Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Take All Guns Away From White People Program

Andrew Sullivan is asking folks to vote for the year's "best" examples of various types of political discourse. For example, you can vote for the Hewitt Award:
The Hewitt Award - named after the absurd partisan fanatic, Hugh Hewitt, is given for the most egregious attempts to label Barack Obama as un-American, alien, treasonous, and far out of the mainstream of American life and politics.
One of the nominees for the Hewitt Award is Steven Calabresi, Law Professor at the Northwestern School of Law, who published this in the Wall Street Journal:
"If Mr. Obama wins we could possibly see any or all of the following: a federal constitutional right to welfare; a federal constitutional mandate of affirmative action wherever there are racial disparities, without regard to proof of discriminatory intent; a right for government-financed abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy; the abolition of capital punishment and the mass freeing of criminal defendants; ruinous shareholder suits against corporate officers and directors; and approval of huge punitive damage awards, like those imposed against tobacco companies, against many legitimate businesses such as those selling fattening food,"
Another award being voted on is the Malkin Award:
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.
In contention for the Malkin Award is Michael Barone, a political commentator and regular contributor to US News & World Report, and Fox News. His gem of an entry below:
"The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby. They wanted her to kill that child ... I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years,"
Vote and reminisce. And because parody and satire do it best, after voting, re-watch this gem:

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow, those are some amazing idiotic comments!

Anonymous said...

"Hug the negro" and the letter addressed to "Mr. Negro" were especially funny. We need to show that video to my less progressive citizens down here.

Happy to read that you're tobacco free. Congrats.