Watcher’s Council winners for May 9, 2014
The Watcher’s Council spoke last week, anointing winners, placers, and showers in both the Council and non-Council categories. As always, I couldn’t agree more with the outcome. If you haven’t already read the nominations, now is a good chance to do so.
Also, the Watcher’s Council had a very interesting forum about whether Boko Haram’s kidnapping and forced conversion of 300 Christian school girls, who will now be sold as sexual slaves, actually reflects Islam (as opposed to some insanity attaching itself to Islam). I didn’t participate in the forum, because my contribution would simply have been “Yes, this is about Islam,” and further, in answer to the question what to do, “We have to do what the West has had to do since the 7th century when confronted with Islam’s militant branch: fight back in every way shape and forum.”
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 2/3 votes! – Joshuapundit–The Shameful Stench Of Benghazi Continues
- Second place with 3 votes –The Noisy Room – Harry Reid – Standing Between A Politician And His Millions
- Third place with 2 votes – Bookworm Room – Donald Sterling is the Left’s desperately needed “wag the dog” moment, distracting from their myriad failures
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Nice Deb – Video: State Dept. Withholding 7 Page Email Exchange Between Top WH Officials Re Fox News/Benghazi Media Strategy
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Right Planet – Manning Johnson: Color, Communism and Common Sense
- Fifth place with 1 vote –Simply Jews – The views we choose: The Guardian and Times of Israel on Putin
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Ask Marion – Sunshine Is The Greatest Disinfectant
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey –Salon.com miffed superhero flicks feature straight white guys
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Liberty’s Spirit – Reminder of Why J Street is Not Welcome Into the Mainstream
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – The Coming 2-Tiered Medical System
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – A Broader Failure Of Policy
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Independent Sentinel –Fundamental Transformation: Obama Again Calls the United States a Constitutional Democracy
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 2/3 votes! –Stephen Hayes/Weekly Standard –Benghazi Lies submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
- Second place with 2 votes – Richard Haas/The American Interest –U.S. Foreign Policy: In Troubling Disarray submitted by The Razor
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – David Harsanyi/ The Federalist – When Does Criticism Of Israel Become Anti-Semitic?submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Andrew McCarthy/NRO–The AWOL Commander In Chief submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes –Conservative Treehouse –Benghazi F.U.B.A.R. – Understanding the Oval Office activity on 9/11/12 – What Was, and What Was Not, Known… submitted by Nice Deb
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote –Maggie’s Notebook –Leon Panetta Violated NDAA, Changed Benghazi Sp Forces Mission Without Chris Stevens MANDATED Approval submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote –Caroline Glick – Life Under The Obama Doctrine submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Stormbringer – Arming The Enemysubmitted by Simply Jews
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Kurt Schlichter/Townhall –The Nightmare of a Defenseless America submitted by The Noisy Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Ryan T. Anderson & Robert P. George/Real Clear Policy – Freedom to Marry & Dissent, Rightly Understood submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Scott Johnson/Powerline – The courts will not save us submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Black And Right – The Democrat Race Lie submitted by The Right Planet
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Vanity Fair – A Fundamental Fightsubmitted by The Colossus of Rhodey