Wizbang readjusted their leaderboard. Shocker! – we’re not on it anymore. I figured that the potential shitstorm if BJ walked away with the conservative prize wouldn’t appeal to them (John had the paleocon – movementarian vote split 1-11 in our favor) so getting bumped into the TTLB category shouldn’t surprise anybody. It’s even a bit classy that they kept us around somewhere. Nonetheless it strikes me as unfair to jerk around Cernig, the Jawa guys, Shaun Mullen, Joe Gandelman and Tech Crunch because of us, and I’m sorry to those guys if we had anything to do with it.
*** Update ***
Looks like we aren’t the only ones to get hosed.
John Cole
WE WAS ROBBED!
Dreggas
Well shit, we can’t even snark the diebold, you beat us to it. But you can always pull a nader and sue someone.
ninerdave
TTLB?
Dreggas
something tells me the last two letters mean Liberal Blog
HyperIon
i just looked (that is clicked the link) and B-J is there.
BTW how does one vote?
I accidentally nominated B-J twice because I thought I was voting. Someone, please explain.
srv
John,
Just like Al Gore, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you really won.
matt
What does that mean? If you’re no longer listed as a conservative blog, what category (or ecosystem) are you now under?
HyperIon
yeah, matt, i didn’t understand that either.
it says on the right that voting starts today.
where? how?
is Tim’s link to the leader board or the nominations list?
ConservativelyLiberal
I demand a recount! We wuz robbed! Time to get the troops together and storm the courthouse! Lets get the Supreme Court involved!
Yup, they pulled an Al Gore on ya. ;)
srv
Who’s a lawyer? We need a class-action suit on behalf of the Juicerati.
The Other Steve
I guess the thought of a fare competition scared them, and they ran away bravely.
John Cole
In all honesty, the Weblogs Award should be more accurately named ‘The Most Persistent Online Narcissism Awards.’ You aren’t rewarded for anything other than remembering to browbeat a bunch of commenters over to vote for you every day.
Tim was only pushing it because he saw a ripe opportunity to be ornery, something I always support.
Michael van der Galiën
lol quite right John.
Tim: you is being robbed man! Fight the machine! ;)
Bombadil
TTLB = The Truth Laid Bear
Zifnab
I can’t believe my tax dollars continue to go and fund this travesty.
Michael van der Galiën
o, and by the way: why the hell are we only nominated for best european blog and not best new blog? We’re one of the biggest new blogs on the net.
O, shit, my narcissism again.
D-Chance.
“Best of the Top 250” is nothing to sneeze at.
Have fun topping the RedState boys. :-)
Tim F.
With only one blog for lefties/sane conservatives to vote for you know that we had that bugger wrapped up. Oh well.
Maybe we should announce our own damn awards.
Tom Hilton
Damn. I was looking forward to the mass Scanners moment on the right when the Best Conservative Blog award went to a newly-minted left-wing DFH.
Dreggas
Ok when you are top of the 250 and beating out redstate as well as others like Wonkette you know you are doing something right, even if it is nomination by commenters.
AkaDad
This is clearly a liberal plot to censor and persecute true Conservatives…
Buck
Looks like you ARE on it. (BTW, big congrats!)
Tom Hilton
By the way, there is still hope: the Telegraph hasn’t yet announced their 20 most influential U.S. conservatives. If Drew Carey is number 39, surely John is in the top 20.
ninerdave
Now that is a fine idea!
“best citizen journalist investigation by peaking through a window”
“Best willful ignorance of the facts, to smear someone”
“best Cheerleader video”
“best music video”
endless awards
John Cole
That whole thing is weird. If you asked American journalists, they couldn’t name 100 top British conservatives, let alone rank order the top 100 most influential.
Hell, the only reason American journalists could pick out 100 conservatives in the states is because half of them have been caught in bed with a gay prostitute, a defense contractor, or a lobbyist in the last 6 months.
ConservativelyLiberal
John & Tim, you were ripped off because they found out that you are bringing a g,eh Canadian blogger on board. On top of the party change, you have overloaded their circuits. ;)
I used to manage a mobile home park and campgrounds, and we had what we called the ‘C&C’ customers. Californian and Canadian. The Californians were generally assholes, and the Canadians were our most welcome guests, especially when they brought their daughters along and needed to lose the her so the parents could go out have some fun!. Ahh, to young and single again…
Seriously, Canadian people have always been some of the nicest people I have met. Living in Spokane, we were inundated regularly with Canadian visitors. Without exception, great people!
Welcome aboard Michael! (This time I am right!) ;)
Tsulagi
Those remaining in the Best Conservative Blog category are conservatives? Don’t know them all, but pretty much all I see are Bush farts. Who all ditto each other they smell good.
Zuzu
Good Lord, if Just One Minute gets votes for being the best or even the medium good of anything, it’s surely proof that the whole thing is about browbeating enough commenters to vote early and often.
incontrolados
See last year bamapachyderm went all out. This year not so much (unless I missed it). I don’t know why. I haven’t found a reason to visit.
Just as an FYI, I clicked a couple of times and then found your blog to be worth about as much as Nikki Sixx’s closet.
Anyone check to see if Tom DeLay’s blog has been nominated in his TTLB category? I don’t even want to look at that.
I missed out on the Canadian blogger addition. Sounds like globalism to me :)
Dreggas
You mean the second generation of their family to walk upright category right?
Krista
Um yeah…about that. Do you remember a busty redhead from 1992? Any objections to a paternity test?
Libby Spencer
You would think they might have worked out the technical difficulties BEFORE they posted the finalist list. Now I know what collateral damage feels like.
I blame John for announcing his moonbat assimilation too soon. If you had waited a couple more days, they wouldn’t have been able to blame the software…
[Joke alert: for those unaccustomed to my dry wit, this has been an attempt at humor]
Tom Hilton
If David Vitter, Mark Foley, and Larry Craig aren’t all in the top 20, we’ll know the list has no credibility.
Dreggas
Libby,
in actuality it would have been the biggest coup evah had john held off and won.
The Other Steve
There was only one flaw in Tim’s plan to get Balloon-Juice as the #1 blog.
As john noted, it’s mostly about browbeating your commentators to go vote.
And at balloon-juice, it’s the commentators who browbeat the hosts!
We’d have never gone to vote. you know it, I know it. The whole plan was doomed!
capelza
Michael, welcome! Look forward to your posts.
I’m confused…is Balloon Juice being given the “Miss Congeniality” award..or did they find old nude pictures of the little dude on the right side of the page and strip it of it’s crown?
Dreggas
what do you mean being given the miss congeniality award? LOL
capelza
I’m not sure..though I guess it is funny in an ironic way.
It just popped in my head. BJ gets moved from the catagory they were winning in (if I read that right) and is given some other spot instead..kind of a consolation prize or something.
I’m eating the left over Halloween candy..the sugar is making me dizzy.
Dreggas
lol
demimondian
I think capelza meant “miscongeniality”, except that’s not really a word.
If it were, though, it would surely describe the comments section, wouldn’t it?
Dreggas
well I thought that capelza actually meant we were somehow being congenial. To whit I would refer her to my favorite line from MacBeth, sayeth Lady MacBeth to MacBeth: “Act like the innocent flower, but be the serpent beneath”
taodon
Bush Godwins his own administration.
taodon
Sorry, that should have read:
Bush Godwins congress for not confirming Mukasey.
Good grief.
Dreggas
wait I thought Saddam was the new Hitler, or was that Ahmadinejad?
ConservativelyLiberal
Must have been our competitors, we sold out the business (to turn into a mobile home park and restaurant parking lot, strange combo) in 1987.
Whew! ;)
ConservativelyLiberal
Oh, but the busty redhead part sure sounds like I missed out!
I like redheads… ;)
Mike
My kids and I were on a bicycle tour of Victoria when we passed a field of teenagers playing cricket. I asked the guide if baseball was popular too, and he apologized:
“Oh, yeah, the kids like baseball much better. Cricket is always white kids whose parents make them play to teach them their (eyes rolling) English heritage.”
Canada is a whole country of polite liberals! I love it.
Cernig
One Ballooon Juice is worth any number of “Webbies”. No contest.
No worries, Tim.
Regards, C
ConservativelyLiberal
Maybe I like Canadians because my great-great-great grandfather was french-canadian from Ontario, and he migrated into upstate New York (Rome/Utica area).
Oh crap, I am part surrender monkey! Damn, that explains everything, eh?
;)
Here in America, we say ‘Hey man, hows it going?’, and in Canada they say ‘Man, hows it going, eh?’. They are just backwards Americans. Or maybe we are backwards Canadians?
Person of Choler
This blog award stuff is as interesting as the controversy between Irma Fingston-Dillworthy and Maud Clogstopper over whose turnips should have gotten the blue ribbon at the Hogsnot County Agricultural Show.
Michael van der Galiën
Thanks Capelza and ConservativelyLiberal (great name).
Tim – don’t feel too bad about it all. If there was an award for “blog with most obnoxious commenters” Balloon Juice would win it easily! ;)
Krista
We do?
Just wanted to mention that we are a pretty big country, with a pretty diverse population. So you could take someone from Norris Arm, Newfoundland, and someone from Victoria, B.C., and you’ll swear that you’ve got people from two completely separate countries.
But yes, for the most part, we are all pretty polite. (Except for middle-aged Quebec men when they get behind the wheel…those guys are frighteningly aggressive.)
Dreggas
that makes 2 of us, my family on my fathers side are french canadian and migrated south into the adirondacks.
Libby Spencer
Thanks for the encouragement Dreggas. I feel rather shy about commenting here given the cleverness quotient of the readers.
Dreggas
comment away!