The Watchers: All Winners No Weasels

All along the Weasel Watchtowers the Watchers of Weasels are always watching the weasels and this week was no different. We let them rip our flesh so they don't rip yours.

Results are in and here's the roster:

Council Winners

• Second place with 2 votes – Wolf Howling - A Tale Of Two Conservative Parties – Part 1: The UK

  In which we discover why "The UK's political structure has failed systemically. Democracy in Britain does not result in a "representative" democracy."

• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Getting a closer look at why liberals continue to feel that blacks should be held to a different standard

  "I resent attitudes and policies that demean blacks by consistently holding them to a lower standard based on the premise that they’re incapable of achieving a higher standard. Color me racist, but I hate to see people classified and graded by race."

• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor - The Mythical Primary Care Physician Shortage

  "Pumping out more med school graduates or worse, importing physicians from abroad by relaxing training standards, will simply force more primary care physicians into other specialties faster. It will not expand the pool of primary care physicians."

• Fourth place with 1 vote – Right Truth - A Nation Dividing

  "This great divide began, I believe, with the election of George W. Bush, the hanging chads, lawsuit, and the Left believing that Al Gore was actually the president. We've gone downhill from there."

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! – The Winds Of Jihad - Fitzgerald: The New York Times, and That Business At the Cathedral In Cordoba Submitted by Wolf Howling

  "The New York Times continues, in ways little and big, to ignore the reality of Islam. It is a case of individual folly and mediocrity – the egregious Tom Friedman comes immediately to mind, and so too does Nicholas Kristof. But then there are the reporters. "

• Second place with 2 votes – Belmont Club – I Want My MTV Submitted by American Digest

  "When you can’t provide the real then promise the fake. The bleaker the reality the more soaring the vision. The higher the price of oil, the smaller the military budget, the costlier the medical appliances the more grandiose the goals of the administration become. Why aim for incremental environmental improvement when you can make the seas fall. Never mind if one must accept a nuclear Iran; at least we’ll have a world without nuclear weapons!"

• Third place with 1 2/3 votes – American Thinker — Rick Moran – History and Ideology in Textbooks Submitted by Rhymes with Right

  Where we begin to get into trouble is in failing to recognize the enormous complexity of our history and substituting a "special narrative" that highlights a point of view driven by politics rather than scholarship.

Other Council Rankings

• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Mere Rhetoric - Obama Wrecking US Diplomatic Credibility, Squandering Diplomatic Capital In The Middle East
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Rhymes With Right - Can One Fairly Judge Yesterday’s Deeds By Today’s Standards?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Glittering Eye - The Gold Rush
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Provocateur - China’s Currency Manipulation

Other Non-Council Rankings

• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Yid With Lid - Zbigniew Brzezinski Helped Create The Taliban, Now He Wants to Do It Again Submitted by Mere Rhetoric
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Noisy Room - Exhaustion from Anxiety : The true terrorism Submitted by Bookworm Room

• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Sense of Events - A world without nuclear weapons, part 2 Submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Chesler Chronicles - Jews Confront the Abyss. “The Absence of Outrage is Outrageous.” Submitted by Right Truth
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Melanie Phillips – Everyone Knows Submitted by JoshuaPundit

Posted by Vanderleun at April 18, 2010 4:16 PM