The odd things people think about
Jewish power dominates at ‘Vanity Fair’ — the rankings - described on the magazine’s cover as the membership of “The New Establishment” - are less than scientific, accompanied by a paragraph-long introduction that neither defines power nor describes the methodology behind the list.
Topping the rankings for the second year in a row is gentile media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who’s followed in second place by Steve Jobs, the non-Jewish co-founder of Apple and Pixar. Highest among the Jewish entries are Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-listed at #3, down one from 2006. The article reported that the 34-year-old Brin and his wife “wore swimsuits as they stood under the huppa.” (Page, whose mother is Jewish, was described in the spring 2006 edition of B’nai B’rith Magazine as “raised more in the mold of his father… whose religion was technology.”)
With Americans making up the vast majority of the list, the Vanity Fair 100 is also notable for some absences. Just nine of those included are women, and only two - TV host Oprah Winfrey and rapper Jay-Z - are of African ancestry.
Questions: (a) what does Ann Coulter think? (b) who is Jay-Z? We’re obviously out of touch with the really important things going on in the world.