There is an annual Oscar(TM) Award Thing for the Internet, called “The Bloggies.” It is fun! Especially the winning part, that is fun. So, thank you to you nice people who nominated us, and thank you to you nice people for voting for us. [2011 Weblog Award Bloggies]
Political Wire
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Authors
Rebecca Schoenkopf (424)
Kirsten Boyd Johnson (927)
Sulagna Misra (4)
Kris E. Benson (11)
Liz Colville (170)
John Schoenkopf (7)
Jim Newell (5640)
Josh Fruhlinger (646)
Erik Jay (27)
Blair Burke (181)
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What the fuck is a "PunditMom"?
She lactates while opining.
Like Huckabee?
No, the Inedible Huck opines while lactating, or so I've heard.
And Boehner opines while lachrymose.
While Fred Thompson mumbles lacksidaisically.
(Or used to. He still alive?)
Sarah Palin, except without the
rank stupiditypious sanctimony.If Wonkette is nominated and huffpo is too, how much does that make Wonkette worth?
Wonkette's value never accumulates, unfortunately. It goes to cover each week's bill at the liquor store.
It's like a reverse mortgage of pee points.
Eleventy billion hundred dollars.
Innumerable whore diamonds.
Congrats! Where do we start stuffing ballot boxes?
Vote early, vote often.
We just need to convince Anonymous that those other blogs are investigating them.
WARBLOG!
Remember the lesson learned by ol' LBJ, who was so naive the first time he ran for the House he thought his vote total should be somehow limited to the district census.
I'll vote like an ethnic Chicagoan, which is early and often, very, very, very often.
I dunno, Wonkette. It's gonna be tough to compete against the HuffPo's Pulitzer-winning series of Kim Kardashian upskirts (PHOTOS, POLL).
Or POLE, as the case may be.
I came for the trashy, sexist, exploitative promises of celebrity skin. I stayed for the thoughtful and nuanced left-wing political opinion pieces.
Or not.
You can find lots of facinating posts at HuffPost that discuss how the scientists are wrong and a certain herbal remedy really cures a given disease. Lots of discussion of the dangers of vaccinations, despite what those pesky scientists say, too.
Science is HARD.
But MAD science is fun.
Recognizing the difference between facts and opinions is too.
The weird thing is, I know a bunch of conservatives who are shocked that I hate the Huffington post because they just assume all liberals must love it; Kos too also. No, the right wing is the one with the hive-mind, sillies.
Good luck convincing them. I can't stand HuffPo. I feel less hostile to KOS, but maybe that's because the orange graphics give me a Boehner.
I go to KOS when I'm looking for humorless PC people to breakdown a political discussion into obscure band references/clips and kitten pictures.
LOL, echo.
Speaking of tires that have been kicked more often than a Brazilian soccer ball.
Hell, espn.com has upskirts of her husband. (Wait, didn't she marry Dennis Rodman?)
OMFG, the only blog from that list that I don't utterly despise (other than my beloved Wonkette, of course) is Crooks and Liars, and to be honest, they've rubbed me the wrong way on more than one occasion recently. I've never been to PunditMom, but: does it make me a bad person that I despise it, on principle, just based on the name?
No.
…they've rubbed me the wrong way on more than one occasion recently.
I hate that shit. You get promises of happy endings, but when it's over, you're not happy. Fucking liars…
Lipstick.
Ugh. So many people have sex and get pregnant, then they think they deserve a medal or something. (I'm looking at you, Bristol.)
Psst – the real accomplishment is raising the kid.
I stopped going to Crooks and Liars a while back when it just got to be nonstop libtard trolling.
Though getting my user account banned for telling someone they were out of line due to them suggesting another user "fuck a dog" was kind of funny in a stupid way.
Would definitely vote for "PunditMilf". Fap, fap, fap.
I was going to vote for HuffPo but my decision is being moderated indefinitely. Hmmm, this vote seems inappropriate and violates something or other.
Do I get a vote in this? If so can someone tell me where to go to sell it?
It's a fuckin' valuable thing, and you ain't gonna just give it away
After all it is fucking gold and you don't give something like that away.
I miss the good ole Bloggie days, when Wonkette was nominated alongside a girl who reviewed sex toys and gabbed about Cheetos in her vagina.
We all have to grow up sometime.
Who is this "we", Kemo Sabe?
That girl now has a column on HuffPost. Look under the Health section. She's pushing Cheetos as a cure for yeast infections.
Yogurt-dipped Cheetos.
But only if they're organic.
It's so hard to keep up with all these advances in medical technology.
Can you send me a link to that blog?
Cheeto stuffed vagina, will Americans ever lose their creativity in sex and keeping their waist lines.
Wait until they work up to ping-pong balls.
Just parenthetically, can anyone tell me whatever became of Wonkette's founder? Has she, in fact, foundered elsewhere? I don't see her on Rachel no more.
Anna Nicole, wasn't it?
…not a problem, I would eat Cheetos off a dead man's ass.
I don't know, Wonkette is far behind Politico and Huffington Post in the all-important being full of shit category; even more important is the child killing category, where the Huffington Post has hundreds of points while Wonkette doesn't have a single one.
Hey, don't forget that Wonkette *does* favor allowing the thugs from Child Protective Services to steal children whose parents belong to harmless patriot / militia groups (not because they’re terrible parents with a long history of neglect or anything like that), so that should count for something.
Ah, the memories. At the time I was shocked that the trolls would actually support abusive parents because it fit with their ideology, but there really is no low they will not stoop to.
Ah, but you see, there ARE NO SUCH THING AS ABUSIVE PARENTS (who are white America-loving Patriots). The "neglect" charges were therefore invented by the enemies of freedom. QED.
The tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of Teabagger babbys.
Huffy-puffy is also ahead in the no-less important category of what to do if you're biting your cheek (I assume they're talking about the serious problem of own-cheek biting, from inside, as it were, although I didn't click on the link and the piece may have had to do with aggressive third-party kissers or even vampires, for all I know).
True. Wonkette is not linked to a single case of whooping cough. HuffPost can't say that.
We kill our children the old fashioned way: with devil monsters.
Closest we come is BABBY SNATCHIN…
If Wonkette wins, will they be bought out by the Wall Street Journal?
Murdoch already tried, I believe Ken's response was:
"Wall Street Journal buy me out? Fuck you. I buy you out, you don't buy me out!"
And then a bunch of people got whacked and some guy woke up to find a horse head in his bed.
But were Larry Flynt to make an offer….
Now that's change we can believe in.
In the real story, the movie guy got whacked and they put his head in bed with the horse. In the end they straightened things out and Sinatra got the part anyway, but some fat dago had to take a lot of ribbing from his pals for a while.
And all of those people were named "Ken Layne."
For two Commodore 64s and a Motorola teevee with Pong.
What is the difference between a Pundit Mom and a pit bull?
Literacy.
Lipstick.
The number of nipples.
The leather collar with the chrome spikes on it looks more at home on the pitbull.
Neuticles.
I can't wait to see what Ken, Arielle, Riley, Sara, and Jack will be wearing on the virtual red carpet. Joan and Cojo will plotz.
Thanks to Weblog for burying the only nomination I'm interested in at the bottom of the page after such categories like the Best New Zealand blog (I voted for the Frugal Kiwi btw just on the name alone.)
OMG, not *those* assholes!!!!!!!
Is this a trick to make us show real 'Merickan IDs to vote? I've been tricked before in life and I am more cautious now. Bastard school janitors with their deep pocketed uniforms and Peppermint Patties. Don't believe it when they tell you that they "love you" That whore in the hair net, scooping out sloppy joes isn't his "sister"
Congrats on the award!
Do we get a slice of some of that "Bloggie" loot?
It's as prestigious as a Cable Ace Award.
Acorn is already hard at work to assure Teh Wonket's success
The comic part is of course that this is a comedy blog.
I'd say it mixes between the original article, the presenter, and the commentary. There's waaaaay more funny in here than Achewood.
…thus the emphasis on politics.
Congrats! I'll be happy as long as you don't lose to HuffPo or Politco.
They've pulled Bristol's book off of Amazon. I'm sure that's due to the incredible pull that this website and its commenters possess.
I think Riley deserves a fingerbang in celebration!
Thumb up!
Now in a lot of the categories, like "Best Australian Blog", I'm not sure who the nominees are, but I see that one of the nominees for the category they call "Best Science Blog" is "Watts up with that", an anti-science blog dedicated to the "Global Warming is a conspiracy that every scientist in the world is involved with for some incomprehensible reason, and all the evidence that it's happening right now is LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" bullshit. I don't know the other nominees, but hopefully we can find a good one to support over that horrible lying fuckstick.
Good lord, is that the best they could find? Is their Internet broken? Or does real science hurt their head?
WUWT recent posts:
Yays! Bloggie!
Keith Olbermann is moving to TeeVee
Paul Krugman claims global warming caused riots in Egypt
Moderators at RealClimate got mad at me for posting off-topic
My favorite, an analysis of error rates in global temperature measurements that opens with this extremely sound methodology:
"As the above graphic indicates, WUWT Commenters who provided their own estimates generally agreed with my allocation…"
Fuck, somebody give Mr Bloggie a dictionary with the entry for "science" dog-eared.
Boing Boing is also an entry for best science blog.
The only one worthy of an unsnarky vote is women in planetary science.
Seven more whore diamonds to toot your own horn!
TOOT! TOOT!
Wonkette is political? (I'm outa here.)
Me too! I hate politics like I hate getting stuck next to Keith Olbermann on the train home.
Would you still feel that way if he regrew the pornstache?
What's up with those Canadian bloggers? There's a much higher hot chick vibe from them than any of the other categories.
I wonder if someone is feeling a little guilty about throwing a hissy fit yesterday about alt text? Henghhhhh?
Did you even freaking read the alt text?
Always do….which reminds me, must add "crank call Jim VandeHei" to my to-do list.
Harrumph. Wonkett shoulda been up for humor as well. But I voted for the category we have, not the category we want.
The humor category is a known unknown.
We were up for a three-way in 2009 — politics, "group blog" and humor — and that was the first year we won nothing. So, the multiple nominations seem to just split our belligerent vote. (It is annoying as hell to vote in the Bloggies, what with all the oddball categories and cloying vertical design and email verifications.)
And, dumbly enough, after winning several bloggies we've yet to actually send anyone to SXSW to pick up the trophy (which is, I believe, $20 and some novelty gift).
You also get a neat-o canvas bag, useful for grocery shopping.
Wait, this is a politics blog??? I've been coming here to read about cake, candy and walnuts….
Who gets which? Because it matters to my eye-bleeding.
You need to be more concerned about Joan and Cujo, then.
I'm in. Also, I agree with the alt-text. No Politico for the love of God!
In the words of Mayor Daley, "Vote early, and vote often."
yesterday, in chicago, i did both.
not lying.
Don't forget us potheads (because we will.)
Did I just say something?
I smoked pot for a month one night.
Politico will win – because of Diebold. Wonkette is still the best though…here you can get unfiltered bullshit, the best kind.
No PUMA blogs in this year's running?
It's true that Wonkette is a comedy blog, much like The Daily Show is a comedy program. And Politico is a political blog much like Fox News is an insane asylum reality TV network.
I voted. Where's my sticker?
Ok, I just skimmed…but not a single cry of WARBLOG!!
Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin
Du passé faisons table rase
Foule esclave, debout, debout
Le monde va changer de base
Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout
Those who forget history are condemned to have it interpreted to them by Michelle Bachmann.
This is Bullshit! No WARBLOG!! category and Wonkette is only nominated for one award. I call shenanigans. Wonkette shits on lardsack Fat Cyclist and the Pioneer Woman has died fording the river.
If this outfit becomes respectable, I'm outta here!
I like most of what Kos himself writes, but the place just has too many contributors, giving it a kind of schizophrenic feel, and everyone is so fucking serious and over-earnest about everything it can get tiresome. No, the government's failure to address your pet issue will not mean the end of the world.
On the other hand, the government's failure to address "My Pet Goat" has grave ramifications for all.
Where's my unicorn?
As over a hundred thousand dead and two trillion lost should attest.
Hey, mistakes were, uh, made. But don't blame little Donny Rumsfeld. It was everybody else's fault.
For certain values of "alive."
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