With apologies to my mother. I promised her I wouldn’t be stridently partisan. So, I’ll just get this out of my system, and I promise to behave myself from now on.
1. Robert “Bob” Novak TRAITOR
2. George “Dubya” Bush CHIMP
3. Richard “Dick” Cheney PUPPY KILLER
4. Tom DeLay BUG KILLER
5. John Ashcroft CROONER
6. Denny Hastert PIG WRESTLER
7. Douglas Feith TRAITOR
8. Ann Coulter LIBERALS ARE TERRORISTS
9. Rush Limbaugh BIG FAT IDIOT
10. Bill O’Leilly FALAFEL IN THE SHOWER
11. Rick Santorum FECAL MATTER
12. Karl Rove GOEBBELS
13. Zell Miller BENEDICT ARNOLD
14. Sean Hannity LYING SCUM
15. Jerry Falwell BLAMES AMERICA FIRST, REALLY REALLY FIRST
16. Pat Robertson AGREES WITH FALWELL
17. Richard Perle SATAN’S MINION
18. Clarence Thomas SLAP THIS IN THE VCR, OR WAS IT A BETA?
19. Katherine Harris CRUELLA DeVIL
20. Newt Gingrich I CAN’T BE WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS CANCER
21. Ralph Reed DRUNK FRAT-BOY HYPOCRITE, SOUND FAMILIAR?
22. Phyllis Schafly RABID NUTCASE
23. Sen. Jim Inhofe OUTRAGED BY THE OUTRAGE
24. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave GAYS ARE TERRORISTS
25. Condoleezza Rice YES SIR, IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE A TERRIBLE PILOT
2. George “Dubya” Bush CHIMP
3. Richard “Dick” Cheney PUPPY KILLER
4. Tom DeLay BUG KILLER
5. John Ashcroft CROONER
6. Denny Hastert PIG WRESTLER
7. Douglas Feith TRAITOR
8. Ann Coulter LIBERALS ARE TERRORISTS
9. Rush Limbaugh BIG FAT IDIOT
10. Bill O’Leilly FALAFEL IN THE SHOWER
11. Rick Santorum FECAL MATTER
12. Karl Rove GOEBBELS
13. Zell Miller BENEDICT ARNOLD
14. Sean Hannity LYING SCUM
15. Jerry Falwell BLAMES AMERICA FIRST, REALLY REALLY FIRST
16. Pat Robertson AGREES WITH FALWELL
17. Richard Perle SATAN’S MINION
18. Clarence Thomas SLAP THIS IN THE VCR, OR WAS IT A BETA?
19. Katherine Harris CRUELLA DeVIL
20. Newt Gingrich I CAN’T BE WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS CANCER
21. Ralph Reed DRUNK FRAT-BOY HYPOCRITE, SOUND FAMILIAR?
22. Phyllis Schafly RABID NUTCASE
23. Sen. Jim Inhofe OUTRAGED BY THE OUTRAGE
24. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave GAYS ARE TERRORISTS
25. Condoleezza Rice YES SIR, IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE A TERRIBLE PILOT
26. Fred Barnes OOPS, I LIED AGAIN
27. William “Bill” Bennett MORALS CZAR WITH A GAMBLING PROBLEM
28. Rupert Murdoch WHAT’S WORSE? MY NEWS CHANNEL, OR MY FALL LINEUP?
29. Donald Rumsfeld DEAD ENDER
30. William Rehnquist I PROMISE NOT TO SELL MY HOUSES TO JEWS
31. Alan Keyes IS MAKING SENSE?
32. Ollie North I FEEL SO BAD ABOUT LYING TO CONGRESS, I THINK I’LL RUN FOR A SENATE SEAT
33. Lynn Cheney AUTHOR OF SOFT LESBIAN PORN
34. Scooter Libby TRAITOR
35. Paul Wolfowitz THIS WAR WILL COST 1 OR 2 BILLION, TOPS
36. Jeb Bush JEB TO BLACKS, DROP DEAD
37. William Safire KERRY SOLD ANTHRAX TO OSAMA
38. Antonin Scalia CLIMBING STAIRS IS GOOD EXERCISE FOR THE HANDICAPPED
39. William “Bill” Kristol I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO TEL AVIV…
40. Rev. James Dobson JUST READ HIS COLUMNS
41. Trent Lott RACIST CHEERLEADER
42. Sen. Jon Kyl DIMMEST BULB IN THE SENATE
43. Kate O’Bierne TALKING HEAD TOOL
44. Pat Buchanan HOLOCAUST? WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
45. Porter Goss HIT MAN
46. Rep. Henry Hyde MY ADULTERY GOOD, YOUR ADULTERY BAD
47. Bob Dole IT WAS JUST 3 SCRATCHES
48. Neil Kavuto ENORMOUS HEAD
49. Rep. Heather Wilson NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN MY NIPPLES
50. Michelle Malken DEFENDER OF INTERNMENT CAMPS
27. William “Bill” Bennett MORALS CZAR WITH A GAMBLING PROBLEM
28. Rupert Murdoch WHAT’S WORSE? MY NEWS CHANNEL, OR MY FALL LINEUP?
29. Donald Rumsfeld DEAD ENDER
30. William Rehnquist I PROMISE NOT TO SELL MY HOUSES TO JEWS
31. Alan Keyes IS MAKING SENSE?
32. Ollie North I FEEL SO BAD ABOUT LYING TO CONGRESS, I THINK I’LL RUN FOR A SENATE SEAT
33. Lynn Cheney AUTHOR OF SOFT LESBIAN PORN
34. Scooter Libby TRAITOR
35. Paul Wolfowitz THIS WAR WILL COST 1 OR 2 BILLION, TOPS
36. Jeb Bush JEB TO BLACKS, DROP DEAD
37. William Safire KERRY SOLD ANTHRAX TO OSAMA
38. Antonin Scalia CLIMBING STAIRS IS GOOD EXERCISE FOR THE HANDICAPPED
39. William “Bill” Kristol I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO TEL AVIV…
40. Rev. James Dobson JUST READ HIS COLUMNS
41. Trent Lott RACIST CHEERLEADER
42. Sen. Jon Kyl DIMMEST BULB IN THE SENATE
43. Kate O’Bierne TALKING HEAD TOOL
44. Pat Buchanan HOLOCAUST? WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
45. Porter Goss HIT MAN
46. Rep. Henry Hyde MY ADULTERY GOOD, YOUR ADULTERY BAD
47. Bob Dole IT WAS JUST 3 SCRATCHES
48. Neil Kavuto ENORMOUS HEAD
49. Rep. Heather Wilson NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN MY NIPPLES
50. Michelle Malken DEFENDER OF INTERNMENT CAMPS
Try the links, they prove my point.
I just want to know one thing: DId Cheney kill a puppy?
I saw Phyllis Schafly on TV the other night and couldn’t believe she’s still alive. She was old when I was a teenager (a while ago) and when I used to see John Birch literature on Republicans’ coffee tables.
he has a bowl of them on living room table. He eats ’em like chips.
My God, twenty-five years ago I wrote my master’s thesis about sexist labels for women. I see even progressives haven’t progressed much. You did a pretty good job hitting most.
it’s totally over the top. I’ll change any label that’s offensive. Although Ann Coulter deserves something truly horrible.
Although Ann Coulter deserves something truly horrible.
Lying, Racist, Homophobic scumbag?
I seriously think the woman needs an intervention.
I didn’t mean to use well-worn labels. However the whole thing is a riff on Jon Stewart’s great comic piece on Bob Novak being a ‘douchebag of freedom’. So that part is pretty entrenched.
Are you saying you are offended.
I was, if you weren’t at all the feminine tags, dear booman put to this list, especially the d-bag title, as I cannot bring myself to use the full word in this comment.
Are you saying you are offended.
Yes.
I didn’t intend to cause offense to anyone but the targets of the attack and those that admire them.
Good idea.
Good idea, Mr. Booman, we don’t want to have to troll rate you off this blog.
We will forgive you if you promice to never do this again. Cause we still love you.
For heaven’s sake… Your post was spot on. Get back to work on some new material. They are all douchebags so far as I’m concerned. And, really, the only folks who can truly be offended by such reference are the esteemed Lord and Lady Douchebag.
As for whore, unless I’m mistaken man-whore is now common vernacular, and just plain “whore” was used to describe guys long before Duce Bigelow popularized the label. Its a cross gender term.
I especially like seeing that subject line coming up in the current comment section,(not).
And I for one am sick of all the derragatory feminine references in comments and in life.
How about using some male references, booman, I’m sure there are a few you can find, or better yet,, take it out of the sexual area completely, please.
The diary below is not on the front page, and has received only two comments.
U.S. Soldiers Escape Prosecution for Rape
of people may have seen it at dKos where it is near the top of the recommend list.
to receive more attention here than there.
I took it down. The reference is to a very humorous, in my opinion, skit on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in reference to Robert Novak.
Here’s the explanation from Wikipedia:
Robert Novak was going through a series of controversies around this time. He had revealed in 2003 that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, and in March 2004, he insinuated on CNN’s Crossfire that Richard Clarke had revealed government mistakes in his book dealing with the war against terrorism because he resented Condoleezza Rice’s position as a black woman on the cabinet. Novak also asserted that Senator John Kerry should be assumed guilty until proven innocent of the accusations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Upon seeing these statements, Stewart labeled Novak “a Douchebag of Liberty,” and continued to repeat the phrase several times afterward whenever Novak did something he considered foolish or hypocritical.
I didn’t see the skit.
I may not have reacted in the way I did had it not been for the fact that you used so many sexist labels. I was just a bit shocked to see this coming from you…of who I think so highly.
I appreciate your response. Thanks.
intend to seem sexist.
Katherine Harris is usually compared to the character Cruella DeVil from 101 Dalmations. Cruella is a character within the ‘witch’ archetype.
Ann Coulter and Armstrong Williams are media whores. Perhaps ‘prostitutes’ would be less gender specific.
And there are no gender neutral equivalents to ‘bitch’; perhaps that is proof that the term enforces a double standard, criticizing a universal human behavior only when exhibited by women.
In any case, I hope you can tell by my style and vision for this site that I am far from a sexist and am very interested in helping women advance in politics and have their rightful place setting policy.
Yes, I can now see where you got your references. Had you used whore, bitch and witch to describe the men on your list, I might not have felt it was sexist. As it was, only the women were labeled this way. See what I’m saying?
however:
Fecal Matter
Chimp
Lying Scum
Drunk Frat-boy hypocrite
etc. were plenty insulting.
I accept your criticism, I’m just trying to explain.
however:
Fecal Matter
Chimp
Lying Scum
Drunk Frat-boy hypocrite
etc. were plenty insulting.
Those labels aren’t sexual in nature. Except for “Frat-boy hypocrite”, you could use those terms for either sex. When you use the term “bitch” or “witch” to describe a female person, it’s almost like using the “N” word to describe a black person. For some reason, in this society, it still is permissible to denigrate women in this way. Of course I understand the urge to do so in the case of Ann Coulter, a truly vile human being. I think more accurate descriptive words could be used for her, however.
I accept your criticism, I’m just trying to explain.
Criticizing has such a negative ring. Let’s just say I’m pointing out and possibly educating. I accept your explanation.
BooMan
With all future insults I think you need to be more gender balanced. May i suggest:
I am available for additional suggestions
and welcome to the site.
That is one expansive and ambituous reading list.
Good thing the Hotlist is there…
good start, but you forgot Bill “I can diagnose better in person outside my specialty than any doctor on th eplanet even though I’m not practicing except on cats” Frist…
Maybe you’ll have to edit his epithet for length.
Whoops, fingers got ahead of brain there–should have been “I can diagnose better by video outside my specialty than any doctor on the planet even though I’m not practicing except on cats”