Running Rings Around

Hmm.

"Most influential" and similar polls generally strike me as inherently invalid. By and large I can't imagine they are anything other than "say the name of first famous important person you think of who isn't Miley Cyrus."

So unsurprisingly the president always wins because our press by and large behave as if they are lazy idiots of the first order and feel they must report on the president every day, no matter how inconsequential his activities may be.

Even so, pollsters justify such nonsense polling as showing "top of mind" attitudes and awareness, no matter how loosely connected such tomsense may be.

So what does it mean that Ted Cruz is third most influential, behind the "I am not a Marxist" Marxist Pope Francis (how did he beat King Barack I?) and Dear Leader?

That somehow does not have the ring of truth to me. And for my liberal friends, I'm sure it's leading us right down into a ring of fire.

p.s. Miley twerked in at No. 8. Personally, I'm going with "not sure," only because they didn't offer "how the frack should I know." It's top of mind.