Who did you vote for Media Whore of the Year?

[WillyBrandt]

The Horse is back; long live the Horse. It looks like Russert is leading--perhaps for objective reasons, perhaps because his is at the top of the list.

Who did you vote for as Whore of the Year, and why? Please list actual whores on the list of whores at MWO. There are a lot of worthy candidates that went unincluded. (Cokie-cough-cough-Rob-cough-erts)

Vote here: http://www.mediawhoresonline.com

(I voted Howie Kurtz. That smug, stupid, dishonest bastard. Personifies whorishness is his conflicts of interest, in his pretense of objectivity, in the fact that TNR approvingly quotes him...)

[karlschneider]

1. None of the above. Blitzer.

[WillyBrandt]

2. Yes, but I mean on MWO's poll...

Blitzer, alas, is not a choice.

[WillyT]

6. Oh, Ok, Howie Then !!!

As a supposed critic of the media, he's like the fox watching the hen house!

Get it? FOX??? LOL, sometimes I just crack myself up!

Anywho, after that it would be David Brooks, but then, whaddaya expect from a rightwing hack???

:shrug:

[WillyT]

3. Fred Barnes, Hands Down !!!

:puke:

[leftofthedial]

4. Novakula

He did around the world on Karl Rove in print and live on TV!

[rukidn]

5. I voted Ted Koppel because I like his hairdo.

:)

[muchacho]

7. Whores all

I believe Tweety knowingly allows liars to lie and parrots the Sunday morning talking points.

And fuc* the Bills!

[blm]

8. The most dangerous whore...Frank Luntz.

BushInc. uses him as their chief propagandist. He sets the propaganda agenda for all the rest of the whores.

He studies the electorate like lab rats.

[hatrack]

12. Seconding that emotion

Luntz is the uberwhore who offered GOP all the soothing code words they need to deal with their environmental policy, uh, problems.

He also warned them them that the window of doubt on climate change is "rapidly closing." But in the mean time, soft-pedal and lie all you want while you still can.

Ten pounds of lying shit in five-pound bag.

[depakid]

9. That was a tough choice

Each one of them is richly deserving of the dishonor (as were many others not listed). In the end, I had to go with that slimy weasel Russert, because every single time I tuned "meet the pressitute" in this year, I regretted it.

[WillyBrandt]

10. kick

[Cleita]

11. I voted for Susan Estrich.

Why? Because she is supposed to be one of us, yet she stabs all Democrats in the back regularly. I would have voted for Tammy Bruce for the same reason, if she had been on the list.

[The Zanti Regent]

13. Estrich has the hots for Arnold

That alone decided my vote for her!

[eissa]

24. Yep

That was my reasoning for voting for her. We can always blow off the others (Will, Russert) because we know their position. But it's worse when it's (supposedly) one of your own.

[CatWoman]

14. who else? when you look up media whore in the dictionary

[Guaranteed]

15. No Dennis Miller?

Damn. I coulda sworn that he's become the biggest whore of them all.

[UTUSN]

16. From this Group, G.E.RUSSERT, But

(repeat: ) there's a distinction to be made:: Authentic wingnuts, like several in this group----LUNTZ, KRAUTHAMMER, WILL----are NOT being "whores", they are being true to themselves. They are actually the "johns". The true "whores" are the ones selling(-out)--- RUSSERT, ESTRICH, Tweety. It's not a monolithic "whoredom", that ANYBODY who is against us is selling.

[blm]

22. Luntz would be the "pimp" then, becausre he tells 'em what to say.

.

[UTUSN]

23. Hi, blm, Good to See Ya

Take care of yourself in that '04 forum.

[worldgonekrazy]

17. I voted for George Will

Because I just hate the son of a bitch.

One question though: where the hell was Novak? I would think that outing a fucking CIA agent would get you a nomination.

[Lindsey]

18. Russert

simply sickens me. The way he intentionally will ask a freeper a question so that they can lie and make ma & pa sixpack think..."oh, okay, that makes since." I think there's a special place in hell for him. Also Chris Matthews, Bill O'Reilly...God, there's just too many to mention. Also, here in L.A. there's a couple of guys who do a drive home talk show named John & Ken. They are just evil to the core, especially John. They just hammer the underdog and will do ANYTHNG to get ratings.

[rumguy]

19. I voted Russert

because he's done the most damage...although some of those otheres are definetaly worse on an individual level.

Ted Koppel is the least offensive.

[VOX]

21. Agreed on Russert...

The worst of the worst.

[rumguy]

20. I can't believe Koppel made the list but not Blitzer or Woodward.

What is up with that? Any explanations?