Heh.......50 Most Loathsome People of 2007

[AnnInLa]

Apologies if someone already posted this. It's funny.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html

[floridablue]

1. After his speech today, they left out Obama

[pacalo]

2. The writing is masterful & each characterization is perfect. A keeper.

[TahitiNut]

6. Agreed. It'd be nigh on impossible to improve upon ...

10. Alberto Gonzales

Crimes: The most truckling, amoral flunky to ever serve as Attorney General. A jurisprudent organelle, he manifests no concept of the law independent of its expediency to the president. Would smilingly accuse himself of providing material support to al Qaeda at President Bush's request, hurriedly plead guilty, sign his own death warrant and flip the switch himself. His testimony before congressional committees is to public service what cholera is to the small intestine. As first Hispanic Attorney General, Gonzo typifies the self-betrayal and ethical compromise necessary for minorities to become successful Republicans. Been felching sweet approval from Bush's lily-white ass since Texas. A conscienceless, memo-drafting, loophole-crafting liar for hire, pushing for all the worst administration policies, including nixing habeas corpus, denying and then defending rendition, torture, political firings, and a ton of other evil stuff. He even visited a seriously ill and disoriented John Ashcroft at the hospital, attempting to coax him into reauthorizing a clearly illegal wiretapping program. The only Attorney General who ever could have made John Ashcroft a sympathetic character by contrast.

Exhibit A: "The fact that the Constitution -- again, there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away."

Sentence: Death by dull guillotine, head bent by Beckham.

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[pacalo]

19. "The Constitution doesn't *grant* habeas corpus, but it does prohibit taking it away" is classic.

[applegrove]

3. Very well done. Thanks!

[TahitiNut]

4. "If Coulter were a man, she'd never be allowed on TV."

Rarely have truer words been written. :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. I love Huckster's sentence :)

"Sentence: Just as he's about to win the GOP nomination, a freak gust of wind catches Huckabee's excess skin and carries him out over the Atlantic, where he drifts for hours before God appears to him, tells him He's a Unitarian, and sends him to hell. "

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[AnnInLa]

7. Well, I think rush limbaugh should lead the list every year

I had a long drive thru central Louisiana, and the only stations I could catch clearly on the radio were Christian Music and Rush...so decided to listen to rush and see if he could make me physically, literally sick before I lost the signal. And, he did.

I really have never heard such an egomaniac before...not even Bill O'Lielly comes close. Everything, and I mean everything was about himself, the great rush limbaugh. Me, me, me, me and then me! And the intellect of the people who listen to him....they must be the absolute dregs of society. He spent 45 minutes specifically bashing Huckabee, and then said with a straight face (voice) that he would never bash Huckabee. I could just picture knuckle-draggers out there saying, yeah--you go, rush. The way he lies to them directly was amazing. I did get a nauseous stomach. My god, what has this country come to?

My choice, who is not on the list, is rush limbaugh. And oh yeah, michelle malkin too. Maybe robert novak and joe lieberman. Oh well, my list would about 500 strong!

[dorkulon]

15. All those you mentioned are on previous lists--here they are:

From last year's list:

42. Joe Lieberman

Charges: For a brief, shining moment in ‘06, it looked like the nation might finally be rid of this sniveling sitzpinkler, but Joe Lieberman just keeps coming back, like herpes. Now Lieberman is an unknown quantity and subsequently the most powerful vote in the Senate. Routinely scolds Democrats for "undermining" the president, whose balls have resided in Lieberman's mouth since 9/11.
Exhibit A: "Our troops believe they can win, and that's important."

Sentence: Malfunctioning Connecticut-manufactured artillery shells coat Lieberman with white phosphorus at next Iraq photo op.

30. Rush Limbaugh

Charges: It's hard to believe this repulsive shit fountain is even human, until you remember that we share 70% of our DNA with pigs. Then again, to be any more hypocritical Rush would actually have to be a member of another species. After the Democrats took congress in November, Limbaugh said he felt "liberated" because "I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried," essentially telling his listeners he'd been lying to them all year. The dittoheads didn't mind; that's why they listen.

Exhibit A: If someone had taken a shotgun and blown Rush's head clean off while he was wobbling his bloated body back and forth in an inconceivably cruel mockery of Michael J. Fox, whom he accused of faking his Parkinson's symptoms for political effect, it would have been the greatest viral video of them all.

Sentence: Parkinson's disease, of course, triggered by oxycontin abuse.

And the list from 2005:

49. Michelle Malkin

Charges: A curious case of racial Stockholm syndrome with a palpable lust for violent ideological oppression and displays of imperial power. Rose to prominence in conservative circles by congratulating white America for its most shameful chapter since slavery, and encouraging a return to form in her book, In Defense of Internment. Malkin thinks it’s hunky-dory to detain an entire demographic indefinitely if it makes the rest of us feel more comfortable. Her newest, Unhinged, argues that liberals have lost their minds, because they are upset with the direction their country is taking. Her evidence is a carefully collected selection of the dumbest things liberals have ever said, as if she couldn’t have just as easily filled an entire library with the insane ravings of right-wingers. Her accusations of blind hatred and vitriol mimic soul sister Ann Coulter’s classic tactic of psychological projection: whatever Malkin is, she sees in her opponents.

Exhibit A: Internment was so irresponsible that it prompted 40 history professors to sign a letter condemning it.

Sentence: Detained indefinitely without charge and waterboarded hourly for looking at a cop "all slanty-like."

45. Robert Novak

Charges: The absence of charges, for one. While the Valerie Plame leak scandal has taken down one prominent reporter and tarnished the reputation of several others, Novak—the one who actually printed the leak—remains inexplicably unscathed, unless you count the profane bout of crankiness that got his satanic ass bounced to Fox News, where, after all, he really belongs. Either Novak has secretly revealed his sources, damaging his already dubious journalistic credibility, or he is simply so well ensconced in the Washington power structure that he can’t be removed, like a metastasized tumor.

Exhibit A: The sheer, dreadful, angler-fish ugliness of the man, which can only be explained by the gradual accumulation of several lifetime’s worth of misanthropy, or possibly possession by demonic entity.

Sentence: Finds himself chained to a desk with James Carville; figures out he’s in hell only after several weeks pass without winning a single argument.

43. Rush Limbaugh

Charges: Rather than engage in the admittedly difficult task of justifying GOP policies rationally, the key to Limbaugh’s success is attracting an audience that actually yearns to be lied to. It doesn’t matter how many righteous fact-checkers assail him in print and on the web, because dittoheads don’t care that he’s lying, as long as the lies justify their prejudices. Limbaugh’s program is not just hypocritical; it is a celebration of hypocrisy for ignorant crackers, angry at smart people and strung out on the dwindling sensation that they are better than everyone else by virtue of their race, sex, nationality or level of bluster, because their character and accomplishments don’t warrant such feelings. If political discussion were sex, the Limbaugh audience would be a horde of virgins beating off to deranged rape fantasies.

Exhibit A: Started out in sports radio; hasn’t changed his approach one bit.

Sentence: Starved to death in full view of glazed ham; ACLU mistakenly bestowed entire estate due to barbecue sauce stain on last will and testament.

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[AnnInLa]

16. Thanks!! This is what I meant, but didn't say well:

"the key to Limbaugh’s success is attracting an audience that actually yearns to be lied to. It doesn’t matter how many righteous fact-checkers assail him in print and on the web, because dittoheads don’t care that he’s lying, as long as the lies justify their prejudices."

I found it funny that rush was attacking Huckabee so hatefully. Finally, for the dittoheads, they had a candidate who "would bring America back to Christ," and here was their guru attacking that candidate. I could hear fuses being blown, heads exploding and not knowing what in the hell to do now. Their favorite prophet attacked their favorite candidate, yikes!

[Mike Nelson]

8. HaHa!

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[Mike Nelson]

9. May Chris Matthews become Hillary's toilet steward!

His just deserts...

[eridani]

20. Too bad that Hillary isn't still young enough--

--to be able to generate a good supply of used tampons. I have a suggestion as to where Tweety might stick them.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. William Kristol:

Sentence: Corners of mouth torn apart by metal hook towing mules and face stomped by high-heeled elephants.

[JerseygirlCT]

11. There are some real gems in there! Thanks! nt

[mdmc]

12. thanks for this link my friend

I laughed out loud for true when I read a couple of these. I really liked Dobb's sentence and the write ups on the troops and me (you).

Thanks again for the link.

[w8liftinglady]

13. a well-needed laugh...thanks!

[alteredstate]

14. I love it

Thank you.

[cascadiance]

17. A few that should be added...

1) Brent Wilkes and Thomas Kontogiannis - these bums show the tip of the iceberg of the ream of corruption that's affecting congress now, and also probably what is affecting our defense industry which is keeping us in the war in Iraq tool

2) The execs in charge of Clear Channel - for their war on progressive radio stations that they are trying to "reformat" if they are their own such as KLSD and selling out the company to private interests so that a huge chunk of our radio spectrum can be even less accountable to most of us than before.

3) Rupert Murdoch - This guy has tried more than anyone else to consolidate his media empire more than anyone else, buying out the Wall Street Journal, trying to push a satellite TV monopoly merger between his Newscorp owned DirecTV and Dish Network, and probably pushing behind the scenes for the coming merger of XM and Sirius too. And at the same time is trying to buy off the possibilities of who gets elected in 2008 with him hanging out a lot with Hillary Clinton too.

4) Steny Hoyer and Rahm Emmanuel - Who through their efforts muted the possible landslide change that could have happened in 2006, and continue to keep the people's business off the books in the House in 2007 with shutting down impeachment efforts as well as not playing hardball with the president on the war, etc. too, and keeping the DCCC still under DLC leadership auspices.

5) Rush Limbaugh - as said earlier, he should be on EVERY poll of this sort.

6) Joe Lieberman - his continuing sell out to the Republicans should be noted this year. His endorsement of McCain should have sealed him being on this list.

7) Karl Rove - another that should ALWAYS be on this list as long as this administration is in power and he's not in prison!

[bluhoodie]

18. Obvious omissions, Karl and Rush

Can't believe they were left out. As you said, they should ALWAYS be on lists like this one. Even with a limit of 50, he could have found a place for them. Lieberman too.

[mdmc]

21. kick

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