Last Year's Most Hated

Scarlett reminds us that the last year was not without some truly loathsome characters, and has Buffalo Beast to back her up. Here's 50 of the worst, in an honest and scathing accessment, full of descriptions like:

"Exemplifies the simmering, all-American fascism lurking behind the forced smiles of uptight church ladies throughout 'real America'."

"As supreme cretin of one of this country's most ridiculous religions (just a nose behind Scientology), the Latter Day Saint did a divine job sanctioning and funding the “Yes on Prop 8” initiative to deny gays the right to be unhappily married."

"Surgically mortified face creates the impression of a barely passable 'earthling' mask worn by an insectoid alien, a possibility credited by her gradually digesting husband and her consistent locus at the Republican Party’s shifting center of evil."

"In a lot of ways, he does represent the average American—basing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he isn’t actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years."

"His TBS vehicle is the least amusing thing to appear on television since the morning of September 11, 2001."

"A face so hewn can't be found in American politics outside of the Black Hills—or possibly the Speaker's office. The envy of any giraffe prostitute, her Coulterish neck suggests a correlation between head-shoulder distance and affinity for dissembling fascism."

"Being foolishly wrong about absolutely everything for about a thousand years and counting. Getting rich applying faux gilt, and guilt, to the dull, pointless, overstuffed lives of New Yorker readers."

"Her college-aged daughter may be a rehab veteran and serial drunk driver, but that’s no reason for mom not to televise the warping of daughter number two, a pre-rhinoplasty 14-year-old with no discernible talent or personality, and an 11-year-old boy whose future mugshot will no doubt become iconic."

"The amount of medical resources devoted to keeping this black hole of decency operational could have cured cancer by now, but if they had, he would make sure to keep it a secret."

"Her songs make 'Hamster on a Piano' sound like the final movement to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony."

"Like every paragon of public ethics, he was in private a mere pervert."

"Though he is fatter, how could anyone think a man who — professionally — quotes a book written by a make-believe space-giant, instructing the murder of homosexuals, could be anything other than a delusional bigot?"

"It’s hard — believe us, we know — to keep coming up with new things to say about this brutally stupid narcissist, who may have ruined this country irrevocably and certainly has ruined a couple of others, mugging amiably all the way."

"If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasn’t quite stupid enough."

I'm sure you already know who some of these people are...