Time for some more fun (prior related posts are here) and here)...Heretic Of The Year
Michael Savage (could probably double as idiot of the milennium for this - also, smooth move here to also suggest that the Dems were somehow responsible for Hangin' Judge J.R.'s epileptic seizure).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
John McCain (but Matt Bai says he'll rebound in the New Hampshire primary; we'll see).
Some Insight Into Why Time Magazine Was Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Going To Name Al Gore As Person Of The Year
Courtesy of Billmon here.
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Senior Bob Reese of Brigham Young University for calling Dick Cheney “an example of success” here. (re: Cheney’s commencement speech in April)
'07 Racist Of The Year (Formerly ’06 Anti-Semite Of The Year)
Don Imus
Most Revealing Journalistic Moment
Kathleen Parker’s column on John Edwards’ hair (re: that YouTube video, and no shot on a link to Parker here…dishonorable mention to Yahoo and AP News for a 4/17 “story” by Joan Lowry about the subject noting how much Edwards paid the hair stylist and giving a plug to the YouTube video Parker wrote about; if you want to disagree with Edwards, do it for intelligent reasons).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Judge Laurence Silberman, who, along with former Senator Charles Robb of VA, headed the WMD Study Commission in 2004, which was intended to whitewash any negative findings from the Baker-Hamilton commission for purposes of the election (Cheney described Silberman’s report as “enormously helpful” according to Bob Woodward in “State of Denial”). The reason this year, though, is that, according to this New York Times article, Silberman wrote the opinion of the court in the District of Columbia case overturning the D.C. handgun law, which ignored all case law on the Second Amendment that preceded it.
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Pete Sessions (h/t Atrios)
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Dubya (so many reasons, but for starters, he gave away the location of Baghdad military outposts in a press conference as noted here – I pray to God our people didn’t get killed as a result)..
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Laura Bush also for this (and I'm sure you and your hubby were "suffering" here also).
Do-Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Bill Moyers
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Protestor Alan Kiser who held up a poster saying that PA House Rep. Angel Ortiz should be "hung from the tree of liberty" for trying to sponsor a bill requiring gun registration in Philadelphia to assess a $10 annual gun fee (here).
Racist Of The Year (tie with Imus)
Flush Limbore
Historian In Need Of A History Lesson
V.D. Hanson (what war was being fought in December 1945?)
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Thomas Sowell, for advocating a military coup because “liberals have ruined this country” or some such nonsense (here).
Do-Gooder Of The Year
Philadelphia City Councilman Darrell Clarke, who sued the PA General Assembly so Philadelphia can enact its own gun laws (here).
Presidential Pretender Of The Year Nominee
Willard Mitt "Seven-Year Marriage In France" Romney (here).
The "Do A 'Bada-Bing' Upside His Head" Citation
David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos” on HBO, for sneaking in a plug for Fred Barnes’ fluffer of a bio on Dubya, “Rebel In Chief”; Carmella, Tony’s wife, was sitting up in bed reading it in one episode (and also for this).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter for calling Radar Magazine's Jebediah Reed a "bad reporter" because he supposedly mischaracterized a remark fellow reporter Tom Edsall made about David Broder (yes, this is really "bitchy journo" inside stuff that not a lot of people would care about, but Alter's smackdown was pretty nasty and totally unwarranted, as noted here).
Loony Litigants Of The Year
The couple that sued over their eighth grader watching “Brokeback Mountain” (here - the teacher was an idiot, but half a mil?)…
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Rick "Kill Them All" Sanchez (here)
The "Ecclesiastical Foot In Mouth" Award
Pope Benedict XVI
The “Ancient Chinese Secret That They Never Bothered To Tell Us About Until Our Pets Started Dying” Citation
The melamine outbreak
The “Somewhere, Uncle Adolf Is Smiling” Citation
Tom Wayne, the book-burning numbskull in Kansas City (here - there has GOT to be a better way for him to make this point).
The "Jerry Falwell Smiles Somehow From What Is Hopefully A Tortured Afterlife" Citation
Eva Sowinska of Poland, who supposedly advocates for children's rights but still believes that Teletubby Tinky Winky, with the triangle atop his head and "man bag," somehow "promotes homosexuality" (I guess it's true that the rest of the world consumes both the best and the worst of this country - here).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
James Carville, for signing a letter petitioning the sentencing judge requesting that Scooter Libby not receive jail time for his obstruction of justice conviction (Libby got 30 months, though Dubya commmuted that to nothing of course).
Poet Persecutor Of The Year
Dennis Dunne of Nassau County, Long Island (here).
More later...
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