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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:09 PM
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Forbes demonstrates they don't know what a liberal is.
Edited on Fri Jan-23-09 03:10 PM by BurtWorm
Here's their "Top 25 most influential liberals" list. What the fuck are Fred Hiatt, Thomas Friedman, David Shipley (!), Fareed Zakaria, Andrew Sullivan(!) ... What are half the people on this list doing on here?! :wtf:

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/22/influential-media-obama-oped-cx_tv_ee_hra_0122liberal_slide_15.html?thisSpeed=25000

1. Paul Krugman
2. Arianna Huffington
3. Fred Hiatt
4. Thomas Friedman
5. Jon Stewart
6. Oprah Winfrey
7. Rachel Maddow
8. Josh Marshall
9. David Shipley
10. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
11. Fareed Zakaria
12. Chris Matthews
13. Bill Moyers
14. Christopher Hitchens
15. Maureen Dowd
16. Matt Yglesias
17. Hendrick Hertzberg
18. Glenn Greenwald
19. Andrew Sullivan
20. Gerald Seib
21. Jim Fallows
22. Ezra Klein
23. Kevin Drum
24. Kurt Andersen
25. Michael Pollan
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:11 PM
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1. Bill Moyers is #13?
Give me a break! He belongs ahead of all 12 above him! Michael Pollan should be closer to the top as well.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 05:48 PM
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6. He's more influential than Paul Krugman?
I got the impression his program was cancelled at one point. If that's what happens to the most influential liberal in the US, then we're screwed.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:11 PM
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2. According to the right, everyone else is a liberal
Chris Matthews, huh? Hoo boy
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:18 PM
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5. Apparently, anyone to the left of Mussolini is a liberal to them. nt
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:12 PM
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3. Hitchens?
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 03:18 PM
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4. wow...I'd love to see
the rest of the list. It probably has every journalist across the globe that has ever peeped a word against corporate power.
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