Coming from the conservative magazine of record, the overrated list is, naturally, packed full of liberals and media darlings. Topping the list is John F. Kennedy, a liberal hero who looked good but accomplished very little the exception being that he was the first president to promote the economic philosophy that became Reaga-nomics. Supposedly the smartest woman on the planet, this feminist icon might still be ensuring that Arkansas has the worst public-education system in the country if a competent field of Democrats had decided to run for president in 1992. The point here is that each media outlet s list reveals a little about what it is about. National Review is staunchly conservative and irreverent.
Time pretends to be unbiased but obviously leans to the left.
It has published a list of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century. If content is a reflection of readership, it must cater to the dumbest readers on the planet. Don t get me wrong. It s probably a great place to get recipes, celebrity news, and stories about the latest in butter-churn technology. But one is clued in to its intellectual vigor by noting that the list is tied into an ABC special hosted by Barbara Walters herself the most overrated anchor in journalism history.