Great.

Women I Adore:

E. Priddy

I don't "hate" people. Not judging you Elizabeth, I just don't like the word. I agree with your entire list. I don't like Sir Ben Kingsley from what I've read because he insists on being called "Sir Ben". C'mon, it's good to be proud of an "achievement?" like "Sir", but to be expected for ALL mankind to observe it, is absurd. Pompous and arrogant doesn't play well with me.

Todd Palin - for being proud of his ignorant wife. Sorry, just a personal thing. The guy gives me the creeps and my "creep" instinct is usually good.

Rush Limbaugh - for his TOTAL arrogance and hypocrisy.

Bill O'Reilly - see above

Joe Liebermann - for having no loyalty.

George Clooney - for being good looking, intelligent, witty, charming, nice, funny, and politically active. Also throw in Matt Damon and Ben Affleck here. (oh, and it case you didn't get it, I'm being facetious. I love these guys. Although Ben, please stick to directing, you're clearly superior brother just showed you up in the acting department TWICE this past year. "Gone, Baby Gone" and the "Jesse James" movies moved him into Matt Damon-ness.)

George Herbert Walker Bush - for creating George W. Bush

Alec Baldwin - for giving liberal political activists a bad name. Anyone who calls his young daughter a "pig" falls into this category for me. I respect the actor, but loathe the man.

Karl Rove for perfecting dirty politics.

GREAT POST Elizabeth. I could go on and on...

Sarah Palin? Oh, wait....

I'm with you....all the way down to Baldwin and Hopkins....on which I agree with you as well. Baldwin has a temper, but having a fiance with a teenaged daughter has made me VERY sympathetic to his plight. Baldwin's been my imaginary boyfriend for 20 years, and I tend to be loyal.

Hopkins.......ah god. I used to live in Venice, and would spend a lot of time in Pacific Palisades, where he lives and is a sort of "honorary mayor". Once spotted him in a cafe...he looked at me and smiled and said "my goodness, you have such beautiful hair...how extrordinary" (I have a lot of long red hair...)....I just about melted on the spot. Man made me just.....melt.

Of course..you were talking more of characters than people, which I understand.

I do love......MEN.

Hence my loathing of all the men on your shite list.

Al Zawahiri. (But love the way his "house negro" comment is going to unite America.)

How about:

Most men who use public toilets. Please, please, PLEASE, lift the seat BEFORE you go. What, are you five years old?

Harry Reid is rising up the list as well.

you left out Sean Hannity

Jimmy Buffett ... sadness ... sad, sad, sad :(

Please don't be mad, Man Talk Now.

I am only venting a little political steam and copying you is the highest form of OS flattery....

G.T., how could I haveleft those of?!?!?!!??!?

And Penelope, I am deep lime green with envy of both your hair and having That Man tell you it was beautiful.

And, all kidding aside, I really hate them. People who cannot hate cannot truly love. Your emotional pendulum can only swing freely when it is untethered.

EP, I've NEVER gotten the whole Jimmy Buffet (I pronounce it Buffay) myself. I laugh at his songs, not out of humor, but out of pity.
Sorry, I know he's popular, but sans talent.

Baldwin is someone I WANT to love. He has anger issues though. I've heard this from insiders as well. Too many times.
He's a FANTASTIC actor and picks GREAT roles. But he's a hothead.

OH, and to clarify, I said Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, ironically enough), not Sir Anthony Hopkins. :-)

Who's Penelope?

(grin)

Penelope Persephone. Kind of Like Elizabeth Ann. Too many syllables to actually go with, but pretty to say.

I will post someday about my brain disfunction and names.

I am sorry, and even greener.

EP, so many to loathe, so little time... :-)

Lieberman should have two slots on the top of your list. One for each face.

ePriddy, mad at you? You nuts? This is great. What I said.

Is Karl Rove on your list yet? How about that guy who dumped 9 children at a Nebraska hospital, under the Safe Haven law?"

I would add Kim Jung Il. I hate getting "short" with him but...

Oh, the hits just keep on coming to me.

Vladimir "Fartin" Putin

I second adding Karl Rove to the list.

I'm just glad I didn't make your list, E...

rated

Thank you for putting the "pregnant man" on there. His title is so misleading. He identifies as a male or transgendered person, but he is a biological female. It's one of my pet peeves!

Rush Limbaugh!

Please note that there simply is not defense for any of the individuals on my list. They are all very bad, especially Buffet, because music is meant to inspire and even if you love his song, and I mean all of them, you only love it when you are drunk.

And you just can't be drunk all the time.

But I will kick myself hard for forgetting Karl Rove. I even put o picture of him in underpants ina photoshop of him being violated a la Deliverence in the Calf Off....

I must be getting old.

And Rush, poor besotten oxycontin Rush.

I must be losing my touch...

But Lieberman should be there 3 times.
once for queering the election and giving Bush the presidency
once for establishing a plitical "party" that has only one member
and once for being a lying rat bastard traitorous asshole

Maybe I still got it. I just have to work up to it these days....

And fix my keyboard. Touch typing is impossible with a "y" hole in the middle of your freakin keyboard. Four typing (five) errors in two sentences. It ruins it for all of the other lerres as well.

But I must push on, despite my keyboars. SEE!!!!!!!!! Keyboar-d-.

You're in the "zone" now Elizabeth! Run with it! :-D

Delete John Cougar; he was robbed of the great rocker status in 1984 when they annointed talentless Bruce Springsteen to counter Michael Jackson.

Please add Jesse Jackson Sr. Self-explanatory.

Yes, I am spoilt rotten in many, many ways.

Right now, tho...I am buried in snow...so maybe that will help on the envy thing.

The "man" who dropped off nine kids! Right! Top of the list!

Thank you, thank you for Jimmy Buffet's inclusion on the list. I have friends that worship the guy, self-described Parrot Heads, and go to all his concerts like they think he is Jerry Garcia. Talentless Prick. Stupid fans. Ugh.

I'd like to nominate Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Granted, he is a local phenom but his pink boxers and chain gangs have gotten him national play. His power has gone to his head, doing immigrant sweeps without warrants, bullying small town mayors, AND euthanizing animals at his rescue organization although he pledged he would never do that. Of course, he was just re-elected by a huge margin. My vote is a small one here in red state Hell.

I hate myself for reading this shit.

Very interesting. men we hate, Women We Love™ going head-to-head on OS today. All the women, homegrown, all the men outliers.

I think I'll stick with the gals, but would like to nominate Rick Santorum as a total shitheel. He may be gone from the national stage, but it's always a good idea to make sure the wooden stake gets pounded firmly in.

How about Senator Mitch McConnell?
Newt Gingrich? (I can't believe he is still on the prowl)
Chuck Norris
I also really hate the King in fairytales that allows the new stepmom to dump on the once beloved young daughter.

I have been saing that Ann Coulter is a man for while now. The Adam's apple, no hips or other secondary sex characteristics, the hatred of women, the hatred of men, being 8 feet tall.

From the world of sport,
Roger Clemens has to be on this list.
as well as O.J. Simpson and Bobby Petrino and Isiah Thomas

Definitely worth my rating and a small comment on the 'man' that had a baby. I fully agree with the fact that being pregnant and having a vagina negates the male sexual label. But the main reason this person sucks is the fact that the hormones she ingested will most likely effect the child she decided to have. This is absolutely unacceptable and appalling. No one (including Barbara Walters and Oprah) should be giving this jerk screen time. Excellent post.

I so agree with you about Tom Cruise. He awaken physical reactions in me (none good).

I have to confess that starting out being more creeped out by Condi than by any of the others, I have warmed to her a little- but I can't put my finger on why. Working on it- but I'm sure it will pass.

Great list. Especially the pregnant "man." That person irritates the hell out of me. I can't imagine anything more womanly that being pregnant and having a baby.

Ted Haggard, for using Jesus to witchunt the very men he turned out to be...and his use of religion was deliberate and driven by power and greed, just watch the doc Jesus Camp, it's unbelievable that he said those things out loud, laughing.

Also that Mormon guy that led the campaign for Prop 8 to pass.

Also, since Coulter joined the ranks, might as well add Michelle Backman--what an appendage!

Despise might be a better word for the way I feel l about Christopher Hitchins and Dick Morris --two men who obsessively hate Hillary Clinton.

And I forgot ... Rudy (live off 9/11) Guiliani

See!!!!

Despite my offensive title, which may have made you look (gotcha, you betcha!), I am not actually a man-hating feminazi. I hate with discretion and taste.

Not one of my list has actually gotten a defense, cause there isn't one for any of them.

I am leaving Mellencamp because of several snippets of interview in a "Behind the Music" that aired during a bout of insomnia a few years ago. And he was only being put off for another musician to take his spot.

I give Springsteen a pass because of his politics and activism and support of the vets and his song, "The River". It is the ultimate working man song and it will make you cry, man or woman. Men because it characterizes what it really is to be a man essentially, and women for helping us realize what they really think about when the world hits hard.

That song is why I learned to play guitar. So he can't go on the list. Even if he did write "Born inthe USA" and allow it to be played 24/7 for so long that it became a Symbol of Evil. He's so good he's bad.

How could Tom DeLay slip beneath the radar?

I try not to hate, but if ever a soul deserved to burn in eternal damnation...

How could Tom DeLay slip beneath the radar?

I try not to hate, but if ever a soul deserved to burn in eternal damnation...

How could Tom DeLay slip beneath the radar?

I try not to hate, but if ever a soul deserved to burn in eternal damnation...

How could Tom DeLay slip beneath the radar?

I try not to hate, but if ever a soul deserved to burn in eternal damnation...

Oops! Blame it on the keybaorf. ;")

Wayne, I thought you just REALLY wanted to get your point across :)

The priests who tell people they're not in the state of grace if they voted for Obama. Hissssssssss! (This is the reason I stopped being a Catholic.)

Congressman Larry Craig - he of the wide legged foot patting.
Definitely Tom Delay.
I agree with Roger Clemens but would add Mark McGwire for his hypocrisy. Barry Bonds. Kobe "Bean" Bryant since his ego will fill an arena. Coach Geno Auriema of the U Conn Lady Huskies.
My list grows and grows and grows.
Throw John Travolta on the same sail less boat out into the ocean.

I agree with every name on here and with Lea on "despise" for some, but I have to say I really hate Mel Gibson and anyone else who uses celebrity to advance an agenda of bigotry and hate.

Woody Allen, talented or not, is a sicko. Not like Jacko, but damn close.

And let's not forget all the fat cat CEO's who cost people their jobs, pensions and homes while stashing billions of their own in offshore banks.

oh, how could I have forgotten the pedophile priests and those who protect them... they are the ones who should surely burn in hell before any others

Good list.

Kwame Kilpatrick FORMER mayor of Detroit. Still thinks he did nothing bad. He just lied, cheated, stole, and cost the City of Detroit 20 or 30 million dollars.

And also Condoleeza Rice. (A wise inclusion in your list.) A few years ago while testifying before Congress on who was to blame for the lack of warning of 9-11.....

The CIA knew (x), the FBI knew (y),,,, and she sat there and said it was a shame that they had not put their two informations together. HER OFFICE was the office both reported to. HER OFFICE was created to facilitate the blending of the intelligences. That was HER job. "Oh. no that wasn't MY fault!"

A special place in 'somewhere' for her.

Dean

Another oldie but goodie: Roman Polanski

I really hate it when celebs talk about how great he is. He's a pedophile who fled the country!

OK, so what's the problem with Buffett? His music does just what it's designed to do: make people happy. It's party music in the purest sense. Also, he wants to save the manatee. Can't hate on that basis alone.

Now, let's get out the knives.

Richard Green: My 6th Grade teacher. He was a total prick who behaved more childishly than the students. May he rot in hell.

Tom DeLay. Save him a seat, Dick.

Bill O'Reilly

Elvis - Talentless, drug abuser, woman hater, narcissist.

Every Pope - The Catholic Church has been complicit in more of man's inhumanity to man than any government. The Crusades, turning a blind eye toward the Holocaust, pedophile priests. It all starts from the top.

My Paternal Grandfather - He ran out on my Dad and his Sister when they were just babies. I never knew him, neverwanted to.

The guy who does the "Free Credit Report (dot) Com" commercials. Can anyone disagree?

All the guys I know who refused to vote for Barack Obama just because he was a "n****r" a "moslem" or a "terrorist". I still wear my Obama/Biden button just to rub it in.

The man who hurt Karrie.

This is getting too depressing. I'm gonna have a drink.

Here is a rebuttal post for this one.

I second (third, fourth, and fifth) nominations for:

Bill O'Reilly- because he makes me want to punch myself in the forehead as his throat is not accessible through TV.

Rush Limbaugh- because he makes me want to punch myself in the forehead as his throat is not accessible through radio.

Karl Rove- because he makes me want to punch myself in the forehead as his evil genius does not allow punches to the throat without the punching person being zapped by lasers into oblivion.

Ok, that's enough until I remember every other man I love to hate. P.S.- I'm a gentle person and would never punch anyone in the throat.

I would punch Rush Limbaugh in the throat if he blew cigar smoke in my face. C'mon Rush, I dare ya!

Greg, don't hate on Kobe. He's a great competitor. And he was rightfully acquitted for that Colorado mess. He didn't cheat with drugs, lie habitually, throw bat shards at Piazza, beat up his son's little league coach or cheat on his wife with a teenager like the Rocket.
He didn't murder two people and then write an "if I did it" book like O.J., and he sure as hell doesn't have the completely cut-throat me first egotism that someone like Petrino has.
McGwuire... I can see it, but he's really no better or worse than any silent player in the steroid era (the Mitchell Report is long, and that's just the start of it). Clemens is the worst of the steroid-era lot in my book--precisely for the reasons above.

I like this list, although I do find the word hate offensive.
Let me add one of my on: Saxby Chambliss, GA senator in runoff with a dem called Miller. What Saxby did to Max Cleland to get elected here was unreal. He called a man who lost three limbs in a war unAmerican. The list of shame grows...

You are right.

We seem to be making a communal manifesto of why the election went the way it did including cultural references!

Let's continue. Breathe. Now let it all out. Feel free to go local, but explain for those of us frome other places...

I'm late to this party, so I'm gonna limit my response to the heroes or assholes I've dealt with in person:

The Good:

Willie Nelson -- Opened for him in '97, the most charismatic person I've met
Wayne Newton -- a total professional
Steve Wariner -- talented but doesn't flaunt it, great fun
Jamie Lee Curtis -- great gal, and a world-class cusser

The Bad:

Buffet (Jimmy, not Warren) -- this ain't firsthand, but from a close second, yup he thinks his parrot-shit don't stink
Gallagher – funny onstage, total asshole off, ask anyone who ever had to escort him around at Nickelodeon Studios, and they'll all tell you the same thing -- the worst of the worst

The Ugly:

Englebert Hunperdinck -- the name says it all, The Hump insisted that we post four bodyguards to keep blue-haired old ladies from somehow leaping onto the stage that was ten-feet above the audience, then he criticized the sound man over the PA in the middle of the concert, and he never bothered to show up at the autograph line even for the couple dozen people who waited over three hours for him -- word backstage was that he was intimately occupied with his boyfriend

Other than Nader and Henley, and I'm not too sure about Henley, I agree with you. But you know, I've met a couple of women who loved to scream.

I would disptute Clarence Thomas. He defends Libertarian views on the Court. I do not always agree with him on those points, but he has something to say on the Privileges and Immunities Clause that is worth thinking about at the foundations of civil rights law, as well as the extension of the Commerce Clause powers to an unreasonable extent.
I would also dipute Tom Cruise. My ex-wife had a crush on him, which should have made me jealous, but then all women have a crush on someone, so he was comparatively harmless.
As an actor, he is no Robert Downey, but not bad, and although it is easy to poke fun at his Scientology, that is precisely the function of the first amendment, and I believe he is fundamentally correct about the control freak mentality of much of modern psychiatry; too bad he traded that in for a different control freak mentality.
And whoever pointed out Putin is quite correct. He is rapidly becoming a Caesarian figure very dangerous to the United States. It is almost too late, if not quite.

I'm with Greg - I don't use the word hate. But I would go so far as loathe - especially Karl Rove who I would 4th or 5th - I've lost count , but his influence was - is - so far reaching it should be illegal. Perhaps it is......

Add all the execs of Big Oil and all the corporate execs who line their pockets with huge bonuses while cutting their worker's wages and retirement.....

Wow, the list is getting long.

It's been a long 8 years and a lot of men have had a lot of power and abused it terribly. Letting off steam is good. It let's in room for happiness.

Hey, leave pregnant guy alone. Sure, it's kinda weird, but that's no reason for some of the hostility some have shown. He's already received death threats. Surely we have better things to be angry about.

Maybe sex and gender aren't as straightforward for everyone. Transgenders are one of the last groups that it's still acceptable to hate and fear.

Hey, no one mentioned Senator John McCain! - for nearly putting the United States into jeopardy by choosing running mate Sarah Palin; for putting Sarah Palin onto the map and into our faces; for defending a notoriously McCarthyesque and divisive campaign that went for the jugular; for defending his running mate's campaign of racial incitement and personal attacks; for defending the bigoted and xenophobic audiences that flocked to his campaign as 'great Americans'; and for having the cheesy, cynical idea that by choosing a woman, any woman (no matter how ignorant etc. etc. etc.), he could dupe the Hillary Clinton supporters and feminists.

Also, Republican Norm Coleman, for his ugly and slanderous campaign against Al Franken.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for his hypocrisy and talking the talk about morality, while 'back @ the ranch'. Apparently, even the women just operating the phones there are all being charged with various offenses... while he walks free??? Doesn't sound like justice to me.

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman for mixing up church & state, and blackmailing his parishioners by telling them they should not get communion if they voted for Obama because hesupports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil". Egad!

There are many other 'worthy' candidates outside the US, too. Top of my list: Sudan's president, Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who masterminded the use of rape as a form of genocide against several ethnic groups in Darfur. There was 1 woman, raped repeatedly 50 times or so, who can now not keep any of her bodily functions from leaking. The rapes are often done in front of children of the family. Don't know how some people can sleep at night...

Two politicians elevated to cabinet positions in Pakistan, who have both defended loathsome practices: Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, heading a jirga in 2006, in which five girls, two to five years old, were given as compensation to the family of a murdered man.

and last but not least, Israrullah Zehri, for defending the practise of so-called 'honour killing' in which women are buried alive. Earlier this year, in response to news that three teenage girls had been buried alive for trying to choose their own husbands, he told parliament it was "tribal tradition". He said: "These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them."

I love the list. =o)

Lieberman: I have a dream: it involves Joe Lieberman in a pale, hopefully expensive suit. And a lot of furious Democratic voters...armed with big, juicy hot blueberry pies. And a public "Pie-ing" (Okay, Mr. President Elect, I'll try to accept that you're playing a deep game and that you have reasons for your magnaminity toward Lieberman. But if the Democratic Senate and you won't make Lieberman feel the consequences of his actions and all his shilling for the GOP in SOME manner, We the People WILL!)

Ralph Nader: Let's just say that if he were to spontaneously combust one day, and I were on the scene with a bucket of water, I'd throw it on him. Honest. The minute I finished toasting my marshmallow.

Dick Cheney: Oh yeah. Darth Dick, curled lip snear and all. Just a photo of him is enough to ruin an hour of my day.

George Bush, both 41 and 43: It would take too long to list all the reasons!

Todd and Sarah Palin: Physically attractive, perhaps. Mentally and politically, extremely UNattractive people. And they came far too close to actual power for my taste. That, and they appear to be grasping, greedy and utterly unprincipled, and have no concept that "This will look bad in print."

Thomas and Scalia: UGH!

Donald Rumsfeld: While I agree that the entire Bush administration is a roll of dishonor, I feel Rumsfeld really deserves individual odiom.

Tom Cruise: Sigh..I used to think he was okay. Young man, stop jumping all over the furniture whooping about how much you love your wife! Your religion is no picnic for her. And knock off sitting in judgement on women about postpartum depression. What the **** do YOU know about it?

Phil Gramm: Mr. Gramm, do you STILL maintain than the recession is "all in our heads"? Sincerely the whiners of America.

Warren Jeffs of the FLDS: And really all old men who have multiple wives much younger than they are and who are subjected to rigid control on their behavior, including how they wear their hair and what clothes they may wear. UGH, to the lot of you!