The beat goes on (prior related posts are here, here, here, and here)...Do Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Cecilia Sarokzy for telling the Bushes what they could do with their “picnic” invitation in August where hubby Nicolas attended (may be petty, but it’s nice to see SOMEBODY stand up to these people here).
Freeper Love Match Of The Year
Tweety and Erin Burnett (don’t know much about her, though – she may be a totally innocent party in this nonsense; Matthews needs an intervention of some type, however).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Bob Beckel, a “Democrat” who attacked kos in August on Hannity and Colmes, substituting for Colmes (nice to have a clue, Bob – saying that, if he’d been sitting across from Markos on Bleat The Press instead of Harold Ford, he would’ve “whipped that boy,” huh? Bring it on, old man).
Most Absurd Name For A Collection Of Killers
According to this article, the murder of Oakland, CA journalist Chauncey Bailey last summer was allegedly performed by individuals affiliated with “Your Black Muslim Bakery” here (“Croissants? Muffins? Extra clips for your AK-47?” - yes, I know they're still lethal and I'm not trying to make a joke out of that).
NBA Idiots Of The Year
LeBron James and Dwayne Wade for refusing to sign a petition protesting China’s link to the catastrophe in Darfur; in James’s case, he said he was still “educating himself,” and as Selena Roberts states in this Times story, Google “Genocide”; that’s all the education you need.
Dregs Of The Year Candidate
Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, Dubya’s war czar, for describing a return to a military draft as “an option that’s always been on the table” (a disturbing remark given the bunch he works for).
Repug Coward Of The Year
Arlen Specter who, as noted here, backed down as Senate Judiciary Chairman of the (now happily gone) 109th Congress when Dick Cheney told Congress it was “not allowed to issue subpoenas.”
Democratic Coward Of The Year (so far…)
U.S. House Rep Jerry McNerney of California here.
Worst Literary Invocation By A Head Of State
Dubya’s mention of Alden Pyle here, the main character in Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” in a VFW speech in August (Pyle symbolized American naiveté in Greene’s novel about U.S. entry into the Vietnam War; Dubya’s attempt to spin a new literary interpretation into this character to cast himself in a favorable light is pathetic even by his lowly standards, ignoring his own similarity with that character).
Best Impression of Faded '80s Pop Star George Michael By A Politician
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID)
The “Naughty Boy” Hypocrite Of The Year Award
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID)
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Arlen Specter, for defending Larry Craig (here - it helped the Dems a bit, though).
Do-Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Judge Victor Marrero for striking down the part of the Patriot Act that requires telephone and Internet service providers to turn over records to the government without telling customers (here; honorable mention to Judge Henry Kennedy also here, with Bushco trying to tell him what a judge can and can't do - unbelieveable).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
John “3700 Or So Of Our Troops Dead In Iraq Is A Small Price” Boehner (here - h/t Atrios - another Boehner moment is here).
Know-Nothing Economic "Guru" Of The Year (Decade?)
Alan Greenspan (hey, nice job to not criticize Bushco’s fiscal mismanagement when it mattered but instead do it later in a book after you’d already quit, Mr. Andrea Mitchell).
Memory Lapse Of The Year
Fredrick of Hollywood, who said he “couldn’t remember” the Terri Schiavo mess since it happened “a couple of years ago,” or something (definitely not good enough for the wingnut “base” - here)
The “I Guess They Don’t Really Like Me After All” Citation
Fox, the network broadcasting the Emmys on September 16th, censored Sally Field’s anti-Iraq war comments in her speech when she accepted an Emmy for Best Dramatic Actress (I mean, we’re talking about Fox here, remember).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
State Senator Tom McClintock of California who actually opposed a law banning anyone under 18 from using a cell phone, laptop PC or texting device while driving (here - somehow I'm sure a judge and jury would take into consideration any emergency situations that necessitated using these devices; the point of the law is to save lives).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
U.S. House Rep (Repug, of course) Peter “There Are Too Many Mosques In This Country” King (here).
Most Tasteless Political Screwup Of The Year
Rudy! and his $9.11 fundraiser (here)
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
"Ari Ari Bobari" Fleischer (here - what a prick)
Do-Gooder Of The Year Nominee
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken (here)
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Flush (“Phony Soldiers”) Limbore (I think that pilonidal cyst of his traveled north and impaired that lonely brain synapse; either that, or the OxyContin addiction has taken over for good - here)…
Do Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Mark Udall, for introducing a resolution here against Flush for his remark in the wake of the controversy over that ad in the New York Times.
Cartoon Of The Year
Chris Britt from the State Journal Register and Copley News Service on the Petraeus/MoveOn controversy (here).
Do-Gooder Of The Year Candidate
NJ Governor Jon Corzine for suing Dubya over SCHIP.
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Rep. Darrell Issa (Repug-CA) for his veiled threat against Henry Waxman for Waxman’s investigation of Blackwater (here).
Lamest Conservative Nonsense Of The Year (tough field here)
Fred Barnes on Barack Obama (here - h/t Atrios)
You know, I’ve thought for a long time that Obama’s not in quite as strong a position on the war in Iraq as he really thinks he is. Remember, when he famously came out against the war, it was back in a time when the entire world believed that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that he would probably be willing to use them himself at some time or pass them along to terrorists who would use them. And yet, Barack Obama was against going to the war at that point. I don’t think that shows that he is very strong on national security, which he needs to be.So…because Obama was completely right, he was somehow wrong..???
Only in Beltway pundit land, ladies and gentlemen.
Lamest Conservative Nonsense Of The Year (Runner Up)
Michelle Malkin and her foul freeper ilk who attacked Graeme Frost and his family (Frost was the 12-year-old boy who spoke out against Dubya’s SCHIP veto on behalf of the Democrats…”fetid compost where their hearts should be” indeed).
Ignored Media Quote Of The Year
Arlen Specter in Mehoopany, Pa. in August (here)…
"I don't know that there is any victory there. We're not going to be able to defeat all the crazies in Iraq."Proof That bin Laden Is Protected
Bushco’s particularly stupid decision to leak an al Qaeda video to Fox and thus betray knowledge of a terrorist web site that Fox promptly let everyone know about; the group shut down the minute they knew they’d been discovered (here).
Do-Gooder Of The Year Nominee (with reservations)
Gen. Ricardo Sanchez for telling the truth about Iraq (this man’s career is probably over now for this, unfortunately - also this and this).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Brenda Jensen of Wayne, PA, the person who caused this horrific accident on the Schuylkill Expressway near Philadelphia that ended up closing the road between about midnight and 5 AM on October 12th (more here).
Most Under (Non?)-Reported Story Of The Year
Bushco threatened the telecomms to participate in massive domestic spying before 9/11 (here).
Quote Of The Year (Runner-Up)
Senator Wide Stance, from this story...
"I was very proud of my association with Mitt Romney," Craig told Lauer. "... And he not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again."Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Patrolman Gerald Tallo, the Scranton, Pa. police officer who cited his neighbor Dawn Herb for yelling too loudly as her toilet was overflowing (here).
Herb was yelling for her daughter to get a mop to help clean it up.
In her house.
And she was not intoxicated, on drugs, or threatening anyone in any way.
All she was trying to do was clean up an overflowing toilet.
In her house.
Do-Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Dem Rep. Pete Stark of California (for this - no reason on earth why he should have been forced to apologize).
I'll try to have more on Friday.
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