Misrepresentation
The "cherry picked" list went: 1988, 1992, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, and now 2007. Most intelligent people would pick up an obvious recent trend here.
I remember when more Oscars were awarded for talent than politics, too.
The actual quote was "a subset of cosmopolitan frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts going back about twenty years"
Nobody's talking about Mother Teresa in this commentary, and you know it. We could discuss Gorbachev in this context, if you want. Again, you go to a lot of work to make no point whatsoever.