Winding down with this (prior related posts are here, here, here, here, here, and here)...Lamest Fundraising Excuse Of The Year
Buzz Jacobs (Buzz? Where’s Jesse, Woody and The Prospector? - "Toy Story 2" reference...sorry), John McCain’s campaign manager in South Catolina, who sent out a mailer asking for money to “stand up to Rick Sanchez and CNN,” who had the “audacity” to ask McCain whether or not he should have admonished the woman who called Hillary Clinton a “bitch” (here).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority for permitting a ritual where, during halftime at football games at Giants Stadium, “men gather on a pedestrian ramp at Gate D and engage in an obscenity-laced chant for women to expose their breasts” (reported here in the New York Times - related post appears here).
Story Most Ignored By Our Corporate Media (and others –
not just for this year also)
One name: Sibel Edmonds.
Second most ignored story – victims of the sub-prime loan debacle.
Third most ignored story – with few exceptions, the lack of military experience of Repug congressional war cheerleaders (some related thoughts here...here and here are related posts from The Daily Kos).
Most Undeserved Assist Of The Year
"Independent" Bucks County Commissioners candidate Jay Russell, who managed to siphon off nearly 6,000 votes on behalf of Repug incumbent candidate Charley ("I Have A Semi-Open Mind") Martin and thus ensure Martin's re-election over Dem challenger Steve Santarsiero (the margin of Martin's victory was about 1,500 votes; not hard to imagine how many of Russell's would have gone to Steve instead - here).
Best Reason For Energy Independence
A Saudi court sentences a woman victimized by a gang rape to 200 lashes – at times like this, there are actually no words.
Worst Journalistic Fraud Of The Year
Joke Line’s “reporting” on the Democrats’ FISA bill in November (here - lots of competition in this category).
Most Obnoxious Comment Thread Of The Year
The one from a month or so ago in response to this post last year.
Liar Of The Year Nominee
Bill Clinton (this hurts)…
However...
But then again (if the “Big Dog” still has Republican friends at this point, then he’s living in a time warp)…
Do-Gooder Of The Year Candidate
The great Rush Holt for calling out that nut sack Joke Line on how the latter didn’t know what he was writing about on the RESTORE Act for Time’s blog “The Swamp.”
also…
Do-Gooders Of The Year
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (their auction ended up raising $800 grand, to be donated to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA - here).
Gone, But Not Forgotten Soon Enough Citation
Henry Hyde
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
The Texas Education Agency for firing Christine Comer who forwarded an e-mail message about a talk by a distinguished professor who debunks “intelligent design” and creationism as legitimate alternatives to evolution in the science curriculum (here).
I’ll try this again; this woman was fired for forwarding an Email.
About a topic pertinent to her job.
Regarding the teaching on “intelligent design” as science.
In Texas.
Pinheaded Liberal Moment Of The Year (Nominee)
Whoopi Goldberg referring to the estate tax as the “death tax” here.
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Arlen Specter, for blocking a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on contempt resolutions against Karl Rove and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Special P.T. Barnum Citation For American Stupidity
Glenn Beck’s book debuts at #1 on the NYT bestseller list.
Most Manufactured Moment Of Feigned Media Umbrage
Peter Osnos over Scott McClellan’s book (here – the funny part is that Osnos apparently doesn’t get that the people he believes deal only in “outrage or vituperation,” or whatever that quote is, are generating buzz for his book – i.e., the bloggers he apparently detests.)
Special “Act Now And Satan Can Be Yours Also For $9.99
As Part Of This Limited-Time-Only Offer” Citation
Talking Jesus action figure sells out at Wal-Of-China Mart (here).
Special “Black Like Him, Sort Of” Citation
Dr. James Watson, a Nobel-winning geneticist and former head of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island who once claimed that “black people, overall, are not as intelligent as whites” (he apologized and resigned), was found to be “16 percent African” (here).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Paula Deen of The Food Network here for failing to intervene in the efforts by workers at Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, N.C. to form a union, saying “I feel like I’m being dragged into something” (or even meet with the workers, actually).
The workers at Smithfield Foods have been trying to form a union for ten years. Dean makes about $4 million a year, and the Smithfield workers make about $12 an hour. Why is it too much to ask of her apparently to lend a hand here?
Do Gooder Of The Year Candidate
Dem Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida for his interesting solution to get past the SCHIP roadblock set up by Bushco and the Repugs (here).
...more here (and here).
Do Gooder Of The Year Candidate
Kurt Daims of Brattleboro, Vermont (here).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
Bill Shaheen, co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign, for bringing up Barack Obama’s past drug use here, as well as the ugly innuendo that he may have sold drugs as well (the “use” part is fair game, but not the innuendo).
The "All Wet Repug 'Carrying Water For Dubya'" Citation
Sem. Kit Bond of Missouri, who thinks that waterboarding is “like swimming, freestyle, backstroke” (here).
Dregs Of The Year Nominee
"Hold This" Harry Reid (pathetic)…
Media Career Self-Emulation Of The Year
Alycia Lane
Most Repugnant Corporate Media Narrative
George W. Bush scoring a political “win” on SCHIP (here - his “artful” veto?? I'm going to vomit).
Worst Journalistic Hire Of The Year
Back to The Old Gray Lady for this one (h/t Atrios - more here).
Martyr Of The Year
Benazir Bhutto
Literary Critique Of The Year
Here (re: Jonah Goldberg’s book “Liberal Fascism” – hacking story on the book here) …
“Reading this book is like watching a flaming piano fall out of an airplane and land in a puppy farm.”Brilliant!
I'll finish this tomorrow - not much more to go.
Update: I don't know where else to put this, so I'll stick it here, so to speak; kos is dead-on...why does Obama have this apparent reflex for spouting freeper nonsense when in panic mode (the supposed social security "crisis" he recently embraced is another example).
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