Who's Stupider? (Nobel Prize Edition)

Thank you, and welcome to a special Nobel Peace Prize edition of Who's Stupider?
I'm your special guest host, A Beanie Baby Guy Smiley!

Our first contestant comes to us from the worst right-wing rag in the country where he enjoys being wrong about everything and wearing a permanent shit-eating smirk, please welcome Bill Kristol.

Bill, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Well, I'm famous because I had a famous father. My famous father (Irving Kristol) pulled some strings to get me into Harvard, used his connections to get me a job in the Nixon administration, then arranged for me to get teaching jobs at Penn and the Kennedy School of government. I'm a firm believer in strict meritocracy and fierce opponent of affirmative action. (source)

Okay, I think that tells us pretty much all we need to know about you.

Let's welcome our returning champion, Erick Erickson!

Erick, let's start with you, what's your reaction to President Obamawinning the Nobel Peace Prize?

I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period.

Ooh, tough break Erick! The affirmative action line proves you are kinda racist and kinda an asshole, but you accidentally made a good point that Obama certainly didn't do anything in the first month of his presidency to deserve this prestigious award. So let's ask the judges, can we accept Erick's answer?






































OOh, sorry, that's a thumbs down from Simon, Caesar and Fonzie! I'm afraid you're disqualified from this round, Erick.










Okay, Bill the floor is yours. All you have to do is say anything remotely stupid and you'll win. Whadda ya got, Bill?

if the Swedes Norwegians wanted to give the Nobel Peace Prize to an American, it would have been been better to give it to Sen. John McCain for having the guts to push through the surge in Iraq.

Wow! You came here to win, Bill! That may have been the stupidest thing we have heard yet on this show! Complaining that the Nobel Peace Prize was not given for war-mongering? Amazing work! You're going to go far in this competition.

Ladies and gentlemen, today's winner: Bill "the man who is wrong about everything" Kristol!

Mad Men

Well, this is just sad:

Jon Hamm's Mad Men character has just topped a new list of top men.

Over 500,000 voters on AskMen.com named the early 1960s-era sales executive Draper the Most Influential Man of 2009.

I don't know what the fuck Askmen.com is or what sort of douchey wankers they surveyed, but this is just pathetic.

Can someone please explain the appeal of Mad Men to me?

Oh, cool! They're smoking cigarettes!

At Work!










They're drinking booze!

At Work!



















They're making unwanted sexual advances!

At Work!

Who cares if there's no real plot to speak of, check out those cool suits! Just like they wore in the sixties!


Feh!
It seems to me that this show's popularity is based largely on a creepy kind of nostalgia for a time when a man could slap his secretary on the ass, tell her "you're not paid to think, honey!" then meet his mistress for a quickie over lunch. Otherwise I really don't get it. Seriously, if anyone gets why this show is popular, please explain it to me.

You Can't Reason with Unreasonable People.

An open letter to President Obama and the Democrats in both houses.

Dear Democrats,

It's nice that you want to play bipartisanism, it really is. But the people you are trying to play with, they are never going to play with you. These are not your father's conservatives. These are not reasonable people. Ever since Newt Gingrich led his gang of yahoos into Washington, the right wing of the Republican Party (and the right wing is pretty much all that is left of the party in DC) sees every issue as a take-no-prisoners, winner-take-all deathmatch. They will never compromise with you.

You see, they have convinced themselves that they are on the side of good, and anyone who disagrees with them is neccessarilly on the side of evil. And there is no in-between. See, conservatives in general tend to see everything in stark black and white, good and evil, us-vs-them terms. And these extreme right wingers naturally take that to the extreme. So if you put forth a bill that included free blow jobs for all Republican Senators, they would still vote against it. They would rather lose the vote then be seen as accommodating or compromising with the forces of evil.

Let me give you an example. Are you familiar with Dede Scozzafava? She is a Republican running for Congress from New York State. According to her local paper, "Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava has introduced a number of bills to the State Assembly that would enact harsher penalties for criminals, fill holes in the justice system, and help keep repeat offenders off the streets." So, she's a good ol' fashioned tough-on-crime Republican, right? But apparently on some social issues she differs with the hard right, like she doesn't really hate the gay people. Now, according to Politico.com, "many conservative groups are rallying behind Doug Hoffman, a third-party candidate running on the Conservative Party line, even though their support for him might pave the way for a Democratic takeover of the seat recently vacated by GOP Rep. John McHugh."

That's right, they would rather lose the seat to the democrats than support a Republican who is less than ideologically pure. “She’s not even a moderate. She is a radical, ultraleftist who has an ‘R’ next to her name,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, chairwoman of Susan B. Anthony List, an organization that backs female candidates who oppose abortion and has endorsed Hoffman.

Okay, so if they think that a fellow Republican is a "radical ultra-leftist" because she disagrees on a few issues, that should tell you a bit about where these nuts are coming from.

The good news is, you don't need them. Democrats have the majority in both houses, including a filibuster-proof super-majority in the Senate, along with a Democratic president. You can pass whatever you want. You could pass a law making it illegal for kittens to be adorable, and there's nothing they could do (although you'd have a hard time enforcing that one!) So pass a fucking health care bill. And make a strong public option the centerpiece of the legislation. They're going to scream and wail and call it communism and fascism and socialism and Satanism and everything else under the sun, but you know what? They're going to do that anyway, no matter what you do. And they don't matter.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28071.html#ixzz0TOTqyB5r

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28071.html#ixzz0TO7b7PUZ

Michele Bachmann Opens Mouth, Dumb Falls Out

Apparently unhappy about losing to Erick Erickson in the last round of "Who's Stupider?", Minnesota's public embarrassment, Michele Bachmann went for extra credit on the Bill O'Reilly Hour of Awfulness.

First, Bill asks her this head-hurtingly stupid question:

“Now you are a pretty interesting politician congresswoman. You are second to Sarah Palin in far left angst. You Sarah Palin leads the league, no doubt,
but they’re after you now. . . How did you get into that wheelhouse?

Now, the correct answer to this would be "Oh, they're not after me, Bill. They just mock me because I make it so goddamm easy by saying stupid shit all the time."
But no. Instead she offers this:

“It may bother them that conservative women are happy and don’t need government in order to be successful in life. I have a great husband, great kids, I had a great career as a federal tax attorney, and I don’t need government to be successful."

That's right. Dimwit McBatshit has had two careers, one as a Federal Tax Attorney, the other as a member of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, but no! She certainly doesn't need the Government to be successful. Just like I don't need the damn internet to publish my little blog.

Also, Peyton Manning doesn't need the NFL to be a successful quarterback.

In her defense, her first job as a tax attorney was probably not working for the Federal Government, but helping her clients cheat and defraud it. Still, without the Federal Government, that job would not exist. So the final score is:
Jobs Michele Bachmann has held which are dependant upon the Federal Government: 2
Non-Government related jobs Michele Bachmann has held: 0

So, no. You don't need that durn Guvmint at all, Congresswoman! God, what a buffoon.

Coming Soon to a Horrible, Awful Bookstore Near You

The Case Against Women's Suffrage

by John Derbyshire

No, really. Look

Also coming soon from John Derbyshire:

The Emancipation proclamation: What a Mistake!

The Case for Burning Witches.

Child Labor: Why Don't We Do That Anymore?

The case for Stoning Adulteresses.
(but probably not adulterers, just adulteresses)
(who are probably witches, anyway.)


Where Have You Gone, Jim Crow?

Hey, Let's Bring back Polio!
Also the Black death!

A Defense of the Monarchy:
Public Elections? WTF?

John Derbyshire: Why Won't Any of You Women Date Him?
I Bet You're all Witches! Yeah, Witches. That's the Only Logical Explanation.