# Who is the most universally agreed upon scumbag on Planet Earth Right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406 "2012-12-18T06:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/81 "2012-12-25T13:40:34Z")
What about that prick Joseph Kony with his children soldiers? Maybe there is also some residual dislike for that dottering old fool Castro. ---
**Author:** ![Saraya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Saraya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saraya)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/82 "2012-12-25T17:43:46Z")
> [@manila](#): > > Coulter > > Does she even believe the venom she spouts? Coulter is far from a scumbag - maybe hated by some, but not a scumbag. She’s 100% right about female voters. If we had more Coulter around the world wouldn’t be so fu\*\*ed up. And neither is Putin for that matter. Here’s a man who has inherited a corrupt Russia and is trying to embrace capitalism without allowing Russia to lose her roots, meanwhile also dealing with influx of unwanted immigration and cultural identity politics as well as getting bad press for putting a bunch of idiotic unoriginal unintelligent dykes in prison. I support Putin and hope he protects what Russia has left, he’s smart enough not to let it turn out like America and England. My vote goes to Spike Lee, for being his usual ignoramus self and giving out addresses of people last named Zimmerman. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/83 "2012-12-25T17:46:47Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > The people from the U.S. who are known around the world are actors, a few TV celebrities, high-profile athletes and high-level politicians. I vaguely knew Sandusky was a sports coach implicated in a sex scandal, but I had to look him up just now to find out which sport. Pedophilia is a sport now? Good to know! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/84 "2012-12-25T21:03:17Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > They feel he protected them from Saddam Hussein, maybe? Going from memory, the no-fly zones that protected them from Hussein were set up in the early 1990’s, and were maintained all through the Clinton administration. Anybody who was paying attention, which evidently did not include 75% of the US population and 98% of the liberal media, laughed every time Bush or Rice or Rummy talked about how dangerous Saddam was, when he couldn’t even fly a helicopter over two thirds of his own country. Edit: I stopped laughing when it became evident that Bush was going to attack no matter what the UN weapons inspectors, after four months of exhaustive searching of every alleged WMD factory or storage facility identified by the CIA and “Curveball”, said about him being completely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/85 "2012-12-26T12:14:53Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > The people from the U.S. who are known around the world are actors, a few TV celebrities, high-profile athletes and high-level politicians. I vaguely knew Sandusky was a sports coach implicated in a sex scandal, but I had to look him up just now to find out which sport. And many of the TV celebrities aren’t really “known”: people may recognize the name, but won’t be able to tell you who that person is, or if they have an actual reference it will be along the lines of “Oprah? Oh yeah, that American TV celebrity who wanted some fancy store in Paris to open only for her…” ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/86 "2012-12-26T13:31:37Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Baiting. > > Assorted people saying those little kids got shot because prayer is “not allowed” in schools. (Which is not true.) > > And because in addition Mike Huckabee had to toss in “THE GAYS” he is my nominee. > > [http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/huckabee\_blames\_gays\_for\_the\_newtown\_massacre/](http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/huckabee_blames_gays_for_the_newtown_massacre/) Maybe I’m missing something here, but the article itself doesn’t present anything Huckabee said that isn’t understandable. The article itself is 100 times more inflammatory than what was quoted by Huckabee, who never was quoted in the article as connecting the Newtown massacre to any kind of punishment by God. I am a, if not flaming liberal, a fairly well-stoked one. But I’m just not seeing evil in the article. The quotes I see from Huckabee make sense, to me, and are even somewhat agreeable, as a rant on ‘kids these days’. And it’s the exact same kind of rant my folks might go on right now, and they are atheist. So…is Huckabee being clueless or is the media? Oh, and my vote goes to ‘Those who profit from the misery of others’. That covers such a wide range of secular sins that I don’t know where to start. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/87 "2012-12-26T14:03:11Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > What about [Andrew Wakefield](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield)? Andy’s just been given [a prestigious lifetime achievement award.](http://m.guardiannews.com/society/2012/dec/23/struck-off-mmr-doctor-quackery-award) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/88 "2012-12-26T15:23:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A Worst Scumbag nomination should go to former South African President [Thabo Mbeki](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/26/aids-south-africa), who’s been blamed for hundreds of thousands of AIDS deaths due to his denialist stance on HIV causing AIDS. Mbeki’s AIDS policy was awful - but I’m not willing to call anyone a complete scumbag who hands over power in a young democracy when the Constitution says he has to. (Note that I say “power”, not “office” - Putin left the Presidency when his Constitution mandated it, but didn’t really let go of power. Mbeki did both.) The world is lamentably full of leaders who believe in “one man, one vote, one time” - Mbeki isn’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/89 "2012-12-27T23:13:24Z")
Jerry Sandusky. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/90 "2012-12-27T23:17:13Z")
Not an individual, but the Kim family of North Korea are probably seen as the worst scumbags by people who aren’t living under their brainwashing regime. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/91 "2012-12-28T13:58:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Nobody outside the U.S. has ever heard of Fred Phelps. > > Well, I mean, I have. But I’m the exception. I have, too. I’d just want to share this: White House Petition To Recognize Westboro Baptist Church As Hate Group Becomes Most Popular Ever > **[Push To Classify Westboro As Hate Group Takes White House By Storm](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-petition-westboro_n_2365799?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular)** > > Push To Classify Westboro As Hate Group Takes White House By Storm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406.md?page=4)