50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004

[julialnyc]

http://www.buffalobeast.com/66/50mostLoathsome2004.htm
The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004

[liberal N proud]

1. Classic

24. Ronald Reagan
Crimes: The greatest monster in recent American history. Reagan’s excruciating sanctification during his agonizingly protracted funeral was enough to make anyone with knowledge of his true legacy blow up a radio tower. Newspaper columnists performed astonishing feats of selective memory in canonizing Reagan, disregarding any inconvenient evidence of supporting terrorism, ripping off taxpayers for outrageous defense programs, or introducing crack cocaine to America, because we need our heroes.

I would have put both laura and the shrub higher than they were sorry

[RobertSeattle]

2. Quite a list - thanks

[theboss]

3. The New York Press does this better

Some of the stuff is funny though.

[JanMichael]

4. Absolutely LOVED it!

3. You

Crimes: You gaze idly at the carnage around you, sigh, and go calmly back to your coffee and your People magazine. You can’t stop buying useless crap, though you’re drowning in a deepening pool of debt. You think you’re an activist because you bitch all day on the internet, but you reelect the same gangsters at a 99% rate. You consider yourself informed because you waste a significant portion of your life watching the same three news stories cycle over and over again on your gargantuan, aerodynamic television set while you eat processed food. You really thought everything would be okay if Kerry won. Not only do you believe in an invisible man who magically farted out the universe, you also excoriate and marginalize those who disagree. You have a poorer understanding of your country’s foreign policy history than a third world peasant, but you can’t wait to see what Julia Roberts will be wearing at the Oscars. You cheer as Ukrainians challenge an election based on exit poll data, but keep waiting around for someone else to fix your problems. You can’t think, you can’t organize and you won’t act. This is all your fault.

Smoking Gun: You’re fat.

Punishment: You’re soaking in it.

[ObaMania]

7. Number 3 is absolutely true. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. dennis miller should be on there

glad to see that mccain is, though. if i hear one more person describe him as a 'maverick', i'll fuckin puke

[Sinistrous]

6. He forgot some.

How about Rupert Murdock and Dickie Scaife?

[jerryman814]

8. John Negroponte's (#10) wife is my Latin American History professor...

It's ironic how SHE is going to be teaching me about her husband... I'll definitely be ready for her, especially when she starts with the "Nicaragua began its glorious revolution...". She's a skank as well...

_jerry_

[MsTryska]

9. *lmao*@ this one!!!

19. Zell Miller
Crimes: Part Yosemite Sam and Part Foghorn Leghorn. Miller doesn’t make the list for his salivating, traitorous keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, or even the duel thing with Chris Matthews. He makes the list because he really does represent Southern Democrats. Miller was chief of staff for diehard racist Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, who used to own a restaurant where he’d hand out pick handles to his customers to beat any black people that might try to come in. The Democratic party really isn’t the party he once knew—thank God.

Smoking Gun: Won’t switch parties, just to be a pain in the ass.

Punishment: Death by torrential barrage of spitballs while watching his granddaughter make out with Big Pun.

[skypilot]

10. Loved the list....

...except that Clay Aiken thing. There are far more loathsome people around than him. Someone else mentioned that Dennis Miller should have been on the list.

[julialnyc]

11. I love this one

40. Laura Bush

Crimes:Oh the first lady, what an inspiration she must be to android researchers everywhere. Smile, nod, smile, (look interested) nod, put on $50,000 dress, suck off the president and there you have a typical day for the first lady. Corporate yes-wives like her will hasten the coming of mandated burkas for American women. Actually looks related to George, which might explain their mongoloid children.

Smoking Gun:  She married George Bush.

Punishment:  Chugging a gallon of stem cells on Fear Factor.