# Who is the "Pit Person of the Year"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742 "2011-12-10T15:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/1 "2011-12-10T15:51:11Z")
2011 is winding down so I’m thinking that we might as well have a mud-slinging match to decide who sits at the bottom of the Pit for the year. There are a lot of candidates. I’ll start with a few nominations: - Michelle Bachman. Represents everything that is wrong with American politics and the way we elect Presidents. - Jerry Sandusky. Sleaze that survives by dressing nice and ingratiating himself with powerful people. - Rick Perry. Stupidity does get rewarded. - Donald Trump. Ditto the Sandusky comment. - Sarah Palin. Ditto the Perry comment. - The U.S. Congress. How can so many people with so much power collectively be such a bunch of clueless imbeciles. - The Supreme Court. Ditto the Congress comment. - Osama bin Laden. Getting killed ain’t cool. I’m sure there are many more. The floor is open for nominations and votes. In order to comply with the protocol of the Pit I have to add that they are all a bunch of motherfucking, cocksucking, shit eating, child molesting pig fuckers and some other stuff, too. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/2 "2011-12-10T16:17:10Z")
I’ll go with Sandusky, with an honorable(?) mention to Bernie Fine. Pittable behavior is almost expected of politicians\* and terrorists, but pedophilia cries out for a new level of Hell. \*And despite the quasi-adoration of the SC, I regard justices as borderline (at best) politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/3 "2011-12-10T17:39:03Z")
I’m going to second the nomination of Donald Trump. What a worthless fucking self-important pompous sack of crap. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/4 "2011-12-10T18:56:29Z")
Can we do a separate thread on just Dopers as candidates? Because I certainly have a few nominations… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/5 "2011-12-10T19:12:20Z")
I nominate a group - Teabaggers. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/6 "2011-12-10T19:19:05Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I nominate a group - Teabaggers. Seconded. I like how this groundswell is coming from Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/7 "2011-12-10T19:35:36Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I’m going to second the nomination of Donald Trump. What a worthless fucking self-important pompous sack of crap. Self-promoting and pompous is worse than serial child-molestation? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/8 "2011-12-10T19:37:24Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Self-promoting and pompous is worse than serial child-molestation? I didn’t say that. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/9 "2011-12-10T19:38:44Z")
Shredder Guy! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/10 "2011-12-10T19:41:04Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I didn’t say that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying anything nefarious about you. I just see their respective offenses on a different scale. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/11 "2011-12-10T20:58:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I nominate a group - Teabaggers. Oh, pitting teabagges is _so_ 2010. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/12 "2011-12-10T21:11:43Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#): > > … > > - Jerry Sandusky. Sleaze that survives by dressing nice and ingratiating himself with powerful people. > > … > > - Donald Trump. Ditto the Sandusky comment… And also, Sandusky anally raped a ten-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/13 "2011-12-10T21:51:06Z")
> [@emcee2k](#): > > And also, Sandusky anally raped a ten-year-old. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/14 "2011-12-10T22:06:50Z")
Reasons why I am less motivated about pitting Sandusky than Trump: 1. There hasn’t been a trial and Sandusky has not yet been found guilty. I assume he will be. Nonetheless, it hasn’t happened, yet. 2. If Sandusky is guilty, and I assume he probably is, he will face justice, and may it be stern indeed. Being Pitted as well just seems tacky. 3. Given the number of people Trump’s [failed “enterprises”](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-many-business-failures-of-donald-trump-20110511) have dislocated or ruined, he should be held accountable for hurting and swindling people, but probably never will be since it was all “legal,” and he has the lawyers to prove it. 4. Everyone thinks Sandusky is worse than a scrumbag, and rightly so. But a lot of people think Trump is a successful, admirable guy. Trump hasn’t (as far as is publicly known) committed any crime which on a per-count basis is as horrible by any means as sexually abusing children. But for me choosing a “Pit Person of the Year” isn’t about choosing the most appalling criminal as much as it is revealing feet of clay of a public figure [whose failures](http://www.marketing-ideas.org/donald-trump-bankruptcy-the-truth-about-trump-and-his-failures-1001) in a just universe would be shunned and ridiculed rather than lauded. 5. I feel there is no need for me or the SDMB to call attention to Sanusky’s crimes, which outside of Penn State football fans are pretty much universally recognized in the U.S. With Trump, it’s a different story. People need to call that asshat out for being the failed financial parasite on the economy that he is. 6. Trump has the presumption and pretense to attempt to play kingmaker with GOP presidential candidates. No one in a democracy should have that power, least of all some fraud who has done nothing to earn it. Fortunately, some of the GOP field recognize this. 7. Sandusky will probably be utterly stripped of any privilege or authority outside of prison for the rest of his life, which is at least what he deserves. Trump will likely continue to wield undue influence and received undeserved praise for the rest of his life, unless enough people point out what a dangerous but vacuous clown he is. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/15 "2011-12-10T22:19:02Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Can we do a separate thread on just Dopers as candidates? Because I certainly have a few nominations… Well then get ON your ass and start a new thread. What’s the matter with you ?! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/16 "2011-12-10T23:08:35Z")
I’d like to nominate Jon Corzine, for being such a sleazy, pompous ass, bringing down a 230-year-old business, “misplacing” $1.2 billion in customer money, seriously disrupting agricultural markets, and not wearing a seatbelt. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/17 "2011-12-10T23:13:26Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#): > > - The U.S. Congress. How can so many people with so much power collectively be such a bunch of clueless imbeciles. Because we put them there by voting for them, and not voting them out.☹ ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/18 "2011-12-11T01:15:40Z")
Fleabaggers ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/19 "2011-12-11T02:01:49Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’d like to nominate Jon Corzine, for being such a sleazy, pompous ass, bringing down a 230-year-old business, “misplacing” $1.2 billion in customer money, seriously disrupting agricultural markets, and not wearing a seatbelt. Good addition. Another one that should be on the nomination list is Dominique Strauss-Kahn. While he is becoming more of a long-shot he still merits recognition. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742/20 "2011-12-11T03:17:10Z")
> [@hermette](#): > > Shredder Guy! What is a shredder guy? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742.md?page=2)