Yeah that's true. But it's hard to make a decision...
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
I think now you're being picky. I mean evil is evil
My top ten in alphabetical order.
Benedict Arnold
John Wilkes Booth
George W. Bush
Jefferson Davis
Nathan Bedford Forrest
J. Edgar Hoover
Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Woodrow Wilson
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
no ladies - woo hoo
Maybe I should add Barbra?
I didn't even think of Benedict Arnold!! That's a good choice.
Hoover almost goes without saying.
I'm a bit confused... Everyone who has been named perfectly shows the major characteristics of being an American.
To be a true, modern American is to be selfish, greedy, vain, and dangerously ambitious.
Anyone else is an individual
>> And WHAT pray tell did Al Sharpton do to deserve this? Am I missing something?
He exists. Isnt that reason enough?
I'm surprised the list isn't all presidents. Most of them are directly responsible for allowing the slavery or genocide we've inflicted on the world.
"And WHAT pray tell did Al Sharpton do to deserve this? Am I missing something?"
Start by googling "Tawana Brawley"
You all should read Gore Vidal's incredible novel BURR.
I love that one of them has Alfred Kinsey at #1. Really? #1??
Somewhere Barbra Streisand's character from The Way We Were is screaming "FASCISTS!"
What exactly is the definition of a bad American? What is the definition of a good American? Some of them were just bad people, but not necessarily bad Americans.
By some of these lists standards, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and many other of our forefathers would be considered "Bad Americans."
Updated On: 5/9/07 at 01:28 PM
Wow--who put this list together Roy Cohn?
Funny thing is, alot of those people are my heroes: Sanger, Carter, FDR...
Paul Robeson...really?!
Commies, commies, don't you know that being an American and a Commie is IMPOSSIBLE?!?!
I don't even think Pat Buchanan and Rush are bad Americans...
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
"And WHAT pray tell did Al Sharpton do to deserve this? Am I missing something?"
"Start by googling "Tawana Brawley"
And after that google "Freddy's Fashion Mart"
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
Alfred Kinsey and Madonna??
Kinsey and Madonna are sexual rebels, and some people find that anti-American--actually anti-Puritan...depending on which America you're describing.
Ok so:
"The case still hangs over Sharpton, particularly following his entry into mainstream politics (his race for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination involved his addressing the convention from its podium), not merely because he defended Brawley's story well after its veracity came into question but for the unfounded accusations he leveled, and, according to some of his critics, his "playing the race card." "
So to get this straight: Tawana's story proved to be quite false, but Al Sharpton continued to take advantage of the situation? I certainly don't support taking advantage of anything, especially race, but that makes him one of the worst?
Or is there something more to this I'm still not getting?
Everytime I read the children's version I get when I was younger I cry.
Aw, me too. I loved it.
You had the one where on the cover, it was a drawing of her in her dress holding her lunchbox, and all of the people in the background?
I got it when I was like 6. It changed my life forever, it really did.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
And WHAT pray tell did Al Sharpton do to deserve this? Am I missing something?
Al Sharpton is a disgrace. He helped propel the Tawana Brawley lie which labeled a whole town and several people as racist. It was all false and he never apologized. And he was out there calling for the heads of the Duke LaCrosse Team. That also turned out not to be true. He seeks the spotlight every chance he gets. Look at the Imus situation. There is no bigger racist than the "Reverend" Al.
When it comes to judging "bad" and "worst" some people have no taste.
I love that FDR, Carter and Streisand show up on that list... but no Reverend Fred Phelps on any of them.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
what did Barbie do to deserve a place on the worst Americans list?
She recorded one too many ballads.
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