Comments on: The 50 Most Loathsome People of 2004

The 50 Most Loathsome People of 2004

Space Coyote — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:37:01 -0800

The 50 Most Loathsome People of 2004 Funnier than The NYP 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. And you're in it, to boot.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:19:58 -0800

Glad to see George W. Bush, John Kerry, and I all made the list.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:23:47 -0800

No Michael Moore?

By: willns

willns — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:28:48 -0800

awesome... very funny.

By: jperkins

jperkins — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:40:00 -0800

"You cheer as Ukrainians challenge an election based on exit poll data, but keep waiting around for someone else to fix your problems. You can't think, you can't organize and you won't act. This is all your fault." Good stuff!

By: kyrademon

kyrademon — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:40:40 -0800

4. Dick Cheney . . . The kind of guy who starts talking cannibalism the minute he steps on the lifeboat. Hee hee hee.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:41:17 -0800

Ronald Reagan -- Punishment: Reanimated and killed again. George W. Bush -- Crimes: Too numerous to mention. The worst piece of shit ever to run this country, including King George III; Dick Cheney -- Crimes: [...] The kind of guy who starts talking cannibalism the minute he steps on the lifeboat. You -- Punishment: You're soaking in it. This is so spot-on. Thanks, SC!

By: nanu

nanu — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:41:41 -0800

This is funny. The part about me? Not so funny and patently untrue, I read In Style, not People, and I don't care what Julia wears to the Oscars, I am SO over her!

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:03:45 -0800

Actually, I'm in there twice.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:22:35 -0800

PG, please tell me you didn't hold a "Last Episode of Friends" party.

By: Tikirific

Tikirific — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:22:54 -0800

Shit, he's Clarence Thomas!

By: deafmute

deafmute — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:32:53 -0800

"Jessica Simpson: The gleaming flagship of the triumphant return of bimboism. The aesthetic equivalent of vitamin D milk." Heh.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:34:58 -0800

the link seems to be not responding. here's a google cache.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:37:58 -0800

don't go to the link i just posted: that's for 2002 for some odd reason. i'll try again.

By: logovisual

logovisual — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:38:20 -0800

Yeah, that was really damn funny. I especially liked the bit about CSI. And Tom Cruise. God I hate that bastard. My list would've included Tom Hanks, and certainly Michael Moore somewhere in the bottom half, but this was pretty damn good.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:38:43 -0800

Y'know, I have no love for most of the people on this list, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the people who made this list would be equally tedious company.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:39:03 -0800

Halle Berry was in Die Another Day, not Tomorrow Never Dies! {Keels over in shame.} I'd forgotten how good Spy magazine was. This was almost as good. "Mongoloid children"?! Just wait for Jonah Goldberg to get ahold of this.

By: iJames

iJames — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:44:57 -0800

I did click on that Google cache link, Moonbird. The shameful thing is I didn't even notice the list was from 2002 until I saw John Ritter in it.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:49:58 -0800

30. 26. 21. 15. 5. The fifth line of 3. God, they're good. Don't forget, the Buffalo Beast is done by at least one of the folks responsible for creating The Exile, an amazing alternative paper in Moscow.

By: AMWKE

AMWKE — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:53:21 -0800

Entertaining, although I'd much rather kick it with the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers. How many of those hated people are probably also the most boring...

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:59:49 -0800

Gee, I'm not in there even once. ::feels so... not hated::

By: lucksmonday

lucksmonday — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:44:02 -0800

the apotheosis of the insult. regardless the object of scorn there are some great lines in there. i'll never watch breakfast at tiffany's again without thinking of jenna jamieson.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:59:36 -0800

Loved loved loved this.

By: Rastafari

Rastafari — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:09:02 -0800

The best list I've ever seen. Except for the inclusion of John McCain (even though what is said about McCain is technically correct, gotta give him a pass for being a POW and getting tortured for 4 years....come on now!) I agree with all of them. J Kerry: Couldn't get elected against the most hated president ever because he couldn't portray himself as human.......CLASSIC! /it's funny 'cause it's true

By: rdone

rdone — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:16:03 -0800

Punishment: Impaled on improperly installed American flag attached to tractor-trailer, dragged for 12 hours, eaten by wolves. Too funny!

By: orange swan

orange swan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:22:29 -0800

You think you're an activist because you bitch on the Internet all day Touché.

By: Coda

Coda — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:29:12 -0800

I sense Matt Taibbi's knife at work here. I'm glad Colin Quinn is on the list. There was always a mad scramble in my house after the Daily Show to turn the channel in order to avoid hearing him say a single fucking word. That man was like the Family Circle of Comedy Central, and that's the channel which gave Mad TV another life. Yeesh. Gigli was the cinematic equivalent of the Madrid bombings. Moo hoo ha ha!

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:09:50 -0800

Didn't anyone else think that was excessively cruel? It could have been clever, but it just came out predictable and insulting. Dur, Halle Berry is stupid. Let's gang rape her! Nyuk. All of my readers are stupid assholes! Slobber. Anyway, Gigli came out in 2003. Let's get over it already.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:14:47 -0800

Yeah, what a lazy ass I am for complaining about things on the internet. Not like these guys, whose internet complaining is really making policy-makers sit up and take notice. How insightful their condemnation of Anna Nicole Smith is!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:05:05 -0800

I liked that a lot.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:52:09 -0800

Except for the inclusion of John McCain... Oh, please. They nailed that principle-less jerk perfectly.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:39:08 -0800

Didn't like it, but I rarely hate these sort of "clever" hatefests. Also, I would like to point out that as far as hollywood types go, Tom Cruise is far more consistent in the work he produces than almost anyone, and he makes some pretty cool movies (Magnolia, for starters). I could care less who he's fucking, and I sincerely doubt he's fucking a lot of other movie stars who don't want to be fucking him. Ok, that was a waste of time (responding). Like usual, though, this list is littered with easy targets and lame attacks.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:57:52 -0800

TGC they didn't even bring up the best reason to hate Tom Cruise of all: Scientology. Funny, although like kamy I am nowhere on that list.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:19:53 -0800

TGC: yeah. But it's littered with great one-liners.

By: Simon!

Simon! — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:28:07 -0800

The first best-selling author who could be sodomized with a well-thrown baseball since Truman Capote. Oh, come on, admit it, you laughed.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:39:38 -0800

Colin Quinn The Peter Lawford of his generation.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:29:03 -0800

I hate these kind of lists, but this was pretty awesome. thirteenkiller- Please, come out of your dark, depressing cave. It's sunny out and there are people out here who have been known, on occasion, to smile. TGC- I prefer to think of Magnolia as good in spite of Tom Cruise.

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:08:26 -0800

Dick Cheney: So visibly evil that all of the documented evidence against him is superfluous. Donal Rumsfeld: So rife with corruption and fascist desire he makes dirt look clean. That's poetry, not prose. I also fully agree that McCain deserves to be on this list.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:32:36 -0800

funny, and spot on. extra props for calling out negroponte as the fucking scumbag that he is.

By: clubfoote

clubfoote — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:09:52 -0800

Taibbi definitely was all over this. Notice he writes for both papers.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:26:49 -0800

mkultra - I don't live in a cave, I just thought this was stupid and mean.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:41:24 -0800

It was very, very clever and mean, which is, perhaps what disturbs me most about people.