This thread is for reaching a CC consensus on who deserves the title "American Asshole of the Year". The person finally selected must be an American--which, by the way, is going to leave out his Supreme Assholishness in the White House, as I don't really believe he is an American.
The thread is open for nominations. I've given this some thought, and I'm just going to nominate one person--other posters can make multiple nominations. My nominee is:
Jon Stewart
This smarmy POS's offenses are too numerous to catologue, but this is an "of the Year" award, so it's the year's top outrages that he's committed that I'm listing:
For his sanctimonious, ill-disguised ultraleft and really flat-out vomitous "Rally to Restore Sanity" rally, which he didn't think of doing when the Left was calling President Bush Hitler and openly advocating his death, and which he called only to mock other people's serious attendance of Glenn Beck's rally, and
for his compounding of the mockery of Christmas mockery in his loathsome "The War on Christmas that Almost Wasn't," a mockery of others' wholly justified and not at all over-the-top outrage at the hard left's extreme intolerance shown to Christians, every Christmas, in the true, real, and actually happening War on Christmas. Mockery of this kind works only if the thing your mocking ISN'T HAPPENING. This is really happening, it's a direct assault on the Free Exercise clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution, and, of course, it shows him once again to be the uber-hypocrite that he is, because anyone who pretends to want to "restore sanity" in America wouldn't be befouling the airwaves with trash designed only to provoke fury among so many of his countrymen. Stewart is a smarter version of marginalized Maher, and really 1000x as despicable.
Stewart is my nominee for American Asshole of the Year. Nominations are now open. We'll vote later. Wheover finally wins the uncoveted anti-crown of American Asshole of the Year will have his American citizenship nonbindingly revoked by the Conservative Cave, which no doubt the likes of such nomineees as are likely to appear in this thread willl consider an honor.
Nominations close by midnight, December 26, 2010, and the Award will be decided (by CC consensus) by Janurary 2, 2011.