Renaming The Von Hoffman Award
Several readers are making this point:
I checked your glossary (thank you) for the Morris Award. So I'm baffled as to how the Dorothy Rabinowitz quote you cited qualifies as any kind of "prediction" ("stunningly wrong" or otherwise). I don't see even a hint of any kind of prediction there.
Her article was predicting that the Middle East turmoil would hurt Obama, the night before Mitt put his large foot in it on the Cairo embassy. Another:
I really think the "Dick Morris Award" has a much better ring to it than the "Morris Award". Plus the latter looks and sounds so much like the "Moore Award". I realize the other awards are shortened to last names, but Malkin, Hewitt, and Yglesias are all unique last names, unlike the common "Morris". Sorry if this sounds like nit-picking, but the Dish is usually so precise about things.
We will leave it to readers to decide. You can vote between the two choices in the above Urtak. And no, despite many reader requests, one of the options will not be "The Dick Award". Update: The preference of readers is overwhelming – "The Dick Morris Award" it is.
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