Make sure you visit the
Drudge Report today to vote in our poll: "Who Is the Worst Person for America?"
John Hawkins of
Right Wing News came up with the idea last week, asking more than 200 bloggers to participate in a survey to
determine the worst person in America. Michael Moore won Hawkins' poll. I hastily put together one for Human Events Online the same day, and with more than 1,700, responses, here are the top three:
1. Teddy Kennedy (22.8%)
2. George Soros (20.3%)
3. Hillary Clinton (19.6%)
Of course, many thanks (from Hawkins and me) go out to Keith Olbermann, who features on his MSNBC program a segment highlighting the "Worst Person in the World!"
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Olbermann's antics, the Media Research Center has done an
excellent study analyzing his selections.
For someone who claims his editorial decisions have "nothing to do with a political point of view," Olbermann has thrown nearly all of his punches at conservatives. Of the 197 politically-salient designees, nearly nine out of ten (174, or 88%) attacked conservative targets or ideas, compared with 23 nominees (12%) in which liberals were on the receiving end of Olbermann’s ire. Among those attacked by Olbermann: Bill Frist, Donald Rumsfeld, Antonin Scalia, Rick Santorum, Tom DeLay and Pat Robertson (four times). Never targeted: Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, or even William Jefferson, the Congressman alleged to have stuffed tens of thousands of dollars in bribe money into his freezer. (See the complete listing of Olbermann's liberal and conservative targets.)
Here's the Media Research Center's graph showing the breakdown based on political leanings: