Left-Wing Bloggers Select The 20 Worst Figures In American History
Bloggers Select The 20 Worst Figures In American History
John Hawkins at Right Wing News was nice enough to poll some known Liberal bloggers to put together a Liberal list of The 20 Worst Figures in American History. Interesting as an intellectual exercise, but not signifying much beyond that, it is interesting to compare and contrast the Left-Wing and Right-Wing lists. Predictably, the Right-Wing list includes Hillary Clinton. Jeez, guys, get over yourselves already. It's not as if she sold nuclear secrets to the Soviets....
The 50 Greatest Americans Using An Ordered Methodology
Of course, this piece wouldn't be complete without an examination of the Greatest Americans of all time, which Robert Prather conveniently provides. Of course, a couple of glaring problems jump out at me immediately: Ronald Reagan is #15, and Shrub is #47. Come on, y'all; can we lose the idol worship here?? Reagan I can almost understand, but I cannot begin to see what Shrub has done in two years to qualify for this list. Again, this list is good as an intellectual exercise, but signifies nothing beyond that.
The problem with putting together lists like these, noble ventures though they may be, is that a lot of the people who respond tend of have a tenuous grip on political reality. Hillary Clinton is no more one of the all-time worst Americans than Shrub is one of the best. What's intellectual honesty when you have an axe to grind??
Thanks to John and Robert for providing me something to chew on this morning. They both put forth some interesting ideas; it's just too bad that both polls were hijacked by Right-Wing ideologues.
