Viewpoint Hall Of Shame: Andrew Breitbart

In response to Keith Olbermann suspending Worst Persons In The World again, I'm going to start posting nominations to the Viewpoint Hall Of Shame. Whenever I see something worthy of a "Hall Of Shame" entry, I will blog about it here.

Today's nomination goes to the late Andrew Breitbart. Primarily because he'd acquired the tapes and even though he passed away before they were released, it is just another example of the kind of work that he made famous.

Back in college, Barack Obama praised the first tenured African American law professor at Harvard University, Professor Derrick Bell. The right chooses to portray Bell as a racialist, a radical. Sean Hannity showed the footage on his Fox News show last night, and this morning, Joel Pollak, Editor in Chief of Breitbart.com appeared on CNN to proclaim the bombshell. But Soledad O'Brien, much like myself, couldn't see any bombshell information in that footage.

What Breitbart and the others on the extreme right seem to forget is that life is all about growing, progressing, going forward, not going backwards or standing still. The people who are most looked up to are the ones who moved forward, not backward.

There is growing distrust about official media, corporate media and government information, but that doesn't mean you have to belive the first conspiracy theory that comes along. People who propogate these theories often have something to gain by promoting it. So be equally wary of those who claim that only they have the real knowledge. This smacks of desperation by a right wing media machine that knows the Republican candidates for President this year are the weakest ever. And even Mitt Romney, who is the strongest of the candidates, is seeing himself get weaker and weaker because he is being forced to go further to the right now, at the cost of attracting independents and moderates, the REAL mainstream of American politics, later.

That's why Andrew Breitbart posthumously gets nominated for the Viewpoint Hall Of Shame.

Worst Person In The World: Orly Taitz... again!

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Worst Person In The World: Soldier trying to avoid Afghanistan deployement.

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As a bonus, we present the footage of former Speaker of the House and Tuesday's Bronze medal winner, Newt Gingrich, putting his foot in his mouth on Al Jazeera English!

Worst Person In The World: Pastor Wylie Drake

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Worst Person In The World: Boss Limburger!

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Worst Person In The World: Brooksville, Florida

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Worst Person In The World: Rev Jeremiah Wright

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Worst Person In The World: MIchelle Bachmann

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Worst Person In The World: Boss Limburger!

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Worst Person In The World: Rep Pete Hoekstra

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Worst Person In The World: Rush Limbaugh

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Worst Person In The World: May 20th 2009

Glenn Beck, aka “Harold Hill” won last night’s Worst Person in the World segment on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann.  I tried posting the video, but somehow the code MSNBC provided wasn’t working.  I’ll figure it out later.

Worst Person In The World: Joseph Wurzelbacher

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Worst Person In The World: Glenn Beck

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Worst Person In The World: Bill O'Reilly

For the first time this year, Bill O'Reilly takes top spot in the MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann Worst Person In The World honours list. Something to do with scaring people into thinking that there will be another 9/11 under Barack Obama, I believe...

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Special mention goes to the Malk Maid, Michelle Malkin. After being out of it for so long, she finally says something really stupid. She claimed that those doing the Minnesota recount were providing moral help and support to Al Franken, and that Republicans were left out in the cold when it came to the canvassing board, a board which by the way is made up of 2 Republicans, 2 Independents and 1 Democrat!!!

Worst Person In The World: Congressman Cliff Stearns

Congressman Cliff Stearns of Florida takes the honours in Wednesday's Worst Person In The World for inisting that Congress shuts up shop on Thursday so he can go an watch Florida in NCAA National Football Championship!

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Special mentions have to go to both the BillO boy, and to Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. Billy get his mention for his parroting of extreme right wing talking points against Leon Panetta, who by the way, has yet to be officially announced as the intended director of the CIA.

Brian Kilmeade get his mention for his "sensitive" handling of the naked skier story. You'll see why when you play the video.

Worst Person In The World: Sarah Palin

Governor Sarah Palin won Tuesday's Worst Person In The World honours.

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Special mention goes to Comedian Rush "Limburger" Limbaugh, for accusing comedian come senator, him, Al Franken, of stealing the election. Perhaps he should reminded of a charge that he dismissed back in 2000, that a certain George W Bush stole the election in Florida, thereby giving him the WhiteHouse. They say that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The trouble is Limbaugh and his ilk throw concrete blocks in houses that are all glass, on quicksand foundations. Yet they still, just, manage to keep their heads above the waterline.

Worst Person In The World: World Net Daily

Monday's Worst Person In The World honours on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, went to Joseph Farah, the proprietor of right wing fringe website WorldNetDaily, who manages to contradict his own site's reporting on Barack Obama's birth certificate.

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Special mention to Cincinnati right wing talk host Bill Cunningham, whose claim that poor people are poor because they lack values, ethics and morals, make it sound like poor people are democrats and rich people are republicans! Someone try telling Bill O'Reilly that, cos he seems to think that George Soros, who is consistently on the Rich List, is a democrat!!! Actually, he is. Which makes Bill Cunningham something he should be very used to being. Wrong.

If Bozo The Clown and The Malk Maid are more sensible than you, You're In Trouble!!!

And THAT is exactly what has happened to Fox & Friends' Gretchen Carlson, and "The Mannity" himself, Sean Hannity, or perhaps that should be "The Vannity", on recent Fox News Channel programming. So noticeable was it, that it caught Keith Olbermann's attention and made last Friday's Worst Person In The World.

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Special mention as always to the one, the only, the O'Riginal Fox News nutball, Bill O'Reilly, for saving the "War On Christmas!" Only so he can inflict it again on us all next year. Yawn!

Worst Person In The World: Rupert Murdoch

The Fox-ifier in Chief, Rupert Murdoch, gets the Friday award for confirming an old rumour.  Now you're wondering if Keith Olbermann has finally flipped his wig.  Well not really, since it concerned Keith in the first place...

 

 

Dishonourable mention to Michelle Malkin, who was all over Rachael Ray wearing what looked like "jihadi chic" to Michelle, but has so far said nothing about a similar scarf that Megan McCain, Senator John McCain's daughter has been seen wearing.  Two words.  Double standards.