Little Green Footballs awards

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The blog Little Green Footballs has two annual awards given to individuals or groups who exemplify their respective categories. The nominations are done by commentators on a designated post on Little Green Footballs, where after the winner is chosen by a general poll over two rounds. Cox & Forkum mark the winners by a cartoon.

There are two awards:

[edit] The Fallaci

The Oriana Fallaci Anti-Idiotarian Award is named in honour of the late Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci and is given to an individual who in the preceding year has best exemplified the struggle against idiotarians. The award has been given since 2006 and can only be won once.

Winners by year:

• 2006: John Bolton with 36,3% of 22,442 votes[1].

In 2006 the finalists were:

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• John Bolton
• Canadian PM Stephen Harper
• Australian PM John Howard
• Melanie Phillips
• Pope Benedict XVI
• Robert Spencer
• Mark Steyn
• Stuck Mojo
• Wafa Sultan

[edit] The Fiskie

The Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year is named after the British journalist Robert Fisk and is given to an individual who in the previous year has best exemplified the idiotarian. It was named after Robert Fisk in memory of his words after his his close encounter with a mob of Afghans: “If I were them, I'd have beaten me too."[2]

The award has been given since 2002 and can only be won once.

Winners by year:

• 2006: Kofi Annan with 31.6% of 20,491 votes[3].
• 2005: Cindy Sheehan with 48.4% of 21,381 votes[4].
• 2004: Michael Moore with 44.5% of 5,675 votes[5].
• 2003: Rachel Corrie with 28.8% of 3,989 votes[6].
• 2002: Jimmy Carter with 30.2% of 2,467 votes[7].

In 2006 the finalists were:

• Kofi Annan
• Hugo Chávez
• John F. Kerry
• Mainstream Media
• John Murtha
• Keith Olbermann
• 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists