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April 10, 2005
Who Are the Most Influential 100 People?
This week, TIME presents the TIME 100, our list of the 100 most influential people in the world today. The names span politics, business, the arts, science and more. With so many different fields and individuals to choose from, we want to hear your thoughts on our list. Who should have been included and wasn't? Were any members of the list more influential than others?
 Send us your thoughts  I would have to say Michael Savage. The meer fact that all the press is so afraid to even mention him is telling. I thought I was going crazy with this upside-down politically correct culture until I heard his show. I turn off the TV and Savage Nation is my prime-time show. He should be President or at least an advisor. John McHugh Troy, N.Y.
I agree with at least one of your choices: Bill Clinton. Oh, if we could only have him back as President, our country would not be in such terrible condition.
You left out the Rev. Billy Graham—a great man in my books. He, along with Pope John Paul II, has always denounced the materialistic society we are now living in. Rev. Graham put it best: "I have yet to see a hearse with a U-Haul attached to it pull up to a cemetery." This struck me to the core and I am now acting accordingly. Think about it—isn't the love of money, power and material things at the root of all the dishonesty today in corporations, government, etc., no matter on what scale?
TIME magazine is a strongly left-leaning magazine and proved it again by leaving out Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Rudy Giuliani and continues to be. The U.S. needs a truly fair and balanced news magazine.
You are as far right-wing as any mag alive. Get with the flow and stop trying to destroy the greatest country in the world. [I] wouldn't have your magazine in my house.
The 34 members of my family I consider the most influential people as I would do more for these than any of the so-called celebrities listed. Too much stock is put into some people because they are stars on TV and such and others who are always in the news for some reason or other.
You have omitted Limbaugh and Hannity from your list. I guess you could say you "left" them off intentionally. I know because of the daily input they give the country. We have held off all of the socialist influences of TIME and all of your cohorts on the left.
I think Rush Limbaugh has no place on any list. How can anyone trust the judgment of a drug abuser? The only people he has any influence on are the feeble-minded who cannot think for themselves.
If you are going to include the mindless pandering of Ann Coulter on your list, you could at least ballance it by including some real thinkers such as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn!
Perhaps the criteria should be "worthwhile" rather than influential. Some of your choices are preposterous ... merely a reflection of our increasingly decadent society.
James Dobson is by far the most influencial name left off the list.
No one cared to mention Jesus. Isn't He the most influential person to all the world's Christians?
What a joke. TIME is covering all the bases. Their goal is to sell more TIME.
No doubt. Pope John Paul II. Whether Catholic or not, whether one agreed with all his ideas or not, he clearly affected the most people and gained the love and admiration of the entire world.
What kind of list of the 100 most influentual people doesn't include Arnold Schwarzenegger? The Governor has been quite influential in getting this country to follow a healthy lifestyle, before he ever went on to greater things like becoming a Hollywood icon, as well as his latest accomplishment in becoming Governor of California.
President George W. Bush is my pick, I don't care what Democrats think. He is America's President and leader. His morals are more important to him than a bunch of "girly men".
Barack Obama? He has only been in the Senate for 3 1/2 months! Sounds like you have annointed him!
Ann Coulter one of the 100 most influential people? The woman is so full of hate and narrow-minded speak. How very sad that she made this list!
Ann Coulter was the best choice you could have possibly have made. She speaks the truth, with a sense of humor of the highest order. The Libs may not like it, but this type of thinking is the wave of the future. Noone can stimulate my thought process while at the same time, make me laugh so hard, my co-workers have to wonder.
Michael Moore should be voted as the most influential because he isn't a bit afraid to "tell it like it is" and show us truth in a very entertaining and dramatic way.
What happened to Sean Hannity, no doubt he should have been somewhere on the list, voted No. 1 talk-show host in America. Wow, who could take this list seriously?
I read over your list of "the world's most influential people," and was aghast at seeing Ann Coulter on the list. Worse, her writeup was a hagiography that beggars belief. Like too many other media outlets in this country, you are pandering to the radical right in order to attract readers. You have given Ms. Coulter, the nuttiest and most dishonest of the right wing, a free ride. You have obviously abandoned the standards of journalism that once made you one of the world's top publications. Today, you are barely a notch above People Magazine. I will never read TIME again.
Johnny Depp? A major world influence? This list must have been made in New York City. No other place in the U.S. could be so out of touch with reality and mainstream America.
Why isn't Noam Chomsky ever nominated? Is it because we like to keep the American people ignorant so it's that much easier to brainwash them with patriotism while eviscerating the First Amendment?
If Bill Clinton is on the list, why not Rudy Guiliani? Clinton was there in the '90s but Rudy has been in the spotlight since he left office and was on the president's campaign trail—and he was just a mayor! Now there is talk of him running for Governor or President in 2008. I think he is a very important figure in the present and will be a bigger figure in the future.
Perhaps Bill O'Reilly, who has the most-watched news show in America and three or four best-selling books, over Jay-Z or Hilary Swank. The list is a joke.
I feel like Beyoncé Knowles was left out. Beyoncé is one of the best performers and has left her mark on this generation of people.
Rush Limbaugh is more influential than your whole list. Your left-wing rag does not have the gonads of a possum.
I am disappointed that Howard Stern did not make your list. He is obviously much more influential than most of the entertainers mentioned. Stern was a driving force in the presidential election encouraging millions to register and vote and he is changing the face of mass media in our nation and the world.
I think NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon should be on the list, because he is an excellent racer with a lot of talent, and not only that but he helps charities and even has his own foundation.
What about Bono? He could be in several categories, and the fact that a rock star is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize—well, that's newsworthy.
How can you forget Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili [a Muslim sect] all over the world? In fact he should be on the top of the list with nobody near him from 1 to 10. Please respect us and make the changes.
I would have picked Terri Schiavo as an influential person this year. Her story sparked thouasands of conversations between families about what they would like their final wishes to be. And not only that, her story stressed the need for people to get living wills so in the future these kinds of situations may be avoided.
Pope John Paul II. No one in modern history has been able to touch so many lives in so many ways.
What happened to Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, P. Diddy, whatever, the rap mogul? The muscle behind Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy WorldWide and the Sean John clothing line.
I would certainly have included Lance Armstrong as an influential person for this past year. He is an inspiring figure, not just for his physical endurance, but for his survival after cancer. His attitude has inspired millions, as evidenced by the yellow wristbands I see everywhere.
Are TIME's editors really so myopic to think that 49% [of your list of] important people [who are] from North America (some of whom are unknown outside their countries and outside the so called "white world" ) are important enough to change the lives of the rest of the world?
Rush Limbaugh is one of the most influential entertainers in the history of the country. You may hate him, but that doesn't mean he doesn't wield tremendous influence and posess enormous talent, which you are obviously too biased to recognize. Talk about being imitated! Rush Limbaugh has spawned an entire industry of imitators.
A word about your 100 most influential scientists and thinkers: You seem to have included only people in the humanities and social sciences. I find it incredible that you could not come up with a few more people in the sciences. I think it gives a highly lopsided view of the importance of the sciences in daily life.
You didn't include Putin. I don't like him myself but not including him is pretentious, too dumb [and] pro-American.
Take Bill Clinton out—he does not have any influence over policy or the iconic status that he had in the late '90s. Replace Bill Clinton with Tony Blair.
In your category on artists, you actually did not include any "artists" in the fine arts, visual sense. How could you overlook what a huge part of cultural life art has become, with art fairs, biennials, new museums, the art market itself? You only included a couple of cartoonists, product designers and architects.
Where is Hillary Clinton? Why is she not on the list?
Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins in Dell Inc. For their achievements of making the largest computer and technology company in the world also a grate place to work.
Rafiq Al-Hariri, ex-prime minsiter of Lebanon. He was so influential that his death caused the Muslims and Christians to come together for the first time in Lebanon. Internally, he rebuilt Lebanon and achieved astounding success doing it. In foreign policy, Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon and the 16th June memo of understanding which gave the Islamic Resistance in Southern Lebanon legitimacy are corner stones of his influence in life as in death.
Putting terrorists on your most influential 100 people list is a new low for TIME. The publicity you afford these murderers is not worth the cheap paper you apparently print on. TIME to clean up ... pun intended.
Who are you to decide who are the most influential people in the world? I don't recall TIME getting a mandate from heaven to be the arbiter in deciding anything. Stick to reporting news and keep your opinions to yourselves. |
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