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Monday, June 6, 2011

Oh, You Kids! / Politics George W. Bush Makes Russellville Elementary's "Worst People Ever" List

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:31 AM

Russellville Elementary School in Arkansas is obviously the most awesome elementary school in the world—except for the parents, teachers, school board—and FOX 16 news who went absolutely apeshit bonkers over the fact that somebody put the following list in the kids' yearbook:

TOP FIVE WORST PEOPLE OF ALL TIME
1) Adolf Hitler
2) Osama bin Laden
3) Charles Manson
4) George W. Bush
5) Dick Cheney

SERIOUSLY? Seriously guys? I mean, I can totally understand Bush and Cheney's inclusion on this list—but let's give Charles Manson a break already! When it comes to death counts, Charles Manson isn't even in the same league as these other guys!!
Regardless, please watch this FOX 16 news report—WHICH IS THEIR TOP STORY OF THE DAY, BTW—and everyone's complete befuddlement over how such a travesty could have EVER occurred. (Looks like some kid is gonna be taken behind the wood shed... HITLER'S WOOD SHED.)



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Idiots.
Posted by frankieb on June 6, 2011 at 11:39 AM · Report
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From what I remember, the kids (other than whoever decided to go ahead and put it in the yearbook), had nothing to do with this. They merely captured an existing online poll as part of a "snapshot of our time" kind of thing.

Also, elementary school yearbook?

I guess that makes sense if people in Arkansas generally don't make it past 5th grade.
Posted by Commenty Colin on June 6, 2011 at 11:40 AM · Report
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Fox News is a liberal conspiracy to get conservatives so frothing mad about inconsequential non-stories that their skyrocketing blood pressure ushers them to an early grave.
Posted by Night Moves on June 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM · Report
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Coincidentally these guys are also among the worst singers ever. I'm not certain what the order would be, though, or which of them would be bumped from the list by William Shatner.
Posted by Todd Mecklem on June 6, 2011 at 12:46 PM · Report
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Manson is #1 on my list of "Best Folk/Acoustic Singer-Songwriters":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae_0j3byq4w
Posted by TageSavage on June 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM · Report
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I think I'd put Bush and Cheney above Bin Laden. Manson is crazy and everything but What about Gacy? I'd think school children would have more of an issue with him.
Posted by Beer Batter on June 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM · Report

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