August 4, 2003

Listing to Starboard

Posted by pete at August 4, 2003 1:09 PM

Admittedly, I'd never visited Right Wing News. The fact that I'm not a conservative probably has something to do with that, however while perusing Larry's blog I saw this link to an article where conservative bloggers selected the 20 Worst Figures in American History.

According to the results, Jimmy Carter is worse than Alger Hiss, Hillary Clinton is worse than Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton is worse than Timothy McVeigh.

Carter must've sunk himself by giving away the Panama Canal.

Traitors are apparently a big deal, yet Aldrich Ames got fewer votes than famed blowhard Al Sharpton. I must have missed the news the day Sharpton also blew the cover of two dozen American operatives in the USSR, leading to ten of them getting executed.

I can only assume the votes for Jane Fonda(!) were for her support of the Atlanta Braves, and not for her asinine Hanoi publicity stunt of over 30 years ago. Anyone thinking Jane "Milk the Fitness Craze for All It's Worth Then Marry a Billionaire" Fonda is left wing has serious reality issues.

I think it may be time to make a web quiz, scoring points based on how many of the RWN brain trust's choices you matched, with negative points for Reagan, Gingrich, Wolfowitz, etc.

What? You were expecting a Tom Hanks comment? I am so past that...

--Posted by Michael Croft on August 4, 2003 3:15 PM

Insert snarky comment about how certain parts of the Right-Wing Blogosphere (tm) have forgotten everything that happened in American history except 1776, 1939-1945, and 9/11/2001 here.

Man, I don't even have to make the jokes any more. They just write themselves.

--Posted by Ginger on August 4, 2003 3:50 PM

Good Point. Eugene Debs and Woodrow Wilson both got away, because they don't remember WWI.

And I remember "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards, even if they don't.

And if they'd known what they were doing,

I gotta finish up my current project so I can write that quiz. I can already see how it'll work...

--Posted by Michael Croft on August 4, 2003 3:56 PM

I'm just totally baffled. I'm most amazed that not one Supreme Court Justice even made the honorable mentions.

And how did John Walker get in there? He's not even American.

There's just... so much wrong with that list. It's giving me a headache. But I can't stop staring at it.

I guess I should just be thankful John Brown didn't make the list.

--Posted by kodi on August 4, 2003 6:04 PM



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