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Attack of the Ambition: Assorted Favorites/Least Favorites
As a thank you to everyone who has responded so far, here are a couple of those surprises that you may or may not have been anticipating. I've decided to hand out awards for certain things that I couldn't do a list for. And there may still be a music video list, if not an abbreviated one. Stay tuned...
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Republicans
Okay, not ALL of them. There are quite a few respectable republicans out there, I'll admit. But the people that were calling Obama a socialist terrorist, or the people that hated him just because he was black, or the people who took mocking Obama puppets and lynched them, or the just plain uninformed people who thought that Obama was actually muslim? Yeah, THOSE people are the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. And they were, easily, the biggest douchebags of 2008.
Hilary Duff - Reach Out
Oh, here we go. This choice could inspire some pretty high and mighty hatred from the stans. However, my dislike of this song is not unwarranted. It's not enough that this song took one of the most amazing beats in music and turned it into nothing more than a prop for someone who, admittedly, is not a great singer. No, this song also features a terrible rapper "rapping" a couple verses. Not only is this song terrible, it's blasphemy. Not many songs are this terrifyingly bad AND blasphemous at the same time, and it stands alone as the biggest piece of **** that 2008 had to offer.
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart/The Colbert Report (*tie*)
What else could be #1 but the two shows that were the epitome of the year 2008? Even beyond the United States election, Stewart and Colbert brought their unique brand of funny in bunches. There could be no other choice. In a year when I officially stopped caring about new TV, these two shows were the closest I came to watching religiously. Special mention goes out to the latest Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror", which may have been the best Treehouse of the series.
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Wall-E/The Dark Knight (*tie*)
At first, it was just going to be Wall-E. That's right, no TDK, but there would be a robot that doesn't talk at the top spot. After a fair bit of deliberation, however, I cannot justify not naming TDK as the film of 2008, but I can't just ignore what was my favorite film of the year...thus, they're both here. Wall-E is visually and materially gorgeous, and won me over in a way that few films ever have. Hell, it actually touched me in a personal way and inspired me to think a lot about my life and what I want to do with my life at a time when I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Meanwhile, The Dark Knight was just plain badass. Action up the ass, great acting, awesome scenery, and The MFing Joker, for crying out loud! There was no way it couldn't be awesome, and it was.
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