Sometimes I have a crisis of faith and I worry that I'm just not smart enough to make Beacon of Speech work. Of course I'm a failure, my writing simply isn't strong enough or my insight isn't sharp enough.
But then I saw that CNN asked their contributors for their predictions in 2024. It was pure unadulterated tripe. Esteemed Professionals making 6-figures a year were no better than what I do here at BOS. So, I wrote down their predictions and graded them out.
QUESTION 1:
Who Will Win the Nobel Peace Prize?
And the correct prognosticator was..... NO ONE.
The actual winner was NIHON HIDANKYO.
Not familiar with Nihon? It's because they're not a person, it's a Japanese group that focuses on the abolition of nuclear weapons.
What did CNN journalists predict? (CNN Writers in Bold - Our response below.)
SE Cupp: Qatari Negotiators in the Israeli Hostage Deal
BOS: That would have been a fair answer, if the Qatari negotiators were successful in releasing more than a handful of the hundreds of hostages.
Jill Filipovic: A climate leader like Indigenous Leader Nemonte Nenquimo
BOS: Woke Garbage.
Frida Ghitis: Volodymyr Zelensky
BOS: I agreed with the sentiment, but I knew it wouldn't happen.
Allison Hope: Israel's Opposition Leader Benny Gantz
BOS: Uh....no.
Joey Jackson (CNN Legal Analyst): Joe Biden
BOS: I asked our Beacon of Speech legal analyst Ted, and he said Donald Trump. Joey Jackson has the same street cred as Ted.
Roxanne Jones: TWO climate leaders, like Indigenous Leaders Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Juan Carlos Jintiach.
BOS: More Woke Garbage
Don Lincoln: Alexei Navalny
BOS: I would have voted for Navalny also. Lincoln and I were both wrong.
Dean Obeidallah: Taylor Swift
BOS: Obeidallah is certifiable an idiot. Can you imagine if I said one of my favorite musical artists should win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Megan Ranney: Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
BOS: "President" of the UAE? No.
Kent Sepkowitz: Biden
BOS: More partisan crap.
Gene Seymour: Qatari Negotiators
BOS: No.
Alice Stewart: Zelensky
BOS: Again, no.
Sara Stewart: Greta Thunberg
BOS: Do leftists just pick their heroes, then throw darts on a board to see who should win the Peace Prize?
Holly Thomas: Whoever negotiates an Israel-Hamas cease fire.
BOS: Last I checked, still no cease-fire. Bad, bad prediction.
Jeff Yang: Chef Jose Andres.
BOS: The more I read about Jose Andres, the more intrigued I was.
Again, Navalny was framed, jailed, poisoned, and then sent to Siberia simply for opposing Putin. No one had that resume. No one. You can still buy Navalny's book at Amazon.
No one at CNN was better with their predictions, no one at CNN had a better answer than mine.
Question 2:
Who Will Be Elected President in the 2024 US election?
And, obviously, the correct answer was Donald Trump.
What did CNN journalists predict? (CNN Writers in Bold)
Again, they more or less had a 50/50 choice.
SE Cupp: Trump
Jill Filipovic: Biden
Frida Ghitis: Biden
Allison Hope: Biden
Joey Jackson: Nikki Haley
BOS: We thought the same thing.
Roxanne Jones: Biden
Don Lincoln: Biden
Dean Obeidallah: Biden
Megan Ranney: Biden
Kent Sepkowitz: Biden
Gene Seymour: Biden
Alice Stewart: Trump
Sara Stewart: Biden
Holly Thomas: Trump (Predicted in the spirit of packing an umbrella to ensure it doesn't rain.)
BOS: What? Both Obeidallah and Thomas are insufferable.
Jeff Yang: Biden
You want to mock me for picking Haley? Almost every CNN writer had Biden making it to the November Election, which he didn't do. Only 2 out of 15 CNN writers (Holly Thomas doesn't count) got a 50/50 question right. If Harris would have won, it would have been 0 for 15.
But you know what? You see all those reporters above? 15 of 15 voted for Kamala Harris.
How does no one else see the problem with that?
Apparently, on the second question, I am just as stupid as CNN reporters.
I should feel better, but I don't.
