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Funny Or Die has produced a video featuring a star-studded cast of actors who previously portrayed US Presidents on Saturday Night Live. Jim Carrey‘s turn as Ronald Reagan and Dana Carvey‘s George Bush recall a kinder, gentler, and perhaps funnier era of SNL political satire. The message behind the video? Promoting finance regulatory reform (and reminding viewers that much of the financial mess in which Obama finds himself, was inherited from previous administrations?)

It may come as little surprise that the most recent Rolling Stone’s cover is getting more attention than the article itself. Illustrated by noted street-artist, cum graphic designer Shephard Fairey, the cover image features a much more serious image of the president than his iconic “Hope” campaign posters. But is he deifying the president by using imagery that evokes a halo? Some say yes. You can almost hear the talking points being crafted this very second…

Howard Kurtz reports in today’s Washington Post how White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel directly called the corporate CEOs of parent companies of TV networks to air Obama’s prime time press conference. Kurtz reveals the inner-workings of the relationship between White House and networks, and raises a serious question: who’s making the editorial decisions at the networks?