50 Most Loathsome, 2010 Edition
Always excellent, always brutal, The Beast’s 2010 edition of their 50 Most Loathsome People In America list is up. “You” has made the list every year, but this is the first time at #1:
Here’s a sample, chosen not really at random at all, Jenny McCarthy at #19:
OK. Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s been revealed as a fraud and conman, and his study linking autism to the MMR vaccine was fully retracted by The Lancet. The “debate” is done, but this former Playboy Bunny is not. She initially believed her son Evan was an “Indigo child” (a creepy, Aryan wunderkind with telepathic powers), but after that didn’t pan out, she needed another equally plausible explanation for his condition and desperately latched onto the vaccine conspiracy. By convincing easily-duped moms that vaccines aren’t safe, she’s endangered their kids, compromised herd immunity and killed more Americans than terrorists have in the last nine years. And that’s not hyperbole.