Difference between revisions of "Awards"

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/Golden Straw-Man Award
The Reality Inversion Award - nominees:
- Bryan Fischer, for claiming that conservatives believe in "live and let live" and liberals don't:
  - 2015-03-16 Fischer: 'Conservatives Believe In Live And Let Live' (h/t)
The Going Medieval Award - nominees:
- Rick Wiles of TruNews, for blaming a natural weather occurrence on an underprivileged group:
  - 2015-03-21 Wiles Blames the Gays for California Drought
  - Bonus points for drawing attention away from any actual human agency: if the drought was caused by people, it's probably via global warming
- The WorldNetDaily, for describing an inexorable, long-predicted, and entirely harmless astronomical event as "judgement" of some sort by mythical being:
  - 2015-03-16 Coming solar eclipse seen as 'judgment' (h/t)
The Devil Made Me Do It Award for literal demonization - nominees:
- The Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church, for their sign "REMEMBER / SATAN WAS THE FIRST TO DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS"
  - 2015-03-19 Tennessee church sign: 'Remember, Satan was the first to demand equal rights'

These are awarded by other parties.

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 *** '''2015-03-16''' [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-conservatives-believe-live-and-let-live Fischer: 'Conservatives Believe In Live And Let Live'] ([http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/03/16/bryan-fischer-wins-reverse-bryan-fischer-award/ h/t])
 * '''The Going Medieval Award''' - nominees:
+** [[Rick Wiles]] of [[TruNews]], for blaming a natural weather occurrence on an underprivileged group:
+*** '''2015-03-21''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/03/21/wiles-blames-the-gays-for-california-drought/ Wiles Blames the Gays for California Drought]
+*** Bonus points for drawing attention away from any ''actual'' human agency: if the drought was caused by people, it's probably via [[global warming]]
 ** The [[WorldNetDaily]], for describing an inexorable, long-predicted, and entirely harmless astronomical event as "judgement" of some sort by mythical being:
 *** '''2015-03-16''' [http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/coming-solar-eclipse-seen-as-judgment/ Coming solar eclipse seen as 'judgment'] ([http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/03/19/wnd-solar-eclipse-a-message-from-god/ h/t])