Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn
nope...maybe a ribbon though...and my warmest regards.
I would also like to nominate the editors at Time Magazine for the Ann Coulter fish lens shot and the Protest Warrior pics inside the same issue.
My vote is the fake soldier hostage.
DC Chapter ping!
Please make any nominations in the next few hours. Time is running out unless we can find a Dem St. Louis judge to keep the nominations open for extra time.
If you are in the DC area, please also join us this Saturday night for the fabulous fun-filled FReep of the White House Correspondents Assoc. Dinner where we will try to present the awards. Details at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385502/posts.
We've seen or talked with Ann Coulter, Al Franken, Joe Scarborough, Matt Drudge, Norah O'Donnell, George Stephanopolous, Fred Barnes, Ralph Nader, and countless others in various of the previous 6 FReeps in this annual event. Come this year and you can cheer or jeer those in the media.
Every utterence from the left that is reported, ie., all.
Like they say: "A damn fool gigolo and his heiress wife's money are soon parted.
Hey LG, that response was terribly cruel-William was serious.
Larry King directs a question to Paul Wilkes, "BeliefNet.com's special correspondent and expert on papal succession".
KING: Paul Wilkes, can you clear up any of this story of him being a member of the Hitler Youth?
WILKES: Well, I think, this was perhaps a youthful excess. I don't think we should put too much stock in that. He was just a kid. It probably was, like, the rest of the guys are doing it and so am I.
Asinine comments! - "youthful excess", "the rest of the guys are doing it and so am I". Infuriates me.
I therefore nominate Paul Wilkes for the Newsjerk of the Year Award. He lied and fabricated his information. It's a deliberate smear of the Pope. If he had done his homework, he would have known that as a youth, Ratzinger didn't have a choice in the matter because membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory. Ratzinger later was a deserter from the German army and became a U.S. prisoner of war for 6 weeks. See article.
As a religious correspondent, Wilkes should have his facts straight before he spouts off. And Larry King deserves a special award for saying nothing after Wilkes' stupid/lying comments.
Interisting post. Lots of canidates this year. The BS has been flying with the Dems losing. Rush was right, just sit back and watch them makes jerks of themselves.
May I suggest "waffles for Rather". I mean, that's what he did. It's gonna be tough to get to him for the presentation.
The NY Times for trying to gin up op-eds from Republicans that slam fellow Republicans. Robert Livingston and Lawrence Eagleburger as examples.
The BBC for planting hecklers complete with wireless mics at a Tory party gathering.
The NY Times for the Al-Qaqa (sp.) weapons depot non-story right before the election.
MSNBC for doing a serious news report on the 'is Jeff Gannon Johnny Gosch rumor' even though there was nothing factual at all to connect the two. Just rumor and conspiracy theories by liberal moonbats.
Nightline for the show featuring Vietnamese propaganda taken as gospel over John O'Neill regarding John Kerry.
I found a judge in St. Louie who has ordered the nominations stay open until midnight PDT. The voting thread will be posted tomorrow morning.
Lawrence O'Donnell for (1) his "creepy liar" performance against John O'Neill and (2) his ridiculous discussion of secession because his Dems can't win (except on the lame West Wing TV show).
WashPost and ABC News for their incredibly biased poll on the judicial nominations fight and the proposed GOP attempt to overcome Dem filibusters. Rush said the poll was not a push poll. "It was a push-up poll." Details here
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050426.asp
Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and SeeBS News for the most obvious reasons.
Carol Simpson of ABC News blaming dumb voters and Dixie (i.e., the former slave states) for electing Bush.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2004/nq20041122.asp
I can't remember who trumpeted the phony exit polls that had Kerry winning, but whoever it was deserves a nomination.
worldnutdaily needs an honorable mention.
O'Reilly covered the Swift Boat Vets for Truth so badly I think he deserves one. His research, in general, is often half assed. It was terrible for his first SBVT piece. He tried to cover his ass by having SBVT reps on, then ended up taking an uninformed stand in the middle (not a credible position for one who claims to be a traditionalist and a non-spinner), propped up by unsupportable conclusions from his lame and poorly researched (and thought out) first piece. Give him the Nonspinners Spinning Prize.
Either way, it's a great example of MSM fact-checking.
"OOPS FROM CNN A close watcher catches a CNN blooper: At 8 am, Jane Arraf reports a "nightmare" situation at school polling station in Baquba, Sunni area. No Iraqi election commission workers had shown up. But, at 9:15, viewers learn Arraf had just shown up at the wrong school, which was not a polling site. The real polling site was actually open. At 9:30, Arraf reports that she is "now at 'another' polling site. No mea culpa/recognition of previous mistake. Her new polling station is crowded and jubilant."
I-knew-that-you-would-put-the-fix-in bump.
EDWARD LEE PITTS, Chattanooga Times Free Press military reporter who set up Rumsfeld with the misleading question, indirectly via military members, about armor on the military vehicles. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297858
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