Speaking of awards, it’s time to open the nominations process for the 2003 Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (Fiskie for short). Please post your nominations in the comments for this thread.

Note that the Idiotarian of the Year Award is devoted to “honoring” the useful idiots of the world; the creatures who are so naive, willfully blind, or astoundingly Ivory Tower brilliant that they aid the causes of dictators, terrorists, communists, and/or the evil Presbyterian Conspiracy. Please don’t nominate outright murderers like Yasser Arafat or Osama bin Laden; these types of animals are not idiotarians so much as monsters, the type of monsters the idiotarians end up supporting and defending.

Last year the contest came down to a last minute runoff vote between Michael Moore and Dhimmi Carter (Carter won), and it’s likely that these two will be strong contenders again this year. But there are many, many deserving idiotarians from which to choose, and a dark horse could still leap out of the pack.

Let the nominations begin!

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