Shut Up Fool! Awards- We Own The Podium Edition

The Canadians went into the games wishing to 'Own The Podium'. So far the podium at the XXI Winter Olympic games in Vancouver has witnessed a record setting performance by Team USA.

With three days of competition left, we have already eclipsed our total medal count record set at the 2006 Torino games for medals won in a non-US hosted winter games.

USA! USA! USA!

Okay, back to your regularly scheduled post.

It's Friday, and you know what that means TransGriot readers. It's time to see what fool or fools reached Olympian heights in stupidity and foolishness.

So let the games begin!

Our bronze SUF medal this week goes to Howard Kurtz, for perpetuation of the 'liberal media' lie. He makes the assertion that the Washington Post editorial pages are 'left-leaning' in response to criticism of Faux News all conservative all the time propaganda.

Knoxville, TN: Why do so many media outlets, when mentioning "Fox News", say "which some say has conservative views"? This seems to be the equivalent of saying "The Washington Post, which some say is a newspaper..."

Why is the rest of the press corp afraid to call a spade a spade, particularly when (as in this case) it is so virulently blatant?

Howard Kurtz: Because some say a distinction must be made between Fox's opinion shows (O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity) and its news programming. Just as you have to make a distinction between The Post's news pages and its left-leaning editorial page.

Yeah right, according to Media Matters.

Our silver SUF medal goes to the entire CPAC convention and it's weekend long display of conservative buffoonery, grade school level jokes, racism, homophobia, and logic defying soundbites.

And the SUF gold goes to senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), who cares more about the UK-South Carolina game than extending unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits past the February 28 deadline for thousands of unemployed workers in this state and across the country. He's the lone holdout among his other 99 colleagues and said on the Senate floor during the debate on this issue.

So what does he have to say for himself?

"I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00 and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they're the only team that has beat Kentucky this year."

And you wonder why I can't stand right wing Republicans.

Sen. Jim Bunning, shut up fool