography – “What If You’re Wrong?”

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Obama on BP

It’s been way too long since Lewis Black did a “Back in Black” segment for the Daily Show (February, to be exact), but it was well worth the wait. Bashing Glenn Beck is easy, but he does it with such flare…

“Glenn Beck plays ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,’ except there’s just one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler.” Pure gold.

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Video: Lewis Black on Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s

A bit of an expansion on the clips making the rounds on the news stations.

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One Shitty Deal

While the Catholic Church has tried to spin the pedophilia problem as a more recent issue plaguing their ranks, it’s actually been a huge part of the religion practically since its inception, as the Hungry Beast points out in this video…

Anyone who still supports this criminal organization needs a good history lesson, and apparently, so does the Pope.

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A Brief History of Pedophilia in the Catholic Church

There can be little doubt that had any other organization other than the Catholic church that was trusted with the care of children, for instance an orphanage, a school, or a daycare center, had been found to not only been abusing the children, but to swear the victims to secrecy, and then to move the molester to another center… there simply would be no debate about allowing the organization to conduct its own investigation and to impose its own ‘punishments’ of repentance. Both the individuals and the organization would be up on criminal charges before you could say ‘knife’.

However, for the Catholic Church, law enforcement seems powerless. The church simply says child molestation is evil, and that through true repentance can come renewal, or some equally nebulous BS, and the church gets away with such criminal acts scot-free.

But even if institutionalized child molestation doesn’t take the church down, it has been a huge blow to its credibility. In that sense, it’s kind of like Al Capone being taken down for tax evasion. Especially given that the Pope has stated that he thinks that condoms actually increase the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Of Catholicism and Capone

As the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal continues to heat up, I’ve seen many articles comparing this mess to Watergate, and rightfully so – Pope Benedict and Richard Nixon share a lot of the same despicable traits and have both resorted to many of the same detestable tactics to cover up their crimes. This article, published in The Atlantic, does a great job showing the scary similarities. Here’s a taste…

On the Watergate tapes, Nixon himself declared, “It’s not the crime that gets you… it’s the cover up.” He understood that he probably could have survived the Watergate scandal if only he had admitted White House involvement early on instead of covering his tracks. The nation might have forgiven Nixon for mismanaging his campaign, but not for obstructing justice.

Similarly, the Pope’s greatest liability is not so much the sexual crimes committed by priests—terrible as those are—but his actions following the crime. In one case, a German priest, Rev. Peter Hullerman was ordered into therapy after repeatedly molesting young boys. Hullerman was then transferred to another parish, where he continued to molest boys. Supporters of the Pope blame the transfer on a close associate, Rev. Gerhard Gruber, but it remains unclear whether the Pope may have played some role in the priest’s re-assignment.

Bearing this in mind, I must recommend that everyone watch this appropriately named short film (56 minutes) called “Holy Watergate”. While it is a few years old now, filmmaker Mary Healey’s personal investigation into the Church’s systematic cover-ups of sexual abuse by clergymen remains strikingly relevant, and her findings just as powerful as ever. Cases of the Church counter-suing victims and requiring those who wish to settle to sign confidentiality agreements are shocking enough, but when you meet the priest who was abused himself as a child, and another man of the cloth who explains how he got away with abusing children in a candid interview, you’ll find yourself picking your jaw up off your computer desk. It’s easy to see why this low budget, but well-made, documentary was an award winner…

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Watch the Free Documentary “Holy Watergate”

It makes sense that this is guy represents Brooklyn and Queens – Congressman Anthony Weiner is an outspoken and brutally honest politician with a thick accent and an even thicker hide. His go-for-the-throat attitude is exactly what the Democrats need right now after being labeled as spineless (and rightfully so) for so many years. Many of you have probably seen this first video, which has made the rounds on the ‘net and the major news networks over the last month or so. If not, watch him call the GOP “a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry” despite being censored several times…

And just a few days go, he tore Republican Congressman Scott Garrett of New Jersey a new asshole after catching him red-handed reading a memo on the House floor that is a known hoax…

As you can see, the Republicans will go to great lengths to drum up fear and spread all the misinformation they can on practically anything the opposing party does, and while most of the Dems seem to just ignore it or respond in the most meek ways possible, Weiner here has no qualms about verbally kicking ass and taking names. (Although I could definitely see him taking this shit outside.) Is it any surprise that this guy was once Jon Stewart’s roommate?

For more instantly viral videos from this guy, check out his YouTube channel.

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Anthony Weiner Tells It Like It Is

New Left Media has done it again with another excellent video exposing the Tea Party protesters (winner of our 2010 Worst Muckmaker Award) for what they are – clueless, uninformed ignoramuses. If you haven’t seen their Tea Party videos before, here’s the gist: Chase Whiteside, the interviewer, lets Average Joe protester go off on some “socialism/communism/fascism/baby killer/death panel” tirade and make a complete fool out of himself. Then he goes ahead and starts asking (extremely) simple questions about what and why they’re protesting…none of which they seem to be able to answer. Then he hits them with some facts that anyone who’s done even a shred of research would know; that’s when you watch the heads explode. This particular protest was held in D.C. on March 16, which, fittingly, was the same day that the Barnum & Bailey Circus was in town. (The unwashed masses smelled worse, I’m sure.) As the elephants (ironically symbolic of the Republican Party they’re astroturfing for) march by the shouting, sign-waving automatons, you really have to sit back and applaud the right wing for brainwashing these idiots so well that they don’t even realize that we’d sooner take the circus clowns seriously than we would Glenn Beck’s blackboard scribblings. Watch and laugh (or cry)…

We all admit (even those working on it) that this bill’s not perfect, but I still don’t see what’s so wrong with this…

The proposal will expand health care access to over 30 million uninsured Americans, make health care more affordable for everyone, hold insurance companies more accountable, end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions, and help stabilize our budget and economy by reducing the deficit by over $100 billion in the next ten years.

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Video: The Tea Party Circus

These slideshows have been around for a while now, but I recently re-posted them as one single video to the Muckmakers YouTube Channel because their message is still just as timely as it was when they premiered on YTMND. If you never seen these before, you’re in for one scary ride…

Who knew YTMND could be all serious business? Usually it’s a lot more like this…but that’s why we love it.

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The Un-Funny Truth About Scientology: Parts 1 and 2