there is no doubt this country is filled with some reprehensible, disgusting, scary, moronic and evil people --- many of them running the country, running our corporations and allegedly entertaining us. some are just famous due to their reprehensible-ness.
examples include donald rumsfeld, paul wolfowitz, laura ingraham, mary cheney, mary bono, duke cunningham, scooter libby, clarence thomas etc.
as awful as those folks are --- they dont seem to hit my creepiness meter. i will alter Justice Potter Stewart's famous quote "hard-core creepiness was hard to define, but that I know it when I see it"
here are my top 10 for creepiest Americans and the honorable mentions
- Marilyn Musgrave - congresswoman from Colorado. 100% conservative voting record from the American Conservative Union. received "Distinguished Christian Statesman" award, allied with Focus on the Family, Alliance for Marriage, the Family Research Council, tand the Traditional Values Coalition. Musgrave has taken trips sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and Club for Growth. Basically a one issue creep - constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. Creepy quote: I don’t think there's anything more important out there than the marriage issue."
- Tony Snow - slick, oily, lying mouthpiece for the decider in charge. Formerly worked at Fox News. Stiff and frankenstein-looking. Smart and evasive. Spins everything. Recent Creepy performance: Defended President Scumbag's decision to veto stem cell research saying: "Bush has a unique and unprecedented role in supporting stem cell research, and attacked critics for "misstating" the administration’s policies, claiming that Bush was in fact "putting science before ideology." Tony Snow has cancer -- a disease that may benefit from stem cell research
- Henry Kissinger - creepiness dates back to at least Richard Nixon, when he was Secretary of State. Proponent of the war in Vietnam, shady involvement in the Yom Kippur War. Amazingly won Nobel Peace Prize. During a conflict between India and Pakistan described Indians as "bastards" and the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a "bitch." How sweet. Worked on overthrow of democratically elected goverment of Chile in 1973. Lots of other shady involvements. Originally supported war in Iraq "Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy," but now says lots of contradictory things. Creepiness factor was considered a sex symbol in the Nixon Adminstration.
- Michelle Malkin - Filipino-American rightwing nutcase. Made really bad video called "The Defeatocrats" that appeared on YouTube. Hates immigrants. Not proud of her heritage: "I'm not Asian, I'm American, for goodness' sake." Published the contact information of members of a UC-Santa Clara peace group on her blog - an action that resulted in the students receiving dozens of death threats. Weird eyes. Creepy ideology - defends racial profiling
- Laura Bush - the whole Bush family could have taken up all 10 spots, so i limited this to one Bush-creep - the one I find the creepiest - Laura. Where do i start? Looks like she has too much botox around the eyes, raised a democrat!, killed ex-boyfriend in car accident (she was driving) and still to this day cannot talk about it. Stepford wife like, married to the most moronic, evilest, vilest, idiot ever. Daughter-in-law of the one of the evilest and vilest creatures ever. MSM thinks she is a rock star. Against stem cell funding even tho her father died from Alzheimer's, a disease that has potential treatment from the research. Questionable parenting skills as daughters whop it up around the world while the country is fighting. Thinks Condi couldnt be president since she is single and her parents are dead. Supports husbands policies: "Many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody." Really creepy factor: Thinks that she and George suffer more than anyone over Iraq.
- Pat Robertson - insane minister and host of the 700 Club, an unwatchable hour of complete and total religious propaganda. Founder of Regent University -- whose law school graduates have infiltrated the Justice Department like roaches in a NYC slum. Founder of Christian Coalition - which has been sued by the FEC "for coordinating its activities with Republican candidates for office in 1990, 1992 and 1994 and failing to report its expenditures." Called Episcopalians the anti-Christ. Call feminists witches. Criticizes Disney for Gay Days at Disneyland. Wanted to have Hugo Chavez assasinated. Supported President of Taylor of Liberia who was indicted for war crimes by the UN --- didnt tell everyone he had invested in a gold mine in Liberia. Talked about nuking the State Department. Way too many more creepy things to mention. Recent creepy gesture: stated that people who have too much plastic surgery "got the eyes like they're Oriental" and stretched his eyelids in a manner stereotypical of Asians.
- Tom Coburn - idiot senator from Oklahoma. Real nut case. Introduced legislation to force HIV testing as a condition for obtaining health insurance. Called for the death penalty on doctors who performed abortions (oh, Coburn is a medical doctor), stated homosexuality was the biggest danger to America. Coburn described the airing of Schindler's List on television as "...irresponsible sexual behavior. Recent creepy actions - Blocked bill honoring Rachel Carson, author of the book that launched the environmental movement in the US -- "Silent Spring" -- called her work junk science. Stated the book was the catalyst in the deadly worldwide stigmatization against insecticides, especially DDT
- Tom Delay - corrupt, indicted former exterminator (of bugs) and House majority leader. What can one say about the hammer -- intimidating, evil, smug.. Opposes evolution, censured by the House, money from his charity went to pay for parties at the 2004 convention. Photographed smoking a banned Cuban cigar, after calling Castro a thug. Involved with the Terry Schiavo fiasco by calling for her life support systems to be continued. In 1998, he allowed his father's life support systems to be disconnected. Closely associated with Jack Abramoff. Really creepy attitude: When informed that federal rules prohibit smoking & asked to put out his cigar, Delay snaps back "I AM the Federal Government."
the top 2 were a hard decision --- i struggled
- Dick Cheney - secretive, arrogant, gruff, disgusting, portly, evil, insensitive, selfish and just creepy. Also hypocritical, a liar, defensive, sociopathic, corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative, insincere, threatening, domineering, unpatriotic. Demeaning, haughty, heinous, self-righteous, boring, narrow-minded, inarticulate, oily, greasy.
and the winner is
- Roger Ailes - head of Fox (Faux) News (Noise). Worked on Reagan and Bush 1988 campaigns. Convinced a radio to syndicator to launch Rush Limbaugh's show in 1991. Impossible to work for, especially if you are female. Single handedly has helped turn news into opinion --- and is not the least bit shy about making his "news" channel a mouthpiece for his political beliefs -- which happen to be to the right of Attila the Hun. Really ugly. Medusa-lik Just looking at him is enough to turn someone to Stone. Purposely mixed up Obama and Osama's names. Allows staff to put lies on the screen (example Rep Mark Foley D-Fla). Unapologetic about misleading people.
Why Ailes over Cheney -- they are both in a league by themselves in creepiness. But Ailes has the vehicle to shove that creepiness in our face 24/7 --- and in 85,000,000 homes.
Honorable Mention: (in no particular order)
Karl Rove
Dan Bartlett
Rush Limbaugh
Patrick McHenry
Marcia Blackburn
Tony Perkins (not the actor)
James Baker
Mary Matalin
Elizabeth Dole
Melanie Morgan
Sam Brownback
Bill Kristol
Lucianne Goldberg
Ken Mehlman
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Jim Inhofe
Peter King
Joe Lieberman
Jean Schmidt
James Dobson
Barbara Bush
Mitch McConnell
Ron Christie
people whom i loathe, detest, disdain, abhor but for some odd reason don't creep me out:
Ann Coulter
George Bush
Jeb Bush
John Kyl
Trent Lott
John McCain
Rudy Giuliani
Condi
UPDATE: Based on the terrific feedback -- here are some more creeps
(in no particular order ---- and excuse me if i left your choice out)
Dana Perino
Charles Manson
Jim Bunning
Sam Alito
Clarence Thomas
Newt Gingrich
Tom Monaghan
Bernard Ebbers
Debbie Schlussel
Lynne Cheney
Gary Bauer
Judy Miller
John Bolton
Karen Hughes
John Boehner
Adam Putnam
Saxby Chambliss
Dick Morris
Fred Phelps
Alan Keyes
Ben Ginsberg
Bill O'reilly
Kate O'Beirne
Tony Blankley
Rupert Murdoch
Neil Cavuto
Glenn Beck
Mitt Romney
John Negroponte
Michael Chertoff
James Carville
Bob Novack
Tucker Carlson
Grover Norquist
John Barrasso
Richard Mellon Scaife
John Cornyn
Alberto Gonzalez
Monica Goodling (major ick factor from her)
Jessica Simpson's dad
Richard Perle
Dr. Laura