# Most Annoying & Alarming Americans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820 "2018-09-24T06:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **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:** [September 24, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/1 "2018-09-24T06:59:27Z")
With my sudden day off I am devoting my time to memorizing _The Destruction of Semmacherib_ and compiling a list of the most annoying & alarming Americans of 2018. (I am not letting the day go to waste! Carpe Diem!) So far (in no order) I got Rosanne Barr Steve Bannon Roger Goodell Rush Limbaugh (Who I may remove because he is is a “was,” not an “is.”) Sean Hannity Jerry Falwell Junior James Dobson Newt Gingrich Alex Jones “Ivanka” Trump Mike Pence Donald Trump I am way behind on annoying TV people, since I never watch TV and entertainers, as I live outside the US. No real rules, mostly I am looking for people who are both annoying and so culturally “loud” that one cannot ignore them. Your thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/2 "2018-09-24T07:17:59Z")
Don’t forget the Kardashians. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/3 "2018-09-24T07:23:10Z")
I added America’s comedic drunk uncle, Bill Murray. Are the Kardashians still a thing? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/4 "2018-09-24T08:56:28Z")
If you have Jerry Falwell Jr you can’t _not_ have Franklin Graham. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/5 "2018-09-24T10:18:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > If you have Jerry Falwell Jr you can’t _not_ have Franklin Graham. Thank you. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/6 "2018-09-24T11:05:15Z")
Delete a double-post. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/7 "2018-09-24T12:07:24Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I added America’s comedic drunk uncle, Bill Murray. > > Are the Kardashians still a thing? Yes, sadly. When I read the newspaper I read three of them, to get different perspectives. All of them seem to get their “tabloid” section from the same sources, though: pre-surgery Kim was in all three of them today. And that’s the Spanish press, I don’t even want to know how many tabloid covers was she on in the US within the last couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/8 "2018-09-24T13:38:28Z")
Bill Murray is annoying and alarming? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/9 "2018-09-24T13:53:36Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Bill Murray is annoying and alarming? He is a wife-beater who gets in drunken fights more often than you would think. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/10 "2018-09-24T15:29:26Z")
As an American who has been outside the US longer than many people have been alive, I’m blissfully unaware of how annoying most of your list is. I think I’ve heard sound clips from maybe four of the people on your list. Unfortunately, it leaves me as the most annoying and alarming American most of my friends and acquaintances know. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/11 "2018-09-24T15:32:32Z")
He’s not that vocal anymore since even [Fox News shut him down](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-hard-news-shows-have-a-ban-on-sebastian-gorka), but I find **Sebastian Gorka** to be absolutely terrifying. Here’s a [Full Frontal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=398HJb0_PFg) piece on him. Here’s a piece from [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/sebastian-gorka-the-west-wings-phony-foreign-policy-guru-129772/). ---
**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:** [September 25, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/12 "2018-09-25T01:26:07Z")
Paul Manafort needs an entry. Still, I am short of many cultural figures since I am unaware of them. Also, I need a couple of Catholic Bishops and whatnot, although they seem to have mostly spent the last few years laying very low. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/13 "2018-09-25T02:39:58Z")
2018? Or of all time? Some of those entries don’t make sense if it’s an annual title. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/14 "2018-09-25T03:35:53Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > He is a wife-beater who gets in drunken fights more often than you would think. Are you sure that’s Bill Murray and not Bill Cosby? ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/15 "2018-09-25T04:02:22Z")
I’m laughing, you know why? This is one question wherein you can make the list as red or as blue as you want (or as black or as white.) ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/16 "2018-09-25T05:20:31Z")
It really depends on who is **being** annoyed. First, someone can’t annoy me if I never find out about them. Second, the person who annoys that guy over there, might not annoy me. Donald Trump is without a shadow of a doubt the American who annoys the most people worldwide right now. However, there is also a large group of people who are particularly pleased about the fact that he annoys someone else, and because of that, they would say that he doesn’t annoy them at all. And so on. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/17 "2018-09-25T07:43:37Z")
Sarah Palin (That voice!) Mitch McConnell Jenny McCarthy Tomi Lahren Martin Shkreli (That smirk!) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/18 "2018-09-25T07:51:49Z")
Fuc-, I mean, Tucker Carlson Kellyanne Conway Those Diamond and Silk people ---
**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:** [September 25, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/19 "2018-09-25T14:44:51Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > 2018? Or of all time? Some of those entries don’t make sense if it’s an annual title. Well, the Daily Beast used to run a list like this. (So did Esquire.) Both seem to have stopped. I was sort of thinking along the lines of an annual award. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820/20 "2018-09-25T14:52:58Z")
Betsy DeVos and her attempts to enrich the predatory “schools” that prey on veterans and others. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-alarming-americans/821820.md?page=2)