8th Weekly Hardy Hinge Award - Special Introspective Edition
Each Friday weekend, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy. Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
- Flip
For allowing his move to prevent him from getting this week's edition up on time.
- Flip
For citing the above to try to excuse his delinquency.
- Flip
For using his delinquency as material for this week's edition.
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Posted by Flip on July 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
And The Winner Is...
This week's Special Tardy Hardy Hinge Award goes resoundingly to the ever-quizzical Senior Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, for the endless take-home exam he assigned SCOTUS hopeful John Roberts.
Chuck Schumer
70%
0%
30%
Congratulations, Senator! Way to show the competition up, Chuck.
This week's runners-up:
- Larry C. Johnson
For fanning the Plame. - Jonathan Chait
The winner of HHA6 put up a strong entry with his newest claptrap, but was unable to repeat.
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Posted by Flip on July 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
7th Weekly Hardy Hinge Award - Special Tardy Edition
Each Friday or Saturday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy. Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
- Senator Chuck Schumer
For questions, questions, questions.
- Larry C. Johnson
For fanning the Plame.
- Jonathan Chait
Last week's winner returns with more triumphantly irrelevant bombast.
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Posted by Flip on July 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
And the Winner Is...
In another landslide, this week's Special OpEdition Hardy Hinge Award goes to The L.A. Times:
| The New York Times | 8% |
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| The L.A. Times |  83% |
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| The Washington Post | 8% |
Jonathan Chait brought home the brass with his non-reality-reflecting commentary on the evils of something-d-o-o economics.
Congratulations, L.A. Times!
This week's runners-up:
For likening our brave servicewomen to prostitutes.
For uncommon resilience in their insistence that Gitmo is a chamber of horrors.
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Posted by Flip on July 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
6th Weekly Hardy Hinge Award - Special OpEd-ition
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts
through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to
nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.
Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public
by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
There were several instances when female soldiers [at Gitmo] rubbed up against prisoners and touched them inappropriately ... To us, that sounds a lot like what Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to ban from Times Square.
When last we left the Bush economic team and its defenders, they were predicting that tax cuts wouldn't cause revenue to drop very much at all. The naysayers, they insisted, were just a bunch of Keynesian liberals who failed to grasp the power of tax cuts to unleash the dynamism of investors and entrepreneurs.
Since then, revenues didn't just fall, they utterly collapsed.
(They did?)
The administration has been negligent (at best) in determining who in fact was being held at Guantanamo and in establishing the sometimes shocking conditions under which they were held.
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Posted by Flip on July 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
And the Scum Is...
Not surprisingly, the "Secret Organisation of Al Qaeda" came out on top in this weekend's polling, which asked, "Who is the least human scum of the Earth?"
| Inhuman Taliban scum | 30% |
| Inhuman European Al Qaeda scum | 48% |
| Inhuman Iraqi Al Qaeda scum | 22% |
Posted by Flip on July 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
5th Weekly Hardy Hinge Award - Special Edition
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts
through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to
nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.
Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public
by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
It seems like there's a little too much evil rearing its head this week to focus on the relative benigneries usually considered in this forum. Instead, this week, give us your pick for least human scum of the Earth. The nominees:
- Inhuman Taliban Scum
- Inhuman European Al Qaeda Scum
- Inhuman Iraqi Al Qaeda Scum
This week, feel free to vote for as many of the nominees as you like, as often as you like.
Posted by Flip on July 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
And the Winner Is...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi makes quick work of the competition to waltz away with this week's Hardy Hinge Award:
| Nancy Pelosi | 88% |
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| Richard Scrushy | 0% |
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| Silvio Berlusconi | 13% |
Official Proclamation, for immediate release:
"For her reliable knee-jerk reactionism and ability to blindly embrace a position simply because it's contrary, despite an utter lack of defensibility; and in particular, for her gross misunderstanding and misrepresentation of separation of powers with respect to the recent Supreme Court decision on eminent domain, and indeed of the implications of legislative matters under her own purview, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Nancy Pelosi."
Congratulations, Nancy!
This week's runners-up:
Richard Scrushy, for his apparently genuine belief that he might be restored to the CEO post at HealthSouth, now that a jury has acquitted him of 36 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
Silvio Berlusconi, for the Italian Prime Minister's gratuitous rebuke of the United States, demanding "full respect" for his country's sovereignty and summoning Ambassador Sembler to answer for the 2003 disappearance of a terror suspect in Milan.
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Posted by Flip on July 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
4th Weekly Hardy Hinge Award
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts
through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to
nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.
Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public
by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
- Nancy Pelosi
For her reliable knee-jerk reactionism and ability to blindly embrace a position simply because it's contrary, despite an utter lack of defensibility. In particular, we salute Pelosi's gross misunderstanding and misrepresentation of separation of powers with respect to the recent Supreme Court decision on eminent domain, and indeed of the implications of legislative matters under her own purview.
- Richard Scrushy
For his apparently genuine belief that he might be restored to the CEO post at HealthSouth, now that a jury has acquitted him of 36 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
- Silvio Berlusconi
For the Italian Prime Minister's gratuitous rebuke of the United States, demanding "full respect" for his country's sovereignty and summoning Ambassador Sembler to answer for the 2003 disappearance of a terror suspect in Milan.
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Posted by Flip on July 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
And the Winner Is...
Reluctant partiot Fatina Abdrabboh edges out Donna Brazile for this week's Hardy Hinge Award:
| Fatina Abdrabboh | 42% |
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| Donna Brazile (on behalf of Dems (on behalf of Ohio disenfranchisees)) | 38% |
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| hunter@dailykos.com | 8% |
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| SCOTUS Kelo Majority (write-in candidate) |
 8% |
Official Proclamation, for immediate release:
"For her op ed in the New York Times, especially her unyielding abuse of hackneyed metaphor, her keen recognition that everything's about her, her quirky ability to develop a heightened hope for America after a run-in with a sweaty Al Gore, and her clinging to the notion that that's still an A-list name-drop, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Fatina Abdrabboh."
Congratulations, Fatina!
This weekend's voting also saw a spontaneous write-in campaign for an insurgent candidate, the Supreme Court majority that ruled against Susette Kelo, expanding the purview of eminent domain.
This week's runners-up:
Ohio, specifically, Democratic officials on the topic of the 2004 election in Ohio. Even more specifically, DNC Voting Rights Institute Chairwoman Donna Brazile is the nominee of record, as the leader of the DNC task force that's been picking at Ohio's electoral wounds.
- hunter@dailykos.com, sometimes a title is worth a thousand words (which is good because it's followed by 849 words of worthless claptrap).
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Posted by Flip on June 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
3rd Weekly Hardy Hinge Award
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts
through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to
nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.
Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public
by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
- Fatina Abdrabboh
For her op ed in the New York Times, especially her unyielding abuse of hackneyed metaphor, her keen recognition that everything's about her, her quirky ability to develop a heightened hope for America after a run-in with a sweaty Al Gore, and her clinging to the notion that that's still an A-list name-drop. I think she'll find she fits in at Harvard far better than she thinks. (hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
- Ohio
Well, specifically, Democratic officials on the topic of the 2004 election in Ohio. Even more specifically, DNC Voting Rights Institute Chairwoman Donna Brazile is the nominee of record, as the leader of the DNC task force that's been picking at Ohio's electoral wounds.
- hunter@dailykos.com
Sometimes a title is worth a thousand words (which is good because it's followed by 849 words of worthless claptrap).
Posted by Flip on June 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
And the Winner Is...
Durbin takes this week's Hardy Hinge Award in a landslide!
| Joe Biden | 0% |
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| Deaniacs | 6% |
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| Dick Durbin | 94% |
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Official Proclamation, for immediate release:
"For his mightily unapologetic hate-America first attitude and his inability to distinguish between legitimate military POW's and illegal combatants/terrorists, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Senator Dick Durbin."
Congratulations, Dick.
This week's runners-up:
- Joe Biden, for his illogical insistence on the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, his stale fearmongering about a military draft, his inability to distinguish between "indefinite" and "permanent", and the lamest confirmation obstruction excuse to date.
- 16,577 Deaniacs, for astonishingly maintaining that the DNC Chairman speaks for them.
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Posted by Flip on June 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
2nd Weekly Hardy Hinge Award
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts sifts
through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to
nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.
Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public
by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Congratulations to this week's nominees! Vote for your pick below. The polls will remain open until 10 pm Eastern on Sunday.
- Joe Biden
For his illogical insistence on the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, his stale fearmongering about a military draft, his inability to distinguish between "indefinite" and "permanent", and the lamest confirmation obstruction excuse to date.
- 16,577 Deaniacs
For astonishingly maintaining that the DNC Chairman speaks for them.
- Dick Durbin
For his mightily unapologetic hate-America first attitude and his inability to distinguish between legitimate military POW's and illegal combatants/terrorists. After parading his disdain for our servicemen and military activities on the Senate floor, Durbin later publicly refused to retract or apologize for his statements. Rather, he noted, "This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure."
Posted by Flip on June 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Inaugural "Hardy Hinge Award"
This is a very special week here in the Suitably Flip bailiwick, as we're unveiling the winner of the first weekly Hardy Hinge Award.
Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts will sift through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy. Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).
Due to breaking events late Friday, we were regrettably unable to publish this week's nominees in time for their due vote. Happily, our team of highly-trained media analysts was able to reach the unanimous decision to summarily declare Amnesty International the honored recipient.
Official Proclamation, for immediate release:
"In light of recently published comments encouraging the foreign imprisonment of U.S. Government officials, in recognition of their uncommon opinions of U.S. terrorist detention facilities, in avowal of their of their willingness to recite unsubstantiated hooey* before the House Judiciary Committee, and in awe of their long-standing and bold aloofness toward all reason and rationale, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Amnesty International, USA."
This week's runners-up:
- Howard Dean, for his delightful and astoundingly consistent inability to concatenate words that form inoffensive statements.
- The ACLU, for their most recent reproach of the Patriot Act (capably refuted here and here).
Each nominee put up strong numbers this week, but Amnesty's recent body of work simply rises to a new level of detachment.
On behalf of the organization, Amnesty Chairman Chip Pitts will shortly receive the above-pictured hardware, the attractive and dependable S. Parker Brass-Plated Plain Bearing Full Mortise Template Hinge (fully swaged, screws and removable pin included, handsome acrylic case and mahogany base not).
May it bring Mr. Pitts and his organization a renewed coupling with reality.
Be sure to stop in to vote on the next round of nominees, to be posted Friday.
* During Friday's hearing on re-authorization of the Patriot Act, Pitts claimed that librarians in the U.S. have indeed been compelled (presumably by the FISA Court under Section 215) to divulge business records. Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner gave Pitts a deadline of 7 days to provide documentation of such to the committee. That gives him until the 17th...
Watch the full video of the hearing.
Posted by Flip on June 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack