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'Influential Man' top dog Jon Stewart has something to crow about with Obama

By April MacIntyre Oct 27, 2010, 16:26 GMT

Influencer Jon Stewart - © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

American faux news pundit, who often treads over the line to real journalist, Jon Stewart, is the alpha male top dog for those in the USA and even UK.

Preferred by a younger generation over leaders like President Barack Obama or Nicolas Sarkozy, Stewart makes his bones nightly on Comedy Central's long running nightly "news" program, "The Daily Show."

During the beginning stages of the economic freefall a few years back, Stewart famously shamed Jim Cramer, once a white hot investment analyst and host of the show "Mad Money."

Stewart, who tops AskMen's list of the Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2010 is one of our youth's most trusted sources of information and a voice of both reason and hope in these economically and politically turbulent times. See the Full List at AskMen.com

And President Barack Obama? Meh. He dropped significantly, coming in at No. 21, after landing the No. 3 spot in 2009, and the No. 1 position in 2008, right before he took office.

Caps loving egomaniac Kanye West ranked higher than POTUS, (No. 5), and Mark Zuckerberg (No. 3), the inspiration behind David Fincher's "The Social Network," ranked higher than the president.

Tomorrow night, Obama will be a guest on Stewart's Comedy Central show for the fifth time on Wednesday -- less than a week before the midterm elections which analysts feel will be a widespread power grab for the GOP.

Obama is a media friendly president; he has been on ABC's "The View," NBC's "The Tonight Show," and other programs as president.

And on October 30, Stewart has his big Rally to Restore Sanity, an event he is describing as, "a rally for people who've been too busy to go to rallies." Stewart will be joined by friend and host of "The Colbert Report" Stephen Colbert, who ranked No. 11 on AskMen's list, who will host his satirical March to Keep Fear Alive at the same time.

Like Stewart, many of the men who made AskMen's Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2010 are iconoclasts and buck traditional paths to success.

Justin Timberlake (No. 33) put his electric music career to the side, pursuing a career as an actor. His recent casting as Napster founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network" has made many critics lists as a stand-out performance.

The cryptic actor James Franco (No. 7) considered an A-List actor for film is a stand out on the long-running soap opera "General Hospital" as a villain.

Other notable men who made the list: Katy Perry's husband, Russell Brand (No. 49), Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler (No. 44), and bikini wearing Zach Galifianakis (No. 29).

Zach Galifianakis, ciourtesy iof Vanity Fair Magazine

AskMen's Top 10 Most Influential Men of 2010 are:

1. Jon Stewart

2. Bill Gates

3. Mark Zuckerberg

4. Steve Jobs

5. Kanye West

6. Drew Brees

7. James Franco

8. Elon Musk

9. Jose Mourinho

10. Graydon Carter