Peggy Noonan and Keith Olbermann are pulling ahead in the latest vote count. But the race for poseur of the year has become a real nail-biter. It’s now between Bernard Henri Levy for this classic and Michael Ledeen for this. A reader suggested that I re-name the awards this year after the winners for 2007. So you get to immortalize the winners for twelve months as well. You can vote for all the awards here. Voting ends 5 pm Friday.
Hey, it’s Christmas. Time to recognize the most egregiously nasty, excessively partisan, hyperbolic leftists out there. It’s the Moore Award 2007. Check out the finalists here. And vote for your faves.
Will it be Bernard Henri Levy? Or Lewis Lapham? Stanley Crouch or Michael Ledeen? Software operators are standing by.
The Dish’s 2007 Poseur Of the Year contest has begun with a neck-and-neck struggle between Michael Ledeen and Bernard-Henri Levy. Check out the entries and vote for your favorite here.
Will Michelle Malkin win the Dish’s Yglesias Award for 2007? Or would that open up a tear in the time-space continuum? Your favorite foaming at the mouth wingnut and Sully-lover, Ace, is among the finalists as well. As are Huffpuffers Tish Durkin and Paul Jenkins from the left. It’s a veritable reasonableness-fest. But only you decide who wins.
Malkin Award Finalists – including Glenn Reynolds and Rush Limbaugh – here.
Moore Awards – featuring Eric Alterman and Keith Olbermann (in the lead right now) – here.
Poseurs of the Year – it’s a toss-up between Michael Ledeen and Bernard Henri Levy (with Lewis Lapham in the running) – here.
The criteria are here. What are you waiting for?
The contest for the Malkin Award (Award glossary here) includes strong entries from Rush Limbaugh, David Horowitz, Don Wildmon, Michael Savage and Glenn Reynolds. Then there’s this from Amy Proctor:
"You know, liberalism is a greater threat to freedom, democracy and human rights than these detainees. Maybe we should consider a swap."
Pick the winner here. Savage is off to a good start.
It’s that time of the year again, but this year, something a little different. In the past, a secret blue-ribbon panel has selected the finalists and winners of the various awards the Dish gives out each year. This year, I’m handing it over to you. Over the past twelve months, there have been dozens of nominations from readers for the Malkin, Moore, and Yglesias awards, and many for the Poseur of the Year. The blue-ribbon panel worked feverishly to select finalists in each category, and we’re giving readers a week to pick the winners. There are many big names and many not-so-big names to choose from. So have fun this Christmas week and be generous with the Christmas cheer.
You can read the definitions of the Awards here; and you can see the nominee finalists for the Malkin Award here, the Moore Award here, the Yglesias Award here and the Poseur of the Year here. Voting starts now and will conclude at 5 pm next Friday.
"I’m the Ali of today. I’m the Marvin Gaye of today. I’m the Bob Marley of today. I’m the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now," — R. Kelly.
"Bin Laden, al-Zawahri, and others fled at the beginning of the American bombing [in Afghanistan], to the point of abandoning their wives and families to be killed along with other innocent people. I think that a sharia court should be established, composed of reliable scholars, to hold these people accountable for their crimes — even if in absentia — so that those who are ignorant in their religion do not repeat this futility," – Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, senior al Qaeda theologian and Jihadist pioneer.
I don’t mean to make light of this. It seems like a big deal to me and hugely encouraging in the effort to expose and defang the credibility of al Qaeda among many Muslims. It’s a reminder that al Qaeda is often its worst enemy, as we’ve seen in Anbar and Jordan most spectacularly. Ed Morrissey notes:
Critics of Sharif claim that he has been tortured into his recantation. Undoubtedly, the Egyptian authorities have applied their usual techniques to Sharif, but Rohan Gunaranta says it matches a trend in Egypt over the last few years. The author of Inside al-Qaeda believes that Muslims have begun to see the disaster that 9/11 has brought to their standing in the world, and even the radicals want a new direction. The personal revelations of Zawahiri as a snitch may make it easier for them to make that transition, and for us to then destroy what remains of AQ.
There are times when the best strategy is to give the Jihadists enough rope to hang themselves in the Arab-Muslim world. Know hope.
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