The Left Vs. The Right On The Worst Americans

by John Hawkins | August 12, 2003 10:08 pm

For you convenience, here’s the breakdown of the two “worst” lists side by side. I swiped most of the code w/ permission from Angry Bear[1]…

Conservatives’ List[2]	Liberals’ List[3]
—	HM: Roger Taney (5)
HM: Boss Tweed (5)	HM: James Earl Ray (5)
HM: Michael Moore (5)	HM: Charles Manson (5)
HM: Joe McCarthy (5)	HM: Rush Limbaugh (5)
HMJohn Walker Lindh (5)	HM: Jerry Falwell (5)
HM: John Wayne Gacy (5)	HM: Roy Cohn (5)
HM: Jane Fonda (5)	HM: Dick Cheney (5)
HM: Ted Bundy (5)	HM: John C. Calhoun (5)
—	20) The Rosenbergs (3) + Julius Rosenberg (3) (6 total votes)
—	20) Pat Robertson (6)
—	20) Oliver North (6)
—	20) William Randolph Hearst (6)
—	20) Aaron Burr (6)
17) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (6)	20) Aldrich Ames (6)
17) John Walker (6)	18) George Lincoln Rockwell (7)
17) Lee Harvey Oswald (6)	18) Robert McNamara (7)
17) Robert Byrd (6)	14) Richard Mellon Scaife (8)
16) Aldrich Ames (7)	14) Lee Harvey Oswald (8)
14) Richard Nixon (8)	14) Charles Coughlin (8)
14) Aaron Burr (8)	14) Strom Thurmond (8)
12) Al Sharpton (9)	13) Ronald Reagan (9)
12) Charles Manson (9)	12) George Wallace (10)
8) Timothy McVeigh (10)	11) Andrew Jackson (12)
8) Lyndon Johnson (10)	9) Jefferson Davis (13)
8) Hillary Clinton (10)	9) George W. Bush (13)
8) John Wilkes Booth (10)	6) Benedict Arnold (14)
7) Alger Hiss (12)	6) Henry Kissinger (14)
6) Noam Chomsky (13)	6) John Wilkes Booth (14)
4) Jesse Jackson (14)	3) Timothy McVeigh (16)
4) Jimmy Carter (14)	3) Nathan Bedford Forrest (16)
3) Bill Clinton (15)	3) J. Edgar Hoover (16)
2) Benedict Arnold (19)	2) Richard Nixon (25)
1) The Rosenbergs (15) & Julius Rosenberg (5) (20 total votes)	1) Joseph McCarthy (26)