AssHat Awards #4: Anna Nicole Smith

The topic for this edition of Ass Hat Awards is celebrities. Now that's a ripe area for many choices for an Ass Hat Award. So I thought long and hard, almost too long and hard, today is Friday the deadline, and I have decided that the celebrity for me that deserves an Ass Hat is Anna Nicole Smith.

But she's dead you might say. Isn't that kind of kicking someone when they're down? (So to speak.) I say she brought it all on herself while she was alive. She lived for attention and went to almost any lengths to keep herself in the eyes of the public.

Isn't it time for the tabloids to move on? I list Anna Nicole in that category of celebrities being famous for being famous. Aside from a few dreadful movies, a terrible reality show (created after she was already famous for being famous) and posing naked Anna Nicole did not leave behind a very lasting legacy.

All these comparisons to Marylin Monroe are ridiciolous. Marylin left behind a legacy of wonderful films and a growing comedic genusis. I'm not saying Anna Nicole's death wasn't a tradegy, but it was a personal tragedy to those that knew her and loved her, not to the world. One newsman (and I use that term loosesly) called her death "an American Tragedy." Sorry, I don't think so.

All this press on who fathered her baby has gone on too long. Besides Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead claiming to be the father there were also Alexander Denk (a former bodyguard of Anna Nicole), Mark "Hollywood" Hatten, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (Zsa Zsa Gabor's former husband who claimed Anna Nicole and he had a decade long affair) and in what has to be one of the most weird claims Donna Hogan, Anna Nicole's younger half sister claims that Anna Nicole froze the sperm of her dead billionaire husband and had impregentated herself with said sperm. Would any of this matter if the baby wasn't potentially going to be worth the gross national product of some small countries?

I'm sick and tired of turning on the tv and hearing about it all. Not just on the entertainment shows, but even the national news shows have made it a feautre item. When news that the DNA showed Larry Birkhead as the father some networks broke in to announce it. This is not news!

My nomination for Ass Hat Celebritity goes to Anna Nicole Smith for her continued climb towards stardom and her ability to not let anything get in her way, even death.

Asshat Awards #2: Dick Cheney

Welcome to the second edition of the asshat awards. This award is presented by What the Blog?! The theme for this edition is asshats in the news. So without farther adieu I present to you the asshat of the week (actually he could win the title for asshat of the year)....Mr. Dick Cheney.

Where to start? Most recently his former top aide, Scooter Libby, has taken the fall for him so we don't learn how high the orders went to out CIA agent Valerie Plume. If Libby hd admited to it than the next question would have been under who's order? Than the vice-president might have found himself having to give testimony. Which probably wouldn't have fazed him, I'm sure this man has no problems lying to a federal prosecutor.

But Cheney has many more sins to answer for. If there is a true puppet master behind the inept presidency of W it is this man. Cheney manuvered things so we would invade Iraq. His former protegee was Donald Rumsfield.

Cheney's ties to Haliburton are well known. His ties to big oil and big business are just as well known. If there's a buck to be made Cheney is going to be involved. He wants to call anyone that disagrees with him a traitor but than is more than happy to send inferior equipment to our troops overseas.

Ties to countries like Saudi Arabi are still questionable. Cheney is the frontman for Bush's war on terror, he is out there telling everyone how terrible the world is and if it wasn't for him and the President how bad shape the country would be in. All the while driving us off a cliff.

AssHat Awards

A new bi-weekly post from the friendly folks over at What the Blog?! Everyone that wants to nominates whoever they think is an asshat (I think the word doesn't need much definition) and than they pick the winning post. So here's my post for this Friday.

U.S. Army Secretary Franics Harvey resigned from his position for the debacle of the Walter Reed Hospital. The military hospital has been in the news recently due to the terrible conditions the service men and women have to deal with at the medical building. Wounded soldiers are having to deal with mountains of red tape and the injured are being kept in substandard conditions.

Everytime anyone says anything bad about the war the Republicans try to spin it into an attack on the troops fighting over there. It's gotten so bad that if you make a comment against the war you have to add..."but I'm for the troops."

So who is really for the troops? We've seen over and over again how the adminstration has sent our troops in harms way with inferior equipment and training. Now we see that as the wounded and hurt come back our wonderful leaders once again step up the task and show us how much they support our troops by putting them in rooms that should be condemned and medical help that is almost non existent.

I'm sure that Mr. Harvey is just the first of many scapegoats for the whole fiasco, but he is in one of the top positions in the Army. The offical word is that he resigned but the word behind that is that he was asked to step down by the Secretary of Defense.

But for not taking action sooner and letting these conditions exist in the first place my first choice for Asshat goes to Francis Harvey.