100 Most Influential Liberals…
The Daily Telegraph has compiles a list of the 100 most influential Liberals in the U.S. A couple of MSNBCers made the cut…
38. CHRIS MATTHEWS
Cable television hostMotor-mouth presenter of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Capitol Hill aide to the legendary House Speaker Tip O’Neill and a presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter. A former newspaper journalist, he had a failed run for a congressional seat in Pennsylvania in 1974.
Has become an increasingly strident critic of the Bush administration and is vilified by conservatives as the epitome of a biassed liberal journalist. Pronouncements that the Bush administration was guilty of “criminality”, that the “frogs were right” to oppose the Iraq war and that it was a mistake to “declare war on Islam” are often cited against him.
67. KEITH OLBERMANN
Cable television hostA former sports reporter, Olbermann has used his MSNBC cable show Countdown to style himself the alternative to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, promoting an increasingly strident liberal agenda. With a rapidly growing audience and a new four-year contract, he will be a force on the Left for some time to come.
In July, he called for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to resign, saying: “We enveloped our President in 2001. And those who did not believe he should have been elected — indeed, those who did not believe he had been elected — willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship. And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point and stabbed this nation in the back with it.”
From Liberal #4 “We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good”.Was she talking to Slick at the time?
Comment by mike — November 3, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
Ted Kennedy should rank in the top 10 maybe top 5. I don’t think Arnold Schwarzengger and Oprah Winfrey are liberals. I would rank Joe Biden and James Carville higher. Where are Bill Maher, Alan Colmes, Ed Schultz and Russ Feingold?
Comment by RJ — November 4, 2007 @ 12:39 am
This is a British made list.
Comment by Aaron — November 4, 2007 @ 4:37 am
Apparently Olbermann made the list, somewhere. He is influential, in that we hear of his extremely childish antics and hate liberalism even more. He is a poster boy for liberals, at least on cable news.
It goes without saying that a conservative could not get away with any of these actions, so it makes us hate the actions of the libs even more to see how hypocrisy runs so rampant among their ranks. For a good example of his poor behavior, just read the comments re: his Rudy Giuliani “apology”.
Keith and his actions would be an embarassment to any organization to which he would belong, be it cable news, a bowling league or a criminal organization. MSNBC is really skating on thin ice employing someone of such low character and ethics among their ranks.
Comment by Missy — November 4, 2007 @ 11:36 am
What I don’t get is that Keith Olbermann ranks higher on this “most influential” list as a liberal than Bill O’Reilly does as a conservative.
Granted, Mr. Bill isn’t quite a conservative, but come on. Do the people that concocted this list really think Olbermann (L,#67) has more clout that O’Reilly (C,#82)??
Comment by John-O — November 4, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
The fact that Olby is 67 and BO does not mean Olby is more influential since the lists are independent from each other.
Still, it shows that there are more influential cons that libs.
Comment by jmkaib — November 4, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
The only thing demonstrated by Olbermann being ranked higher than O’Reilly is the lack of depth in the liberal field, as there is no questions as to who has the bigger audience — and thereby more influence.
Comment by Caufield — November 5, 2007 @ 12:27 am