Gold: Bill O’Reilly, married sexual harasser, of Loofah Boy fame. Mr. Morality and Family values flew home from a speech at the Alexis foundation very recently. Alexis is an organization which supports rape victims. O’Reilly’s past comments blaming rape victims, and frequent videos of "exploited" scantily clad women on O’Reilly’s show, perhaps from the home collection, cause me to wonder why they would hire him for this of all events. His performance with a Playboy magazine on
the flight home, did nothing to ease that nagging wonder.
Silver: Michele Bachmann: Bachmann may come in second tonight, but truly outdoes herself. Just when you think she’s gone as far out on a loony limb without dropping as is possible, she begs the question, did the Republican from Minnesota fall from it on a previous expedition and land on her head? Tonight she exhorts righties that there is a" big conspiracy" and alienates neighbors of followers with the order to bang garbage can lids together in an effort to rouse neighbors and co-workers. The faithful are to do this before the "freedom clock "bangs up against 11:49." After all, nothing works better lately than a crazy arousing fear, and sounding a clarion call to action. Last, but certainly not least, she addresses her sad loss of marbles.
Bronze: Scott Brown. Brown and his people have long been propagating the out of the blue, false rumor that MSNBC’s own Rachel Maddow was recruited to run against him in 2012. Despite Maddow’s almost nightly denials to the contrary, the unsubstantiated rumor has made for
good fund-raising although it is a bald faced lie. Without admitting the lie or apologizing to Maddow, the rumor mills are now grinding that just maybe Keith Olbermann is going to take Rachel’s place in the "race" against the politician with a loose relationship with the
truth. Although Olbermann doesn’t have the time or inclination to run, he points out the ways in which he is is more qualified than Brown.