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Paterson makes Times list of 100 least influential

by on May 1st, 2010

Time Magazine’s list — penned by Joel Stein — is catty and even nasty — hardly serious analysis going on here.  But it’s still a list you don’t want to be on if you are Governor of New York.

David Paterson
New York governor
A year after Eliot Spitzer got caught with a hooker, and everyone likes Spitzer better. The President flew to meet you just to tell you to give up the governor’s race. And you said no. Now you literally have less power in the party than Spitzer.

2 Comments on “Paterson makes Times list of 100 least influential”

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  1. Steve says:
    May 2, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    It is very unfortunate that this is so. Patterson spoke out on a number of topics with courage and truthfullness. He is still trying to do the right thing with NY’s budget in the face of the major partys’ head- in- the- sand approach to the crisis. Someone called him the only adult in Albany. I think they got it right. New York has expensive bad government controled by selfish special interests and pay-to-play oportunists. I wish Patterson had been able, or had been allowed, to grasp the reins of power. He would made some needed changes.

  2. Pete Klein says:
    May 5, 2010 at 9:05 am

    When I got Time Magazine this week, I quickly glanced through it and then tossed it in the garbage.
    I couldn’t care less who Time thinks is the most or least influential people.
    This is supposed to be a news magazine, not a paper bound blog.
    This is the trouble with much of what is called journalism today. You see opinion all over the place in what is supposed to be news.
    Beware of adjectives and adverbs in reporting. They almost always are used to slant the news.
    We need more Sgt. Joe Fridays in the news rooms. Just the facts, Mam, and I will form my own opinion.

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