Wankers of the Decade
I know my own pet favorite — Stuart Taylor — will be a longshot, but I’m glad that he got Richard Cohen in there.
…also, I think we can all agree that it’s about time for the Editors to come out of retirement. More classic work on Cohen here, here and here.








My all time favorite Chinless Beaver moment was when he was whining about Colbert at the Press Club Dinner, and said “I’m a really funny guy”.
Ah yes, everyone in DC’s favorite “Liberal Chia Pet!”
The winner’s got to be Thomas Friedman-units.
Bobo’s also a worthy candidate.
After all, THEY’RE serious people writing about serious things.
And on the Op-ed pages of the “Liberal” NY Times, no less.
OY!!!
My cab driver today told me Friedman’s a lock.
The guy who stocks the Applebees salad bar thinks it’s Bobo’s to lose.
Richard Cohen is a crusader against racism who has done more than any other person to destroy the stereotype that Jews are smart.
Jonah Goldberg.
Yeah, it’s close, but Goldberg hasn’t built up the decade-by-decade record that Cohen has.
Different measurements are required for Golberg’s wankery record. What takes Cohen and others decade-by-decade to compile takes Goldberg month-by-month at the most.
Goldberg’s just a party-line hack. Cohen’s stupidity is endlessly creative and fertile, ranging over a multitude of topics and issues in a way Goldberg could only dream of.
goldberg is actually not jewish i think
This is indeed central to my point.
+1
What about good old Douglas “dumbest fucking guy on the planet” Feith?
Speaking of wankers, can nothing be done about the SnorgTees ad with the woman displaying her unbuttoned jeans?
I mean yes, I can read the t-shirt and get the joke, but it’s kind of an obnoxious ad – more PajamasMedia than LGM, I’d have thought.
Better that than the one for the new “thriller” by Byron Dorgan. Byron Dorgan?
When I think “thriller,” I think Byron Dorgan.
Did anyone ever find out what did with that other glove?
you want her genes removed?
Colbert humiliating Bush the Younger at that black tie dinner is the gift that keeps on giving. Even six years later, the sanctimonious hissy fit over it remains almost as funny as the performance itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSE_saVX_2A
My all-time favorite Cohen episode is when he attacked Lieberman and Gore in 2000 over a Lieberman quote about God being on America’s side. He spent an entire column attacking Gore-Lieberman over this and comparing them to the more religiously reasonable Bush.
The kicker? He was wrong about the quote, it was actually a Bush quote, and at the bottom of his next column was a single sentence correction stating that a quote in his previous column attributed to Lieberman was actually spoken by Bush.
It’s Broder by 10 lengths.
The rules say dead people don’t qualify, so Broder and Kaus are out.
isn’t it only Kaus’ career that is dead
I miss The Editors sorely.
As do I. I check from time to time, just in case they changed their minds about breaking up with us. Does that make me an internet stalker, do you think?
I check them and Fafblog both.
Ahh Fafblog. Their interview with John McCain in the run up to the 2008 election damn near cost me my life, I was laughing so hard. In a just world it would have been real.
Dag – I miss the funny that was Fafblog.
I’m so old I miss Media Whores Online.