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By Daniel Kurtzman
• Paris Hilton strikes back at John McCain with her own campaign video in which she calls him old and wrinkly and announces her own presidential campaign.
• John McCain may be slinging mud over Obama being a "celebrity," but McCain is the one who has made cameos on the TV show "24," in the movie "Wedding Crashers," and who has hosted SNL and appeared on late-night comedy shows some 30 times (Politico)
• The National Enquirer has published a photo of John Edwards with his alleged love child
• How closely have you been following the presidential election? Test your knowledge of Obama and McCain trivia with this shocking quiz and we'll rate your political IQ.
• In honor of Barack Obama's birthday, David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard at Barack Obama's Birthday Party, and 23/6 presents cards from his loved ones and political enemies
• Dan Quayle dashes the hopes of comedians everywhere by declining an invitation to appear on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars
• Check out the week in political cartoons and the week's best late-night jokes
• A new John McCain ad likens Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Get the full details
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident. #10:
Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to "Oklobama"
• Jon Stewart rips John McCain for thanking the Hilton family for their support by taking a nationally televised dump on their daughter
• The popular online comic strip Get Your War On is now an animated series, presented by 23/6. As creator David Rees promises, "These animations will be like Hobbes' conception of life in the state of nature: 'nasty, brutish and short.'"
• The Onion: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet
• In honor of Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment, we offer a tribute to the man who famously said that the Internet is "not a truck, it's a series of tubes."
• Revisit your favorite political gaffes with the Campaign Gaffe Remix, presented by 23/6
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ways John McCain Can Appear More Youthful. #1: Never hurts to nail a few interns
• Paula Poundstone confesses to being shamefully ignorant about energy and the environment (23/6)
• Watch the trailer for W: The Movie," the upcoming Oliver Stone film about the life of George W. Bush
• 23/6: Election officials worried that people might actually try and vote this year
• Barack Obama is drawing more comedic attention following his overseas trip, reports the LA Times' Top of the Ticket, which cites some of the Obama jokes in my weekly roundup
• Read the latest political gaffes by McCain, Obama and Bush
• Jon Stewart rips Robert Novak following his hit-and-run accident: "The only difference really between this and the rest of his career is that this time someone stopped him."
• Stephen Colbert reports on John McCain's sausage party
• Borowitz Report: McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet
• Is Barack Obama Jewish? See the shocking evidence uncovered by 23/6
• It was a week of horrible photo ops for John McCain
• Check out our complete coverage of the New Yorker Obama cartoon scandal, including cartoons lampooning the New Yorker cartoon
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