'Since When Is Hillary Clinton Less Influential Than Sarah Palin?'

[onehandle]

Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and then successfully took on the Herculean task of remaking America's world image in the wake of Bush Inc. Apparently, that's just not maverick-y enough for Time.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, Tweets about "Hockey Dads" and policy in 140 characters or less (we'll refrain from commenting on how it might not actually be a good thing to reduce the policies of the United States to a text message), posts ghost-written rants on her Facebook wall, goes on fake-bus tours to promote her un-fact-checked memoir and appears for $100,000+ speaking fees to reliably conservative groups to make fun of journalists, read off her hand and spout a bunch of catch-phrases. For that, and the fan-boy and -girl raves of her followers, she's considered one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2010" — and a "leader" at that, with multiple heads of state, military commanders, the first female Speaker of the House and the CEOs of major corporations. Can I get a "What the motherfuck?", people? I mean, the woman has disapproval ratings of 55 percent among all U.S. adults and only 17 percent of people have strongly favorable views of her. While the disapproval ratings are lower than Congress', the favorables aren't much higher, either. By comparison, Hillary Clinton's approval ratings last December were fully 75 percent.

Plus what, exactly, is Sarah Palin leading, other than fools around by the nose and HarperCollins' book sales figures? She's not leading Alaska anymore, she's not leading the Tea Party movement (given that it's a headless hydra), she's not leading 2012 Presidential polls and she's certainly not leading anything but a small minority of Americans who, like Ted Nugent, praise her carefully-crafted "authenticity" the same way they praised Bush's. I guess we can be thankful Time didn't stick her in the Thinker category, but all the same, Palin's hardly a leader or an innovator.

Clinton, on the other hand, is leading this country's foreign policy. She's logged 127 days abroad in the 15 months since her confirmation in 54 different countries. She oversaw the appointment of the first-ever United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. She's been visible on everything from Haiti reconstruction to denuclearization to climate change to Israeli peace negotiations to putting pressure on Pakistan to remapping our relationship with Russia to wresting control of U.S. policy towards China away from the economists and financiers at the Treasury Department, and she shows no sign of stopping.

http://jezebel.com/5528395/since-when-is-hillary-clinton-less-influential-than-sarah-palin

[Uzybone]

1. When big media tells you so

nt

[craigmatic]

2. Since Hillary has a real job that matters but is very behind the scenes.

where as palin is just a cheap celebrity like paris hilton that the media can't get enough of for some reason.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Considering that there seem to be far more Palin than Clinton threads here...

the media is likely responding to demand.

(If WE can't stop talking about her, why should anyone else stop talking about her?)

[xultar]

4. Dontcha know, batshit is the IT thing!

[Beacool]

5. My Time magazine subscription is up in two months.

I was deciding whether to renew it. They have made my decision much easier and saved me some money. I did not renew my Newsweek subscription earlier this year. Both magazines have lost much of the journalistic integrity that made them worth reading years ago. Today they are nothing more than glorified tabloids.

;(

I love this response in the comments section:

"My aunt saw Hillary Clinton speak at Wellesley when they were both in their twenties. My aunt went home, called my grandmother, and told her she'd just seen the first female President of the United States."

:-)

[Mass]

6. Same magazine that thinks that Scott Brown is one of the 25 leaders in the world.

This list is just plain BS.

[Cha]

7. Since corporatemediawhores manipulate and

manufacture.

I live in an alternate Universe from the US mediawhores..and the air is clean and my thoughts are my own.

[jillan]

8. It's because Hillary can't see Russia from her house....

It's insane, isn't it??

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. I'm sick of hearing about that Palin creature

Palin is no match for our Hillary.

Palin is such an uninteresting lightweight.

[karynnj]

10. Lady GaGa is on the list

That should say it all. (Scott Brown being one of the top 25 world leaders is pretty strange.)