Geraghty says, some of these names strike me as ludicrously small time for the scale of this list. His suggested replacements for the worst Americans in the nation's history? Bernie Madoff and Ken Lay.
The whole exercise suggests the bloggers and Geraghty could stand to learn more history, and gain more perspective.
Perhaps asking political bloggers to name the worst Americans could be expected to garner mostly political names? Perhaps that was the unspoken, but intended, result?
How can you have Benedict Arnold but not Pinch Sulzberg?
And where the hell is Walter Duranty? I guess he is as forgettable as Keith Olberman, eh?
It is not always people but more and more institutions, like MoveOn.Org, The NY Times, MSNBC, ACORN, etc. that do more to contaminate the soul of this country. Those that promote the poisonous secular humanist progressive agenda and never pass on an opportunity to remind us how stupid we are and uninformed since we don't live in either Boston or New York and haven't graduated from Harvard.
They are like the guy and his family who had just lost their house to foreclosure and we let stay in our house while we went to Europe this summer. Just keep the house maintained and you can stay here until you find a new place. We get back and all he tells me is how he found everything wrong with the house - even replanting plants to his own symmetrical order. Finally, I asked him if he found anything right about the house.
I say Gore stays.
Posted by: Extraneus | August 14, 2010 at 03:37 PM
Ask a stupid question, you get a bunch of stupid answers.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | August 14, 2010 at 03:56 PM
Geraghty says, some of these names strike me as ludicrously small time for the scale of this list. His suggested replacements for the worst Americans in the nation's history? Bernie Madoff and Ken Lay.
The whole exercise suggests the bloggers and Geraghty could stand to learn more history, and gain more perspective.
Posted by: bgates | August 14, 2010 at 04:00 PM
Perhaps asking political bloggers to name the worst Americans could be expected to garner mostly political names? Perhaps that was the unspoken, but intended, result?
Posted by: Buford Gooch | August 14, 2010 at 04:08 PM
Let me tell you all the reasons I hate best of/worst of lists:
Posted by: Clarice | August 14, 2010 at 04:30 PM
I was going to say that Geraghty's suggestions are actually worse than an already pretty terrible list, but someone, essentially, beat me to it.
Posted by: ECM | August 14, 2010 at 04:56 PM
You want a list?
I'll give you a stinking ">http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/30-animals-drinking-alcohol/"> list.
Posted by: daddy the wanna' be heretic | August 14, 2010 at 05:20 PM
O.
Posted by: Elliotq | August 14, 2010 at 05:30 PM
I'm switching to Magic Jack.
Posted by: ll | August 14, 2010 at 06:30 PM
I'll give you a stinking list.
From looking at the pix, it seems the primary effect is to cause them to expose their nether regions!
Posted by: PD | August 14, 2010 at 06:57 PM
"it seems the primary effect is to cause them to expose their nether regions!"
PD,
Perhaps I am mistaken but is there another reason to give your cat booze?
Posted by: daddy the wanna' be heretic | August 14, 2010 at 11:36 PM
What's the criteria?
How can you have Benedict Arnold but not Pinch Sulzberg?
And where the hell is Walter Duranty? I guess he is as forgettable as Keith Olberman, eh?
It is not always people but more and more institutions, like MoveOn.Org, The NY Times, MSNBC, ACORN, etc. that do more to contaminate the soul of this country. Those that promote the poisonous secular humanist progressive agenda and never pass on an opportunity to remind us how stupid we are and uninformed since we don't live in either Boston or New York and haven't graduated from Harvard.
They are like the guy and his family who had just lost their house to foreclosure and we let stay in our house while we went to Europe this summer. Just keep the house maintained and you can stay here until you find a new place. We get back and all he tells me is how he found everything wrong with the house - even replanting plants to his own symmetrical order. Finally, I asked him if he found anything right about the house.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | August 15, 2010 at 08:10 AM
Noam Chomsky deserves a special place of infamy for his mass mesmerism of college kids
Posted by: Chubby | August 15, 2010 at 08:22 AM