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...possibly decent patriotic Busheviks shouldn't look at this one:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm
(I've seen a couple of similar lists, but this is the best as yet.)

http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/images/cruise3.gif
LMAO!

...possibly decent patriotic Busheviks shouldn't look at this one:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm
(I've seen a couple of similar lists, but this is the best as yet.)

Not really that funny. Plus you lose a lot of credability when you think that Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson are more deplorable than someone who raped, murdered and dismembered a dozen or so women.

Politics aren't THAT important.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/images/cruise3.gif
LMAO!
It gets better: keep going.

Anyone see Michael Moore on that list? Curious.

Really though, Johnny Damon deserves worse, much worse something involving his hair...

Not really that funny. Plus you lose a lot of credability when you think that Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson are more deplorable than someone who raped, murdered and dismembered a dozen or so women.

Politics aren't THAT important.
I didn't write edit or order the list, I posted a link to it on the grounds that somebody might find it amusing. You don't. Jolly good.

I didn't write edit or order the list, I posted a link to it on the grounds that somebody might find it amusing. You don't. Jolly good.

Oh, I didn't say you did. I was just commenting in general.

Oh, I didn't say you did. I was just commenting in general.
Then why did you take me to task for something somebody else has written?

48. Larry the Cable Guy

Charges: The absolute nadir of the American South’s baffling cultural hegemony. A middle-class Nebraskan, raised in Palm Beach, whose parents sent him to private school, masquerading as an Appalachian mutant and making millions off the nine-toed cyclopes in his audience by calling his material "blue collar," when it’s really just a celebration of proud ignorance. The latest in a long line of "entertainers" propagating the lie that real talent is elitist. The South has risen again—just long enough to grab the rest of the nation by the legs and pull it back down to its Lovecraftian depths. Isn’t even "bad funny." Makes Jeff Foxworthy look like Chris Rock.

Exhibit A: Ostensibly humorous catchphrase translates into "complete the task."

Sentence: Sent back in time for the sole purpose of having Mark Twain’s cigars extinguished on his face.


That's just wrong. Larry's a funny SOB. He's not politically correct, his comedy ain't highbrow, but he keeps me in stitches. A big FU goes out to the folks who put him on this list.

That's just wrong. Larry's a funny SOB. He's not politically correct, his comedy ain't highbrow, but he keeps me in stitches. A big FU goes out to the folks who put him on this list.

i especially like the Politically Correct Fairy Tales (or whatever he calls them)

rofl, those are hilarious

Then why did you take me to task for something somebody else has written?

I didn't, Cahnt. I recognize you were just the messenger. My "you" was not direct at YOU, it was just a turn of phrase.

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: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. 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."

OK, I knew this Malkin person was stupid when someone sent me a link to something on her blog, but this stupid? Wow!

I didn't, Cahnt. I recognize you were just the messenger. My "you" was not direct at YOU, it was just a turn of phrase.
Fair enough.

That's just wrong. Larry's a funny SOB. He's not politically correct, his comedy ain't highbrow, but he keeps me in stitches. A big FU goes out to the folks who put him on this list.
Yes, fart jokes are still amusing no matter how old you get...

Not really that funny. Plus you lose a lot of credability when you think that Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson are more deplorable than someone who raped, murdered and dismembered a dozen or so women.

Politics aren't THAT important.


Are they? Leaders of the people that lie, cheat and steal? A Religious Leader is supposed to better his followers and yet spews things like abortion evil; except in China.

You have to admit its a funny visual seeing Pat getting mulitple lightning strikes. :D

Meh. It's just Liberals attacking people they don't like. They do it all the time, nothing new or worth caring about.

...possibly decent patriotic Busheviks shouldn't look at this one:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm
(I've seen a couple of similar lists, but this is the best as yet.)

Doesn't seem terribly biased to me. There are some democrats and other liberals there on that list.

And I laughed at some points. Terry Schiavo? Hehehe. :)

Meh. It's just Liberals attacking people they don't like. They do it all the time, nothing new or worth caring about.

So you didn't even look through the list eh?

good for a chuckle.

obviously biased, of course.

Meh. It's just Liberals attacking people they don't like. They do it all the time, nothing new or worth caring about.

Someone didn't read the list...

So you didn't even look through the list eh?



Don't jump to conclusions. I looked at it and it was biased. Why is Michael Jackson on there anyway? Does anybody even give a damn about him?

Someone didn't read the list...



You know what they say when you jump to conclusions?

Not really that funny. Plus you lose a lot of credability when you think that Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson are more deplorable than someone who raped, murdered and dismembered a dozen or so women.

Politics aren't THAT important.
Whoooshhh!

Hear that?

That was the sound of satire as it went flying past, way over your head.

Don't jump to conclusions. I looked at it and it was biased. Why is Michael Jackson on there anyway? Does anybody even give a damn about him?

You would be surprised.

Besides, that's not the point of the list. Did you notice God and you are on the list ;)

You know what they say when you jump to conclusions?

You ought to know, seeing as that's just what you did.

You would be surprised.

Besides, that's not the point of the list. Did you notice God and you are on the list ;)



I was wondering what you did that made them mad.;)

LOL. Thanks, Cahnt, I needed that. Just emailed it to my mom.

Now this is a pretty good list.

Meh. It's just Liberals attacking people they don't like. They do it all the time, nothing new or worth caring about.
No, the real reason to dislike it is that "Worst X People of Group Y"-lists are horribly clichéd and over done. Hey, Beast, congratulations, you dislike people and can count backwards from 50, wowee.
Even worse is when they are so goddamn long. So, quick lesson for the rest of the Interweb, if you absolutely must make unfunny lists, keep them short.
Example: My grocery lists are notorious for being dull, and so I generally keep them to under 20 items and always resist the urge to publish them.

Are they? Leaders of the people that lie, cheat and steal? A Religious Leader is supposed to better his followers and yet spews things like abortion evil; except in China.

You have to admit its a funny visual seeing Pat getting mulitple lightning strikes. :D

I don't think that a leader that "lies" or a religious leader with diarrhea of the mouth is worse than a sexual serial killer.

I don't know, I guess I just expect my satire to be funny. The Onion - great. This list - not so much.

I don't think that a leader that "lies" or a religious leader with diarrhea of the mouth is worse than a sexual serial killer.

I don't know, I guess I just expect my satire to be funny. The Onion - great. This list - not so much.



The Onion can be funny sometimes, nothing is funny all the time. I should go there and find something good.:)

Meh. It's just Liberals attacking people they don't like. They do it all the time, nothing new or worth caring about.
Not even CLOSE to funny. Go out in the hall and polish up your routine, and when you get a fresh angle, worth a giggle or two, come back in and make us smile.

Why is Michael Jackson on there anyway? Does anybody even give a damn about him?
Didn't he write a song about that with his malfunctioning-clothed sister before the last series of little-boy investigations, moving out of the country and getting caught in women's bathrooms?

Sheesh, even Frangland knows when a joke's a joke.

Example: My grocery lists are notorious for being dull, and so I generally keep them to under 20 items and always resist the urge to publish them.

Bullshit! I know what you're planning to do with that whipped cream and chocolate sauce! And it isn't 'make ice cream sundaes'. ;)

Why do neo cons put "liberal" infron tof anything they dont like, even when its not remotely liberal?

oh nm i get it. duh

Why do neo cons put "liberal" infron tof anything they dont like, even when its not remotely liberal?



Why do Liberals describe anything they don't like as Conservative or NeoCon? It goes both ways.

"It needs to be said: George Lucas is an awful writer and a shitty, shitty director"
I'm pretty sure George Lucas only directed Episode IV...

Not really that funny. Plus you lose a lot of credability when you think that Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson are more deplorable than someone who raped, murdered and dismembered a dozen or so women.

Politics aren't THAT important.
Well, DeLay is at least partly responsible for the legislation that allows companies in the Marianas Islands to force their female workers who become pregnant to have abortions or lose their jobs. (http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/saipan/abc040100.html) Sometimes politics is that important.

The link is from Global Exchange, but the story is from ABC News.

Overall the list is good, not great. But it does have some gems, like this:

Richard’s "Worst Dressed" celebrity lists have all the redeeming qualities of syphilis.

Well, DeLay is at least partly responsible for the legislation that allows companies in the Marianas Islands to force their female workers who become pregnant to have abortions or lose their jobs. (http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/saipan/abc040100.html) Sometimes politics is that important.

The link is from Global Exchange, but the story is from ABC News.

At least partly responsible? He's a member of Congress. He can't tie his shoes without 218 people agreeing with him.

And even forcing someone to have an abortion isn't nearly as bad as murdering a dozen women for your own sexual pleasure.

It's when I see things like this - even in jest - that it makes me wonder if some people really have their priorities straight.

At least partly responsible? He's a member of Congress. He can't tie his shoes without 218 people agreeing with him.

And even forcing someone to have an abortion isn't nearly as bad as murdering a dozen women for your own sexual pleasure.

It's when I see things like this - even in jest - that it makes me wonder if some people really have their priorities straight.
At the time this happened, DeLay wasn't just another member of Congress--he was the Majority Leader, and under Hastert, if DeLay doesn't want legislation passed, it doesn't pass--plain and simple. Conversely, if he wants it passed, it passes, even if it requires holding votes open for three hours and threatening the political futures of the children of other congresspeople on the floor to do it.

But don't try to downplay what DeLay did here--he made it legal for companies in a US possession to pay workers slave wages and force the women to choose between keeping their jobs and aborting their pregnancies, and to be able to put a "Made in the USA" label in their products, all so he could get more money in campaign contributions. Is that as evil as murdering women for your own sexual gratification? It's certainly less shocking, but it affects a larger number of human lives. Is the comparison so shocking now? I don't think so.

Puddingblaster']"It needs to be said: George Lucas is an awful writer and a shitty, shitty director"
I'm pretty sure George Lucas only directed Episode IV...
I'm not sure about the direction (I know he did direct that one) but it's notable that the only one he didn't script (The Empire Strikes Back was scripted from his outline by Leigh Brackett) is the best of the lot and the first one the studio were able to insist on him redrafting a couple of times: these are the ones that still hold up pretty well. By the time he did the third one, they weren't able to insist on the scripts being reworked any, and look how bad the stuff he did thereafter was. "Awful writer" seems fair enough, given that.

At the time this happened, DeLay wasn't just another member of Congress--he was the Majority Leader, and under Hastert, if DeLay doesn't want legislation passed, it doesn't pass--plain and simple. Conversely, if he wants it passed, it passes, even if it requires holding votes open for three hours and threatening the political futures of the children of other congresspeople on the floor to do it.

C'mon Nazz, you're smarter than this. DeLay doesn't control every single vote in the Republican conference. And even then, he doesn't control the Senate either. You're giving him way too much credit. He had influence, sure, but he doesn't deserve the full blame for this. And it certainly doesn't make him worse than a serial killer.

But don't try to downplay what DeLay did here--he made it legal for companies in a US possession to pay workers slave wages and force the women to choose between keeping their jobs and aborting their pregnancies, and to be able to put a "Made in the USA" label in their products, all so he could get more money in campaign contributions. Is that as evil as murdering women for your own sexual gratification? It's certainly less shocking, but it affects a larger number of human lives. Is the comparison so shocking now? I don't think so.

Yes, it's just as shocking, because you're acting as if DeLay was some kind of dictator and can just wave his magic wand and make this stuff happen. He can't do it. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't do it.

I'm not saying that I like what happened with this issue, because I didn't, and we fought against it when it was coming through. But saying that because DeLay was the House Majority leader at the time this was passed that he is some how responsible for it is just not realistic.

And comparing it to a sexual serial killer just makes you look unreasonably partisan.

At some point, we've got to take a step back and realize that this kind of hyperbole out there is damaging to our democracy and make a conscious choice to not engage in it, on both sides of the aisle. No matter how much you dislike DeLay, this kind of a comparison is over the line.

BTK did a far worse thing than any politician ever has. We should at least be able to agree on that.