Top 10 Most Damaging
Celebrity Rants

One day you are a dignified celebrity worthy of the public's respect and adulation.  The next day you're a laughing stock, an embarrassment, a racist, a redneck, a person who gets booed for the rest of your life.  What separates these two days is a damaging celebrity rant.  No matter how much joy you have brought to us as our favorite TV character or how selflessly you have worked to better society, a few words can ruin it all.  That's all it takes.  It seems almost unfair.  That 5 minutes of one's life can define an entire career.  But in this world of hidden cameras, celebrity obsession and an unforgiving media, this is reality.  When Michael Richards took the stage at the Laugh Factory over a week ago, he was the lovable, quirky actor who played Jerry's neighbor on "Seinfeld."  When he left the same stage he was a rage-filled, mentally unstable racist who will probably never work again.  And while I do not take any joy in Kramer's demise, it is fascinating to watch someone you thought you knew ruin his whole life in a matter of minutes.  But as the world reacts to the Michael Richards debacle, we must remember that he is not the first and will surely not be the last to destroy his own career due to a rant.  He is merely the most recent.  Here are the Top 10 Most Damaging Celebrity Rants.

 Top 10 Most Damaging Celebrity Rants

 

 

 

 China
 Shanghai Daily
 China Daily
 Xinhua
 People's Daily
 South China Morning Post
 News From China
 Shanghai Expat
 That's Shanghai
 City Weekend
 Danwei
 The Peking Duck
 Sinosplice
 Truth About China
 Chinese Pod


 U.S. News
 New York Times
 New York Post
 New York Daily News
 Boston Globe
 Chicago Tribune
 Detroit Free Press 
 Los Angeles Times
 Miami Herald
 Michigan Daily
 USA Today
 Washington Post
 CNN
 MSNBC
 Google News
 Yahoo! News
 TIME
 Newsweek

 World News
 BBC
  U.K
 Bangkok Post
 Thailand
 CBC
 Canada
 Guardian
  U.K.
 Haaretz
 Israel
 Intl. Herald Tribune
 World
 Pravda
 Russia
 Sydney Morning Herald
 Australia
 Telegraph
  U.K.
 Sydney Morning Herald
 Australia
 Taipei Times
 Taiwan
 

 Sports
 ESPN
 CBS Sportsline
 Major League Baseball
 NBA
 NFL
 Sports Illustrated
 NYGMen
 Deadspin
 Bronx Banter
 MGoBlue
 Michigan Sports Center
 Yardbarker


 Entertainment
 People
 Rolling Stone
 Internet Movie Database
 Spin
 TMZ
 Perez Hilton
 The Wowz
 Pollstar
 Maxim
 J-L Cauvin

 

 Blogs
 Huffington Post
 Media Bistro
 Gorilla Mask
 Wonkette
 Crooks and Liars
 Gawker
 The Largest Minority
 Truthdig
 

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 News
 BBC
 News/U.K
 NPR
 News/U.S.
 WCBS
 News/New York
 WINS
 News/New York
 WBBM
 News/Chicago
 WWJ
 News/Detroit
 KFWB
 News/Los Angeles
 KCBS
 News/San Francisco
 Air America
 Talk/U.S.
 
 Sports
 WFAN
 Sports/New York
 WSCR
 Sports/Chicago
 WXYT
 Sports/Detroit
 WIP
 Sports/Philadelphia