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May 15, 2005
I Hate Call-in Polls
I like Brett Favre, but one of the 100 Greatest American? I think not.
Egad. The Discovery Channel had one of those awful call-in polls selecting the "100 Greatest Americans," and Kevin Drum and his commenters go off on it. I'm not gonna bother (it's being scorned quite well without me piling on), but if you want to be astonished/amused/disturbed, go look at it. Some of the more egregious choices: from Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks; from politics: both Bushes, John Edwards, Rudy Giulani and Barack Obama; from sports: Pat Tillman and Brett Favre.
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Posted on May 15, 2005 10:19 PM by brett 313.
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Other than Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens, I'm not sure any sports figure would fit into a real group of only 100 Great Americans. Those two contributed to the country/world in a non-athletic sense.
Posted by: Linkmeister at May 16, 2005 01:18 AM
