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Council speak 01/18/08

The council has spoken.

The winning entry among the council members was Colossus of Rhodey's Ed. Schools: They're Awful (for the most part) in which he describes an experience where students learn more about educational fads than real skills for the classroom. The runner up among Council members was WolfHowling's The Race Card, Liberal Guilt and Our Next President an examination of identity politics in the Democratic primary.

The winning non-council post was Ezra Levant's statement on being investigated for hateful speech: Kangaroo Court. The first runner up, Covenant Zone, Ashamed to be a Canadian was basically the same thing, framed by a paragraph or two. Barack Obama -- I'm Sure We've Seen Him Somewhere Before at Guardian Unlimited was about the ephemeral nature of Sen. Obama's substance. Finally, The Media Does It Again at Winds of Change was about another non-story that the NYT conflated into a trend.

My own nominee Ms. Magazine Refuses to Publish Ad About Israel's Most Powerful Women
at Yourish.com tied with Seraphic Secret's expose CNN reporter as Terror enabler tied for third.

Also the Watcher posted the Results of the Watcher of Weasels Awards for 2007 compiled from the winning (or tied for first before the tiebreaker) here.

If you're a blogger and you like what you see, please consider submitting your own post to the competition. Just followt the rules here. With only 2 first place finishes all year I was pretty far down in the rankings.

watcher's council.

Posted by SoccerDad at January 18, 2008 4:13 AM