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Here is my list:

10.  Huey P. Newton, for founding the Black Panther Party and undermining the work of Martin Luther King and setting back the struggle for civil rights in this country by decades through his violent tactics.

9.  Noam Chomsky, for being a terror apologist and misleading entire generations of young Americans into the cluthces of anti-Americanism and socialism.

8.  Nathan Bedford Forrest.  A brilliant military man whose tactics are still studied to this day, but created the Ku Klux Klan.  Enough said, though he was kind enough to give us his great-grandson, Nathan Bedford Forrest III, who fought bravely for this country in WWII.  And while he did renounce the Klan later and ordered it to disband, the hatred he set in motion is still felt to this day.

7.  Walter Duranty. Stalin apologist whose biased reporting allowed the crimes of that cruel regime to go largely unnoticed by the free world.  Enough said.  Born in England but did his most prominent work for the New York Times.

6.  William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, pretty much the most corrupt American politician of all time.

5.  Father Charles Coughlin, anti-semite and fascist who would have fit right in with the moonbat/Cindy Sheehan hordes on the left today.  A taste:

Stalin’s idea to create world revolution and Hitler’s so-called threat to seek world domination are not half as dangerous combined as is the proposal of the current British and American administrations to seize all raw materials in the world. Many people are beginning to wonder who they should fear most--the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination.

4. Justices Blackmun, Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell for stretching our Constitution (and thus ushering in our current era of judicial activism) to include the “right” to an abortion that has subsequently resulted in the death of tens of millions of unborn children. 

3.  John Wilkes Booth, for murdering the man who was probably our greatest President ever, an action that turned post-Civil War reconstruction over to radical Republicans who subsequently made a mess of things by oppressing the south and creating a sort of resentment that exists, in one form or another, to this very day.

2.  Benedict Arnold.  An obvious choice, but the bastard nearly lost us the revolution.

1.  J. Edgar Hoover, for being corrupt, dirty and creating a level of distrust between Americans and their law enforcement/intelligence officials with his tactics that now has to be overcome by each and every agency attempting to conduct even the most legitimate data-gathering/intelligence operations.  The stigma he has brought to federal law enforcement has made this country less safe for generations.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

1. Ronald Reagan---a staunch supporter of South African apartheid, gave $85 million in aid to the Khmer Rouge, supplied chemical weapons to Saddam and helped train bin Laden, instituted MASSIVE corporate welfare and entitlement programs for the uber-wealthy, and paid for it by fucking the poor. Also, he destroyed public mental health care and threw tens of thousands of patients into the streets, creating the modern homeless problem.

2. Richard Nixon---the corrupt pig who claimed that “if the president does it, it’s not illegal.” Got caught on tape authorizing hush money for the Watergate thieves.

3. George H W Bush---number three with a bullet, Dubya combines the “I am above the law” hubris of Nixon with the “steal from the poor and give to the rich” corruption of Reagan, and tops it off with one of the weakest minds in presidential history. The laziest and most illiterate president of the past 100 years.

4. The tortured soul of Harry J. Anslinger.

5. Sociologist Robert K. Merton---the inventor of focus groups, which began the serious bastardization of every form of American art into bland, lowest-common-denominator pablum.

6. Tim McVeigh---a racist nutjob who murdered hundreds of people.

7. Jefferson Davis---was willing to sacrifice more than 600,000 lives to protect slavery.

8. Roger Ailes/Rupert Murdoch/Rush Limbaugh/Rev. Sun Myung Moon---building a huge far-right media machine to convince the weakminded rabble that corporate crime is good, equal rights for ALL Americans is bad, and multi-billion dollar media conglomerates are socialists.

9. Lester Maddox---the ax handle-wielding segregationist governor of GA.

10. Bill O’Reilly---Because everyone needs a crazy #10, and Bill is as nutty as a fruitcake. Too bad lots of the weakminded rabble actually listen to that asshole.

With apologies to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, the person or persons in the grassy knoll in Dallas, George Wallace, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, the guy who invented spam (both the email AND the meat substitute), Ken Lay, Nancy Reagan, and the network executive who cancelled Arrested Development.

Stupidest Show Ever…

Those who cancelled arrested development should be shot

Those who cancelled arrested development should be shot

Stretched out far enough I’m sure that includes Rupert Murdoch, which must create some conflicting views…

I know everyone on MI’s list but Minh. What do we know about hir?

Damn you MI and your damned list too...I hear that Angus and the boys will have a new album next year.

10. Gene - Newsmax junkie.
9. Carrick - Misrepresents literary theory.
8. Marty - Fundie.
7. docdave - Borderline psychotic.
6. LoadTheMule - Lacks grounding in reality.
5. Rob - Swallows propaganda whole.
4. Minh - Incomprehensible.
3. 2Hotel9 - Paranoid.
2. Likwidshoe - Inflicts brain damage on those who reads his posts.
1. Anyone who gets mad at this list because they didn’t think of it first.

Wow, I didn’t even make the list… I’m offended

Sphagnum, I’ll gladly share my spot with you.  *wiggling over a bit to make room* Mebbe you can ground me in some reality. *lmao*

Regards…

Ah, I’d be glad to:

Reality? Meet LoadTheMule…
LoadTheMule? Reality…

Now we have some sort of weird threesome going on between you, me, and reality… Maybe this wasn’t the best idea…

MI, you forgot cynical. L&A, “Menage a trois at the Event Horizon”, who’s your publisher gonna be?

You actually were on the list originally, Spaghetti, but I couldn’t think of something rude to say quickly enough.  How about:

6 1/2. Sphagnum - Easily offended when left off of lists.

I hear that Angus and the boys will have a new album next year.

That’s what I heard a year ago.  Hopefully it’ll happen, along with a tour.

Hm, I’m gonna have to pick more fights with you so I make your top ten next year…