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3. Michael McManus
2. Charlie Sheen
1. Sarah Palin

Michael McManus showed up at a public function for Houston Mayor Annise Parker in December. He was wearing a U.S. Army regulation mess dress uniform with Brigadier General's rank, complete with an impressive rack of decorations and medals for bravery, including the Purple Heart. Problem #1: it wasn't his uniform, McManus is not a Brigadier General, he isn't in the Army. Problem #2: impersonating a military officer is a federal crime. The FBI saw some pictures of Michael McManus at that party and arrested him.

Charlie Sheen, arraigned in a Colorado courtroom for the charges of felony menacing and assault. It's from his arrest Christmas Day fro allegedly holding a knife to his wife's throat and saying he would kill her.

The top spot on the list goes to Sarah Palin, former governor, former VP candidate. It's not for that "reading from her hand" business at the Tea Party Convention (the same event where she called President Obama "a charismatic guy with a teleprompter"). No, she's on this list for how she apparently hears certain words differently, depending on who says them.

Last week she joined the conservative chorus calling for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to resign for calling some liberal activists "retarded". We called him out for it, and put him in on this very list. Gov. Palin has a baby with Down Syndrome and considers using the word "retard" offensive. Fine. Good for her for speaking out on behalf of special needs kids. Well, conservative radio host Rush Limbaush said this on his program during the Emanuel discussion:

"Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, 'retards'".

Gov. Sarah Palin's response to that?

"Rush Limbaugh was using satire".

Satire? That's what she said.

Akio Toyoda. Getty Images.

1. Baltimore Ex-Mayor Sheila Dixon
2. Tom Tancredo
3. Akio Toyoda

She's not a national figure, but people in Baltimore certainly know the name Shiela Dixon. Private citizen today, she WAS the mayor. She resigned as part of a plea deal after a jury convicted her of stealing gift cards donated for needy families in her city. She reportedly went shopping at Best Buy and Old Navy with the cards. The judge who gave her two years' probation says Ex-Mayor Dixon now wears a "badge of dishonor".

Former congressman Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado. The Tea Party convention is underway in Nashville and Tancredo was the opening act. With one line he demeaned immigrants, the presidency, and called many voting Americans stupid. He said this:

"People who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

Read more about Tancredo's opening act here.

Tom Tancredo, American Nativist. In the style of Bill "The Butcher" Poole. Look up Bill Poole and you'll see the comparison. Especially if you're Irish.

Akio Toyoda, with a "D". President/CEO of Toyota, with a "T". He's taking the hit for two bad, bad, BAD weeks for his car company, apologizing for the problems that triggered an 8-million-car recall. In Tokyo , he said:

"I feel we are in stormy weather. Under this situation, [we] must regain customer trust. Tackle the problem. My role is to carry it out. We lacked customer perspective. It's very unfortunate."

Experts we talked to say "unfortunate" is an understatement. Toyota will shell out more than $2 BILLION to fix all those cars. They can repair the machines, but what about the damage to their brand?

Mel Gibson...again...

1. Vanity Fair Magazine
2. James Arthur Ray
3. Mel Gibson

Pretty girls on the cover, no problem there, that's what sells issues of Vanity Fair Magazine, right? But the current issue is their annual Hollywood special. The cover photo features nine actresses, all dubbed by Vanity Fair the "Fresh Faces of 2010". Every one of those actresses is young, female, and white. The sell line is, "A New Hollywood, A New Decade". Is this "New Hollywood" only for people who look alike, Vanity Fair?

Here's some published criticism:

"What does 'Young Hollywood' look like? According to Vanity Fair, it's thin, female, and white" - Jezebel.com

"Where are any women of color?" - USA Today

How does the magazine explain the lack of diversity? We called Vanity Fair. They told us it was a scheduling conflict that made them pick those nine actresses.

James Arthur Ray is a motivational speaker who's famous for those "get-rich" and "self-help" programs. He's charged with manslaughter. October of last year he cajoled people in a boiling sweat lodge to push past their physical limits. Three people died. A witness says he was high-fiving people, oblivious to what was happening. He says it was just an accident.

Mel Gibson is tops on our list today...again. He can't seem to get over the fact that interviewers want to talk about his 2006 police stop/DUI/Anti-Jewish rant incident. He was on this list before for what he said on a TV interview. He's on the list again for what he said on another TV interview. He got miffed and called the interviewer an ***hole. Lots of people are wondering why he apparently doesn't expect that issue to come up, and why he always seems so unprepared to discuss it.

Oh, and there's is a rule in television: Never say anything around a microphone that you wouldn't say in front of your mom.

Rahm Emanuel.

1. South Carolina Governor & Mrs. Mark Sanford
2. Rep. Michele Bachmann
3. Rahm Emanuel

Why "both" of the Sanfords on the list today? Well, maybe for failing to see the red flags in their marriage back when it started in 1989. First lady Jenny Sanford says the governor insisted on removing all references to "being faithful" from their wedding vows. She writes about it in her memoir. This is what she told an interviewer about her husband's wedding vow omission:

"It bothered me to some extent, but we were very young, we were in love. I questioned it, but I got past it...along with other doubts that I had."

Jenny Sanford writes in her book that she felt "gut-punched," unwanted and embarrassed by the governor's affair. Mark Sanford says he's looking forward to reading it!

Spot two on this List U Don't Want 2 B On goes to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. The Minnesota Republican, speaking before a group of citizens, said this:

"In Japan, people have stopped voicing their opinion on health care. There are things that are wrong with Japanese health care, but people are afraid of voicing. Because they know that would get them on a list and they wouldn't get health care."

Wow, really? That happens in Japan? What's her source? Some guy.

No, really. She says "a fellow who ran into me in the hall in Washington D.C." told her the Japan story, and she repeated it in a formal speech. She then used it as a shocking anecdote to illustrate a possible American future of so-called "gangster government" and "absolute corruption" when it comes to health care.

A guy in the hallway, Congresswoman? By the way, we checked and found no credible evidence that what Rep. Bachmann's friend in the hallway said is true.

Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief Of Staff. He has met face-to-face with the head of the Special Olympics to talk about why it's a bad thing to insult someone by caling them "retarded". Emanuel doesn't deny a Wall Street Journal report that he called a group of liberal activists, "F***ing retarded". The White House says Emanuel did apologize immediately afterward by phone to the Special Olympics, a group which actively urges people to stop using that word as a derogotory term. Here's an official statement:

"The White House remains committed to addressing the concerns and needs of Americans living with disabilities and recognizes that derogatory remarks demean us all."

Rahm Emanuel: apologetic, and on our "List U Don't Want 2 B On".

James O'Keefe...again.

2. William Barnason.
3. James O'Keefe.

Abbreviated list today. William Barnason is on the state of New York's registry of sexual offenders. He was convicted and imprisoned for raping children, girls 7 years old or younger. His neighbors. New York consideres him a "Level Three Offender". That's the highest risk for repeat offense the state assigns. Well, if that doesn't alarm you, get this: He's out of prison, and is reportedly working as a building superintendent in New York City. Note to residents: this guy has the key to your apartment. One woman who lives there tells reporters that Barnason offered her a deal: rent money for sex.

Here's number one: A return engagement by James O'Keefe. He's out of jail for that alleged break-in at Senator Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans...you know, the one where he says he and his buddies dressed up as repairmen and tried to somehow access the senator's phone system. Instead, he and his buds were busted and now face up to 10 years in prison for illegal entry into a federal building. Speaking on Fox News, James O'Keefe says he's not a criminal, he's an investigative journalist. Here's what he said:

"I still stand behind the fact that investigative journalists have been doing this for years. Dateline, CBS, 60 Minutes...they built their careers on this. So, that's the tradition I'm following in sort of a new age journalism."

Let me get this straight: Morley Safer, Ed Bradley or Mike Wallace would dress up as a pimp or as a telephone repairman and would be willing to face federal criminal charges?? Journalists we spoke to are roundly appalled by that suggestion, which by the way, went principally unchallenged by the Fox News interviewer.

Coach Rex Ryan. Getty Images.

1. Frank Vogt
2. Rip Torn
3. Coach Rex Ryan

Pilot Frank Vogt had an in-flight emergency and landed a Cessna 152 on the Jersey Turnpike this morning during rush hour. DURING RUSH HOUR!! That's bad. Neither Frank nor anyone on the ground was hurt. That's good. But get this: he's a pilot for a radio network, and his passenger was a traffic reporter! Their job is to improve the traffic flow, not tie it up. Glad you got down safely, Frank, but you're on the list.

Also: Actor Rip Torn. He appeared in a Connecticut courtroom today on charges he entered a bank with a loaded pistol. The police report uses the words, "HIGHLY INTOXICATED" to describe him.

But today's top of the List U Don't Want 2 B On is New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan. At a martial arts event this weekend, Coach Ryan extended a Miami Dolphins fan a certain finger of his right hand, and some guy took a picture of it. Uh-oh. Let's just say the gesture wasn't the universal symbol for "WE'RE NUMBER ONE!" Here's a statement released by the Jets:

"It was stupid and inappropriate. I wouldn't accept that type of behavior from one of my coaches or players and it's unacceptable from me. I apologize to the Jets organization, the National Football League and NFL fans everywhere."

Coach Rex Ryan - keepin' it classy.