Welcome to the debut of “The Weekly Recount.” Each week I’ll be serving up the best pictures of the prior week based on your votes and comments. In addition I’ll be posting a comment of the week called “Epic Retort.” To nominate a post, e-mail us at punditkitchen+retort@gmail.com.
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Most Voted Picture
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Epic Retort
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I don’t see the point in a weekly re-cap. We’ve seen them all before.
Actually, I’m okay with the weekly recap of the comments. Usually I’d kill myself before I read through 200 comments for one good moment, but otherwise, I agree. A smaller version of a lol I’ve already seen is kind of… well, yeah.
agreed… it’s not like the front page changes that much each day; this just wastes real estate.
I clicked to see and all I saw was what I had already seen. Y’see?
Oh, I hear ya
That link and it’s effectiveness deserves to be posted on the FailBlog….
Yeppers. What is the point of a “recount” where at least one of the “recounted” images is STILL ON THE HOME PAGE at the time that the “recount” is posted?
Massive feature FAIL!
And the “top” pictures are both unfunny, stereotypical Bush-bashes.
Colour me surprised.
Well, if you Crotchwaffles would stop “debating” with us Douchenozzles, maybe there wouldn’t be so many comments on the anti-Bush pics, which, btw, are funny.
And before anyone craps their pants with the ol’ “librul censorship!!! fascists!! fascists!!!” BS- this post was “sarcasm”. Look it up.
Douchenozzles in 08!!!!
What are you trying to say in this post?
She’s trying to say that she’s angry and like to make up “clever” words.
Actually, I don’t think fillerbunny made up either “crotchwaffle” or “douchenozzle”. “Crotchwaffle” was first introduced to us on the Rainbow Bright Death Squad thread by someone else and was quickly taken up by anyone wishing to point out an utter lack of anything resembling a working human brain. “Douchenozzle” is a bit more recent and not as widespread. Sadly I can not pinpoint exactly which thread it originated from. As to what fillerbunny was trying to say, dear friend, was an attempt at humor directed at ALL of us posters who get self-righteous to the point of ridiculous in the midst of our debates sometimes.
Oh, well I don’t think he achieved that textbook sarcasm he was speaking of.
I could be wrong, but I think fillerbunny is a girl…
I’m just going to start using “(s)he” on this site.
Ahh, good plan… We should strive to offend people only with our political viewpoints.
why not s/he/it?
and you would be wrong, my dear Jane….
Damn it. Well I suppose it had to happen sometime, right?
from what I can tell, I´m fro mthe crotchwaffle side of the floor. But I gotta say I do love this post……….douchenozzle.
douchenozzles? LMAO!!
Douchenozzles…. for a kinder, gentler douche in ’08.
Like a summer’s day… fresh and free from odor.
Campaign ad I’d like to see…
“Mom, do you ever get that not so fresh feeling?”
“Sure I do sweetheart, that’s why I’m voting for Obama in ’08″
“I am Barack Obama, and I approve this message.”
LOL!!!
You know why there are so many Bush bashing pics? Because, outside of a scant handful of absolute loons, the world hates the man. Without a doubt, history will remember him as the worst president ever. He makes Harding and Buchanan look like Washington and Lincoln. You Bush defenders are a sad little minority, to be pitied, and perhaps studied to understand what went wrong inside your heads.
Tell it, fellow Douchenozzle!
You will see how wrong you are when Obama loses, very soon now.
We’ll see how horrible a president Obama is after he loses the election??? WTF???
Um… Ema didn’t say anything about “President Obama”; Ema merely stated that Obama would lose.
You have to make allowances for fillerbunny. She’s not very smart.
It’s called context, Mouthpiece…. And you are definitely not one to talk about brains, apart from the context of the Talking Point Zombie that you are…
He tried to handle that many people?! O.o
I’m not so sure about McCain being the real conservative change. Differrent than Bush, yes. Better than Obama? Oh, god, yes. The republican party has swung too far left. I wish it would get back to real conservatism, as do many others.
Most Americans could not handle pure conservatism and to be honest, pure conservatism in a historical context is unAmerican. It requires a monarchy.
The kind of true conservatism that I would like to see is a return to the ideals of our country’s founders. Those libertarian and classical liberal ideas that have keep us alive and well for well over 2 centuries.
It would be nice if we could return to the world before the government bloat of FDR and tried to solve the problems of that generation with more libertarian and Austrian economic models. But alas, I am afraid it is just too late for that. America is a big government nation. Our only hope at this point is to shrink the government down to a moderate level that is controllable and contained. McCain might be the person to do that. I don’t know. All I do know is that Barack will add to government bloat and deficits. It will not be a return to the “fiscal responsibility” of the Clintons. Or the responsible diplomacy of the H.W. Bush years.
Obama speaks in RFK and LBJ terms, but I am very frightened that we are looking at another Jimmy Carter or Dubya. Nice words and policies from the point of view of their supporters, but in the end… all hat, no cattle.
FDR is praised and he royally messed things up in ways that are still seen today. Just one example.
Except Bush beat Kerry, receiving the greatest number of votes of any President, ever.
Therefore your ‘everyone hates Bush’ theory fails.
The ‘everybody hates Bush’ theory is actually quite valid.
Though he may have received the ‘greatest number of votes of any President ever,’ that doesn’t truly mean much of anything. Sure, they all liked Bush in 200, but 8 years later, not so much anymore.
Bush = FAIL.
Of course, I meant 2000.
FAIL for me.
But even now, more people hate the Democrat controlled congress than hate Bush.
So Seth fails again.
And again with the Zombie Talking Point…
Truth hurts, eh?
If anything that gets posted by you is EVER truth, I will (briefly) stop referring to you as Mouthpiece… (goes back to waiting for Mouthpiece’s next Limbaugh/Fox instilled Zombie Talking Point)
It seems the old saying is true: Statistics don’t lie, but liars use statistics.
In actuality, absolute numbers of votes only tell part of the story in any election. At least two other factors, percentage of popular votes received and percentage of electoral votes recieved, must be included in order to accurately report the results of an election. Since I’m only evaluating Evil Pundit’s statement about vote totals, I’ll confine my investigatoin to the absolute numbers and the percent of popular votes.
In 2004, Bush did indeed receive 62 million votes, and that number is in fact the ‘greatest number of votes of any President.’ This is all the more impressive since the previous election George W. Bush only carried 50 million. He must have been quite popular, especially considering his 2000 result blew Clinton’s 1996 total of 47 million right out of the water. There appears to be a trend developing here. Let’s think about this for a moment.
Between 1992 and 2004 every elected president won more votes than his predecessor. Clearly that means that in this timeframe each elected president was mor popular than his predecessor (even if that predecessor was himself). Right?
The percentages seem to tell a different story. Lets first look at the previous record holder, Ronald Regan. In 1984 he carried 54 million votes. Undoubtedly a respectable number, but certainly less than Bush’s ’04 total of 62 million. But which of these two men was the more popular candidate? Bush beat Kerry by 2.46% of the popular vote in 2004, whereas Reagan beat Mondale by 18.2%. How to explain the descrepancy? Simple: populaiton growth. The CIA world factbook estimates US populaiton growth at .88% annually. This number fluctuates from year to year, but has remained consistently in the positive. If we assume .88% annual growth compunded annually, we will see a population increase of roughly 3.57% over 4 years. This means that every election will have a higher absolute population than the election prior to it. While this does not result in a 1:1 increase in the voting populatoin, we would expect to see some increase in the voting population nonetheless. So it seems rather logical to conclude that the observed trend of absolute numbers of votes for elected presidents increaasing over time is positively correleated to the increase in population over time. Put simply, there are more votes because, in part, there are more people alive that are capable of voting.
In fact, Bush’s margin of victory in 2004 is decidedly on the low end. In the last 24 years, 6 full election cycles from 2004, only one contest has been decided by a narrower margin: The 2000 election was decided by .51% of the vote…in favor of Mr. Gore.
I realize that I’m weeks behind in this post, and it will likely remain unread. However I can’t abide would-be pundits posting skewed statistics in an attempt to dupe readers into subscribing to their philosophy, especially when said pundit has repeatedly encouraged posters to ‘look it up and put it all together’. As if the rest of us are somehow incapable of comprehending complex political situations. As if only he has the mental fortitude to sift through media bias and find ‘the truth’. And notwithstanding the fact that the bulk of his posts rely on cheap rhetoric and statistics which are, themselves, either skewed or misrepresented.
Nice of you to put in the effort.
However, your analysis does not invalidate either of the points I made:
That Bush beat Kerry, receiving the greatest number of votes of any President, ever. This is still true in terms of absolute numbers.
More importantly, it shows that Seth’s ‘everyone hates Bush’ theory fails miserably.
does it count if the election was rigged?
Everyone ALWAYS says the president who’s currently in office is the “worst president ever.” The sitting president is merely the most convienent target for the nation’s anger. As soon as he gets out, w/i 6 months, whoever the NEW president is will become “the worst president EVER!” and they’ll be wishing Bush was still in office. LOL. Just wait. It happens every election.
Maybe if he didn’t have such a stupid face and lousy track record it wouldn’t be so easy!
Though, that banana thing still would have been funny if it were someone else making the exact same face as far as I’m concerned…
Zing!
i don’t really get it. we all have seen these pics a gazillion times every time we check punditkitchen on the 1/4 hour. NOTHING NEW HERE FOLKS!
Well, I only check this site once a week, so this was all new to me.
I can only take so much cynicism and jackassery, you know.
Truly.
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First time posting? That’s great. Welcome to the site
I kinda like seeing what pic had the most votes and what had the most comments, but what I really like is the best retort of the week. It doesn’t hurt me to check out the weekly roundup, I click on it and it takes maybe five seconds out of my life.
I think ‘Most Controversial pic’ would be good too. I would totally win this week! LOL!
You wouldnt stand a chance. My Obama only asking for 3/5 of your vote would be the winner since he’s still only 3/5 of a man.
“he’s still only 3/5 of a man”
Racist, much?
Why does this site not allow making fun of Obama?
Um, maybe you should look at a few more pages. There are plenty of Obama LOLz. Maybe they’re not as noticeable as the Bush LOLz. Bush is just sooo much easier to make fun of. Most of the time I only need to watch the guy try to give a speech and I lmao.
… um, or watch Obama try to answer real questions without a teleprompter.
I chuckle at his teleprompted speeches, too. Then I feel bad, because, he just might be president.
Well said, DRH. Obama is great at reciting memorized speeches that someone wrote for him. BUT….try to get him to answer something off the cuff and he makes Bush sound like a genius.
Well, it is true that he opens himself up to it. It is also true that a lot of people are uncomfortable making fun of Obama for obvious reasons. It is also true that there is much more history with Bush that we have to draw from.
Clearly, making fun of Obama is racist because he is biracial. Making fun of a rich white guy is not.
You’ll notice none of the Obama lolz really say anything bad about the guy, and aren’t really funny. But don’t worry, once he is President Obama he’ll start screwing up and we’ll get to make lolz about him. Maybee.
I suspect Obama will have a great approval rating because disapproving would be racist.
I tend to agree with you on this one.
Me too. It’s the same everywhere. All the media is pro-Obama, and anti everyone else, because they don’t want to be labeled as “racist.” We’re giving the man way too much power. Personally, I don’t care if the next president is black, white or purple. I’m just hoping for an intelligent one. Which leaves Obama OUT. He talks ALOT…and says absolutely NOTHING. Yet has millions who agree with him. WHAT does that say about the intelligence level of our country???
It says that half of the voting populace is in the bottom half of human intelligence.
Um, the ‘slamming Obama” LOLz aren’t as funny because so many of them are done by people that don’t check to see if the words all fit, or are just humor challenged…
Well treekid, it’s very complicated. You see Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and other top democrats see Barack Obama as their greatest hope for having a democrat in the White House, thus securing their party’s power in the executive as well as the legislative branch of government. This is very important to them and so they had to devise a very clever plan that would help them win the election in November. This plan includes taking over popular internet site “icanhazcheezeburger” and it’s sister sites, including the one we’re on, “punditkitchen”. By supressing anti-Obama lols and churning out poor quality anti-McCain lols the site administration (controlled by the democratic party of course) have launched a complicated mind control plan that will force Americans to vote for Obama out of a fear of being seen as “racist” if they don’t. It is a brilliant plan and the best part is, by claiming the site works on a “voting” system, the site administrators (and through them the democratic party) will succeed with their evil plot and no one will ever be the wiser.
*cue evil laugh*
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOO!!!!! You just gave away the ultimate secret of Douchenozzlery!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo……………………
(And kudos on working in an evil laugh! BTW- http://www.drhorrible.com)
I like the recount. New feature win!
Figures that the two “best” photos are the Bush bashing ones.
Left-wing political agenda win?
If you could please direct your attention to directly above the pictures, you’ll realize that those 2 pictures are “The Most Voted” and “The Most Commented” pictures of the last week. If you’d like to then verify that fact you can look through the last week worth of photos and you’ll quickly realize how much suck and fail your comment is full of. Pundit Kitchen’s front page material is selected through a democratic process. Republican conservatives are a minority on Pundit Kitchen, therefore, Bush bashing will continue until the Douchenozzles grow tired of it (which isn’t likely to be anytime soon). Get used to it.
ummm…. not really. The choice of front page pictures is **related to**, but doesn’t follow, the voting.
Congrats. You guys have turned what is supposed to be light fun into a politcal debate. Please grow up and get over yourselves. Nobody cares about your political opinion and I really don’t want to have to scroll through a billion comments to get to someone who actually commented on the PICTURES.
Congrats!
You have, in my opinion, written the funniest PunditKitchen comment this week (so far).