If Ellen Degeneres deserves the Medal of Freedom...

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She's un-funny and she gives away other people's money. Plus she's gay. Sounds perfect!
 
She's un-funny and she gives away other people's money. Plus she's gay. Sounds perfect!

How could she be un-funny? She didn't build her long-running and successful career on the mere novelty of a lesbian standup comic and talk-show host.
 
How could she be un-funny? She didn't build her long-running and successful career on the mere novelty of a lesbian standup comic and talk-show host.
When she was doing stand-up comedy, she was not known to be lesbian. She came out only after she got a TV series.
 
When she was doing stand-up comedy, she was not known to be lesbian. She came out only after she got a TV series.

There you are, and by then she was already so famous the news made national magazine covers. And she didn't get to that point by being un-funny.
 
More to the point, she's uplifting and upbeat and isn't even evangelical or otherwise preachy. Just what we need at the moment.

I have heard, though, that all of the unassigned Medals of Freedom have been pulled back to use on this year's Apprentice TV show.
 
I'm sure she's a nice guy and all. I just don't think she's funny. I find it smarmy as she gives away other people's money.
 
I'm sure she's a nice guy and all. I just don't think she's funny. I find it smarmy as she gives away other people's money.

Well, if you've just got to be miserable and hate something, I guess that's a reason. Sort of a dumb one, but if you've got to be miserable and hate something . . .
 
Well, if you've just got to be miserable and hate something, I guess that's a reason. Sort of a dumb one, but if you've got to be miserable and hate something . . .

No. It's not that. It's just that it bothers me when someone wins an honor that they don't really deserve. I think it diminishes the honor, like the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
No. It's not that. It's just that it bothers me when someone wins an honor that they don't really deserve. I think it diminishes the honor, like the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's just a medal, Rammy. A piece of metal with a cloth ribbon to hang it with. She'll put it up on her mantle or hang it above her desk.

It's not going to personally hurt you, change your life or affect your eventual fate. In fact, I guarantee you'll forget about it in a week when you're at the supermarket figuring out which microwaveable dinner to buy.
 
I think Obama winning the Nobel just into his first term really proves how silly these kind of awards are
 
It's just a medal, Rammy. A piece of metal with a cloth ribbon to hang it with. She'll put it up on her mantle or hang it above her desk.

It's not going to personally hurt you, change your life or affect your eventual fate. In fact, I guarantee you'll forget about it in a week when you're at the supermarket figuring out which microwaveable dinner to buy.

It's just that I feel bad for Sally Jessy Raphael and Ricki Lake.
 
That was a whoopsie with the indiscriminate drone attacks and all.
Yeah, never mind how many lives he saved with those drone strikes.

Meanwhile, Trump is considering General Mad Dog for SecDef, so get your boots on.
 
Yeah, never mind how many lives he saved with those drone strikes.

Meanwhile, Trump is considering General Mad Dog for SecDef, so get your boots on.

Too funny.

Drone strikes under Bush were war crimes, under Obama they are a life-saving mission.

You can ount on the situational morality of the press taking the same bent during the incoming administrations tenure. Suddenly, every stray fragment the nicks a civilian will, once again, be pure evil personified. We'll start seeing the dead and wounded again.
 
Too funny.

Drone strikes under Bush were war crimes, under Obama they are a life-saving mission.

You can ount on the situational morality of the press taking the same bent during the incoming administrations tenure. Suddenly, every stray fragment the nicks a civilian will, once again, be pure evil personified. We'll start seeing the dead and wounded again.
Whether good or bad, at least Obama's terrorist to civilian kill ratio is somewhat better (at least as of Jan)
Bush authorized approximately 50 drone strikes that killed 296 terrorists and 195 civilians in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, Obama has authorized 506 strikes that have killed 3,040 terrorists and 391 civilians
 
I'm sure she's a nice guy and all. I just don't think she's funny. I find it smarmy as she gives away other people's money.

Lots of celebs do charity fundraising. There's nothing immoral at all about it, nothing sleazy or dishonest or even anything less than admirable. They're just capitalizing on their fame to get people to donate to charity.
 
That was a whoopsie with the indiscriminate drone attacks and all.

Well, at least for the past 8 years the USG has not been quite the raging monster of destruction that it was under W. Obama's Peace Prize was really an award to the American people, just for rejecting the Pubs and neocons, and we deserved it just for that, too. You can be sure the Donald and his voters will never get one and never deserve one.
 
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