Most infamous, evil person you've met.

[Maddy McCall]

I met Trent Lott at a ground-breaking when I was a kid.

I also met Mississippi Governor and former RNC head Haley Barbour--not by choice but because I had to. Right now, he is being crucified in the media for kicking 65,000 people off of Medicaid.


Those are my brushes with infamy. Yours?

[flamingyouth]

1. I waited on Robert Bork once

He was actually quite nice as a customer, but :puke:

[Fenris]

6. I am disappointed, Lisa.

That close to evil and no bodily fluids in his food? Tsk tsk. :D;)

[flamingyouth]

12. Sometimes it's tempting

But it's really not my style.:)

[Khephra]

2. Steven Goldsmith

The former Mayor of Indianapolis and a Bushie. He managed to piss off Bush so you aren't hearing about him much these days, but he's still out there.

[democracyindanger]

3. Tonya Harding

Post-Gilooly.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Interesting...

In what context did you meet her? She is pretty evil.

[democracyindanger]

16. A buddy of mine

used to work at a Sheri's Restaurant (think local Denny's chain, Cracker Barrel, etc.) in Gresham (east of PDX; the kinda town they film 'COPS' in). It was one of her favorite restaurants, I guess. Introduced to her once while I was waiting for my friend to get off work. My friend had a weird crush on her. He was convinced she had a crush on him, too. Scary thing is, he may have been right. 'Crush' in a sex-in-the-parking-lot kinda way, that is. :puke:

[Maddy McCall]

46. Oooooo....wicked!

I'd be afraid to be alone with her in a dark parking lot. :scared:

[realisticphish]

4. i met Bob "The Douchebag" Taft

At Buckeye Boys State a couple years ago. Not to the same level as trent lott, but he's stil a minion

[jpak]

7. Ralph Reed

Had him for a BIO-101 student at the University of Georgia.

Sawed-off little Nazi...

[LiberalVoice]

8. El-Sayed Nosair. Mastermind behind 93' bombing of WTC. n/t

[Fenris]

9. Care to elaborate?

That's a pretty infamous person.

[LiberalVoice]

14. I probably shouldn't be doing this but...

He is my father. For 14 years I was deathly afraid of anyone knowing who I am. Threats against my life and my families life were not an uncommon thing over the years.

He was a fantical conservative. I am as liberal as one man can be.

Since were at it, I knew most of the men responsible for the attack. I hope I'm doing the right thing.

[Fenris]

20. Hey, no judgment here.

You are you and he is he. There's nothing wrong with that.

:toast:

[LiberalVoice]

21. Thanks for the support.

It was really hard for me to stop being so scared. If my family knew they would lose it. lol

[ronnykmarshall]

23. You're with friends here.

It took a lot of courage to tell us that.

[Maddy McCall]

47. Yes. I agree, Fenris.

We can't be held accountable for the actions of others.

[JohnLocke]

31. Wow!

Wow... that took a lot of courage. :toast:

[sthorne]

10. Jeb! <eeeewww>

He came to the college I was attending during his failed first bid at the Governor's seat. I was president of the Democratic Club at the time, and it was club recruiting day, but my fellow club members shielded me from possible arrest since I had threatened to spit on his shoes.

[Hoping4Change]

18. Spitting on his shoes! Thats hysterical.

Welcome to DU. Glad you're here!:bounce:

[sthorne]

44. Well...

...my uncle, in a baby passing incident, pissed on Nixon back in the early '60's. I was too old to try that trick. I remember Jeb was a total goober to our table and I was so pleased when he lost.

[TheMightyFavog]

11. John Gard

What an ass. In high school, I asked him about starting a program that would identify and breed Dutch-Elm resistant trees and he said "It would cost too much".

The Guy's an ass. I hope Don Peterlin kicks his ass in November.

[Fenris]

13. I trump all...

I've met the supreme incarnation of evil.

But he was a governer then.

I don't recall much about the meeting...I was younger. I do know I shook his hand.

Still, I remember it.

[silverlib]

19. Me too!

I met him on a tour he did where I worked. He spent a lot of time talking to me about absolutely nothing consequential. My boss was shaking in his boots, with a wall between us, horrified I would speak my mind. At the time, I needed a job too badly.

[flamingyouth]

57. Was there a lingering odor of sulphur?

Or is that just the stuff of legend?

[Rowdyboy]

15. I have you all beat...In college (1975), I met ex-governor Ross Barnett

the famous segregationist. He spoke to a class in public administration. I also had a phone conversation in 1994 with one of Mississippi's foremost racists, Richard Barrett. He was placing a job opening for a secretary ("a white girl, no nigras please"). Boy, did I have fun with that one!

[Maddy McCall]

51. Oh MY GOD! I forgot to list Richard Barrett!

I talked to him a couple of years ago--can't describe context or I will give my identity away, and I don't want any of his crazy associates tracking me down.

He is an egomaniac, for sure.

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. Henry Kissenger....Need I say anymore?..........n/t

[TexasProgresive]

22. Poppy, around 1969-70 in Houston

at a friend's house- he was running for congress-I was clueless to his politics but took and instant dislike for him after he forced a handshake on me. It was like someone walked over my grave. When I see him on TV I wonder at my reaction. It's really strange but after all these years it's still with me.

[DemoTex]

24. Gov. George Corley Wallace

I got an interview with him in 1966 for a high school speech class assignment. His red-neck brother, Jerry Wallace, knew my red-neck uncle Gene. My red-neck uncle Gene was brother to a Medal-of-Honor winner from WW2. That was a big deal in Alabama in the mid-, race-bating, law-defying, N____-hating 1960s.

I met with Wallace at the capitol in Montgomery. I was a snotty-nosed left-wing kid. Wallace ate my lunch and spit me out like watermelon seeds. But he was kind. He said he did not want to change my liberal outlook (first time I heard that) perspective. I stood my ground on wing left.

I got an A++ from the toughest teacher at my school for my report. I got follow-up letters from Wallace himself. In September 1975 I saw George Wallace (in a wheel-chair) and his brother Jerry at my uncle's funeral in Prattville, Alabama. My uncle Gene died the same day that Uncle Mao died: September 9, 1976.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

25. Kenneth Starr (ack) twice

Once at the Christmas Revels show at Lisner Auditorium in DC. Didn't think it was him until I saw the guy standing with him wearing a wire.

Second was at a charity gig somewhere in McLean VA. Thank God he didn't say he liked the band. I'd have had to have been courteous.

[JanMichael]

26. Met an IRA bomber in Warsaw, Poland a few years back.

He'd been out of prison (20+ years IIRC) for a few months, in his 60's and had the coldest, most dead, look in his eyes that I've ever seen.

Shortish and the epitomy of a "Hard Man".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. At my first full time job

I went to a meeting of the university's Asian Studies committee. The chair of the committee looked like Jonathan Winters, but he set off my creep detector the loudest it's ever gone off, and when he started talking seductively about "getting to know me better," I made up a fiance on the spot.

Later, I met another faculty member who was a friend of the committee chair's daughter. From her I learned that this committee chair had not only sexually abused his daughter but beaten his wife half to death, only to be protected by the "old boy network" and the idea that a distinguished professor at the largest employer in town couldn't possibly be that bad.

Fortunately, I didn't have to deal with him very often, but it was difficult to be in his presence.

I haven't met any famous evil people.

[Maddy McCall]

52. I would have had a hard time containing my emotions around this guy.

Sounds truly evil.

[WillyBrandt]

28. Jeb Bush, Gov. Bob "Fuck" Martinez

[johnnie]

29. Ronnie Shelton

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0671731858/knowledgesolutioA/102-6527826-7079300

I met this guy when he used to hang out with my little sister. He isn't infamous all over, but out here he was pretty well know. He was friends with my then brother-in-law and he told me that while they were out Ronnie would leave the bar for a while and show up a few hours later. We figured we knew what he was doing during that time.

[m-jean03]

30. My dad worked out w/the DC snipers

at the local YMCA.

[slinkerwink]

32. Met Trent Lott at an intern lecture, Dick Cheney at another, & Ralph Nader

I really do need to start meeting good men these days :-P

[fishwax]

33. J.C. Watts used to visit my work

every now and then. He always reeked of cologne. I figured he bathed in it to cover up the smell of sulphur.

[amazona]

34. david duke, many times

However he was pretty unavoidable in my circle because of his gambling addiction. If you played high limit games in this area at all, you could not avoid his pitiful self throwing his contributor's money away. I have no idea if he is sincere or if he is playing a part to 1) avoid working and 2) get moran's money for his long-time gambling habit. All I know is that he has a poisonous aura, is a *****y tipper to the dealers, loves to cuss people out when he's losing (which is usually), and that he is very shifty-eyed. Another friend of mine, not a gambler, was in jail with him during a civil rights protest when they just put everyone together, the anti-hate crowd and the hate crowd alike, in the same jail. He says Duke really believes his spew. Sheesh, scary.

If Dennis Rodman is evil and not just playing a part, met him the same way -- playing cards. He is rude and obnoxious, I'll give him that for sure.

[Maddy McCall]

53. I passed David Duke on the interstate one time, about a decade ago.

He had a personalized license plate that said NAAWP, if I remember correctly.

[maveric]

35. The same as the "Most famous" person I've ever met. George H W Bush

A cold feeling came over me when I shook his hand.

[Kitka]

36. Just G.W. Bush when he was campaigning in my town...

He was slimy.

[greblc]

37. Olsen Twins

My wife used to work at Nordstroms Mac Cosmetic Counter. She had to help the twins. She said they were demanding little B*tches and then bought nothing. And they look like Chimps in person.

[VelmaD]

38. I had Karl Rove as a prof in grad school...

I WIN! x(

He is a scum-sucking bottom-feeder. He taught my Campaign Politics class in grad school and it was all I could do to keep from hitting him on the head with a shovel. Although, I still consider it a badge of honor that he once referred to me as a fundamentalist Shi'ite feminist. :evilgrin:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

39. Newt....

Yeach.

He taught at a school I attended.

[Edmond Dantes]

40. Bork, Clarence Thomas, Ken Starr, Newt Gingrich, Boyden Gray

Clarence Thomas and I were drinking beer out of cans. I could barely restrain myself from saying "hey, is that a pubic hair on my beer can?"

Gingrich tried to sic his bodyguard on me.

[LowerManhattanite]

41. Roy f*cking Cohn, unfortunately...

I was a student at New York's High School of Art & Design in 1979 and the school was located on East 57th St. and Second Avenue---pretty price real estate at the time (actually still, but it seemed so exclusive then). As the school drew students from all over the city, my outer-borough ass being in Manhattan felt like a big deal, especially after school when the night life kicked in. Anyways, a few of us were hanging out one night in the school's theater when we decided to go out for some grub. One thing led to another and a bunch of us decided to race down second avenue. Ready, set...go! We were off! Tearing down the avenue with nobody taking much of a lead when suddenly a shortish man and a couple of bigger guys stepped out of a darkened doorway quickly hustling into a waiting Cadillac limousine. We were running full tilt and tried to stop but were practically on top of them when they appeared. Ba-dow! My two friends and i plowed into the trio, sending everyone sprawling ass over tea-kettle. I remember scraping my forearm on a lock on a basement door as I tumbled and hitting the ground hard. Next thing I know, we were being cursed at by the little man in the tuxedo (I remember the spittle flying from his mouth at us) as the big guys, who were bodyguards were picking him up and dusting him off asking "Are you allright Mr. Cohn? Are you okay?" Before he could answer, (He was still railing at us "You motherf*cking shines! Where are your mothers? You're totally unsupervised! Running wild in the streets!") , the bodyguards turned on us verbally. "What the f*ck were you kids doing?" "Racing.", we said. "This is f*cking second avenue! Not a goddamned track!", the bodyguard screamed. "You coulda killed somebody! F*cking racing!"

They hustled Cohn into the limo (I remember he wore expensive cologne, it hung in the air and the circles under his eyes almost looked violet, like he was made up...weird) with him still cursing us. "You better be careful who you run into on the streets...you might not get up next time!" The second bodyguard bellowed as the door closed and the car pulled out down the avenue. We were all so embarassed about plowing into a pedestrian that we couldn't even joke about it. Just then a man in an expensive suit dashed out of a restaurant a few doors down (It was called Rocky Lee) and asked if we were okay. We said yes. "Jesus Christ," he said, "I thought he was gonna kill you. You're lucky. You are luc-ky. Knocking Roy Cohn on his ass like that. Go home guys."

It was a couple of days later that I asked my dad who Roy Cohn was. Dad asked why. I lied, saying we saw a guy on the street and everybody was like, "Hey, it's Roy Cohn!". My father said. He's a dick. A powerful mean little dick who's famous because he's a dick and he hurts people" My dad walked away muttering "Hey, it's Roy Cohn...f*cking people..."

It wasn't until about four years ago that I told my mother about the "run-in" on the street and she was aghast, still some 14 years after Cohn was dead. "Oh my God! He could have killed you and we'd have never known why!", she wailed. She then asked me about what other things I'd done during those years that I hadn't told her about. There were some other things that would've curled her hair, but nothing quite as potentially "dangerous" as injuring and p*ssing off Roy Cohn.

[amazona]

42. best post ever

I am LMAO trying to picture that! I'm glad Cohn didn't have you whacked!

[LowerManhattanite]

49. I'm surprised we didn't bowl over more famous people...

...that school was located right off Sutton Place in Manhattan. We'd see Woody Allen, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Jackie Onassis and Walter Cronkite stroll past all the time (Clyde in his "pimp" coats was the only one who'd talk to us). A strange and magical time to be a teenager in Manhattan (the height of the disco era). I once saw Mikhail Baryshnikov passed out across three balcony chairs of the disco Xenon one night. As I neared him to see if he was alive, (whatever he took had made his breathing shallow) a bouncer saw me and chased me outta there.

Good times...good times. :)

[SarahB]

43. Alexander Haig

The infamous family story of how he hit on my mom at the airport about 22-23 years ago. She was about the age I am now (32) and sort had a bit of a Catherine Zeta-Jones kind of look then.

[boobooday]

45. I knew that woman and her son, Sante and Kenneth Kimes

The mother-son murderers!

She was very weird.

Her son went to UCSB when I went there.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[LowerManhattanite]

50. Santé and Kenneth Kimes...

THAT...is a venal, creepy, vicious, evil, murderous, craven, vile pair of people. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[Maddy McCall]

54. Ooooo....evil of the nth degree!

His relationship with his mother was, er, troubling.

[Solly Mack]

48. Lester Maddox

n/t

[HEyHEY]

55. The guy that pied Jean Chretien

Relive the horror!



PURE EVIL!
Oh wait I saw Jimmy Pattison in an office building once.

[Sugarbleus]

56. It wasn't me, but Hubby met and got to know...............................

Charlie Manson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yipes! Hubby is an old biker from way back. Did a little time too(all before I met him). He met Charlie in the desert and in Prison.

I found some "items" he got from Charlie in an old trunk in hubby's mother's garage and threw them away. Hubby wanted to know what I was doing that for and I said take a good hard guess!! Fercrissakes!!

I've met a lot of scary people, not necessarily in politics. Met a lot of famous people too. You asked so that's my answer.

:smoke:

[goodboy]

58. Wally----"I guarantee it..." O Dell nt

[snorkie]

59. Rick Santorum

Almost literally bumped into him when I was in Harrisburg. To my ever-lasting regret (and my wife's ever-lasting relief :) ) I froze and just couldn't spit out any of the 3,417 epithets that ran through my head. Oh how I have replayed that moment in my imagination...

Maybe even worse if you're a hockey fan, I met Eric Lindros. Very arrogant. But I guess he got his comeuppance.