Most Influential People of the Year? Time Magazine Wants You to Decide

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |

Time magazine wants your help in determining the most influential people of the year. They’ve posted a short-list of 200 potential candidates, and guess who’s currently topping the list?

Stephen Colbert!

Could the mischievous Comedy Central host possibly add “most influential” person of the year, to his “greatest living American” title?

You decide!

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6 Responses to “Most Influential People of the Year? Time Magazine Wants You to Decide”

  1. Dean Says:

    Sidney Crosby at #4 and John Mayer at #15???? First, how can a player in a sport nobody watches have any influence on anything? John Mayer? John Mayer???? I guess dating Jessica Simpson must give you some stature.

    I must be missing something. Next you’ll tell me that Sanjaya kid made the list…err…umm…nevermind. :P

  2. Simon Heseltine Says:

    …and Thierry Henry at #39?? Well I guess he’s spent this season influencing Wenger to sell him…

  3. Brian Says:

    Steve Jobs, Matt Groening, and Jon Stewart make sense for top three, because they tend to provide products / opinions / commentary to people at a very adaptable age.

    Most of the list seems ridiculus (worthy of ridicule), as if National Enquirer put it together.

  4. Jordan McCollum Says:

    Right now: Perez Hilton, #21. Paris Hilton, dead last (#203).

  5. Andy Beal Says:

    Thierry Henry, Thierry Henry…once a gooner, always a gooner! ;-)

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