It's the dog days of summer, time for another pointless "power rankings" list from celebrity gossip newsletter Forbes with its annual "World's 100 Most Powerful Women" list complete with all the usual numbskullery that leads a seereus jernalizm outfit to rank Michele Bachmann (#22) ahead of the Prime Minister of Australia (#23) in global power.
Every dollar she bilks out of the teabaggers is a dollar less for the GOP. I call it an overall win: she's annoying as hell, but one more wealthy idiot won't make a difference in this country.
Being stupid is not a lifestyle choice -- but in Duhhmerika, it is a career move. Between Faux News and the cable TV dreckfests, there's a lucrative market for dumb.
Which raises a question for Wonketeers: are we too smart to be that dumb, or not smart enough to play dumb as convincingly as Palin, Bachmann, and the Faux blowhards?
I'm pretty sure my small town kindergarten teacher is a more powerful woman than the Snowbilly Grifter. Decades of teaching and folks left her classroom with greater literacy and humanity than the SG's pathetic groupies can collectively muster.
I think you mean Murdoch, no?
In Alaska those would be armed liberals. They would take that copter down. The wolves don't stand a chance in the snow.
BTW, it's swell to have someone other than the downfister *following me*.
The GOP is the Jersey Shore of US politics.
She's a Texan at heart.
Every dollar she bilks out of the teabaggers is a dollar less for the GOP. I call it an overall win: she's annoying as hell, but one more wealthy idiot won't make a difference in this country.
Being stupid is not a lifestyle choice -- but in Duhhmerika, it is a career move. Between Faux News and the cable TV dreckfests, there's a lucrative market for dumb.
Which raises a question for Wonketeers: are we too smart to be that dumb, or not smart enough to play dumb as convincingly as Palin, Bachmann, and the Faux blowhards?
Fortune? I don't read that magazine.
why, pray, do you wander over to fox?
expiation for some unmentionable sin?
crazy eyes, crazy words.
boobs.
I think Forbes is trying to compete with MAD Magazine
Wolf puppies.
An honorary gay is the way he put it.
I'm pretty sure my small town kindergarten teacher is a more powerful woman than the Snowbilly Grifter. Decades of teaching and folks left her classroom with greater literacy and humanity than the SG's pathetic groupies can collectively muster.
Yah, I'm glad I swallowed my coffee before I hit that gem. Must be the living-in-a-bus lifestyle that vaulted her to the top.
She'll quit when there's more money to be made elsewhere.