The Beast 50 Most Loathsome Americans 2009 (finally!)

[dorkulon]

http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=1645

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[HughBeaumont]

1. 35. Teabaggers

Charges: America’s dumbest and most racist citizens finally found a cause they could all get behind that isn’t pro wrestling or NASCAR. The Lolcats of protest sign grammar, they think scare quotes actually make things scary (e.g. “Obama is a ‘communist’ “). They don’t understand that they’re duped showpieces for billionaires who threaten their freedom and prosperity far more than their beloved nemesis, Big Gubmint. And their instant escalation from complacent couch potatoes to rhetorical revolutionaries just happened to coincide with the election of a black Democrat with the middle name Hussein. What are the chances?
Exhibit A: They called it Teabagging first.
Sentence: To star in an extremely patriotic, live ammunition reenactment the Battle of Bunker hill.

FTW!

[Ishoutandscream2]

2. LOL!! Love that one

And Hugh, I love your posts. You smack down the "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps" mentality better than anyone I have read. Keep up the good work and the great posts.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Thank you.

It's sad, REALLY sad, that this repugnant mentality exists on DU. You would think people would know better by now how the real world works.

[AlinPA]

3. That cartoon of Virginia Foxx is really great. Those eyes!

[HughBeaumont]

5. Based on an acutal photo . . .

[mod mom]

4. MICHELLE BERNARD:

25. Michelle Bernard
Charges: Thrust to prominence as a result of MSNBC’s mad scramble to diversify in light of Obama’s candidacy, Bernard is almost perfectly non-representative of black women in America—a cryptofascist “independent” pushing the same tired free market agenda that is still devastating this country, clumsily repackaged as third wave feminism. While insipid PR hacks have long supplanted actual humans on cable news, Bernard is distinguished in her unworthiness by her status as president of the Independent Women’s Forum, which is actually quite dependent on an array of conservative foundations for funding. The IWF advocates the audacious notion that independent women want to abolish the minimum wage, and oppose equal pay… for women. Calling a right wing operative like Bernard an “analyst” on the news is something like deeming Michael Vick a pet health expert.

Exhibit A: Smack dab in the middle of the national health care “debate,” Bernard’s organization launched one of the most galling and indefensibly false attacks of the year, asserting in a commercial and a Bernard-signed fundraising letter that “More American women are going to die of breast cancer if you and I surrender to President Obama’s nationalized healthcare onslaught.” So-called liberal Chris Matthews never bothered to confront her on her shameless bullshit, preferring to continue to indulge her “analysis” and her pretense at political neutrality.

Sentence: The loss of all her money followed by the implementation of all her policies. Also breast cancer, of course.


I'm sick of MSNBC calling her an independent!

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. They include one of our favorite idjits.

edit:spelling

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Seeing that this list includes a few 'Democrats'

it makes criticism from the wingnuts more difficult - a bit harder to dismiss as a partisan piece.

I didn't agree with the assessment of Barack Obama as having done nothing worthwhile in his term so far, but some of his cabinet choices were definitely loathsome.

[Berry Cool]

11. Yeah, but I don't love these people.

They can be very funny, and very on point, but they ruin it by doing things like sentencing people to "AIDS" and "breast cancer." At least most of this year's choices were truly worthy, as opposed to some other years, when they seemed to put on the list anyone whose style they just didn't like, whether that person was on their side or not. Although I still wouldn't have added Obama, and I think the choice of "You" is stupid, because they don't really mean their readers, they mean stupid, uneducated teabagger-type rubes. It's like they're insulting their readers by saying "We are smarter and more sophisticated than you assholes."

[truckin]

9. Best Sentence:

Sentence: Bachmann’s constituents obediently refuse to fill out the census, resulting in the elimination of her congressional seat.

[dorkulon]

15. Would be nice.

And poetic.

[chemenger]

10. #26. You (present company excepted!)

"... You’re proud of your ignorance and proud of that too. In other words, you suck, you know it, and your every word is a sad and futile attempt to deny it."

Exhibit A: Glenn Beck.

Sentence: Glenn Beck.

NOT TRUE RE: DU'ERS but very true re: a distressingly large % of Americans.

[MilesColtrane]

12. Rec'ed for this picture of Lieberman.

[dorkulon]

16. Yeah, that one's special. nt

[voteearlyvoteoften]

13. That was a funny five minutes

worth checking out..i love me a countdown

[Vidar]

14. Good list.

[Joe the Liberal]

17. LOL that was great k&r. n/t

[joeybee12]

18. I'm number 26!

And so are you!

[JoeyT]

19. Woo

I wondered what was taking 'em so long this time.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Beat me to it this year! Here's a favorite, Orly Taitz:

33. Orly Taitz

Charges: The mother of all birthers, this OC-based dentist, lawyer, uber-Zionist and all around lunatic spent ‘09 spreading crazy like the flu, and making the legal profession look even more unseemly than usual. She sought to stay an Army doctor’s deployment to Iraq on the grounds that Obama’s presidency is illegal, and when the judge refused to hear the case, she accused him of treason repeatedly, although her client took pains to disavow her as her lawyer in a letter Taitz deemed a forgery. Taitz would know, as submitting badly forged foreign birth certificates as evidence is a favorite practice. In addition to her fevered, baseless agitations against Obama, she runs the gamut of paranoia typical to medication-deprived schizos: FEMA camps, Hugo Chavez-controlled U.S. voting software, and killer bird flu vaccines. Even O’Reilly thinks she’s a “nut,” but as Taitz knows, Fox is partially owned by Saudi Arabia. The only hope left for Taitz’s reputation is that she may actually be Sasha Baron Cohen working on his next film.
Exhibit A: “What is the real intention of this Kenyan, Indonesian communist usurper? …it might be time to start rallies and protests using our second amendment right to bare arms and organise in militias.”

Sentence: Hot tub sex with Lyndon LaRouche.