Rolling Stone: "100 Agents of Change"

[babylonsister]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obama_tina_fey_rahm_change_age.html#more


Obama, Tina Fey, Rahm: 'Change agents'
Posted March 19, 2009 10:50 AM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


Who tops the Rolling Stone list of the "100 agents of change?''

The president whom the magazine endorsed as a candidate: Barack Obama.

The issue on sale Friday ranks "100 artists and leaders, policymakers, writers, thinkers, scientists and provocateurs who are fighting every day to show us what is possible -- whether it's engineering a new electrical grid, reinventing the way movies are made or challenging us to let go of our illusions and face the brave new world that stands before us.



"This list is not necessarily about power in the old-fashioned sense but about the power of ideas, the power of innovation, the power of making people think and making them move,'' Rolling Stone notes of its ''Agents of Change.''

Obama, at No. 1, is followed by the "Lewis and Clark of the Internet," Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Television's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert claimed No. 5, for emerging "energized after a late-2008 period of Bush fatigue."

Television's Tina Fey ranks No. 8, for swinging a "few points'' toward Obama in the election campaign with her portrayals of Republican Sarah Palin.

Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff and architect of the House Democratic election campaigns that handed his party control in the mid-term, lands the No. 9 slot, for changing "the art of the deal in Washington."

It would be a luxury if the function of the list we present here were simply to shake ourselves out of complacency,'' the magazine reports.

" But, unfortunately, we are far beyond that. With the election of Barack Obama and the deep hole that his predecessor left for him to dig his way out of, change is no longer a dreamy notion but a reality -- and a responsibility. We've ranked 100 artists and leaders, policymakers, writers, thinkers, scientists and provocateurs who are fighting every day to show us what is possible -- whether it's engineering a new electrical grid, reinventing the way movies are made or challenging us to let go of our illusions and face the brave new world that stands before us.''

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Howard Dean better be #3. n/t

[msongs]

2. ha ha google's data miners nearly topped the list - marketing rules the roost nt

[rocktivity]

3. Rahm Emanuel was the architect of the Dem mid-term election victory? Really?

And how much higher does Dr. Dean and his fifty-state strategy rank on this list?

:headbang:
rocknation

[babylonsister]

4. Yes he was...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

The position of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman (DCCC) was assumed by Emanuel after the death of the previous chair, Bob Matsui. Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections. After Emanuel's election as chairman of the Democratic Caucus, Chris Van Hollen became committee chair for the 110th Congress.

[rocktivity]

5. That explains where Rolling Stone got their info

But here's what they would have found if they'd also done a search on Howard Dean:

As chairman of the (DNC), Dean created and employed the "50 State Strategy" that attempted to make Democrats competitive in normally conservative states often dismissed in the past as "solid red". The success of the strategy became apparent after the 2006 midterm elections, where Democrats took back the House and picked up seats in the Senate from normally Republican states such as Missouri and Montana. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama used "The 50 state strategy" as the backbone of his candidacy...This led to the expansion of the battleground states from just Ohio and Florida to also include New Mexico, Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri, Virginia, and Colorado.

:rofl:
rocktivity

[wyldwolf]

6. yes, and the only place where there's disagreement on that is the this little tiny corner of the net

... called the netroots.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. Josh Micah Marshall and Melanie Slone also made the cut

lots of good folks on the list

[babylonsister]

8. Thanks for that; I didn't even look at the list but will now. I'm glad

Josh got some well-deserved kudos.

[rocktivity]

9. Here's a link to the entire list

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26754176/the_rs_100_agents_of_change/print

Anderson Cooper and Arnold Schwarzenegger made it, Howard Dean did not. And I think I've figured out Rahm Emanuel's inclusion: "Barack Hussien Obama: The Rolling Stone Interview"!

:rofl:
rocktvity

[wyldwolf]

10. I've figured out Rahm Emanuel's inclusion in it, too

He won the 2006 House elections and Obama recognized a winner.

[Cha]

11. And Dean did nothing?..yeah, go ahead and

live in your little rahm did it all bubble.

[wyldwolf]

12. tell me what he did. Specific names, places, events

Explain how the 50 state strategy worked in 2006. Who did Dean have in each state in 2006 and what did they do? Surely there is a record of it or are we to just accept it without evidence?

I'm not denying Dean's very important role in 2008. But in 2006, what Dean termed as a "long term strategy" simply did not have time to work, which is why I don't expect any specific answers from you.

What was Dean's biggest contribution in 2006? He caved and gave Rahm the money he wanted to finance the close House races.

[ogneopasno]

13. And only 15 are women. That says a lot.