How does Rush Limbaugh make the final 100 nominees of that annoying CNN/AOL thing of the Top 25 Greatest Americans who ever lived ?

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― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

he's the best example of an american. fat, dumb, angry, addicted to prescription drugs.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Ohhhhhhh pls pls pls pls pls pleeeeeeeeeaaaase let him win, this would be too fucking great! I want a fat. junkie, fascist, hypocrite, greatest American, the zeitgeist must speak.

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

his lady Daryn Kagan probably slipped that one in..

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

is Daryn conservative?

― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

you can tell she's kind of a bitch whatever she is...Kyra phillips is much nicer

― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

pure charm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I cant imagine her not being a conservative. htf are you supposed to sit in the same room with that fuck-o for more than 30 minutes? unless shes really into teh drugs.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

One of the Fox sportscasters the other week, spotting Rush in the crowd at a Mets game, said something like, "That man is the single greatest genius of radio in my lifetime."

Which might actually be true, really, I don't know.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY! His listeners helped get him nominated!

― Ian Riese-Moraine forever! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican

note that he shares a page with Madonna, MLK jr, RFK, JFK, Jackie O, Abe Lincoln...and George Lucas.

also, Ric Flair isn't on there. FUCK this list.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

MLK JUNIOR? ok nvrmind

― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

i like how dickinson, faulkner, hemingway, melville, and whitman are not top 100 great americans, but DR. PHIL McGRAW is! Go America!

― Narrow Pyramid, Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/94927/200.jpg

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

wait, what did mel gibson do? and isn't he from new zealand or something?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

and einstein was born in germany, why are they claiming all these people for america?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

mel was born in the us

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

hhey my mom had that whitmans box

― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost how about that! still, such a bad american!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Voltairine de Cleyre's not on there, of course. (No surprise there -- she's not well-known anyway, but she's an anarchist and so most people would obviously hold that against her.) She's a real American, although she'd scoff at the notion of being of a certain nationality -- but to me she symbolises and almost embodies the independent (oh, how I hate this word) "spirit" of America, the liberty and freedom that the country can only aspire to under massive pretenses. If the world were fairer, she'd be a nominee and Rush Limbaugh would have overdosed on prescription drugs in anonymity.

― Ian Riese-Moraine forever! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Alphabetically where Miles Davis should be, there's Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres, much greater Americans, like, for sure!

― Dr. Souchon: Surgeon-Painter, Monday, 6 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I just voted for Bill Graham! Three times! Accidentally! While trying to see the nominees! This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 June 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I think Lemmy deserves to win

― Dan Beale, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

When Canada did this, there were lots of people on the list, in the Top Ten even, who weren't even Canadians, like Adrian Zmed!

― Huk-L, Monday, 6 June 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised but wtf is GW doing nominated in the top25?

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahaha! BRETT FAVRE but no BUCKY THE FUCK FULLER

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Adrian Zmed! The hell? I knew I should have watched the Greatest Canadian, it sounds entertaining.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

You want to know why I hate America?

Need you fucking ask?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

he'd get my vote for living the ipso fatso lifestyle

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Maybe everyone's interpreting "great" in the sense of "really big," like the Great Wall of China.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican

One of these things is not like the other
One of these things just doesn't belong...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

(they're down to the final five candidates)

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

I gave 2 votes to MLK and 1 to Ben. I figure Abe and George can handle their business. Reagan...ffs.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i went all 3 for MLK.

oh, the final tallies will be interesting to see, and to who tries to make political hay out of it...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

but yeah, as others have said, the vote will be split, and just guess who'll come out on top...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

okay, i'm now being told that FDR finished 10th, and Dubya was 6th...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

yup, a split vote indeed:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050626/nysu023.html?.v=11

America Names Ronald Reagan Their Greatest American
Sunday June 26, 10:59 pm ET

NEW YORK, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- America has chosen Ronald Reagan as its greatest American. Throughout Discovery Channel's GREATEST AMERICAN campaign, more than three million votes were cast via aol.com/greatestamerican, text and toll-free numbers to name the person who America thinks most influenced the way we think, work and live.

When voting closed at 9:10 (ET) during the series' live finale, Ronald Reagan was named the winner with Abraham Lincoln running a close second.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

How did Charles Nelson Reilly place?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

#17, right above Ollie North.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)