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<title><![CDATA[Poll: Worst Person of the Decade]]></title>
<link>http://johnswanagon.com/2009/12/17/vote-worst-person-of-the-decade/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>John Swanagon</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Our country and really, our world did not fare well in the 2000&#8217;s. There was pain and conflict]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:left;">Our country and really, our world did not fare well in the 2000&#8217;s. There was pain and conflict, one recession and one depression, two major wars, genocide in Darfur, theft by big business against the middle class, loss of faith, and no forward progress in innovation. Given all that, who could the 2000&#8217;s have done without? In other words, which person&#8217;s absence would have contributed to making the 2000&#8217;s better?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst Person in the World - Week 4]]></title>
<link>http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/worst-person-in-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DangerB</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; First of all; HELL YEAH that officer should have written that fucking illegal immigrant a tic]]></description>
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First of all; HELL YEAH that officer should have written that fucking illegal immigrant a ticket. Fuck that &#8211; he should have DEPORTED her ass. Not only for not speaking English in America; but for also not being able to read and comprehend ENGLISH WRITTEN DRIVING instructions. Say&#8230; for instance&#8230; if there was an emergency alert and a sign was put out at the side of the road that flashed a message written English with an explanation to drivers on how to handle said emergency&#8230; how would she know what the hell was happening? &#8220;Keep left. Right lane closed.&#8221; or &#8220;Road work ahead. Watch for trucks entering and leaving highway.&#8221; or &#8220;Accident 1/4 mile ahead. Keep right.&#8221;. We&#8217;ve all seen &#8216;em &#8211; and for the most part we UNDERSTAND them. Another thing; how the hell could someone that doesn&#8217;t speak English pass a driver&#8217;s test ANYWAY? There&#8217;s a written part and there&#8217;s an actual driving part. Oh, and let&#8217;s not forget the whole ICE thing. Let&#8217;s not get them involved. Call it profiling. Call it whatever the hell you want. You&#8217;re here in America, you better fucking be legal and you BETTER speak English.</p>
<p>Second, George Will is absolutely correct. You, Mr. Olbermann, are a moron. There isn&#8217;t even a finalized version of the bill. The damned thing has been cut and sliced and stuffed and plucked and stretched it&#8217;s beginning to resemble Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s FACE. So, Mr. Olbermann, where IS this magical mystery bill that &#8220;is posted online&#8221; and has been for weeks? The finalized version. What&#8217;s that? &#8216;Snot there? My my my.</p>
<p>Third, Why are the double standards okay with you? Here, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re far too lazy and much too incompetent to get off your fat ass to do some research and investigate. This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>RUSH:</strong>  Okay, as always, it is up to me to provide context for the people who claim to be <em>professional journalists</em> and are aware of everything.  Now, the setup for this, of course, is that <strong>I was libeled and slandered by countless members of the media, fabricated quotes, made-up quotes I never stated, never uttered, never wrote, nothing, were repeated all over this country by sportswriters, television cable hosts and so forth.  After we proved to them that I didn&#8217;t do it they retracted it a week later, after the damage, and many of them said, &#8220;It still doesn&#8217;t matter, we know Limbaugh thinks it anyway.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>So last Friday, I get a note from a friend who says, <em>&#8220;You ought to see what&#8217;s on this blog.&#8221; </em> I looked at it, and <strong>it was Obama, his thesis from Columbia,</strong> <em>&#8220;so-called Founders,&#8221;</em> didn&#8217;t like what they did with the Constitution, <strong>there wasn&#8217;t enough talk about distribution of wealth and so forth.</strong> I said, <strong>&#8220;Well, this has a ring of truth to it,&#8221;</strong> because we&#8217;ve got <strong>Obama on radio from Chicago 2001 complaining about the Supreme Court not doing enough about redistribution.</strong>  So we ran with it, made a big deal out of it in the first hour.  In the second hour, I got a note saying, <em>&#8220;Hey, Rush, we looked at this, we can&#8217;t back this up, we can&#8217;t find any actual sourcing for this.&#8221;</em>  <strong>So at that point I warned the audience that it may not be true, that we are still checking it.</strong></p>
<p>Shortly thereafter I learned that the whole thing was made up, <strong>it was a satire piece on an obscure website.</strong>  Then I said, <strong>&#8220;Okay, folks, I have to tell you, it&#8217;s satire, there&#8217;s no evidence that Obama ever wrote this</strong>, but, Media Tweak of the Day, I don&#8217;t care, <strong>I know he thinks it anyway because I&#8217;ve got <U>audio of Obama saying it</u></strong>, talking about the Supreme Court.&#8221;  And we all got a great laugh about it because <strong>I corrected it immediately, I explained that it was a hoax, or was satire and then to tweak the media I said</strong>, <strong>&#8220;But I don&#8217;t care, I&#8217;m sticking with it because I know he thinks it anyway.&#8221;</strong> </p></blockquote>
<p>But the thing, Olbermann, is that Obama DOES believe in redistribution of wealth. He IS a communist. He IS trying to socialize our nation and &#8220;spread the wealth around&#8221;. There are ENDLESS audio, video, and transcripts of him SAYING so. So, yes, he went with the &#8220;satire&#8221; because it IS true. Weather or not Obama wrote a THESIS on it is not the point. He HAS said it before. He DOES think it anyway.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>So I dished out to Obama what the whole media did to me and I dished it back at the media as well.</strong>  And Koko at the website called me on Friday here, e-mailed me, said, <em>&#8220;Look, you want me to leave this thing up?&#8221;</em>  I said <em>&#8220;Yes, leave it on the website as is, <strong>so these idiot media people who want to find out what actually happened can go in and take the time to read it and see it.</strong>  And leave the original piece up where I got the first information that this was something he had written in his thesis.&#8221;</em>  So here is yesterday morning, Monday morning, 1010 WINS in New York, a montage of correspondent Alice Stockton-Rossini&#8217;s report about this.</p>
<p><strong>ROSSINI:</strong>  <strong>When Rush Limbaugh discovers a hoax, he corrects it immediately.</strong>  So what he spent a good part of his Friday broadcast gloating over an Internet story about how a TIME Magazine reporter got a hold of the president&#8217;s college thesis, and in it he disses the Constitution?  So what the story was fake? When Limbaugh realized the report was fake <em>he didn&#8217;t say sorry, not even oops</em>. <strong> He insisted the fabricated theses is still in line with what the president thinks.</strong>  How does he know? <strong> Because, says Limbaugh, he&#8217;s heard Obama say it.</strong>  A transcript of the Friday broadcast is still at the top of Limbaugh&#8217;s Web page.  The headline:  <strong>&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Disdain for the Constitution.  We know he thinks it, don&#8217;t we?&#8221;</strong>  But being Rush Limbaugh means <em>never having to say you&#8217;re sorry.</em>  When Limbaugh realized the story was satire, <strong>he admitted the report was a fake, then added,<em> &#8220;For good comedy to be comedy, it must contain an element of truth.&#8221;</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be sorry for stating something that is the truth. Every day BHussein Obama does something that is unconstitutional. THERE IS AUDIO. BHUSSEIN HAS SAID IT. DO you understand? *shakes head* </p>
<blockquote><p><strong>RUSH: </strong> I continue to be amazed, <strong>and I marvel at how easy it is to make these people look like fools.</strong>  She even says she went to my website.  All of this &#8217;cause I didn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m sorry.  <em>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve gotten one apology from anybody in the media about using fabricated quotes attributed to me.</em>  They live in such a narrow world; <strong>they are so unaware of what is really going on.</strong>  I continue to be marveling at the fact that they don&#8217;t really know what happens in our world, folks,<strong> but we know everything about their world because we study &#8216;em and we research &#8216;em, and we don&#8217;t read fake websites quoting what media said.</strong><strong>  We listen to them.</strong>  It pains us, it&#8217;s frustrating as hell, but we do it.  Here&#8217;s Chris Matthews last night on Hardball.</p>
<p><strong>MATTHEWS:</strong>  <em>Rush didn&#8217;t realize that it was a joke</em> and broadcast the thesis story Friday as evidence that the president is, quote, <strong>anti-constitutionalist.</strong>  Later in that same show Rushbo was told that the story was a hoax. <em> Did he correct the record?  Not exactly.</em></p>
<p><strong>RUSH ARCHIVE:</strong>  I shout from the mountaintops, <em>&#8220;It was satire.&#8221;</em>  <strong>But we know he thinks it. </strong> Good comedy, to be comedy, <strong>must contain an element of truth</strong>, and <strong>we know how he feels about distribution of wealth</strong><em> so we stand by the fabricated quote because <strong>we know Obama thinks it anyway.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>MATTHEWS:</strong>  You can&#8217;t beat that, did you hear that?  Rush stands by the hoax because he told his dittoheads a hoax contains truth.  Well, it takes a true Dittohead to register on that one.</p>
<p><strong>RUSH:</strong>  These people!  <strong>He has no clue that I&#8217;m parodying what happened to me,</strong> <strong>that <em>he </em>participated in.</strong>  <em>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve gotten an apology from Matthews</em> on this.  <em>So we stand by the fabricated quote?</em>  (laughing)  I don&#8217;t know, folks. It&#8217;s fun.  <strong>Did he correct the record?</strong><em> I shout from the mountaintops, element of truth, </em><strong>we know how he feels about distribution</strong> &#8212; <strong>We do know how he feels about it</strong>,<strong> so we stand by the fabricated quote</strong>.  (laughing)  Which is exactly what happened to me.  I&#8217;m out of words to describe the insular world and the utter, utter lack of a sense of humor that these people have, <strong>particularly where Obama is concerned.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>So, Olbermann. What&#8217;s it like to have a double-digit I.Q.? Must be absolute bliss!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst Person In The WORLD (Week 3)]]></title>
<link>http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/worst-person-in-the-world-week-3/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>DangerB</dc:creator>
<guid>http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/worst-person-in-the-world-week-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, I&#8217;m a little late for this, but here we go. This week&#8217;s WORST PERSON IN THE WO]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Yes, yes, I&#8217;m a little late for this, but here we go.</p>
<p>This week&#8217;s WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD is&#8230;. *drumroll*</p>
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KEITH OLBERMANN!</p>
<p>He looks much more intelligent as a bobblehead. Of course&#8230; anyone who would cough up 22 bones for a bobblehed of a BOOB is&#8230; well&#8230; a moron. You can catch him bobbling his head on his SHOW for FREE! (Well, for the price of cable)</p>
<p>This week, I&#8217;d like to comment about a post he made to his blog several weeks ago.<br />
<a href="http://keith-olbermann.dailykos.com/" target="_blank">@ the Daily Kos</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck</strong><br />
<em>by Keith Olbermann<br />
Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:14:03 AM PDT</em></p>
<p>Updated: this posting has been visited lately by visitors who have kind of rushed through this and concluded I have decided, out of the blue, to collect &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Glenn Beck. I forgot I&#8217;d need to explain things slowly for them:</p>
<p>From the Washington Independent, linked below, after the jump:</p>
<blockquote><p> Glenn Beck’s Twitter feed has become a must-read. In a message from last night, Beck told his followers to “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;ve got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck,  Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes.</p>
<p>No, even now, I refuse to go all caps.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, at first &#8211; if you&#8217;re just glancing over his blog  -<br />
 What&#8217;s that?<br />
 Uh huh&#8230;<br />
 He calls it a what?<br />
 He calls it a Diary?<br />
 Really?<br />
 LYKE THAT IS SOOOOO TEENYBOPPER&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyways, back to the&#8230; &#8220;diary&#8221; entry&#8230;. *cough* If you&#8217;re glancing over his <i>diary</i>&#8230; you&#8217;ll notice that he says <em>&#8220;<strong>Send Me</strong> Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck&#8221;</em> requesting OTHER people to SEND HIM information on Glenn Beck. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m not a huge Glenn Beck fan myself. Yeah yeah, I don&#8217;t want to hear it. Olbermann realizes (due to &#8220;feedback&#8221; from others) that his request was beyond idiotic and tries to smooth it over by citing an excerpt from the <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com" target="_blank">Washington Independent</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Glenn Beck’s Twitter feed has become a must-read. In a message from last night, Beck told his followers to “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER.”</em> </p></blockquote>
<p>Now, sure, Glenn Beck is a popular dude. Far more popular than Olbermann&#8230; but you REALLY have to focus on the choice of words here. According to the Washington Independent, Beck told his followers to FIND EVERYTHING THEY CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD, and CAROL BROWNER&#8230; He does NOT ask his followers to SEND HIM any DIRT they can on these people; but to gather information FOR THEIR OWN use &#8211; so that his FOLLOWERS know what&#8217;s going on&#8230; for the SOLE purpouse of EDUCATING THEMSELVES on certain unsavory characters. Olbermann on the other hand ASKS OTHER people to DIG UP DIRT and send them to him. Mr. Olbermann, can you explain to me what harm it is to educate yourself? To find out everything you CAN about elected officials and certain public figures? Did Beck ask his followers to SEND him DIRT on these people? No, sir. He did not. YOU, on the other hand asked for people to dig up dirt on Beck. Why is that? Because it&#8217;s too much work to do your OWN &#8220;investigating&#8221; for the purpouse of smearing Beck? Beck said &#8220;Find everything you can about CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER&#8221; while YOU asked for others to &#8220;send you everything&#8221; we could on Glenn Beck. <i>&#8220;visitors [who] have kind of rushed through this and concluded I have decided, out of the blue, to collect &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Glenn Beck.&#8221;</i> It might not be out of the blue, but your intentions are clear. To smear and devalue Beck and his work. Because? BECAUSE HIS RATINGS ARE TWICE AS HIGH AS YOURS? Possibly. Because he&#8217;s much more intelligent than you? Likely. But, it&#8217;s clear that you are NOT asking your &#8220;followers&#8221; to inform themselves and find out everything they can about Glenn Beck because it would benefit THEM; but because it would benefit you.</p>
<p>Do your own dirty work, you shitball.</p>
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<link>http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/worst-person-in-the-world-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>JJ</dc:creator>
<guid>http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/worst-person-in-the-world-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just for Jasper&#8230;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[<strong><em> Glenn Beck: Today's <del datetime="2009-09-25T00:53:20+00:00">Worst</del> Dumbest Person In the World</em></strong>]]></title>
<link>http://the44diaries.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/glenn-beck-todays-worst-dumbest-person-in-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>GeoT</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[posted by GeoT Glenn Beck: Today&#8217;s Worst Dumbest Person In the World Olbermann -v- BeckI am SO]]></description>
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<p><strong><em> Glenn Beck: Today&#8217;s <del datetime="2009-09-25T00:53:20+00:00">Worst</del> Dumbest Person In the World</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 270px"><img alt="Olbermann -v- Beck" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/101901/thumbs/s-OLBERMANN-BECK-large.jpg" width="260" height="190" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Olbermann -v- Beck</p></div>I am SO glad Keith Olbermann has a slot to highlight these crazies, the King of Crazy being Glenn Beck.</strong></p>
<p>Beck cited the Constitution claiming a $10 fee on the &#8220;importation of persons&#8221; was the Founding Father&#8217;s way of putting a value on immigrating to this country. (not like we give it away today) &#8220;importation of persons&#8221; Glenn, as in Slaves&#8230;   you freak of nature:</p>
<p>here&#8217;s the clip:</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Calling Virgina Foxx, your village is missing you]]></title>
<link>http://butnerblogspot.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/calling-virgina-foxx-your-village-is-missing-you/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>butnerblogspot</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Foxx does it again, she&#8217;s giving my hometown of Winston-Salem a bad name, enough all ready. Wh]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst Person in the World]]></title>
<link>http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/worst-person-in-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>JJ</dc:creator>
<guid>http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/worst-person-in-the-world/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[August 20th edition: Health care reform is shaping up to be an even richer source of &#8220;Worst Pe]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Health care reform is shaping up to be an even richer source of &#8220;Worst Person&#8221; material than the Iraq War.</p>
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<link>http://larrysinternetsoapbox.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/a-wild-ride-into-schenectady-politics/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>larryk12309</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how your view of things can change with just a little inside information. That]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It&#8217;s amazing how your view of things can change with just a little inside information. That&#8217;s true with national politics and it&#8217;s also true with something as mundane as a local school board election.</p>
<p>My wife is very active in our school&#8217;s PTO and as a result she became friends with the PTO president, Denise DellaVilla.  When Denise decided to run for the school board my wife said she&#8217;d help out any way she could.</p>
<p>Then along came a neighborhood activist (No!  Not THAT one) named Joyce Wachala.  She made quite a name for herself by spreading false rumors about the school district closing an area school.  She had the whole area stirred up with this false rumor, even organizing a petition drive over an issue that just wasn&#8217;t true.</p>
<p>Then lo and behold Joyce Wachala decided to run against my wife&#8217;s friend Denise Della Villa.  To make matters worse the local fish wrapper, (aka The Daily Gazette) endorsed Wachala and made Denise the villain!  (What the flaming fruitcake!)</p>
<p>You might think a letter to the editor would be called for at this point.  I tried that along with a few others.  The paper responded by sending us harassing phone calls!  (I kid you not!)</p>
<p>With only the &#8220;Drive By Media&#8221; to go on,  you can guess who won the election.  However the story doesn&#8217;t end there.</p>
<p>Just this week Joyce Wachala announced she is stepping down from the school board citing family health reasons.</p>
<p>Chances are she has her own behind the scenes story she could share.  At this point the best thing we can do is pray for Ms. Wachala that all goes well for her and her family.</p>
<p>But how ironic!  The very person we were trying so hard to keep off the board winds up resigning after attending only two meetings as a member.</p>
<p>Of course the real lesson here is with the media.  I now know more than ever how easy it is for public opinion to be swayed by the media&#8217;s bias.  In reporting her resignation The Daily Fish Wrapper couldn&#8217;t resist yet another chance to demean Della Villa and elevate Wachala to sainthood.</p>
<p>Perhaps The Capital District needs it&#8217;s own version of &#8220;The No Spin Zone&#8221;.  Or how about someone calling out the area&#8217;s &#8220;WORST PERSON in the worrrrrld!&#8221;</p>
<p>Some internet gurus have predicted that a well organized agregate area based web site could eventualy render  local newspapers obsolete.  That time for the people in my city couldn&#8217;t come fast enough.</p>
<p>One things for sure.  This has been one wild ride into local Schenectady politics.</p>
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<link>http://dprogram.net/2008/09/21/video-they-want-mama-to-make-it-all-better-rep-marcy-kaptur/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sakerfa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;While the banks get to run home to &#8216;Mama,&#8217; and they are crying, we really have to]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A little harsh?]]></title>
<link>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/09/08/a-little-harsh/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Lazy Aussie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/09/08/a-little-harsh/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Howard Sattler (rightly) received a lot of criticism when he remarked &#8220;Good riddance to bad ru]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Howard Sattler (rightly) received a lot of criticism when he remarked &#8220;Good riddance to bad rubbish&#8221; when juvenile car thieves were killed in a high speed crash. But is it going just a step too far to say &#8220;Good riddance&#8221; to Howard when his mother dies? A little worse than calling Adrian Barich a cunt I think.</p>
<p>Or do we blame the moderators? <a href="http://blogs.watoday.com.au/madashell/2008/09/give_me_the_pil.html#comments" target="_blank">The link, for as long as it remains.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-1788 aligncenter" title="riddance" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/riddance.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="477" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Weekend Worstoff 21]]></title>
<link>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/08/30/weekend-worstoff-21/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Lazy Aussie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/08/30/weekend-worstoff-21/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just another reminder of the sinister hold pap merchant Andre Rieu has over the city. This is just a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Just another reminder of the sinister hold pap merchant Andre Rieu has over the city. This is just a small section of the wall of DVD&#8217;s. If you&#8217;ve never heard his spine shredding version of Waltzing Matilda&#8230; Imagine a trio with Clayderman on keys, Rieu on Violin, and Kenny G on Sax doing &#8220;I just called to say I love you&#8221;. Then imagine them being tortured for their crimes.</div>
<div id="attachment_1685" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1685" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/week21reiu.jpg" alt="Wall to wall" width="500" height="211" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Wall to wall</p></div>
<p>An eastern states worst now. What dickhead would carry a copy of Who magazine with them on holiday, then take photographic evidence? Mark Fischer of Frenchs Forrest. Mark you&#8217;re an idiot.</p>
<div id="attachment_1686" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1686" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/week21who.jpg" alt="Who's a plonker?" width="500" height="375" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Who&#39;s a plonker?</p></div>
<p style="text-align:left;">I snapped this one of the nose cone of St Mary&#8217;s Cathedral being fitted with nuclear weapons before being put in place. The sign says something about bringing the church into the  21st century. Wouldn&#8217;t that mean shrinking it, rather than expanding it? Some sort of phone booth sized kiosk would be sufficient wouldn&#8217;t it?<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1687" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/week21stmarys.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="779" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Another couple from Turf. I&#8217;m still not sure what to do with the volume of submissions. 2 a day, or do a mammoth post with dozens of pics? Anyhow, Turf, who still has more, snaps two worsts in one blow, with a hand painted Pepsi sign with an Italian mansion behind it in Seaview Street Beaconsfield.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1688" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/week21pepsi.jpg?w=500" alt="" width="500" height="368" /></p>
<p>And this slightly disturbing sign in Two Rocks. Thanks again Turf. Quality worst as usual.</p>
<div id="attachment_1689" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-large wp-image-1689" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/week21reef.jpg?w=500" alt="Jump on." width="500" height="357" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Jump on.</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Lunch with Sam Newman]]></title>
<link>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/08/18/lunch-with-sam-newman/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Lazy Aussie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theworstofperth.com/2008/08/18/lunch-with-sam-newman/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never liste]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;"><em>Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Sam Newman and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Sam Newman serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. Sam newman is the enemy. All animals are comrades. </em></div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;"><em>Animal Farm.</em></div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">What&#8217;s not worst about this? Start with Peel thunder, the Dockers of the WAFL. Just a mistake that they ever got off the ground. Also, it&#8217;s bouncy castle, not jumpy, and Sam Newman? As Ljuke said to me, if he doesn&#8217;t make a joke about ejaculating on your wife, you should demand your money back. And Animal Farm? Don&#8217;t get me started.</div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Update. already a vanished worst.</div>
<div id="attachment_1566" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 530px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1566" src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/samnewmancu.jpg" alt="Your wife, my face." width="520" height="466" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Your wife, my face.</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[AnnieNYC:  I Ran Into Keith Olberman Tonight]]></title>
<link>http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/annienyc-i-ran-into-keith-olberman-tonight/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Texas Hill Country</dc:creator>
<guid>http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/annienyc-i-ran-into-keith-olberman-tonight/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[AnnieNYC is an extremely active PUMA from NYC.  She is out several times a week handing out fliers, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>AnnieNYC is an extremely active PUMA from NYC.  She is out several times a week handing out fliers, setting up tables, talking to people, organizing events and attending meetings.</p>
<p>Well, tonight, she was running late to a meeting and bumped into Keith Olberman&#8230;  the following is a story of that encounter.</p>
<p>XPosted From <a href="http://annienyc.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-ran-into-keith-olberman-on-my-way-to.html">AnnieNYC</a></p>
<blockquote><p>I was going fliering tonight and walked past the NBC building, on his way walking to the building i ran into KO. I stopped him &#8220;are you keith olberman?&#8221; him in bold. there is some stuff missing, but most of it is here. He was nervous and nerdy, hands in his pockets the whole time, he really seemed like a hollow fool. i was actually very surprised, i thought he had more than this.</p>
<p>are you keith olberman?<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Yes</span>.<br />
Ok, what is with the hillary hate.<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">I don&#8217;t hate her.</span><br />
gimme a break. what is your problem with her, just tell me.<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">i don&#8217;t hate her, i hate her policies and tactics</span><br />
her policies? Obama is to the right of her!<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">he&#8217;s moving to the middle because he&#8217;s trying to win!</span><br />
the middle?! he agrees with alito and scalia on the death penalty, he actually wants *more* death penalties, what kind of policy is that? Now he&#8217;s against affirmative action&#8230;<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">well he&#8217;s trying to win</span><br />
well not only did he vote yay on fisa, but now at&#38;t is sponsoring the convention. that&#8217;s ok with you?<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">well, i was very mad about his vote on fisa.</span><br />
well at least hillary sticks to her guns and she wanted to win.<br />
(then we get into tactics)<br />
her tactics? like what.<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">the 3am phone call&#8230;</span><br />
well he failed that test didn&#8217;t he, russia goes to war with georgia and all he can say is he wants a shave ice. and what about the smearing of the clintons as racist? what about those tactics, donna brazile and saying fairy tale is racist, clyburn, etc.<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">that wasn&#8217;t him.</span><br />
don&#8217;t you think it was his job to ratchet it down? do you know how many times i&#8217;ve been called racist for not supporting him? it was his job to ratchet that down, i campaigned for her in Philadelphia and we were treated like *shit* because of the smearing of her as a racist. Wasn&#8217;t it his job to deal with his supporters?<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">i think he is</span><br />
oh really? what about late may axelrod faxing YOUR worst person in the world report on her RFK comments to all the media, really? hillary is the worst person in the world?!<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">that was only 10 minutes, and that&#8217;s axelrod, it&#8217;s not him&#8230;</span><br />
that&#8217;s the head of his campaign, he already had the win in the bag, and even now he hasn&#8217;t said what he needs to to ratchet down the hate. He could have said at any time &#8220;she&#8217;s a great lady and she&#8217;s worked throughout her life for civil rights, and he hasn&#8217;t.<br />
(super nervous)<span style="font-weight:bold;"> i think he is</span><br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Well think of the alternative</span><br />
I am</p>
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<p>The entire time, NO INTELLECTUAL RESPONSE WHAT-SO-EVER. NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Nothing new, just anything that some uninformed kid on the street would say. WOW. i was blown away by how lame his responses were. amazing. He even at one point mentioned that he was called a misogynist, as if he couldn&#8217;t understand why! wow.</p></blockquote>
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<p>I have one thing to say about that&#8230;  actually, just one word&#8230;.</p>
<p>Awesome.</p>
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<link>http://plainsmanpolitico.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/olbermann-on-dunkin-donuts-and-rachael-ray/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>plainsmanpolitico</dc:creator>
<guid>http://plainsmanpolitico.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/olbermann-on-dunkin-donuts-and-rachael-ray/</guid>
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<link>http://thebivouac.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/rep-kaptur-america-must-kick-its-oil-addiction/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>citizenbrain</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thebivouac.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/rep-kaptur-america-must-kick-its-oil-addiction/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[April 15, 2008 C-SPAN Congress Coverage Words above and video below posted by http://www.youtube.com]]></description>
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<link>http://beertap.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/mccain-is-olbermanns-worst-person-in-the-world/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<link>http://ecuprophets.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/signing-bonus-blues/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann&#8217;s &#8220;Worst Persons in the World&#8221; yesterday earned the dishonor as fe]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Nov. 20: Worst person: According to the Pentagon’s SEB Bonus Division, wounded soldier Jordan Fox owes the military $3,000 because he was unable to serve his full tour in Iraq and had to go home three months early.  <!--more--></p></blockquote>
<p>Jordan Fox had received a signing bonus for enlisting, but his injuries in Iraq, including being blinded in one eye, rendered him unable to continue. According to Mr. Fox, he is but one of perhaps several thousand such cases.</p>
<p>I recall a verse of an old folk song, &#8220;Drill Ye Tarriers Drill:&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The foreman&#8217;s name was John McCann<br />
By God, he was a blamed mean man<br />
Last week a premature blast went off<br />
And a mile in the air went big Jim Goff.</p>
<p>And when next payday came around<br />
Jim Goff a dollar short was found<br />
When he asked, &#8220;What for?&#8221; came this reply<br />
&#8220;You were docked for the time you were up in the sky.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It was supposed to be humorous, not the basis of government policy. Guess they didn&#8217;t get the memo.</p>
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<link>http://theworstofperth.com/2007/10/22/worst-billionaire/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Lazy Aussie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theworstofperth.com/2007/10/22/worst-billionaire/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Guest Post from My Ning. It&#8217;s a little hard to tell whether My Ning is nominating this piece f]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Guest Post from My Ning.</strong> It&#8217;s a little hard to tell whether My Ning is nominating this piece for <strong>worst person</strong>, <strong>worst newspaper, worst journalist </strong>or<strong> worst private school</strong>, but what the hey, let&#8217;s tick all of them. The fact that he has included a shot of the billionaire&#8217;s bonce showing it at it&#8217;s worst is good enough for me. My Ning says&#8230;</p>
<address> <span style="font-family:Arial;">During the past few months, <a href="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-best-of-the-rest-of-the-worst-of-the-west/" target="_blank">The West Australian</a> has been reminding us of what a fantastic success Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest was when he went to the private WA boys private school Hale back in the late 1970s.</span></address>
<address><span style="font-family:Arial;"> Forrest, of course, is the Cottesloe-based billionaire and great grand nephew of pioneering WA premier Sir John Forrest, who has made a fortune from spruiking minerals stocks.</span></address>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&#160;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://perthworst.wordpress.com/files/2007/10/forrestworstsm.jpg" alt="Andrew Forrest" /></p>
<address><span style="font-family:Arial;">In some recent articles in The West, most notably in an extended cover piece by chief reporter Mark Drummond, the paper has gone to some lengths to tell us how Forrest &#8211; during his two years at Hale (1978 and 1979) &#8211; was a school prefect, a house captain, a member of the first XV rugby team, an interschool athlete and swimmer and, finally, a member of the school’s debating team.</span></address>
<address><span style="font-family:Arial;"> Forrest, the Drummond article said, went to Hale after spending some years at Christ Church  Grammar School, which he left, apparently, because he had a penchant for standing up to bullies.</span></address>
<address><span style="font-family:Arial;"> What the piece didn’t mention, however, was the fact Forrest repeated year 11 at Hale after a disastrous one at CCGS.</span></address>
<address><span style="font-family:Arial;">If anything, this all proves two things: (1) groveling celebrity articles about the rich and famous always seem to omit crucial details, and; (2) it is important to choose the right private school for your kiddies.</span></address>
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