for your reading pleasure this Thanksgiving Day Eve...I give you my friend...Michelle Malkin...

As we gather round the Thanksgiving table, bow our heads in prayer and feast on the holiday bird, it is only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkeys of 2009.

1. The stimulus. Back in February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a Thanksgiving dinner entree, it would be a Turbaconducken -- the heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon. And so it has come to pass. After the Democratic majority larded up the massive spending package with earmarks and bribes, President Obama declared it pork-free and has stubbornly touted its job creation benefits for out-of-work Americans.

Reality check? The Washington Examiner reports that more than 10 percent of the jobs the Obama administration claimed were "created or saved" by the stimulus are doubtful or imaginary. ABC News uncovered countless examples of bogus congressional districts listed as stimulus beneficiaries by the Obama stimulus tracking website, Recovery.gov. The money has been lavished on shady beauty schools in New Hampshire, prison inmates in Texas and wind companies in Spain and China. Just this week, a California audit found that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overstated the number of jobs saved by federal stimulus dollars by upward of 13,000.

While this Generational Theft Act continues to soak up our tax dollars and add to our children's and grandchildren's debt, the Democratic majority is in the government kitchen cooking up a second stimulus turkey to provide federal infrastructure money to public-sector unions. Gobble, gobble.

2. President O-bow-ma. The candidate who pledged to restore America's standing in the world couldn't figure out how to stay standing in front of world leaders. In April, he crouched before Saudi King Abdullah. This month, he provoked global derision when he broke protocol and performed a spineless blunder in front of the Japanese emperor.

The kowtower-in-chief's body language reflected the administration's broader foreign policy prostrations -- including scrapping missile defense in the Czech Republic and Poland, canceling a meeting with the Dalai Lama to appease China, sitting on its hands this summer during the Iranian election protests and unveiling the 9/11 show trials in New York City that will provide a circus platform for jihadis and international Bush-haters.

The left complained that George W. Bush was too much of a cowboy on the global stage. It's better than having a waterboy.

3. Green jobs czar Van Jones. This deep-fried turkey was recruited by Team Obama's Chicago consigliere Valerie Jarrett, who boasted about recruiting the Marxist rabble-rouser from Oakland. He openly crusaded to free Philadelphia death row cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, bashed capitalism with radical revolutionary rhetoric and signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition that he meekly disavowed in a botched attempt to save his job. Jones is now at the Center for American Progress, run by Obama transition official and Democratic operative John Podesta.

The other turkey in the story, Val Jarrett, escaped unscathed and went on to push the Obamas into their failed crony campaign for the 2016 Olympics bid in Copenhagen -- a taxpayer-funded, hubris-infused debacle that ties with Van Jones for third biggest turkey of the year. Rio got the Games. America got a closer look at the pay-for-play patrons, power brokers and developers in the Windy City who have put an indelible Chicago stamp on the Potomac.

4. The New York Times. Scooped by Fox News, conservative blogs and talk radio on the exploding ACORN scandal, the paper whitewashed its own role in covering up the community organizing racket's financial shenanigans last fall when it cut off a reporter's investigation a few weeks before Election Day. Jill Abramson, the Times' managing editor for news, acknowledged that her staff was "slow off the mark" and blamed "insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio." They assigned a new "opinion media monitor" to track the competition, but refused to identify the watchdog for fear that he/she would get too many mean, intrusive e-mails and phone calls.

More recently, the paper's website demonstrated that its real motto is "All the inconvenient news that's fit to suppress." The Times' lead environmental blogger, Andrew Revkin, haughtily refused to reprint damning e-mails leaked by a hacker in the burgeoning "ClimateGate" scandal. The documents reveal a long trail of manipulated data, but Revkin balked at the ill-gotten trove. The blabbermouths at the Times had no problem exposing national security secrets to undermine Bush. But shed light on scientific hoaxes that undermine Al Gore? Unethical!

5. Tea Party-bashers. Millions of ordinary, peaceful Americans joined the Tea Party movement to revolt against big government, backroom deals and the Beltway culture of corruption. For their exercise of free speech and free assembly, they were smeared nationwide. Hollywood has-been Janeane Garofalo called them "racist, backward motherf**kers." SEIU labor thug Dennis Rivera accused them of "terrorist tactics." CNN anchor Anderson Cooper used a vulgar sexual epithet to describe them. Team Obama's astroturfers declared all-out war on them.

For refusing to sit down and shut up in the face of such unhinged bigotry, and for exposing the foulness of the political fowl, I have two words for them: Thank you.

just because its Michelle Malkin about half the people are going to sneer and refuse to read it

I dont know who she is, probably makes a living with public judgment and insulting of others,,but

she has a right to her opinion, which I whole heartedly disagree with but Im thankful that I am in a country where I can say so.

My nominee would be the politician who had an affair on his wife and then publically proclaimed his mistress as his soulmate. I would also nominate the doctor who administered MJ's death. I would nominate the heartless children who beat a student to death outside of a community center and those who raped a girl outside of a prom. I would also nominate the cop who 'accidentally' shot an unarmed man who was lying on the ground unarmed..oh and the media for so many stories that they 'pounced' on for the purpose of ratings instead of to inform ..I could go on,,but why not get back to being thankful for my blessings?...


Happy THanksgiving

again, the Noble Peace prize committee gets my nomination...and of course the six deviant idiots who snatched a young lady out of a chinese store and drug her to an apartment where they all took turns raping her. They all got caught in the act and hopefully will be Bubba's turkey while in prison.....

will also have to nominate Chris Brown, such a man is he that he had to brutally beat his woman to get his point across, tsk tsk, you'd think these macho men would learn, too bad he's a big time celebrity, he too should have spoent a few years with Bubba....

Hut in all seriousness my nomination continues to go to all those who neglect their children and all those who have loved ones in nursing homes that they no longer visit, shame on you.

disagree bout chris brown, but the others have my vote as well

when a " man "...beats a women...he's not only a turkey...but...a fuggin a-hole !... ...any particuliar reason your gave him a pass ?...

Well, because I have been that girl and I know there are usually two sides to the story. Its not that someone falls , its what they do to correct it. My situation was with someone I loved and he loved me and himself enough to turn his life around afterwards, so I would consider him someone I have much respect for as I do for Chris, at this point.

So far he seems to have carried on trying to learn from what happened, to be a better person, and continuing to try to set a positive example.

ugh

O-bow-ma. That's cute.
Hussein didn't really do a bow in China. After a very close examination of the photo, I conclude, he was checking to see if the roumor was true about Asians having tiny penises.

i dont think party lines drive readers away from maulkin, it's her idiocy. shes been called out on her lies and refuse to debate them just like bridgette gabriel. praising maulkin would be like a liberal praising al gore

Shame on the corporate nurseing homes that do a crappy job of taking care of the elderly for which they are well paid to take care of but don't. Stealing their personal possessions, skipping essential comforts like baths and hair, nail, and dental care. Often not even bothering to feed them more than a few bites. Leaving them for hours in dirty diapers or half dressed. Faulting family for not visiting when there is no where to sit, no phone to call on, patients are moved with out even telling them where they are and actually barring family members that complain or report them for violations.

And shame on sensationalistic reporting that invades the privacy of others and disrupts the lives and reputations of so many and the public who have such a thirst for seeing peoples lives destroyed and reputations ruined.