So Vanity Fair asked Matt Robson, that Morgan Stanley intern in London who wrote a memo this summer on texting that got circulated pretty widely, to assemble his own list of the most influential/powerful people in the world, based on the mag’s New Establishment compilation. The wee one’s ranking was a mini version of the real thing, only throwing ten names out instead of 100 but we assumed there’d be some overlap, including but not limited to The Big Kahuna and her competition. Not so! Girlies got burned. Doesn’t young Matthew know who they are?! Is he not familiar with their contributions?! What is the explanation here? These are the shlubbs Robson endorsed. Not really sure in what universe it makes sense that Bernanke would make the cut and Barnett would get overlooked. Has Benji ever blown a high-powered executive aboard a private plane? I submit he has not. (Robes also didn’t think to correct the error VF made in overlooking Steve C on it’s list this year, and he should know it’s been noted at 72 Cummings Point Road.)
1. Barack Obama
2. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt
3. Ben Bernanke
4. Hu Jintao
5. Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch
6. Steve Jobs
7. Hakimullah Mehsud
8. Mark Zuckerberg
9. Richard Branson
10. Robin Li
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Slore’s
rable, rable, rable.
she’s talking about me ;
Call me Gaspashocked I am not on that list.
This 15 yr old is about feel the full fury of da chaz.
CG
why are there no ceo’s of black or minority owned businesses?
MW
When I was 15, I was losin’ my virginity in the back seat of a Volkswagen.
-CG
Judging from that list I’d say our boy’s light in the loafers.
I’m a bit disturbed that not all of these are Americans. Fuck, some are even Chinese. They really are taking over the world.
Richard Branson?
Richard Branson bears a passing resemblance to a collie
DK
ObamaBridge: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZfViGFCpW2k/Sqp6mrM40FI/AAAAAAAAEfU/RBHJSEsJhKM/s1600-h/2.jpg
@9 presumably for commercializng space flight.
@12 hes a degenerate businessman and a congenital liar. hes like donald trump but with (somehow) worse hair. no way his scheme works.
11,
That is phenomenal.
that’s a terrible photo of erin
Honky forgot me…
Erin is much prettier in person.
And this list is garbage. Hakimullah Mehsud? Richard Branson? Robin Li? Give me a fucking break.
….someone should tell this guy not to be jerk.
JDimon
@15 YOU LIE!
- Jonathan Wald
After the premiere of “Wall Street II,” you can bet Shia LaBoeuf will be replacing Robin Li at # 10.
The reason that Matthew left Maria and Erin off the list is becuase he was asked about the most influential people in the world and not the people I think of when I’m playing tug-o-war with cyclops.
Shouldn’t he be on his list? I mean, really.
Who’s the 14 year old boy in the yellow sweater to the right of the picture, wearing an Erin mask?
Who is Erin’s boyfriend?
@14 – Is she? That’s good to hear…
@21 – exactly.