This is just disgusting..................

[bamacrat]

The Discovery Channel had their final vote on the greatest American. With a panel of Dennis Miller, Anne Coulter, and the ever political Randy Jackson (American Idol). And after a national vote Ronald Reagan was named the greatest American. Now that is not even the worst part, Chimpy and Oprah were in the top 10. Chimp was ahead of Bill Clinton by one spot.
http://www.discoverychannel.com

[MisterP]

1. ewwwwwwwwwwww, the Butcher of Manaus

[Jon_da_brockman]

I saw that

I have absolutely no idea how Bush beat out Clinton. Americans must love the sauce, eh?

[tsuki]

2. That is why I do not pay for discovery channel.

[cynatnite]

3. A lot of people only think of the now

Sometimes it seems like they forget even the most recent past which almost never bodes well for progressives.

[WI_DEM]

9. the problem with progressives/liberals winning is despite having

given the American people Social Security, Medicare, Clean Water, Federal Reserve System, New Deal Reforms, Great Society Reforms, Civil Rights legislation during the 60's, 40-hour work week, direct elections of US Senators, Womans Suffrage, a balanced budget and 20 million new jobs under Clinton--the American people ask, "What have you done for me, lately?"

[LightningFlash]

11. Answer: NOTHING!!! Period.

That's why the DLC needs to be kicked to the curb permanently and the new DNC march forward to push out the message!!!

http://www.democrats.org

Howard Dean will forge a new future for the democratic party out of the sweat of his own hands and all grass roots americans!!!!

:yourock: :yourock: :thumbsup:

Send him your thoughts! [e-mail]

[WI_DEM]

4. That was the entire panel?

Dennis Miller, Ann Coulter and Randy Jackson? No wonder Reagan won.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. dennis miller is still working?

i thought i saw him panhadling on a streetcorner last week-since he failed on tv for the fourth time and was cancelled again

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Not that I watched any of that. But THAT was their panel? Seriously?

[bamacrat]

14. "America" voted, they said. Those three crapbags were more commentators.

Hell, Matt Lauer hosted it.

[DanCa]

6. check out my sig maybe itll make you feel better

As for discovery channel theres so many other documentary type channels tlc nova nasa and animal planet I dont think ill be watching it in the near future.

[katinmn]

13. Discovery Channel used to be good until the neocons took

control of the purse strings.

I hope they don't bias-ize Nova, too.

[CatholicEdHead]

18. Most Cable Channels are like this

in that the programs they now air are often not even close to the title of the channel. It's all poker, motorcycle shops, and war movies right now.

[DanCa]

21. I agree my friend.

Dont you think that it would be more realistic if they showed blood on the stations that carried military history shows?

[DanCa]

19. I agree it would be horribly bad.

[bamacrat]

16. put a smile on my face finally.

[mark11727]

24. Great sig line.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

7. Freepers have been pushing this week

I gave up on this when I found out about how the voting would work and saw how determined the Freepers were to make this travesty a reality.

[Inland]

8. My question is, how does the Gipper beat Chimpy?

We know that the survey is slanted, with a conservative binge that can only go to two conservative candidates.

But how does Reagan beat the sitting war president?

Bush is twice the conservative Reagan was. Reagan didn't take his tax cuts to the limit like Bush. Reagan didn't appoint a supreme court to take us back to the 1880s. Reagan wasn't a war president.

But nobody respects Bush. Could it be, errr, the war?

[DanCa]

10. Or Honest Abe

Isnt the rethugs "supposed" to be the party of lincoln?

[VOX]

12. According to this horseflop, * and Oprah are greater than Einstein & FDR.

And Shrub couldn't even carry JFK's jockstrap -- he was a man who faced down a *real* threat of "nook-u-lar" war, and who actually served his country in wartime.

This bogus poll has, pardon my French, jack shit to do with REAL history. :grr:

[noiretextatique]

15. funny, that greatest american

presided over the most corrupt government in modern history...until now, of course.

[Endangered Specie]

17. funny Ive always felt that discovery channel programming was

going down the drain...

guess this proves my theory.

All they ever air is that stupid ass bike show anyways, so Im not suprised how THAT democraphic voted.

[mconvente]

22. GAG

Let's see... Reagen (who fucked us up with Iran-contra, debt and deficit economics, blah blah everything wrong) "won" against:

Washington - Father of America, voice of reason, held clashing sides together for the American cause, just amazing guy
Lincoln - held us together during Civil War, offered compassion toward battered South with 10% Plan, great debater
MLK - True Christian leader who brought us all together; without his compassion and courage our country would still be racially F'ed up (even more than it still is now)
Franklin - Father of American innovation and spirit, great humor and intellect

And fucker reagen "won" - assholes

[mark11727]

23. The missus told me about it this afternoon...

...just before her head exploded. Shit.

I deliberately avoided this whole "Greatest American" thing, because I knew (1) that the criteria would never be right for what exactly constitutes "greatness", and (2) no matter WHO won, I was going to be disappointed.

I mean, seriously... shouldn't the "greatest" American have actually DONE something worthy of the phrase? Say, faced a national crisis, fought an injustice, or discovered or invented SOMETHING? At very lest, the Framers of the Constitution should have fared better in this contest (how DOES one invent a country from scratch and keep it running for 200+ years?).

But REAGAN...? It's a mystery. How the deuce can someone who's probably foggy on what he had for f*cking breakfast manage to shut down the Soviet F*cking Union with one hand tied behind his back? (Alright, I'll let our Freeper friends answer that one.)

Jumping Jeebus on a pogo stick, I just don't get it.

[nonconformist]

25. Even Ron Reagan jr looked a tad flabbergasted nt

[jeepster61611]

26. Sad

[NMMNG]

27. Why would they have Anne freaking Coulter on the panel???

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

And the fact that the Chimpinator was ahead of Clinton just proves the poll was freeped. :argh:

[funflower]

28. And the Discovery Channel is what is supposed to replace PBS in the

new "free" market world of broadcasting?

[madeline_con]

29. Anne Coulter...

I thought she had a date....

HOW TO DATE ANN COULTER (IF YOU MUST)
By Kenn Gividen
Mar 6, 2005, 19:18


http://www.brocktonmass.com/news/publish/5000237.shtml

[MsConduct]

30. It's just plain STUPID.....and so goes the country. n/t

[BMG]

31. Wow, this is why I dont watch TV.

Nothing more to be said.