Glenn Beck and Conan makes time magazine's 100 most Influential people

[brettdale]

But Jon Stewart doesn't?????

[paulsby]

1. what are their relative ratings?

personally, i have no idea how many viewers the daily show has

[lpbk2713]

2. Right ... Beck has so much influence that his advertisers leave him in droves.

Fuck Time magazine.

[UTUSN]

3. Joel STEIN's Time's Least Influential People list

After glancing at the "most" list, I thought the "least" list would be more gripping and didn't realize it was a STEIN send-up. So the entry for Rue McCLANAHAN took me aback, like, what does Time have against Rue McCLANAHAN, fer gudness sake!1

It wasn't till after that that the STEIN angle came into focus. Way back, he squashed Tweety. Tweety was chasing the usual latest thing and doing a segment on MTV's 25th or something anniversary, and STEIN was his guest. The Tweety staff kept running the clip of Britney shedding her duds, and it soon became clear that Tweety was drooling. STEIN finally said, "You're beginning to creep me out." And Tweety said, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're fifty."


Since the supposedly "Most" list gets all the attention, STEIN's "Least" list mildly skewers, below. The ones here are mostly people I LIKE, except for DELAY, LARSON (who?), and Stedman.

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"Most" list: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1984685,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1985389_1985546,00.html

The TIME Bum Hundred
By Joel Stein

.... But making a least-influential list, that's a fool's task — one that only a true journalist, a brave journalist, a handsome journalist would venture. Even the truest, bravest, handsomest journalist, however, has some trouble putting such a list together. First of all, the list I made (which you can read in full at time.com/leastinfluential) does not actually consist of the least influential people in the world. Those would be infants, people in comas and North Koreans who aren't Kim Jong Il. And it's not a list of those with the most negative influence: the underwear bomber, that tattooed chick who messed up Sandra Bullock's marriage, Jay Leno. My list is, technically, the Least Influential People Who Used to or Ought to Have Influence. Which also rules out those who simply had a bad year: Tiger Woods is still immensely influential, only now his influence lies in preventing men from texting their mistresses. None of Tiger's mistresses are on my list either, since they influenced fame-seeking sluts all over to make sure their famous boyfriends text them.

So it was very difficult to fill up a list of 100 uninfluential people. For help, I called news anchor Rick Sanchez, who hosts Rick's List on CNN from 3 to 5 p.m. E.T. I figured that when you're trying to book guests in the afternoon on CNN, you get to talk to some pretty uninfluential people. "Don't shy away from easy pickings," Sanchez advised. "When someone says something dumb, Joel, it's your job to report it." Sanchez airs a segment called "The List You Don't Want to Be On," from which he gave me some names. "A lot of times these guys are famous for 35 seconds," Sanchez said. "I'd never heard of the president of Toyota until he was on the list. I can't even remember his name now." That man's name, by the way, is Toyoda. When someone says something dumb, it is my job to report it. ....



"Least" list: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1985389_1985284,00.html

Rue McClanahan
Actress
Betty White has usurped all the power from the remaining Golden Girls.

Joaquin Phoenix
Actor
That weird Andy Kaufman–esque thing where you filmed yourself pretending to rap badly? Even if you made a great documentary about it, I'm not seeing it. In fact, deep down, I'm pretty sure you were really just trying to rap.


David Shuster
Ex–MSNBC reporter
Shooting a pilot for a rival network (CNN) without asking your bosses is a pretty easy way to get suspended. Also, you should have shot a better pilot.

Bo Obama
First Dog
No book telling us to exercise or eat leafy greens? No hilarious video of chasing a squirrel to distract us from the fact that our unemployment benefits are almost up? After all that talk about what breed of dog to buy, the family decided to go with Total Loser?

Sarah Larson
George Clooney's ex-girlfriend
While you were dating George Clooney, People named you one of their most beautiful people. Now try getting People to call you back. They're not really your friend, Sarah.

Dan Rather
Anchor
... on HDNet. I don't know what that is or why it's still so proud of being in HD, but this is not retiring gracefully. This is like if Michael Jordan came back now and played for HDNet.

Katie Couric
Network anchor
She keeps showing up. You have to admire that.

Tom DeLay
Former Congressman
Not sure what kind of career he was trying to jump-start by appearing on Dancing with the Stars, but camp-loving gay men don't like a quitter.

Stedman Graham
Oprah's boyfriend
Everyone else who knows Oprah has his or her own show by now.

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