Time's flawed "100 most influential"

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I could imagine (and this is WAG, no time to look it up) that the average youth in the US cares more about what LeBron James has to say/sell/what he does than, say, the majority of politicos in Washington (or otherwise). Marketing influence is still influence - and I'm 90% sure that portions of the list exist just so we'll argue it like this.