Boo on you, Forbes meanies, for suggesting our beloved girlfriend Sheila Bair isn’t the most powerful woman in the world. Still, #2 ain’t bad! Who rounds out the top five? Some Pepsi person, a common mineral miner, and the chief executive of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. In other words, a pack of nobodies who are probably a real drag at parties, all “I’ll just have a club soda with a slice of lime,” and with nothing to talk about except their work and the INSANE number of frequent flier miles they racked up last year. Sheila Bair, on the other hand, does not get along so well with Tim Geithner, which suggests she has at least the rudimentary genetic material required to grow a Soul. [Forbes]
Sheila Bair Considered Less Powerful Than That German Broad ‘Merkel’
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I like strong powerful women…women on top…I mean successful…
List FAIL.
Where the heck is Michele Bachmann?
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, the US Secretary of State and FLOTUS come in between 35 and 40? And Oprah and Queen Elizabeth trail them? I have to question Forbes’s definition of power.
Sarah, dear Sarah, clocking in at number….hmm, not here.
Less known about Sheila Bair: She is the unofficial mascot of the Chelsea Bear Association. I was at Rawhide the other night, and her face was everywhere.
Hey! Indra Nooyi is not a nobody! She sends me e-mails all the time.
Number 1 on the list: Glenn Beck.
Number 2: Steve Forbes
Number 3: Josh Goldburg
Number 4: Mann Coulter (disqualified)
Number 5: Harry Reid
I would do anything Carla Bruni told me to do.
[re=392127]Humpback[/re]: Sehr seltsam, seeing Hillz & Pelosi down a ways, but then it is Forbes. All they care about is $€£¥. Not sure about that last one.
Your name is “Not Sure.” Is this correct?
SKS working overtime! I salute & thank you for the evening post.
[re=392136]shadowMark[/re]: Even if she has not shaved her Public Optiom? You are so easy to please.
[re=392130]bitterz[/re]: Ha ha ha. Steve’s research people toss out Sarah into the back alley and she campaigned for Steve when he tried to be president. Plucky bastard Steve Forbes. Yeah I’ll pay your cab fare home/You can even use my best cologne/Just don’t be here in the morning when I wake up
Bair thinks she is hot stuff huh? Well, can she take a Bush massage like this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfrHT8o-0A
Fancy pants RINO in the New Yawker lady: You are number 2 because you wouldn’t take one for the team.
Sara Smith, most powerful blogger! HOw u like that?!?
My husband has a big fat economist-crush on her.
[re=392137]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Yeah, their definition of powerful is eminently skewed. The CEO of Xerox is #15? Really? Does anybody even own a Xerox copier anymore?
That also has to be the least flattering picture of Cristina Fernandez that I’ve ever seen.
I take some consolation in the fact that Michelle Obama has managed to eke out a superior rating over Oprah. Although right after Oprah is the least powerful woman on the whole list — some biddy consigned to ineffectuality by her own government named Queen Elizabeth II or something. I guess they had to put her on the list just to be polite.
[re=392151]SayItWithWookies[/re]: They had to put Lilibet on the list because she’s inherited more Fabergé eggs than Steve Forbes.
[re=392131]dennymcden[/re]: I wonder whether Wonkette’s Britain-based beef-eater Bearbloke might be in favor of founding a fey, furry, and Furry-friendly London chapter of the Chelsea Bair Association.
I had 90 bucks on Peggy for No. 1. This is truly bafflington in naturalness, picturesque, idealismesque esqueness.
[re=392153]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I think they’re related — Forbes has the same freakish Windsor-Mountbatten earlobes.
And we’re back. Whew! Please don’t take my late night Wonkette away. Plus I don’t think that Townhall slut had finished reading all the helpful comments we left for her.
[re=392158]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Ack! Those are two frightening-looking humanoids, quite apart from the earlobe porn. Yikes.
[re=392162]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Sheila Bair’s evil powers have kept me away from Wonkette for a while also, and forced me into the bright warm sunlit day of normal, socially well-adjusted, real life…. DAMN YOU, SHEILA BAIR!!!!!
[re=392163]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Studies have shown that the unholy love-child of Malcom Forbes and Prince Charles would actually be able to fly.
And completey O/T, but look at the video at this otherwise barely-related link. I’ve never heard of Rep. Anthony Weiner before, but now I want to grow up to be him.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/chuck-todd-gets-one-thing-frakked-and-o
[re=392167]SayItWithWookies[/re]: It’s Weiner and Frank all the way!!
Weiner schooled Joe Duechborow the other morning on Health Care.
I cold never grow up to be Weiner … Also
[re=392167]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I sent fan mail to Rep. Weiner yesterday even though I’m in CA, not his district in NY. He has a knack for slicing through whatever talking head won’t STFU, but he does it in a way that’s not obnoxious. Tweety had him on the other day and I personally would have grabbed him by the tie and headbutted him to get a fucking word in, but Rep. Weiner just did his thing and spoke his clear thoughts about health care without the need for fisticuffs. He’s my hero!
Seeing how The New Yorker last week lionized Michael Savage I’ll have to pass on reading their article.
[re=392168]Suds McKenzie[/re]: [re=392169]Sick Puppy[/re]: I’m thrilled that someone’s to the left of President Obama and not frightened by the usual bugbears and is presenting a reasonable case for the single-payer option. Which, by the way, one of our favorite bloggers has something about.
In our enlightened age of global corporate power, there’s no such thing as being the wrong gender. As long as you can get that 14-year-old Indian girl who moved away from the family farm to work longer days/weeks than the outdated, 12/7 third world standard. Amoral monsters can have vaginas, too!
oh snap , no hilary clinton.
Let’s see, Malcolm Forbes was a closeted homosexual who rode around on Harley’s with Liz Taylor (which makes him either very Republican or Michael Jackson), and have you ever looked at Steve Forbes? I mean, are you really worried about what they say about any women?
Also, these businesswomen clearly have more testosterone than the personality-free vacant-eyed son-of-a-homo-capitalist-named-Malcolm publishing heir Steve Forbes.
[re=392176]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: [re=392177]My choice. My Wonkette.[/re]: Whoa, hey, great minds think alike.
[re=392154]Extemporanus[/re]: Phah! Are you suggesting that I may possibly be interested in phucking Phurries?!?!? Phie on you! – as some Yank friends might say, “Bearbloke don’t play that” – and for that matter, neither do these Bearblokes, nor these!
Perhaps you’re not informed about Bearbloke society or customs, but know that “Furries” & their costumes are as rare as razors amongst us Bearblokes and held in similar disdain. We generally try to wear as little as possible when ‘socializing’, and the only ‘costume’ you may see a Bearbloke wearing (especially when he’s trying to get his wick dipped – wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!) will be a “LeatherBear” look (best, but not always) accompanied with a Bike, or maybe a sport-kit (his own – like my Rugby kit or University wrestling gear, or something he looks good in – so no Cricket-wear!) or maybe a uniform (again, either his own from his Service-days, or something he looks good in – like the California Department of Forestry uniform I was ‘awarded’ while on my Overseas some years back by a Ranger who ‘just happened’ to find himself at Lazy Bear Weekend (google it) and thought I deserved it following a particularly good ‘Ursine encountre’ he & I had that evening-into-morning… ahh, memories!). Blue-collar work-clothes are always popular, provided that they are your own actual work-clothes since good solid manual labor (of farmers, mechanics, truckers, carpenters, oil-riggers – any guy whose work-appearance wouldn’t benefit from a manicure) is celebrated (if not fetishised) – which part of the reason why the late-n-loud Billy Mays, along with the American celebrities Larry the Cable Guy, and Richard Karn (from tv’s ‘Home Improvement’), Dan Haggerty & Merlin Olsen (from tv and the masturbatory revelries of Gen-X Bearblokes like me) are/were well-beloved niche sex-gods in some of our circles.
Beyond that, but in the same vein, you’ll find objects of Bearbloke-style eye-candy in unusual places like history & politics; in the UK, there’s a long-standing appreciation for HM Edward VII (especially back when they used to have a portrait-copy of his coronation at The King’s Arms pub), and your US President Grant (American Bearblokes have been known to bring $50USD notes to foreign events just to cause lustful envy amongst those who are stuck with some old Queen on their cash), and of course President Lula da Silva of Brazil, who catches a glance even the most ‘low-information’ Bearbloke, leading to the question “Hey, who’s that?”…
Since I’ve gone on long enough to risk calls to “Ban-Hammer ‘The Bearbloke-show’”, reminiscent of a certain Ms. ‘CW’ of some weeks back, I’ll stop now that my lunchtime is almost over – but only after you, Extemporanus, tell me when in the world you are, so that I may come to you and AVENGE this scurrilous calumny you dare lay before our Wonkette peers. I demand Satisfaction, Sir/Madame, at (your local) dawn, with your choice of swords or pistols.
GOOD DAY, Sir/Madam! ….. I SAID ‘Good Day’!
[re=392167]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I wrote on these pages a couple days ago that I thought Weiner or someone like him would be our next president. This was in the context of talking about Biden or Hillary running in 2016. I said enough of the olds, let’s have another person ineligible for the AARP.
[re=392131]dennymcden[/re]: Rawhide? London, N’awlins or NYC?
[re=392178]My choice. My Wonkette.[/re]: Well, it often takes until the middle of the night for the really good weed to kick in. |)
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Kristen Atkinson didn’t make the list?
Ha ha that picture they use of Oprah is hilarious, especially when Liz comes right after her.
We are more powerful than you!
[re=392153]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Steve didn’t inherit those eggs. He squirts them out of his AAA bond hole.
“Sheila is the skunk at the picnic.” And that’s a compliment?
[re=392176]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: We used to run into Malcolm all the time in the supermarket in Bedminster, NJ when we lived there… Really nice guy. Also used to see John DeLorean, but no Steve Forbes.
Missing from the list again! Carly used to be to be like #1 or #2???? That’s what a year with John McCain will do for you… Her campaign site is up, BTW: http://www.karlaforsenate.com
Why is she hiding behind the flag in that picture? I feel like I am playing virtual Hide-and-Seek with Sheila Bair.
http://www.hillaryis35.com
Wait, what?
The Daily Show’s Kristen Schaal runs the FDIC?
“….suggests she has at least the rudimentary genetic material required to grow a Soul.”
Also, she’s a Kansan! So she definitely has a Soul, it’s probably just quiet and sedate and not necessarily “soulful” … but not “soulless” either…just a very square soul. Oh man this weed is good…..
[re=392181]Bearbloke[/re]: NYC, but does it really matter? (I find it funny that all Bear/Bair bars are named some variation of ‘Rawhide’.) I can’t actually frequent that particular bar, as I get angry looks when I go in, (I’m not a Bair), and thus, Sheila Bair will now concoct a personal recession for me alone. For lying.
[re=392179]Bearbloke[/re]: My, my, my, good sir! Who micturated in your marmalade?!
Your suggestion that I suggested that there was a suggestion that you would be open to suggestion should a Furry suggest something unseemly is, I would suggest, suggestive of a misreading of my innocent intent.
It would appear that my attempt at alliterative wittiness regarding a proposed Chelsea Bair Association—”fey, furry, and Furry-friendly”—may have missed the mark. My aim was that of Obama-esque inclusiveness, as I am quite well-aware that there is (sadly, I would submit) little-to-no interaction amongst the three aforementioned affiliations. That said, I do find it a wee bit curious that the mere mention of “Furry” in the same breath as “furry” would so raise your hirsute hackles, yet the similar association with femi-twink-ish “fey” merited nary a “Fi.” Hmm…
Your “Brief History of Hairy Fuckers” was quite a good read, and much appreciated, though in my case rather unnecessary. In the interest of defending myself against your asymmetrical besmirching, and at the risk of veerying into “Some of my friends are…” territory, please be so kind as to peep this shit:
I’ve lived in San Francisco for over 15 years, have yet to miss a Folsom Street Fair or Pride Parade, and have more than once found myself wasted at Rawhide SF after attending one event or the other. In my youth, I worked for quite some time at a 1970s era seminal leather bar (windowless basement, floor drains, wall shackles, free fisting with every pitcher, the works) in Madison, Wisconsin, HomoMecca of the Midwest. Finally, I have no need to Google “Lazy Bear Weekend”, as I have (inadvertently) been an attendee, and furthermore, have previously suggested that you do the same!
Ahem. Now, should you still wish to duel at dawn, I suppose that is, as the subject of an antiquainted colonial “power”, your Gog-give right. But I’ll have you know that I am a direct, bearded descendent of your vaulted President Grant, and I might add, rather quick with a cutlass, whether riding bareback or otherwise. Lastly, I’m busy at dawn, and besides, here in the U.S. America we prefer to dispatch our adversaries at high noon, on a dusty public thoroughfare, whilst whores and whiskey await a mere hammer-fall away.
It’s now drink-o’clock (lunch), so cheeri-O, old chap! I’ll be sure to down a pint or four in memory of Oliver Reed on your bear-half! Raawwrrr!
(Now we will both be banned. I hope that you are happy.)
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