Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Shmendrick of the (Unspecified Time Period)

6. Me, for running an abysmal marathon time.
5. The person who dresses Charles Barkley, for putting him in a button-down shirt that was barely holding on for dear life on Monday evening. By the next time he was on the air, Barkley had changed.
4. Skip Bayless, for picking against nearly every NBA first round winner. In particular, he picked the Nuggets to beat the Lakers. The Lakers were the only team to pull off the sweep in the first round. Oops. Bayless is an obnoxious moron who should be fired because he is very bad at his job.
3. George W. Bush, for having a lower approval rating than a 1990s Ukrainian oligarch.
2. DeShawn Stevenson, for neither putting up nor shutting up. If you're an NBA player, you want the opposing crowd to boo you because of your play, not because of what you say. Stevenson talked the talked and then on the court he wilted like a daisy in the Karakum desert.

and the schmendrick of the (unspecified time period) is...

1. Glenn Beck, for claiming that the reason Barack Obama is against the gas tax holiday is because it would only save people a few dollars, which might not be much for an elitist like Obama. That is simply dishonest reporting. It's one thing to disagree with Obama, but don't misrepresent his position, particularly if your job is to analyze politics.

Obama believes that the gas tax holiday is a bad idea because people would only save a few dollars and the money generated from the gas tax goes into building and repairing roads and bridges. Remember that bridge that fell in Minnesota? Also, Obama recognizes that the American people wouldn't actually save any money, because the oil companies will simply raise their prices, effectively replacing the gas tax. So a gas tax holiday will hurt roads and bridges and help the oil companies.

But Glenn Beck is someone who questioned whether a sitting U.S. congressperson was working for al Qaeda simply because he was a Muslim. But I guess it's nothing new for a bigoted imbecile like Glenn Beck. He's more annoying than the constant wooing after Chris Paul does anything at a Hornets home game.

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