(Part One is here, Part Two is here, and Part Three is here.)Do Gooders of the Year Nominee
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which stated here that unions are “moral choices” and collective bargaining rights reflect the “principles of justice,” in response to Walker/Wisconsin fiasco (gimme that old-time religion, people)
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The bar is set really low here, but I have to give it to Bernard Goldberg of Fix Noise here for turning the tables on Bill Orally and saying that Jesse Watters, Orally’s flunky “producer” who goes out and ambushes people, some while they’re on their way to their vacations (see Amanda Terkel), “is not an objective reporter” (baby steps I know, but progress…I’m sure Bernie came back later to fluff Billo, but as of March, it was all good).
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Bill Orally, for running a clip of supposedly violent union protests in Wisconsin here, though Digby pointed out the snowless February ground and palm trees of the location in the clip, otherwise known as Sacramento, CA (what a wanker – Orally I mean of course)
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Hugh McInnish for this (“Blacks misbehave,” huh? What century is this again?)
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Repug U.S. House Rep Trent Franks of AZ, who, like Baby Newton Leroy, called for impeaching President Obama if he “doesn’t reverse course on (not supporting) the Defense of Marriage Act” here (Oh, so not supporting DOMA constitutes a “high crime and/or misdemeanor”? What a joke – and by the way, get a load of the latest Franks travesty here).
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Holy Joe Lieberman for saying here that “the Army could train the Libyan opposition in anti-aircraft defense”…
OK, three things: 1) Why don’t you fly over there and help them yourself instead of sitting on your whining, sanctimonious ass and pontificating as per usual about our military risking life and limb on yet another fool’s errand in an oil-rich nation?; 2) That kind of involvement was just what Quaddafi (is that how you spell his name at long last?) was hoping for so he could get more help from our Arab “friends”; and 3) Gosh, didn’t some terrorist group get started out once with our aid? And who were they again? Gee, let me think…
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Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich, not for his ridiculous fan dance of “will I or won’t I run for president” (though that was bad enough), but for using a stock photo of a crowd that he lifted from the web site of the late Dem Sen. Ted Kennedy that he can claim as his supporters here (a new low from this guy every day, people – oh, and by the way, here is another Gingrich item)
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Orange County, CA Republicans who allowed this to happen (sometimes there are truly no words)
The “Why Don’t They Just Call It The Inquirer To Eliminate Any Possible Confusion, Since It Fits Anyway” Citation Of The Year
As noted here, an as-yet-unnamed print edition of The Onion was scheduled to debut in Philadelphia last spring (no word on what happened subsequent to this story).
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Bucks County, PA Register of Wills Barbara Reilly, who (as noted here) faced criminal charges in March after a yearlong corruption probe accused her of coercing employees to do political work, illegally reimbursing them on the public dime and then destroying or hiding evidence as investigators closed in (also charged were her “two top lieutenants Rebecca Kiefer, 64, of Warrington, and administrator Candace Quinn, 53”…the part about Kiefer and Quinn stealing the quarters from the Tootsie Pop charity collection jar, which got so bad that someone finally taped a cover over the jar's mouth, is way beyond pathetic - they would later plead guilty...of course Democratic voters who didn't bother to show up on election day ensured the return of Charley "I Have A Semi-Open Mind" Martin for another term as a Bucks County Commissioner, with a Repug majority of course, in spite of this)
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The US Army (and really, by extension, our whole government) gets it here for the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning (and the accompanying silence by all three branches), the alleged “Wikileaker” to Julian Assange, who, as I type this, is being forced to sleep naked in his cell because he supposedly is a risk to himself (Manning I mean…kudos to Glenn Greenwald for publicizing this along with Jane Hamsher and a few others…if this were Dubya’s administration, there would be round-the-clock outrage, and the comparative silence under Number 44 is more than a bit depressing, and a bit of a double standard I’ll admit).
…and in another related item…
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Former Obama Administration State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley called the D.O.D. treatment of Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” Crowley was forced to resign in March, but his did not “walk back” his criticism (and he also once said the following about Bushco here)…
[W]e have policies, including harsh interrogation techniques, detention without charge, government surveillance, and immigration that are inconsistent with our values and our long-term interest. All this in the name of something called the “war on terror.”Crowley shouldn’t be pushed out, he should be promoted (and it’s a rather pitiable commentary on how the Obama Administration has co-opted some of the very worst policies of our prior ruling cabal that this is taking place).
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Margie Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church for claiming that President Obama is “most likely the Beast spoken of in the Revelation” here (yeah, I know this is about what you would expect from the “God Loves Dead Soldiers” bunch or whatever…aw hell, give this to Fix Noise instead for allowing this human mistake a platform to spout her bile)
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Tom Cruise for this (and actually, CO guv John Hickenlooper, who, as a Dem, definitely should know better)…
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Repug U.S. House Rep Louie Gohmert for this (as I frequently point out, somebody elects these clowns)
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Former Wyoming Senator (and member of that ridiculous deficit commission) Alan “Enema Man” Simpson (God, what an embarrassment - here)…
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Former President Nutball, for “barring the media” from covering his Desert Town Hall Speaker Series speech, which, as noted here, is an “unprecedented” move (and he only answered questions received in advance by people who paid from $80 to $1,150 for a ticket…I believe the phrase “stumbling, demented child former king” fits)
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NPR gets it for supposedly forcing CEO Vivian Schiller out the door in the wake of the latest stunt by James O’Keefe (who, last we checked, was messing around without permission in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu)…what Jed sez here and here (and OMIGOD, such a controversy over someone pointing out that the teahadists are racists too – and in other “news,” sky is blue and water is wet).
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New Hampshire State Senator Martin Harty, who told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program, that “the world is too populated” and there are “too many defective people,” and “I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population” here (I don’t care how old Harty is – these comments are still reprehensible)
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CNBC’s Larry “The Human Toll (of the Japanese Tsunami) Looks To Be Much Worse Than The Economic Toll, And We Can All Be Grateful For That” Kudlow here (h/t Atrios…he probably meant the opposite, but still, we are talking about Larry Kudlow here)
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Fix Noise for this concerning the disaster in Japan – I shouldn’t, but ROFLMAO (h/t Atrios)
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The thoroughly execrable Evan Bayh – I think the Think Progress headline here says it all…
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Kansas State Representative Virgil Peck, who joked here about shooting illegal immigrants from a helicopter (and no, this asshat isn’t apologizing, the last I checked anyway)
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Ted Borawski, chief oil and gas geologist with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, told a group of insurance underwriters in Lancaster County (figures) in March that "Joseph Goebbels would be proud" of the Oscar-nominated film "Gasland," which explores the environmental impacts of natural gas drilling (here).
Now that’s a bad enough thing to say because “Gasland” is superbly researched and filmmaker Josh Fox lets you learn all about the people whose lives, and livelihoods in some cases, have been utterly ruined by natural gas extraction. However, what makes this particularly awful, as noted in the Philadelphia Daily News story, is the fact that Fox’s father and paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and Fox (rightly I believe) wants Borawski fired (here).
Governor Tom “Space Cadet” Corbett, by the way, has said only that Borawski is being “disciplined” (because, as every Repug knows, transparency is only for liberals…and Democrats, of course).
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Actress Sandra Bullock for pledging $1 mil to help Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami here (here…not a real big fan, but kudos anyway)
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Bexar County, TX, Democratic Party chairman Dan Ramos, for calling gays “termites infecting the party” here (oh joy)
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Dane County (WI) Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order in March, barring Hosni Mubarak Walker’s bill stripping collective bargaining rights from most of that state’s public workers (here - as we know, Walker was eventually able to sneak in the provision stripping collective bargaining rights, but Judge Sumi deserves credit for doing the right thing).
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AIPAC, for trying to fundraise off a bus bombing in Jerusalem that killed one and injured “dozens more,” as noted here (let the demagoguery rest at least until the fatality is cold in the ground, OK)?
...at least they apologized later.
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Actor Steven Seagal for this – I’m sure those 115 chickens posed a mortal threat (tee hee...and here is a thoroughly repulsive development concerning Seagal's partner)…
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Wayne LaPierre of the NRA for refusing an invitation here to sit down and talk with Obama about guns (Obama being President of the United States of course, continuing a pattern started by Orange Man of blowing off the president – and disrespecting the office in a huge way – when it suits him).
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This is a tough call I’ll admit, but I’m sorry, I have to give this to Bill Maher. One reason why is because, in a March episode, he interviewed Dem U.S. House Rep Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who is a Muslim (can’t remember the name of the other Muslim House member – Andre Carson?), and he basically challenged Ellison to prove to him that the Koran isn’t a book that incites violence against non-Muslims (to his credit, Maher allowed Ellison to answer rather eloquently, I thought). As soon as the interview was over, Maher started his panel discussion with a remark like, “I guess my liberal friends are going to be mad at me now.” Gee, ya think?
I would have let that slide, but one of the people on the panel that night was Dana Loesch, another one of Andrew Breitbart’s flunkies, serial liars and/or propagandists. Maher routinely gives Breitbart and his crowd a forum on his show, which to me begs the question: how many lies are enough for someone to be told never to come back? And it’s not because Breitbart is a conservative – there are plenty of other people of that persuasion who, while I probably won’t agree with them, will at least have to courtesy not to lie so outrageously as Breitbart and his crew.
(To be fair, though, Maher had Ellison on as a panelist for his final show of the season this year, and Ellison received considerably better treatment.)
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Carlos F. Lam for this (all class – shades of the “Brooks Brothers” Riot)
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President Obama for this – I don’t know about you, but I’m waay past being sick of his “Bush-lite” crap such as this example (and please tell me what your latest strategy is for “motivating the base,” by the way)…
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The Vermont State House for passing a bill calling for a single-payer health care system (this is how it starts – we need to keep the momentum going somehow)
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Former California Superior Court Judge Donald McCartin, a self-described “right-wing Republican,” gets it for calling for an end to that state’s use of the death penalty here (I’ll admit that I go back and forth on this myself, but if you’re not going to use it, abolish it and save the money).
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