1. comedycentral: Jon Stewart’s interview with former RNC chairman Michael Steele ran long last night, but you can watch the full, extended chat exclusively online today. Click the image for part one and here for part two. And don’t miss The Daily Show’s continuing coverage of the GOP convention on a special Friday edition of the show, tonight at 11/10c. Aaaaand don’t miss Michael Steele at The Unconvention co-presented by 92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation and Comedy Central’s Indecision at 92YTribeca on Sep 9. The line-up also includes Abby Huntsman, former Sen. Evan Bayh, Touré, Scott Blakeman, Jonathan Krohn, Connor Ratliff, Molly Knefel, Michael Che, Joe Klein, Ben Smith, The PIT’s Political Subversities and more TBA!

    comedycentral:

    Jon Stewart’s interview with former RNC chairman Michael Steele ran long last night, but you can watch the full, extended chat exclusively online today. Click the image for part one and here for part two.

    And don’t miss The Daily Show’s continuing coverage of the GOP convention on a special Friday edition of the show, tonight at 11/10c.

    Aaaaand don’t miss Michael Steele at The Unconvention co-presented by 92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation and Comedy Central’s Indecision at 92YTribeca on Sep 9. The line-up also includes Abby Huntsman, former Sen. Evan Bayh, Touré, Scott Blakeman, Jonathan Krohn, Connor Ratliff, Molly Knefel, Michael Che, Joe Klein, Ben Smith, The PIT’s Political Subversities and more TBA!

  2. Either you’ve been receiving Obama’s campaign emails or heard about them. We took the next logical step and did a dramatic reading of them.

    With the help of our friends at Comedy Central’s Indecision, we co-produced this video featuring the comic talent of Giulia Rozzi, Will Hines, Sasheer Zamata and Chris Principe.

    We’re especially excited to be teaming up with Indecision for The Unconvention: A Soundbite-Free Evening of Political Talk From Left, Right And Center at 92YTribeca on Sep 9 featuring Touré, Abby Huntsman, Michael Steele, Ben Smith, Connor Ratliff, Molly Knefel, The PIT’s Political Subversities and more.

  3. thesmithian: When Clinton introduced Sandra Fluke, the law student whom Rush Limbaugh had just a month earlier called a “slut,” she startled everyone by saying, “She and I actually have something in common. We’ve both been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. . . . She was 30, I was thirteen. In 1993 he said . . . ‘You may know that the Clintons have a cat, Socks, in the White House. They also have a dog.’ And then he put a picture of me on the screen.” If she hadn’t had everyone’s undivided attention before, she certainly did then. more, at Vogue. That was at 92Y. You can watch video of that part right here.

    thesmithian:

    When Clinton introduced Sandra Fluke, the law student whom Rush Limbaugh had just a month earlier called a “slut,” she startled everyone by saying, “She and I actually have something in common. We’ve both been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. . . . She was 30, I was thirteen. In 1993 he said . . . ‘You may know that the Clintons have a cat, Socks, in the White House. They also have a dog.’ And then he put a picture of me on the screen.” If she hadn’t had everyone’s undivided attention before, she certainly did then.

    more, at Vogue.

    That was at 92Y. You can watch video of that part right here.

  4. Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, and Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, had an interesting discussion on capitalism at 92Y on June 19th, 2012. In looking at corporations and capitalism, the duo examined the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the 2008 financial collapse and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

    Has a “corporate coup d’état” taken place? Watch the conversation to find out.

    [92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation]

  5. storyboard:

    Connor Ratliff for President: He’s Old Enough!

    Connor Ratliff, member of Upright Citizens Brigade improv team The Stepfathers, is running for President. What makes him qualified? In his words, “I’m 36 and that’s old enough to be President.” He’s been traversing the Isle of Manhattan to make his case, from a press conference in Battery Park to General Grant National Memorial (Grant’s Tomb), featured here in a video for 92nd Street Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation. His story serves as a reminder that we are living the Constitution every day, as the Founding Fathers intended. Drunk and hot.

  6. 92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation asked people on the street: “What’s your number one issue in the upcoming election?” We think we have a winner.

    92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation asked people on the street: “What’s your number one issue in the upcoming election?”

    We think we have a winner.

  7. What was Connor Ratliff, Presidential candidate and member of Upright Citizens Brigade house team The Stepfathers (recently profiled in BlackBook and New York Times), doing at Grant’s Tomb this week? Find out right here next Wednesday.

    What was Connor Ratliff, Presidential candidate and member of Upright Citizens Brigade house team The Stepfathers (recently profiled in BlackBook and New York Times), doing at Grant’s Tomb this week? Find out right here next Wednesday.

  8. As we inch closer to September’s 225th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, Reason Magazine’s Senior Editor, Damon Root, describes the modern day battle developing around our nation’s law of the land: between conservatives and libertarians. Root explains the important differences between how these two groups look at the constitution, which he says all Americans should care about as “it’s providing real limits on government power that spells out what the government can and can not do.”

    More videos at 92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation

  9. buzzfeed: Lawmakers Call For Internet Bill Of Rights [Sen. Ron] Wyden, a Democrat, and [Rep. Darrell] Issa, a Republican, joined forces early this year to help kill the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, which many new media companies viewed as deadly to their businesses. CISPA, Wyden argued, could have the same unintended consequences in pursuit of piracy-prevention. Issa, addressing why lawmakers are often clueless about the impact of Internet regulation, said simply, “Geeks have better things to do [than run for office.]” Issa read a draft of his “Digital Bill Of Rights,” which he is crowd-sourcing with the intent to introduce in Congress. Wyden compared the effort to a “digital Constitutional convention,” that shifts the balance of power from “middle-men” to the vast network of Internet users. This year is the 225th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention. Seems like a good time for a digital one.

    buzzfeed:

    Lawmakers Call For Internet Bill Of Rights

    [Sen. Ron] Wyden, a Democrat, and [Rep. Darrell] Issa, a Republican, joined forces early this year to help kill the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, which many new media companies viewed as deadly to their businesses. CISPA, Wyden argued, could have the same unintended consequences in pursuit of piracy-prevention.

    Issa, addressing why lawmakers are often clueless about the impact of Internet regulation, said simply, “Geeks have better things to do [than run for office.]”

    Issa read a draft of his “Digital Bill Of Rights,” which he is crowd-sourcing with the intent to introduce in Congress. Wyden compared the effort to a “digital Constitutional convention,” that shifts the balance of power from “middle-men” to the vast network of Internet users.

    This year is the 225th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention. Seems like a good time for a digital one.