Comments on: 2012 Crikeys: pick our person (and arsehat!) of the year, plus hot pollies

By: DAVID SANDERSON

DAVID SANDERSON — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:30:44 +0000

Nate Silver did not make a fool out of pollsters (why would he when he is analysing and aggregating their data). He made fools out of ‘gut-feeling’ pundits. especially on the right who were shown to be indulging in wishful thinking.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:15:17 +0000

I may be imagining it but my feeling is that Crikey is slipping more and more into the mainstream framework that has enclosed the minds of nearly 90% of Australians. This is no more evident than its reporting (or non-reporting) of the Palestinian/Israel+US issue.

By: Kapo

Kapo — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:49:06 +0000

I didn’t think I would find western world narrative extending to Crikey. Looking at the nomination list, it’s fairly unimpressive we find Obama - Person, and Putin- Arsehat, the cold war ended years ago…..

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:46:32 +0000

Julian Assange=my number 1 person of the year. Obama should be near the top of the arsehat section for his drone attacks, wars including those against whistle blowers and unquestioning support of Israel.

By: julie mackey

julie mackey — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:18:28 +0000

How do I vote for Person, Julia Gillard; Arsehat, Tony Abbott?

By: Roger Hosking

Roger Hosking — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:52:25 +0000

Barefaced liar of the year?

An obvious candidate, and it is not Mr. Slipper nor the PM!

By: drovers cat

drovers cat — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:14:51 +0000

If journalists were still working at this time of year it would be Mal Brough - but next year’s okay, too

By: Colin James

Colin James — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:13:42 +0000

Pell? Where is he? Arsehat has more than one application in his case.

By: Amber Jamieson

Amber Jamieson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:09:47 +0000

@CML: Go here to vote: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TPNZFMP

By: Monash.edu

Monash.edu — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:56:26 +0000

Arsehat: Putin, slightly shaded by Dorey. Melinda Tankard-Reist a shock exclusion from the list.

By: CML

CML — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:37:58 +0000

Good luck with the voting. Is it a secret society or something. I can’t even work out how to vote???

By: Lyndon Boyd

Lyndon Boyd — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:19:51 +0000

Where is Assange?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:46:45 +0000

Meryl is deserving, but so is Campbell based solely on his bloody stupid water fluoridation decision

By: Lucas.James

Lucas.James — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:57:47 +0000

What about a nomination for Campbell “CanDo” Newman for Arsehat of the year? Or possibly the entire Qld LNP?

By: Spica

Spica — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:48:26 +0000

Sexiest pollie ?
Who cares ?
Are you in the press gallery ?

By: kate douchkov

kate douchkov — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:04:02 +0000

So many arsehats, only one vote. Had to be Meryl …

By: paddy

paddy — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:59:43 +0000

Damn you Amber.
I was looking for a whole missing category.
Namely… “Sexiest Shock Jock”.
Now I’m feeling distinctly let down.

By: Amber Jamieson

Amber Jamieson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:49:22 +0000

Hello everybody, just to clarify, Alan Jones is now on the survey, it was just a mistake (made by me!) that he was absent.

By: Bretty

Bretty — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:48:24 +0000

A new ‘Kamikaze’ category for Clive Palmer?

By: Will

Will — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:39:55 +0000

A little sad to see Judith Sloan, aka most light-weight economics contributor in the country, didn’t get the gong. But I guess there was some good competition.

By: tinman_au

tinman_au — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:39:39 +0000

You missed James Ashby in the last category…

By: susan winstanley

susan winstanley — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:15:54 +0000

I wanted to vote for Alan Jones as Arsehat!

By: gerard

gerard — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:07 +0000

Where is Pell’s arsehole’s hat

By: owlcode

owlcode — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:14:33 +0000

Alan Jones has been left out as a Arsehat option on your Survey Monkey thing.