Since the Beginning of Time, Wingnuts Have Always Yearned For Unearned Respectability
By Jonah Goldberg’s resume-padding might be the funniest example of the phenomenon since William Hammesfahr, nominee for the Nobel Prize awarded annually for Excellence and Erroneous, Politically Convenient Long-Distance Diagnoses. You might call it a National Review tradition. (I’m surprised that K-Lo didn’t write a letter so they could call William Cheshire a “Nobel Prize nominee” too.) Surely he deserves to be a Nobel nominee just as much as Rush Limbaugh!
They should send some webcam footage of the NRO offices to a random AMPAS member so every visible member of the staff can subsequently be referred to as an “Academy Award nominee.”