The deadline is fast approaching so get your nominations in now for our first annual (or last annual, depending on how things go) Golden Duke Awards.
As one reader points out, debauchery and licentiousness may make a nominee eligible for the award, but it’s that little extra something that pushes them over the edge:
I don’t doubt that Senator Vitter has already been proposed for Dukes in Sex and Generalized Carnality and General Interest. His admission that he was a long-term patron of a DC bordello and response to allegations of patronizing others in Louisiana could even put him in the running for the Testimonial Trainwreck Duke. The segue from denying a multi-year dalliance in New Orleans to the water bill is priceless.
Then there was Vitter’s attempt to pacify his religious base by earmarking $100,000 for a creationist group in Louisiana “to develop a plan to promote better science education.” The group in question sends around an “addendum” to science textbooks which promotes the view that “the fossilization process requires a violent burial. ⦠When the billions of fossils that are everywhere are considered in this light, the earth’s history had some very violent floods in its past.” Or just the one big flood, perhaps. He ultimately withdrew that earmark, denying “that its intention was to mandate and push creationism within the public schools” but withdrawing the earmark “to avoid more hysterics.”
I have taken to thinking of Sen. Vitter as the “Vitteruvian man,” one hand on the Bible, one in the public till, two arms draped over the shoulders of prostitutes, while under the table, his four legs are playing footsies with the girls and the religious right. I think he richly deserves his own Golden Duke.
A strong effort from the pro-Vitter crowd.
Can you do better? We want to hear from you.
