Douche #4: Heath Campbell (A Double Douche Winner)

Okay kids,  you're going to have to see this one to believe it.  

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hitler_cake

Today's Douche is a 35-year old New Jersey man named Heath Campbell.  Heath is a family man, with three beautiful children, a loving wife who's a decade his junior, and well... racist, hateful ideologies that he thrusts upon his kids in an almost immoral way and thus ruins their birthday.  

You see, Heath had the grand idea of naming his young boy Adolf Hitler Campbell.  That's right, he gave his little boy the first AND last name of an infamous, racist, genocidal maniac.  When he went into RiteAid to get his little boy a birthday cake with his name on it, RiteAid refused, rightfully saying it was offensive.  Well now the Cambells (who's other children's names are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation  and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie) are throwing a fuss saying that RiteAid ruined their child's birthday.  The intellect busting 70-point IQ couple justified naming little Adolf by saying:

"They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did."

Brilliant.   Tell that to the survivors of the Holocaust (which the Campbells don't believe happened) and the descendants of those survivors.  

So today I'm giving Heath Campbell the first ever "Double Douche" award.  First Douche for thrusting your racist ideologies on your child by naming him Adolf Hitler (I hope he grows up an ACLU lawyer!).  Second Douche for being such an idiot as to not understand people's visceral reaction to it (hey, that's what you were looking for when you named your children after the Third Reich).

UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has more on this.

Douche #1: John Ziegler

Welcome to the first post of The Daily Douches.  An online blog dedicating to pointing out all the douchebags that inhabit our society.  If you're listed as a douche and don't like it... go cry home to mama!

Today's douche (a.k.a.- Douchebag #1) is the right wing moron John Ziegler.  Ziegler is famous for talking out his ass most of the time and uses the Hannity-esque (future Douchebag on this blog) approach of talking over his opponents when he loses an argument.  

John recently had an all out argument with Nate Silver at 538 about a "poll" he contucted investigating the knowledge of Obama voters.  John's goal was to make Obama voters look uneducated about modern issues by asking misleading questions.  He did this basically as a way of making money by selling his "documentary" about the 2008 campaign.  Reading John's poll reveals that he was more concerned about how Republican talking points stuck to Obama voters.  Nate called him on it and Ziegler, the little douchebag, got a little testy (saying "go f%&@ yourself" is not healthy dialogue John). 

Now, I'll be honest.  I like Nate Silver's style and approach.  As someone trained in statistics, I like the rigorous and detailed way that Nate approaches data, whether it be baseball or political polls.  He's a pragmatist more than a hack.  The same cannot be said for John.  Instead John revels in ridicule and slander.  

Case in point.  If you can stomach it, check out this video of a "debate" between John and Nate.  Notice that Nate brings up specific problems whereas Douchbag #1 simply attacks Nate (and all "liberals") on a personal level.   

Why is it that a noted and accomplished statistician and pollwatcher is paired on equal playing ground with someone who just talks for a living and openly admits to having a strong political bias in his "thought" processes?  One of these two men has an IQ of below 70.  I'll let you take a gander as to who, but here's a hit... it's not Nate.