Apparently The Giggling Murder Made The "Greatest American" Top 25: VOTE

[Dinger]

NOW!!!
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top25/top25.html

[kliljedahl]

1. Wright Brothers?

Can't vote online? At least it's an 800 number instead of a 900 number like these farces usually are. Thanks anyway, I'll pass, even though the Big Dog did make the list.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[benburch]

2. Online vote URL

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican

[carpetbagger]

10. REMEMBER TO VOTE THREE TIMES.

They let you vote three times. :shrug:

[Ian David]

35. I know how we can vote many, many, MANY more than 3 times

Orders of magnitude greater than 3 times.

[Cha]

12. Thank you, benburch.

I wanna vote for Mark Felt but I voted for FDR..just to piss off bush.

That picture of bush looks like "the giggling murderer"..creepy!

[Catchawave]

29. They used a smirky photo of *

How appropriate....LOL.

[Ian David]

3. Why isn't Michael Moore on this list????

[justgamma]

5. He was in the top 100.

Who picked the top 25? Did people vote on it?

[Cha]

13. Zactly...some of the candidates weren't

exactly my cuppa. And to have the monkeyboy in the choices didn't speak well for the screening process.

[Ian David]

4. We have until June 13th to vote. Let's hold-off and decide as a bloc

who we should vote for.

On edit:

It looks like the only choice they can't "spin" is Bill Clinton.

My top choices:

Bill Clinton
Rosa Parks

Anyone else is either an outright freeper or someone they can "spin" as a freeper-hero.

How the fuck did Billy Graham make the list but not Martin Luther King Jr.?

I hate to say this, but I think we need to all vote for Clinton.

Do you feel my pain?

[Sydnie]

6. I agree with that idea

but I would just love to see FDR beat blivet** in the numbers. That would frost his cake wouldn't it? :rofl:

[FreedomAngel82]

24. The voting is a lil weird too

I wanted to vote for Kennedy but it said I voted for Reagan. :mad: So that was a vote of mine wasted and I didn't get to vote for Mrs. Roosevelt. :(

[TahitiNut]

7. Three votes per day limit -- vote early and often.

I voted for MLKJr. ... a lifetime of service under a lifetime burden. He didn't start off with Jefferson's advantages or Clinton's skin color. He nurtured the conscience of what I think of as the 'real' America.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. You can vote more then one day??

I didn't know that. I'll have to vote again tomorrow so I can put in my real first vote.

[ultraist]

26. So did I! I voted for MKL, Jr.

[bitchkitty]

33. Nope, per week. n/t

[TahitiNut]

34. (oops) Yep! Per week.

:shrug:

[Internut]

8. Martin Luther King Jr is, in fact, in the top 25.

[Cha]

14. I saw Martin Luther King in my choices..

in fact I voted for him, FDR, and Ben Franklin!

[Ian David]

30. OK, I see Dr. King in the list now. I must have missed it.

Although it might be fun if a bisexual swinger sadomasochist like Ben Franklin won, wouldn't it?

I'm thinking we should all vote for Dr. King.

I also have a plan that I think should allow us all to vote many, MANY times over the next few days.

[Worst Username Ever]

9. kick

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

11. I guess I'm naive but

what/who is "giggling murder?"

[Cha]

15. I guess you have to be on

DU for a while to hear that one..it's bush..think about it.

And Welcome to DU, RUMPLEMINTZ!

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

17. Shouldn't it be

"smirking murderer?"

Edit to say thanks for the welcome.

[Cha]

18. That will also work..

bush has been heard ..giggling at inappropriate times, though.

edit~spelling

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

20. I did not

know that. Mine was pretty close though. Thanks for clearing it up for me. :)

[Cha]

21. Actually, interchangeable..

:D

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. I'm sorry but...

this whole list angers me. Not really sure who made up this top 100 list but some of those choices are pure bullshit...I mean Dr. Phil?!? and the fact that he ranks higher than RFK makes me want to scream!!! I refuse to watch this show on the grounds that it is dumb!

[Cha]

19. Good Grounds!

(((((:thumbsup:)))))

[obreaslan]

27. The American People chose the list over the last few weeks...

Voting the same way we are now.

It's scary to think that the American People thing both Madonna and Dr. Phil are better Americans than both Robert Kennedy and FDR. :scared:

Perhaps this is why B*sh is still president.

[Catchawave]

28. I saw part of the Top 100 last night....

and turned it off. Something about Dr.Phil and Greatest American used in the same sentence....:scared:

It's definitely a moran weighted poll !

[Dinger]

31. Dr. Phil - What A Fucking Joke! (nt)

[GRLMGC]

22. Why the fuck is he there?

What makes him qualify? I'm pissed off now. What the hell has he done for this country? Absolutely nothing.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. That really pissed me off

:mad: But hey it was a poll so yeah.

[theboss]

32. Where's Gene Hackman?

If Gene ain't on the list, it ain't worth discussin'.

[Contrary1]

36. Why don't they just crown him God, and be done with it? n/t

[Ian David]

37. You can vote from payphones and maybe multiple office phones

I've heard it suggested that we should vote for FDR as a way to snub Bush's Social Security plan.

You and I all know that FDR would roll over in his grave if he knew what Bush was doing.

But the right-wing talking heads have been managing to spin it differently and claim that FDR intended Social Security as some kind of temporary measure or something.

I think the only unequivocal, "non-spinable" choices we have are:

1) Bill Clinton
2) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Clinton's, and he IS really great, but he is by no means "The Greatest American Ever," and to vote for him as such would be rightfully viewed as disingenuous, IMHO.

If you try and call more than three times, the computer will not acknowledge your vote.

So, I am urging everyone to vote early and often for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Call three times from every pay-phone you can find:

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1-866-669-3116

Also, does anyone know if you can call multiple times from an office building that has individual extensions / PBX system? In other words, can you run around your office going from desk-to-desk and calling three times from each phone?

Seek out airports, train stations, hotel lobbies-- anyplace that has a large bank of pay-phones.

Related Threads:

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3798540


Apparently The Giggling Murder Made The "Greatest American" Top 25: VOTE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1831700


Discovery's "Greatest American" Poll: You can vote from pay-phones
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1836917#




Here are the choices:

Muhammed Ali
Lance Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
George W. Bush

Bill Clinton
Call 1-866-669-3105

Walt Disney
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Gates
Billy Graham
Bob Hope
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Call 1-866-669-3116

Abraham Lincoln
Rosa Parks
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
George Washington
Oprah Winfrey
Wright Brothers

See:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top25/top25.html