We are pleased today to present the results of the 2007 Noble and Knave of the Year contest. Enormous thanks are in order for the readers of The Washington Times, without whom this contest wouldn't be possible. Without further ado, your winners: In an unusual three-way tie for eighth place in the Knave of the Year category were Ted Turner of CNN, Marine Sgt. Timothy Allen DeBusk and George Washington University President Stephen Knapp. Readers may remember any of Mr. Turner's boneheaded comments about the state of affairs in North Korea, but his most recent - that North Koreans are "all thin. And being thin is healthier than being fat" - earned him a top spot on our list. Perhaps Mr. Turner ought to watch his own news station. He might learn that many North Koreans are thin because they...
The votes are in and it's official. This year's contest was the most popular to date. Readers from Hawaii to Baghdad weighed in with their nominees, as well as to express how much they enjoy our Saturday feature. The Editorial Board is humbled by your support and wishes to thank everyone who participated. As in years past, for Knave of the Year, the contest proved tightest. Although not as close as last year's, when George Soros beat out Sen. Ted Kennedy by a mere two votes for the top dishonor, nearly every voter included the two frontrunners on his or her ballot. But before we get to them, let's reminisce on some of 2005's lesser Knaves - though that's a relative distinction - like Al Gore.
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As always, the "Noble and Knave of the Year" contest wouldn't be possible without you, The Washington Times readers. Your continued support of the Saturday feature is as welcome as it is humbling. To all who voted, thank you. Now, on to the contest. Barely edging out Cindy Sheehan for the No. 10 spot in the knave category was everybody's favorite country band, the Dixie Chicks, and their insufferable lead singer, Natalie Maines. Miss Maines, you might recall, has a history of self-righteous comments, but her latest was that she "didn't understand the necessity of patriotism." No doubt she does understand the millions of dollars in sales she earns every year, courtesy of the capitalist system the United States of America set up for her benefit.
In its third year, the Noble and Knaves Contest has become something of a tradition here on the editorial page. If not quite as highly regarded as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, our contest is absolutely more democratic, since you the readers decide. And you didn't make it easy for us: This year's vote tally was the closest in the contest's history. With the frontrunners changing every day, we recalled John Kerry's concession-speech promise to make every vote count. Fortified by his words, we labored on. And just as the ball was about to drop in Times Square, the winners finally emerged. For Knave of the Year, the contest proved tightest. Perhaps this was because in an election year any number of silly things can be said, and many are. Knave of the week twice in 2004, former Presid...
Robert Lee Smallwood, 51, of Salem, took flight within God's Arms and the wings of His Angels on Saturday, October 22, 2011, at 10:28 p.m. He is preceded in death by his beloved mother, Mamie Helen Knave Smallwood; sister, Shirley Ann (Sissy) Smallwood; brother, Sonny Smallwood (Sonny Boy); stepmother, Francis Smallwood (Mamasan); surrogate mom, Anne-Lise Hansen Migneco; and special guardian, Bob Woodard.
This comment is in response to your Saturday editorial "Nobles and knaves," in which you identify as knave "the Discovery Channel, for doing a very poor job of designing a poll to determine the 'Top 100 Greatest Americans.' My daughter frequently asks questions like: "When you were my age, who was your favorite actor, or pop musician?" Our conversations, while amusing, prompt the realization that I did not devote much (if any) energy to such thoughts as a teenager in the 1950s. I thought often, though, about the greatest-ever musician (whether it was Beethoven, Chopin or the like) or the greatest athlete in a particular sport or the greatest military commander. The term "greatest" has connotations that transcend popular culture and particular people. Rather than concentrate on any one...
Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence. Here is a man who, more than anyone else in the Bush administration, trafficked in the campaign of deceit that caused tens of thousands to die, wasted trillions of dollars in resources and indelibly sullied the legacy of this nation through the practice of torture. Still this villain claims that, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the horrid methods he endorsed were a necessary response to the threat of Osama bin Laden. How...
Here is the story of Cinderella-not the one written by ancient Greeks, Charles Perrault or Walt Disney, but the one now being showcased by the NCAA and its hunchback network knave CBS. There is a dirt-poor lad living in a mid-major city, scraping by and treated unkindly by his Big Cretin Stepbrothers (BCS), who always drag him off his makeshift basketball court in the backyard to clean the house and make martinis.
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