Top 100 most influential (America)

cincybearcat
cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
edited November 2006 in A Moving Train
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061121/dctu004.html?.v=81

great list..cool idea...
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    That's a pretty conservative, unimaginative list.
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    Byrnzie wrote:
    That's a pretty conservative, unimaginative list.


    Who's missing?

    Sometimes list are unimaginative because it's easy to see the truth. But seriously, who is missing...I've been trying to think of some omissions, you can't please everyone.
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  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    That list is missing a Clinton. That's why it's conservative and unimaginative.


    I don't see Madonna either. :(

    Hell, where's Sean Penn??
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  • VictoryGin
    VictoryGin Posts: 1,207
    oh my god. what a sausage fest.

    woodrow wilson? that racist prick?
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    VictoryGin wrote:
    oh my god. what a sausage fest.

    woodrow wilson? that racist prick?

    That is true...I'm still waiting to see who people would add...perhaps a great female mathematician? Barbie. ;)

    Gotta be American though...
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  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    That list is missing a Clinton. That's why it's conservative and unimaginative.


    I don't see Madonna either. :(

    Hell, where's Sean Penn??

    Madonna probably should be on there. There should probably be a lot more people from the world of pop culture.

    Edit: I am suprised not to see Muhommad Ali.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    What about Al Gore...if he invented the internet he shoudl be WAY up there. ;)

    Pop Culture....hmmmm....lasting effect or simply fad of the day? Maybe some.
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  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    cincybearcat wrote:
    What about Al Gore...if he invented the internet he shoudl be WAY up there. ;)

    Pop Culture....hmmmm....lasting effect or simply fad of the day? Maybe some.

    That is why marilyn monroe is on there. I think Madonna will forever have a lasting effect.

    Al Gore never claimed to invent the internet.
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  • VictoryGin
    VictoryGin Posts: 1,207
    cincybearcat wrote:
    That is true...I'm still waiting to see who people would add...perhaps a great female mathematician? Barbie. ;)

    Gotta be American though...

    well it seems like they opened up a traditional history textbook and pulled the list from there. i'm seriously surprised over wilson, not just because he was openly racist (which had an impact on our society--increase in violence), but the interventionist aspect being painted so positively. wow.

    they really played it safe with the ladies, with margret sanger being a possible exception. i'd throw alice paul on the list. she's my favorite suffragist. and what about that socialist hellen keller? ;)
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  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    cincybearcat wrote:
    Who's missing?

    Sometimes list are unimaginative because it's easy to see the truth. But seriously, who is missing...I've been trying to think of some omissions, you can't please everyone.

    I think Rush Limbaugh should be there. But yeah, whoever I bump for Madonna, Rush and Ali, would be people that some say should not be bumped. It's a 100 person list with maybe 250 that deserve consideration.
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  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    VictoryGin wrote:
    well it seems like they opened up a traditional history textbook and pulled the list from there. i'm seriously surprised over wilson, not just because he was openly racist (which had an impact on our society--increase in violence), but the interventionist aspect being painted so positively. wow.

    they really played it safe with the ladies, with margret sanger being a possible exception. i'd throw alice paul on the list. she's my favorite suffragist. and what about that socialist hellen keller? ;)

    Just because the influence is bad, does not make one not influential.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Just because the influence is bad, does not make one not influential.


    That's what I was thinking
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  • VictoryGin
    VictoryGin Posts: 1,207
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Just because the influence is bad, does not make one not influential.

    ah, interesting point. i feel better now. although, it would be nice to see that in his blurb. and if that's the case, i'm surprised they didn't put andrew "indian killer" jackson up there (unless i missed it).
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,882
    VictoryGin wrote:
    ah, interesting point. i feel better now. although, it would be nice to see that in his blurb. and if that's the case, i'm surprised they didn't put andrew "indian killer" jackson up there (unless i missed it).


    #18
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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Byrnzie wrote:
    That's a pretty conservative, unimaginative list.


    where is Michael Moore?
  • VictoryGin
    VictoryGin Posts: 1,207
    cincybearcat wrote:
    #18

    sweet, thanks. i'm operating in a small window here. and i had a lot of wine last night.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    How the fuck is bob dylan not on that list.
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  • Scratchin a Letter
    Scratchin a Letter Posts: 2,303
    miller8966 wrote:
    How the fuck is bob dylan not on that list.
    I don't know, maybe because he's liberal? :D
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    Scratchin a Letter wrote:
    I don't know, maybe because he's liberal? :D

    hes not..but you can keep thinking that.
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  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    Muhammad Ali is not on this list??? At least Babe Ruth, the original king of connecting capitalism and sports, was on here. Noam Chomsky, revolutionary linguist, and revolutionary of the 20th and 21st century's. These people changed the way we experience life in the United States, and were ommitted.

    Edit:
    How can you put Betty Friedan on here and not have Ella Baker?

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