Ahem…well, actually, it was more those left off the list that had me a’frothing, but given your mischaracterization of me as a dittohead it’s not surprising to see that you have problems with reading comprehension in this thread as well.
Cheers,
SA
Michael Moore was a non-factor in 2006. He’d already milked the Democrats for everything he was going to get.
You are correct that Moore was a virtual non-entity in 2006. I was remiss in vetting my own post. Thanks.
The entry on George Bush mentions that he seems bored by being president. That is it. Exactly it. Bored, a little annoyed, perhaps just a bit ticked off. Perhaps his shoes are pinching. He is fed up with having to answer questions and be on TV.
I can’t really get behind Ben Gibbard’s place on the list. Not because I’m a Death Cab fan (though I am), but because he didn’t release anything in 2006.
There are also plenty of politicians who deserve a spot more than Nancy Pelosi. I’d replace these two with Larry the Cable Guy and (in a rare moment of agreement with Starving Artist) Rosie O’Donnell, just because I hate both of them so very much.
Other than that, great list, particularly #1. McCain is to politicians what Corona Light is to beer–it isn’t necessarily worse than any of the other horse piss beers out there, but it’s no better, and they have the audacity to charge a premium/import price for it. McCain is no better or worse that your standard GOP politician these days, but people act like he is.
That was pretty funny, but very easy not to take seriously.
It’s not exactly supposed to be taken seriously. Although they’re not going to say anything that isn’t true, they are going to put the meanest possible spin on anything they present.
I loved James Carville’s entry:
I personally think The Beast is the coolest weekly in anglophone North America. Diogenes, how did you come to start reading it?
Sure they did.
Damn. They hit the nail squarely on that one.
Somebody linked it from another board once. I thought it was dyspeptic, mean-spirited and misanthropic. In other words I loved it.
Would have been a better list if they didn’t have to lie about people to make it funny. There is plenty of truth to lampoon.
(See, for example, the entries on Carlos Mencia, Gerald Ford, and Bill Gates, all of which contain easily verifiable factual errors. And those were just the ones I spotted.)
A conservative thinking Olberman should be on the list of most loathsome people is like an ugly person pitting a mirror.
Great link Diogenes. The bits about Donald Trump and (rather disconcertingly) Suri Cruise, made me laugh so hard I embarrassed myself.
Hey, since when could we edit stuff? Coolness!
Except that the reason Pelosi and Carville are on the list is because they aren’t far enough to the left.
Yeah, that’s a point i was going to make.
Personally, i like the fact that they’re on the list for that reason, and i agree with his take on them and their politics.
But their presence is hardly going to convince a conservative that The Beast is going for “fair and balanced.”
The Beast isn’t trying to be fair and balanced, but there really aren’t many liberal equivalents to people like Ann Coulter. There is no symmetry these days between the loathesomness of the right and the left. Sometime one side is just wrong and that’s all there is too it.
I agree with that. It was to be expected after such a long period of so much power. But now, the choice before the Democrats is to clean it all up or settle in for their due. We’ll see what happens.
I notice the list refers to both Gandhi and “Ghandi”. Didn’t we have a Pit thread about that not long ago?
About half the list were people I’ve never heard of.
Maybe. I don’t really care that he’s “fair and balanced” or not. The list was funny enough, in its own way. I just wanted to correct the mistaken implication of the last part in your OP.
I think he was on the list last year if I remember correctly.