Year in Review

You Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: On FOX "News" (March 3), "America's Mayor" rates Vladimir Putin over President Obama: "Putin makes a decision, and he executes it, quickly. . . . That's what you call a leader."Sorry, minor technical difficulties here, but we'll be back with Part 8 of Noah's "2014 in Review" at 6pm ET/3pm PT. -- Ken#

• And so it begins: The running of the buffoons• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 7: George Will has no idea what rape is• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 8: Rick Wiles calls for a coup2016 GOP Buffoon No. 1 steps forward: He-e-ere's Booby!

• And now a word about South Carolina• Pat Robertson and his magic asteroid• I'll have a pack of Twizzlers and an IUD to go, pleaseEight-year-old South Carolinian Olivia McConnell (see No. 1, Exhibit B) thinks she's so-o-o smart just 'cause she's smarter than the whole of her state's GOP. Okay, she's only eight, so she doesn't realize that this isn't all that remarkable a feat.

• The GOP and the kiss heard 'round the world• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 5: Joe the PlumberMichael and Vito

• A celebration of Michele Bachmann: Pray away the crazy?• What "War on Women"?• And the "Obama angle" on Malaysian Flight 370Miss Michele: Praying away the crazy?

• Using fear, loathing, and paranoia to sell stuff• Arizona legalizes crack!• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 3: old reliable Bill O’ReillyNoah worries, will 40 days and nights be enough?

• Repugs wonder why normal people call them racists• Sean Hannity wants to self-deport• And the First Annual Mr. Burns AwardCrazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 2 -- the Rockin' Racist, Ted Nugent

• Princess Liz Cheney -- 2014's Smoothie of the Year?• "Miss Beck regrets" -- Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 1• And the Crackpot Party reacts to President Obama's SOTUThe Curious Case of the Princess and the Senator (see No. 1)

Exploiting tragedy for a buck; plus Miss America's not American?, "Quote of the Year" winner[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]Miss America, Missouri-born Nina Davuluri -- zowie!by NoahTHE MINDS OF CORPORATISTS: EXPLOITING TRAGEDY FOR A BUCKWhat is it about the corporate mind?

Some people really try my patience(Bill-O, Howie Kurtz, E. W. Jackson, et al.)[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]by NoahWhat would any Quote of the Year contest be without one of the Republican Party's leading spokesweirdos, Bill O'Reilly? I think the most interesting question about this man is: Is he merely Archie Bunker with a TV show? Or is Roger Ailes broadcasting lunatic Republican propaganda from a remote insane asylum that's buried deep in a lead-shielded mountain somewhere.