Pat Robertson has "the credibility of Miss Cleo." If you like that sort of thing, you'll probably enjoy many of the entries on The Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005. Here's another sample:
23. Jennifer Wilbanks
Charges: Wasting the entire nation’s time and attention without actually being abducted and killed. The "Runaway Bride" fiasco marks a new low point in modern news, an episode in which the media devoted more attention to a single fruitcake than the rest of the damned world, discovered her to be simply an inconsiderate flake, and continued their shameless round-the-clock coverage of her unabated for many days afterward, compulsively playing 10 seconds of towel-headed perp walk footage over and over and over again, as world events were left to take care of themselves. This bug-eyed bitch and her doormat fiancée, after all, were important—right?
Exhibit A: Even if she were actually abducted and killed, it wouldn’t have merited 1/1000th the coverage she got in the first day of this speculation orgy.
Sentence: Actually abducted and killed.
The Wilbanks coverage actually says far more about media coverage (and editorial decisions) than it does about Miss Wilbanks herself, but there you go.
Also making appearances are Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, Geraldo Rivera, and, as mentioned above, Pat Robertson.
(Hat tip: Dustbury)
Posted by Craig Ceely at January 29, 2006 04:32 PM