[veronica]

Time Managing Editor James Kelly appears to confirm Rumseld’s self-effacing act, if only obliquely, in an editor’s note recounting that when he and several other editors “met with Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in November to talk about the war, [the Defense Secretary] made the pitch, unsolicited by us, that the Person of the Year should be the American soldier.

This is why Rummy is my favorite of all in the Bush cabinet.

[americanSoul]

This is why Rummy is my favorite of all in the Bush cabinet.

Ditto for me. Rummy was a NAVAL AVIATOR. This is no f***ing lawyer.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Veronica.

Rummy is the man. A real man who wants those under him to get the credit for what was done in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[BOBTHENAILER]

James Kelly appears to confirm Rumseld’s self-effacing act, if only obliquely,

Leave it to the people of Time. They never fail to abuse, er, ah, amuse.

[Paul Ross]

BTTT!

Note even in covering their own 'non' story, they still make some jabs at Rummy...by calling his self-effacement an 'act'. If they had made him their cover person of the year, you can bet that the article would have been generally negative, with a lot of aspersions from partisans against the national defense.