May 2013
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The Review: 'FYI: Great Grandma is a Racist' a...
A common problem for today’s progressive parents is explaining racial intolerance to their young ones, especially when it applies to a family member. Does one sugarcoat it and thus insulate them from the very real problem of prejudice? Or should one be blunt, inviting the inevitable ‘children say the darndest/most divisive things’ moment at Thanksgiving dinner? Well, father and Politypop...
January 2013
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Episode III: The War on Christmas
If there one thing me, Grimlock, love as much as America it’s Jesus. Me, Grimlock think he right in Bible when he talk about how dumb Communism is and how good guns and dinosaurs are. These are me, Grimlock favorite parts! Jesus is all American libertarian just like me, Grimlock! This is why it make me so angry that stupid liberal bozos want to fight war against his birthday. Me, Grimlock see...
December 2012
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Episode II: The Fiscal Cliff
Me, Grimlock have been hearing a lot lately about ‘Fiscal Cliff’. Me hear it in three weeks country going over it unless stupid liberals decide to stop hating successful people and giving money to deadbeats like me stupid liberal friend Ratchet. He not independent! He want money for free, money hard working REAL Americans earn hard way, REAL Americans like me, Grimlock! Other day Ratchet, Jazz...
November 2012
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J.R. Ewing, Oil Magnate, Reaganism Incarnate:...
This past weekend the Politypop lost one of it’s great icons. Larry Hagman’s career was long and accomplished, but when he passed this weekend the one character he will doubtless be remembered for is the ruthless oil magnate J.R. Ewing from the prime time soap opera Dallas.
J.R. was more than just a popular character on a television show, and more than just a cultural icon—he was the...
October 2012
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We at Politypop are very pleased to introduce a new, regular column by 1980s pop culture icon and outspoken libertarian, Grimlock. It is our hope that he, Grimlock will provide some much needed balance to the left-leaning/liberal/communist slant this website has taken of late. Enjoy!
Me, Grimlock an American! Me like freedom and American Way and America! This is why me, Grimlock no like taxes. Me...
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September 2012
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NOW! That's What I Call an RNC 2012!
Well, another RNC has come and gone. And, while our predicted Reagan hologram was a no-show, we did get an extremely low-fi Obama hologram, complements of famed Hollywood legend and star of some of the greatest outsourced western movies of all time, Clint Eastwood. Back in my day we didn’t have all those fancy-pants holograms like you’ve got today with your mirrors and lasers—you stood...
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August 2012
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Ayn Rand's Top Gun
This past weekend, famed action-film director Tony Scott tragically took his own life. As with all artists, Mr. Scott’s death has turned the spotlight on his body of work, and while there are other action directors who may have been more prolific, few have made films more iconic. And, of Mr. Scott’s films, none are more iconic than ‘Top Gun’.
Now, just in case you’re a communist and you’ve...
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Mitt- He's Just Like U.S.!
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Republican National Conventiomania!
Last week, Monday Night Raw, the WWE’s venerable wrestling program celebrated its 1,000th episode. And it didn’t disappoint. There was an in-ring wedding ceremony, there were pyrotechnics and, most importantly, there was an endless parade of former WWE superstars, back in the ring to perform signature finishing moves and somehow, someway, summon up the strength of days gone by in their forty and...
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The Video Vidal Primer
If ever there was a Godfather of Politypop, it was Gore Vidal. He spent his life around politics and popular American culture, and while he rarely had a positive word for either his impact on both is undeniable. Far too few people of my generation know about Mr. Vidal, so as a public service Politypop is putting forth the Video Vidal Primer, a five part video series intended to help you get to...
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July 2012
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Takin' Care of Business
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This past Sunday, on ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’, Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner decided to dine with the former flame. And not just a flame, the very man she had gone behind the back of first husband Robert Kardashian with. While Kris’ motives were convoluted to say the least, she rushed...
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Ice-T, Rush Limbaugh and the Ghost of Charlton...
Photo by Steve Rappaport
In a recent interview with the UK’s Channel 4 news, hip hop artist/actor/reality show star Ice-T weighed-in on gun control, saying,
“(The right to bare arms is) legal in the United States. It’s part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny, not...
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Don't Touch the Hair, Ladies
This past Sunday one of the least interesting seasons of ‘The Bachelorette’ mercifully came to an end. Emily, single mom extraordinaire, picked Jef (sic) to fill the hole left in her heart by the death of Ricky, her former fiancée and father to her daughter, Ricki.
Up until recent weeks, the smart money was on Arie, the good-looking, great kissing racecar driver (the same occupation as the...
March 2012
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Mountain Dew Will Be a Quarter
Senior class president? I’ll vote for Mitt.
All the girls think he’s cute and
he’ll help anyone with econ.
He drives his dad’s sick Mercedes
to lacrosse practice, and he says
he can lower the cost of the prom.
But then there’s Ricky Jesus.
That guy has no shot at winning.
We started calling him that in
English after his parents sued
the school so he didn’t have to
read Inherit the...
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Lazy Eye
Do not object when I say that this
adjective describes you perfectly.
You sometimes look up, or right, up again,
while I do all of the legwork, the focusing,
making sure the periphery is clear and
coordinating with the smile to maximize
our time talking to pretty women before
you scare them to the other side of the bar.
You are John Adams complaining about
Hamilton and the...
February 2012
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Everything to No One
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IN TWO WEEKS IT WILL ALL BE OVER. All the posturing, the speeches, and declarations of intent we’ve seen made from one end of the country to the next over the past few months will come to a climatic head. But isn’t it a foregone conclusion? Haven’t we all been through this process enough by...
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Make Every Day Valentine's Day, Ladies
By Eric Cantor*, R-VA and House Majority Leader
Cupid may have come and gone already, but we all know that a healthy relationship needs romance more than once a year.
Also, there is tremendous amount of societal pressure on us staunchly heterosexual men to always keep the home fire burning. That is flat-out unfair. So ladies, I’m here to help you romance your gentleman.
Consider it an intensely...
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Three Schmucks Driving
To many liberals and some centrists, Rick Santorum is the devil. Inexplicably, Staff Poet Patrick Vogelpohl wrote a prose poem that makes him seem human. No one asked Patrick to do so. He just did. Politypop will forward him your hate mail.
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Santorum
Forget, just for the length of this piece, the froth. Forget the vice principal sweaters.
He’s in a Missouri high school...
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Game Show Host Endorses Mitt Romney
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LAS VEGAS, Feb 2, 2012. Earlier today, the host of the struggling NBC game show The Apprentice officially endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy for President of the United States in an apparent attempt to boost ratings. The show, which started in 2004, will limp into its twelfth season larter this month. As with...
January 2012
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Mitt Romney's Better Angel
With each passing day, the campaign trail becomes a less and less pleasant place. Personal attacks and personal business made public. This volatile climate has inspired Patrick Vogelpohl, Politypop’s very own staff poet, to reach out to the frontrunner in the form of an open poem.
You’re chasing a stupid job, bossman.
Red tape like streamers
shooting from the walls and ceiling
like a...
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Welcome to POLITYPOP
Polity: Pol.i.ty \ˈpä-lə-tē \ 1. the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body.
Pop; \ päp \1. reflecting or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
It’s Los Angeles, in the early autumn of 1968. Former Vice President and current Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his way from the podium after conducting a press conference. At...
