Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The 10 Worst Brooklynites of All Time
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by The Editors
on Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:23 AM
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8. Bobby FischerYou know, we really respect this Erasmus dropout as a chess player, even as a source of American pride during the Cold War—and it all started in a Brooklyn candy store, from which Fisher got his first chess set at the age of six. But, you know, then there's all
that post-champion shit, when he became this Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic, psychopathic creep. That's no good.
Tags: Al Capone, Walter O’Malley, Bobby Fischer, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Paterno, David Berkowitz, Laura Schlessinger, Lloyd Blankfein, Leona Helmsley, Martin Berkeley