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Marisleysis Gonzalez

Dubbed Elian’s psycho cousin by our WEHT.net informant, casting herself as “Elian’s Surrogate Mother”, she remained in-camera and hysterical for the duration of the Elian Saga. 

Mikhail Gorbachev

The last leader of the Soviet Union as the world knew it. He instituted sweeping reforms which took on a life of their own and eventually ripped apart the USSR. He survived an aborted coup attempt against him by Politburo hardliners in 1991. He resigned as President on December 25th, 1991, when the Soviet Union [...]

Elian Gonzalez

His mother tried to cross the Florida Straights with Elian. Tragically she drowned, surprisingly, Elian survived and on Thanksgiving Day, 1999 he was rescued by fishermen and brought to Miami, where he was taken in by his Cuban ex-pat relatives. Then his father came over from Cuba and after a lengthy legal battle culminating in [...]

Mathias Rust

This is the guy who embarassed the Russians and astounded the world, when in 1987 at the age of 19 flew a Cessna 172B undetected all the way from Malmi airport in Helsinki, landing the craft in Moscow’s Red Square. He was sentenced to 8 years hard labour but released the following August. Thanks for [...]

Dan Quayle

Mr. Potatoe-head himself. He is possibly the reigning champion for All Time Butt of Most Talk Show Hosts, and selected outtakes of his genius still circulate the internet in the form of oft-forwarded “Actual Dan Quayle Quotes” emails. Remember, this man once speculated that we could probably breathe on Mars, but bear in mind his [...]

Kenneth Starr

In 1994 he took over as independent counsel heading the Whitewater Investigation, and for four years hence was often seen on the evening news heading a caravan of mini-vans loaded with lots of lawyers and documents. Depending on who you ask his investigation touched on crooked real-estate deals, the suicide of Vince Foster, and for [...]

Linda Tripp

a former White House secretary who came to epitomize the self-righteous tattle-tale, threw herself into the middle of the Clinton investigation by secretly taping revealing conversations with one-time friend Monica Lewinsky. With school-girl breathiness, Lewinsky confided the details of her affair with President Clinton, providing Tripp with 20 hours of recorded evidence. The legality of [...]