The 100 Americans the left hates the most
Granted, this list was compiled by people on the right — the editors at Townhall. That’s one reason I’m bringing it up here for debate. Did they get it right?
I count three current or former Georgians on the list — Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas and Erick Erickson; no Tom Price or Ralph Reed — and it’s interesting that 4.5 of the top 10 are women (the half referring to the fact that No. 7 is “the tea party patriot”).
The entire top 10, in ascending order and with my comments in parentheses:
10. Michele Bachmann (The most hated Republican in Congress? Really?)
9. Bill O’Reilly (Higher than Sean Hannity? Really?)
8. Dick Cheney (Only question imo is whether he or Karl Rove ires liberals more.)
7. The tea party patriot (A little too close to “Time’s Person of the Year: You” for my taste.)
6. Michelle Malkin (Not many liberals naming babies Michelle [or Michele] these days, I suppose.)
5. Ann Coulter (No surprise here.)
4. George W. Bush (How many years will pass before he makes it out of the top 10? Will he, or we, live to see it?)
3. Rush Limbaugh (Not No. 1? Is this Elton John’s fault?)
2. Sarah Palin (But of course.)
… and at No. 1, Glenn Beck.
Thoughts? Who would make the opposite list — people hated by the right?
(H/t: Hot Air, whose bloggers Ed Morrisey and Allahpundit are ranked Nos. 49 and 65, respectively.)
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laytonian
June 27th, 2010
4:46 pm
Big D: perhaps you should learn how to spell “PhD”, before claiming to have one? And perhaps master your third-grade English text, before trying out the language online?
You wrote:
Kyle, as a professional with a Phd. I could not give a damn what any ignorant liberal thinks. They lack all ability for lodgical thought. If they had to make without the help of Government programs they would die. Hey, not a bad idea.
Proud Black Republican
June 27th, 2010
5:24 pm
The left does not hate 100 Americans. The left hates everyone & anyone whom disagrees with them. They hate independents, conservatives, conservative democrats, moderates, basically anyone who takes them on based on their nose up in the air logic & facts. When you prove them wrong on that basis, you’re intolerant, hateful & they hate you. And the belong to the party of tolerance! Ha! I cannot wait to make up for voting for Barack Obama by putting a good conservative in the White House in 2012! Vote Republican! Proud Black Republican!
Pamela
June 27th, 2010
5:25 pm
Yes they got is right? Sarah Palin is a racist person and she is also an idiot! There should have been two people at #1…Palin and Bill O’Reilly.
Bill Campbell
June 27th, 2010
5:26 pm
The left is the worst HATE group in America!
George Bush Resume
June 27th, 2010
5:32 pm
Accomplishments As President
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the ‘poorest’ multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
With a policy of ‘disengagement’ created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden ‘dead or alive.’
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
mike
June 27th, 2010
6:31 pm
Hey midtownguy, I see Rev. Wright is 5th on your list. I remember the Rev is both a marine and a navy veteran. On that alone he has earned the right to say whatever he wants. Other than posting your bright ideas on this blog what have you or Kyle ever done for this country? That also applies to beck, hannity, oreilly and the rest of you patriots.
Rhonda Moseley
June 27th, 2010
6:41 pm
I do not agree. I’m tired of people in office that don’t represent me.
Left Wing Blogger
June 27th, 2010
6:50 pm
What no Dave Weigel?
jay jarrell
June 27th, 2010
7:24 pm
my opionion I thought they where all hated?
Moderate
June 27th, 2010
7:28 pm
“As for whom the right hates? there is no logical reason for anything they hate. They simply hate whom they are told to hate by those on the top ten list above.”
This comment from early in the discussion says it all. Left-wingers (different in some way from legitimate, educated liberals) assume that there is no dialog to be had with anyone with conservative views, assuming apparently that there is no diversity of viewpoints among conservatives. We fear the destruction of this country by looters empowered by the left wing and well-meaning but clueless rich liberals, the Pelosi’s, Boxer’s, Schumer’s, etc. of the congress. We also believe that the President means what he speaks and writes; apparently left-wingers haven’t done their homework, have their heads in the sand, or agree that we should be a socialist nation. They are lazy, in denial, or traitors; you choose.
As to most hated liberals, the Jesse Jacksons and the many wannabes are not to be hated; they are just buffoons who have manipulated and exploited their less educated brothers and sisters. The villains are those who would undermine our way of life for continued political power….Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, Schumer, Bloomfield, Kerry, or to benefit their boyfriend…..Frank.
Notasubsciber
June 27th, 2010
8:33 pm
I really think this paper is terrible. Terrible in their objectivity. They have none.
Skydawg
June 27th, 2010
8:34 pm
And you wonder why AJC continues to lose subscribers. You just can’t fix stupid.
Skydawg
June 27th, 2010
8:37 pm
@Pamela….give me one, just one specific incident that would validate Sarah Palin being a racist? Just one is all I ask. The true racists are the one’s that go around calling people racists. Anytime you have 98% of a race vote for a Presidential candidate just because of his race, then you have an example of racism. Fact! Now bring yours.
Dawg'88
June 27th, 2010
8:57 pm
Palin isn’t the most hated by the Culture of Death party supporters…she is the most feared! And I love it! A woman who has a child and loves him instead of using forced birth control that Dems support (abortion)and call mercy/compassion for the child. Disgusting!
A woman who sticks to her convictions no matter the loons railing her. She is courageous and genuine…unlike the US Pres.
Fred
June 29th, 2010
8:40 am
@JF, wow didn’t know you had to have a college degree to be a subject matter expert. I better go tell Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell about this.
Steve
June 29th, 2010
8:35 pm
GO GLENN BECK!!
Jesse James
June 30th, 2010
12:08 am
after reading all this there’s one person nobody said the right would hate: Jimmy Carter. Best thing that happened to Georgia was when Jimmy Carter became president. I would put him at number 1 if not top 5 along with JFK, Pelosi, Hilary Clinton, and Alec Baldwin.
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Brittany
July 7th, 2010
7:38 pm
I am surprised Hannity isn’t #1! Even from a conservative standpoint I am sick of hearing about his contempt for Obama. However, I am a HUGE fan of O’Reilly and Beck and although I live in Austin, I will be making my way over to the Restoring Honor rally in DC. I have to represent the small percentage of conservative college students at UT who are mature enough to understand that their teachers aren’t usually unbiased.
Polling by Numbers
September 2nd, 2010
1:11 pm
“You gotta understand the simple fact that left wingers are the D students in college who take classes such as condom studies, hair weaving 101, philosophy of weed, jogging, how to make porn with a flip camera and the toughest one of all, remedial math.”
Nice try, but you’ll have to try harder; it is well-known that colleges, universities, and academia at large are liberal strongholds. My brother visited MIT and finding a Republican at MIT is about as fruitless as finding a single Supreme Court case Palin can name other than Roe v. Wade (for those of you who didn’t watch it on NBC or YouTube, that’s zero). However, the admissions ambassador offered that about a decade ago, “there were like, 4 or 5 college Republicans.”
In a survey of the 32 most elite institutions of higher educations, conservaturd analysts/whiners found they all had a heavily left-leaning bias. The list includes the entire Ivy League, as well institutions such as MIT and Stanford. And it’s from a Hannity-approved conservative source:
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/1898/lackdiversity.html
Here are some gems:
• “The overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans we were able to identify at the 32 schools was more than 10 to 1″
• “At no less than four elite schools we could not identify a single Republican on the faculty, such as at MIT.”
What do Republicans have, Liberty University and Glenn Beck University? Not that Beck U is accredited or anything. I guess there’s always BYU if you’re a Mormon. Other than that, it is well-known that civic and general knowledge have a left-leaning bias, which is why many conservatives gripe that “collej is just another liberal bastion, dudn’t learn you nuthin but liberal talking points!” Hence why conservatives rebelliously defied liberals by deciding not to attend institutions of higher education other than junior colleges to obtain “certificates” in areas like x-ray or ultrasound operation (but then hands those x-rays and ultrasounds off to real doctors ha ha ha). The current intellectual vacuum in the GOP was created by these boycotts of education (seriously, you attend protest rallies with actual tea BAGS hanging from your costume hats? And you’re led by someone named Dick Armey, are you TRYING to invite ridicule, mockery, and wide disrespect?!). You cannot say with a straight face that Republicans are anything but vastly outnumbered by Democrats at esteemed universities, to do so would be intellectually dishonest, and I think intellectual dishonesty is cause for expulsion at every school except Beck University (ask GOP candidate Scott McInnis).