# 50 Most Loathsome People in the US **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810 "2009-01-11T18:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/1 "2009-01-11T18:10:58Z")
The annual list on The Beast of the 50 Most Loathsome People is out. [http://buffalobeast.com/134/50mostloathsome2008.html](http://buffalobeast.com/134/50mostloathsome2008.html) Thought you all would like to know. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/2 "2009-01-11T18:20:26Z")
Well, at least I’ve gone from #9 to #49. With luck, I might not be on the 2009 list at all! ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/3 "2009-01-11T18:37:40Z")
How is it I’ve never seen that site before?! Hilarious! Snarkiness elevated to an art form. I laughed so hard I peed my Levis. Not really…OK, maybe just a little. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/4 "2009-01-11T18:54:31Z")
I thought it was going to be serious! People who are really loathsome. Not that many of the folks who are on the list aren’t loathsome, they just, IMNSHO, don’t make the top 50. Okay, OJ Simpson was on there. And our current president. But I didn’t see Fred Phelps anywhere! ---
**Author:** ![KnitWit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@KnitWit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KnitWit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/5 "2009-01-11T19:02:09Z")
Dang, I’m number 43. Oh wait, that isn’t me. They must have meant a different “you.” What a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/6 "2009-01-11T19:25:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I thought it was going to be serious! People who are really loathsome. > > Not that many of the folks who are on the list aren’t loathsome, they just, IMNSHO, don’t make the top 50. Yeah, but you can’t just be loathsome to make that list. You have to be loathsome, and your loathsomeness has to be particularly noteworthy in 2008 (or whatever year’s list you’re examining.) Sarah Palin won’t be any less loathsome in 2009 but she won’t be relevant, so she won’t make the cut. For fun I was trying to think of a similar list for Canada but for 2008 it would just be a list of federal politicians in order of their relative importance. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/7 "2009-01-11T20:03:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Okay, OJ Simpson was on there. And our current president. But I didn’t see Fred Phelps anywhere! That’s because he broke the chart. If they put him in, other data becomes indistinguishable and he ends up being #s 1 through 49. 50 is Death. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/8 "2009-01-11T20:54:57Z")
Got to give it to them, I didn’t disagree with the top ten. (Though I do think Obama could stand in mid twenties at the very least.) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-most-loathsome-people-in-the-us/480810/9 "2009-01-11T21:02:54Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Well, at least I’ve gone from #9 to #49. With luck, I might not be on the 2009 list at all! For a second there, I was going to tell you just how much I thought _The Happening_ sucked, in words that not even George Carlin would’ve used in public… but then I realized it’s just you.