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What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Edgy MD Apr 18 2012 08:53 AM

Time releases a list of the 100 most "influential" people in the world. Not present: Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Sarkozy, Pope Benedict. Present: Jeremy Lin, Claire Danes, Kristen Wiig. Claire. Danes. [list][*]Jeremy Lin[/*:m] [*]Christian Marclay[/*:m] [*]Viola Davis[/*:m] [*]Salman Khan[/*:m] [*]Tim Tebow[/*:m] [*]E.L. James[/*:m] [*]Louis CK[/*:m] [*]Rihanna[/*:m] [*]Marco Rubio[/*:m] [*]Ali Ferzat[/*:m] [*]René Redzepi[/*:m] [*]Kristen Wiig[/*:m] [*]Anthony Kennedy[/*:m] [*]Novak Djokovic[/*:m] [*]Ben Rattray[/*:m] [*]Jessica Chastain[/*:m] [*]Yani Tseng[/*:m] [*]Raphael Saadiq[/*:m] [*]Elinor Ostrom[/*:m] [*]Samira Ibrahim[/*:m] [*]José Andrés[/*:m] [*]Ann Patchett[/*:m] [*]Dulce Matuz[/*:m] [*]Henrik Schärfe[/*:m] [*]Freeman Hrabowski[/*:m] [*]Maryam Durani[/*:m] [*]Manal al-Sharif[/*:m] [*]Anjali Gopalan[/*:m] [*]Rached Ghannouchi[/*:m] [*]Barbara Van Dahlen[/*:m] [*]Ron Fouchier[/*:m] [*]Donald Sadoway[/*:m] [*]Hans Rosling[/*:m] [*]Asghar Farhadi[/*:m] [*]Sarah Burton[/*:m] [*]Anonymous[/*:m] [*]Pete Cashmore[/*:m] [*]Cami Anderson[/*:m] [*]Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu[/*:m] [*]Ai-jen Poo[/*:m] [*]Marc Andreessen[/*:m] [*]Preet Bharara[/*:m] [*]Robert Grant[/*:m] [*]Andrew Lo[/*:m] [*]Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy[/*:m] [*]Alexei Navalny[/*:m] [*]Ray Dalio[/*:m] [*]Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani[/*:m] [*]Chelsea Handler[/*:m] [*]Harvey Weinstein[/*:m] [*]Chen Lihua[/*:m] [*]Warren Buffett[/*:m] [*]Alice Walton[/*:m] [*]Harold Hamm[/*:m] [*]Sheryl Sandberg[/*:m] [*]Sara Blakely[/*:m] [*]Eike Batista[/*:m] [*]Tim Cook[/*:m] [*]Daniel Ek[/*:m] [*]Virginia Rometty[/*:m] [*]Barack Obama[/*:m] [*]Goodluck Jonathan[/*:m] [*]Xi Jinping[/*:m] [*]Fatou Bensouda[/*:m] [*]Christine Lagarde[/*:m] [*]Mario Draghi[/*:m] [*]U Thein Sein[/*:m] [*]Ayatullah Ali Khamenei[/*:m] [*]Mitt Romney[/*:m] [*]Juan Manuel Santos[/*:m] [*]Timothy Dolan[/*:m] [*]Portia Simpson Miller[/*:m] [*]Mario Monti[/*:m] [*]Wang Yang[/*:m] [*]Maria das Graças Silva Foster[/*:m] [*]Andrew Cuomo[/*:m] [*]Iftikhar Chaudhry[/*:m] [*]Mamata Banerjee[/*:m] [*]Walter Isaacson[/*:m] [*]Ron Paul[/*:m] [*]Benjamin Netanyahu[/*:m] [*]Dilma Rousseff[/*:m] [*]Erik Martin[/*:m] [*]Cecile Richards[/*:m] [*]Angela Merkel[/*:m] [*]Lionel Messi[/*:m] [*]Tilda Swinton[/*:m] [*]Hillary Clinton[/*:m] [*]Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton[/*:m] [*]Adele[/*:m] [*]Matt Lauer[/*:m] [*]Oscar Pistorius[/*:m] [*]Claire Danes[/*:m] [*]Stephen Colbert[/*:m][/list:u]

Ceetar Apr 18 2012 08:59 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

part 8? we're way past that. who exactly has Jeremy Lin influenced? sports reporters?

Edgy MD Apr 18 2012 09:01 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

I've got to figure that the parent company of Time (presumably Time Warner, but who knows anymore) has an interest in Showtime, or whichever cable company profits from Claire Danes' new show. Not hard to see a link between Time Warner and Jeremy Lin. Gross journalistic abuse.

Ceetar Apr 18 2012 09:04 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

also suspect: No Bieber. I'm pretty sure if he said "I just bought Mets season tickets" they'd sell out every game the rest of the year.

metirish Apr 18 2012 09:09 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Time is a joke....

MFS62 Apr 18 2012 09:10 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

The last time I was influenced by Goodluck Johnathan was --- never. (In case anyone's interested, he's the President of Nigeria.) Anonymous? Gimmie a break. Later

batmagadanleadoff Apr 18 2012 09:12 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Kim Kardashian says the Time 100 list is cool.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 18 2012 09:13 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Well, at least Louis CK made the list.

Mets – Willets Point Apr 18 2012 09:30 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

I'm sure Claire Danes could influence me to do a lot of things.

G-Fafif Apr 18 2012 10:13 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Kristen Wiig often influences me to fast-forward through SNL.

SteveJRogers Apr 18 2012 11:14 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

The fact that while Bush was in office they choose not to put him on this list one year tells you what you need to know about this list. No matter what you might think of the person in the office, the sitting President of The United States, or more appropriatley, the Leader of The Free World, should always be on a list of 100 most influential people in a given year.

Vic Sage Apr 18 2012 11:19 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I'm sure Claire Danes could influence me to do a lot of things. despite our differences, WP, our fetish for redheads, and this one in particular, will always be a bond.

Ceetar Apr 18 2012 11:33 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

SteveJRogers wrote: The fact that while Bush was in office they choose not to put him on this list one year tells you what you need to know about this list. No matter what you might think of the person in the office, the sitting President of The United States, or more appropriatley, the Leader of The Free World, should always be on a list of 100 most influential people in a given year. surely, negative influence is still influence. I presume this, like most lists not hard-coded in raw statistics, is mostly influenced by popularity.

Edgy MD Apr 18 2012 11:36 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Again, I'll proffer the notion that affiliation with Time-Warner affiliates is even a better asset. I mean, where's Justin F. Bieber?

Frayed Knot Apr 18 2012 11:48 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Looks to me that the folks at Time let some of their corporate brethren from People contribute to the list. I mean who exactly is Viola Davis influencing?

Mets – Willets Point Apr 18 2012 11:52 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

If the creator of LOLcats isn't on the list, you know something fishy is going on.

seawolf17 Apr 18 2012 12:00 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Vic Sage wrote: Mets – Willets Point wrote: I'm sure Claire Danes could influence me to do a lot of things. despite our differences, WP, our fetish for redheads, and this one in particular, will always be a bond. It's not a coincidence that my wife looks like Claire Danes.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 18 2012 12:18 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

As Brian Krakow could no doubt tell you, Claire Danes hasn't been a redhead in many, many moons. When I saw this thread, I was convinced it would be about this.

metsmarathon Apr 18 2012 12:18 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

wow. if there was a sporcle where you had to match these 100 people with the means by which the might influence me, i'd probably score about a 20%. if i were to do a sporcle where i had to name these 100 people, i might get 10.

metirish Apr 18 2012 12:20 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: As Brian Krakow could no doubt tell you, Claire Danes hasn't been a redhead in many, many moons. When I saw this thread, I was convinced it would be about this. look how happy all those white people are

Edgy MD Apr 18 2012 12:47 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

What the Hell is wrong with the world?!

Benjamin Grimm Apr 18 2012 12:54 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

It's full of humans.

Kong76 Apr 18 2012 07:52 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

I just want to say, I couldn't pick Justin Bieber out of a lineup of five guys. I don't know one song he sings either.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 18 2012 08:10 PM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Purpose of list: Get people talking about the list, reminding them that Time Magazine still exists.

Chad Ochoseis Apr 19 2012 07:18 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

On the plus side, they didn't include Wagner or Glavine.

Edgy MD Apr 19 2012 07:32 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Purpose of list: Get people talking about the list, reminding them that Time Magazine still exists. Effect of list: Get me to resent Time Magazine, making me wish that Time didn't exist. And again, there certainly was a secondary purpose, and that was to promote the properties of Time's corporate partners by disguising them as newsmakers, and that's just all kinds of lousy.

Ceetar Apr 19 2012 07:43 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

I assume they've been doing this list a while. Has there ever been a point where it's been more than that?

metirish Apr 19 2012 08:00 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

I just want to say, I couldn't pick Justin Bieber out of a lineup of five guys. I don't know one song he sings either. This guy looks just like Bieber.............creep Justin Bieber impersonator accused of threatening, sexually abusing NJ girl NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities in Canada have accused a Justin Bieber impersonator of threatening and sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in New Jersey. He's charged in Canada with luring, manufacturing child pornography and extortion. It's not clear whether Moir has an attorney. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray says 34-year-old Lee Moir of Toronto, Ontario, posed as the pop star on Facebook. Authorities allege he threatened to harm the girl's family to force her to perform sex acts using a video chat site. Canadian authorities launched a parallel investigation in which an undercover officer posed as a 14-year-old girl. Authorities say Moir engaged the officer in sexual conversations and requested a meeting. Toronto police arrested him when he arrived at a designated location. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/just ... z1sUjCPkP9

SteveJRogers Apr 19 2012 08:10 AM Re: What the Hell is Wrong with the World, Part 8

Ceetar wrote: I assume they've been doing this list a while. Has there ever been a point where it's been more than that? Well, as I said, on past "Top 100 Most Influential People In The World" lists they'd put celebs enjoying a bit of Andy Warhol time (a bit harsh for some of the celebs, but that is kind of the folly of calling an entertainer whom is enjoying white hot fame for a time "influential") over a sitting President, so yeah, I'd agree with this point.