The Council Has Spoken!

The Council has spoken!

This week's council winner was Bookworm Room with Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWII. It's a superb piece taking apart Hank's genuinely clueless remarks in an interview he gave before the premiere of HBO's 'The Pacific War'. By all accounts it actually contributed to the low ratings the show got and proves something I've always said about actors. They make their living saying what other people tell them to say exactly how other people tell them to say it and by moving how someone else tells them to move, and if they're good at it and get lucky, it's a decent gig.

Better to be satisfied with that and keep one's mouth shut if you have nothing intelligent to say.

This week's Non-council winner was Abe Greenwald’s Outsmarting History, which makes the cogent point that one never does outsmart history - it's always there as an open book when it comes to judging someone's actions.

Here's a complete rundown of the voting tallies on our weekly competition..there's some great weekend reading here:

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 points! – Bookworm Room – Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWII
• Second place with 2 points - The Razor – Scorched Earth
• Third place with 1 1/3 points - Wolf Howling – Obama Leads The Progressive Left Across The Rubicon
• Fourth place *t* with 1 point – American Digest - Goodbye to the Way We Were
• Fourth place *t* with 1 point – The Glittering Eye – The Bell
• Fifth place with 2/3 point – JoshuaPundit – Obama’s War On Israel
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 point – Mere Rhetoric – Mearsheimer: Let’s Mainstream Anti-Israel Lies So “Support For The Jewish State” Will “Evaporate
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 point - The Colossus of Rhodey – Does anyone recall the nets and papers headlining the worst of anti-war protests?

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First Place with 1 2/3 Points – Abe Greenwald / Contentions – Outsmarting history
• Second place with 1 1/3 – Megan McArdle/The Atlantic Online – 8 Predictions for Health Care
• Third place *t* with 1 point – Michael Yon Online – Warthog
• Third place *t* with 1 point – Big Government – Dana Loesch – The Socialists Won a Battle; Now It Is Our Turn
• Third place *t* with 1 point – Jaded Heaven - Cut My Throat If It Feeds Your Need
• Third place *t* with 1 point – Houston’s Clear Thinkers – Thoughts on health care finance reform
• Fourth Place *t* with 2/3 point – The Strata-sphere - Health Care Bill Small Business Killer
• Fourth Place *t* with 2/3 point – Elder of Ziyon – Obama the actor
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 point – Rick Richman / Contentions - Flunking Foreign Policy 101
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 point – Gates of Vienna - Fighting the Taliban With Pencil and Paper

Council Note: We currently have a seat open for a qualified blogger on the Council up for grabs. If you're interested, you may apply here...or e-mail me for details.

As always, congratulations not only to the winners but to the participants.

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