Forbes surveys makes a list. It takes a while to make it through their slideshow, so if you only want to see the list, I've put it together for you after the jump here. But it's worth watching the slideshow to read their commentary on each entry, e.g., this about Andrew Sullivan (No. 18):
A granddaddy of Washington blogging and a former editor of The New Republic, he clings unconvincingly to the "conservative" label even after his fervent endorsement of Obama. His advocacy for gay marriage rights and his tendency to view virtually everything through a "gay" prism puts him at odds with many on the right.
List without commentary after the jump. Did they forget anybody in your opinion?
25. Michael Pollan
24. Kurt Andersen
23. Kevin Drum
22. Ezra Klein
21. James Fallows
20. Gerald Seib (Wall Street Journal Washington correspondent)
19. Andrew Sullivan
18. Glenn Greenwald
17. Hendrik Hertzberg
16. Matthew Yglesias
15. Maureen Dowd
14. Christopher Hitchens
13. Bill Moyers
12. Chris Matthews
11. Fareed Zakaria
10. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Kos)
9. David Shipley (NYTimes op-ed editor)
8. Joshua Micah Marshall
7. Rachel Maddow
6. Oprah Winfrey
5. Jon Stewart
4. Thomas Friedman
3. Fred Hiatt (WaPo editorial page editor)
2. Arianna Huffington
1. Paul Krugman
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MargaretE
Well, DavidTC, I guess you need to give us a refresher course on the meaning of "liberal." Seriously, I'd like to know why Chris Matthews doesn't fill the bill.
I suggest you look at his treatment of Bill Clinton vs. George Bush if there are any questions. Likewise, his total shock in March 2006 that more than half the population had a negative view of the president...when that had been true almost a year. (I know everyone remembers Katrina was the tipping point, but he'd been steadily slipping since the election. If the election had been held just three months later, he almost certainly would have lost.)
Matthews asserts things like the public does not want investigations of Bush's lawbreaking. (When in reality that's polling about 55% in favor.) And during the primary him, and all the rest of the Beltway pundits, were making out like it was a huge problem that Obama was willing to talk to Iran. (When in reality, 42% are in favor of that and only 34% aren't, with the rest undecided.)
In the beltway bubble that Matthews, and all the Washington pundits on TV, lives in, everyone loves the Republicans and hates the Democrats. They're running around discussing, with straight faces, things that horrify the nation, like torture, or just making up random crap and presenting it as what 'the people' think, when polls quite clearly say different. (Like with national health care. Lots of lying about what people want, no actual mention of what the polls say. The polls, at this point, say a slim majority of Republicans want national health care.)
Matthews is the perfect example of a 'Beltway liberal'. His entire universe is shifted about 25%, on the left-right spectrum, to the right, and then he's back about 10% to the left personally, so he's constantly barely to the right of the actual country.
Or, as it's known in Washington, 'a liberal'.
Listing Andrew Sullivan as a 'liberal' is insane. The author of books on conservatism, Sullivan has been a voice of SANITY among conservatives who otherwise followed Bush off of a cliff....
Relace Zakaria of Newsweek with Hirsh,
drop Hitchens (for relative non-liberalness) and add Olbermaniac.
Forbes would consider both Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley to be liberals, if they were still around.
Where is Keith Olbermann??
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