Every campaign season in our increasingly retarded nation, potential voters are presented with many important survey and poll battles such as “What celebrity of the moment is better/worse than a completely unrelated government official?” For example: This person Lady Gaga, who seems to be mentioned a lot more than actually heard, could she defeat San Francisco grandmother and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a dance-off? What does this say about the Republicans’ midterm chances?
Also, what if this isn’t even a question on the survey, and the survey is actually just a “list of the world’s most powerful women” press release from that finance magazine that recently called Obama a watermelon, yet this make-believe battle still ends up as the headline both on the teevee news and on the political websites? Because that’s what happened — we just heard the MSNBC anchor gal say the same basic headline as we’ve got here, which we are only very lightly parodying from the Guardian/Forbes/Wire Service versions.
The newly released 2010 Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women has ranked Michelle Obama at number 1, usurping the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and even beating omnipresent singer Lady Gaga into 7th place.
The annual list saw a number of media personalities breach the top 10, including two talk show hosts, Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres …. Obama takes the number 1 spot, having been ranked 40th last year, while Winfrey is 3rd (last year 41st), Lady Gaga is 7th (unplaced), Beyonce Knowles is considered the 9th most powerful woman on the planet (unplaced) and Degeneres 10th (unplaced).
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives – and second in line for the US presidency after the vice-president, Joe Biden – is 11th on the list. Earlier this year, Pelosi was heralded as the most powerful woman in US history and the most powerful Speaker in a century.
[Guardian]
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Yeah, well, I saw Lady Gaga taking a sweaty yoga class here:
http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/educati...
the gagas are everywhere you know
Forbes' choice for number sixteen (mentioned in the Guaradian's last paragraph) kind of refudiates the list's validity.
I for one welcome our new Lada Gaga overlord.
Sarah Palin took 16th place — which got me thinking about how much fun it would be if Bristol outranked her mom. If that happened we'd all forget the name Medea.
It'd be even better if Willow outranked her Mom. Carnage in the Mat-su Valley, for sure.
We could never forget the name Madea. After hosting a family reunion and going to jail, I'm sure she's secured a prominent place on this list.
Have you ever contemplated what fraction of the US population you can be addressing with the statement "…we'd all forget the name Medea"?
Let alone Mercede
If I can look up firing pins, Miley Cyrus, the career of JD Hayworth, BP's safety record in Alaska and Button Fucking Gwinnett so that I can understand what people who talk about those things are saying, anyone who doesn't know who Medea is can look that up. I spelled it right, so that's more help than I get from most people who demonize Saul Alinsky.
Most people who need to look it up wouldn't bother, assuming that you were talking about the lame-stream Medea.
That's what the news outelts get for letting Trig write the headlines again.
Stupid fucking cuntry is fucking stupid.
Because I suspect the AFA hatesacks would be a might uncomfortable with that prospect.
Only for a little while though…Gaga would soon make them very comfortable…if you know what I mean.
Unless she has a filthy rest stop bathroom and a penis, I don't think she has the right equipment to make them comfortable.
Will a strap-on count? Also…wasn't there a rumor that she's actually a dude?
Only if she dressed them in wetsuits and lashed them to the ceiling first, like the naughty, naughty fundies they are like it.
My money is on Pelosi, unless Gaga brings a bucket of water.
I know, I know, kind of a right-tard thing to post, but hey, it was low-hanging fruit.
I am alarmed at Beyonce Knowles at 9th place. Then again, she was in that video with Lady GaGa so maybe it's power by association.
Strange that Beyonce is only in 9th, since she has a power to cause involuntary reactions in my body like no one else on this list except maybe Carla Bruni and the Queen of Jordan.
Well yesterday, one of the big stories on CNN was laptop burn–advising Americans not to burn themselves with overheated computer laptops, because the basic concept of FIRE and BURN that our primitive ancestors understood billions of years ago must now be painstakingly explained to Americans by cable newsheads.
Where does Tyler Perry rank?
Jeez–I am just picking up on vibes from the Wonketteverse today.
This year it's nasally fellating Rudolph; next year, it's the top of the pops for Krystal Ball.
The list is a fraud. It omits the lead dog on Tod's winning team of sled dogs who will always be known as "Bitch 2" and labor in the shadow of Sarah, the Lead Bitch (Boss Bitch, Bitch 1).
Is this where I cast my vote for Liz Glover?
Or Arielle Fleisher, or Sara Benincasa, or
BabySKSSKS?I am all for "beating omnipresent singer Lady Gaga into 7th place" though I might have went with ubiquitous over omnipresent. At least until the day when she become omnipotent and omniscient.
Bill Swerski cast his vote for Mike Ditka.
Once again, the eery prescience of Idiocracy is established through complex statistical analysis.
At least I can look forward to getting a mocha frappucinno and BJ and Starfucks soon . . .
Mike Judge is looking more and more like Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Jeanne Dixon all rolled into one.
I hate that movie. Its main argument is that teh st00pidz shouldn't be allowed to breed. My parents are st00pidz, so Mike Judge thinks that I'm automatically a stupid.
Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State, brought to you by Carl's Jr.
bad romance.
Is this part of that series on 'things that are awful about America' you promised?
Yes.
Wonkette.com has completed the transition to Mobius strip.
Only in your weakened, feminized version of Christianity.
HAHAHA IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WOMEN ARE WEAK AND THEREFORE NOT WORTHY OF RESPECT, AND THEREFORE CALLING SOMETHING "FEMINIZED" IS PERFECTLY REASONABLE SHORTHAND FOR SAYING IT IS STUPID, DUMB, INFERIOR, AND FOR PUSSIES.
Seriously, I sometimes wonder if those AFA assholes listen to the words they actually use to say thing, or if they simply can't hear them over the voices ("Jeebus", "Angels", etc.) in their heads.
It's the AFA; they're offended by women having jobs, and the offensive implication is not unintentional.
Sarah Plain = Commentator?
Should read Sarah Palin Whore/Whore
The House of Gaga, est. 2010. Our figurehead is not what she seems.
I dunno about Gaga vs. Pelosi, but I would like to see Gaga vs. Madonna.
Madonna: I did it first, skank!
Gaga: (looks sullen and smokes)
(Madonna, being made of wiry muscle and having a sharpened face, then tears Lady Gaga into two pieces.)
Hmm, Gaga vs. Madonna. … wait, what? I drifted off there.
HA HA HA That would be fun to watch, I must say.
I hate them both; Madonna still can't sing and has been all about the theatrics since forever, press darling Gaga can barely sing (with the help of AutoTune) and is all about reheating the theatrics that "Madge" did 20 years ago. But at least Madonna has had some well-written pop songs (usually ruined by her whiny cat squeal of a voice, unfortunately). I honestly have no idea why people are falling all over themselves re: the Gaga chick. Good lord her songs are insipid.
Madonna did spawn some talent (inspiring pop gals like Pink, Amy Winehouse, Kelly Clarkson, etc; at least they can actually sing)–but the Gaga worship has got to stop–yes, I am talking to you AGAIN, NPR. How many more profiles/discussions are you going to waste on her in an effort to appear 'young and edgy' in an attempt to draw in the 25-35 yr old female market? So far Gaga seems to only have inspired the creation of "Ke$ha", and for that she alone she deserves to die die die.
You can make $1 billion, you can be the chancellor of a country that started TWO world wars, you can be US Secretary of State, but who a woman fucks trumps all of that. And that's not a slam against Michelle Obama in the slightest.
Lady Gaga will make a meat skirt out of those other ladies any day of the week.
I see Lady Pelosi sporting expensive cuts of beef at the next State of the Union address.
Michelle and Hillary both beat Sarah? Another example of the lamestream media.
So should Pelosi do a version of Alejandro?
Maybe she can borrow one from Lou Dobbs.
Maybe Nancy will actually be able to SING IT.
How could the guardian not rank Sara Benicasa and Sara K. Smith higher than #16, or even Arielle Fleisher. Definitely not a valid ranking
What kind of halfwit shitfucks put the only person to pass all of the Obama agenda beneath singers and talk show hosts on a most powerful women's list?
From: Todd P
To: Forbes Magazine
Subj: My wife
"Put her at Number One! PUT HER AT NUMBER ONE!!!"
The 1504 list only had Lucretia Borgia at No. 2.
This list is an indicator of our much improved socio-economic status. Lady Gaga at number 7? Hell yeah! Michelle Obama at number 1? Fuck yea! This list makes me proud to be a woman!
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