A list of 25
Actually they’re a batch of right-winger’s list of “25 People who Are Screwing up America.” This serves as, I guess, the pinacle of partisan-bloggering participatory debatery fun-dungery.
23) Sandra Day O’Connor (6)
23) Ruth Bader Ginsburg (6)
23) Maxine Waters (6)
21) Charles Rangel (7)
21) Al Gore (7)
17) David Souter (8)
17) Al Sharpton (8)
17) Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (8)
17) Bill Clinton (8)
16) Paul Krugman (9)
15) Noam Chomsky (10)
13) John McCain (11)
13) Robert Byrd (11)
11) Jessie Jackson (12)
11) Jimmy Carter (12)
10) Nancy Pelosi (13)
8) John Kerry (14)
8) Barbara Boxer (14)
7) Dick Durbin (17)
6) Hillary Clinton (19)
4) George Soros (23)
4) Harry Reid (23)
3) Ted Kennedy (24)
1) Michael Moore (26)
1) Howard Dean (26)
For the life of me, I don’t know what to make of this list. This be the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy? (Or some dissipated threads out of it… I didn’t really see Noam Chomsky stumping a lot for John Kerry.)
How is Al Gore screwing up America these days? I know he launched a weird tv network of some sort — seen by nobody. I guess he makes an environmental speech every so often. (Actually, come to think of it — Jesse Jackson’s last few imprints into the national news was a defense of Michael Jackson and a plea to keep Terri Schiavo on the feeding tube.) I guess I should figure out the date this poll was done — before or after Dick Durbin (#7) referenced Hitler. In the same vein, if this had been taken a few months ago, during the “Justice Sunday” wackiness — would the three Supreme Court Justices have been higher up on the list? And does this finally square the dailykos as the top liberal blog? (I see no other blogger on the list.)
It’s all a little confusing.