EDITION: U.S.
 
CONNECT    

Matthew Filipowicz
GET UPDATES FROM Matthew Filipowicz
 
MATTHEW FILIPOWICZ is a comedian, cartoonist, satirist and host of the Matthew Filipowicz Show.

Matthew was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska and has been writing and performing comedy in one form or another since he was seventeen. His work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, the online versions of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and the London Times, as well as the Thom Hartmann Show, the Young Turks, and Ring Of Fire Radio. He has created cartoons for the Nation Institute, VoteVets, the ACLU-SC, NYSUT, Mother Jones Magazine, Netroots Nation, MoveOn.org, the Center for Media and Democracy, and the National Conference For Media Reform.

He is a regular correspondent and sometimes guest-host for Ring of Fire Radio, and is the head of Chicago's Drinking Liberally and Laughing Liberally chapters. You can see him performing regularly in Chicago with his comedy group, the Accountants of Homeland Security.

Visit his website and follow him on Twitter.

Blog Entries by Matthew Filipowicz

WATCH: A Video Test of SOPA and PIPA Powers

Posted January 18, 2012 | 17:00:03 (EST)

We have obtained exclusive video of the government testing the potential powers that it would be granted under SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA, the Protect IP Act.

Take a look.


Go here to help stop SOPA and...

Read Post

WATCH: A Message to Women From Rick Santorum

Posted January 13, 2012 | 11:29:54 (EST)

The following is a message to women from Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

Read Post

Santorum Claims Cutting Welfare Is a Catholic Value (VIDEO)

4 Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 15:40:00 (EST)

On Saturday in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum was asked by a young Catholic, who (full disclosure) happens to be my fiancee, about whether, as a Catholic, he agrees with the Church's teaching that Government has a large role in providing for the poor.

His answer was frankly a muddled mess...

Read Post

VIDEO: Newt Gingrich Ad on Stupid Child Labor Laws

Posted November 22, 2011 | 01:04:22 (EST)

Read Post

Rick Santorum's Sexy New Radio Ad

Posted May 18, 2011 | 18:21:15 (EST)

Most people know about the Rick Santorum/Google situation.

If you don't, just go to Google and search Rick Santorum. Just don't do it while you are at work.

However, I was shocked to find out that Rick Santorum just might be embracing the Spreading Santorum image. Don't believe...

Read Post

The War on Easter Continues! Exclusive Fox News Interview From the Front Lines!

Posted April 27, 2011 | 15:07:41 (EST)

Like many of you, I thought that the War on Easter was a hoax created by Sean Hannity and Fox News to stir up controversy and ratings.

Boy was I wrong.

I was contacted early this week by Fox News reporter Timothy Grimes, who claims to be reporting from the...

Read Post

WATCH: Grand Theft Issa

Posted January 12, 2011 | 13:00:27 (EST)

We all know Congressman Darrell Issa has a shady, criminal thuggish. Well, Rockstar Games, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto video game series, decided to make Issa the star of their newest game, calling it Grand Theft Issa.

You play Darrell Issa as...

Read Post

Watch: The People vs. Unlimited Coporate Elections Spending

Posted November 1, 2010 | 18:51:10 (EST)

This past weekend, I attended Barack Obama's "Get Out The Vote" rally in Chicago for Alexi Giannoulias.

As tens of thousands of people filed in, I pulled some aside and asked them what they thought about the unlimited spending in elections by multi-national corporations that was brought to us by...

Read Post

Mark Kirk Opens Campaign Office At The Chinese Consulate

Posted October 25, 2010 | 19:47:13 (EST)

If anyone had any questions about Mark Kirk's commitment to multi-national corporations in China, they can safely put them aside.

After holding his infamous Beijing fund raiser, Mark Kirk has taken his love for exporting American jobs even further by officially opening a "Mark Kirk For US Senate"...

Read Post

Save The Heartland Cafe

Posted October 6, 2010 | 14:36:40 (EST)

If you are a liberal or a progressive living in Chicago, you very likely have been to the Heartland Cafe. A veritable lefty oasis smack dab in the middle of Rogers Park.

The Heartland has been a community hub since 1976, when it was founded by partners Michael...

Read Post

WATCH: Yosemite Sam On Burning Korans

Posted September 9, 2010 | 10:30:22 (EST)

Yosemite Sam talks about his relation to the Reverend Terry Jones and International Burn A Koran Day, as well as being inspired by Glenn Beck's restoring of America's honor.

Read Post

Yosemite Sam Joins The Tea Party - VIDEO

Posted July 1, 2010 | 11:48:11 (EST)

In a newly released video, cartoon legend Yosemite Sam has announced that he has officially joined the Tea Party.

Read Post

WATCH: Wall Street Poker After Dark

Posted April 23, 2010 | 12:20:56 (EST)

This week a brand new television show had it's debut. Its name? Wall Street Poker After Dark!

Watch as the most corrupt "Too Big To Fail" bank CEOs play a spirited game of "Taxpayer Hold 'Em"!

Not with their money, but with yours!

It's all this week on Wall...

Read Post

Who Will Chris Dodd Dance With?

Posted January 19, 2010 | 22:12:34 (EST)

Elizabeth Warren is right. What's about to happen could be

The final showdown between banks and American families.

Do we have a chance in this showdown? A great deal rests on the shoulders of the soon-to-be-retired Chris Dodd, who is said to be

Read Post

"God Hates Lady Gaga" Fred Phelps Sings!

Posted December 31, 2009 | 16:10:31 (EST)

Fred Phelps has made a name for himself bringing hate to the world through his ministry, the Westboro Baptist Church, and his website "God Hates Fags".

He protested outside Matthew Sheppard's funeral. He protested the funerals of soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. He...

Read Post

Ask Budweiser to Step Down From the Chamber of Commerce

Posted December 29, 2009 | 20:21:19 (EST)

Many companies have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its extreme anti-environmental views and actions. Apple has quit. Nike has quit. Exelon and Pacific Gas and Electric have also quit.

One of the companies, however, that has yet to quit is Anheuser-Busch, the makers of...

Read Post

Obama Dresses As Santa Claus, Meets With Children

Posted December 23, 2009 | 10:40:53 (EST)

After several unpopular compromises on health care reform, and after the revelation that the White House didn't put any pressure on Joe Lieberman to support the public option, President Barack Obama decided to do something to bring a little holiday cheer to the White House. He...

Read Post

Obama Quits, Cedes Presidency to Lieberman

Posted December 15, 2009 | 18:42:54 (EST)

You might think that Joe Lieberman is happy. And he is.

With his threats of a filibuster, he successfully got Harry Reid and Barack Obama to remove the public option and Medicare buy-in from the Senate health care bill.

But, as you will see in this...

Read Post

Glenn Beck Proves Carbon Dioxide Is Safe

Posted December 7, 2009 | 23:33:51 (EST)

With the Copenhagen climate talks under way, Glenn Beck wants America to know that he is not happy with Barack Obama or the Environmental Protection Agency. He is not happy that the EPA has said that

Greenhouse gases "threaten the public health and welfare of the American...
Read Post

Zombie Reagan Fails The Reagan Test

Posted November 27, 2009 | 11:02:16 (EST)

As you most likely have heard, the RNC is proposing a Ronald Reagan Republican purity test. And if a Republican politician were to fail that test, they would no longer receive any funding from the RNC.

The problem is, that Ronald Reagan himself would have failed the Ronald...

Read Post