One again let's nominate who we want on the Conservative Idiots List

[LynneSin]

Geez, there's no conservative idiots list today :cry:

So let's pick who we would want on the list:

Ann Coulter getting fired from USAToday because her convention column was completely unusuable (or maybe USAToday - like we didn't know already she would write nothing but venom)

Brit Hume - for saying that John Edward's speech moved him literally as in the Bowel Movement type

The Media for underplaying how many folks were actually watching the convention. Everyone kept saying that NO ONE was watching the convention if you didn't count those of us who watched it on C-Span, PBS, or online. I mean, if you aren't watching an abbreviated version of the convention with some right-wing shrill commently over it and commercial breaks then you really don't count

Fox News - for being the only channel out there that continued its news crawl during John Kerry's speech. I flipped through every channel carrying Kerry's speech including 2 spanish language and every major news channel. Fox was the only one with that irritating & annoying news crawl running underneath.

George W. Bush - For claiming that Kerry has done nothing 'signficant' the last 19 years as a public servant. Did George look at his own record? :shrug:

I'm sure there are more we can list!!

[Bluzmann57]

1. Cheyney, limbaugh, O'Reilly

just because they are who they are. And how about Matthews and/or msnbc for cutting away from Sharpton's speech?

[Rhiannon12866]

29. CNN, because they didn't even air Dennis Kucinich!!!

:grr:

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

2. They should put all the major news networks into one entry.

[Kellanved]

3. Annie Jacobsen for her report about terrorists on a plane

http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp

[LynneSin]

5. Well you know how scary those Syrian musicians can be

god forbid they break out into music in the middle of the flight!!

The horror, the horror.....

[Maeve]

4. Tom Ridge for "be afraid, but go to work"

And that "terrorist fears in the air" witch belongs, too.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Wolf Blitzer

For his masturbatory coverage yesterday of the terror alerts in NY and DC...funny how CNN and Faux were the only ones salivating over this.

[LTR]

7. Here's a quick stab at it

The post-Convention Media Whoring edition

1. CNN

I dare anyone to call the so-called "Communist News Network" and "Clinton News Network" liberal-biased after their coverage of the convention last week. With all the Republican and Conservative pundits featured last week, you'd think they were covering the Republican Convention.

Speaking of CNN...


2. Robert Novak

Novakula gets the nod for this little tidbit:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/31/cg.00.html

HUNT: ... in 2000, exactly. And I would say the one worry I would have, if it ends up a close election, I think it is -- the Kerry campaign team's pretty good, but they got to fill in some gaps there to take on this Bush team. They are very, very good.

SHIELDS: One thing that surprised me this week, Bob, was that the -- in Florida, the whole electronic voting fiasco and debate raged, and Governor Bush said, Oh, it's OK. Don't you worry about it, even though there's no record, while the Republicans in Dade County are saying, Vote absentee, which suggests that maybe Florida's not flawless.

NOVAK: I think there are plans under way by the Democrats to try to steal this election...

(LAUGHTER)

NOVAK: ... in Florida. No, I think they are, and I have some -- some factual material which will come out in...

CARLSON: Oh, sure.

NOVAK: ... in due -- in due course because the plans are being laid, have been laid for four years. But I do believe this, that the -- Kate said it, that there is a -- there is a tremendous amount of spending that's being laid out in this program, and no way to spend it. You can -- you can tax Al Hunt and the rich people all you want, there's not enough blood in that turnip to finance it.

HUNT: You don't think Republicans would want to steal this election, do you, Bob?

CARLSON: Mark...

NOVAK: I haven't seen it yet.

HUNT: Yes, just -- just the Democrats who want to steal it. I just want to get that on the record.

Uhh, yeah Bob. Whatever.


3. Randy Kelly

Yep, the Mayor of St. Paul, MN obviously followed in the footsteps of his predecessor Norm Coleman in breaking ranks with the Democratic Party in supporting George Bush (http://kare11.com/news/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=67485). Good luck with your next election, Randy, you will need all you can get.


4. Mark Sanford

http://www.scdp.org/press.php?id=28

SCDP Chair Joe Erwin today called on Gov. Mark Sanford to return a $2,500 campaign contribution from S.C. Gamefowl Management, Inc.

"Governor Sanford took money that is tainted by scandal," Erwin said. "If Sanford were serious about screening his contributions, he never would have taken money from an illegal cockfighting organization in the first place."

Sanford accepted a $2,500 contribution from S.C. Gamefowl Management on November 4, 2002, just one day before the 2002 gubernatorial election. The contribution is recorded on Sanford’s Campaign Disclosure Form filed with the State Ethics Commission on January 9, 2003.


5. Carl Cameron


At most networks, even a perception of a conflict of interests is enough to reassign a reporter. In 2000, a CNN producer whose husband was a lawyer for Gore was told not to have anything to do with campaign coverage. Last Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle put its letters editor on leave for contributing $400 to the Kerry campaign.

At the 'Fair and Balanced' network that is FOX, you get rewarded. Remember John Ellis?

When FOX tried to discredit the documentary "Outfoxed", MoveOn.org released an entire segment with Carl Cameron hamming it up with George Bush, talking about Cameron's wife, who worked on the Bush Campaign:

CARL CAMERON: …for Carl to say now "Carl, you can't tell this from the satellite feeds 'cause I know you're in your desk in Washington, but, you know, Governor Bush does have a halo and wings, just take my word for it." And how the hell would I know?

You having fun still?

GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH: Yeah, I'm doing great. I am.

CAMERON: You look like you've been dealing with Gore effectively, he's, uh...

BUSH: Yeah, he's punching a lot, you know.

CAMERON: But that gives you your chance to do your counter-punches.

BUSH: I think it does, it really does, I think I’m in pretty good shape. He's evidently coming to state tomorrow to make a big thing.

CAMERON: I'm gonna ask you about it. San Antonio, talk about budget and health care and all that kind of stuff. It seems to me to be a total non-issue, I mean, you've got a surplus.

BUSH: We do have a surplus, and the comptroller, I don't know if you know this.

CAMERON: I do.

BUSH: She coming out tomorrow again.

CAMERON: With...

BUSH: With a higher number.

CAMERON: Really. Are you prepared to talk about it?

BUSH: No, I don't, I, uh uh.

CAMERON: Okay.

BUSH: I'm just giving you a heads up, so you'll know.

CAMERON: My head is up.

BUSH: But I don't know the number.

CAMERON: Okay.

BUSH: And she won't tell anybody the number. It's kind of a tradition in Texas.

CAMERON: Is she appointed, elected, what's the deal there?

BUSH: Elected by the people.

CAMERON: Republican or Democrat?

BUSH: Republican.

CAMERON: That helps.

BUSH: Well, she's independently elected.

CAMERON: Understood.

BUSH: She's got a job to do.

CAMERON: Absolutely.

BUSH: And she's not gonna give out numbers that aren't real.

CAMERON: Okay.

BUSH: It's not my, uh. Obviously if she were my accountant, it would take a little bit of credibility out of the process.

CAMERON: Sure, of course it would.

BUSH: Anyway, things are good. Your family?

CAMERON: Very well. My wife has been hanging out with your sister.

BUSH: Yeah, good, my county...

CAMERON: Doro's been all over the state campaigning, and Pauline has been constantly with her. Umm.

BUSH: Doro is a good person.

CAMERON: Oh, and she's been terrific. To hear Pauline tell it, when she first started campaigning for you, she was a little bit nervous.

BUSH: Yeah.

CAMERON: But now she's up there.

BUSH: Getting her stride?

CAMERON: Doesn't need notes, she's going to crowds, and she's got the whole riff down.

BUSH: She's a good soul.

CAMERON: She's having fun, too.

BUSH: She's a really good soul.

CAMERON: Yesterday I ended up not working because my 10-year-old son went to basketball camp. First time he's ever been away.

BUSH: And he did okay, I hope?

CAMERON: They put him in with 13-year-olds.

BUSH: Eww.

CAMERON: Who beat the hell out of him. So I had to take the day off.

BUSH: Physically?

CAMERON: Well, they didn't like the snot nose 10-year-old.

BUSH: I mean, not beating.

CAMERON: Elbows.

BUSH: Yeah, that's okay.

BUSH: But is he... Did he hold his own?

CAMERON: He wanted to quit at the end of Monday.

BUSH: Yeah.

CAMERON: So I had to go up there yesterday and sort of couch him off the tree. And have him say, look you know this is what it's about. Think of Alan Iverson, think of Larry Bird.

BUSH: The fact that he's there is amazing, though, for the 13-year-olds kids.

CAMERON: I played a lot in high school and college.

BUSH: Did you really?

CAMERON: Oh yeah.

BUSH: Did you have any moves?

CAMERON: I was, I was nominated for All-American.

BUSH: Oh come on!

CAMERON: Didn't make it.

BUSH: Camerones! You were?

CAMERON: Absolutely.

BUSH: Fabulous! Hehe.

CAMERON: My high school coach was the, went on to be the assistant coach under Tommy Hineson for the Celtics.

BUSH: Really?

CAMERON: Yeah

BUSH: And where was this?

CAMERON: Melrose, Massachusetts. Just south of the New Hampshire border.

BUSH: Sure, I know Melrose.

CAMERON: So was...

BUSH: And you played college basketball?

CAMERON: Yeah.

BUSH: Did you really?

CAMERON: Well, well Division 2.

BUSH: That's okay, but still.

CAMERON: Oh yeah, I was...

BUSH: Where was this?

CAMERON: Bates College.

BUSH: Sure, I know Bates.

CAMERON: I was uh, well, Lewiston, just north of Kennebunkport.

BUSH: Sure, I know Bates. Bates is a fabulous school. No, I know Bates. It's a great school.

CAMERON: No, I was a hit man.

BUSH: You were the Tommy Hineson. Jim Luskatoff.

CAMERON: I was enforcer, that's right. Exactly. Alright, you guys ready? Alright.

BUSH: That's great.

CAMERON: Here we go, Governor. You see, the little things that get disclosed.

BUSH: I like that.

CAMERON: Thank you for joining us, sir.

BUSH: Yes, sir. Thanks, Carl. It's good to see you again.

CAMERON: Just a few days away from the convention now, how important is it to you, what premium price do you put on a harmonious convention, and why?

BUSH: Well, this is an event, a big event in the course of a long campaign. You and I have been through several of them...

Sources:
<1> Outfoxed. Dir. Robert Greenwald. Carolina Productions, 2004. http://www.outfoxed.org /
<2> http://www.freepress.net/news/4187
<3> http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF...
<4> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125437,00.html


Yep, FOX: The Network You Trust.


6. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

In a week when the president would normally lay low, Dumbya worked overtime following the Convention to make himself look like an even bigger ass.


His campaign demanded to know the race of a photographer set to follow the campaign: http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/32301.php

Diaz repeated that answer when asked if it is the practice of the White House to ask for racial information or if the photographer, Mamta Popat, was singled out because of her name. He referred those questions to the U.S. Secret Service, which did not respond to a call from the Star Friday afternoon.

Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the president's re-election campaign, said the information was needed for security purposes.

Or this mangling of the English language:

"He (the next President) said he's only going to raise the tax on the so-called rich. But you know how the rich is, they've got accountants. That means you pay. That means your small business pays. It means the farmers and ranchers pay. That's the wrong medicine for this economy, and we're not going to let him prescribe it."

Or the 'loyalty oath' a person must take in order to attend an event: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/07/30/news/wyoming/63b4fcb928fe8e6987256ee10054e715.txt

Or calling Kerry "a man of few acheivements". http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5831699

Or claiming that Kerry will raise the deficit, while failing to mention the highest deficit ever is projected for next year: http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=91551


7. Tom Ridge

Yep, another terra alert. Just go about your business.


8. The Republican National Comittee

Hmmm... where to begin.

How about the so-called 'Truth Squad' that stalked the convention begging for as much air time as possible in Boston this week? All the while repeating the same RNC talking points, many of which they were guilty of themselves.


9. Rep. David Drier

Bush's media-whoring lapdog, Rep. David Drier is used to going on TV discussion shows where a group of Conservatives gang up on some token liberal like Alan Colmes. Drier got a tast of his own medicine on Friday when he went on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher". (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2120998) He dared to go on the hard offensive with another guest, Michael Moore, and called his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11" a pack of lies. Moore asked him if he actually saw the film. Drier replied 'no'. It all went downhill from there. The audience turned on him hard. Also fumbled the answer when Moore asked Drier if he would send his own children to Iraq. Toward the end of the show, Drier was conspicuously absent. HE WALKED OFF THE SHOW. Here's to David Drier - the ultimate chickenshit! Did I mention he helps run the Bush Campaign in California?

10. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX

For showing next to none of the Convention. An extra tip of the hat to FOX News, for talking during the National Anthem and most of the speeches.

[GOPisEvil]

10. Good job!

:thumbsup:

Not quite with EarlG's witty repartee, but a nice effort!

[LTR]

11. It was a rush job

I'll clean it up later and add a little wit.

Too early in the morning to be entertaining.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. I already nominated Coulter - "Hippie-Chick Pie Wagon Edition"

:evilgrin:

[DemWitch]

9. UberAmerican Bill O'Reilly

for chit chatting during the National Anthem.

David Drier for chickening out.

Novak for saying Democrats were going to "steal" the Florida election, and he had proof that would be upcoming in the next few weeks.

The Networks for not carrying the convention

The cable news outlets for thier "analysis", and their fixation on non-falling balloons. Special notice to CNN for the open mike.

Ann Coulter for getting "fired" from USA Today when in reality she quit. Lying, liar and the liar that tell them...

Rush for allowing a caller to call Barack Obama "Osama" and then delicatly saying they shouldn't say that.

Cheney for still insisting on a 9-11/Iraq link.

Bush... just because

Hannity... for the repeated use on Reinvention COnvention

[LTR]

12. kick

:kick:

[CanuckAmok]

13. Oh, come on...give Bush a break

He's done lots of significant things in the past 19 years:

Started a war, scuttled the economy, alienated the world community, executed lots of people, made millions of dollars for himself and his buddies...

'Significant' doesn't necessarily mean 'positive'.

[Endangered Specie]

14. The Vatican!

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. Brit Hume actually said that?

When? Does anyone have the exact phrasing of his comments?

[Rhiannon12866]

28. Here's what the idiot said. IMHO, Edwards was the best speech

of the convention, except for Kerry's. I thought it was incredibly sincere and affecting. He even broke up his own father.:grr:

"Edwards' speech was the most emotional thing I've ever heard in my life. When I heard John Edwards talking about mothers sitting at their kitchen tables I was moved. My heart was moved ... my bowels were moved."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/29/brit_hume/?source=RSS

[LTR]

16. Okay, I think I finished it

I just updated my earlier quick attempt at doing a Top 10 Conservative Idiots list. Keep in mind, I was just waking up when I did that one.

I cleaned it up a bit, and I felt that, in keeping with the obvious theme of the week, a new icon was needed. So, I introduce to you the new... media whore icon:

Here goes:



Top 10 Conservative Idiots: The post-Convention Media Whoring edition

1. CNN


I dare anyone to call the so-called "Communist News Network" and "Clinton News Network" liberal-biased after their coverage of the convention last week. With all the Republican and Conservative pundits featured last week, you'd think they were covering the Republican Convention. From Wolf to Judy to Miles to Bob to Tucker, and the screeching right wing pundits that smothered their airwaves almost constantly, such as Brent Bozelle, Neil Boortz, and RNC chair Ed Gillespie and his GOP truth squad consisting of suspicious characters such as Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman (who switched from the Democratic party and who's job it was to label Kerry a, get this,'flip-flopper'), and Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, beneficiary of one of the sleaziest and suspect elections in recent history. If this is the 'truth', I'd hate to see make-believe.

Speaking of CNN...


2. Robert Novak

Novakula gets the nod for this little tidbit, in which he warns the masses of the likelihood of the Democratic Party rigging elections:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/31/cg.00.html

SHIELDS: One thing that surprised me this week, Bob, was that the -- in Florida, the whole electronic voting fiasco and debate raged, and Governor Bush said, Oh, it's OK. Don't you worry about it, even though there's no record, while the Republicans in Dade County are saying, Vote absentee, which suggests that maybe Florida's not flawless.

NOVAK: I think there are plans under way by the Democrats to try to steal this election...

(LAUGHTER)

NOVAK: ... in Florida. No, I think they are, and I have some -- some factual material which will come out in...

CARLSON: Oh, sure.

NOVAK: ... in due -- in due course because the plans are being laid, have been laid for four years. But I do believe this, that the -- Kate said it, that there is a -- there is a tremendous amount of spending that's being laid out in this program, and no way to spend it. You can -- you can tax Al Hunt and the rich people all you want, there's not enough blood in that turnip to finance it.

HUNT: You don't think Republicans would want to steal this election, do you, Bob?

CARLSON: Mark...

NOVAK: I haven't seen it yet.

HUNT: Yes, just -- just the Democrats who want to steal it. I just want to get that on the record.

Uhh, yeah Bob. Whatever. Obviously he slept through the 2000 and 2002 elections, and does not realize that Diebold's founder is a Bush Ranger, meaning he is a huge fundraiser for the Bush Campaign.


3. Randy Kelly

Yep, the Mayor of St. Paul, MN obviously followed in the footsteps of his predecessor Norm Coleman in breaking ranks with the Democratic Party in pulling a Zell, namely supporting George Bush:

(http://kare11.com/news/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=67485).

Good luck with your next election, Randy, you will need all you can get.


4. Mark Sanford

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford obviously doesn't discriminate. At least when it comes to fundraising. Case in point is when it was found that he accepted $2,500 from a group called S.C. Gamefowl Management, Inc. What does this innocently-named group advocate? Well, they are an illegal cockfighting organization.

http://www.scdp.org/press.php?id=28

Obviously, this has created an uproar in South Carolina, with many demanding he return the money. But it does show how dirty they like their fighting.


5. Carl Cameron

At most networks, even a perception of a conflict of interests is enough to reassign a reporter. In 2000, a CNN producer whose husband was a lawyer for Gore was told not to have anything to do with campaign coverage. Last Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle put its letters editor on leave for contributing $400 to the Kerry campaign.

At the 'Fair and Balanced' network that is FOX, you get rewarded. Remember John Ellis? Yes, he is a first cousin of George W. Bush, and he was the FOX higher-up who gave the go-ahead to declare Bush the winner of the election on Election Night in 2000.

When FOX tried to discredit the documentary "Outfoxed", MoveOn.org released an entire segment with Carl Cameron hamming it up with George Bush prior to an interview, talking about Cameron's wife, who worked on the Bush Campaign:

http://www.moveon.org/r?539

Yep, FOX: The Network You Trust for Fair and Balanced News. Yeah, right!


6. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

In a week when the president would normally lay low, Dumbya worked overtime following the Convention to make himself look like an even bigger ass. His campaign demanded to know the race of a photographer set to follow the campaign:

http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/32301.php

Not only is the Bush Administration afraid of the media, but of the crowds following them. They demand that anyone attending an event sign a 'loyalty oath' in order to get in:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/07/30/news/wyoming/63b4fcb928fe8e6987256ee10054e715.txt

This week, we found out Bush is still mangling the English language:

"He (the next President) said he's only going to raise the tax on the so-called rich. But you know how the rich is, they've got accountants. That means you pay. That means your small business pays. It means the farmers and ranchers pay. That's the wrong medicine for this economy, and we're not going to let him prescribe it."

And dabbling in hypocricy, calling Kerry "a man of few acheivements":

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5831699

in addition to claiming that Kerry will raise the deficit, while failing to mention the highest deficit ever is projected for next year:

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=91551

At this rate, Kerry might not need to campaign. Bush will kill his own campaign. That's our Bush!


7. Tom Ridge

Yep, another terra alert. Just go about your business. Go to work. Go shopping. Spend your money.


8. The Republican National Comittee

Hmmm... where to begin.

How about the so-called 'Truth Squad' that stalked the convention begging for as much air time as possible in Boston this week? All the while repeating the same RNC talking points, many of which they were guilty of themselves.

But the most ridiculous thing would be a new website, http://www.demsextrememakeover.com. Yes, it may look like your typical silly freeper site, but it's a crude hatchet job that takes on not only John Kerry, but other members of the 'Coalition of the Wild-Eyed', including Howard Dean, Al Gore and Michael Moore (!!!) Yes, indeed, they're scared of a former presidential candidate, a former Vice President and a documentary maker. Can you say 'desperate'?


9. Rep. David Drier

Bush's media-whoring lapdog, Rep. David Drier is used to going on TV discussion shows where a group of Conservatives gang up on some token liberal like Alan Colmes. Drier got a tast of his own medicine on Friday when he went on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher".

(http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2120998)

He dared to go on the hard offensive with another guest, Michael Moore, and called his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11" a pack of lies. Moore asked him if he actually saw the film. Drier replied 'no'. It all went downhill from there. The audience turned on him hard. Also fumbled the answer when Moore asked Drier if he would send his own children to Iraq. Toward the end of the show, Drier was conspicuously absent. HE WALKED OFF THE SHOW.

Here's to David Drier - the ultimate chickenshit! Did I mention he helps run the Bush Campaign in California?

10. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX

For showing next to none of the Convention. The four main broadcast networks couldn't really be bothered to show an event that may decide the future of our country. Instead, they felt that shows such as "Trading Spouses" were more important in determining this nation's course. And the Republicans challenge Democrats over so-called 'values' issues.

An extra tip of the hat to FOX News, for talking not only through most of the speeches, but through the national anthem! Now THAT'S a patriotic news network!

[LTR]

18. .

[AspenRose]

17. Nofacts

...for having the audacity to imply that DEMOCRATS would steal the election.

Idiot. Keep him on the list for sure.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. coulter definitely

her 'banned' column was the most juvenile, unprofessional, piss poor writing i'd seen in years

[KamaAina]

20. ABC "News"

It's one thing to pull back during Kerry's speech to show foreign coverage of the speech. It's quite another when the only foreign coverage you show is that of al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, complete with Arabic crawl running underneath -- and when you do it not once but twice, with the same two networks.

Apparently their original plan was to have Peter Jennings voice-over, "Remember, a vote for Kerry is a vote for al-Qaeda", but Peter must've said No.

[mjjoe]

21. The local angle

I always like the more local stories of conservative idiocy. Lest anyone forget that it's not just the national figures who routinely make asses of themselves. For example, you can imagine my "excitement" when my local newspaper was featured in Idiots 156.

With that in mind, I'd like to nominate a former county prosecutor in Wisconsin who was sentenced today to almost five years in prison. The Republican ex-prosecutor pleaded guilty to federal charges of accepting bribes and tax fraud. I should note he was thrown out of office by voters after a tape recording surfaced. In it, he was bragging about a sexual encounter with a woman in the county prosecutor's office.

While I'm at it, here's a more widely-known nominee: the former Alabama chief justice who used his office to ram his religious beliefs down the throats of others is appealing to the US Supreme Court to get his old job back.

[rpannier]

22. shill o'lielly and ben affleck

That's right affleck. I watched a delayed show here in Korea on AFN where affleck, who's being interviewed by o'lielly, calls shrub a "Patriot." For me, calling scrub a patriot makes affleck an idiot (worse actually).
o'lielly brought up how kerry never checks the box on his Massachussetts state income tax to pay higher taxes -- I still don't know what that has to do with anything. What does affleck say? Nothing. He just sits there stupidly. He never challenged o'lielly.

[MikeG]

23. How about anyone who didn't like your wheeing last week?

[LynneSin]

31. awww....thanks

and WWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[guitar man]

24. My in-laws

Well, most of them anyway. There isn't a damn one of them that makes over 9 bucks an hour, their losing the crappy jobs they had and are taking crappier ones when they can find them just to keep working and they STILL don't get it. They all have a case of the Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to the current admin. economic policy. I have never seen anything like it in my entire life.

One exception is my wife's niece, who wised up and saw the light. She went to school and did very well and is very unhappy at what she has been offered salary wise.

[GreyPilgrim]

25. Anybody who votes for Bush

Really, if someone is planning on voting for Bush, they must be on this list.

:crazy:

[joanne]

26. Thanks for the list!

[loveable liberal]

27. democratic mayor of Saint Paul, Randy Kelly

frickin quisling, self serving hack....

[JohnnyRingo]

30. Zell Miller ....

....Who during the Democratic convention, stated (I think on Fox)that his party "moved so far to the left, that they are off the scale".

Meanwhile the Republican party, who he wholeheartedly supports, apparently has ALSO moved to the left to share his "centrist" views!

His claim is that this all happened while he remained politically rooted in place.

....So tell us, Zell: Who fills out the spectrum on the RIGHT wing side of your "moderate" candidate ?

[Bucky]

32. Congressman Henry Bonilla (after Jon Stewart had him for lunch)

Truly a classic moment.

[GOPisEvil]

33. Henry Vanilla was on TDS?!

Crap! I missed it!

[voodoo child]

34. The FDA

un-freakin'-believable...or not.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/184574_medsuited.html

[Grins]

35. And I nominate...

(From my personal list of "Republican Family Values" (I now have over 400 awardees!)

The Arizona Republican Party
An internal investigation into Arizona's election of a GOP national committeeman has found - ballot fraud! In a letter to state Republican Party Chairman Bob Fannin, the party's general counsel. Timothy Casey, validates several instances of fraud in the election in which Tucsonan Mike Hellon lost his 12-year hold on the national committeeman post. Casey substantiated claims that some delegates voted more than once using other delegates' credentials, a violation of the party's bylaws. Said Mr. Hellon, "I think it makes it look very, very bad, and it frankly has the appearance of corruption. Democrats in Chicago do this stuff. Republicans don't." Really? Just where have you been lately, Mike? Republicans cheating Republicans! Whodathunkit?
<http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/31808.php>

Of course there is perennial favorite:

G. Gordon Liddy
From Atrio's, commenting on, “All Things Considered”, about the passing of journalist Jack Anderson:

Mr. FELDSTEIN: Well, it's pretty wild, but it's true. The CIA started spying on Anderson under Nixon which was illegal, ...everything Nixon tried, you know, didn't seem to work and finally he turned to smearing him sexually and an assassination plot.

NAYLOR: Now what did the assassination plot involve? I mean, was this something that Nixon was directly involved with?

Mr. FELDSTEIN: We don't know. Here's what we do know--and it's been really interesting. I've been going through the National Archives documents on this and the White House tapes. We do know that E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, two names that would become famous a few weeks later during the Watergate break-in when they were arrested as part of that, secretly met at The Hay-Adams Hotel in March of 1972, a block from the White House, and they discussed rubbing out Jack Anderson, and they discussed various ways they were going to kill him. First, they talked about putting LSD in his drink. The trouble was as Mormon and a teetotaler, he didn't drink alcohol. So that was out. So then they talked about making him crash in an automobile accident, but they would have to go to the CIA and use a special car for that. So finally G. Gordon Liddy volunteered to kill Anderson himself personally by knifing him, slitting his throat, and staging it as a mugging that would look like a Washington street crime. At the last minute, this assassination plot was aborted, and a few weeks later, the men were arrested in the Watergate break-in and never had a chance to put their plan into operation.
<http://atrios.blogspot.com/>

I'm submitting the following two for next weeks "Top 10" Think I'll get them in?:

Bill Frady
Ronnie O'Neal
Steve Gaddis
Three “Law and Order” Republicans, Bill Frady and Steve Gaddis (Polk (TN) county election commissioners), and Ronnie O’Neil (the Polk county Republican Party Chairman), were arrested by Polk County Sheriff's officers in a ballot box scuffle on August 2, 2004. Democrat Election Registrar Sula Jenkins says commissioners Bill Frady and Steve Gaddis "manhandled" her, and wrested a ballot box from her grasp as early voting ended for the state primaries. They then snapped an extra padlock on it. While all this was going on, GOP Chairman Ronnie O'Neal tried to interfere with a clerk who was calling 911 about the disturbance. Deputies charged Frady and Gaddis with assault, and arrested O'Neal on disorderly conduct and official misconduct. All three were released in lieu of $1,000 bonds.
<http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2121131>


Vincent Gallo
Movie actor, producer, and director Vincent Gallo is in New York and says he will attend the Republican National Convention later this month (August 2004). "I'm here trying to help out in any way that I can. I have made it clear that I am open in any way to promote and protect the Republican administration," he said. Gallo also put up a huge 60-foot billboard on Hollywood’s famous Sunset Blvd., flogging his new movie about to be released.

Well, the GOP, which openly supports and courts the Religious Right, might very well greet him with a chorus of: "Mr. Gallo, tear down that billboard!" The billboard in shows Ms. Chloe Sevigny …uh…pleasuring Mr. Gallo in Gallo’s notorious scene in "The Brown Bunny," (yes, it’s rated “X"). Local leaders - many of whom view the billboard as pornographic - are threatening to protest the promo and are promising to bring it down.
<http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/218187p-187581c.html>

[LynneSin]

36. Make sure you submit that Vincent Gallo one for this weeks list

It's a doozy.

Geez, I liked some of his older movies like Buffalo '66, but I won't watch his stuff anymore (not that I would. I heard Brown Bunny was horrible)

[Grins]

37. Done!

Just submitted it.

And, your're right, Gallo is a real pip. Hard to believe a porno guy would be a repuke. Go figure.