# Which celebrity/public figure do you most implicitly trust? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177 "2014-07-27T17:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/21 "2014-07-28T03:59:15Z")
_ **Gwen Ifill.** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/22 "2014-07-28T04:09:26Z")
Jon Stewart (even though he’s from New Jersey). ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/23 "2014-07-28T04:11:41Z")
I would trust Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. > [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > No longer living? > > Mr. Rogers. The king of all trustworthy celebrities. I’m pretty sure you can trust **all** dead celebrities to not run off with a briefcase of golden-glowing wonderfulness. These days, Billy the Kid is just as fast and just as trustworthy as Mahatma Gandhi. They’d both just sort of lie there and not smell great. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/24 "2014-07-28T17:11:43Z")
Mr Rogers (he is actually impeccable) Michael Palin ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/25 "2014-07-28T17:36:28Z")
Pauly Shore. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/26 "2014-07-28T18:17:55Z")
Mary Tyler Moore. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/27 "2014-07-28T20:26:39Z")
John Green He should be President some day. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/28 "2014-08-02T06:56:58Z")
David Attenborough - but oddly, not Richard. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/29 "2014-08-02T10:20:33Z")
Since the death of Walter Cronkite, no one. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/30 "2014-08-02T11:55:43Z")
Steve Buscemi. ---
**Author:** ![Whitney\_Harper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@Whitney\_Harper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitney_Harper)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/31 "2014-08-02T12:52:30Z")
Oprah Winfrey. I think she is great, and I believe she truly cares. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/32 "2014-08-02T13:21:38Z")
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/33 "2014-08-03T05:55:48Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > do dead people count? because if so, Walter Cronkite. > [@zoid](#): > > Stephen Colbert. > [@panache45](#): > > Jon Stewart (even though he’s from New Jersey). All of them would be on my list. and > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > … > .Michael Palin Would be first on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/34 "2014-08-03T10:23:34Z")
I wonder how many people a few years ago would have listed Australian Living-National-Treasure Rolf Harris or Sir Jimmy Savile OBE? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/35 "2014-08-03T14:16:17Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > I wonder how many people a few years ago would have listed Australian Living-National-Treasure Rolf Harris or Sir Jimmy Savile OBE? None. Now you can stop wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177/36 "2014-08-04T04:12:25Z")
I don’t trust anybody implicitly, not even myself. But for purposes of this thread: Charles Barkley. That guy tells it like it like is. He’s not often wrong but if proven so, he tells that, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-celebrity-public-figure-do-you-most-implicitly-trust/694177.md?page=1)