Right Wing News conducted a survey of conservative bloggers to find out who they thought were the worst twenty-five people in U.S. history. John Wilkes Booth beat out Nancy Pelosi, but only by one vote. Jimmy Carter leads, followed by Barack Obama. Both are well ahead of Timothy McVeigh, who also trails Ted Kennedy, FDR, and LBJ. The results:
23) Saul Alinsky (7)
23) Bill Clinton (7)
23) Hillary Clinton (7)
19) Michael Moore (7)
19) George Soros (8)
19) Alger Hiss (8)
19) Al Sharpton (8)
13) Al Gore (9)
13) Noam Chomsky (9)
13) Richard Nixon (9)
13) Jane Fonda (9)
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
11) John Wilkes Booth (10)
11) Margaret Sanger (10)
9) Aldrich Ames (11)
9) Timothy McVeigh (11)
7) Ted Kennedy (14)
7) Lyndon Johnson (14)
5) Benedict Arnold (17)
5) Woodrow Wilson (17)
4) The Rosenbergs (19)
3) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (21)
2) Barack Obama (23)
1) Jimmy Carter (25)
It also appears that, in their view, we are living in really bad times considering how many of the worst people in American history are now living or were around in the not very distant past.
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @RonChusid Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @BrettR4763: RT @RonChusid Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
People In American History who Conservatives in usa hate- FDR is number 3 http://bit.ly/c1SuDd #p2 #iranelection
RT @tehranweekly: People In American History who Conservatives in USA hate- FDR is number 3 http://bit.ly/c1SuDd #p2 #iranelection
People In American History who Conservatives in usa hate- FDR is number 3 http://bit.ly/c1SuDd #p2 #iranelection /@-tehranweekly
RT @tehranweekly: People In American History who Conservatives in usa hate- FDR is number 3 http://bit.ly/c1SuDd #p2 #iranelection
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
@ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth #p2 #topprog http://bit.ly/99F7I3
The survey is useless. There are no criteria given for how people were qulaified as a “Conservative,” and no information about how many people were polled, their geographical distribution, age, education, etc.
From the results, it appears that many, if not most, of the respondents have little, if any, knowledge of the significant events and personages who influenced American history, or of events that took place prior to their own lifetimes, or the lifetimes of their parents..
Also interesting, perhaps encouraging, that no Justices of the Supreme Court appear on the list. And Richard Nixon must be spinning in his grave to be bracketed by Chomsky and Fonda!
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king!
These people are bats__t crazy!
The survey was of conservative bloggers with the blogs included listed at the linked site.
Conservatives prefer Timothy McVeigh, murderer, to Jimmy Carter, helper of the homeless and Nobel Prize winner http://tinyurl.com/2debd23
RT @emjb Wingnuts prefer Timothy McVeigh, murderer, to Jimmy Carter, helper of the homeless and Nobel winner http://tinyurl.com/2debd23
Hmmm…. interesting, but does not surprise me. Some people really lack brain cells, don’t they…….
Wow. RT @ronchusid: Conservatives think Carter, Obama, & FDR were worse than Timothy McVeigh & John Wilkes Booth http://bit.ly/99F7I3