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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 03:30 PM
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The Good, Bad, and the Ugly on Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People of The Last 5 Minutes:"
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1894410,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1894410,00.html

I love magazine lists, no matter how pointless. This one consists of 100 famous people paying tribute to 100 slightly famouser people...

THE GOOD
Barack Obama (By Gordon Brown)
Michelle Obama (By Oprah Winfrey)
Hillary Clinton (Madeleine Albright)
Ted Kennedy (By Arnold Schwarzenegger)
George Clooney (By Bono)
Tina Fey (By Alec Baldwin)
Tavis Smiley (By Charlie Rose)
Jon Favreau (By Ted Sorensen)
Nate Silver (By Bill James)
Paul Krugman (By Mark Zandi)
Chesley B. Sullenberger (By General Chuck Yeager)
Richard Phillips (By Chesley B. Sullenberger)
David McKiernan (By General Wesley K. Clark)
Van Jones (By Leonardo DiCaprio)
Nouriel Roubini (By Paul Krugman)

THE BAD
Sarah Palin (By Ann Coulter)
Rush Limbaugh (By Glenn Beck)
Bernie Madoff (By Michael Moore)
Rick Warren (By Nancy Gibbs)
Nicolas Sarkozy (By Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
T. Boone Pickens (By Ted Turner)
Avigdor Lieberman (By Benny Morris)
Joaquín Guzmán (By Tim Padgett)

THE UGLY
Timothy Geithner (By Massimo Calabresi)
The Twitter Guys (By Ashton Kutcher)
The View (By Michael Bloomberg)
Gordon Brown (By JK Rowling)
Alexander Medvedev (By Dmitri Trenin)
Jay Leno (By Jimmy Fallon)
Suze Orman (By Suzy Welch)
Sam and Dan Houser (By Matt Selman)
moot (By Rick Astley)

MIA
Susan Boyle

Not MIA
M.I.A

Fun times!
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fugop Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 03:45 PM
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1. Shame on Time
Edited on Sat May-02-09 03:46 PM by fugop
Shame on Time for giving Coulter yet another place to spew her hateful garbage. I read a couple of the writeups, and they seemed nicely written, appropriately complimentary, etc. Then I opened the Palin one by Coulter, and it's just another nasty screed that chooses to pretend it's complimenting Sarah Palin, but in fact it's just another excuse to attack progressives in her usual hateful manner. Frankly, it's my own fault. I thought maybe I'd get a laugh at her talking about how wonderful Sarah Palin is, but instead, it's just an embarassing writeup that has nothing to do with Sarah Palin really. It's just using Palin, as usual, to bludgeon the left.

I'm reminded again of why people have stopped listening to right-wingers. The Coulters and Limbaughs of the world have nothing to offer but hate. I don't know why I continue to be surprised at how one-track they are, but ... it is what it is. Shame on Time for giving that nasty piece of work space to just vomit her hatred all over the place. They couldn't have found someone who would at least focus on the subject at hand?
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 03:51 PM
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2. No, thank them. Link that psycho to Palin and the right.
Most mainstream folks can't stand her. Associate Palin and the right with Coulter and you're going to damage them even more.

It'd be like Obama's article being written by Rev. Wright.
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 03:51 PM
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3. great post.
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 04:52 PM
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4. Wrong thread, but..........
Are the editors at People magazine blind???? Timmy Geithner as one of their most beautiful people??????????????

:wow:
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