Malcolm In The Muddle

The Pathetic Old Duffer™ strikes again!

Poor Andrew Malcolm. The LA Times blogger for “Top of the Ticket” has to wake up every morning as … Andrew Malcolm. A more horrible fate I cannot imagine.

the pathetic old duffer

I left a comment on his latest, sad monstrosity of a column. 129 words of copy and 505 words of cut-and-paste. If past history is any indication, it won’t make it past the moderator, even though blatantly racist stuff did. So, I will reprint it here. It’s far more interesting (and better researched) than his relentless and unceasing hatred for President Obama.

Here was the actual “writing” in the column:

How Obama spent his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize
March 11, 2010 |  1:10 pm
[No byline given ... anywhere]

You probably recall late last year on one of his autumn commutes to Scandinavia President Obamapicked up the Nobel Peace Prize. We wrote about that here and here and here. His speech was well-received here. Also some fallout over here.

Along with the 24-karat gold-plated medal and the speech and the fancy dinner comes $1.4 million from the estate of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, which isn’t always a weapon of destruction. (BTW, Obama’s award apparently drew more attention to the international prize. The Nobel committee received 237 nominees for the 2010 award, a record. The next winner will be announced Oct. 4.)

Today, Obama’s White House announced what charities will get his 2009 prize money. It’s an almost perfectly balanced list of PC beneficiaries. Here they are:

[cribs from a press release, like any modern LA Times "writer."]

And here’s my comment:

In a mere 129 words (followed by 505 words of cut-and-paste) Andrew “am I retired yet?” Malcolm still manages to be snarky about $1.4 million dollars given to charity.

Yeah, an “almost perfectly balanced list of PC beneficiaries.” Along with the self-congratulatory links to past character assassinations, and BAD journalism, “Along with the 24-karat gold-plated medal…”

From the Nobel Peace Prize site: “In its original form, the medal was in 23 carat gold and weighed 192 grams; from 1980 on this was changed to 18 carats and 196 grams. Its diameter has always remained the same: 6.6 cms.”

Whoops! I guess cutting and pasting took too much effort for Malcolm to get his snark right. But then, nothing that President Obama could possibly do would ever please Laura Bush’s former press secretary, right? Still, sometimes that kind of reflexive hatred just looks kind of pathetic and foolish.

Of course, taking the implicit invitation, we have the not-so-crypto racist take on our President receiving the Nobel Peace Prize:

“Interesting, Obama made sure that none of his donations would help a white person. Strange.” (Posted by: DJ | March 11, 2010 at 01:19 PM)*

and, this hater: a “stupid and immoral selection” (Posted by: kagiso edwards | March 11, 2010 at 04:20 PM)

[* Interesting that two of the charities were for Appalachian families and military families. Guess there's no white people there.]**

Great demographic Malcolm draws, ain’t it?

end of comment.

The Andrew Malcolm Demographic

Not quite up to National Enquirer standards, that “Top of the Ticket” blog. Unless, of course, the ‘ticket’ referred to is a traffic citation, in which case it wouldn’t be for speeding. Impeding traffic more like.

Courage.

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** those charities?

• Fisher House: Fisher House is a national non-profit organization that … provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers.
• the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation: A non-profit organization funded by foundations and companies, ALEF supports and enables young men and women from Appalachia to pursue higher education though scholarship and leadership curriculum. and, as a bonus, two more “color blind” charities that our klanboy missed:
• College Summit is a national non-profit organization that partners with elementary and middle schools and school districts to strengthen college-going culture and increase college enrollment rates, so that all students graduate from high school career and college-ready.
• The Posse Foundation is a national non-profit organization that identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. Posse’s college and university partners award Posse Scholars four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships. The scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent.

Y’all don’t bother comin’ back, now. Y’hear?

UPDATE March 12 2:20PM PST: Nine hours later, the Comment hasn’t been approved by the LAT’s Moderator. Evidently, accusing the president of racism is OK, but criticizing Malcolm on a point of journalistic fact (and, yes, some snark) isn’t OK. “Civility” takes on a whole new meaning with the pathetic old duffer and his formerly legitimate newspaper.

UPDATE March 12:  Malcolm strikes again, taking a somewhat anti-American sidetrip to come up with yet another pointless snark against President Obama. It’s short and easy to spot. Gee, I guess it’s OK to be against the United States of America when it gives you a chance to attack the president. Right, Pathetic Old Duffer™?

UPDATE March 12: In other pathetic dipshit-related news, Mike Allen of Politico (yes, a dipshit among dipshits, but not the one we’re referring to) reports that Jake Tapper of ABC nooz turns 41 today.

Just think: One more year and his age will be exactly half his IQ! (Or is that the other way ’round?)

UPDATE March 13: This post was featured today on Crooks and Liars. A big vorpal thank you to Mike. Callooh! Callay!