The Resume

(July 3, 1932-July 4, 2014)
Philanthropist and conservative activist
Heir to Mellon oil and banking fortune
Owns Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Why he might be annoying:

After his mother death, he removed the name 'Mellon' from the Sarah Mellon Scaife Galleries and Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation.
Despite his animosity towards the Mellon name, he was willing to accept the Mellon fortune.
He bankrolled a number of anti-Clinton efforts. He spent $2 million funding an attempt to prove Clinton murdered Vince Foster.
He endowed a new school of public policy at Pepperdine University, which then offered the post of dean of the new school to Whitewater investigator Ken Starr.
When reporter Karen Rothmeyer tried to interview him for a story in the Columbia Journalism Review on 'The New Right,' Scaife called her a 'fucking Communist cunt.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He donated money to PBS, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the National Gallery of Art, and a number of universities.
During the height of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, he provided donations to beautify the White House. He was invited to a black-tie celebration by Hillary Clinton.
Despite his earlier financial support of Richard Nixon, hr broke with him after Watergate and refused to speak to him.
Tribune-Review employees described him as 'affable and kind.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America [2006] (Ranked: 2)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 01]
• Conspiracy Theorists
• Dicks and Johnsons
• I Died in 2014 (Ranked: 82)
• I Died on the Fourth of July (Ranked: 2014)
• I'm a Billionaire
• Jack Huberman's 101 People Who are Really Screwing America [2006] (Ranked: 21)
• Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World [Book]
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Look at My Santa Cap
• Newspaper Journalists/Editors/Publishers
• Profiles 18751-19000 (Ranked: 18945)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 99 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 37 Votes: 72.97% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 161 Votes: 53.42% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 85.00% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 43 Votes: 62.79% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 49 Votes: 73.47% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 85 Votes: 72.94% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 98 Votes: 73.47% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 159 Votes: 66.04% Annoying