Sarah Palin recognizes Glenn Beck in TIME Magazine's Top 100

Some people love him ... some people hate him. However he is viewed, Glenn Beck has made the Barack Obama administration sit up and take notice as he educates America with blackboard illustrations, offers to listen to government insider whistle blowers, his use of those knowledgeable in their fields, and all the research, research, research.

Glenn Beck caught the attention of TIME Magazine (I prefer THYME Magazine) as one of the 100 people who most affected their world ... and Sarah Palin, also one of TIME'S Top 100, wrote the accompanying article. She jokingly pokes fun while noting his many contributions:

Who'd have thought a history buff with a quirky sense of humor and a chalkboard could make for such riveting television? ... Self-taught, he's become America's professor of common sense, sharing earnestly sought knowledge with an audience hungry for truth. Glenn, 46, tackles topics other news shows would regard as arcane.

Gov. Palin mentions the red phone on Glenn's Fox News television set, the phone dedicated to calls from the Obama administration informing Glenn he is wrong about an issues. So far, the phone has remained silent which is not surprising considering the exhaustive amounts of research done by Mr. Beck and his staff.

Interesting list from TIME.

Time Magazine: Eric Cantor works to regain GOP majority

"I feel that my obligation is to be a prudent guardian of taxpayer money."

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA 7th Congressional District)

Rep. Eric Cantor has a giant mounted photo propped like a canvas on the arms of a chair in the corner of his office in the Capitol. The image seems an innocently iconic one — a shot of the National Mall from Congress — until a staffer explains to you that it's the view from the Virginia Republican's old office when the GOP controlled the House, and it's there to serve as a daily reminder of what he's working toward: regaining the majority.

So begins Time Magazine's new article about Republican Whip Eric Cantor, a popular servant of the people who hopes to bring the majority back to DC and the GOP. Capturing the mover-and-shaker of the forty-something set, Time reported:

Taking on the relatively unpopular congressional Democrats is one thing, but flagrantly opposing a wildly popular new President is risky, especially when the payoff could take years, if at all. But the move energized the GOP for the first time in a long while, inspiring six Republican governors — all rumored 2012 wannabes like Cantor himself — to threaten to decline some of the stimulus money.

The opposition also heightened Cantor's profile as the Newt Gingrich of his generation, a wonky, partisan bomb thrower who can rake in well over $300,000 in a single fundraiser, as he did last week. The Richmond, Va., Republican, who likes to remind folks he holds James Madison's seat in Congress, is one of the few rising stars in a party struggling to reinvent itself. But at 45, the baby-faced Cantor is hardly new to the scene. A player in House leadership for seven years, he has raised more than $16.5 million for himself and his colleagues in the last three election cycles — the carrot to his ideological stick when he's keeping his conference in line.

Read the entire article here.

Cross-posted at SixtyFour81.com