The Beast: The 50 Most Loathsome Americans (for 2011)

[muriel_volestrangler]

46) Sam Brownback
Crimes: #heblowsalot. When not attempting to destroy teenage girls on Twitter, the petulant Kansas Governor enjoys enacting anti-choice legislation, crushing arts programs through executive order, spending time with The Family, hating teh gay, and taking moronic walks on the beach with Rick Perry and God.
Smoking Gun: He’s the Governor of Kansas.
Sentence: Former Governor of Kansas.

45) Megyn Kelly
Crimes: Looks so much like she’s about to unhinge her jaw and toss back a few still-squealing rats that she lends plausibility to the ravings of David Ickes. Whether terrifying Flyover-Americans with the New Black Panther Party, or demonizing UC-Davis protesters, Kelly’s venom is designated solely for those outside of her income bracket and race. Decries “the welfare state,” yet thinks the U.S. government should mandate paid maternity leave — because it could potentially one day affect her personally. Her entire “news” career is based on exploiting the same myopic selfishness of Fox’s demographic of old white idiots who want to have sex with her.
Smoking Gun: “(Pepper spray's) a food product, essentially.”
Sentence: All meals prepared by Lt. John Pike.

44) Charlie Sheen
Crimes: Not a “totally bitchin’ rock star from Mars”; more of a deluded mediocrity who was wildly overpaid to play a slightly more sober version of himself. And sorry, Charlie, it takes more than a stage and a few eight balls to be Sam Kinison. While gleefully fulfilling every American’s schadenfreude quota, his “winning” streak & short-lived “comedy” tour ultimately had the devastating effect of subjecting us to yet more Ashton Kutcher.
Smoking Gun: “I’m an F-18, bro.”
Sentence: Shot down by Chinese drones.

43) Bill Adair
Crimes: Oft scolded by conservatives for being too accurate, the Politifact editor sought to remedy its suspected bias with their aptly titled “Lie of the Year,” which was that “Republicans voted to end Medicare.” In the same way that calling a hamburger a cow is accurate, claiming that Paul Ryan’s Medicare-privatizing “Path to Prosperity” would not end the program hangs on the thinnest of linguistic technicalities (an objectively far bigger lie is Ryan’s claim that his plan would “save Medicare”). Adair’s curious choice for Lie of the Year was based in part on an online poll, which was unduly influenced by Paul Ryan himself. So plagued by phony “balance,” Politifact almost never calls out conservatives who deny evolution.
Smoking Gun: In his response to the inevitable outcry, Adair defends his “objective journalism” by quoting two anecdotal straw men.
Sentence: Next time he orders a hamburger, a ketchup-coated cow comes charging out of the kitchen and tramples him.

http://buffalobeast.com/?p=9585

Plus many, many more - all your least favourite Republicans, of course. The author has, modestly, put himself at #50 - he's the guy who phone Scott Walker pretending to be David Koch.

[Cleita]

1. Very funny. n/t

[patrice]

2. Yeah, but there ain't anything funny about Brownbackistan!!!

[HughBeaumont]

3. K & R for later.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. "Andy spent the remainder of the year engaging in drunken spats with Sam Seder on Twitter, ineptly

smearing the 99% movement, and sweating profusely like a disheveled pig on amphetamines."

[limpyhobbler]

5. Michael Savage is missing from the list.

[RC]

6. Oh, I'm bookmarking that link

Good references for a list of the usual suspects that got us to where we are and are trying to keep us here.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Number 6 is interesting...

[SomethingFishy]

8. I thought so too...

Surprised this thread is still here.

[REP]

9. The Frank Miller entry is a gem

I've been meaning to post this - glad you did. As always, it delivers.