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The Straight Jacket Award Of The Day For 2/18/10: The First Day Of CPAC 2010

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Oh the crazy was in abundance today at the always annual CPAC in D.C. The highlights were so plenty that we have to sum it up in the Top 10 moments . 10. Dick Armey "The number 1 biggest problem in America is the physical size of this government" 9. That same aptly named man, laughing at the uninsured again with "Armey mocks the idea of a "crisis in health care" 8. This Jason Mattera sure has some manners. More to come from him later. 7. Some nut named David David Keene said "ACU chair Keene says CPAC has "Barack Obama honorary teleprompters" 6. The royal pig that is Erick Erickson said the unsurprisingly..."We got Fox News." 5. Erickson was not done, finding time to be obsessed with and poke fun at Media Matters 4. The voice of the "Demon Sheep" ad somehow thought it was rational to say Obama "probably" planning to use Gitmo to imprison Breitbart and Coulter." Wait, conservatives and rati...

How Classy: Former Republican House Leader Armery Gives An Embarrassing Moment To All Of Us

On yesterday's Hardball, Former House Majority Dick Armery gave the years' first tasteless, disgusting soundbite outside of the Rush Limbaugh, Fixed Propaganda (Fox News)horror, telling Salon's Joan Welsh something no one needed to here . In a moment that has spread all over the Rational Online News Network since last night, Armery placed himself clearly in the Hall of Fame of chauvinistic a-holes. Even worse was the fact that Chris Matthews said nothing about Armery's pigheaded quote, needing the New York Times Bob Herbert in the next segment to finally offer an apology for the trash that was witnessed. But that's Matthews though when it comes to challenging his good buddy buddies after disparaging a female. He'll let it be labeled as "just some good entertainment." I wonder if Walsh will be willingly to go on his show after he brazenly stood up for her by laughing along at Armery's bile. And some parents truly give their kids the perfect names. A...