Category: Awards

“As a Christian organization, Focus on the Family Action encourages pro-family policies. As such, we respect the desire of the Ugandan people to shield their nation from the promotion of homosexuality as morally equivalent to one-man, one-woman marriage. That said, the purpose of laws is to make societies safer, and there is legitimate concern that the legislation being debated in Uganda will incite violence against homosexuals. That is morally unacceptable, as is enacting the death penalty for homosexuals, which some versions of this bill are reported to require,” – Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family

And here it is: The runner-up is after the jump:

Another run-away victory, this time for Bill O'Reilly's gaffe backing the public option in health insurance reform:

"I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have a option, that if they don’t like their health insurance, if it’s too expensive, they can’t afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks."

Honorary mention goes to Katha Pollitt for this piece of common sense on Polanski.

By a mile, it's Glenn Beck, with 42 percent of the near 8,000 votes in this category. His award-winning statement:

“We call them progressives now, but back in Samuel Adams’ day, they used to call them tyrants. A little later, I think they were also called slave owners."

Cartman lost! And this ravishing stop-motion creation won in the final stretch: Still, Cartman’s version of “Poker Face” – the best cover yet of that song, aided by Lady GaGa and Christopher Walken – was a very close second and deserves a second airing:

This one wasn't even close, with Rush Limbaugh gaining a whopping 50 percent of the votes for this:

"This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and return to it to the nation’s quote, “rightful owners.” Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on."

The race-baiting of this bigot took on new force this year. A distant second: Newsmax's John L. Perry for this.

Drum roll on the nutty left: it's MSNBC's Ed Shultz, for this beaut:

"[T]he Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They'd rather make money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her. That's how the insurance companies make money — by denying the coverage."

Runner-up: Gore Vidal.

For the first time, we have a