Big Story
Ok, well, according to Time she's not public enemy #1...but Elizabeth Lambert is
in the top ten. The magazine has named the college soccer play of Youtube infamy as one of their
"Top Ten Pariahs" of 2009, putting her in the same group as Bernie Madoff, "Balloon Boy's Dad", a
Lockerbie bomber and most humiliatingly, Rod Blagojevich.
For the last couple weeks, I've been ruminating on some way to close out the Elizabeth Lambert
saga. And lo and behold: Time Magazine has dropped that way right into my lap by naming Lambert as
one of the top ten pariahs of 2009.
The list places Lambert in the company of Bernie Madoff, who cost investors $20 billion dollars in
his ponzi scheme; Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, who cost US Bank shareholders billions in the
acquisition of Merrill Lynch; convicted domestic abuser Chris Brown; Lockerbie bombing convict
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi; baloon-boy's dad, who invented a hoax that cost local governments
thousands and could land him in jail; corrupt politician Rod Blagojevich; and convicted child
rapist Roman Polanski.
