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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #75 on: December 14, 2010, 04:29:01 PM »
New Recap:

Democrats (This, I have to say, seems a bit of a Time-magazine like stretch)
Elisa Baker
Michael Bloomberg (4)
Jimmy Carter (4)
Michael Crook
Whitney Cummings
Chris Dodd
Bret Favre
Barney Frank (2)
Robert Gibbs
Kathy Griffin (3)
Tom Harkin
Eric Holder
Angelina Jolie
John “Did I mention I served in Vietnam?” Kerry
Lindsay Lohan
Bill Maher
Mainstream Media (Thundley makes a good case for this being considered as an "individual"; they act as one)
Bradley Manning (2)
Chris Matthews
Michael Moore
Keith Olbermann (5)
Nancy Pelosi (5)
Fred Phelps (4)
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Harry Reid (2)
Chuck Schumer (2)
Jon Stewart (2)
The South Hadley 6 (2)
Helen Thomas
Ted Turner


I still haven't broken these down into categories; if anyone wants to take a bang at that, please go ahead.

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #76 on: December 14, 2010, 06:47:29 PM »
Well there is one thing for sure. There are a ton of assholes! That may just be the whole problem!
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #77 on: December 15, 2010, 10:45:26 AM »
Ya know who else is an asshole?  Pete Stark and everybody who voted for him. 

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #78 on: December 15, 2010, 01:54:31 PM »
Karin, catsmtrods, and Carl will agree with me on this, a "Lifetime Achievement Asshole"--Chuck Schumer!
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #79 on: December 15, 2010, 03:40:36 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint link=topic=52548.msg 587896#msg 587896 date=1292442871
Karin, catsmtrods, and Carl will agree with me on this, a "Lifetime Achievement Asshole"--Chuck Schumer!
Oh yeah, he goes beyond asshole!
"Liberalism is an essentially feminine, submissive world view. Perhaps a better adjective than feminine is infantile. It is the world view of men who do not have the moral toughness, the spiritual strength to stand up and do single combat with life, who cannot adjust to the reality that the world is not a huge, pink-and-blue, padded nursery in which the lions lie down with the lambs and everyone lives happily ever after."


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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #80 on: December 15, 2010, 04:04:39 PM »
Ordered by how many nominations.

Keith Olbermann (5)
Nancy Pelosi (5)
Fred Phelps (4)
Michael Bloomberg (4)
Jimmy Carter (4)
Kathy Griffin (3)
Harry Reid (2)
Chuck Schumer (2)
Jon Stewart (2)
The South Hadley 6 (Drove Phoebe Prince to suicide) (2)
Bradley Manning (2)
Barney Frank (2)
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Helen Thomas
Ted Turner
Democrats (This, I have to say, seems a bit of a Time-magazine like stretch)
Elisa Baker
Michael Crook
Whitney Cummings
Chris Dodd
Bret Favre
Robert Gibbs
Tom Harkin
Eric Holder
Angelina Jolie
John “Did I mention I served in Vietnam?” Kerry
Lindsay Lohan
Bill Maher
Mainstream Media (Thundley makes a good case for this being considered as an "individual"; they act as one)
Chris Matthews
Michael Moore

Looks like it's a toss up between Pelosi and Olbermann.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #81 on: December 15, 2010, 04:06:22 PM »
Well there is one thing for sure. There are a ton of assholes! That may just be the whole problem!

Exactly! Tough call to make.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #82 on: December 15, 2010, 04:35:43 PM »
Alan Grayson.

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #83 on: December 15, 2010, 07:18:17 PM »
I say we break it down into catagories with the list of names for each one that fits. then we vote on the top 4 or 5 in each catagory. The top one wins and we post the results on Christmas Day or soon after.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #84 on: December 15, 2010, 07:33:57 PM »
Can you put me in for a vote for Eric Holder, that red diaper doper baby, please? :cheersmate:

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #85 on: December 16, 2010, 08:59:57 AM »
I say we break it down into catagories with the list of names for each one that fits. then we vote on the top 4 or 5 in each catagory. The top one wins and we post the results on Christmas Day or soon after.

That's a plan! One alteration to that I'd suggest is that we have and recognize the individual winners of each category, and then vote the overall winner. The second is that we give ourselves to Jan 2 to finish the voting. The category winners are exiled from the United States for 10 years. The overall winner has his/her US citizenship revoked, is permanently exiled, and is condemned to love like Philip Nolan in Hale's "The Man Without a Country." In fact, I'd also suggest that the top prize be called a "Nolan", just as an Academy Award has a second name--"Oscar."


Work is crazy this week; I'll do it on Saturday.


Also: (not that it's come up yet)--no nominations and voting from probationary members, otherwise we could have a flood of DU types packing in ridiculous nominations like Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh or everyone, pretty much, who is, in fact, a patriot and stands for decency.


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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #86 on: December 16, 2010, 09:31:41 AM »
"Entertainment" Asshole of the year:  Jesse James.  What a pud.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #87 on: December 16, 2010, 10:26:40 AM »
So many great choices. But I have to nominate that major asshat Bill Maher. He is the #1 reason I will never get HBO.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #88 on: December 16, 2010, 12:32:45 PM »
Whatever asshole gave the green light to THIS shit...



Seriously, though? I have to go with Edward R. Olberdouche.

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #89 on: December 16, 2010, 07:17:22 PM »
Whatever asshole gave the green light to THIS shit...

Seriously, though? I have to go with Edward R. Olberdouche.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #91 on: December 17, 2010, 02:08:26 AM »
That's a plan! One alteration to that I'd suggest is that we have and recognize the individual winners of each category, and then vote the overall winner. The second is that we give ourselves to Jan 2 to finish the voting. The category winners are exiled from the United States for 10 years. The overall winner has his/her US citizenship revoked, is permanently exiled, and is condemned to love like Philip Nolan in Hale's "The Man Without a Country." In fact, I'd also suggest that the top prize be called a "Nolan", just as an Academy Award has a second name--"Oscar."


Work is crazy this week; I'll do it on Saturday.


Also: (not that it's come up yet)--no nominations and voting from probationary members, otherwise we could have a flood of DU types packing in ridiculous nominations like Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh or everyone, pretty much, who is, in fact, a patriot and stands for decency.



Works for me.I also want to add Ron Paul and his merry band of asshat follwers to the list. Also Kanye West needs to go into the entertainers side.
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #92 on: December 17, 2010, 09:27:56 AM »
Works for me.I also want to add Ron Paul and his merry band of asshat follwers to the list. Also Kanye West needs to go into the entertainers side.

Kanye West is a beaut nomination, but did he do anything in 2010 to top his 2009 drunken stage-crashing?

Guy is an uber-asshole in any year, though, too true.

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #93 on: December 17, 2010, 09:38:14 AM »
Kanye West is a beaut nomination, but did he do anything in 2010 to top his 2009 drunken stage-crashing?

Guy is an uber-asshole in any year, though, too true.

Yeah, see that was my problem too.  I wanted to nominate both Kanye and Tiger Woods, but their assholery really was last year's, except for that 2005 KW incident.  This year Kanye did diamond crust his teeth.  Perhaps we can nominate him for body modification asshole of the year? 
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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #94 on: December 20, 2010, 09:00:41 AM »
Thank you Ptarmigan--your re-ordering by nomination votes helped alot. Here they are broken down by category (for who we have thus far):



Ordered by how many nominations (many thanks to Ptarmigan--H5, my friend, and may all gyrfalcons contract some fatal virus).


Tyranny and Misgovernment
Nancy Pelosi (5)
Michael Bloomberg (4)
Jimmy Carter (4)
Chuck Schumer (2)
Harry Reid (2)
Barney Frank (2)
Ron Paul (2)
Tom Harkin
Democrats
John “Did I mention I served in Vietnam?” Kerry
Eric Holder
Chris Dodd
Robert Gibbs



Criminals
Elisa Baker
The South Hadley 6 (2)





Propaganda/state-run media
Keith Olbermann (6)
Jon Stewart (2)
Mainstream Media
Helen Thomas
Bill Maher
Michael Moore
Michael Crook



Religion for the Damned
Fred Phelps (4)



Derangetainment
Kathy Griffin (3)
Angelina Jolie
Lindsay Lohan
Kanye West
Lady Gaga
Jesse James
Whitney Cummings





Crony capitalism
Ted Turner


Jihadism
Feisal Abdul Rauf


Treason
Bradley Manning (2)



Unsportsmanship
Bret Favre

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #95 on: December 20, 2010, 09:09:51 AM »
That's a pretty good list. I note a couple that are missing (probably for good reason):

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #96 on: December 20, 2010, 09:15:32 AM »
Oh, nominations are still open! They will be added!

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #97 on: December 20, 2010, 10:11:14 AM »
  The aptly named Anthony Wiener.

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #98 on: December 20, 2010, 03:31:37 PM »
Yeah, him.  Remember when he was on BOR, and Bill asked him if new IRS agents were going to enforce the mandated insurance?  Wiener just looked off camera at the ground, and heaved a HUGE sigh.  Refused to answer, acted like a 10 year old girl. 

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Re: American Asshole of the Year
« Reply #99 on: December 20, 2010, 04:20:08 PM »
Julia Stiles.
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