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Right Wing Bloggers Choose '25 Worst Figures In American History'
Gawker ^ | 8/14/10

Posted on 08/15/2010 12:08:21 AM PDT by Libloather

Right Wing Bloggers Choose '25 Worst Figures In American History'

The blog Right Wing News asked "more than a hundred bloggers" who they thought were the worst people in American history. The results may shock you! Or maybe not. Jane Fonda makes the cut, along with FDR. Let's look.

This question was put out to over 100 crazies with internet connections:

Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history — have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst was?"

Some of the answers are a given, but some (Richard Nixon?!) are a little surprising considering who did the voting. And some are actually pretty good (Michael Moore, Timothy McVeigh). Those questioned were asked to rank as many as 20 people from America's past and present who they felt fit the bill. Here are the results, from 43 bloggers who responded:

23) Saul Alinsky (7)
23) Bill Clinton (7)
23) Hillary Clinton (7)
19) Michael Moore (7)
19) George Soros (8)
19) Alger Hiss (8)
19) Al Sharpton (8)
13) Al Gore (9)
13) Noam Chomsky (9)
13) Richard Nixon (9)
13) Jane Fonda (9)
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
11) John Wilkes Booth (10)
11) Margaret Sanger (10)
9) Aldrich Ames (11)
9) Timothy McVeigh (11)
7) Ted Kennedy (14)
7) Lyndon Johnson (14)
5) Benedict Arnold (17)
5) Woodrow Wilson (17)
4) The Rosenbergs (19)
3) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (21)
2) Barack Obama (23)
1) Jimmy Carter (25)

One surprising omission is John Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot The Greatest Conservative of All Time, Ronald Reagan. Any others? Keith Olbermann, perhaps?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: american; bloggers; history; stupidlist; top10; topten; worst; worstpresidentever
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I actually survived that mess.

Biggest surprise? Helen Thomas isn't on the list.

1 posted on 08/15/2010 12:08:25 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I’d add Alfred Kinsey to that list and Alexander Hamilton.


2 posted on 08/15/2010 12:14:13 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: Libloather

Some of those bloggers must be young, because some of the names could have been replaced with much more substantive names.


3 posted on 08/15/2010 12:14:46 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Libloather
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
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2) Barack Obama (23)

In another couple of years, this will be

[tie]
1) Harry Reid (24)
1) Nancy Pelosi (24)
1) Barack Obama (24)

4 posted on 08/15/2010 12:18:16 AM PDT by SFConservative
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To: Libloather

No Ted Turner?


5 posted on 08/15/2010 12:18:45 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Libloather

And Cass Sunstein and William Ayers.. pure evil.


6 posted on 08/15/2010 12:21:01 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Libloather

And there should a list of “organizations most threatening to America” such as ACLU, ACORN, Center for American Progress, TIDES foundation, Apollo Alliance, etc..


7 posted on 08/15/2010 12:23:50 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Libloather

I would have added John Dewey to the list.


8 posted on 08/15/2010 12:25:00 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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That’s what I was thinking-Michael Moore? Al Sharpton? Noam Chomsky? Really? These guys are idiots sure, but worthy of the “Worst Figures In American History”?


9 posted on 08/15/2010 12:25:58 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: Libloather

I would put Hillary higher on the list than Bill. Only one number between them?


10 posted on 08/15/2010 12:27:31 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Libloather

Mr Peanut! :D


11 posted on 08/15/2010 12:40:55 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Libloather

Well to be completely fair, Obama’s only had 18 months (not 2 years)


12 posted on 08/15/2010 12:41:29 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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That’s what I was thinking-Michael Moore? Al Sharpton? Noam Chomsky? Really? These guys are idiots sure, but worthy of the “Worst Figures In American History”?

Old man Kennedy made these guys look like pikers. The things he did against this country for his own profit or power or prestige is nauseating.

13 posted on 08/15/2010 12:41:58 AM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Libloather
Huey Long, Boss Tweed, Al Capone, LBJ, the Rosenbergs?
14 posted on 08/15/2010 12:42:13 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Where’s Walter O’Malley?


15 posted on 08/15/2010 12:44:25 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If the answer is "Republican", it must be a stupid question.)
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To: Libloather

Rachael Carson


16 posted on 08/15/2010 12:45:45 AM PDT by onona (dbada)
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For the damage they’ve cause just in the past 60 years and not mentioned? Herbert Marcuse {the fouder of Cultural Marxism in America}, Dr Ben Spock, Madilyn Murray O’Hare, Hugh Hefner, Timothy Leary, Dr Death, & Judge Greer.


17 posted on 08/15/2010 1:15:03 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Libloather

Chuck Schumer? Robert Byrd? Chris Matthews? Dan Rather? Bryant Gumbel? Pat Lahey? Bernard Sanders? The NAACP? Jesse Jackson, Sr.? Al Sharpton, Jr.?...


18 posted on 08/15/2010 1:17:27 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: Libloather

Bill Buckner


19 posted on 08/15/2010 1:20:44 AM PDT by Pylon (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Libloather

20 posted on 08/15/2010 1:21:48 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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