THE 2020 BEE-OTCH OF THE YEAR!

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THE 2020 BEE-OTCH OF THE YEAR!

Well folks, here it is, the 2020 Bee-otch of the Year.

For over 20 years, we've given this, well, not very prestigious award to people who simply suck ass. People who simply make other people's lives miserable and pretend that their shit doesn't stink.

Long-time readers of this site know the drill. We hand out the Bee-otch of the Day daily and on our socials on Sunday, we dish out the Bee-otch of the Week. Every month, I hand you Bee-otch of the Month out of the Bee-otches of the Week.

So, without further adieu, here's the list.

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8th Place: Detroit Lions
The biggest sports story of all of Detroit this year belonged to the always-woeful Detroit Lions, who are to football like the Red Sox and Cubs were to baseball for decades. A lot of the blame went usually went to team owner William Clay Ford, especially since the Lions only won one playoff game in all of the years of his ownership. Now, he's dead, and the Lions are still sucking, especially after the team fired Jim Caldwell several years ago and replaced him with the lowly Matt Patricia. Caldwell went 36-28 in his four years in Detroit while Patricia went 13-28-1.


7th Place: The National Cherry Festival
For the first time ever, the overrated Traverse City tourist trap had to cancel their yearly event thanks to COVID-19. And it serves them right, too, since the Blue Angels were supposed to perform. If you're a longtime Simpsons fan, you probably know them as "America's favorite waste of taxpayer dollars". This year, instead of wowing the masses at the Cherry Fest, the Blue Angels were flying over hospitals as Drumpf's 'thank you' to the front-line workers who all wanted proper masks instead. Not only that, the Cherry Fest shot themselves in the foot last year when for their big rock show, they called on the talents of 2000s has-been douchebags Trapt, best-known for "Headstrong" and "Still Frame". In recent years, Trapt's star in the world of music has been severely fading over lead singer Chris Brown's idiotic rants on social media. As a matter of fact, Twitter banished the band's account not long ago when Brown defended statutory rape. Brown also defended the Proud Boys and even made a post reading "rich Jews shouldn't make trap music". Granted, the Cherry Fest had booked the much-more respectable Everclear and Collective Soul for this year's event, but, you know. COVID.



6th Place: Studio C! (aka Celebration Cinema)
It's a known fact that the movie business struggled this year because of COVID-19 shuttering cinemas left and right, plus only allowing for partially-packed auditoriums. Only a few major films were released post-COVID, including "Tenent", which became a bust due to a lack of open theaters. Here in west Michigan, one major cinema closed for good: Celebration Cinema at Woodland Mall. However, it was not closed because of COVID. The reason for its closure was because the family that owned Celebration Woodland tried to run a monopoly in Grand Rapids and bombed at it. The Woodland cinema opened as a Cinemark in 2005. Just three years later, the Loeks family bought the Woodland cinema and Cinemark's sister at Rivertown Crossings. Since it was now the smallest cinema of Celebration's locations with 14 screens, plus the fact that it was only a ten-minute drive to 18-screen + IMAX Celebration North, the Loeks turned Celebration Woodland into a combination subrun and indie house. However, the new format was a bomb and earlier this year, Celebration chose not to renew its lease with Woodland Mall, citing that it never broke even in its 12 years under their ownership. With a $100 million renovation last year, Woodland was hoping for more new stores to arrive at the popular mall. But, with the closures of the cinema, TGI Friday's, Express and a few other stores here and there, it put a damper on its 2020.


5th Place: Rush Limbaugh
Now, as somebody who's lost loved ones to cancers of many kinds, I have sympathy for most who have the disease. However, I make exceptions. Over the years, the FCC had transformed from being a fair government agency to one that's overly far to the right. In 1987, the Fairness Doctrine - which helped to create a fair media - was revoked. Because of this, it created a whole new format for terrestrial radio: conservative talk. Rush was its biggest rock star with over 600 affiliates and over 15 million listeners. However, El Rushbo was known for saying a ton of not-so-nice things on his show, including calling women "feminazis", telling his audience that drug addicts need to rot in prison while he himself was caught abusing OxyContin and using warped conspiracy theories to make his point. Earlier this year, Limbaugh was diagnosed with terminal Stage IV lung cancer. He continued with his shit show, even being rewarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Drumpf. He's only the third radio personality to be handed the honor, along with Paul Harvey and Edward R. Murrow. On his final show of the year last week, Limbaugh announced that doctors predicted that he would be dead by now. Too bad it hasn't happened yet.



4th Place: the media
Back in March, I wrote about how the media seemed to only care about Joe Biden and championed him after his primary win in South Carolina. Granted, I was rooting for a Bernie Sanders win, but bear in mind that I wrote the article just days before the pandemic began. My, how times have changed. We went from caring more about healthcare, lower taxes for the middle class and a better life for all to wanting to kill the damn coronavirus. At least Biden makes a helluva lot more sense than Drumpf.


3rd Place: Covidiots link 1 link 2
One of the biggest problems we've all faced this year is the fact that we had to deal with losers who denied the existence of COVID-19. They didn't believe in not wearing a mask, staying away from others or not gathering. We've seen it all: secret raves and concerts, restaurants staying open during lockdowns and so much more. And oh yes, the unwashed masses stalking and harassing politicians such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We just hope that once COVID-19 is dead and gone, these dickheads will finally STFU.


2nd Place: Tom Eckerle link 1 link 2
Up until August, most of us could have cared less about the doings of the Leelanau County Road Commission in northern Michigan. However, the shit hit the fan when two-year commissioner Tom Eckerle refused to wear a mask at one of the meetings, blaming COVID-19 on what he called "those niggers from Detroit". Petitions were flying around the area, calling for his resignation. Even the area's state rep, former WTCM-FM morning man and Howard Stern's intern at WWWW Detroit, Jack O'Malley begged the 75-year-old to resign. Well, he did. On August 10, Eckerle handed in his resignation letter and drifted into the sunset.

AND THE 2020 BEE-OTCH OF THE YEAR IS..... (OF COURSE, IT'S NONE OTHER THAN....)

DONALD TRUMP!
Ya know, I don't even know where to begin, or maybe I actually do. When he was elected president, I actually feared that he'd be worse than Bush in terms of catastrophes. Boy, was I right.

Since the pandemic began, over 20 million Americans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and just today, we had our 350,000th death from the disease. Also just today, we lost actress Dawn Wells of Gilligan's Island fame from COVID.

COVID-19 doesn't care if you're old or young, white or black, fat or skinny. It can and will kill. Unlike other nations around the world, Drumpf was slow in preventing Americans from the disease. We now have vaccines to stop it, but sadly, getting to all Americans has been painfully slow.

Thankfully, Drumpf won't be getting a second term as president, even though he's kicking and screaming that he still won in November. Hopefully on January 20th, Joe Biden will get to work and fix this country.

So, for the stupidity, xenophobia, bigotry and idocracy that you've brought to America, here's to you, Drumpf.

THE ARTICLES THAT GAVE TRUMP BOTD:
1.6
1.7
7.28
7.30
9.2
9.3
9.28
9.30
10.5
10.12
10.14
11.4
11.5
11.16
14 ELIGIBLE ARTICLES. WAY TO GO, DRUMPF!
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