Greatest American?

So, on the Discovery Channel Sunday night they have this show “Greatest American”. One thing that I found unsettling was some of the people they chose to comment and lend their insight. For example: JC Chasez, Howie Mandel, Lance Bass, Clay Aiken, Randy Jackson, Sharon Osbourne… why on Earth would I care what any of these people think about anything?

The other truly troubling thing is that the top 25, from which the “Greatest American” will be selected, (unfortunately by the same idiotic American public that thinks Brett Favre, Dr. Phil, Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson are among the top 100 Greatest Americans) included Elvis, Oprah, GW Bush and Bill Clinton.

Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Bob Hope, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, The Wright Brothers… and those four? What the Hell is wrong with people?

You can vote for your pick at aol.com/greatestamerican, but do me a favor, if you think Elvis, Oprah, George W. Bush, or Bill (a BJ doesn’t count as “sex”) Clinton is the “Greatest American” ever, keep your ill-informed, culturally illiterate opinion to yourself and don’t ever come back here again.

Criminy, if one of them wins, I may have to move to France or something… ok, maybe not France, maybe Italy. I would say Canada, but if I’m renouncing my citizenship (over a stupid TV show), I might as well go somewhere the climate suits my clothes (not to mention my constitution).