From Funny or Die.com, Ron Howard directs some SNL favorites (and Jim Carrey) in a presidential reunion to urge Barack Obama to enact a consumer protection regulations. From MainStreetBrigade.org:

The greedy and reckless behavior of big banks on Wall Street, credit card companies, mortgage lenders and irresponsible consumers just caused a financial crisis that cost Americans millions of lost jobs, and billions in tax-payer funded bailouts and lost retirement savings.

Today, after raking in our tax dollars in bailout money, the big banks are back to business as usual, spending hundreds of millions to pay lobbyists and advertising agencies to fight against reforms that would protect us from their abuses in the future.

You can make your voice heard. Call your representatives, send them an email, or sign this petition to let them know that they need to protect us, not the financial industry.

Forget everything you've heard about the 45,000 people who die in the U.S. each year because of no insurance (for some perspective, remember that that is 15 times the number of people who died on 9/11, 10 times the number of allied soldiers killed in Iraq and 5 1/2 times the number of Americans killed from Hurricane Katrina. Every year.). Forget about the millions of un- and under-insured Americans in the richest Western nation on the planet. Forget about the highest per capita medical costs and among the worst outcomes of the industrialized nations. Forget about being dropped for pre-existing conditions, like pregnancy or acne as a teenager.

None of that matters. Those Hollywood elites, like Will Ferrell, remind us who the true victims of health care reform are: the health insurance companies. Who will protect them?

Oh, that's right, the Blue Dogs will. It's sad when such an obvious example of parody and illogic actually accurately reflects the thinking of our elected representatives.

Will Ferrell in You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush

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Legendary SNLer Will Ferrell returns as George W. Bush to officially endorse John McCain and Sarah Palin.

FERRELL AS BUSH: "Good to see you, John. Hey let's get a photo of this; it'll really help your campaign out. Now let me do this: I, George W. Bush, endorse John McCain and Sarah Palin with all my heart..."

(MCCAIN tries to drift out of frame but is pulled back by BUSH)

FERRELL AS BUSH (cont'd): "John was there for me ninety percent of the time over the last eight years. When you think of John McCain, think of me, George W. Bush. Think of this face. When you're in the voting booth, before you vote – picture this face right here. A vote for John McCain is a vote for George W. Bush.(to MCCAIN) You're welcome. So, I want to be there you, John for the next eight years."

FEY AS PALIN –The next sixteen years!

Full transcript below the fold:

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Bush sat down with reporter Mike Allen yesterday for a Politico/Yahoo interview, billed as the first for a president talking to an online audience. Probably the biggest news in the discussion was Bush’s bizarre comment about giving up golf during the war “to be in solidarity” with grieving families.

I neglected, however, to read the entire transcript of the interview, and notice that the questions were kind of bizarre, too.

Dan Froomkin asked, “Has there ever been a more moronic interview of a president of the United States than the one conducted yesterday by Mike Allen?” After seeing that, I couldn’t imagine what would draw such a sharp rebuke. Allen, after all, was a White House correspondent for the Washington Post and Time magazine, so he presumably knows how to conduct an interview with the president that isn’t “moronic.”

So, I read the transcript. Froomkin has a point. The first seven questions — seven -- were about Jenna Bush’s wedding. Froomkin also pulled together this non-wedding-related list of Allen’s questions:

“Mr. President, I know you’re going to hate this, but I’m hoping that we may twist your arm and talk about baseball for just a moment. (Laughter.) Mr. President, you’re a Major League Baseball team owner again. Everyone is a free agent. You have a Yankees-like wallet. Who is your first position player? Who’s your pitcher?”

“Now, Mr. President, you and the First Lady appeared on American Idol’s charity show, ‘Idol Gives Back.’ And I wonder who do you think is going to win? Syesha, David Cook, or David Archuleta?”

“All right. Mr. President, who does the better impression, Will Ferrell of you, or Dana Carvey of your father?”

“And speaking of impressions, our friend, Robert Draper, author of ‘Dead Certain,’ said you do a great impression of Dr. Evil from ‘Austin Powers’.”

Allen also asked Bush, “Do you feel that you were misled on Iraq?” That’s not bad at all — except it was a question that came from a Politico reader.

SteveAudio here at the mic on Thursday, let's see what's on the set list tonight:

Can't go on, everything I had is gone, stormy weather. . . The IPCC just received a Nobel Prize and with it a seal of approval on global warming. But what if it's worse than they said? And what would GWBush say about it (actually, Will Ferrell).
Twisted truth and half the news, can't hide it in your eyes. . . Harry Ried keeps saying "we need 60 Votes". Ed Schultz calls bulls**t! Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who milked the U.S. for millions, lied us into the war is back like the Energizer Bunny. They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your feet. . . Think our government wouldn't suppress our right to peacefully protest? Think again! And is the conservative movement is foreordained to remain in its current debased form?
And you never ask questions, when God's on your side.. . . Will Catholics swing Right or Left in '08? And does God hate the Westboro Baptist Church? And does GWBush have a holy aura around him?

I fought the law and the law won. . . Remember the dry-cleaning pants lawsuit-losing judge? He's looking for a new gig. And since the Supreme Court keeps re-interpreting laws, do you think law schools should keep up to date? Nah.

We have a new break song tonight, rockin' it old school. We'll play some dope jams and bangin' hitz tomorrow. Send any tips or song requests to steveaudio at earthlink dot net, with Blog Round Up as the title

See ya later, we're here all week, and I just heard there's no soap in the men's rest room. Not that it matters.