Posted on 12/06/2004 5:46:22 AM PST by crushkerry
The competitors are rested and ready to go. Today starts Day 5 of the First Round in the "Most Annoying Liberal Pundit Tournament". To see all results to date and a link to interactive, updated brackets follow this link.
Many big names are in action this week, and among the competitors today is one of the smarmiest, most repugnant names on flagging cable network MSNBC, a Maoist columnist for a major national newspaper, a national news anchorman and perhaps the first ever national annoying liberal pundit.
In the hilarious analysis below you will also see whom the winners of today's matchups will face in Round 2.
Al Hunt (#7 Seed) Mr. Judy Woodruff comes in as the #7 seed as an anomaly - the only liberal columnist on the hallowed editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. And if there is ever an argument against such quotas then he's the poster boy - maybe that's why he's leaving. If ever there were an award for biggest ostrich, then Hunt wins. When reading his columns or watching him on the now irrelevant Capital Gang, especially leading up to the elections you would thought Bush was down by 10 points. It started back in late March when Hunt claimed Richard Clarke dealt a "lethal blow" to the President's reelection" Yeah, or your credibility Al - what was left of it. Al showed his vitriolic hateful side when the Swifties were destroying John Kerry, perhaps the only man with less credibility that Al when he went utterly apoplectic when asked about John O'Neill, calling him a "liar" and a "pawn of Chuck Colson" Poor Al, he still doesn't get it. His first column after the election argued that Bush had no "mandate" because of his "narrow margin" of victory. One nice thing we can say about Al is that when he writes about the handicapped and mentally disabled (one of his sons is mentally disabled) he can be very moving, and a fine champion for their cause.
Robert Scheer (#10 Seed) How fitting is it that this Los Angeles Times columnist's last name sounds very much like the word "screed", as if you read his column, that's all it is - one big hateful, moronic, America-hating screed. But then again the only reason he has a job there is because his was on the editorial board. And when we say "America-hating" it's not just rhetoric. Check out this Front Page Mag feature on him detailing his love of communists, and describing Kim Il Sung's North Korea as a "paradise", discussing the failure of capitalism, and ardent defense of Wen Ho Lee. More recently accused the military of faking the Jessica Lynch rescue and even claimed that President Bush had made a "Faustian Deal" with the Taliban. Only in a place like California could a stark raving, arrogant, smug Maoist like Scheer have a job - and being married to an editorial board member doesn't hurt either.
Keith Olbermann (#2 Seed) Be honest, doesn't this smarky, smug, arrogant, pedantic, too-smart-by-half, snot make you want to pull an "Elvis" on your TV? If you're like rest of us watching this clown whose ego is higher than Ted Kennedy's BAC after a night at the compound, but whose ratings are lower than moveon.org campaign commercial then the answer is yes. When he was reading sports scores and bantering with Dan Patrick, he was mildly amusing - but the second he "crossed-over" into actual news that's when things went south. Only a fellow traveler of the moveon.org group like Olbermann would surmise that the Rathergate scandal was a right-wing conspiracy created by a Free Republic member. His most recent conspiracy-theory about the Ohio vote being marred has officially put him in crackpot land. There is just so such idiocy and lunacy spouted by Olbermann but luckily a pioneering blogger dedicated a whole website where you can read about Keith's final descent into madness. Soon he will be wondering if the "lone voter" who rigged the election was hiding behind some grassy knoll. In fact we're almost willing to bet Olbermann's end (he's had like 4 other jobs since leaving ESPN) will come with someone taking him off the set in a straightjacket, and he'll be offering Juicy Fruit to big Indians shortly afterward.
Jane Whitney (#15 Seed) We can hear you asking "Who Is This?". Well to be honest, we barely know why she's in here ourselves. Sure she's a wacky lefty, but not well known enough to have been here. Sorry. But what are her bona fides? . You may remember this has-been (can you be a "has-been" if you're a "never were"?). She first burst on the national scene with a pre-Jerry Springer trash talk show, which one thinks about it is great training for liberal punditry. But what really caught our eye was her recent article in Newsweek where she laments having to visit her family and friends who voted for Bush. She describes just how utterly obnoxious she was in her Bush hate, and also embraced Janeane Garofalo. But she's also one of these cowards who promised to move to Canada if Bush won, but is backing out. I think there should be a law that she has to do leave. Then she could be a "nobody" in two countries.
Michael Kinsley (#5 Seed) We're fairly certain that every pencil-necked geek wanna-be shrill lefty pundit has a picture of this snot above their bed, and likely they pray to him. Why? Because he was America's first famous cable news arrogant liberal pundit on the then-relevant Crossfire. Certainly Kinsley has a long history of liberal hackery, but just focusing on his recent works is enough for our purposes (as what he's done in the past is no different than the garbage he puts out now). To get a perfect read into the soul of Bush hatred read this Kinsley column explaining and justifying it. Only a blue-state elitist like Kinsley would title a column, just after the election "To Hell With Values in which he says he's "sick of pretending I have them or care more about them than I really do." He further showed his longing for a return to the glorious 60's last week when he whined like a little girl that there was no "anti-war" movement so that we could leave Iraq immediately. Yeah Mike, way to be in touch with the regular folks. Perhaps you wish for a return to a society rife with social upheaval and immorality. However most of us don't. However Mike, I hear San Francisco a nice place for people like you to get what you want.
Arianna Huffington (#12 Seed) If Te-RAY-za Heinz Kerry were Greek instead of the "African American" she claimed to be, her name would be Arianna Huffington - meaning a dopey foreign broad whose only claim to fame is marrying a rich guy. Then, you spout inane foolishness and because you've got al the old man's dough nobody tells you to shut the hell up because you're a shallow ignorant airhead. Well let us be the first. Honestly, does this woman have half a brain in her head? For God's sake, when she was married to a gay guy she claimed to be a Newt Gingrich Republican, but a few years later she runs for Governor (the worst campaign in history) to prevent a GOP "hijacking" of the state" After the recent election she wrote that Democrats had a winning message and that John Kerry should've stuck with the "wrong war, wrong place, wrong time" theme. And only a super-rich out-of-touch elitist like her would write a book called "Pigs At the Trough" decrying the low tax burden of corporations while at the same time getting millions in child support and only having to pay $77 in federal income taxes over 2 years. Hey Arianna - get in your Ed Begley type Electric Car and drive somewhere that won't put you on our TV's or in our newspapers.
Peter Jennings (#4 Seed) Unfortunately Jennings will soon become the darling of the elitist mainstream media crowd now that Tom Brokaw left, and Dan Rather has been shamed into retirement. Sadly, Jennings is, and has built up a long career, or left wing, out-of-touch, "I go to all the Upper East Side Dinner Parties", punditry, disguised as being a "news anchor". Oh, he's an anchor alright - to ratings. Perhaps the quintessential Jennings moment came in a commentary after the 1994 Elections, in which the GOP took over the House and Senate. What was Jennings response? He said "the voters had a temper tantrum", and compared them to 2 year old children. What the hell would this Frog know about American people outside of his cocoon? Jennings also couldn't hide his contempt for President Reagan, even comparing the network coverage of his funeral to the OJ Simpson Bronco chase saying ""I'm more inclined to spare coverage - come on [the air], do something meaningful, then get away." The last time I had to do it was with O.J. Simpson [the 1994 car chase] and I had nothing to say after a certain period of time,. Jennings has a record of leftist bias and arrogance going back many years. Eh, but what do you expect from someone who used to date the demented mouthpiece of terrorist Yasser Arafat..
David Corn (#13 Seed) Generally we try to ignore socialist America-hating writers for irrelevant publications like The Nation. But one writer is just so vile we just had to include him. His name is David "I Am The Great Cornholio" (actually it's David Corn, but the reference is one Beavis and Butthead fans will appreciate.) Corn, is of course, you're garden variety communist sympathizer. But what really go our attention was his blistering article about President Reagan just after his death. entitled "Reagan's Bloody Legacy" We think Corn's problem was that the blood wasn't shed by American's but rather Commies and other haters of freedom. And let's face it, anyone who runs a website called "bushlies", in addition to writing for The Nation and Tom Paine, is just a hateful leftist toady. What caps it for him is his book entitled The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception Why do we get the feeling that book is somewhere on the discount rank right next to something like "Getting Muscles the Natural Way" by Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi?
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Where's the deceptively perky Katie Couric, whose tireless pontificating in the guise of objective interviews has been duly chronicled by our own "governsleastgovernsbest"?
Click on the interactive bracket - she's safely into the second round, having dispatched the news fossil Helen Thomas rather easily.
Olbermann and Al Hunt were easy, but I went for the upsets by Huffington for sheer arrogance(anybody who heard her tet-a-tet with Sean Hannity about banning SUV's while she was flying around on private jets will know what I'm talking about), and David Cornholio for being the poor man's Paul Begala: i.e. he doesn't have the exposure, but he's every bit as hateful.
Right...pKC should not be left out nor should Dianne Sawyer.
See post #5
I am shocked and outraged that Katie has been left of the running. Auburn being shut out of the national championship game pales in comparison to the unfairness of this exclusion.
If there is one member of the liberal media gang whose outrages have been meticulously documented, it's Al-Qatie.
For those who want to review her "oeuvre," check out CouricWatch: http://couricwatch.blogspot.com/
AAARRRGGHH. She's in. See post #4. She's in the second round. Sorry, you're like the 3rd person whose asked this. Enjoy.
AARRGGHH. I meant post #5.
Whew, what a relief! I see that Katie handily defeated Helen Thomas in the first round. But Katie is in a very tough bracket. Others in her bracket include Jon Stewart, who conducted that notoriously syocphantish interview with Kerry; Frank Rich, the ultimate Upper West Side snob, and Lawrence O'Donnell, whose "liar, lying, lies!" meltdown with Swiftie John O'Neill was truly one for the annals.
But I'm optimistic that voters will take into account the huge audience that Katie enjoys, and the fact that she's on the air day in and day out, which makes her sugar-coated bias more pernicious. Also in her corner, so to speak, is the great Ann Coulter, who after all did call her "the affable Eva Braun of morning TV."
Sheesh, just reading these names is enough to curdle my whey.
Well, I have a feeling that same dog, though, wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.
We need some major upsets, here. Jennings was halfway decent until Disney took over at ABC. It ain't his fault. (Disney's mascot is a Demon Rat, just like the demonrat party!) And Kinsley and Hunt are open in their partisanship. They give their opinions, and they are at worst mainstream in the Demonrat party. I've never heard them invent slander or invent grudges; they just pass along what is already being discussed.
I had to stand in line at the polls (much net traffic), but I did my civic duty.
Please add me to your PING list, so I don't have to keep hunting you down! LOL!
Will do Lauren. Thanks.
Bump for later read and intensive voting. :)
I've got Arianna as my upset special.
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