Idiot of the Day

[NotMiki]

The Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, January 27:

"Concern about keeping women as newspaper readers has been an issue for many years"
"Post editors are concerned that young women with children are not becoming Post readers as they get older."
"A Post task force is looking at the problem and will make recommendations."

The Washington Post, March 2:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902992.html

[Cotigo]

Ha-ha.  Misogyny.  Though it seemed like a fair admonishment of morons screaming and fainting overa political candidate at first, it just got ridiculous toward the end.

[Grefter]

Meh that sounds like valid critique to me.  Since when has anyone found trusting someone with such an obvious cult of personality surrounding him in politics?

Obama sounds like he has good policies, but responses like that are not motivated by politics.

[Cmdr_King]

The critique is valid enough, it's just the extended rant that men really were far the better sex and deserve power of women that's mind-numbing.  Also ignores the fact that all of politics is not really any better despite the lack of fangirlish fainting, but that's excusable in the face of what is presumably satirical (rant is still a little excessive by those standards though.)

[Grefter]

Look at what has become of the results of the second wave of Feminism and ask yourself if any modern Feminist can help be anything but a little bit cynical and divulge into depressed satirical ranting sometimes.

[InfinityDragon]

Seconding Grefter on the rant/critique being valid. All the psychological principles behind it are correct. It's a bit over the top, but that's what makes it funner to read.

[NotMiki]

To me, this feels like someone who's always known to her very core that her personal failings are due to her gender, and here come some swooning girls and an ugly old cow who thinks she's good enough to stand with the men to make her case.  It's almost embarrassing to read, it seems to be such a personal reflection of inferiority (and her line about how she knows this because she's a dumb woman too is about as Uncle Tom as it gets).  Her screed about Clinton is what really gets me, though.  Worst, stupidest campaign ever?  Has she never heard of Giuliani, Thompson, or Kerry?  Bad debater for presenting details to health care proposals that are the only major difference between her and Obama's policy platforms?  These are things that can only be seen in reality via a misogynistic lens.

[Grefter]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=23101

Developer of Titan Quest blames piracy of TQ from getting them the funding to make a new game.  Let me just go on the record for saying even with the retail version, the original release of TQ was fairly buggy, unintersting Diablo clone that had way less polish than D2 did at release (D2 being a game that had a patch before it even reached Australian soil, which was a whopping 3 days after US sales I believe).

Now to give a good Codex quote.

TQ actualy did make money
They were closed down because they couldn't find the publisher for their multiplatform RPG , but somehow they did manage to secure funding for the three PC projects they've made. OMG! It;s all PC's fault we couldn't find funding for our console project

Everything written by Section 8 is gold and probably worthy of a misc link instead of IotD.

[VySaika]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15513835/detail.html

[Cotigo]

That's not really that stupid.  It seems like he wasn't drinking--from the sounds of the article, the breathalyser clocked in that high either due to mouthwash or cough syrup.  From personal experience, I can tell you that mouthwash on the breath easily fucks up a breathalyser, and cough syrup would skew the results also, I'd imagine, given the nature of the stuff.  Additionally, he passed all the field sobriety tests, which... hell, at ~.2?  is almost impossible.  Breathalysers aren't infallible. 

I wonder if you even read the article or just saw the headline and threw it here.

[Shale]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/us.olympics.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

US Congressman from Virginia (in other words, this is Super's fault) wants to ban government officials from attending the Olympics because they're in China. He doesn't want to stand in the way of any trade agreements or increased debt or anything else that actually affects anything, mind, just the Olympics, which he terms "the genocide Olympics of 2008." And as a twofer, the president would be exempt from the bill, not because he accepts the necessity of the head of state putting in an appearance but because Bush is the Commander-in-Chief and therefore above puny mortal laws.

[Dhyerwolf]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_go_ot/dear_taxpayer

Budget deficit? What's that?

[NotMiki]

And as a twofer, the president would be exempt from the bill

we call this the preemptive signing statement.

[superaielman]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336593,00.html

Idiot of the day? Nay. Month? Perhaps. Year? Sounds right. Scroll down to the Brett Favre part.

Ingraham: "Lol Favre isn't manly for crying at his press conference". Naturally O'Realiy, alwasy a bastion of complete and utter fucking idiocy, agreed. And naturally said that -he- wouldn't cry when his Fox TV show got canceled.

How -dare- you have the gall to say this:

What happened to John Wayne and Ronald Reagan and Lou Gehrig and this idea of, you know, leaving the stage gracefully, you know, maybe having a little tear in your eye? But I mean, the sobs, they just never stopped, and it was kind of funny. Sorry. It was amusing.

O'REILLY: Not all of us will cry upon retirement, Laura.

INGRAHAM: Bill, when the last "Talking Points" is done, if that happens, heaven forbid, will you be weeping uncontrollably? Will that happen?

O'REILLY: There is, to quote Tom Hanks, there's no crying in the No Spin Zone, at least not on the host's part. The guests, they cry.

I am left without words. Wait, no! You fucking idiots is a start. How dare you mock a man who spent a decade and a half giving his heart and soul to his job, who helped turn around an entire -state-, let alone the Packers franchise. Who played with a badly sprained ankle, broken bones in his body, and the million other things he did. You dare to mock and degrade him and all he did because he cried a bit? BECAUSE CRYING IS APPARENTLY SO UNMANLY IT DESERVES MOCKING SOMEONE ON NATIONAL TV!! YES!!

A few tears makes him a better man (and woman) than you two rabble rousing hate spewing pieces of human trash will ever be. I'm not even touching how utterly fucking wrong and fucked up it is to mock any person for crying. You're going to base the definition of manly off an ideal that never fucking existed? You goddamned tunnel visioned failures are a fucking embarassment to your country, party, and probably your mothers. 

PS: O'Reailly, kill yourself for acting like such a high handed asshole, and Ingraham, however many dicks you sucked for that new nose it wasn't enough. Go take a bat to your face and start over, because it looks like a bear shit on your face and dipped your hair in bleach.

[Hunter Sopko]

It at least invalidates the Clinton sob controversy. "A man wouldn't be criticized/laughed at for his tears."

O'Reilly totally fucked that Feminist BS up. O'Reilly 1, Feminists 0.

[Shale]

Elliot Spitzer.

Just...what the fuck. What the fucking fuck.

[AAA]

I just take comfort in the fact that people will remember Favre as a good football player, and more importantly, a good man long after O'Reilly is dead and gone and his stupid show along with him. Have a laugh while you can, Bill. It's all you'll ever have as far as Favre and his legacy is concerned.

[Hunter Sopko]

The man liked his hookers, Shale. Give him that.

[Shale]

He did. In which case he maybe shouldn't have made prosecuting them part of his public image.

[superaielman]

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-stspit0311,0,2330333.story Good link about the story.

[Shale]

http://www.wtvq.com/content/midatlantic/tvq/video.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2008-03-05-0011.html

To complete the trifecta of political figures being retarded.

[Cotigo]

Really?  Of all the foul, moronic things O'Rielly has said?  Of all the ill informed verbal diatribes that have passed through that cock-goblin's lips, him making fun of some sports icon crying is what earns him idiot of the year?

I've heard a lot of stupid things said regarding sports, but Super, that takes the fuckin' cake. It's football.  Nobody should give that much of a shit in the first place.

[superaielman]

The entire rant about 'manhood' and his ideal of it is incredibly fucking stupid on every level and fails to grasp at even a basic level what actually being a man or caring about something is.

Belitting -anyone's-  life's work for a normal human reaction is just mind boggling. It's more than usual political stupidity which he excels at.

[Grefter]

A hard left crazy bigot on Fox News turns out to be a misogynist with unrealistic concepts of masculinity?  I am truely shocked.  I was certain he was in touch with his feminine side and wore frilly pink underwear like Brett Favre clearly does because he cried like a complete and total pussy girly man, or as they say in his (private) parts, a mangina.

Waaahhhhh I played my game well and with greivous body injuries.  I will have you know that real men run away from confrontational arguments and turn off guest's microphones while calling them Nazi Communists who are the cause for all that is wrong in the world.

Bill O'Reilly's Meat Spin Zone is sadly going to be more famous than a good football player thanks to the Internet and the Meat Spin Zone getting mocked on the international stage.

[Cotigo]

I'm not saying it's not stupid.  I'm just saying that far stupider has been said by that man and most people are way past the outrage stage when hearing about Billy's rants.  Getting all pissy about them now, when he's spewing out tripe about some football player, when he's consistently said far worse of far, far more meaningful matters for the past 6-7 years, is pretty dumb.