The Sound of the Crowd

Merry Christmas For…

…all you dorks out there fragging Ewoks left and right. (Thanks for the link, Stefon)

…the marketing firm that figured out a way to push Robert Zemeckis’s slow-moving Polar Express: By exploiting the evangelical audience.

…Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cunningham, and the rest of the winners in the Top 10 Most Outrageous Statements Of 2004 list complied by Media Matters for America.

Rush Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib photos: “I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?”

Bill Cunningham (Clear Channel radio host who appeared as a guest on The Sean Hannity Show): The election is over because “Elizabeth Edwards has now sung.”

…the Washington State Republicans, who are gearing up for yet another legal challenge. You know, one of the many things to hate about the 2000 election debacle is that it seems to have established a precedent: If you can’t win at the ballot box, win in the courts. More here.

John Mayer, who found himself barred from a school ceremony.


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