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brilliant -- you must read what buffalobeast has written

Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 06:34:25 PM PDT

buffalobeast has written its own list of the 50 worst people in ameri

http://buffalobeast.com/...

i give you two excerpts...you +must+ read the rest...brilliant.  brutal.  surprisingly appropos.


19. James Sensenbrenner
Charges: Hates free speech. Sensenbrenner is every truculent moron who ever shouted you down for informing him or called you a traitor for disagreeing with him...(more...)

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19. James Sensenbrenner

Charges: Hates free speech. Sensenbrenner is every truculent moron who ever shouted you down for informing him or called you a traitor for disagreeing with him. Sensenbrenner wants to apply criminal penalties for broadcast indecency—jail for swearing. Sensenbrenner and his supporters don’t know a damn thing about freedom or democracy; they may not even understand that they are clearly against these concepts. They are terrible, mindless, trained by decades of churchgoing into an unquestioning loyalty and a bitter resentment of dissent. That’s why they didn’t mind when this turgid cock abruptly ended a hearing on the Patriot Act after a single round of questioning because the witnesses were talking about Guantanamo. Sensenbrenner gaveled the hearing to a close over the objections of many, and when it became clear that the Democrats weren’t leaving, this old, worthless bag of shit turned off the microphones and ordered CSPAN to turn its cameras off, clearly enraged by the idea of liberals getting a turn to talk. Specializes in legislative attacks on civil liberties and the separation of powers, such as the Patriot Act and 2005’s REAL ID Act, which made it’s way into law as a rider attached to a military spending bill, and allows the Homeland Security Department to bypass any law or court to erect physical barriers at our borders.

Exhibit A: If Sensenbrenner ran the country, we’d go to jail for writing this.

Sentence: Spine-mounted electrode racks Sensenbrenner’s body with searing pain every time he utters an article, pronoun, or any form of the verbs "to have" and "to be."

35. Michael Brown

Charges: Second fiddle to Bush's Nero--except that while New Orleans sank, Michael Brown just fiddled with himself. A man of geological indolence, Brown makes lichens seem dynamic. Despite being woefully unqualified for his job as FEMA director, it was Brown's lethal callousness that really astounded (and killed) so many Americans. When one of only two FEMA employees Brown had vouchsafed New Orleans wrote two days after Katrina that "the situation is past critical," Brown responded, "Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?" When he finally arrived in Louisiana, Brown was preoccupied with demanding more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant, instead of sucking down an MRE and getting to work doing his incredibly important job, like a fucking man. Brown reacted to the most important moment in his life like an immature college student who realizes he's fucking up the semester and stops going to class without telling anyone. No human being can possibly be this ineffective unless he simply doesn't give a shit if people die.

Exhibit A: In subsequent communications, Brown asked, "Can I quit now? Can I come home?" and complained about trouble finding a dog sitter. With almost comical indifference to those actually suffering, he wrote: "I'm trapped now, please rescue me."

Sentence: What else? Dehydrated, starved, and slowly baked to death on a Ninth Ward rooftop while repeatedly buzzed by news helicopters. Body secretly recovered and incinerated by Blackwater operatives as part of a Cheney-initiated campaign to keep casualty figures artificially low.

Tags: satire, tom delay, george w. bush, dick cheney, michael brown, bill o'reilly, rush limbaugh (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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  •  I already emailed this (4.00 / 2)

    to everyone I know.

    My favorite ones on the list are #4 ("You"--apparently makes the list each year) and #5, Tom Delay ("Charges: A politician so horrible, his prior career as an exterminator constitutes fratricide." Damn. I wish I could write like that.)

    John McCain--Anti-choice and anti-woman!

    by Sharoney on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 06:40:20 PM PDT

  •  The Buffalo Beast (none / 0)

    is national-quality snark.

    Here's my favorite:

    7. Thomas Friedman

    Charges: The worst of all creatures in the political opinion jungle: a cretin who thinks he's a genius. Friedman's intolerable knack for converting irreducibly complex geopolitical/socioeconomic situations into simplistic, tin-eared insta-clichés makes him one of the most dangerous people on the planet, arming people even stupider than him with the illusion of knowledge in the form of a crude vocabulary of badly mixed metaphors and ill-conceived flashcard images, thereby having a negative net effect on the nation's intellect. India and China are "like a bottle of champagne" which someone has been "shaking for 40 years;" the modern economy dictates that "you need to be at a certain level to be able to claim your share of a global pie that is both expanding and becoming more complex;" and the threat of terrorism is a "bubble" that threatens to "undermine" open society. Friedman's disorienting literary ineptitude is nearly enough to distract us from the indisputable fact that he has no fucking idea what he's talking about. For this dolt-friendly parlor trick and a slavish devotion to globalization and technology as abstract, almost mystical tenets, Friedman has achieved iconic status. Exhibits the easy smile and benevolent smugness of an unjustly celebrated man who has never thought very deeply or rigorously about anything at all.

    Exhibit A: Despite his constant exaltation of the internet as some kind of global cure-all, Friedman had to actually fly to London to discover that European newspapers were having misgivings about Guantanamo Bay.

    Sentence: Column outsourced to Bangalore, where there is some difficulty in finding a peasant ignorant and ineloquent enough to please his audience. Compelled at gunpoint to write a 500-page retraction of his recent best-seller, called No, Actually the World is Round.

    A friend of mine works in a school district whose superintendent thinks Friedman is some kind of 21st-century oracle, when all he is is a well-bribed toady for the cheap-labor globalists.

    So I particularly liked this bit:

    arming people even stupider than him with the illusion of knowledge in the form of a crude vocabulary of badly mixed metaphors and ill-conceived flashcard images, thereby having a negative net effect on the nation's intellect.

    Whoever the Beast is, he/she sure can write.

    The Republicans want to cut YOUR Social Security benefits.

    by devtob on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 06:59:40 PM PDT

  •  Brilliant !! (none / 0)

    Thanks,njgoldfinch for bringing the Beast into my home. I gave him/her a bone and some kibble that I had saved for Rex in case he ever showed up.(he never did, but I love him anyway.)
  •  it was really hard to pick just two --- (none / 0)


    it was really hard to pick just two -- they're all so good and so savage.

    i thought the one on barbara bush was spot-on, and the line the beast had about krauthammer (something like substitutes vocabulary for intellect) was quite insightful.

    cheers --

  •  hahaha (none / 0)

    thank you, seriously, for this link.  THE funniest thing I've read all week.

    Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce

    by pico on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 08:39:32 PM PDT

  •  The one on Karl Rove (none / 0)

    is absolutely perfect: Rove is decidedly not a genius; he is simply missing the part of his soul that prevents the rest of us from kicking elderly women in the face.

    "Letting a Republican govern is like letting a pedophile babysit"

    by Nordic on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 09:25:40 PM PDT

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