Comments on: 2012 Crikeys: the good, the arsehat and the sexy

By: Patriot

Patriot — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:11:38 +0000

Women, Muslims, blacks good, shock jocks bad.

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:53:43 +0000

Doesn’t anyone get it yet?

Obama is a common criminal of the ‘murder people you don’t like (and their friends) by drone’ notoriety.

It’s emblematic of the gulf between geopolitical reality that a site like Crikey can nominate such an odious criminal as a person of the year. I’d vote for Mugabe ahead of Obama, on whose watch more than 300,000 unarmed men, women & children have been murdered by the US & its allies via starvation and military actions.(check out Dr Gideon Polya’s website for a detailoed breakdown)

If you devote 33% of that number to children murdered, that a total of around 100,000 children…which puts the recent Sandy Hook massacre in a new perspective.
But no-one including Crikey wants to talk about it.

In 2012. in Australia we are living in a parallel universe.

And we wonder why Islam doesn’t like us…really.

By: Barbara Boyle

Barbara Boyle — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:50:31 +0000

Yes to Penny but for me , John Faulkner leaves MT for dead.

By: Steve777

Steve777 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:35:44 +0000

Good choices in the first two categories. Certainly the competition for the A-hat was intense, with so many Grade 1 A-hats failing to make the shortlist - Tony Abbott, Christopher Pyne, Julie Bishop,Ralph Blewitt and some colourful past NSW political identities…the list is endless

Jimmy Saville, I thought, was disqualified on the grounds of not having been alive for any part for 2012.

By: Margo

Margo — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:15:20 +0000

How on earth could the s-xiest male politician not be Rob Oakeshott? No contest, surely.

By: leone

leone — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:08:34 +0000

Malcolm Turnbull sexy? In what universe? Honestly, he’s about as sexy as two week old porridge. I suspect strong input from Malcolm’s eager-to-remain-employed staff in the voting.

By: Dan Gulberry

Dan Gulberry — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:05:31 +0000

I was one of those who voted for Pyne as sexiest female, and I feel good about it.

I also voted for Leveson as Person of the year, and feel good about that as well, even though the actual winner was deserving of the award.

At least I got it right in the Arsehat category. No contest really.

By: owlcode

owlcode — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:35:04 +0000

Can we repeat this, now with preference flows?

By: zut alors

zut alors — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:56:46 +0000

Drat, I squandered a valuable vote on Larissa Waters when it should’ve gone to C Pyne.

There’s no way the mistake will be repeated next year.

By: paddy

paddy — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:17:37 +0000

Two stand out joys from this year’s awards.

You forgot to put George Pell in the Arsehat comp and were brave enough to admit it. (Bless you)

Plus Christopher Pyne……. LOL