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Glenn Greenwald emailed me this morning to console me (console himself?) in the face of the news that we have yet once again been beaten out by Markos, this time receiving the "honorable mention" award for Twenty Most Annoying Liberals in the United States by Right Wing News.
It's the Miss Congeniality loser consolation prize and cold comfort I might add, the equivalent of looking a guy in the eyes and telling him you hope you can "still be friends." Always the bridesmaid, never the groom.
Fuck that.
What did I do wrong? Was I not shrill and caustic enough, did I not do enough to mock Michelle Malkin and her histrionic halucinations, did I not post the requisite number of offensive images, sing kumbayah in the comments section too few times or was it the fact that I simply never compared George Bush to Hitler? Is it just that my megaphone is not as big as Markos's, or am I not being taken seriously because I am a woman?
I am quite certain I said "fuck" more than Markos and Glenn combined, and as we all know this lack of civility is in the eyes of the warmongers the most grevious of sins one can commit when discussing with their oh so serious selves their genteel war. I should get some credit for hosting a pack of foul-mouthed, Satan-worshipping homos. "Wingnut welfare?" That was mine. Where is the justice in the world?
There is some consolation in the fact that Keith Olbermann took the top spot, and really, you can't compete with the king. But quite honestly, I think I was robbed.
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I think you mean “their genteel war”
[Mod Note; thanks for the heads up. Refresh and it should be corrected.]
heh
There, there, Jane. You’ll always be the shrillest harpy on the left to us!
Hmmmm…..I’m surprised Jane. I thought you were joking and going to end with a congratulations to Markos and “we’re all in this together” thing. You are very good….no question. You shouldn’t let this bother you.
Joe Lieberman has gotta hate you, though.
tweez @ 2
I don’t know. There’s a certain logic to “gentile” war.
Hey,Keith Olberman is Number One!
Very cool.
damned good company, if you ask me
You know what’s really cool? I’m a TU at DKos, and I’ve never heard of that poster. Never heard of The View, Cynthia McKinney is so yesterday, and who is Ted Rall? Andrew Sullivan? Are you kidding me? Do these guys even GO to liberal web sites?
And an honorable congratulations, Jane.
After seeing blog wars I am afraid that michelle malkin has solidified her status the reigning queen of shrill and caustic. You and kos oozed class and style and, michelle, well, all i can say is that her cap and hoop earrings were unfortunate choices.
Andrew Sullivan and John Murtha are “liberals”? Hey, that’s pretty cute. Maybe he means they’re not Royalists or Tory’s or something.
It’s exactly this kind of “us against them”, black and white myopia that makes wingnuts so wingnutty.
Congrat’s on the HM, Jane. That’s so cool. All of us here will do our part to help you go straight to the top next year!
Sue @ 10
The View has actually gotten pretty shrill, now that Rosie’s on it. The others have really ratcheted up their rhetoric to compete (with the exception of the fembot, of course).
Well, we’ll just have to all try harder in the new year, now won’t we?
Jane, if it’s any consolation, I find you an incredibly annoying liberal. You’ll always be in my top 20 list. As an annoying liberal myself: are you single?
PS Forget those lightweights Kos and Glenn. In 2007 I hope you say “fuck” even more than annoying liberal Mary Scott O’Connor.
Jane needs to be more like condi and make Markos her husband. Then she’d get respect.
Witchywoman @ 7
Yeah. They haven’t pulled Israel into it. Yet.
Jane…WHAT…you lost? LMAO….Imagine those wingnut losahs talking about annoying! TOO much!
Jane, you’ll always be the most annoying liberal as far as I’m concerned.
Boy, that shmendrick’s life is certainly not scientifically determined, just whatever entity left of Genghis that got up his nose.
Wingnuts are soooo amusing (to themselves).
Actually, Jane, I think you may have possible lost points when you conceded, in BlogWars, that your timing may have been off with the Lieberman-in-blackface post. Remember, in Wingnut Universe admitting an error is considered a sign of weakness. To solidify your position as the shrillest of the shrill you should have defended it vigorously.
Boy, that shmendrick’s list is certainly not scientifically determined, just whatever entity left of Genghis that got up his nose.
Wingnuts are soooo amusing (to themselves).
Yeah, Jane, you was robbed! But since your’e all working to the GOOD I now pronounce the recipient of “The Most Annoying FEMALE Liberal in The United States! Congratulations!!
We have to work harder on expressing our undying love of terrorists and Saddam Hussein! That will take you straight to the top, Jane! :)
I never place in any of the big contests.
Who’s cabana-boy do I have to insult before AEI points me out for even limited scorn?!
You poor thing! My heart goes out to you. How could they? If it’s any consolation you’re number one in my perverted, neo-con hating, liberal heart.
You de stealth lib. You dig in under de radar. You train us pups and send us out to do de devil’s work.
Oh, and wingnuts don’t have more’in a few working nerons to rub together, so I think they read your radical-but-thoughtful commentary and mutter, “Huh? I don’t get it.” Good chance.
If it’s any consolation, there was originally going to be a category called, “The Left Side of the Blogosphere’s Anti-Joe Lieberman Crusade,” and you were featured prominently in that. I even had your blackface pic of Joe Lieberman in there….but it wasn’t quite snappy enough and I dumped it in favor of Charlie Rangel.
I just love it when Jane talks dirty.
Yummie.
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Yeah, but why worry? I glanced at the thing. It’s the standard operating BS. Whine, whine, whine about anybody who disagrees with the wingnuts (and whose name they can actually remember).
Well now. We certainly wouldn’t want to offend the tender sensibilities of the wingosphere. Now would we? After all, far worse to cuss than to be responsible for all the misery the righties have generated in the Middle East and here at home.
I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough with chaos theory or other stochastic mathematics to offer an opinion as to why the random firing of undernourished neurons would have resulted in the list in question. Why Joy Behar and not you? Why John Kerry and not John Edwards? One might as well ask why an elephant fart in Thailand could cause a blizzard in Alaska.
Move on. Hey, I wasn’t on the list either.
Jane - Post more photos of naked dirty hippies enjoying a swim with their family! ;)
Honorable Mention?!!!
The rabid Lambsher herself?
Must not have bitten the right ankles.
Honorable mention indeed! This is an atrocious insult! I am astonished.
Clearly you need a bigger megaphone, say fuck more and change your gender. What else could it be? I’m stumped.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 31
Besides, “incivility” only matters to the wingosphere when somebody else does it. Fucking whiny-butt losers. (Hear that? LOSERS! You LOST in 2006 and we’ll take you to the cleaners again in 2008 because you are LOSERS!)
Happy New Year to Kobe-Wan’s Human Companion !!
. . . all that vituperation in bringing down the Virgin Ben ?!?!?
Ol 60 Grit ?
Lovey Howell ?
hell, you turned the lasers up on the arch liberal NARAL and Anna Marie Bukkake ?!?!
and puhleeze, all those “that lunatic who said Cheney was drunk!” mentions over at Pre Teen Wisdom ?!?!?
c’mon really, David “Bush-Is-A-Very- Intelligent-Guy” Gregory for fuck’s sake !
just which one of these micro dicks does a gal have to savage to take her rightful place in Infamy with these clowns??!?!?
Jane-Perhaps you should put on some hardware like ‘Domino’ {bounty huntress} and take some names of these wingers. Your a shoo-in for 07.
I’m afraid you need to conduct more mandatory abortions on DINO Senators and post the video of your menage with Hillary and Barbra Streisand, Jane.
It would also help if you had a more foreign sounding name. Maybe ‘Moqtada bin Oprah Hamsher’ would do it.
The Rightists just can’t bring themselves to overly castigate someone so gorgeous; maybe a silicone hunchback would get you to the top.
Witchywoman @
4
Does that make us harpy chicks?
Dude.
Well, frankly, Jane can lick my “last honest man” toes.
Markos may be a pain in the ass, but Jane is THE pain in MY ass. [uumpf]
-Joe
(all in the vein of humor, for those humor impared)
Jane, you’ve trained up an entire army of firepups, and we’re plenty shrill and caustic, with lots and lots of snark.
Next year — Texas Steel Cage Death Match at YearlyKOS, hm?
-S
Cujo359 @ 32
‘Cause that’s what they do. They’re ineffective, so instead of piling onto Edwards, who has a running chance at not just the presidency but as a populist Democratic leader (something that *should* make them shake in their wingnut jackboots) they go after Kerry. Old news, bozos. Keep it up, fight the wrong guy. Good job.
I’m aghast!!! Jane was robbed.
There is just no justice for an on point, always in your face, beautifully wonderful and fearless liberal femme.
Interesting that Hillary Clinton only made an honorable mention…but even that means that the wingnuts STILL haven’t noticed where she’s put some very important votes during the last six years.
tough one, Jane. you get right back up on that horse, OK?
(I wonder if Glenn Greenwald was surprised to be called a liberal…)
Jane, don’t listen to them. You are far more annoying (as a liberal) than, say, the Dixie Chicks. *g* Keep making life unpleasant for the wingnuts, and no doubt you will be rewarded next time around.
Oh Jane, you will always be the most annoying liberal to me!! (giggling and sobbing quietly at the same time) Best friends forever, like we promised, right?!
moeman @
17
Naw. She just needs to kick Condi’s ass in public.
And take her boots.
I always thought that you brought the appropriate amount of shrill and causticity to the debate.
Perhaps adopting some San Fransisco values™ may put you over the edge next year…
Think of it this way: if we were to compile a list of the twenty most annoying wingnuts of 2006, Right Wing News wouldn’t even be in the running. Is it worth getting upset over a bunch of second string extremists?
punaise @ 47
By those guys? No, Glenn’s made so many points about how loose and self-serving their political definitions are that he shouldn’t be in the least bit surprised.
Who knew there was a glass ceiling for shrill?
AkaDad @ 50
(Scratching head)
Which San Francisco values has Jane not adopted? Okay, as far as I know she’s not gay, but that may only be because she hasn’t seen Dick Cheney’s wang.
marksb @ 44
Yes, but you can always think up an explanation to fit a given fact. On the whole, their picks don’t strike me as terribly logical or subject to analysis.
Personally, I’d be more upset at getting overlooked in favor of the New York (fucking) Times.
Would running over Malkin (repeatedly) with a hybrid car qualify me for the list?
All this whinin’ and moanin’ . . . sheesh! Any outfit with a name like “Right Wing News” is clearly not operating in the reality-based universe. If they HAD named Jane one of the 20 most annoying liberals, then I’d start to worry about my own grasp of reality.
Perhaps it is part of a vast right wing conspiracy to get inside Jane’s head. “Let’s set up a civil war on the left, pitting pinkos against pinkos. Oooh, look - a shiny thing . . . “
Go get ‘em Jane!
Cujo359 @ 55
On the whole, that’s the best capsule description of the right wing I’ve read so far this week.
Jane beat Jon Stewart?!!!
Now there are some braggin’ rights!
my office is in the general vicinity of chez Markos, and boy does he rule this ‘hood with an iron fist…
Bustednuckles @ 59
I see that somebody over there finally noticed that Stephen Colbert isn’t laughing with them.
Bustednuckles @ 60
It was a tie. That list was alphabetical.
I was trying to be helpful by throwing out suggestions to make Jane more annoying, but damn you for making me think about Dicks dick.
Cujo359 @ 63
Damn, didn’t notice that, I was glancing through it.
Checking on the Amazon rating for Marcy’s book, she’s jumped from something around 27,000th two hours ago to 7,028 right now. Wonder what could have happened in the last 120 minutes or so to push that book up about 20,000 places?
OMFG…
Someone’s mentioned that Democratic Senator from NY again. And I’m trying so hard not to ‘fall off the wagon’.
Well now I have to to start visiting The Smirking Chimp.
By the way, liberal or not, I’m sure Rosie O’Donnell made a lot of people’s most annoying list.
Peterr @ 65
Team Libby planning a weenie roast?
Bustednuckles @ 65
See? I’m pretty good at noticing patterns when they exist.
Olbermann soon in my living room.
‘Some will win, some will lose
Some are born to sing the blues‘
Jane is not shrill enough. There’s no “hysteria.” (God, I hate that word.) Just righteous anger. We need to collect shrill words for her. I can’t come up with all of these on my own. Some shrill words:
“conspiracy,” “unfair,” “patriarchy”…
We’ll dust these off and she can march off to battle with them. Then again, these might just annoy US, so maybe forget it.
CongratulationsCondolences on the honorable mention.I would think that the original Jane Hamsher of the Jane Hamsher’s of the Left fame would qualify. You were robbed.
My condolences Jane. I think it was sexism. In fact, I think you should complain loudly about being the victim of all this sexism. That should get you on the list for next year. They just don’t understand that a woman can be as annoying as a man.
P.S. Why are you upset about losing to Markos but not to Sully boy? I mean, Sullivan’s annoying, but liberal? And the New York Times??? And who is Ted Rall?
Say, Jane, I could teach you a good curse. That always makes them wet their pants.
EvilDrPuma @ 69
You know if we could get the publisher to release it a little earlier,do you think Team Irving would be so busy reading it, they would fall behind in their trial prep?
Millineryman @ 75
You’ll recall, though, that this was a class of people that did not include Jane.
OK, I was wrong. I said Bush would pardon Libby around the holidays. What’s stopping him? It isn’t politics obviously, since that no longer matters to him.
I’m not snarking. Who is Ted Rall? I never heard of him. Am I out of some loop? Not as well informed as I thought I was?
17) David Gregory
HA
16) Andrew Sullivan
What?
14) Ted Rall
Who?
11) Jason Leopold/Truthout
Ok I am an annoyed librul, here, check.
7) The View
Did they reject Ann C on her book tour or something?
rapier @ 80
It is fear that Libby will lose his right to invoke the 5th ammendment if called to testify before Congress after the pardon.
Sigh.
Clearly, we are going to have to redouble our efforts.
looseheadprop @ 82
and a pardon would have no effect on the civil suit
Who’s Ted Rall?
P.S. Comparing Bushler to Hitler is easy, just use this photo.
;)
Well, I don’t know about the rightwing blogoshpere, but FDL is my first stop when checking up on insurgent activity.
-GSD
Ted Rall is a cartoonist I believe.
GSD @ 87
I believe all cartoonists.
looseheadprop @ 81
Ted Rall is a political cartoonist. WaPo publishes his stuff, among others. Some people swear by his stuff, but I think he must be an acquired taste. Usually doesn’t do it for me.
JoyB @ 73
Well, with Al Gore being portrayed, as usual, as the quintissential raving lunatic, perhaps Jane would do better to sit quietly in the corner and knit a tea cozy.
Even if I have no idea who you are.
In commemorance of proud Jewish people who defended their existence I translate the following article out of German:
It seemed like a wonder when the walls fell in the upto then divided Jerusalem. Witnesses have decribed how they -astonished- ran the streets of Jerusalem on and on without hitting borders. Until then the other part -east and west- was completly strange to them. Jews and Arabs experienced the same. All of a sudden for everyone -outta a grasp- everything was open.
Jerusalems mayor Teddy Kollek -two years preceeding elected into office- was perceiving things less drunken-more sobber without neglecting the enormous chance. “When the town was reunited my first caress was: How would the people live together?”
So he commemorated in retrospective on his ninetieth birthday what was moving him back then:
The assembly of an expert committee; the idea to build a green belt around the city; his own resolution to equalize the wages of Arab workers with those of Jewish ones.
Dry kind
It belonged to Teddys dry kind to remember big feelings in short report tone. “Childs” he used to say and to smoke a cigar brand Churchill when u wanted to know something personal about the many extraordinary incidents (moments) in his life. “Others can tell better.”
Still he was the one who didn�t experience certain things immediatly but to design them actively. He, born 1911 as Theodore Kollek in a village close to Budapest, raised in Vienna of the twenties and 1935 emigrated to Palestine with his family, wrote Israeli history with his own hand. Whether as a couraged organizer of rescue missions for Jews in Nazi-Germany - and even held talks with SS-man Adolf Eichman (oakman) to deliver 3000 concentration camp inmates to the British zone of palestine. Whether as an arms smuggler in a mission of David Ben-Gurion, his idol and sponsor in the years of Israeli state foundation.
The hagganah, the biggest Jewish underground foundation, needed reinforcements 47-48. Washington back then imposed sanctions on wary states. “Once they sent us twenty small planes packed as instant houses out of the United States. The disassembled wings were delivered seperatly,” the aged Kollek narrated when he was still spending some hours in his office at the “Jerusalem foundation.”
[Mod Note; it would appear some of the translation is less than perfect in this comment]
Hearth Moon @ 76
He’s apparently really popular with the left.
[from the list in question. emphasis mine]
Ted Rall Wiki.
-GSD
What is 91 about? Gibberish alert
Cuz you weren’t on Olbermann enough! Get out there, if you want to tick them off.
Thanks GSD
Shit — you’re insulted? I didn’t even get an honorable mention. That wanker.
looseheadprop @ 95
It’s a shaky translation of an article about former mayor of jerusalem Teddy Kollek, who died today at age 95.
And so is 93.
looseheadprop @ 95
I’m guessing there’s a theory that gibberish is more understandable when it’s repeated. See #93.
Anyway, it looks like someone got loose in the Altavista translator again.
hang ten @ 12 — Malkin did look like she’d spent the afternoon diving through the dollar bin at wiggers’r'us, didn’t she?
I wonder if that was focus grouped or just the sad result of complete lack of self-awareness. A good friend would let her know she’s a bit long in the tooth.
Jane sez: There is some consolation in the fact that Keith Olbermann took the top spot, and really, you can’t compete with the king. But quite honestly, I think I was robbed.
I agree with you, Jane, for the first time ever. You certainly annoy the Hell out of me.
See, Sandy Berger is a criminal that needs to be punished…..Dick Nixon was a man in need of healing.
-GSD
Cujo359 @ 33
Was that what caused last week’s blizzard? Coulda fooled me…
I dunno, Jane. RightWingNews was linking to LGF and RedState blogs about me right and
leftfar right, back in 2004. They move on, though, so they’ll get to you soon enough.Remember what Christy said - the power to change this nation is in your hands.
Keep pissing them off! MORE
It’s a conspiracy. They left you off because they are afraid of someone shrill and snarky and caustic.
That’s why they chose the mild-mannered fellows, which fit the righty stereotype of the left being mushy and not willing to fight.
I think you had a good year, notwithstanding the Joey Lieberschmuck blackface thing.
Cujo359 @ 33
Aah, but where in Thailand and how big was the elephant?
Awww, Jane you’re still #1 to me. After all, Markos refuses to blogroll me after over four years. You’ve always been my bud. Is that invite to the next Kobepalooza still available? :)
Yer mostest biggest supporter!!!
JF
Olbermann might be the monarch, and Kos might get better ratings, but nobody says “fuck” with the same panache as you, Jane, and in just the right situations. You … bide your time. It’s why your “fuck”s ring truer, and produce a visceral reaction in your readers. For my money you’re the Queen, Jane. You cut so deep and so fast that your subjects have bled to death before they even know they’ve been spotted. Shit, if all you did was tell me my shoelaces were untied I’d probably want to slit my wrists. You, among all of them, are not to be “fuck”ed with.
Keep fighting the good fight, and Happy New (Gregorian calendar) Year.
Ed*ard Teller @ 104
As the Romans would say, glory is fleeting. Or, at least that’s what they said at the end of Patton.
Keep pissing them off! MORE
Much more pissing off. Faster, better, more.
You wuz robbed, Jane!!!
But as a consolation prize, I have a stack of Ned Lamont GOTV Art Posters for you . . .
Suzanne @ 85
Forgive my abysmal ignorance looseheadprop but are you referring to the Plame/Wilson civil suit? So many crooks & liars and so little time Ijust can’t keep up anymore.
Attaturk @
26
Ask Andrew Sullivan about the cabana-boys, and take a page from a high profile GOoPer.
Patrick 4/4 @ 98
Beat me to it. Teddy Kolleck was very interesting, and had more common sense than a lot of people. In the pre-1967 Jerusalem, he tried hard to find rational solutions to problems which have since gotten way, way out of hand.
Kevin 40 — I didn’t think of the Streisand bomb. A classic light that should put me over the top in ‘07.
Oklahoma kiddo
Message to you on previous thread.
Is there a list of the top 20 Bolsheviki? Someone called you that one time–I forget where.
Jane, you don’t get full credit for being as shrill and caustic as you are. The wingnuts figure you’re only doing it because Markos ordered you to.
If it’s any consolation, I’m listening to Shields and Brooks on the NewsHour. Shields is talking about bipartisanship and “saving” George Bush’s Presidency. Shields isn’t much of a liberal but he sure is annoying!
Ed*ard Teller @ 113
Post 67, too. He had a lot to do with the Muslim holy sites being under Muslim control.
Re Hagganah in #91,
I really like their chocolate chocolate chip.
Who counted up the votes - Halliburton accountants? The fix was probably in. Anyway there is always next year which is now technically this year. Keep kicking them bastards where it hurts.
Newwspaer brat
That was Suzanne thinking about the civil suit. Actually I don’t think Bushco is afraid of the civil suit per se. I always thought the civil suit was started as a collate