Andrew Sullivan’s 2007 Awards
December 31st, 2007 at 11:34 am by David FarrarI enjoy Andrew Sullivan’s Awards. he has awardrd four of them in 2007 and I’ll cover three of them:
The Malkin Award – named after blogger, Michelle Malkin – is for shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric. Ann Coulter is ineligible – to give others a chance.
Winner: Michael Savage for this:
“You know, the Gore-leone crime family is now the number one crime family in the world, when you think about it. He’s about to pull off the biggest scam in the history of the world. It’s bigger than any bank heist, bigger than any drug deal. It’s bigger than any counterfeiting scheme, and he’s doing it all nice and natural with a little help from the socialist perverts in Norway, who gave him a Nobel Prize. Why do I call them socialist perverts? Answer: because they are. By and large, 90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child pornography and molestation, according to the latest scientific studies.”
Yes, he really did claim 90% of the Nobel Committee are into child porn. Now hell I think selecting Gore a few days after a UK Judge pointed out all the inaccuracies in his film was a bad call, but this is just nuts.
The Moore Award – named after film-maker, Michael Moore – is for divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric.
Winner: Keith Olbermann for this:
“Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
Really, what can one say. And Olbermann is on MSNBC for an hour every day!
The Yglesias Award is for writers, politicians, columnists or pundits who actually criticize their own side, make enemies among political allies, and generally risk something for the sake of saying what they believe.
Winner: Peggy Noonan for this:
“Christian conservatives have been rising, most recently, for 30 years in national politics, since they helped elect Jimmy Carter. They care about the religious faith of their leaders, and their interest is legitimate. Faith is a shaping force. Lincoln got grilled on it. But there is a sense in Iowa now that faith has been heightened as a determining factor in how to vote, that such things as executive ability, professional history, temperament, character, political philosophy and professed stands are secondary, tertiary. But they are not, and cannot be. They are central. Things seem to be getting out of kilter, with the emphasis shifting too far.”
I couldn’t agree more. Have always liked what Peggy Noonan says.
Would be fun to have such awards in NZ but we don’t tend to get quite so many insane rants.
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December 31st, 2007 at 11:40 am
There could be plenty of awards for utter inanity. You could call one of them, hell all of them, the Jordan Carter award.
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I really am starting to hate the term “divisive”. The way it is used most often today is in place of the words “disagrees with me”.
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Which does make one ponder whether political and religious dissident’s could become the sad reality for some kiwi’s?
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Fuck the “reformed leftist” Andrew Sullivan and his wimpy awards. I’ll take Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter and yep even Michael Savage any day. What’s the link with all three? One doesn’t have to agree with them of course, but one can still appreciate the fact that they are not cowed by the left into limiting their ideas and speech according to the rules of political correctness. They don’t grovel. They say what they want when they want and to hell with the whining of the socialist left and their PC cowed allies. Jesus, somebody has to walk point.
In the fight against the totalitarian left, we need Malkin Coulter and Savage more than we need the cowering bunch of dithering PC suckholes who call themselves the National Party.
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Care what the leftists “inside the beltway” think about you, kiwiblogger?
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Unlike DPF I do NOT like everything Peggy Noonan says. She’s spent her entire political life worshipping at the Shrine of Ronnie, and she made one of the most offensive statements I’ve ever heard while defending the low intelligence of her boss George:
Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world? Maybe she means “intellectuals who disagree with Peggy Noonan”.
But I digress.
In the “unexpected words of sanity” department I nominate Charles Krauthammer, a guy whose intellect and writing I admire and whose opinions I often detest:
An Overdose of Public Piety
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Low intelligence?
George W. Bush is reputed to have an IQ in the range 125 to 130. He received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School and flew F-102 jets for the Texas Air National Guard. How many jet fighters have you piloted Swampash?
He became the first Texas Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms and similarly won the US presidency twice in a row. If Bush is dumb, what does this make the Democrats?
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Red he used to be a glider pilot but he crashed it into a swamp and now it is just ash .
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Sheesh Swampash, thanks for that quote. Presumably, then, Noonan’s busy collecting signatures for a write-in campaign seeking to have Gomer Pyle declared the next President, seeing as he’d be the epitome of the kind of down-home good ol’ boy anti-intellectualism practised by Dubya.
As for the quotes picked by Sullivan and highlighted by DPF, I notice one thing. Savage is the kind of fruitcake, like most right wing “commentators”, that you can laugh at (I wonder whether he really expects to be taken seriously, or whether he’s simply chasing ratings using abuse the way Howard Stern uses orgasms). Whereas Olbermann is just a droning whiny little twerp, like most left wing “commentators”.
What is it about socialism that generates such bitterness and apparent envy? And for that matter, what is it about capitalism that makes its more enthusiastic protagonists sound like they’re pushing a shopping trolley full of their belongings and swatting away imaginary flying cats while dictating their rants?
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
God bless America .
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
You mean the judge who found the film to be “broadly accurate”?
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Don’t shoot the messenger, RB… take it up with Peggy Noonan.
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
If you watch any of his speeches as governor, it’s pretty easy to believe he had that sort of IQ.
Vote:December 31st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
regarding the Gore / IPCC Nobel Prize; One claims sea levels rising by 6 metres, the other claims 30 centimetres.
I don’t know if they’re into kiddy porn or not, but can I have some of whatever it was that the committee was smoking ?
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