(POLL) "Who is the most offensive political pundit in t

[Elfdart]

WTF is Stuart? Does anyone else get the impression that the Bill choose lesser known liberal pundits just so all the conservatives would vote for Moore?

Stuart Smalley is a character from Saturday Night Live played by Al Franken, the guy who exposed Bill O'LIE-ly as a lying dickhead. O'LIE-ly claimed on numerous occasions that he had won two Peabody Awards for journalism when he worked on some tabloid TV show. Franken pointed out that neither O'LIE-ly nor the show had EVER won a single Peabody -let alone two.

O'LIE-ly now claims that he meant to say that it was a Polk award. Well the show did win a Polk award -long after O'LIE-ly left the show and not anything he was involved in. Franken confronted the dumbfuck at a book expo over his bullshit and the best Mr. No-Spin Zone could do was scream "SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" and make an anti-Semitic jab at Franken, offering him a bagel.

It was because of this that Al Franken put a picture of O'LIE-ly on the cover of his book, Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right. Fox (at O'LIE-ly's behest) tried to sue Franken and the judge laughed the case out of court. Since then, Al Franken named his radio show The O'Franken Factor .

O'LIE-ly's only comeback has been to call Franken "Stuart Smalley".

[Elfdart]

Michael Wiener was an "alternative medicine" huckster. He then decided to try his hand at right-wing radio, the favored repository for people who fail at their original professions. But Wiener is such a homophobe that he decided he had to change his name to MICHAEL SAVAGE.

I prefer to call him The Savage Weiner!

[CelesKnight]

IIRC, he thinks that Bush and the rest of the Republicans are all leftists. Which should give you an idea of his political views.

Are those his exact words?

It was a paraphrase based on listening to the show on a few occasions. However, for an example of his attacks on Bush (because Bush isn't conservative enough on immigration) see this article:

Tonight Savage called Bush a liberal and described him as part of the "enemy within" that is destroying the nation.

[Spice Runner]

I've listened to the savage nation on the radio a few times. This guy keeps going on about how this county is going to hell in a handbasket.
Savage is a complete lunatic.

Question for the group: which clearly conservative pundit and which clearly liberal pundit do you consider least offensive?

Curtis Sliwa. He cohosts a talk show in the mornings. He's a conservative and the other cohost Ron Kooby is a liberal. It's a very entertaining show and not at all offensive.

[MKSheppard]

Yes Shep that's equivalent to calling for the execution of your own countrymen because they have a different political outlook as you do.

FOund Moores quote:

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"

Michael Moore

[Joe]

There's this gem too, on the people who died in 9/11:

"They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC and the plane's destination of California – these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!"

[RedImperator]

The conservatives are going to win this because conservatives have the popular lunatic market all locked up. You have to go deep into the bowels of academia to find the really insane liberals, who are just as batty as the likes of Savage and Coultier but get no air time.