Each day is a fresh chance to discover, as the webcomic xkcd put it, that someone is wrong on the internet. Here at TAPPED, we've turned toppling the gods into an art form. Here's a look at the five best takedowns on the blog this year: Shelby Steele: "The man is like Sisyphus, doomed to roll each conservative talking point up a hill, bullet point by bullet point, for the rest of eternity."Pat Buchanan: "Before we were people in the eyes of the law, before we had the right to vote, before we had a black president, [Black Americans] were here, helping make this country as it is today. We are as American as it gets. And frankly, the time of people who think otherwise is passing. If that's the country Buchanan wants to hold onto, well, he's right, he is losing it."Credit card industry executives: "Oh, you say, but they're facing $82 billion worth of defaults? Maybe they shouldn't have designed their business model around harshly penalizing failing customers instead of creating viable lines of credit."Bart Stupak: "It's pretty cramped underneath this bus, what with 50 percent of Americans down here."Matt Taibbi: "The problems Taibbi tries to describe aren't some kind of ridiculous cabal. They come from group-think and structural influences and as a result of a complex interplay of interests and institutions"--The Editors The Year In: Takedowns.
Each day is a fresh chance to discover, as the webcomic xkcd put it, that someone is wrong on the internet. Here at TAPPED, we've turned toppling the gods into an art form. Here's a look at the five best takedowns on the blog this year: Shelby Steele: "The man is like Sisyphus, doomed to roll each conservative talking point up a hill, bullet point by bullet point, for the rest of eternity."Pat Buchanan: "Before we were people in the eyes of the law, before we had the right to vote, before we had a black president, [Black Americans] were here, helping make this country as it is today. We are as American as it gets. And frankly, the time of people who think otherwise is passing. If that's the country Buchanan wants to hold onto, well, he's right, he is losing it."Credit card industry executives: "Oh, you say, but they're facing $82 billion worth of defaults? Maybe they shouldn't have designed their business model around harshly penalizing failing customers instead of creating viable lines of credit."Bart Stupak: "It's pretty cramped underneath this bus, what with 50 percent of Americans down here."Matt Taibbi: "The problems Taibbi tries to describe aren't some kind of ridiculous cabal. They come from group-think and structural influences and as a result of a complex interplay of interests and institutions"--The Editors 
