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		<title>Douchebag Musician Award Winner: Elton John</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rafael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, this guy just gets on my nerve. No one is messing with him, yet he goes out and says ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously, this guy just gets on my nerve. No one is messing with him, yet he goes out and says that he&#8217;s <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8523538.stm">&#8220;disillusioned with fame&#8221; in this BBC interview</a> during which he talks smack about Jesus.</p>
<p>Hey Elton, you know what you should do if you&#8217;re disillusioned with fame? You should quit giving interviews and shut your yap.</p>
<p>Elton John then proceeds to perpetuate a gay stereotype by saying that Jesus was gay because:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Jesus was &#8220;compassionate&#8221;, forgiving and &#8220;understood human problems&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8523538.stm">BBC Interview</a></em></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://momentofepiphany.com/"><img src="http://momentofepiphany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Elton-John-in-Norway-by-Ernst-Vikne.jpg" alt="" title="Elton John in Norway by Ernst Vikne" width="500" height="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-128" /></a> </p>
<p>Obviously, because Jesus was all that, then Jesus must&#8217;ve been gay. There&#8217;s no other possible explanation, according to the <strong>Douchebag Award winner</strong>. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I do have to say, that I loved the retort issued by the spokesperson for The Church of England:</p>
<p><em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;insights into aspects of the historic person of Jesus are perhaps best left to the academics&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8523538.stm">BBC Interview</a></p></blockquote>
<p></em></p>
<p>Well said Mr. Spokesman, well said.</p>
<p>So, for continuing to perpetuate homophobic stereotypes, and for talking smack about Jesus, The award winner for <strong>Douchebag Musician is Elton John</strong>.<br />
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		<title>Douchebag award: Ex-NY police chief Bernard Kerik</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rafael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News of this guy&#8217;s fall came to me via the BBC. Apparently, Rudy G wasn&#8217;t the only person that personally ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>News of this guy&#8217;s fall came to me via the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8522921.stm">BBC</a>. Apparently, Rudy G wasn&#8217;t the only person that personally benefited from 9/11. Nevermind that in an apparent case of douchebag amnesia Rudy G now claims that there has never been a terrorist attack on US soil. <em>sidenote: maybe Rudy had a mental lapse and some of those conspiracy theorists are right about how 9/11 went down&#8230;</em></p>
<p><strong>Kerik was a bigger douchebag</strong> than Rudy though. </p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bernard-B-Kerik/431809195500#!/pages/Bernard-B-Kerik/431809195500?v=wall"><img src="http://momentofepiphany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birdsofafeather.png" alt="" title="birdsofafeather" width="311" height="442" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-118" /></a></center></p>
<p>Why do I say that?</p>
<p>According to the BBC, <strong>Kerick &#8220;lied while being vetted for the post of homeland security chief</strong> in 2004.&#8221; Wow.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad that the doors of justice swing both ways.</p>
<p>In any lesser country, Kerick would&#8217;ve either been confirmed anyway, or let off with a mild slap on the wrist. Kerick&#8217;s conviction reinforces my firmly held belief that despite all the bull we little people have to put up with, this is indeed the greatest country in the world.</p>
<p>What were <strong>Kerik&#8217;s crimes</strong> exactly?</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Kerik admitted <strong>accepting a $250,000 payback</strong> in the form of house renovations from a company to which he gave a city contract&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He also admitted tax crimes including <strong>failing to report more than $500,000 in taxable income</strong> between 1999 and 2004.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>To me, the worst part about this whole fiasco, is that <strong>Kerik swore to uphold the law</strong>. All the while, he&#8217;s breaking it. I wonder how many people should or could have their criminal cases re-opened because this douchebag is obviously a lying sack of cow manure? </p>
<p>After all, Kerik has the cojones <strong>to lie when he&#8217;s going to be vetted</strong> for a position of that high profile, who&#8217;s to say he didn&#8217;t lie or <em>manufacture &#8220;evidence&#8221;</em> that was used against people he didn&#8217;t like?</p>
<p><strong>Kerik is a disgrace</strong> to every single honest officer of the law in this country. I hope his downfall serves as a wake up call to all the not honest officers of the law as well.</p>
<p>So, for cheating on his taxes, for getting kickbacks on contracts, and for lying to the vetting commission, <strong>Bernard Kerik is a Douchebag</strong> award winner.</p>
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		<title>Political Douchebag Award Winner: Sarah Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rafael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, that&#8217;s right, I said it. 
You know why she wins an award?
For being a flip flopper.
When she called for ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s right, I said it. </p>
<p>You know why she wins an award?</p>
<p>For being a flip flopper.</p>
<p><a href="http://momentofepiphany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sp-dba.jpg"><img src="http://momentofepiphany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sp-dba.jpg" alt="" title="sp-dba" width="500" height="330" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-93" /></a>When she called for the resignation of Rahm Emanuel, a White House staffer, for saying that some conservative democrats were &#8220;retarded&#8221; because of their position on the health care bill, I felt like her call for the guy&#8217;s resignation was a bit harsh but I actually agreed with her.</p>
<p>I know, the shame, the shame.</p>
<p>I agreed with her because I felt that her saying that the way Emmanuel used the word as a &#8220;slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities&#8221; was correct. I didn&#8217;t agree that the guy needed to resign, but I agree that he could&#8217;ve used a different word. Fast forward a couple of days, and a Rick Perry (Rep. Texas Governor) aide uses the word in reference to a campaign event.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s a little upset, but they guy doesn&#8217;t need to resign or anything like that. Ana apology will do.</p>
<p>Fast forward a couple more days, and Rush Limbaugh uses the word in reference to a meeting that&#8217;s scheduled at the White House to talk about mental health and developmental disabilities. Now it&#8217;s suddenly OK for people to use the word in that fashion.  </p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s only OK for Rush Limbaugh to use the word like that.</p>
<p>Eventhough he claims he never said it, here&#8217;s the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/03/limbaugh-palin-apologize/">clip where Limbaugh says there&#8217;s going to be a retard summit</a> at the White House.</p>
<p>Maybe we should ask Palin&#8217;s son Trig, who has down syndrome, how he feels about Limbaugh saying that.</p>
<p>So, for flip flopping on this issue, I declare <strong>Sarah Palin Political Douchebag</strong> Award Winner.</p>
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