Watcher's Council Results

Wolf Howling hosted this week. The winners were:

1st place Council post: Bookworm Room – McCainiacs thinking outside of the box.

1st place non-Council post: Daniel Pipes – The West’s Islamist Infiltrators.

Congratulations to all participants on their fine writing and contribution to the blogosphere.

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Watcher's Council Results

Here are the results for the most recent vote of the Watcher's Council. The end of my vacation and return to teaching duties has made me somewhat tardy in posting them, but we got the matter taken care of. And I'm pretty pleased by the results as they stand, though my votes differed somewhat from the final results tallied below.

Council:
1. Wolf Howling
“Obama, Criminalizing Politics & Thinking The Unthinkable”
2.(tie) The Glittering Eye
“Civis Americanus Sum”
2.(tie) Soccer Dad
“Not up to the standards of the national enquirer *UPDATED*”
4. Joshuapundit
“Fear And Loathing: The Psychosexual Element In Islam”
5. Done With Mirrors
“Laid to Rest”
6.(tie) Cheat-Seeking Missiles
“Edwards Fesses Up; Let The Games Begin”
6.(tie)
The Colossus of Rhodey
“Great — One More Thing for Which to Blame the Jews.”

Non-Council:
1. Slate
“The Columbia Journalism Review’s Division Over Dissent”
2.(tie) National Review Online
“An Unplanned Education”
2.(tie) Pundita
“To any and all U.S. forces in Georgia: STAND DOWN”
2.(tie) a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2008/08/12/using-ridicule-as-a-weapon-could-backfire-on-mccain/" target="_blank">Right Wing Nut House
“Using Ridicule As a Weapon Could Backfire on McCain”
2. (tie) RogerÂ’s Rules
“The crisis in Georgia, 9/11, and the lessons of gratitude”
6.(tie) The Hashmonean
“Common Denominator: Israel at Every Level is Prepared to Strike Iran”
6.(tie) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
“It Was 20 Years Ago Today…Everything Changed”
6. (tie) Slapstick Politics
“Top Ten Ways The DNC Is Like The Beijing Olympics”
9. Discriminations
“Is It An Insult To Call Obama An Affirmative Action Candidate?”

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Watcher's Council Results

The Watcher's Council has spoken this week. Full results of the vote can be found here.

Council:

Votes Title

2.64   Joshuapundit: Winning in Afghanistan

1.98   Wolf Howling: PartIII: Why Exploit Our Domestic Resources

1.65   Rhymes with Right: What is a Windfall Profit?

1.32   Bookworm room: Marin CountyÂ’s Hidden Conservatives

0.99   The Razor: Red Man in a Blue Family

0.66   Done With Mirrors: Heroes

0.33   Soccer Dad: Hello martyr, hello fatah

0.33   Cheat Seeking Missiles: Time to Fire Bob Herbert

Non-Council:

3.63   Classical Values: Obama Be

2.64   Sigmund, Carl and Alfred: The Forgotten Christians of Lebanon

0.99   American Thinker: Time for an Indifferent World to Take a Stand

0.99   Neptunus Lex: A Difficult Man

0.66   Elder of Ziyon: The definitive version of Hello martyr, hello fatah

0.66   Spiegel Online: ChinaÂ’s Summer of Living Dangerously

0.33   The Baseball Crank: Politics: Racist Campaign Ad Watch

Thanks to Scott at The Razor for hosting this week's vote.

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Habemus Watcher!

As I believe I mentioned earlier, the esteemed Watcher, founder of the Watcher's Council, is retiring due to concerns of a personal nature.

Since this surprise announcement several weeks ago, we members of the Watcher's Council have kept ourselves going on an ad hoc basis while discussing our future.

Consensus was achieved rapidly that we would like to find a worthy successor for our leader emeritus -- and that none of us wanted to take the spot ourselves or lose any of the collection of unique voices that make up the Watcher's Council, though we did have one member step forward and offer himself in that capacity if no better candidate could be found.

And then, through a little bit of serendipity, an outside candidate for Watcher was put forward who could not have better fit the criteria upon which the members of the Council had agreed upon in the course of our discussion. After a bit of dialogue, he has agreed to become our new leader.

Cue the white cyber-smoke over the Sistine Cyber-Chapel

Terry Trippany, one of my favorite bloggers, who created, managed and written Webloggin, and who is also a frequent contributor to Newsbusters, will be the new Watcher. Expect him to assume his new duties as Watcher over the next few weeks, and to see changes in the Watcher's Council website once he does. But what we are all confident will be unchanged is the regular offering of great blog posts from within the Council and around the Internet for your consideration.

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Watcher's Council Results

The Council has spoken!

Here are the winning entries in the WatcherÂ’s Council vote for this week.

On the Council side, first place went to Soccer Dad for Hating Israel more than loving Palestinians.

Council:

1.  Soccer Dad (2) :  Hating Israel more than loving Palestinians
2.  Joshua Pundit (1 1/3):  “Ich Bin Ein Beginner!”

2.  Bookworm Room (1 1/3):  Nobody here but us biased chickens

3.  Hillbilly White Trash (1):  China

4.  Wolf Holwing (2/3):  Stop the Destruction of Our Environment - Drill Now

4.  The Colossus of Rhodey (2/3):  And Phil Gramm got grief?  How come?

4.  Rhymes With Right (2/3):  Obama Desecrates Holiest Site in Judaism

5.  Done With Mirrors (1/3):  Us and Them

5.  Cheat-Seeking Missiles (1/3):  An Awful Idea for Renaming a Perfectly Good Mountain

On the Non-Council side, first place was a two way tie between Jay Cost for On ObamaÂ’s Message and InvestorÂ’s Business Daily for Barack ObamaÂ’s Stealth Socialism. After the esteemed Bookworm broke the tie, things arranged themselves as follows.

Non-Council:

1.  InvestorÂ’s Business Daily (2, winning by a tie-breaker):  Barack ObamaÂ’s Stealth Socialism

2.  Jay Cost (1 2/3):  On ObamaÂ’s Message

3.  Jeff Jacoby (1 1/3):  Missing from that Berlin Speech

3.  Gregory Scoblete (1 1/3):  Will Obama Really Withdraw From Iraq?

4.  Maryland Conservative (1):  Visiting Poland : A Warning

4.  Patrick Poole (1) :  Anti-Patriot Act Poster Boy Kidnaps Own Kids

5.  UrbanGrounds (2/3):  Barry in Berlin - I am Not a Presidential Candidate

6.  Daniel W.  Drezner (1/3):  AmericaÂ’s soft military power

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