Announcing the 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes: The year's stinkiest media performances

[DeepModem Mom]

Alternet: Announcing the 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
December 30, 2008

Now in their 17th year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation's stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most-deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit.

And now, the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008:

HOT FOR OBAMA PRIZE -- MSNBC's Chris Matthews: This award sparked fierce competition, but the cinch came on the day Barack Obama swept the Potomac Primary in February -- when Chris Matthews spoke of "the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."

BEYOND PARODY PRIZE -- Fox News: In August, a FoxNews.com teaser for the "O'Reilly Factor" program said: "Obama bombarded by personal attacks. Are they legit? Ann Coulter comments."

UPSIDE-DOWN "ELITIST" AWARD -- New York Times columnist David Brooks: For months, high-paid Beltway journalists competed with each other in advising candidate Obama on how to mingle with working-class folks. Ubiquitous pundit Brooks won the prize for his wisdom on reaching "less-educated people, downscale people," offered on MSNBC in June: "Obama's problem is he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee's salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. And so he's had to change to try to be more like that Applebee's guy." It would indeed be hard for Obama to fit in naturally at an Applebee's salad bar. Applebee's restaurants don't have salad bars.

GUTTER BALL PUNDITRY AWARD -- Chris Matthews of MSNBC's "Hardball": In program after program during the spring, Matthews repeatedly questioned whether Obama could connect with "regular" voters -- "regular" meaning voters who are white or "who actually do know how to bowl." He once said of Obama: "This gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody. But the fact that he's that terrible at bowling does make you wonder."...

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/115977/announcing_the_2008_p.u.-litzer_prizes/?page=entire

[Chipper Chat]

1. How about the Fox female announcer

that wondered if the Obama's fist bump was some sort of 'secret muslim code' and it should be investigated.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Definitely Prize-worthy! nt

[murielm99]

2. How embarrassing.

Tweety said that about basketball and bowling? Dear God. It is like saying that all black people have rhythm and sing gospel.

Tweety has no shame.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I wonder if Matthews eats watermelon?

And fried chicken?

The above said in extreme ironic derision.

[Berry Cool]

7. Don't forget, Obama was also castigated by Tweety for refusing coffee at a diner

(which he kept calling a "dinette") and requesting orange juice instead.

Tweety believed that his refusal of the ever-offered coffee pot and request for orange juice might make voters feel he was not folksy enough and not enough like them.

[jeff30997]

4. What the fuck is...

an Applebee's salad bar ? Don't tell me I don't even care...

[silverojo]

5. "Thrill going up my leg"??

Good Lord, Tweety, you sound like Jimmy Carter in his "lusting in my heart" days. :rofl: