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June 29, 2005
You. Are. Joking.
Reagan voted 'greatest American'. I mean, what?
That list in full.
1 Ronald Reagan
2 Abraham Lincoln
3 Martin Luther King
4 George Washington
5 Benjamin Franklin
6 George W Bush
7 Bill Clinton
8 Elvis Presley
9 Oprah Winfrey
10 Franklin D Roosevelt
I mean, Lincoln, yes ; Martin Luther King, yes ; Washington, of course ; Ben Franklin, certainly ; Roosevelt, Presley, yeah, OK. But Oprah? GWB? Clinton? REAGAN?!?!
OK, let's see some other candidates, folks ...
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
The Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Louis Armstrong
Ernest Hemingway
JFK
J P Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Ulysses S Grant
Thomas Jefferson
Andy Warhol
Humphrey Bogart
Crazy Horse
Richard Feynman
John Steinbeck
George Washington Carver
Rosa Parks
Booker T. Washington
Robert Oppenheimer
Linus Pauling
Jonas Salk
Jesse Owens
Alexander Graham Bell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Randolph Hearst
Walt Disney
Frank Lloyd Wright
Helen Keller
Charlie Chaplin
Mark Twain
Bill Gates
Vint Cerf
Any of the people above, some controversial, some not, have just as great a claim to greatness than Oprah, bless her, don't they?
2.4 million people (Discovery Channel viewers and AOL users ... hmm) voted on this, and most of them should be ashamed. This is a daft populist quiz, no more nor less, and reflects on the US's fascination with the glib and superficial.
Posted by daen at June 29, 2005 12:57 AM