The historian Lord Acton said, ''Great
men are almost always bad men.'' There is something about
power, money, and fame that truly does cause people to
become terrible. Or, maybe they were always a bad person,
and they were just good at hiding it from the masses. Here
are famous figures throughout time who have been praised in
the history books, but they have actually done terrible
things.
This week President Joe Biden was forced
to apologize for using the word "illegal" to describe
the illegal immigrant accused of murdering a 22-year-old nursing
student in Georgia. He arranged a softball interview with
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, but that did very little to reassure
American voters that their president's brain is functioning.
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Where
are the airplanes for sale? I
still arrange for ferry pilots to deliver airplanes, but I no
longer broker aircraft for sale.
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Don Lemon demanded the
sun, the moon and the stars from the SpaceX boss - before
being unceremoniously fired. The ex-CNN anchor sent over an
astronomical wish list to Elon Musk during contract talks to
host a show on the billionaire's social media platform X -
including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront
payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in
the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve
any changes in X policy as it relates to news content. More
Criminal behavior that,
given the human lives at stake and the decade of carnage
that followed in Southeast Asia, may be more reprehensible
than anything Nixon did in Watergate. More