The Smithsonian Names Sarah Palin One Of The Top 100 Most Significant Americans

...OF ALL TIME! Kiss your credibility good-bye Smithsonian. She's a grifter; a quitter; a word-salad spinstress; and a well-paid, professional mean girl. She has no significance as a politician. She must be on the list because of her mouth. I didn't see Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh on the list so is her significance attached to her having a vagina? I didn't see Ann Coulter or Laura Ingram on the list either. They have vaginas. This is just gross.

Sarah Palin: selected for third base, thought she scored a touchdown.

The Smithsonian Names Sarah Palin One Of The Top 100 Most Significant Americans, Leaves Out President Obama

by: Stephen D Foster Jr


In the following list, which of these people don’t belong?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Neil Armstrong
Martin Luther King Jr.
Frederick Douglass
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sarah Palin
Hellen Keller
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Sinatra
Michael Jackson
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
George W. Bush
Henry Ford
Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth
Steve Jobs
Muhammad Ali

This is merely 20 of the people Smithsonian Magazine included in its list of the 100 most influential Americans of all-time. ALL-TIME! That means in all of American history, even prior to the founding of our nation.

And if you immediately picked out Sarah Palin as one the people on this list who stick out like a sore thumb, congratulations. You’re a sane and intelligent person.

The other person, though more deserving of the honor than Palin and yet probably doesn’t belong there either, is George W. Bush.

Smithsonian put together their list by enlisting Steven Skiena, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, and Charles B. Ward, an engineer at Google who is an expert in ranking methodologies. The pair used “an algorithmic method of ranking historical figures, just as Google ranks web pages,” and “their concept of significance has less to do with achievement than with an individual’s strength as an Internet meme — how vividly he or she remains in our collective memory.”


But the truly outrageous thing about this list isn’t who made the cut, but who was left out.

Palin, America’s village idiot known for quitting as Governor of Alaska and engaging in drunken brawls and incoherent speeches full of factual errors such as not knowing the actual address of the White House, is on the list, while the first African-American president in American history is not.

That’s right, President Obama is not on this list even though his election as leader of the free world in 2008 is one of the most significant and unique achievements in American history.

The Smithsonian only selected ten presidents in that particular category and they left out presidents such as Lyndon Johnson, who signed Medicare, Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act, and the Civil Rights Act into law. Or Dwight Eisenhower, who was Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and who initiated the construction of our interstate system of roads that we still drive on today. Or Harry S. Truman, who ended World War II by signing off on the first and only uses of an atomic bomb in warfare against the Japanese, thus ushering in the Nuclear Age. Clearly, more presidents than just Obama were snubbed.

But Palin’s inclusion on such a list is totally offensive and the Smithsonian Institute damaged their own credibility by even thinking of placing her name among so many great Americans of historical significance. At least George W. Bush is actually a significant figure, for better or worse. After all, he was in office during 9/11 and dragged America into two costly wars. The reverberations of his time in office will be felt for decades to come. Palin, however, is just a minor footnote. Even Tina Fey would be better qualified to be on the list considering her fantastic impersonation of Palin is partly to thank for why Palin and McCain lost in 2008. That portrayal affected a historical election.

So while one could argue for Bush being on the list, including Palin on such a list is unforgivable, and even more so considering the Smithsonian failed to include President Obama, a person who is far more significant in our history than Palin could ever hope to be.