Where are Willy Wonka and Grumpy Cat???

based on Internet memes? Have we totally lost our fucking minds?? Which right-wing think tank thought this shit up? And how did the Smithsonian fall for it?

Honestly, that meteor can hit any time now. I'm done.

for unleashing the tea party and the christian right.
Pandora's Box. Has that happened before in our history?
She may be an evil force, but her influence hasn't been
insignificant. Hideous, yes.

all tapped into those forces without needing Sarah Palin on the ticket. She brought absolutely nothing new to the right-wing political equation in terms of followers. If she did, she'd be a sitting VP right now.

All sorts of crazies, perhaps, have always run for office.
But her influence has caused them to start getting elected.

She empowered the craziest of the craziest to come out of the
woodwork and be herd.
er, heard.

maybe it was always going on but if so, I missed it.

much moreso than Sarah Palin. Boring but true. Do you think Eric Cantor feels he lost his job because of Sarah Palin?

The list is a quaint idea. Individuals don't have the impact they used to, unless they do something horrifically bad. I agree with whomever said W. should be on the list. Things actually did change because of him.

I think she was spark and fuel to the wider loony tinderbox.

to make America shitty almost all the time.

She's going to be insufferable after this. Even more, I mean.

Jaw-dropping that she should be included in this list

Was there any particular reason to exclude the first African-American president but add the first female American clown-itician? Oh wait...

Talk about digging to the bottom of the barrel

lot to them.

The pair used “an algorithmic method of ranking historical figures, just as Google ranks web pages,” and “their concept of significance has less to do with achievement than with an individual’s strength as an Internet meme — how vividly he or she remains in our collective

Shame on them.

Dubya for being the worst president in history and destroying decades of progress. Palin for setting back women 100 years.

She single handedly started an entire movement inside the republican party
Her movement pretty much determined the way congress acted against the President
for the last 6 years

unless you were quoting yourself.

now I feel violated to know he was here. He's a big time Palin supporter.

The right has been in existence since before she was nationally heard of.

which doesn't have the '10 categories' that the Smithsonian wanted. Still based on English Wikipedia, though, so American and British people get undo prominence (eg Henry VIII of England cannot be justified at #11; and Grover Cleveland at #98?)

http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/

Palin is arguably significant in having been the dumbest, most all-around egregious running mate ever.

"How do we get attention and get people to talk about a list no one will look at?"

"Put Sarah Palin on it"

"You're a genius!"

but Dimson Bush certainly does...if you count "destroying the nation he was supposed to be leading" as "influential." We are going to be a long time recovering from that insane criminal.

HA HA HA

-- source of material for comedians.

Makes no sense whatsoevery.

Numero Uno!

No list needed to know that!

Just sayin' . . .


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341/?no-ist

Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy(on today of all days).. and Barack Hussein Obama.

They are being shown the error of their ways.

wheel gets the grease!

I think Davey boy has his own wing in the Smithsonian. I wonder if politics influenced anything, including the absence of President Obama.

Still this is a bullshit list anyway you look at it.