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Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Wins Today’s DICK Award
MensNewsDaily.com / BlogWonks ^ | October 07, 2006 | Vox Populi, Doug Powers

Posted on 10/07/2006 11:55:30 AM PDT by RogerFGay

Washington DC — Oct. 7, 2006: Today’s winner of the ”Deceptively Inept Congressional Kingdom” award (DICK), which honors those who put the “con” in “congress,” goes to Tennessee Representative Harold Ford, Jr.

“Congressman Ford exemplifies the qualities we’re looking for in a DICK,” said DICK Chairman Stan Neibaum. “Representative Ford, for going around saying he’s a lawyer when in fact he does have a law degree but has never even passed the BAR exam has made him a major DICK contender for a long time.”

“It’s not necessarily about breaking the law,” Neibaum continued after being asked to further explain the DICK award criteria. “It’s about the ability to be deceptive, whether it’s illegal or merely morally or ethically questionable, or to be a breathtakingly panderous flip-flopper — all while still being able to get a good night’s sleep that scores high on the DICK-meter.”

DICKs have been given out daily by the awards committee since the first DICK went to Senator Ted Kennedy five years ago today. There is no end in sight to recipients of the honor, and there are plenty of statuettes in the store room which have yet to be handed out.

“Fortunately, it looks as though we’ll never run out of DICKs,” said Neibaum.

Past DICK recipients include John Kerry, Randall “Duke” Cunningham, Robert Ney, William Jefferson, Hillary Clinton, Mark Foley, and Barney Frank, though the latter has never actually won the award but for some reason insisted on being included on the list.

Another winner will be announced tomorrow.



TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: dick

1 posted on 10/07/2006 11:55:31 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay
...Barney Frank, though the latter has never actually won the award but for some reason insisted on being included on the list.

Hahaha!!

FMCDH(BITS)

2 posted on 10/07/2006 12:25:57 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nothingnew

That's why I decided to post ... I thought that was pretty funny myself.


3 posted on 10/07/2006 12:32:54 PM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

No surprises here since Ford was a quota black at the U. of Michigan Law School.


4 posted on 10/07/2006 12:36:23 PM PDT by genew (Fact: Political correctness is a deadly social disease.)
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To: nothingnew

His daddy used to say that he had an 'MS degree from Vanderbilt' in Nashville....when in reality what he had was a degree in Mortuary Science from George Peabody College which has reciprocal campus privleges with Vanderbilt....the apple doesnt fall far from the tree


5 posted on 10/07/2006 12:41:10 PM PDT by Armigerous ( Non permitte illegitimi te carborundum- "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: genew

He was censured once I think, and definitely lost his position as head of a Ways and Means subcommittee due to a scandal.


6 posted on 10/07/2006 12:41:53 PM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

Ford Sr. never made it to the chairman of the Ways and Means committee. The Republicans took over in 94 and the congressman retired and gave Jr. his position.


7 posted on 10/07/2006 1:35:41 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: RogerFGay

Is this named in honor of former house "member" Dick Gephardt (D-MO), or the infamous Dick Swett (D-NH)?


8 posted on 10/07/2006 2:02:34 PM PDT by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: genew

>> No surprises here since Ford was a quota black at the U. of Michigan Law School. <<

That's horrible! Just because he was a black man from U of Michigan, you PRESUME he HAD to be a quota black! No way could a black man actually get into U Michigan on his own merits, No, he had to be there just because of Affirmative Action! You racist!

I'm sure if Ford were here right now, he'd sock you in the jaw for insinuating that he needed racial set-asides. Right, Ford? Right? Rep. Ford? Congressman???

(/feigned outrage)

[I hope you forgive me calling you a racist to make a rhetorical point. :^)]


9 posted on 10/07/2006 2:07:28 PM PDT by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: RogerFGay

Ford is the perfect "dick".


10 posted on 10/07/2006 2:12:40 PM PDT by YoungCorps
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To: RogerFGay

This is hysterically funny...


11 posted on 10/07/2006 2:25:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: RogerFGay

“It’s about the ability to be deceptive, whether it’s illegal or merely morally or ethically questionable, or to be a breathtakingly panderous flip-flopper — all while still being able to get a good night’s sleep that scores high on the DICK-meter.”

LOL


12 posted on 10/07/2006 2:28:49 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: dangus

Well said!


13 posted on 10/07/2006 2:57:05 PM PDT by genew (Fact: Political correctness is a deadly social disease.)
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To: RogerFGay

It's a simple matter of definitions. If he graduated from a law school, he is a lawyer. If he never passed a bar exam he is an unlicensed lawyer.
Am I right or wrong?


14 posted on 10/07/2006 3:11:41 PM PDT by OldEagle (May you live long enough to hear the legends of your own adventures.)
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To: nothingnew

That's a riot.


15 posted on 10/07/2006 7:23:28 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: genew

affirmative action at its finest....it is understandable that he won a dickhead award... all lib/dems seem to wear that title at some point in time!!!


16 posted on 10/07/2006 7:52:31 PM PDT by hnj_00
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To: RogerFGay

Another recipient of the DICK award but not mentioned is DICK Durbin...


17 posted on 10/07/2006 7:56:06 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: everyone

Heh ... good one!


18 posted on 10/07/2006 9:37:23 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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