# America's most embarassing people **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752 "2004-03-17T01:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/21 "2004-03-17T11:32:34Z")
Maurice Clarett Kobe Bryant Terrell Owens Jesse Jackson Ken Lay John Ashcroft Ray Lewis OJ Simpson Jayson Williams Allen Iverson Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell…et. al Keyshawn Johnson Warren Sapp All gangsta rappers Martha Stewart Jeremey Shockey Kellen Winslow Deion Sanders P Diddy (or whatever name he is using) Jennifer Lopez (see above) ---
**Author:** ![Starguard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Starguard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starguard)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/22 "2004-03-17T12:02:24Z")
I can’t believe that no one here has dared to name a certain individual that has so far: \*Used his Hillbilly brother and the “Good ol boy” system to toss out opposing votes and steal the office he now holds \*Lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction that he knew fully well didn’t exist, so he could **start** a war with a certain nation that he is now stealing Oil from \*Was a former leader of the only state in America that has a Death Row system close to rivaling Hitlers Nazi regime \*and presently has the gall to seek reelection so he can continue his reign of terror for another four years I won’t name this person, mainly because I don’t think I have to. You all know who he is, and why he wasn’t your first choice, to me is a true mystery ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/23 "2004-03-17T12:56:42Z")
Yeah, US Servicemen can be real jackasses sometimes. What else would you expect when you put foreign teenagers and young men in foreign countries? Some of them are really insensitive. Basically the most embarassing thing for me is Americans who act like assholes when they come abroad in general. I KNOW that I’m not like that, but why do I feel partly responsible? ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/24 "2004-03-17T13:02:10Z")
Not foreign teenagers, but teenagers and young men in a foreign country! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/25 "2004-03-17T13:40:35Z")
Sylvia Brown, John Edward and other phonies of their ilk. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/26 "2004-03-17T13:43:51Z")
> [@Merkwurdigliebe](#): > > Yeah, > > US Servicemen can be real jackasses sometimes. What else would you expect when you put foreign teenagers and young men in foreign countries? Some of them are really insensitive. Basically the most embarassing thing for me is Americans who act like assholes when they come abroad in general. I KNOW that I’m not like that, but why do I feel partly responsible? I feel responsible for swedes who go abroad and act immature as well. Our country is much smaller, so I feel that I want the ones who do get noticed abroad to make a good impression. As for American celebrities… I would feel a bit awkward if I was connected to Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/27 "2004-03-17T13:49:09Z")
Rumsfeld ! Biggest mouth of the western world. How could no one mention this ass. Poor Blair suffered a lot on his account. Most ultra conservative shits in the US make me sick… including of course witless Bush. Among the artists… Michael Jackson is becoming so so wierd. Labeling him an Alien instead of American would be more correct. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/28 "2004-03-17T13:50:45Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > I would NEVER deny my country… > However… I am ashamed and embarrassed that > > Hillary, Ted Kennedy, Al Sharpton, Al Franken, The Hixie Dicks and Barbara Streisand CLAIM to be Americans. Well, in the other corner, we have Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Phelps, Thrush Windbag, various tele-evangelists, and Dennis Fucking Miller. To name just a few. And Barbra doesn’t use that second “a”. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/29 "2004-03-18T01:25:43Z")
Jerry Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/30 "2004-03-18T09:22:54Z")
I am not American. I am thankful for this because of: **George W. Bush.** Unfortunately, I am not quite so thankful that I am Australian because of: **John Howard.** ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/31 "2004-03-18T12:40:55Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Kellen Winslow Do mean The old Charger? Or his son about the enter the NFL? If you mean KW Jr., that’s fine – he’s a loudmouth idiot. But If you mean his pops, I must have missed anything embarrassing he ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/32 "2004-03-18T13:19:16Z")
Fred Phelps is about as sick and evil as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/33 "2004-03-18T13:58:35Z")
Damn, **Annie** , you beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/34 "2004-03-18T18:08:20Z")
Dr. Laura Howard Stern and pretty much anyone else who pollutes the airwaves with pure, utter crap. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/35 "2004-03-18T19:02:22Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Tonya Harding Isn’t she kinda old news to be in the final cut for the **most** embarassing? It’s been a long time. Perhaps we should get over her. Especially when there are figures in the world of sport who have done (or been accused of or found civilly liable for) considerably more heinous crimes for far less understandable reasons. (Simpson, Carruth, Bryant, Lewis, Williams, just to name a few.) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/36 "2004-03-18T20:05:33Z")
Damn, I was beat to all of my early choices… Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh and mostly, Fred Phelps. So I guess I’ll add Ann Coulter, unless someone else already has and I missed it. If so, my apologies. Other than that, what thread like this would be complete without a mention of Carrot Top? (Although he doesn’t really _bother_ me, I’m sure more than a handful of Americans would find him at the very least annoying, if not downright embarrassing). ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/37 "2004-03-18T20:09:06Z")
> [@Gest](#): > > Why? I think you’ll find that foreigner’s opinions of America are moderated _because_ of people like them. Incomprehensible to you I am sure but the rest of us just don’t give a fuck about Whitewater or Chappaquiddick. Part of what we like is what they _don’t_ do. None of them are responsible for military bases on our soil. None of them are using their influence to block stem cell or climate change research. The list goes on and is the reason why America’s old friends just wish you’d get some counseling and reflect on the damage you’ve done to your relationships. > > It’s those pinko liberals and their ilk that are responsible for the rest of the world having _any_ time for you. While I’m sure that what you say is true in many of the Socialist Workers Utopias scattered around the globe, rest assured that many Americans are indeed embarassed by them. However, from the opposite end of the spectrum I’d like to nominate: - Pat Robertson - Roy Moore - Fred Phelps ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-most-embarassing-people/234752/38 "2004-03-18T21:04:01Z")
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