No, not Osama Bin Laden, but Ben Sherwood, former executive producer at Good Morning America, and the newly-appointed president of ABC News. His new employees hate him so much that they made a we-really-hate-you-video about him and leaked it to Gawker. Ben has apparently always been hated by most people he comes in contact with, as evidenced by a 1988 article by Andrew Sullivan (yes, that Andrew Sullivan) for Spy magazine:
But as the Times hinted, Ben's enthusiasm had provoked some teasing from classmates. 'It was a common bond among my classmates at Harvard, hating Ben Sherwood," notes one of his more affectionate former friends. "Ben is one of the most hated people alive," agrees Clark Freshman, a Harvard classmate and, as a Marshall scholar, a fellow Oxonian. "It's bizarre. People actually make an effort to dislike him." Others put it more gently: 'When you think Ben Sherwood, you think funny stories, you think asshole, you think 'Thank God I'm not him,' " says a friend.
Then there's this 2004 e-mail trail, also from Gawker, in which Ben works on his holiday message to his employees at Good Morning America with the help of his wife, resulting in much hilarity.
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