Chutzpah. It’s audacity to the nth power, according to most definitions. It’s audacity so shameless, so brazen and so outrageous that the classic example is supposed to be the guy who murdered both his parents and then, in court, pleaded with the judge to have mercy on him because he was an orphan. Every year brings to the limelight different people who took chutzpah to such levels that they deserve an award. So, without further ado, here are the winners of my 2010 Annual Chutzpah Awards.

10th place: Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who tried to cast himself as the victim after that incident when Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, co-hosts of “The View,” stormed off the air to protest what they perceived to be O’Reilly’s “bigoted” comments about Muslims.