2009 Awards
Time for the year's awards. With only one day left, I don't suppose there'll be any changes.
Person Of The Year: (Really no one deserves this award.) Joe Lieberman. He really didn't do much, but the way he was on everyone's lips for a while was pretty impressive. He'd also win the turncoat of the year except the Dems already have had so much trouble with him that this was nothing new.
Biggest Story Of The Year: The Tea Party movement, and what it symbolized. People were angry at the Republicans, and now seem just as angry at the Democrats. How it all plays out (and who can harness it) will determine American politics for years to come.
Worst Reported Story Of The Year: The deficit. I know it's talked about, but I get the impression most people think it's just more of the same, rather than unprecedented levels for years to come.
Most Overhyped Story: The Swine Flu epidemic.
Loser Of The Year: Tiger Woods. He returned to the Tour and in the PGA Championship, for the first time ever, was ahead in the final round and lost. Who knew he'd soon look back at that as the good old days.
Celebrity Meltdown Of The Year: Gotta be Kanye West.
Soap Opera Of The Year: Health care reform. Will it pass, or won't it? In what form? What will Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do to make it happen? Will Obama step in? And what about Naomi?
Biggest Non-Story: The Copenhagen climate conference. For all the hype, nothing really happened, and everyone knew nothing would happen. (Related non-story--no hurricane's land in America. Where's all that activity Michael Moore promised?)
No Longer Biggest Non-Story: For years I considered "no major terrorist attack inside the U.S." to be the biggest and best non-story around, but after Ft. Hood and the underwear bomber, I'm not sure we can say the streak continues.
Most Pointless Story: The boy in the balloon.
Shut Up Award: To Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You Lie!" at the President during a speech (though Rep. Alan Grayson gave Wilson a run for his money).
Song Of The Year:
Partiers Of The Year: Michaele and Tareq Salahi.
Biggest Unforced Error: President Obama says the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. There was simply no reason for him to even discuss the incident.
Euphemism Of The Year: "Hiking the Appalachian Trail."
Winners Never Quit Award: Sarah Palin, who leaves the governorship of Alaska to travel across the warm states.
Missing In Action Award: I could swear Hillary Clinton is one of our most powerful officials, but I never see or hear her doing anything.
Undecided Award: President Obama for both escalating and drawing down the war in Afghanistan.
Thrown Under The Bus Award: Obama fired Van Jones. Of course, anyone would have, since the guy seemed to be a 9/11 truther. I just wanted to say there's a Van under the bus.
Worst Trend: A tie. Unemployment rising to double digits, and the continuing (and perhaps accelerating) decline of old media.
Hot New Technology Most Likely To Burn Out In 2010: Twitter.
Biggest Celebrity Comeback: Sandra Bullock, well into her forties, and without a major moneymaker in almost a decade, stars in her two biggest hits.
Most Promising Story: Unrest in Iran. A change is gonna come?
Most Shocking Death: Michael Jackson.
What Goes Up Award: Obama's steadily declining popularity. Will the trend continue?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
7 Comments:
Teabaggers as the biggst story?--Does not pass the snicker test
Let's hope it's the diehard Republicans and Democrats doing the snickering...
...the same way the British were in 1775.
Just go on making fun of them. . That's exactly what they want.
The Tea Bag movement is the biggest story if it continues, just like Ross Perot would have been the man of his decade had he successfully founded the "Reform Party" as a viable third party in American Politics.
because it is fairly easy for most republicans to adopt the rhetoric of the Tea Bag party, I think a new generation of Republicans will do just that and the nation will remain polarized between two parties, not pluralized among three.
What award can we give the Health Care Reform bill and debate? How about "Largest Sausage Link of the Year." Also, Give Ben Nelson the "Dead Man Walking" award (having just inched out Harry Reid).
Denver Guy, I'm shocked. YOU'RE calling them "teabaggers"?
Anyway, the movement, no matter where it goes, has already had a major effect. If nothing else, it slowed Obama's agenda to a crawl. I don't think it'll be its own party, since there are too many institutional impediments. If it did become a viable third party (or second party) it would be one of the biggest stories of the century, not just the year.
Whoops - semantic infiltration! Wish I could edit my post, but you know hwat I meant.
Biggest irony of the year goes to Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize while escalating a war.
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