Are there any public figures that you would admire, but can't get over a character fault they have?

For me I am thinking of Hunter Thompson

At times his writing used to put me off due to all the violence (or at least violent talk and imagery)
But I came to understand how he was using the violence, and I feel he is one of the most brilliant political writers ever.
But...
He used to beat his first wife
once I found this out it overshadowed all his work for me
I can still enjoy his writing, but this is always in the back of my head.

wow, this tanked worse than any thread I ever started

paintsprayer said:

Do you want me to give you zero stars?

REDFEATHERS said:

I'd be honored Miss Feathers

paintsprayer said:

Actually, I think it's a pretty good thread. I've got nothing to contribute at the moment, but if something comes to mind, I'll take it to the top.

Michael Moore. i admire (or used to admire) what he stood for, but he's resorted to the tactics of his counterparts on the right. the means do not justify the ends.

A lit professor I had said who was gay said that as much as he admired Hemingway the little jokes about gays in some of the books always tainted any other meaning to the books

To get the obvious answer out of the way, and to rescue u'r thread from "total annihilation (i've been watching Dr.Strangelove and learned a word or two):

Prince (but i can get over it, and u asked for xamples where one canNOT get over it, sooo, mmm, well, euh..., this thread is DOOMED, DOOMED i tell ya)

Mayb a rescue-shortlist others can pick from:
Michael Jackson, JFK, Mike Tyson, Jack Nicholson, Elvis, Woody Allen, and many many others.

SpcMs said:

My wife used to love Woody Allen, now she can't watch him at all

Okay, I didn't "admire" Elvis, but I thought that he was fine (when he was slimmer), especially during the comeback special, wearing that black leather suit, and looking all light-skinned (I'm sure he had some black up in him.) But, I grew up hearing that he said: "All black people can do for me is shine my shoes and buy my records." Who knows...maybe this is one of those urban legends. (Like the one where Liz Claiborne allegedly said on Oprah that she didn't make clothes for Black women. Oprah, allegedly, was wearing an outfit by the designer, but after Liz said this and after a commercial break Oprah came back on wearing just a robe!)

UptownDeb said:

Oh laawd

Actualy what I heard was that Tommy(the designer) said that his designs AREN'T made for colored people(Black, Arabs, Latinos & Hispanics) next thang, she was like "get out".

Don't know how true is this tho!

Harlepolis said:

it isn't true at all.

http://www.snopes.com/rac...iborne.asp

http://www.snopes.com/rac...lfiger.asp