Time: America's 10 Best Senators (and 5 worst) BARF alert!

Time ^ | April 16, 2006 | Massimo Calabresi and Perry Bacon Jr.

[EveningStar]

...Time spoke to dozens of academics, political scientists and current and former Senators...

[EveningStar]

Wait until you read who they picked!

[bnelson44]

The Best Senators
Thad Cochran
Kent Conrad
Dick Durbin
Ted Kennedy
Jon Kyl
Carl Levin
Richard Lugar
John McCain
Olympia J. Snowe
Arlen Specter

The Worst Senators
Daniel Akaka
Wayne Allard
Jim Bunning
Conrad Burns
Mark Dayton

[MrLee]

I just blew a great Easter dinner...

[EveningStar]

ping

[kstewskis]

At least they got Jon Kyl right.

[ElkGroveDan]

Time spoke to dozens of academics, political scientists and current and former Senators...

Did they speak to any taxpayers? Average parents? Talk radio hosts? Or perhaps even religious leaders? Or did they just choose from fields known to be populated with liberals?

[jdm]

What is wrong with the people at that magazine? Don't they realize that it's sh*t like this that causes their company/magazine to go downhill?

FR Thread from Earlier: Time Magazine Closes Canadian Bureau (Dinosaur Media Extinction Alert)

[CougarGA7]

I glanced at the list and saw that drunk Ted Kennedy on it. As soon as I saw that I didn't even bother reading it. The credibility factor completely evaporated...which was already in question concidering it was a Time article.

[Popman]

John McCain

Shocked, just shocked!!!

# 1 media suck up.

Just in anyone cares, he's probably ranks # 1 worst Senator in my book

[PackerBoy]

Arlen Specter?

Maybe in a Bizzaro Universe.

[VOYAGER]

Wait until you read who they picked!

This list of the best was meant to be a snotty joke, wasn't it???

This list could have come directly from "America's Most Wanted" at large criminals!

[freekitty]

ROTFLMAO

[EGPWS]

Olympia J. Snowe

Hee...hee...hee...

Time magazine soon to be recognized as "Who?" by most at least got Mark Dayton pegged. Of course with the knowledge that he isn't running for reelection.

[Thumper1960]

Time spoke to dozens of academics, political scientists and current and former Senators...

THERE'S the problem.

What the H&ll do 'academics, poli-sci and politicians' know about what's good or bad?!

Most all of 'em are as useless as teats on a bull, anyway.

[SunnyD1182]

This is incredible. How people don't think there's a ridiculous media bias in favor of liberals is beyond me, especially after this trash.

Click on the article for John Kyl, and within the first three lines, the word "ULTRACONSERVATIVE" is mentioned- whatever the hell that means. Then, click on Dick Durbin's article, and the word "liberal" or "ultraliberal" is nowhere to be found.

Journalists are sad, pathetic excuses for human beings.

[wagglebee]

Time figured out that the anti-American rallies were starting to backfire, so they just decided to make-up some news.

[skaterboy]

Thad is great but Nazi Dick? Drunk Ted? Spineless Arlen? Loony Levin?...Dont need to look too far to see who they asked

[tsali]

I just paid $35 for a a book entitled "The American Presidents Ranked by Performance ".
In Overall rankings from 1 as best to 39 it had Jimmy Carter as #18 and Ronald Reagan as #34----- I wasted my money

[EGPWS]

Did they speak to any taxpayers? Average parents? Talk radio hosts? Or perhaps even religious leaders?

Sure, no doubt they did...LoL!

Perhaps Reverend Jackson or the Icon of Air America, Al Franken?

[EGPWS]

How people don't think there's a ridiculous media bias in favor of liberals is beyond me,...

It's not beyond me.

Most are so "sheepled" that they would believe they were burning to death during a flood if the media warned them of a fire.

[Graybeard58]

drunk Ted Kennedy on it. As soon as I saw that I didn't even bother reading it.

That jumped right out and smacked me too and I didn't bother to read it.

Drunk fat ted is very likely the worst senator ever.

[Torie]

The list is based on effectiveness and influence I think. The inclusion of Durbin however is quite odd. He doesn't fit in with the rest of the "best."

[layman]

I can visualize Dave Letterman reading this list of top ten senators .... as each name is read the audience laughs louder. "And .... the number one best senator .... Ted Kennedy!" Three in the audience have to be carried out on stretchers suffering from hyperventilation.

[EGPWS]

Drunk fat ted is very likely the worst senator ever.

He has shaped up pretty well recently so don't be too down on the "Happy Hour Kid".

I heard a speech by him a few months ago that conveyed a fine tribute to one of his colleagues in the Senate from Illinois. Osama Obama.....

[L98Fiero]

I started reading a Time magazine while in the doctor's office last week. After just a few pages I was informed:

Bush said Saddam was in on 9-11.
Cheney waited 3 days to report his hunting accident to authorities.

I pretty much had to put it down after that.

[fishbabe]

Of course,they can't speak to average americans..We are all MORONS and unable to understand complex issues.....[my computer keys are dripping in sarcasm]

[Txsleuth]

IMHO....the ONLY Senator in the top ten that deserves it it John Kyl...the rest can be moved to the lower group.

[Luke21]

It's "Commie Time" magazine. I don't even believe the page numbers in that rag.

[BW2221]

It appears the only thing Time likes better than Democrats is RINOs. I suspect some Time intern will be fired tomorrow for putting Kyl's name on the wrong list.

[CougarGA7]

I agree. Come to think of it. With all this time he's in the senate, can anyone name one thing he has ever done that had a possitive impact on the nation? I cant think of one.

[HoosierHawk]

I've made that mistake before. Skim the book before you buy next time?

[AmericanChef]

Well, they at least got Mark Dayton right!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Click on the article for John Kyl, and within the first three lines, the word "ULTRACONSERVATIVE" is mentioned- whatever the hell that means. Then, click on Dick Durbin's article, and the word "liberal" or "ultraliberal" is nowhere to be found.

They do call Daniel Akaka an "ultraliberal," however.

[Buck W.]

Well, perhaps Bunning will have a second shot at the list when he becomes eligible as an old timer...

[Graybeard58]

Well, he has only killed one person that we know about.

Not counting the untold millions of babies he shares responsibility for.

[popdonnelly]

What makes you think I take Time seriously?

[Prairie Pubbie]

The 2 best Senators are from the Sunflower State (KS)!

Senator Sam Brownback
Senator Pat Roberts

[Digger]

This is incredible. How people don't think there's a ridiculous media bias in favor of liberals is beyond me, especially after this trash.

I wonder how many here subscribe to this trash mag.

[Calvin Locke]

And Akaka. Some I don't know and most names that I do know, are in the wrong category.

[Laserman]

What a joke!!!!

Ted Kennedy is not only the WORST senator- he is a dispicable human.

Dick Durbin is also a poor excuse for a senator. And personally, I would not give you 2 cents for McCain or Specter.

[Radix]

I have a list of the worst news magazines in the world.

[JoeSixPack1]

Abolish, erase, destroy, 'un-write', eliminate, vote into oblivion, - the 17th Amendment.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Time left out a word in "Ten Best Senators" heading. That heading should have been "Ten Best Drunken Senators".

[Always Right]

The only thing that shocks me is no Hillary Clinton, no Barbara Boxer, or no John Kerry. Shoot, I figured they would have promoted John Conyers to Senator for his work to impeach Bush over whatever happened the previous week.

[pillut48]

Drunk fat ted is very likely the worst senator ever.

He has shaped up pretty well recently so don't be too down on the "Happy Hour Kid".

---

Cirrhosis has a way of doing that to a person.

My father had cirrhosis and after awhile he was in great shape--right until he became almost anorexic looking, and then he died, at age 39.

[Maceman]

Maybe in a Bizzaro Universe

[Reactionary]

Tiem spoke to dozens of liberal nitwits and everyone agrees! Time rulez!

[janetgreen]

I glanced at the list and saw that drunk Ted Kennedy on it. As soon as I saw that I didn't even bother reading it.

Not only Kennedy, but his buddy John McCain. Not worth reading.

[Recovering_Democrat]

What is interesting about this: even the so-called "experts" didn't pick JOHN EFFING KERRY as one of the best...and I bet 90% of them voted for that windbag to be the next President! bwa haha ha haha ha ha!

[crasher]

Their list previously of best and worst Governors was horrible. Biased. This list isn't as bad, but Allard doesn't belong on list of worst.