In honor of Sunday's EMMY Awards, I'd like to give out DEMMY Awards to the best Democrats on TV.
Below are three categories: Pundits, Elected Officials, and Frauds.
We'll open the voting this weekend on Democrats.com, but I'd like to complete the nominations first. So which "TV Democrats" did I leave out?
Pundits
Female |
Male |
Joy Behar
Donna Brazile
Gail Collins
Annamarie Cox
Maureen Dowd
Susan Estrich
Daphne Eviatar
Geraldine Ferraro
Karen Finney
Laura Flanders
Janeane Garofalo
Whoopi Goldberg
Amy Goodman
Jane Hamsher
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Liz Holtzman
Arianna Huffington
Eleanor Clift
Dahlia Lithwick
Rachel Maddow
Shannyn Moore
Dee Dee Myers
Ellen Ratner
Hilary Rosen
Nancy Skinner
Amanda Terkel
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Joan Walsh
|
Jonathan Alter
John Amato
John Aravosis
Bob Beckel
Paul Begala
David Brock
Willie Brown
Tim Carpenter
James Carville
Steve Clemons
Stephen Colbert
Juan Cole
Alan Colmes
Joe Conason
Steven Colbert
David Corn
Mario Cuomo
Howard Dean
E.J. Dionne
Mike Dukakis
Michael Eric Dyson
Juan Gonzalez
Mark Green
Glenn Greenwald
Robert Greenwald
Ryan Grim
Thom Hartmann
Chris Hayes
Ellis Henican
Bob Herbert
Jesse Jackson Sr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Chris Kofinis
Paul Krugman
Mike Lux
Bill Maher
Roland Martin
Terry McAuliffe
Steve McMahon
Jim Moore
Michael Moore
Markos Moulitsas
Bill Moyers
John Nichols
Lawrence O'Donnell
Keith Olbermann
Clarence Page
Nico Pitney
Greg Palast
Sean Penn
Bill Press
Frank Rich
Eugene Robinson
Jeremy Scahill
Ed Schultz
Sam Seder
Roy Sekoff
Al Sharpton
David Sirota
Mark Shields
Bob Shrum
David Sirota
Wayne Slater
Eliot Spitzer
Sam Stein
Jon Stewart
Matt Taibbi
Joe Trippi
Cenk Uygur
Carlos Watson |
Elected Officials (currently in office, excluding President/VP)
Female |
Male |
Barbara Boxer
Jennifer Granholm
Barbara Lee
Claire McCaskill
Nancy Pelosi
Jan Schakowsky
Debbie Stabenow
Maxine Waters |
Sherrod Brown
Jim Clyburn
Chris Dodd
Dick Durbin
Russ Feingold
Dianne Feinstein
Barney Frank
Tom Harkin
Tim Kaine
John Kerry
Pat Leahy
Carl Levin
Dennis Kucinich
Jerrold Nadler
Gavin Newsom
Charlie Rangel
Harry Reid
Ed Rendell
Bernie Sanders
Chuck Schumer
Chris Van Hollen
Anthony Weiner
Robert Wexler
Sheldon Whitehouse |
And finally, a special category for frauds who aren't Democrats at all, but "play one on TV."
Frauds |
Evan Bayh
Lanny Davis
Harold Ford Jr.
Joe Klein
Mark Penn |