Apr
29
TIME 100 voting closed: Rain and Stephen Colbert fall to Shigeru Miyamoto
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It’s official, ladies and gentlemen. The polls are closed and the vote-rigging has ended. From TIME:
TIME asked who you thought should be on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Over 200 candidates were given a rating of 1 to 100. And your #1 choice? Shigeru Miyamoto! The video game designer had almost 2 million votes, over 300,000 more than runner-up, Rain. After a tight race at the top, Stephen Colbert came in third place with close to 900,000 votes.
And now Stephen will have to yell both, “Raaaaaaainnn!” and “Miiiiyamoooooto!”
Thanks for the tip, Melissa!
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21 Comments
April 29th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Well Im glad Miyamoto beat rain at least. Loves me my Nintendo. Would have preferred to see colbert tho :/
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Well, I don’t know. Maybe it was worth it to lose if it’ll get Stephen to yell “Miiiiyamoooooto!”
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Well I’m at least glad that Rain didn’t come in first again, although I would have loved to see Stephen Colbert take his rightful place as Time’s most influential person. lol.
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Stephen and Rain should both scream “Miyamotoooo!!”
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
This begs the question- will Stephen respond with a Korean video game? :D (I mean, we already know he has a Wii)
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
The Colbert/Noam Chomsky win is interesting, Chomsky has way fewer votes but obviously high ratings. Chomsky would be an awesome guest on TCR.
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I bet Stephen will through away his Wii tonight.
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
No! It can’t be over. Maybe they will put the top three on the cover since it was such a tight race, right? Right?! Oh well. We all know in our hearts who is number one:)
I figure Stephen was #1 in 2006 since that wasn’t long after the WHCD.
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Though I’m sad Stephen didn’t win, I can see how Miyamoto is rather influential; more so than Rain at least (sorry Clouds, don’t kill me). And being a college kid, I play my fair share of Wii and especially Super Nintendo (you can’t get much better than Super Mario Bros.)
He should have a Wii boxing match against a Miyamoto Mii character (for the less videogame savvy- that’s a character you can create to look like yourself or someone else). And then he can beat the snot out of him. Or Rain. Rain could play Miyamoto!
I’m glad Neil deGrasse Tyson made the top ten, as well, but how did Jon Stewart get knocked down to 26? He was way up there.
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
@AmandaIvy: I was glad to see that Neil deGrasse Tyson made it to the top ten as well. His segment with Stephen was one of my favorites!
I don’t know what happened to Jon Stewart! I guess doing the Oscars and The Night of Too Many Stars weren’t quite up to par compared to Stephen’s achievements. Maybe he should write another book:) Or get that Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in the works…flavor already suggested by Stephen:)
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@colbertgirl27
chewy jewy!
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
@gina4: Yes. Thank you! By the way, the UB talk is no longer available on YouTube. Do you think it will eventually be made accessible somewhere else at some later date? Glad I had a chance to listen to it all before it went away.
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April 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
There is only one way to settle this:
Stephen, Rain and Miyamato MUST face off in Super Mario Kart Wii!
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April 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Okay, someone please explain to me how David Beckham is more influential than Jon Stewart? What is wrong with this world…
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April 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Lisa–
I have no idea, honestly. I guess it really just goes to show you some people’s priorities.
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April 29th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Lisa and AmandaIvy,
Well, there are a lot of things wrong with the world, but I don’t know that we can blame the world for this one so much as we can blame TIME magazine for making people think, however briefly, that influence was best determined by easily-manipulated popular vote … and the voters’ ability to stuff virtual ballot boxes. :)
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April 29th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
WHAT!?!?!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
*shakes fist in air*
How can this be?!?
Stephen should have told us about it earlier (he didn’t when it first opened did he?)
Then we would have had more time to stay on our computer furiously moving the bar all the way to the right … scroll down.. click… slide bar.. scroll.. click…
Geez what a rip off, but yeah, at least SOMEone beat Rain…
@ GamingBoy-
great idea!
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April 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
If Stephen couldn’t be first, I’m glad someone like Miyamoto was #1. Miyamoto is definitely an influential person.
Thank goodness Tyler Perry didn’t beat Colbert. I think Perry was #3 at one point with Stephen at #4. Madness!
Next year, the Nation is going to have to give Jon more of a boost.
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
LOL, I think we tried to give Jon a boost. Both Stephen and Jon were at the top at one point. Jon just got caught in the crossfire of downvoting…
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April 29th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Poor Jon.
A casualty of voting war.
@ Ms I–
I didn’t mean the world as a whole. Lol. There are definitely things more important than the Time poll. I constantly forget that sarcasm doesn’t exactly work over The Internets. Sorry ’bout that!
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