Comments on: The Coveted Palme D’Haire, 2008 – Voting

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:26:07 +0000

DONT BLAME ME I VOTED CONSERVATIVE

By: stillnotking

stillnotking — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:44:47 +0000

Come on, it has to be Jonah. The guy’s picture should be next to the word in the OED. Sarah Palin is a moron, Harry Reid a wimp, Malkin a lunatic, etc., but Jonah Goldberg is a wanker’s wanker.

By: Sean Peters

Sean Peters — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:23:52 +0000

What, no Camille Paglia nomination? I think she’s entitled to a special lifetime achievement award for wankery.

By: Anthony Cartouche

Anthony Cartouche — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:22:59 +0000

Upthread, re: Harry Reid: I wouldn’t waste my urine to piss in his face.

Well, I would.

By: M@

M@ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:45:32 +0000

Sarah Palin really shouldn’t win this award. Of course Palin is a moron and a whack job, and has an impressive ability to get all the morons and whack jobs on the right side of the aisle to stand up behind her in praise.

But she’s a politician. There’s a greater goal in it for her. Granted, that goal is power, which isn’t all that great a goal — but the cringeworthy, down-home aw-shucks manner, and the foundation of stupidity that it lies on, is a means to an end. There are those who use a similar means to a similar end; some of them are also idiots, and some of them are intelligent. Most of them are just more intelligent than that Alaskan deer-in-the-headlights / wolf-in-the-plane’s-spotlight / what-have-you.

On the other hand, you have Jonah Goldberg, whose idiocy is an end in itself. Sure, he’s enriching himself with his little Hitleriffic volume there, but the wingnut welfare was coming in no matter what he did. It’s an impressive display, a truly overwhelming achievement — that so little should be gained by saying so much.

I briefly thought about writing a parody of Goldberg when his book was unleashed, but I realised that it would be too much damned work, and once you realise that such idiocy is actually the product of such hard work and industry, you must simply stand back in awe and amazement.

So that’s why I endorse Mr Jonah Goldberg as Palme d’Haire winner, 2008.

By: vachon

vachon — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:01:08 +0000

Here’s my problem with Sarah Palin getting the PDH: this award reeks solemnity and grandeur. Sarah Palin is a dork.

SP has the desperate desire to escape moose mousse and will quickly rent a persona worthy of the aforementioned splendor. She will be a contender. But not yet.

By: Funkhauser

Funkhauser — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:42:52 +0000

I’m gonna undermine my own philosophy – kinda – and give this one to Jonah. The zenith for me came when Dave Noon from Zevon wrote an admiring email that, for the sole reason of being admiring, was instantly put on the NRO-created site.

Plus, if there’s anyone more in need of a shove out of the realm of accepted journamalism, it’s him. F— the LA Times.

By: doofus

doofus — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:19:20 +0000

This one is for the readers of this wondertastic blog-thing we know as the ‘toot:

Also this (couldn’t find “New Year’s Eve,” so this will have to serve as an appropriate place holder and besides “New Year’s Eve” would be a day late and a dollar short):

By: bob

bob — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:35:59 +0000

Reid worked the hardest for it. He always stands up to his supporters.

By: Kléber Raposadinho

Kléber Raposadinho — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:28 +0000

knee morf!11!