2009 Douchebag Tournament Round 1, Day 2

March 20th, 2009 | 08:56 am
 
 
Welcome to day two of HolyTaco's 2009 Douchebag Tournament. Before we get to today's matchups, here are the results from yesterday's games.
 
 
(1) Chris Brown 75.3%
Defeated
(16) Ryan Seacrest  24.7%
 
(1) Alex Rodriguez 64%
Defeated
(16) Bill Belichick 36%
 
(1) Bernie Madoff 88.6%
Defeated
(16) Richard Branson 11.4%
 
(1) Rush Limbaugh 73.5%
Defeated
(16) Arianna Huffington 26.5%
 
(8) CEOs of the Big Three Automakers 67.9%
Defeated
(9) Jimmy Cayne 32.1%
 
(8) Sean Penn 51.9%
Defeated
(9) Jimmy Fallon 48.1% (A squeaker!)
 
(8) Terrell Owens 56.6%
Defeated
(9) Duke University 43.4%
 
(9) Sarah Palin 58.7%
Defeated
(8) Keith Olbermann 41.3%
 
And now, onto day two's match-ups. Voting ends Monday March 23th at 12:00 noon EST. Results will be posted shortly after voting ends.
 
Vote on who's the bigger douche. You can vote as many times as you want. Just refresh the page and vote again.
 
 
 
(2) Joaquin Phoenix
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
There's rumors that Joaquin's new mumbling, bearded persona is some sort of prank. I'm not sure what would make him a bigger douchebag, actually doing what he's doing, or pretending to be doing what he's doing.
 
VS
 
(15) The Shamwow Guy
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Why are infomercial salesman so popular now? I bought the Shamwow and you know what? It sucks.
 
 
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(2) Barry Bonds
What Makes Him A Douchebag:  
Aside from being a complete and total asshole to anyone and everyone who came near him, he (allegedly) lied about taking steroids, even though his body and head grew to sizes normally reserved for a Lord Of The Rings film. And after several perjury hearings and investigations, he let his friend go to jail for him. Any time you let someone face the possibility of daily ass rapings, you’re a douche.
 
VS

(15) David Beckham
What Makes Him A Douchebag: 
He vowed to make soccer popular in America, then after he realized that was never going to happen he organized a deal where he could play here as little as possible.  That coupled with the fact that he spends more time shopping then he does actually playing, solidifies his status as an underwear modeling, sometimes soccer playing douche.
 
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(2) AIG
What Makes It A Douchebag:
After receiving it’s first $70 billion in bailout money, AIG executives spent $500,000 to take a luxury Santa Barbara vacation. And last week it was revealed that after taking more than $170 billion in taxpayer money AIG paid out $165 million in bonuses to the very people who gambled the entire company away. Hey AIG, suck my balls.
 
VS
 
(15) Steve Ballmer
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
No one has ever seen this guy calm or quiet. Except maybe when looking at Google’s stock price, Zune sales, Vista complaints and Justice Department subpoenas.
 
 
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(2) Rob Blagojevich
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Seriously. Who thinks that they can sell a senate seat? Who does that? The city of Chicago and the state of Illinois have been plagued by political corruption for decades, to the point that it’s become a fully acknowledged joke about the state’s political climate. In subsequent interviews following his impeachment, it’s pretty obvious that “Blago” is completely insane. He doesn’t think that he did anything wrong, and is incredibly full of himself. That’s basically the definition of douchebaggery.
 
VS
 
(15) Glenn Beck
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Glenn Beck has his own well-known brand of double-chinned douchebaggery, but what most people don't know is that he's also converted to Mormonism when he was an adult. Which means someone asked him to join their cult that baptize dead people and believe Jesus was hanging out in the West in the 1800s and he said, "Sounds great, where do I sign up?"
 
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(7) P-Diddy
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
If your entire music career is based around buying someone else’s incredibly popular song, playing it back exactly as it was originally recorded, and then putting your own crappy, mumbly, pretentious lyrics over it, you’re probably a douchebag. If you’ve changed your crappy nickname three times in your career, and actually sued someone over the rights to call yourself “Diddy”, then you’re probably a douchebag. If you’ve profited immensely off of the death of your popular rapper friend, then you’re definitely a douchebag. While Diddy’s legitimacy is severely in question, one thing is for sure: P-Diddy is a douchebag force to be reckoned with.
 
VS
 
(10) Axl Rose
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Even though Axl was only one member of the original Guns N’ Roses, and even though the band’s name was derived from two band members (Axl Rose and Tracii Guns), Axl decided that, after disappearing for 10-15 years of public absence, it would be okay for Guns N’ Roses to re-emerge on the scene. The only problem was that Axl got an entirely new band, thereby eliminating the “Guns” element of Guns N’ Roses. If you’re a rockstar, and your other douche rockstar friends think you’re too much of a douche to work with, then you have serious douche issues.
 
 
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(7) Curt Schilling
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
OK, Curt, we get it. You love to blog about your opinions and you like Jesus. That's fine. But the problem is, no one wants to hear what a baseball pitcher thinks about stem cell research. Please stop.
 
VS
 
(10) Jerry Jones
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
His ego won't let him not stick his facelifted face into every Cowboys game. I don't watch football to see 75-year-old men meandering on the sidelines and high-fiving players like he made seven tackles and a game-winning interception. Jerry, let coaches coach, let players play, and let owners sit in a luxury box.
 
 
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(7) Jim Cramer
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Boo-ya!  If you want to make money in the stock market do exactly the opposite of whatever Jim Cramer recommends. If you don’t believe us just ask Jon Stewart to show you one of any hundred videos where Cramer recommend something that was worthless months, weeks or even days later (cough...Bear Stearns...cough).
 
VS
 
(10) Henry Paulson
What Makes Him A Douchebag:

This guy basically slipped a piece of paper, or maybe it was two pieces, to congress saying that said he needed 750 billion dollars by the end of the week, no questions asked and whatever he did with the money was up to him. And if they didn't give him the money the entire world would implode. The kicker is it friggin worked and they gave him the cash. Also, by agreeing to become Treasury Secretary he was “forced” to sell $570 million dollars worth of Goldman Sachs stock, one time only...completely tax free.

 
 
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(7) George Bush
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
Hmmmm, let’s see. We really don’t have to go down the list of douchey things he did, do we? Okay, let’s just highlight some more fantastic douchecomplishments: Starting a shitty war, overseeing an enormous economic collapse, and generally making us look like a dumbass to the rest of the world. As if Nicholas Cage movies weren’t doing a good enough job of that.
 
VS
 
(10) Michael Moore
What Makes Him A Douchebag:
This “freedom fighter” pulls together every clip he can find that supports his point, then puts it into a movie and calls it a “documentary.” On top of that, he’s notoriously asshole-ish to work for, and spends his days in a multimillion dollar apartment in New York, even though he’s TOTALLY blue collar, right?
 
 
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Comments

1277 Responses to "2009 Douchebag Tournament Round 1, Day 2"

  1. Anonymous Says:

    have you seen the commercial? i dont care if the shamwow was the most efficient cleaning tool ever created, the guy would still be a douchebag.

  2. Sociosquatch Says:

    You suck. Maybe you have the same haircut as shamwow guy

  3. Nick Says:

    You anti-Bush people are the douchebags. Kept us safe after 9/11, took down a dictator AND the Taliban, and kept our economy up after inheriting Clinton's recession and floated debt (which he has the gall to call a "surplus" even though a freshman-level Econ major could tell you the difference).

    Sure, he failed in some areas--not kicking out all the illegals, failing to reform social security, and allowing the democrats to ruin the economy--but he's certainly better than an idiot who gives the British PM defective DVDs and insults disabled people on Leno.

    Typical liberal asses. Sit around your bong-water-reeking dorm room all day posting "damn the man" or reasonable facsimiles thereof on random worthless internet sites. When you grow up and join the real world (and become conservative) we'll be waiting.

  4. Anonymous Says:

    This is going up on one of those "meta-retarded" internet comments websites... I can't even start on this so don't ask, but I'll probably submit it to cracked.com. Thanks Nick! Your blatant stupidity has made my laugh. Hehehehehe.

  5. Dom Says:

    You need some pussy!

  6. Anonymous Says:

    yeah, tell 'em

  7. John Strauss Says:

    There is only one way to fix everything. We need to install concentration camps and throw all the pinko commie liberal pieces of shit in there and gas them all to death. Its the only way!

  8. Crunkenstein Says:

    Keep living in your dream world, buddy...in the real world, GWB and his horrendous administration were an unmitigated disaster. For starters, they left us spread too thin militarily--in the resulting power vacuum, the Chinese and the Iranians and even the goddamn North Koreans are screwing with us because they know we cannot do a single thing about it.

    I don't know what you have been smoking, but I really want to take a hit of that bomb nug. GWB came into office with a surplus from the Clinton days, turned that surplus into an enormous deficit, and left amidst a breathtaking financial meltdown that he did NEXT TO NOTHING to stop (smells like Katrina). The recession has gotten so bad that the next administration has had to borrow ungodly sums of money just to try and help the economy recover to a serviceable enough level. If we're lucky and it does recover, then we have ages of debt repayment, with the majority of that money paying for the initial deficit, caused by Halliburton's "nation building" exercise in Iraq--a country that never attacked us and did not even have the WMDs, the supposed cause of the war.

    Now the USA is in the poor house, and we can thank your golden boy, an ape-man who should never have governed a state, let alone the world's now-former superpower. If we get out of this mess, it's definitely NOT going to be thanks to the assholes in the Republican party.

    I rarely reply to idiocy when I see it online, but you actually made me throw up in my mouth just a little. Michael Moore may be a serious douche (even this lib will admit it), but GWB goes down as one of the biggest douches in world history. If I see that chimp asshole smirk one more time, my head just might explode.

  9. Libertarian stepping on your neck Says:

    Iraq used WMDs on the Kurds and against Iran. Thats something all Bush haters like to forget. One of the things that spurred the UN to send weapons inspectors there was the fact that Iraq could not prove they had disposed of said weapons.
    Also, Halliburton was used by the previous 2 admins. Not the evil empire tool you make them out to be.
    I could go on and on with the refutation but I know it would make no difference in your view.
    I rarely reply to wanna-be intellectuals when I see them online, but you needed a dose of truth if even just a little.
    Bush is no winner but lets stick to facts please.

  10. Anonymous Says:

    Iraq used WMDs on the Kurds and against Iran. Yeah, and Reagan and Bush the smarter were so distraught at the time that it almost interrupted their golf game.

  11. Ron Says:

    Kept the economy up after Clinton's recession? What the fuck do you call what were in now then? If you're going to blame Clinton for that then how the fuck do you get off thinking bush was better for the shit storm were in now?

  12. America-FUCK YEAH! Says:

    Troll!

  13. Paul Says:

    Kinda missmatched, moore should go to the next round, but the hatred of bush is to much.. Should of matched moore with someone else.

  14. church Says:

    goddamn man. these comments give me HOPE. that equilibrium/gunfu shit... i fucking lul'd! also i never knew so many people hated the shamwow guy! fucking A fellas, just CHANGE the damn channel! ... and also... octomom ftw!

  15. Steve Says:

    I don't normally browse opinion forums but I noticed this one is all about politics. I know Saddam was a dickhead but I want to know why Americans hated him so much. Please reply.

  16. Cop Says:

    pools closed, steve

  17. Paul Says:

    Its our culture really.. I know america seems like the bad guy alot of times, and sometimes we are misguided. But if you ever watch american commercials and ads, there is alot of of organizations to help people, which could be needy children in africa, or little timmy's heart... Regardless we like to help people, even thought we all hate each other for the most part (just look at the law suits we file against each other) And when people like Saddam, who do mass genocide, we think we have to stop it.. While I agree as much as the next person going into Iraq had all the wrong motivations, the world is a better place since he is gone, and in the long run, will save lives, even though it may not be our own. But thats why, IMO.

  18. Youre a dumbass Says:

    You have no idea what you are talking about. We dont stop genocide unless there's something in it for us or it involves other white people. Look at Rwanda and Darfur. And when Saddam was actually committing genocide in the 80s, we knew it was happening and did nothing. Using genocide as an excuse for this invasion is a retroactive argument and ultimately complete bullshit. "Hey, Saddam committed genocide FIFTEEN years ago....let's go make him pay!" Not saying he wasn't a total douche, but we did NOTHING, repeat, NOTHING to stop his genocide while he was actually committing it.

  19. Lymon Bostock Says:

    Can we have Steve added to the play-in game?

  20. Justin Timberlake Says:

    It's a simple equation really. Take America's fear of terrorism, combine with the number of U.N. resolutions Saddam broke in between the first gulf war and 2003, throw in the need for the U.S. to keep the distribution of the worlds oil supply stable, add in the "intelligence" provided by every major countries spy division relating to chemical weapons in Saddam's possession, multiply by Saddam's celebration of 9/11 and the answer = invade Iraq and overturn government.

    This is not an endorsement of the war or a condemnation of the war. Now back to my girlfriend Jessica Beil.

  21. Penis Says:

    The world would be such a better place if the assassins guild from "Wanted" picked off all the people on this list.

    Am I right?

  22. Penis Says:

    Shamwow guy is going to upset Jaoquin Phoenix!!!

    Amazing!

  23. elwoodinontario Says:

    Whoever wins will getr their ass handed to them next round. Both are pains in the ass, but minor ones.

  24. Paul Says:

    Fuck Taco, this is getting heated.. hope this is annual, I'm enjoying all the site hits and opinions... Put taco on the map.

  25. cory Says:

    This is definitely a yearly tournament. And I can't believe what I woke up to. Blago was killing Beck last night, but now Glenn is up by 20%. Bush is pulling away and Shamwow is STILL leading Joaquin. The NCAA had a lot of upsets last night, looks like Day 2 of the Douchebag Tourney might be the same. I fucking love this tournament.

  26. bigdog Says:

    The late returns are in, and it appears that George W. Bush is a major fucking Douche bag.

  27. Penis Says:

    Bush is pulling ahead.

    I kinda wish Moore wasnt seeded directly against Bush. He is an underrated, collosal douchebag but it won't be enough against a douchebag juggernaut such as W.

  28. Nick Says:

    You know what's amazing? You know what's really telling?

    Obama isn't anywhere in the running. You lib douchebags love your sainted leader so much that (even though he insults disabled people and poor people and minorities) you don't even include him in the bracket.

    Fellate your Glorious Leader. He will cure all your diseases, heal all your conditions, and pay all your mortgages...unless the TelePrompTer tells him otherwise.

  29. bigdog Says:

    Go lick Rush Limbaugh's fat smelly taint.

  30. JT Says:

    What he said.

  31. JT Says:

    I vote that anyone who makes every comment discussion overly political gets their IP address banned. Anyone else like this idea? Fuck you and your politically sensitive ass.

  32. TG Says:

    Fuck..... How many people voting for any douchebaggery have looked in the mirror?

    So Saddam is dead. Whoopie fucking doo. He deserved to die for what he did to Kurds and Iranians huh? Where is the almighty US military planning to go? Hmmmm, Iran looks good. Afganistan is just a pock mark anyway, there's 50 year old missiles somewhere we haven't used up yet.

    Let's resurrect Manuel Noriega so American troops don't have to travel so far. It all about convenience now 'a' days isn't it.

    Let's eat some more beef. It takes 30% of the world's useable farmland to farm beef, so we'll just keep chopping down the rainforest to make room. The rest of the world can get by eating insects. Take some more drugs... Oxycontin has the same effects as heroin, and is even more addictive. Smoke some some more synthesized nicotine. Let's eat more genetically engineered vegetables, because all the antibiotics we're feeding to livestock is screwing up the rest of the food supply.

  33. Penis Says:

    I have no idea who or what this rant is directed to. None of these things have anything to do with eachother.

  34. bigdog Says:

    It's called drunken rambling.

  35. TG Says:

    No, it's the Obama hate train that needs their tickets checked.
    Thanks.

  36. Sociosquatch Says:

    TG, this website isn't FOR granolas like you.

  37. JT Says:

    I am a cock licker and I like barka Obompi.

  38. TG Says:

    Right... And you're on top of the idiot bandwagon. Have another $10 dollar frappucino.... It replaces the ability you've lost to think.

  39. Anonymous Says:

    TG, I vote for you as the biggest douchebag of all four brackets, you douche.

  40. Louie Says:

    Is it possible to replace President Bush with TG in this tournament? What a douchebaggy douche you are, TG.

  41. Penis Says:

    Saddam, Kurds, Iran, almighty US military, Iran, Afganistan, 50 year old missles, Manny Noriega, "now 'a' days", beef, farmland, rainforests, Oxycotin, heroin, nicotine, genetically engineered vegetables, and feeding antibiotics to livestock.

    WTF

  42. Anonymous Says:

    I just couldn't bring myself to vote Bush over Moore. I tend to live by the Hanlon's razor:

    "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

    Bush comes off to me as the type of guy who is quite likable in person -- just don't ever give him the keys to your car. Moore, on the other hand, is the very essence and definition of douchebaggery.

  43. bigdog Says:

    When Michael Moore is responsible for the deaths of a million people, then you can put them against each other.

  44. My Mom Says:

    George Bush was just getting rid of a few unwanted Muslims.
    I mean do you really think they'll be missed?

  45. Anonymous Says:

    Fascism aims to create a single-party state under a dictator whose supreme goal is to maintain national unity; its citizens subordinate their own self-interest to the collective interest of the state. While Nazism incorporated parts of left- and right-wing politics, it is widely regarded as a form of fascism, and the Nazis made most of their political alliances with right-wing groups.

    Both sound right-wing to me.

  46. Ookla the Mok Says:

    Ask people who have lived under fascist regimes which of our political parties most resemble the ruling party they escaped from. Most will tell you its the Democrats. "Most". Not all. What that means is that the most reliable source on the matter draws parallels to the uglier parts of both of our leading parties. Hate-powered belief systems like right wing xtians and left wing demonstrator-types never see but one direction and are usually tools.

    If you think your party is perfect and the other wing is completely evil then you are probably an idiot.

  47. o0o0oyeahh Says:

    this is why joaquin phoenix is the man. this whole thing is to allegedly prove how the media will eat this shit up and keep reporting on it, and after it's been somewhat exposed it's still news enough to put him in this tournament.

    shamwow guy used to be a scientologist until they screwed him over after his comedy movie failed miserably to find a distributor and went direct to DVD

    wooooooooo

  48. Anonymouse Says:

    It is completely wrong to put George Bush on here. Dont get me wrong, I hate the guy and think it is a tragedy that he became president (even though he was never really elected). But he really is just a retard. Or republitard to be politically correct. His spot should have been given to Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney is the epitome of douche.

  49. Anonymous Says:

    I sort of agree. We shouldn't pick on the mentally disabled. Cheney should have been in his place.

    Minimum requirement for douchebag contest: ability to speak in complete sentences!

  50. TG Says:

    I always thought shit rolled down... It's not Bush's fault because he's an idiot. Hell, that seems like a perfectly legitimate defense. The buck doesn't stop with the President, let's blame someone else.

    Fantastic.

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