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Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the he-can-afford-more-hats dept.

walterbyrd writes "Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll."

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  1. Americans Look Inward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Americans admire Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton more than Nelson Mandela. That is a sad commentary on America. Neither of the former faced true adversity like Nelson Mandela.

  2. He only donated enormous amounts of money... by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, why should anyone admire a man who donated enormous amounts of money to charity?

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  3. Re:Problem: by N1AK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wikileaks threatens to release private financial information, Slashdot applauses. Anon uses DOS attacks, and releases the personal details of people who downloaded adult material, Slashdot applauds. Bill Gates releases mosquitos in a room of wealthy people, in order to bring attention to one of the biggest health issues on earth, Slashdot decries it. There's nothing quite like group think for encouraging hypocrisy.