# Michael Barone wins douchiest post election comment of the week award **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355 "2008-11-12T15:37:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/21 "2008-11-13T01:59:07Z")
If it had gone over well, would his follow up email have ended with “A live one, at the Republican Convention, trying to eat its way out…” ? ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/22 "2008-11-13T02:01:46Z")
Sadly, I have plenty of relatives who are anti-choice to the extent that they believe giving a woman the right to choose is an inherently evil act. A few days before the election some very nasty emails went back and forth in my family, many of which proclaimed Obama evil for this reason. To them, leaving open the possibility of abortion equals wanting abortions. Abortion being, of course, the overriding issue of the campaign. ---
**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 13, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/23 "2008-11-13T02:10:43Z")
Actually, they should realize it’s the opposite-the more they go on and on about the evils of abortion, the more they make me want to go out and have one. And I’m not even pregnant! ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/24 "2008-11-13T02:24:54Z")
> [@Szlater](#): > > It’s the only kind you can use for _foetus tartare_. I think you mean foetus tardtard. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/25 "2008-11-13T02:36:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Barone was speaking at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, to the 121st annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, which calls itself the nation’s oldest higher-education association. In _Chicago_?? In front of _acifuckingdemics_?? Beyond what he said, where he said it and who he said it to are far better indications of how out of touch with reality he is. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/26 "2008-11-13T03:09:30Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > How are the “pro-life” people not “anti-choice?” Well, there’s _have the baby and keep it_, _have the baby and give it up for adoption_, and _have the baby and give it up for OPEN adoption_. _Those_ are all choices. Ooh! and _don’t have sex just because it feels good_! They’ve got LOADS of choices for ya! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/27 "2008-11-13T03:17:11Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Oh and down’s syndrome fetus, _so tender_! Meh. It tastes kind of corky. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/28 "2008-11-13T03:19:29Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Meh. It tastes kind of corky. You have to soak it in milk. That gets rid of the corky taste. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/29 "2008-11-13T03:24:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Meh. It tastes kind of corky. That was…brilliant and absolutely vile (on the punnishment scale) at the same time. I’m impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/30 "2008-11-13T03:32:45Z")
I’m sure Mr. Barone can name the specific people to said this to him, if pressed. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/31 "2008-11-13T03:40:07Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > As a fellow enthusiast of deadpan humor, I commiserate with Mr. Barone. I’ve faced a years-long battle to convince my wife that my drunken “threesome with her sister” proposal was just a joke. Is her sister hot? Because take it from someone who did the exact same thing (except, substitute co-worker for sister) once. Now, every single time she mentions the co-worker, I also get “you remember, the one you want so bad?” It never ever ends. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/32 "2008-11-13T03:44:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Actually, they should realize it’s the opposite-the more they go on and on about the evils of abortion, the more they make me want to go out and have one. And I’m not even pregnant! I can help you with that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/33 "2008-11-13T04:49:41Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I think you’re confusing “palindrome” and “Palin-drone”, there. > > 😃 Wasilla’s all I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/34 "2008-11-13T19:45:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > … Someone needs to tell these righties that pro-choice != pro-abortion!.. Careful, many of them will insist that “!=” means “_emphatically_ equals”. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355/35 "2008-11-13T20:06:19Z")
All of you are going to hell for making these jokes about eating fetuses (feti?). And for making me bust a gut and die from laughing at them. 😃 And I agree with Guinastasia, I have met many people that are anti-abortion, but pro-choice ( I am one such myself. I don’t have a uterus, so I don’t believe I have the right to tell someone that does how to treat theirs.) but everyone I have met that says they are pro-life has been anti-abortion. (And yes, the first option is lowering the birth rate, but the same pro-lifers are mostly against teaching birth control. Teenagers might want to ::shudder:: _have sex_!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-barone-wins-douchiest-post-election-comment-of-the-week-award/472355.md?page=1)