Top 20 Most Annoying Liberals of 2008 (Right Wing News)

Right Wing News has the 20 Most Annoying Liberals of 2008.

Highlights:

18) The View: If you’ve never seen The View before, picture your water cooler at work. You walk up to it and for a moment, you think you’re about to have a great conversation because Elisabeth Hasselbeck is standing there. Then, you realize that everybody else around the water cooler is a gossipy left-wing yenta whose mouth moves faster than her brain. At that point, you just say “screw it” and go buy a soda from the machine. That was a smart decision because you missed something so dumb that just hearing it might have lowered your IQ a few points—like this,

Defining quote: “Should I be worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery because certain things happened in the Constitution that you had to change?”—Whoopi Goldberg to John McCain

17) Joe Biden: After selecting Joe Biden as his Vice-President, Barack Obama was soon shocked to learn the man who had once referred to him as the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” turned out to be gaffe prone.

In fact, it got so bad that for the last few weeks of the campaign, Obama had to hide Joe Biden in Dick Cheney’s old bunkers. Although there’s no shortage of Biden bloopers to choose from during the campaign, my personal favorite is when Obama’s “foreign policy expert” talked about some sort of alternate universe where the U.S. and France (!) got together and ran Hezbollah out of Lebanon.

“When we kicked—along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know—if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.’” […]

16) Cynthia McKinney: The woman from Planet Moonbat started the year running for President on the Green Party ticket and pulled almost 160k votes—which admittedly, is pretty good for a lunatic.

She capped the year off by boarding a boat that tried—and failed—to run an Israeli blockade to take supplies to the Palestinians.

In between, she unleashed the bizarro-world defining excerpt that insured that she would make this list,

Defining excerpt: “In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I had a woman, I’ve never really said this in public, out loud, in front of a lot of cameras, and there’s a lot of cameras in this room now. I had a mother to call me because her son had a very gruesome task. Her son’s charge by the Department of Defense was to process 5000 bodies that had received a single bullet wound to the head—and these were mostly males. And her son was afraid to talk because he signed a silence agreement. So, he only complained to his mother. But, the date about these individuals was entered into a Pentagon computer and then reportedly, the bodies were dumped in a swamp in Louisiana. This is as a result of the tragedy of hurricane Katrina.

Now I have no...no...I have verification from insiders who wish to remain anonymous, at the Red Cross, that this is true. I suspect that these were prisoners. And so, you know, this investigation of the whole prison industrial complex is extremely important. And it should not end with just a question of the nature of prisons in our country, but these five thousand souls also need some justice too.”—Cynthia McKinney

14) Charles Rangel: Do you know what irony is? It’s Charles Rangel, the head of the Ways and Means Committee, who’s responsible for writing tax code, being caught cheating on his taxes.

Incidentally, that scandal is in addition to his shady involvement with AIG. Rangel was “trying to raise money from AIG, the troubled insurance giant, money to finance a government school at CCNY in his name, at a time when the company has business before his committee.”

Then there’s the allegation that Rangel “protected an oil drilling company from a big tax bill when the head of that company pledged a $1 million donation to a college center named after the congressman.”

We also can’t forget the controversy that has now come to light involving Rangel’s son,

Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son - paying lavishly for a pair of political Web sites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create.

Again, this isn’t some random Congressman; this is the Chairman of the most powerful committee in Congress and he’s not even being asked to step down while the ethics committee whitewashes the whole scandal. It’s bad enough that the Democratic Congress has gotten so crooked, so fast, but it’s really bad form to make so little effort to hide it. […]

10) Bill Maher: People like acidic atheist Bill Maher are what’s wrong with politics today. He’s shallow as a kiddie pool, intolerably rude, and insufferably smug. But, because he’s outrageous, has a knack for delivering an insult, and is good at playing to the crowd, he can make a living as a professional @sshole talking head.

Maher is a perfect example of how a human being can be intelligent and eloquent enough to make a living talking about the issues even when he’s wrong about almost everything that matters.

Defining quote #1: “Why couldn’t, uh, why couldn’t have (Rush Limbaugh) croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?”—Bill Maher

Defining quote #2: “At least half of the [Ten] Commandments are stupid!”—Bill Maher

9) Barney Frank: Frank is a prissy, snide, obnoxious creep who has been neck deep in the mortgage crisis that tanked the economy. Frank pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make bad loans while blocking attempts at reform, perhaps in part because his live-in boyfriend was an executive at Fannie Mae. This is after another one of Frank’s boyfriends ran a prostitution ring out of his living room. Given his track record, either Barney Frank should stop dating or quit Congress, whichever he prefers.

But, the real kicker is that Barney Frank, one of the people most responsible for the mortgage crisis, is also one of the people who has been put in charge of fixing it and of course, he has been blaming anybody and everybody but himself for the financial disaster he helped inflict upon the country.

“Last week in this space, I made a jocular reference to a global economy ‘so vulnerable that only the stalwart action of Barney Frank stands between it and ten years of soup kitchens.’ I tittered too soon. It turns out the entire planetary meltdown is due to Congressman Frank’s sex life.”—Mark Steyn

7) John Murtha: At some point, you almost wonder whether you should put guys like John Murtha on this list or the constituents who keep sending them back up to Congress, no matter what they say and do.

In Murtha’s case, not only is he nasty tempered, incompetent, and corrupt, he was sued by one of the former Marines he unjustly smeared as a murderer,

A former Marine sued Rep. John Murtha for slander on Thursday, saying the congressman damaged his reputation by saying he and his comrades killed women and children “in cold blood” in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.

...”(Lance Cpl. Justin) Sharratt, in being labeled repeatedly by Murtha as a ‘cold-blooded murderer,’ and by Murtha outrageously claiming that the Haditha incident was comparable to the infamous (My Lai) massacre of Vietnam, has suffered permanent, irreversible damage to his reputation,” the lawsuit states.

Sharratt, 24, of the Pittsburgh suburb of Canonsburg, was initially charged with three counts of premeditated murder but was exonerated after a full investigation and a hearing. He was honorably discharged last year.

To top it all off, John Murtha insulted his own constituents—more than once—and was still easily reelected over a well funded, competent challenger despite Defining quotes like these,

Defining quote: “This whole area, years ago, was really redneck.”—John Murtha

Defining quote #2: “There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area. The older population is more hesitant.”—John Murtha

5) Nancy Pelosi: What a year it was for the first female speaker! Under her leadership, the deficit exploded, corruption in Congress increased, the political atmosphere became even more poisonous, and the economy fell apart while she did nothing—well, to say she did nothing is unfair.

She did funnel money to her husband’s PAC. She also came out in favor of censoring her political opponents via the Fairness Doctrine. That’s in addition to the fact that she gave credit to the Iranians for the success our troops fought, bled, and died to achieve in Iraq,

“And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.”

Of course, what else could you expect from General Pelosi, a military genius who said,

Defining quote: “...twice...that Iraq ‘is a failure,’ adding that President Bush’s troop surge has ‘not produced the desired effect.’”

4) Al Gore: The more thoroughly global warming is discredited, the more desperately the Chicken Littles, led by Al Gore, shriek that we must make draconian changes right now, before it’s too late!

Of course, being the leading proponent of a silly global hoax may make you look like a jackass when the history books are written, but Al Gore will be able to console himself with his Nobel Peace Prize and the big stacks of cash he makes by fleecing suckers who’re falling for the whole scam. The one thing Gore proves is that no matter what the scientific evidence may be, if you keep screaming “IT’S SCIENCE” in the name of a politically correct cause long enough, people will beat a path to your door to hand you money and awards, no matter how scant your proof may be.

Defining quote #1: “New evidence shows ‘the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us. This is a planetary emergency. There has never been anything remotely like it in the entire history of human civilization. We are putting at risk all of human civilization.’”—Al Gore

Defining quote #2: “If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”—Al Gore […]

3) John Edwards: Whatever you think of Elizabeth Edwards, she has been remarkably dedicated to her husband. After being diagnosed with incurable breast cancer that went right down to the bone, most women would have gone home to rest, spent time with their children, and focused on staying healthy as possible—but, not Elizabeth Edwards. She did campaign appearances, interviews, and even allowed well wishers who sent her emails to be added to her husband’s fund raising list.

How did John Edwards repay his wife’s loyalty? By carrying on a long running affair with Rielle Hunter, whom Edwards brought on to the campaign and paid a hefty fee to make a few videos. The web of lies surrounding the whole affair was never fully penetrated, but the preponderance of the evidence seems to suggest that Hunter had Edwards’ love child and that he arranged for her to be paid off handsomely to stay quiet.

Cheating on your wife is sleazy. But, cheating on your cancer stricken wife who was working for you on the campaign trail even though she undoubtedly didn’t feel like it? You have to be a legendary sleazebag to do something like that.

Defining quote: “Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter.”—John Edwards to ABC

Defining quote #2: “But a source told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER: ‘Now that it seems to have blown wide open, Rielle may get her wish - all she wants is for John to marry her and for them to live happily ever after with their baby. She’s tired of running and living a lie.’”—The National Enquirer touches on what is probably Elizabeth Edwards’ biggest nightmare—after her death, having Rielle Hunter become the new mother of her children.

2) Harry Reid: When the Senate Majority leader wasn’t bizarrely declaring that we had to grind our economy to a halt by refusing to continue to use fossil fuels...

“ That is, coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick, its Global Warming, its ruining our Country, its ruining our World. We have got to stop using fossil fuel.” —Harry Reid

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Who’s #1? You’ll have to check out the list yourself. I’ve revealed enough already.

One figure who did not appear on the list, but I think should, is Chucky Schmucky Schumer. This complete nincompoop said in defense of the Fairness Censorship Doctrine in November:

I think we should all trying to be fair and balanced, don’t you? … Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not, particularly on television and radio. … The very same people that don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC to limit pornography on the air. I am for that. I think pornography should be limited. But you can’t say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you’re allowed to intervene in another. That’s not consistent.

So this schmuck liberal (you know, they’re so protective of free speech—as long as it’s their own) first compares conservative talk radio to pornography, which is the logical equivalent of comparing, oh I don’t know, birdwatching to stalking. And then, using that unbelievably twisted analogy, he accuses conservatives of being consistent because they might be in favor of putting restrictions on the expression of actual pornography.

What the hell is this dangerous ignoramus doing in anywhere near the Senate? He’s a Stalinist, nothing less.

How’s that for pornography, you waste of sperm?

Anyway, good list, RWN!

Comments

[EricTheRed]

I'm totally with you, Andrew. He's just downright mean. For me it's a toss-up between him and Keith Overbite from "Countdown to No Ratings." LOL.

Seriously, though, I think of all the libs I know who can't stand Rush Limbaugh (even though they never listened to him) because he's so "mean-spirited," yet they worship at the alter of the likes of Maher.

When Chris Matthews shoots off his liberal BS, at least he does it with a smile and a chuckle. You can disagree with him, but at least you can still watch the guy. But Maher and Overbite make Al Franken look like Mother Theresa! - ETR

[Andrew Roman]

There is only one person I cannot watch from that list for fear of reversing my dinner. Everyone else I can laugh at, poke fun at, throw things at (while they're on TV - not in person), toss well-placed expletives at (again, at the TV screen) or just get consrtuctivelt angry at - but I cannot watch Bill Maher.

I just can't.