the greatest american

[97greensnake]

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/greatestamerican.html

just came upon this in an old NEWSWEEK. i cant find the entire list. anyone remember ? or have a link ?

number 14 was Albert Einstein, wasnt he German ??>

 

[freebass55]

If you click on his name it says he became an American citizen in 1940.

Never saw it before. Some interesting choices...

 

[97greensnake]

George W number 6 !!!!! :rollseyes whateeeeeever

over FDR !!

 

[Y2KSVT]

I didn't see how these 25 were picked. I can't believe a lot of those names on there! Ronald Reagan? WTF? They must have mailed out cards, asking for people to write down a name, and Presidents names were the first to come to mind, although not necessarily the greatest Presidents. oke: Wow, just wow.

Mark

 

[Matts00GT]

LOL@Muhammad Ali being 21st. How do you put someone who dodged the draft on the top 25 americans of all time?

Benjamin Franklin should def. be added. That's all I can really think of off the top of my head.

 

[97greensnake]

LOL@Muhammad Ali being 21st. How do you put someone who dodged the draft on the top 25 americans of all time?

Benjamin Franklin should def. be added. That's all I can really think of off the top of my head.

He dodged the draft for a reason.... Altough i do agree that having him as 21st is a bit too much

Ben is #5

 

[Y2KSVT]

Click the link below the top 25, for the top 100 nominees. Tom Cruise? Michael Jackson? Malcom X? Michael Moore? I stopped at M, due to stomach cramps from laughing so hard!

Mark

 

[Starfox07]

I liked how they put Tesla on there. They deff got it screwed up. How about the 5 guys hoisting the flag at iwa jima?

 

[spinscan]

What a joke of a list. These should be gone now.

Ali, Muhammad
Angelou, Maya
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Laura
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Carter, Jimmy
Charles, Ray
Chavez, Cesar
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Cruise, Tom
DeGeneres, Ellen
Favre, Brett
Hefner, Hugh
Jackson, Michael
Jordan, Michael
Limbaugh, Rush
Madonna
Malcolm X
McGraw, Dr. Phil
Moore, Michael
Obama, Barack
Reeve, Christopher
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Stewart, Martha
Trump, Donald
Winfrey, Oprah

 

[sighwest]

I didn't see how these 25 were picked. I can't believe a lot of those names on there! Ronald Reagan? WTF? They must have mailed out cards, asking for people to write down a name, and Presidents names were the first to come to mind, although not necessarily the greatest Presidents. oke: Wow, just wow.

Mark

Dude, Ronald Reagan WAS one of the greatest Americans. Pick on GW, not him.

 

[ScareCrow]

Where the hell is Napolean Dynamite ?

 

[svtjunkie]

when the hell did they redo this? I watched this on tv like last year and Lincoln got #1.

Oh, and Reagan WAS a good president.

 

[svtjunkie]

Dp

 

[Starfox07]

What a joke of a list. These should be gone now.

Ali, Muhammad
Angelou, Maya
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Laura
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Carter, Jimmy
Charles, Ray
Chavez, Cesar
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Cruise, Tom
DeGeneres, Ellen
Favre, Brett
Hefner, Hugh
Jackson, Michael
Jordan, Michael
Limbaugh, Rush
Madonna
Malcolm X
McGraw, Dr. Phil
Moore, Michael
Obama, Barack
Reeve, Christopher
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Stewart, Martha
Trump, Donald
Winfrey, Oprah

Donald and Hugh heffner should still be on there.

 

[astrocreep96]

Looks like a "let's try to name as many famous people as we can" list and then they rounded it to 100.:rollseyes

 

[Zorabot]

SO RICH=GREAT for the most part I see.

What a POS list.

 

[svtjunkie]

SO RICH=GREAT for the most part I see.

What a POS list.

I noticed that too. How the hell does having money make you a good person.

 

[Fenah]

I vote for #24

 

[spinscan]

Some that should be on there.

1. General Douglas MacArthur. If you want to read a good book about him, pick up American Caesar

2. Watson and Crick

3. Dr. Michael DeBakey

4. Davy Crockett

5. John Paul Jones

6. Joe Louis

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. Edgar Allen Poe

9. Babe Didrikson Zaharias-greatest woman athelete of all time

10. Robert E. Lee

 

[sighwest]

+1:read: