The 2012 Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

I know some of you are anxious to watch the Oscar telecast, but it's time to announce the winners of the 2012 edition of the Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Awards. 

These folks will be retired from weekly Shut Up Fool Award consideration unless they say or do something so jacked up I have to call them on it or they decide to run for the presidency or a higher political office.

And now, enough jibber-jabber.   Here are the 2012 honorees.


A group award for the Gendertrender radfem trans hate blog

Michelle Malkin

Dan Savage

Michael Savage

Chuck Knipp (AKA Shirley Q Liquor)

2012 Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Awards Post Sunday

Ever since I started the weekly TransGriot Shut Up Fool Awards on January 30, 2009 to spotlight the idiocy and stupidity of the fools around us, it has been a popular feature here.  Some of the input for the weekly award winners come from my readers as well. 

There are some people who just say stupid stuff so regularly I had to establish a Shut Up Fool of the Year Award to honor them. 

In 2010 I started giving out during Oscar weekend the Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Awards in which I retiree the honorees from weekly Shut Up Fool award consideration for their body of stupidity work unless they say something that's so off the chain or foul I got to call them out on it.

In 2011 I expanded it to five honorees, and actually had to unretire one because she ran for the GOP presidential nomination and was saying jacked up stuff on the campaign trail on an almost weekly basis..

With Oscar weekend coming again on Sunday, it's time to select the 2012 Class of Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Award winners.   On Sunday you'll find out the five people who will join Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and Michele Bachmann in earning this honor they so richly deserve.

So when you get bored watching the Oscars, surf on over to TransGriot on Sunday to see who will be the 2012 Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Award honorees class.

Shut Up Fool Awards- Houston Rodeo Kickoff Weekend Edition

It's that time of year when we Houstonians pull the cowboy hats and boots out of storage and women pull the fashion forward western themed wear out of the closets.   Other folks take some of that vacation time and use it so they can participate in the trail rides that will meet up at Memorial Park tonight and eventually form up for the rodeo parade on Saturday.

Many others will have Reliant Stadium's parking lot as their destination for the World Championship Barbecue cookoff and the carnival that will occupy the lot for the next few weeks or have tickets for one of the concerts that will happen during a now 85 year old tradition that is quintessentially Houston 

It's the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, or as it's known now, Houston Rodeo.  It not only is three  weeks from February 28-March 18 where we get in touch with our western roots, it also raises funds for the college scholarships that the organization has given out to thousands of Texas kids during its 85 year run.        

One of the traditions as I mentioned are the trail rides of varying lengths which African-American and Latino Texans participate in.  The two African-American ones are the Prairie View and Northeastern ones, and the Latino Los Vaqueros one

But the World Championship Bar-B-Que Cookoff is the one I love in which cooking teams compete for prizes.  When I worked at CAL there was a group of guys that competed every year called the Choice Cookers who worked from a pit in the shape of a Boeing 777.  The BBQ was the bomb as well and that event is transpiring this weekend. 
 
And oh yeah, speaking of roasting things over an open fire, time for me to segue into our usual Friday business of selecting of Shut Up Fool award winner.  

This week's list of fools was long.  There are the usual group nominations for Fox Noise and the Republican Party and the National Enquirer for publishing a pic of Whitney Houston in her casket.  We also have Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Cathy Brennan, Gov Bob McDonnell (R-VA), Gov Scott Walker (R-WI), Lou Dobbs, Willard Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Steve Doocy,  Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA),  Nancy Grace, Frank Lunz, Franklin Graham, Callista Gingrich and Elisabeth Hasselbeck 

Honorable mention goes to Indiana Republifool state Rep. Bob Morris for hating on the Girl Scouts.
 
The winner this week is birther Gordon Warren Epperly.  

Hot on the heels (pun intended) of birther queen Orly Taitz's failure to get the POTUS kicked off the Georgia ballot,  Epperly filed a lawsuit in Palin Country seeking to keep the president off the ballot for get this, because he is 'mulatto' 

As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a "natural born citizen" of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the "mulatto" race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of "Negro" or "mulatto" had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.

 
Dude, did you miss the Two Minute Obama Hate at your local Tea Klux Klan meeting?
 
The US Constitution's 14th Amendment not only defines citizenship, but grants civil and political rights born to persons born in the United States or abroad to at least one American parent.  In addition, the 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 Dred Scott decision that held that slaves or their descendants like moi could never be US citizens. 

If legal sanity prevails, that case has as much chance of being successful as the Trans Exterminationalist Twins winning the Miss Universe crown.

Gordon Warren Epperly, shut up fool!

Shut Up Fool Awards- NBA All Star Weekend Edition

We recently received the wonderful news here that the 2013 NBA All Star Game will be played on Sunday, February 17 in beautiful downtown Houston.  

In addition to the 62nd NBA All-Star Game being played at the Toyota Center, it will also host the NBA Rising Stars Challenge and NBA All-Star Saturday Night.   The NBA All-Star Jam Session, the hugely popular interactive basketball celebration, will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
It'll be the third NBA All-Star celebration hosted by Houston, and my hometown proudly hosted the event in 1989 and most recently in 2006.

So now that you are aware of it, you have a year to book some cheap airline flights and come on down and experience some Lone Star hospitality.  You may even see me wandering around downtown and the George R Brown with my Rockets gear on. 

This year's edition of NBA All Star weekend is happening in Orlando on February 24-26 and I'll probably watch a little bit of it along with the skills contests that Saturday.

It's also Friday, and as you longtime TransGriot readers know that means it's time for the TransGriot to select this week's Shut Up Fool Award winner.

It's tome for Moni to determine with you TransGriot readers help what fool, fool or group of fools continue to exhibit All Star level stupidity and ignorance and deserve to be recognized for it.

These SUF awards also continue to point out what my Shut Up Fool inspirational mascot Mr. T says, fools are everywhere.

So enough jibber-jabber, time to get to SUF business. 

This week's nominees are Fox News Noise, the Republican Party, National Organization for Marriage, the GOP House leadership, Pat Buchanan BuKKKanan  PETA, Eric Bolling, Robert Vandervoort, Rosalie Porter, Peter Brimelow, Herman Cain, Andrea Tantaros, Dana Loesch, Ted Nugent, Gretchen Carlson, Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA), Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Gov Scott Walker (R-WI), Gov Chris Christie (R-NJ), and Rep Steve King (R-IA). .   

Honorable mentions goes to New York Magazine for their racist graphic of President Obama accompanying a Dan Amira story on gay marriage and LA shock jocks John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou for disrespecting Whitney Houston by calling her a 'crack ho' .  

This week's Shut Up Fool Award winner is Rick Santorum's presidential campaign megabucks money man, Foster Freiss.  

He opened this mouth during an MSNBC interview yesterday with Andrea Mitchell to make this jaw dropping comment that momentarily rendered the veteran journalist speechless.  

'You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.'  

He (and Santorum) then cluelessly tried to pawn off his conservaignorance as a joke during a later MSNBC interview with Lawrence.O'Donnell



I think it's time for the Republican Party to change their party mascot from the elephant to a woolly mammoth with a Klan hood to more accurately reflect where their party is in 2012, building that bridge back to the 20th century BCE.

Foster Friess, shut up Fool!.  .

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