Have you seen the list conjured up by the UK's Telegraph of America's 50 most influential pundits?

[Bozita]

Do they sell Kool-Aid across the pond? Well, now we have proof.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/02/top-50-pundits-rove-s-number-1/

Here's the complete list:

50. RACHEL MADDOW
49. MARY MATALIN
48. PAUL KRUGMAN
47. JC WATTS
46. MARK LEVIN
45. FRED BARNES
44. JEFFREY TOOBIN
43. PAUL BEGALA
42. BILL BENNETT
41. MARK SHIELDS
40. TONY SNOW
39. DEE DEE MYERS
38. MICHAEL BARONE
37. EUGENE ROBINSON
36. NEWT GINGRICH
35. JOE TRIPPI
34. HOWARD KURTZ
33. ROLAND MARTIN
32. WILLIAM KRISTOL
31. JUAN WILLIAMS
30. PEGGY NOONAN
29. RON FOURNIER
28. JAMES CARVILLE
27. PAT BUCHANAN
26. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
25. MICHAEL SAVAGE
24. LAURA INGRAHAM
23. MIKE ALLEN
22. DICK MORRIS
21. DAVID GERGEN
20. JOE KLEIN
19. DONNA BRAZILE
18. FRANK LUNTZ
17. ANDREW SULLIVAN
16. GLENN BECK
15. BILL MAHER
14. CHUCK TODD
13. KEITH OLBERMANN
12. BILL O'REILLY
11. STEPHEN COLBERT
10. MARK HALPERIN
9. DAVID BROOKS
8. JON STEWART
7. TIM RUSSERT
6. MATT DRUDGE
5. JOHN HARRIS AND JIM VANDEHEI
4. RUSH LIMBAUGH
3. SEAN HANNITY
2. CHRIS MATTHEWS
1. KARL ROVE

[Olney Blue]

1. I was hoping we could hide Karl Rove from the rest of the world.

[Bozita]

4. I was thinking of a prison in Louisiana that comes highly recommended by Don Siegelman.

Actually, Don would like for Karl to have the same "room."

[yella_dawg]

2. Pigboy is fourth while Rachel is fiftieth...

Yet Rachel can get a TV gig without getting ousted in the first week.


Weird.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Name Recognition, Too

A lot of these polls are more on personality than anything else. Rushbo's been polluting the airwaves for a long time and his bile spews on radios all over the country. Rachel's just getting into the game...and her show on AAR is on when most people aren't listening...more only see her on cable.

I'm sure Rushbo's biggest letdown is how he's so toxic on television...he's truly the definition of having a "face for radio". :rofl:

[zippy890]

3. Colbert beats out O'Reilly lol

:rofl:

can't wait to see Stephen's take on this

[depakid]

5. LOL. The Telegraph once again living up to its reputation

of cluelessness and inaccuracy.

[Bozita]

7. That's an understatement.

This time, they really did it.

[High Plains]

6. About half of them should face summary execution.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Just to note: we call the Telegraph the 'Torygraph"!

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Sorry, but lists aren't news. : ( n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. I love that Jon and Stephen beat out Billo!!!! I get the creeps seing Rove as number one.

[UTUSN]

11. Tweety at #TWO?!1 It's confirmed: SOMEbody is trying to give me a stroke!1

I was prepared to quibble over MAHER and BECK being called *both* pundits AND influential, and other such anomalies, but Tweety next to KKKarl?!1


Just by audience #s alone-------or wait a minute, "influential" is separate from #s?

[Bozita]

13. This is now being discussed on C-SPAN's Washington Journal