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The Gang of 500 snapshot

 

(Defined as the 500 individuals whose decisions most shape media narrative in politics – and this only. Whose decisions end up shaping the hot topics, interview questions, campaign messages, column inches, tv airtime..etc.) (some included not for their current influence but for their potential influence if they wished to wield it)

(NOT defined as: the 500 “most powerful” or even “most influential”)

(THE LIST IS NOT IN ORDER OF RANK)

 

  1. Barack Obama, President of the United States
  2. Denis McDonough, WH Chief of Staff
  3. Valerie Jarrett, WH Advisor
  4. Jen Psaki, WH Director of Communications
  5. Ben Rhodes, lots of hats
  6. Josh Earnest, WH Press Secretary
  7. Cody Keenan, WH Director of Speechwriting
  8. Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton 2016 Director of Communications
  9. Robby Mook, Clinton 2016 Campaign Manager
  10. John Podesta, Clinton 2016 Campaign Chairman
  11. Karen Finney, Clinton 2016 Strategic Communications
  12. Guy Cecil, Priorities USA
  13. Jim Messina, Priorities USA
  14. Buffy Wicks, unspecified role
  15. Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress
  16. Bill Clinton, unspecified role
  17. Jake Sullivan, unspecified role in Hillary Land
  18. Huma Abedin, anywhere her husband isnt
  19. David Brock, American Bridge
  20. Dan Pfeiffer, unspecified role
  21. Hillary Clinton, Presidential Candidate
  22. Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate
  23. Jeff Weaver, Sanders 2016 Campaign Manager
  24. Tad Devine, Sanders campaign strategist
  25. Lis Smith, O’Malley Deputy Campaign Manager
  26. David Hamrick, O’Malley Campaign Manager
  27. Danny Diaz, Bush 2016 Campaign Manager
  28. David Kochel, Bush 2016 senior strategist
  29. Jon Downs, unspecified role in Bushland
  30. Matt Gorman, Bush 2016 Rapid Response
  31. Tim Miller, Bush 2016 Director of Communications
  32. Mike Murphy, Right to Rise USA (pro bush)
  33. Paul Lindsay, American Crossroads, Right to Rise USA (pro bush)
  34. Terry Sullivan, Rubio 2016 Campaign Manager
  35. Joe Pounder, oppo mastermind for Rubio
  36. Rich Beeson, Rubio 2016 Deputy Campaign Manager
  37. Todd Harris, Rubio 2016 media strategist
  38. Heath Thompson, Rubio 2016 media strategist
  39. Alex Conant, Rubio 2016 Director of Communications
  40. Marco Rubio, Presidential Candidate
  41. Ted Cruz, Presidential Candidate
  42. Chad Sweet, Cruz 2016 Chairman
  43. Jeff Roe, Cruz 2016 Campaign Manager
  44. Jason Johnson, Cruz 2016 strategist
  45. Jason Miller, Cruz 2016 strategist
  46. Brian Phillips, Cruz 2016 rapid response
  47. Rick Tyler, Cruz 2016, always on television dude
  48. Donald Trump, Presidential Candidate
  49. Unspecified intern (?), Trump twitter retweeter
  50. Corey Lewendowski, Trump 2016 campaign manager
  51. Katrina Pierson, Trump 2016 spokesperson
  52. Megan Powers, Trump 2016 branding expert
  53. Ben Carson, Presidential Candidate
  54. Chris Christie, Presidential Candidate
  55. Ken McKay, Christie 2016 Campaign Manager
  56. Phil Cox, America Leads SuperPac (pro Christie)
  57. Carly Fiorina, Presidential Candidate
  58. Lindsey Graham, Presidential Candidate
  59. Mike Huckabee, Presidential Candidate
  60. Rand Paul, Presidential Candidate
  61. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, DNC Chairwoman
  62. Donna Brazile, DNC Vice Chair and always on tv
  63. Luiz Miranda, DNC Director of Communications
  64. Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman
  65. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader
  66. Brian McGuire, McConnell Chief of Staff
  67. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House
  68. Kevin McCarthy, U.S. House
  69. David Hoppe, Ryan Chief of Staff
  70. Michael Ricci, Ryan communications director
  71. Veronica Swinehart, Ryan media point person
  72. Brendan Buck, Ryan communications aide
  73. Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader
  74. Daniel Bernal, Pelosi Chief of Staff
  75. Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Minority Leader
  76. Drew Willison, Reid chief of staff
  77. David Krone, Reid former chief of staff, still in inner circle
  78. John McCain, former Presidential Candidate
  79. Mitt Romney, Former presidential candidate
  80. Charles Schumer, U.S. Senate
  81. Mike Lynch, Schumer Chief of Staff
  82. Joseph Biden, Vice President of the United States
  83. David Plouffe, UBER (yes he still makes the list)
  84. Pete Rouse, Perkins Coie firm
  85. Tom Donohue, Chamber of Commerce
  86. Tim Geithner, Warburg Pincus firm
  87. John Boehner, retired
  88. Karl Rove, American Crossroads
  89. Steven Law, American Crossroads
  90. Ed Gillespie, unspecified role, many hats that man
  91. Grover Norquist, something to do with bathtubs I think
  92. Tony Podesta, Lobbyist
  93. Chris Van Hollen, future senator
  94. Jim DeMint, Heritage
  95. Kathryn Ruemmler, Latham and Watkins
  96. Patty Murray, could be minority leader if she wanted it hard enough
  97. Dick Cheney, still says things
  98. Chris Dodd, Lobbyist
  99. Anthony Kennedy, Associate Supreme Court Justice
  100. John Roberts, Supreme Court Chief Justice
  101. Mike Barnicle, Boston Herald
  102. David Brooks, NYT
  103. J. Dionne, WAPO
  104. Maureen Dowd lol just kidding okay we will go with Thomas Friedman
  105. Charles Sourkrout, WAPO
  106. Nicholas Kristof, NYT
  107. Kathleen Parker, WAPO
  108. George Will, WAPO
  109. Christiane Amanpour, CNN
  110. Brooke Baldwin, CNN
  111. John Berman, CNN
  112. Wolf Blitzer, CNN
  113. Erin Burnett, CNN
  114. Jeff Zucker, CNN
  115. Michael Bass, CNN
  116. Richard Davis, CNN
  117. David Chalian, CNN
  118. Anderson Cooper, CNN
  119. Chris Cuomo, CNN
  120. Jake Tapper, CNN
  121. Dana Bash, CNN
  122. Candy Crowley, formerly CNN
  123. Fareed Zakaria, CNN
  124. Jim Acosta, CNN
  125. Gloria Borger, CNN
  126. Drew Griffin, CNN
  127. John King, CNN
  128. Brianna Keilar, CNN
  129. Chris Moody, CNN
  130. Jim Sciutto, CNN
  131. Jeff Zeleny, CNN and formerly NYT
  132. Paul Begala, CNN
  133. David Gergen, CNN
  134. E. Cupp, CNN
  135. Van Jones, CNN
  136. Jeffrey Toobin, CNN
  137. Adam Levy, CNN
  138. Rachel Streitfeld, CNN
  139. Mark Preston, CNN
  140. Paul Steinhauser, CNN
  141. Gretchen Carlson, Fox News
  142. Steve Doocy, Fox News
  143. Sean Hannity, Fox News
  144. Bret Baier, Fox News
  145. Ed Henry, Fox News
  146. Shepard Smith, Fox News
  147. Carl Cameron, Fox News
  148. Brit Hume, Fox News
  149. Megyn Kelly, Trump target
  150. Bill Oreilly, king of this whole list
  151. Greta van Sustren, Fox News
  152. Chris Wallace, Fox News
  153. Tucker Carlson, some website
  154. Neil Cavuto, Fox News
  155. Laura Ingraham, the radio
  156. Rush Limbaugh, even more the radio
  157. Jonathan Karl, ABC
  158. Martha Raddatz, ABC
  159. George Stephanopolous, ABC
  160. Karen Travers, ABC
  161. Mika Brzesinki, MSNBC
  162. Willie Geist, NBC
  163. Lester Holt, NBC
  164. Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
  165. Chris Matthews, MSNBC
  166. Andrea Mitchell, NBC
  167. Kelly o’Donnell, NBC
  168. Thomas Roberts, NBC
  169. Luke Russert, the kid
  170. Joe Scarborough, former congressman
  171. Chuck Todd, way better than that other guy
  172. Ben Smith, grand supreme wizard of Buzzfeed and the planet
  173. Katherine Miller, Buzzfeed
  174. John Stanton, total bama
  175. CJ Ciaramella, Buzzfeed
  176. McKay Coppins, some random Mormon I guess
  177. Ruby Cramer, Buzzfeed
  178. Rosie Gray, Buzzfeed
  179. Chris Geidner, Buzzfeed
  180. Andrew Kaczynki, emperor of political journalist twitter
  181. Evan McSan, I just assume that’s his name
  182. Benny Johnson, not as disgraced as one might think
  183. Ross Doubt That, NYT
  184. Nicholas Confessore, NYT
  185. Michael Barbaro, NYT
  186. Maggie Haberman, NYT
  187. Carl Hulse, NYT
  188. Carolyn Ryan, NYT
  189. Josh Barro, NYT
  190. John Harwood, NYT
  191. David Leonahrdt, NYT
  192. Dean Baquet, NYT
  193. James Goldston, ABC
  194. Deborah Turness, NBC
  195. Roger Ailes, Fox News
  196. Ezra Klein, vox
  197. Matt Yglasias, Ezra’s friend
  198. Lauren Williams, vox
  199. Dylan Matthews, vox
  200. Brian Stelter, CNN
  201. Nate Silver, 538
  202. Arianna Huffington, her website
  203. Sam Stein, HuffPo
  204. Amanda Terkel, HuffPo
  205. Paige Lavender, HuffPo
  206. Arthur Delaney, HuffPo
  207. Chris Hayes, MSNBC
  208. Ann Curry, many hats
  209. Paul Krugman, NYT
  210. Chris Cilizza, WAPO
  211. Eugene Robinson, WAPO
  212. Jonathan Capehart, eloquent
  213. Robert Costa, supreme information getter from the legislative righties
  214. Karen Tumulty, old school queen bee
  215. Dan Balz, WAPO
  216. Radley Balko, WAPO
  217. Jennifer Rubin, WAPO
  218. Dana Milbank, WAPO
  219. Daniel Drezner, knows things about zombies
  220. Aaron Blake, WAPO
  221. Ed O’keefe, WAPO
  222. Phillip Bump, WAPO
  223. David Nakamura, WAPO
  224. Zach Goldfarb, WAPO
  225. Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
  226. Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
  227. Mark Halperin, he invented the term gang of 500 so…
  228. John Heilimann, Bloomberg and writes books
  229. Sahil Kapur, Bloomberg
  230. Dave Weigel, journo-list
  231. Sasha Issenberg, Bloomberg
  232. Mark Knoller, CBS radio
  233. John Dickerson, masterful moderator
  234. Major Garrett, CBS
  235. David Rhodes, CBS
  236. Glenn Beck, blaze
  237. David Corn, Mother Jones
  238. Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
  239. Max Rosenthal, Mother Jones
  240. Matt Taibbi, many hats
  241. John Harris, Politico
  242. Jim vanDehei, Politico
  243. Mike Allen, Politico
  244. Carol Lee, WSJ
  245. John Bresnahan, Politico
  246. Michael Crowley, Politico
  247. Edward-isaac Dovere, Politico
  248. Michael Grunwald
  249. Blake Hounshell, Politico
  250. Michael Kruse
  251. David Rogers, Politico
  252. Roger Simon, Politico
  253. Ken Vogel, Politico
  254. Heather Haddon, WSJ
  255. Peter Nicholas, WSJ
  256. Peggy Noonan, WSJ
  257. Byron Tau, WSJ
  258. Beth Reinhard, WSJ
  259. Diane Dewhirst, aide to Pelosi
  260. Michael Bloomberg
  261. John Boehner, former Speaker
  262. Charles Koch, businessman
  263. Davic Koch, businessman
  264. Ben Bernanke, former fed chair
  265. Janet Yellen, Current fed chair
  266. Sheldon Adelson, influencer
  267. Stephen Colbert, influencer
  268. Elizabeth Warren, Senator
  269. Bill Burton, Priorities USA (pro Hillary)
  270. Cecile Richards, PP
  271. Bill Kristol, yeah I know
  272. Robert Kagan, Brookings
  273. Buck McKeon, U.S. House
  274. Robert Zoellick, many hats
  275. Jim Talent, AEI
  276. Richard Haas, CFR
  277. Dan Senor, Many hats
  278. Paul Gigot, WSJ
  279. Matt Drudge, I guess
  280. Mike Rogers, U.S. House
  281. Steven Hadley, think tanker
  282. David Frum, Daily Beast
  283. Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
  284. Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast
  285. Elanor Clift, The Daily Beast
  286. Olivia Nuzzi, The Daily Beast
  287. Sakky Kohn, The Daily Beast
  288. Noah Shachtman, Daily Beast
  289. John Avlon, Daily Beast
  290. Jessica Velenti, feministing
  291. Eric Alterman, The Nation
  292. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
  293. Franklin Foer
  294. Steve Coll, The New Yorker
  295. Jonathan Chait, TNR
  296. Frank Rich, NYT
  297. Markos Moulitsas
  298. Fred Hiatt, WAPO
  299. David Shipley
  300. Cailin Flanagan, Atlantic
  301. TaNehisi Coates, Atlantic
  302. Glenn Reynolds, instapundit
  303. Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
  304. Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
  305. Erick Erickson, Red State
  306. Gerard Baker, WSJ
  307. James Taranto, ugh just ugh
  308. Michelle Malkin, twitchy
  309. Elliot Abrams, CFR
  310. Chris Bodenner, Atlantic
  311. Conor Freidersdorf, Atlantic
  312. Moly Ball, Atlantic
  313. Jeet Heer, TNR
  314. Suzy Khimm, TNR
  315. Brian Beutler, TNR
  316. Rebecca Leber, TNR
  317. Jack Fowler, NRO
  318. Larry Kudlow
  319. John Stossel
  320. Rich Lowrey, NRO
  321. Mark Seibel, McClatchey
  322. Thomas Ricks, writer
  323. Josh Marshall, TPM
  324. Annie Lowrey, NY MAG
  325. Alec Magillis, propublica
  326. Johnathan Allen, writer
  327. Ellie Hall, Buzzfeed
  328. Leigh Munsil, Blaze politics
  329. Clara Jeffrey, Mother Jones
  330. Josh Greenman, NY DAILY NEWS
  331. Phillip Rucker, Wapo
  332. Lisa Tozzi, Buzzfeed
  333. Eric Schultz, deputy WH press sec
  334. Matt Ford, Atlantic
  335. Dylan Byers, CNN
  336. Doug Stamper, he gets things done eventually
  337. Julie Pace, AP
  338. Josh Lederman, AP
  339. Sally Buzbee, AP
  340. David Scott, AP
  341. Steve Peoples, AP
  342. Ron Forunier, Green Lantern times
  343. Justin Miller, The Daily Beast
  344. Julia Loffe, NY TIMES MAG
  345. Tom Cole, U.S. House
  346. Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg
  347. Garance Franke-ruta, Yahoo
  348. Hunter Walker, famous Trump questioner
  349. Adam Liptak NYT
  350. Jonathan Alter
  351. Micah Grimes, NBC Nightly News
  352. Will Cain, Pundit
  353. Duncan Atrios whatever his name is
  354. Glenn Kessler, checks facts
  355. Stu Rothenberg
  356. Norm Ornstein
  357. Charlie Cook
  358. Lanny Davis, come on you cant deny
  359. Sabrina Siddiqui, Guardian
  360. Andy Borowitz, I know
  361. Stephanie Cutter, Precision Strategies
  362. Kevin Madden
  363. Judd Legume, Think progress
  364. Jonathan Weisman, NYT
  365. Dee Dee Meyers, Glover Park Group
  366. Domenico Montanaro, NPR
  367. Phil Elliot, Time
  368. Michael Falcone, ABC
  369. Glenn Thrush, Politico
  370. Tom Beaumant, AP
  371. Greg Sargent
  372. Mike Memoli
  373. Charles Pierce, Esquire
  374. Mark Preston, CNN
  375. Betsy Fisher Martin
  376. John Geddes
  377. Rupert Murdoch
  378. Roger Wicker, NRSC Chair
  379. Andrea Bozek, NRSC Communications
  380. Michelle McGann, NRSC PAC director
  381. Rob Simms, NRCC Executive Director
  382. John Rogers, NRCC
  383. Jon Reedy, NRCC
  384. David Watts, NRCC
  385. Katie Martin Prill, NRCC Communications Director
  386. Dan Sena, DCCC
  387. Ty Matsdorf, DCCC
  388. Hayley Dierker, DCCC
  389. Brandon English, DCCC
  390. Kelly Ward, DCCC
  391. Tom Lopach, DSCC
  392. Preston Elliott, DSCC
  393. Justin Barasky, DSCC
  394. Sarah Amos, ABC producer
  395. Felicia Biberica, ABC producer
  396. Michelle Melnick, NBC news producer
  397. Janelle Richards, NBC news producer
  398. Steve Capus, CBS producer
  399. Scott Pelley, CBS
  400. Heather Abbott, CBS
  401. Maggie Dore, CBS
  402. Andrew Rosenthal, NYT
  403. John Reiss, MTP Producer
  404. Katie Hinman, State of the Union Producer
  405. Mary Hager, Face the Nation producer
  406. Jonathan Greenberger, This Week producer
  407. Charles Hurt, Drudge assistant
  408. Aaron Pickrell, Remington Road Group
  409. Bob Woodward
  410. Diane Sawyer
  411. Rob Hendin, CBS
  412. Peter Alexander, NBC
  413. Chris Jansing, NBC
  414. Peter Baker, NYT
  415. John Gizzi, Newsmax
  416. Steve Scully, CSPAN
  417. Brian Lamb, CSPAN
  418. Cicely Simpson, lobbyist
  419. Richard Umbdenstock, lobbyist
  420. David Melcher, lobbyist
  421. Wayne LaPierre, Lobbyist
  422. John Engler, lobbyist
  423. Kenneth Bentsen Jr., lobbyist
  424. Orrin Hatch, Senator
  425. Matt Borges, Ohio GOP Chair
  426. David Pepper, Ohio Democratic party chair
  427. Jeff Kaufmann, Iowa GOP Chair
  428. Andy McGuire, Iowa Democratic Party chair
  429. Jennifer Horn, New Hampshire GOP Chair
  430. Raymond Buckley, New Hampshire Dem party chair
  431. Anita Kumar, McClatchey
  432. Steven Thomma, McClatchy
  433. David M. McIntosh, Club for Growth President
  434. Stephanie Schriock, EMILY’s list
  435. Jennifer Korn, RNC
  436. Tom Bonier, Clarity Labs
  437. Brad Woodhouse, American Bridge
  438. Patrick Ruffini, Echelon Insights
  439. Casey Phillips, redprint
  440. Bruce Mentzer, ad mogul
  441. Patti Heck, Crossroads Media
  442. Jim Margolis, Consultant
  443. Raelynn Olson, Consultant
  444. Erich Fehrnstrom, Consultant
  445. Dan Rice, Consultant
  446. Dan Reber, direct mail
  447. Frank Greer, Conslultant
  448. Spencer Zwick, Consultant
  449. Charles Pruitt, AB Data
  450. Tony Feather, FLS
  451. Stu Stevens, rambler consulting
  452. Jonathan M. Baron, Red Sea LLC
  453. Mundy Katowitz, Advertising
  454. Greg Stevens, SRCP
  455. Erik Potholm, SRCP
  456. Angela McCann, mentzer Media
  457. Beth Beall, Mentzer Media
  458. Gary Taylor, Infocision
  459. Shane Hillmer, Consultant
  460. John Brabender, Conslutant
  461. Ron Rosenblath, Consultant
  462. David James, Consultant
  463. Joe Rospars
  464. Teddy Goff, Digital media
  465. Ben Burger, Consultant
  466. Robert Blizzard, Pollster
  467. Doug Thornell, SKDKnickerbocker
  468. Brad Todd, OnMessage
  469. Duane Baughman, consultant
  470. Anita Dunn, Knickerbocker
  471. Hilary Rosen, Knickerbocker
  472. Carter Eskew, Glover Park
  473. Chip Smith, Glover Park
  474. Joe Lockhart, Glover Park
  475. Tom Synhorst, Public relations
  476. James Carville, consultant
  477. David Axelrod, Consultant
  478. Dana Perino, pundit
  479. James Hoffa, Teamsters
  480. Mary Kay Henry, SEIU
  481. Lee Saunders, AFSCME
  482. Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
  483. Michael Smerconish, pundit
  484. Tom Daschle, Daschle Group
  485. LOLGOP, a twitter on the twitters
  486. Melissa Clouthier, a twitter on the twitters
  487. Ben Domenech, Federalist
  488. Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
  489. Arthur C. Brooks, AEI
  490. Steve Ricchetti, Biden Chief of Staff
  491. Brian Deese, Advisor to Obama
  492. Lawrence Summers, total nerd
  493. Julian Castro, Secretary of HUD
  494. Sheldon Adelson, moneyman
  495. Tom Toles, cartoonist
  496. Rob Klein, Saturday Night Live head writer
  497. Christina Belantoni, LA Times
  498. Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce
  499. Tess Kovach, K Street Hipster
  500. Zoe Barnes, WMATA ghost