Category: Awards

"The wolves of the left, sensing a new opening with a new administration, are circling.  Dangerous organizations like ACORN and MoveOn.org feel that Obama’s victory is theirs as well.  Poisonous figures like George Soros, Louis Farrakhan, and Bill Ayers who have spent their lives trying to tear America down feel newly empowered by the election results. Israel haters are licking their chops.  Like their bloodthirsty comrades abroad, Islamo-Fascists here at home are ready to step up the stealth jihad they are waging against our universities and other domestic institutions," – David Horowitz, in a new direct mail letter.

The season of good will is at our throats again and rather than do my usual griping, I thought I’d cope this year by what US soldiers in Iraq call "embracing the suck." I hope to post, with your help, of course, a selection of the worst, grossest, but completely irresistible exempla of Christmas schlock. Dish readers are hereby invited to send in videos, images, photos or pop-cultural moments when the gag reflex jumps into action and then somehow relents. A great site for this is called Musical Fruitcake, modestly subtitled: A Collection Of The Worst Christmas Songs Ever Created. In the spirit of keeping standards as high as possible, here, to begin with, is A Christmas Macarena. Merry merry!

By Patrick Appel
"[The automakers] could save some $$ by eliminating benefits to partners of same-sex couple. [sic] Anyone discussing that??," – Right Michigan. Ed Brayton fisks the post.

By Patrick Appel

"…as a simple observer, I really don’t see what’s stopping [Obama] from becoming the next president. The overwhelming first impression that you get – from the exhausted but vibrant stump speech, the diverse nature of the crowd, the swell of the various applause lines – is that this is the candidate for real change. He has what Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes, elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same?

Look at the polls and forget ideology for a moment. What do Americans really want right now? Change. Who best offers them a chance to turn the page cleanly on an era most want to forget? It isn’t Clinton, God help us. Edwards is so 2004. McCain is a throwback. Romney makes plastic look real. Rudy does offer something new for Republicans – the abortion-friendly, cross-dressing Jack Bauer. But no one captures the sheer, pent-up desire for a new start more effectively than Obama," Andrew Sullivan, May 24, 2007.