Once more, prior related posts are here, here, and here (and I posted over here as well).Do Gooder Of The Year Nominee
Redlasso Inc. of King of Prussia, PA in these parts; the company stated here (registration required) that it “will not acquiesce to several broadcasters’ request that it cease and desist in providing their video content over its Web site” (awesome!)
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A certain Richard Bruce Cheney for this (see you in Charleston, “Dick”...also for this)
Update 12/22/08: And this...and this...and this (I could be here all day).
Update 12/23/08: And this (better take a number and sit down people; we could be here for a little while)...
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Syndicated pundit Kathleen Parker (so many reasons, but this is probably the most notorious; this book of hers sounds like a monstrous slaughter of trees and just about nothing else – h/t Atrios)…
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Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, as well as a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. As Wikipedia tells us, she is a past winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; the ruling junta in Myanmar has kept her under house arrest for over 13 years (highlighting her cause is one of the few good things Dubya has actually done).
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E.D. Hill of Faux News for the utterly brainless "terrorist fist jab" dustup here (h/t Atrios), and more is here (awww, bad luck E.D.).
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Dem U.S. House Rep Dennis Kucinich for introducing 35 articles of impeachment against Dubya here (they were "tabled" with no further action by Nancy Pelosi, as you might expect)
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Tom (“Unless Obama Proves Me Wrong, He’s A Marxist”) DeLay here
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McCain campaign contributor Clayton Williams here, who apparently thinks that rape is humorous; sick, as is that remark about Ann Richards - scumbag (dishonorable mention to the McCain campaign for keeping his money).
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Fred Hobbs, a Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of the district of Democratic congressman Lincoln Davis, explaining that neither he nor Davis will endorse Obama because he may be “terrorist connected” here.
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New York Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, who criticized Major League Baseball’s National League here because his star pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang, hurt his foot (see, Steinbrenner is mad because the National League in Major League Baseball doesn’t have the “designated hitter” for the pitcher as the American League does; if they did, his star would not have injured himself running the bases).
All together now – WAAAAHHHH!!!!!
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McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt, who will be allowed to keep his $800,000 performance bonus from last year, even though McClatchy stock has lost 71% of its value and the company has announced plans to lay off 1,400 employees, as noted here (some “performance”!).
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Flush Limbore (only a OxyContin-addicted, bigoted individual could come up with this, which explains it perfectly as far as I’m concerned)
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Repug Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona for (temporarily) blocking the 13-week extension of unemployment benefits in the Senate here
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Illinois Repug Congressman Mark Kirk for saying we should have a “shoot on sight” policy concerning Obama here (and no, I’m no longer going to buy the “Oh, sorry…I meant to say Osama” excuse; the statute of limitations, if you will, expired for me on that one long ago).
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Esther Slater McDonald, a “political appointee at the Justice Department, (who) wrote disparaging statements about the candidates' liberal and Democratic Party affiliations on the applications she reviewed and ... voted to deselect candidates on that basis," according to a report by Inspector General Glenn Fine (here).
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Ralph Nader here (let’s see; he’s a deadbeat in that he owes PA court costs since he lost the challenge to the signatures on his ballot petition in ’04, and now he’s accusing Obama of trying to “talk white?”).
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Former Sixers star guard Aaron McKie here for using the “I’m a former NBA player and Philly is a dangerous place” defense and lying while trying to purchase two handguns, a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson and a 9mm Ruger (he lives in a Narbeth French colonial and has a history of domestic abuse against the mother of his daughter - honorable mention for doing his part to make the Belfield Rec Center in Philly’s Olney section a good place for the kids, though)
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Paris Hilton for her donation to L.A. Children’s Hospital here (fair is fair)
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Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Massachusetts here, for telling Cheney’s
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Hugh Hewitt, for saying an Obama election would cause a terrorist attack here (to say that I got sick of hearing this garbage through the election is an understatement, and I know I wasn't alone on that)
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Human cockroach Grover Norquist, describing Barack Obama as “John Kerry with a tan” here (and for this also)
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Dick Heller, the guy who filed the lawsuit against Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban that ultimately got it overturned here (illegal gun traffickers, psychologists/psychiatrists providing counseling for victims’ families and friends, and funeral directors across the country thank you for what undoubtedly will be increased business as a result – if you didn’t like the damn gun ban, here’s what you could have done instead: MOVED OUT OF D.C.!).
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Former Judge Advocate General (JAG) Kyndra Miller Rotunda, who described GITMO to Sean Hannity of Fox Noise here as “really more like a Boy Scout camp than it is a prison camp.”
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NJ Repug House Rep Chris Smith for encouraging Dubya not to go to the Beijing Olympics here (a fruitless gesture, but a good try – I missed a bunch of other stuff on Smith, though, that I tried to make up for here).
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Dubya, for deciding to attend the opening Olympic ceremonies in Beijing anyway here (many other reasons, but this will do for now).
Update 12/25/08: Here's another reason.
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L.F. Eason, a 29-year veteran of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, who “instructed his staff at a small Raleigh lab not to fly the U.S. or North Carolina flags at half-staff Monday” to honor the late senator Jesse Helms.
As a result, Eason’s superiors gave him the choice of lowering the flags or being forced to retire. To his credit, he chose the latter (here).
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“Family values” Repug Troy King of Alabama, who professes to Hate Teh Gay but was busted having Big Gay Sex with his boy toy, and by his wife no less (here)
(Or, as a C&L commenter wittily observed, does this mean King is a Queen?)
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Phil Gramm for his “whining Americans” nonsense here (dishonorable mentions to George Will and Fred Barnes for agreeing with him, as well as Sean Inanity – more on Will in December)
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Wingnut Fred Phelps (of “God Hates Fags” infamy) here for protesting Tony Snow at the man’s funeral (I’m a bit fed up with people referring to him as a “preacher,” conferring some benevolence he doesn’t deserve)
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Ron Fournier of the AP, for telling Karl Rove to “keep up the fight” here (at this moment, Rove has refused twice to honor subpoenas from Congress)
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Karl Rove (speaking of the devil): so many reasons, but one is criticizing the New York Times for supposedly outing a CIA agent here, even though the individual in question never worked undercover, and the names of other agents who worked against al Qaeda have been published (hmmm, outing a CIA agent – why does that ring a bell; rhymes with “name,” as I recall).
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Former North Carolina Repug Senator Elizabeth Dole, who tried to get an AIDS funding bill named after Jesse Helms, one of the most notorious homophobes this country has ever seen (here)
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Mike Meehan, a St. Cloud, Florida businessman, who paid for billboards with a message for people not to vote for Democrats that displayed the burning World Trade Center twin towers here (nice freaking guy)
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Monica Goodling, who passed over an experienced counterterrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice because his wife was a Democrat here (Repugs keeping us safe and secure as always…it will truly be a miracle if nothing else befalls us before Dubya and his gang depart at long last – h/t Atrios).
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Tigereye Design of Ohio for “accidentally” placing the face of Senator Wide Stance on an Obama button in which he endorses Dem Larry LaRocco of Idaho here (at least they got the name right – and “a wide mouse pointer arrow” is to blame? Sorry, too close to parody)
More later...
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