Newest Contempt Citation

It is hard to beat this letter to the NYT, published Feb. 11th from someone in naturally, Berkeley CA. Here it is:
"After ... Mubarak’s speech..., I went to bed with every nerve tensed over what the Egyptian people might face the next day. I knew they would go on, taking the next step and the next, perhaps even marching to the presidential palace. I awoke here in California to the news that he had resigned, and I wish the Egyptian people could feel the lines of joy stretching from here over to there. Today we are all dancing."

Ned congratulates
Nancy F. Wilson for writing and having published such an unvarnished piece of pure melodramatic twaddle.

New Shared Contempt Citation!

The CC will be shared by National Mascot Sarah Palin, who as everyone now knows because of relentless 'liberal media' coverage, opined that criticism of extremist right-wing incendiary rhetoric amounted to 'blood libel', which showed by its incorrect use of a phrase that is very symbolic to Jews, if indeed we needed further evidence, that she is too ignorant to be taken seriously or that she knew its use and was trying to appropriate it for her own use like The Mad Hatter and thereby illustrates her contempt for the intelligence of the average American.
And then, not to be undone, the Moonie Washington Times continues the insult to American Jews, and everyone else who has the proverbial IQ above room temperature, by having the affront to call the attacks on Palin an example of a 'national pogrom' against conservatives.
And Ned believes the ADL, or somebody, actually issued a half-hearted defense of Palin.

First Contempt Citation of 2011!

Newly-honored Q A Wagstaff, now O.B.E. as well as FRS, suggests CongressThing Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota for the first Contempt Citation of 2011. She has apparently disclosed the reason she became a Republican was because of inflammatory and offensive language against the "Founding Fathers" in Gore Vidal's novel Burr (a novel Ned's friends will recall being a work of fiction).
Ned anticipates 2011 with barely disclosed glee and hopes the elitist and most selective concept of the Contempt Citation is not debased due to the abnormally high number of potentially qualified nominees.