Top 10: People Who Just Won’t Go Away

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You see them everywhere. You spend equal amounts of time scouring the headlines looking for them as you do loathing their appearance in the news. You find yourself thinking more about them than close relatives. We are collectively going off the rails, and it is because of our dysfunctional relationships with certain ex-celebrities, never-were-celebrities and ex-politicians who’s fifteen minutes of fame have lasted an eternity.

People who won’t go away come in two flavors: The people who won’t let go, choosing to remain in the spotlight through any means at their disposal, and the people we won’t let go, because we have entered into a dependent pathological-culture-wide addiction to their various hodge-podge of idiosyncracies.

We need to break the habit, and we can’t consult Dr Phil cause he’s one of ‘em, To help you to know the enemy, here are the top 10 people that just won’t go away.

Number 10: Dick Cheney

All of the sudden, the quiet architect of W’s presidency is all about defending the administration’s legacy…and he is chatty as hell… Going anywhere he can find a microphone, talking about how the world is unsafe in Pax Obama. The truth is we aren’t sure, but we kinda just need this guy to just go away for a while. W took the hint, he is off towel-snapping and guying around with his secret service detail in seclusion on the ranch in Crawford.

Number 9: People Who Were Once On Survivor

We just can’t get enough of reality TV, where normal people with limited talent are thrust into humiliating social experiments for our viewing pleasure…it is the modern equivalent of gladiatorial combat and someone’s dignity is guaranteed to be slain weekly.

From the painful mental image of Richard Hatch’s naked ass in the original season to the ongoing stories of his tax problems…the only way to rid ourselves of these celeb survivors is reunite them for
Survivor: Huingry Shark Tank

http://www.apoliticus.com/2009/05/top-10-people-who-just-wont-go-away/

Cast your vote!

[Auggie]

1. Hah! Shouldn't be hard to figure out who's number 1.

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. I would have put Miss California at #2.

[Toucano]

3. Newt Gingrich is that white piece of dog shit that won't seem to dry up a blow away.

eom.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Check the actual poll - it's still active - here's a screen-shot

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scroll down to the end of the article and make a vote!

I gave the Dick his 978th vote -

who's gonna make it 1,000??

[tabbycat31]

5. does Elizabeth Hasselbeck count as a Survivor alum?

Cause she should go away just as fast

[underpants]

6. Yeah number 5