Weekend Update - X-Mas Edition

• Glenn Beck has been named by Media Matters as "The Misinformer of the Year." The honors for Mr. Beck are piling up, as we're proud to announce that Glen has been chosen for our "Bad Hat Douche Bag of the Year Award." There's no monetary reward involved here for Beck, just his own joy in knowing that he's a fat racist pin-headed greaseball just like his daddy, Rush Limbaugh. (How's that for seasonal name-calling?) Happy New Year.


• And in further tribute to Mr. Beck and his lies and conspiracy theories, a gentleman in Virginia, a Mr. Warren Taylor (his friends call him "Gator") held three hostages in a local post office because "the government is taking over the right to bear arms," and he was angry about "overtaxing." I just betcha he listens to Limbaugh too.


• I'm not making this up: Here are The Top 50 Assclowns of 2009.


• "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was a poem written by Lord Tennyson to commemorate a moment in the 1854 Crimean War, when British officers misdirected more than 600 troops into an area known as the Valley of Death to face 25,000 Russians. There were hundreds of casualties, the British officers were disgraced, and the Russians won the day. And so Rep. Michelle Bachman, who would still be called crazy even if her brain functioned normally, cheered on the latest misguided efforts of a group of "teabaggers" by yelling "It's the Charge of the Light Brigade!"


• You know the tune. For the loveofgawd you can't seem to get it out of your head around this time of year. Over and over and over ... 'Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad ...' Well, of course in the spirit of the holidays our Conservative Idiot Friends decided to make a racist parody of Jose Feliciano's classic Christmas annoyance, and it pissed Jose right off. The parody, titled "The Illegal Alien Christmas Song," was created by radio producers and writers Matt Fox and A.J. Rice and was posted in mid-December on the Web site for Human Events, a Washington-based conservative weekly publication. For your "enjoyment" here's the song.


• Render your garments. Tear out your Liberal hair by the roots. Cry and wail. Previously Democratic Congressman Parker Griffith of Alabama has gone over to the Dark Side and is now Republican Congressman Parker Griffith. But wait, there's a lot more to this story, and some of it is mighty curious indeed.


• Sarah Palin has come out strong and has flatly stated "I'm NOT the biggest liar of the year." Our response: "Are too, are too."


• Hostile, vindictive, sarcastic - what's happened to John McCain? Sure his pick of Palin for running mate will rank as one of the worse political blunders in history, but what's happened to the good ol' boy we knew and loved? Maureen Dowd asks, "Is There a Real McCain?"


• And here's one more little gift from under the tree: The Top 20 Funniest Political Moments of 2009.