# Just when I think Cal Thomas can't piss me off any worse, he outdoes himself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 13, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133 "2001-11-13T16:09:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/41 "2001-11-23T17:19:40Z")
The National Press Club just gave Novak an award for lifetime achievement. > [@](#): > > Bob Novak, a syndicated columnist for 38 years and a fixture on CNN for two decades, looked just a tad uncomfortable receiving the National Press Club’s award for lifetime achievement last week. Bob has seen enough Beltway awards dinners filled with flattery to be leery about being the subject of one. But then the roasting of the man Washington journalists have dubbed “The Prince of Darkness” began, and Bob began to enjoy himself. There’s nothing like creating a role for yourself and then having your peers recognize you for being good at it. [http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=95001497](http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=95001497) ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/42 "2001-11-23T17:22:32Z")
Sorry. I was daydeaming, and confused Thomas and Novak. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/43 "2001-11-23T21:17:54Z")
Too bad the archive doesn’t go back very far. I remember Cal Thomas doozies such as “Jim Bakker has been punished enough” (1993) and his column in the wake of Nixon’s death in 1994 on how Nixon wasn’t bad, just misunderstood. Of all columnists carried in, say, 100+ papers, Cal Thomas is easily the dumbest. When the Bristol (VA/TN) Herald-Courier picked up his column, they said they did so because he represented a particular point of view. Affirmative action for conservative Christian columnists! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/44 "2001-11-24T00:49:46Z")
The dumbest? Are you sure? Ann Coulter is pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/45 "2001-11-24T02:12:30Z")
Good point. But is she in a lot of papers? The only place I’ve seen her column is online. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/46 "2001-11-24T16:44:43Z")
My personal favorite Cal Thomas psychotic break was from around 1991 when he opened fire on the evil lesbians for trying to claim that the relationship between two of the in the movie of _Fried Green Tomatoes_ had lesbian overtones. Went on at length about how the evil lesbians try to subvert and pervert any story about friendship between women into a dirty lesbian sex-thing. Um, hello? ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/47 "2001-11-24T17:09:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*My personal favorite Cal Thomas psychotic break was from around 1991 when he opened fire on the evil lesbians for trying to claim that the relationship between two of the in the movie of _Fried Green Tomatoes_ had lesbian overtones. Went on at length about how the evil lesbians try to subvert and pervert any story about friendship between women into a dirty lesbian sex-thing. Um, hello? \*\* If anything, he should have praised the movie for toning down that theme. It was more overt in the book. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133/48 "2001-11-24T22:46:49Z")
**december** , do you have problems with lesbians? Do you have… _issues?_ 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-think-cal-thomas-cant-piss-me-off-any-worse-he-outdoes-himself/93133.md?page=2)