Posted on 12/19/2006 3:43:55 AM PST by Zakeet
Nearly 7 million copies of Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year" issue are set to arrive in mailboxes and on newsstands in the next few days. The cover declares that Person to be none other than "You. Yes, you." It explains, "You control the information age. Welcome to your world." The image is of a computer with a flat screen monitor and a screen-laminate of reflective Mylar. Readers are invited to gaze Narcissus-like at their own reflection.
Managing editor Richard Stengel explains the odd choice. He downloaded a video to YouTube asking for input. The responses were numerous. Within days, the video had "tens of thousands of page views and dozens of video submissions and comments." People from across the globe sent in nominations for all kinds of different Persons, including "Sacha Baron Cohen, Donald Rumsfeld, Al Gore and many, many votes for the YouTube guys."
The editors' choice is presented as an exercise in populism, and that's certainly an easy line of attack. In unconnected phone conversations over the weekend, nearly a half dozen people joked to me that they were going to put "Time 2006 Person of the Year" on their resumes.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Mr. Lott is the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Of course who they really wanted to nominate is NAzi Lousypig and the Congresstraitors.
But doing so would expose them for the partisan, propagandist scumbags they are.
Me? YOu shouldn't have, seriously.
For consistently lying about the President, GOP, the war, and everything else under the sun and succeeding in brainwashing people enough to vote overwhelmingly against a largely successful administration and stop supporting a war that's nearly won, the award for Person of the Year should go to the MEdia. That includes you, Time.
Take a bow scumbags. We are not mollified by your stupid nomination. And we will dethrone you and your evil agenda.
We now hold the technology that will make TIME irrelevant. That is, more irrelevant than it currently is.
Democracy is consensus and the rule of fools by fools.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. Merry Christmas
OK Killborn!
Tell us what you really think!
No more of this namby pamby stuff.
Man up!
If I man up andymore I'd suffer the wrath of the Almighty Mod. :)
He's just jealous because I'm Time's person of the year, and he isn't....
No wait, that can't be it, he IS....
I hereby nominate TIME magazine for terrorist propagandist of the year; assclown magazine of the year; and DemocRAT activist orgaizer of the year.
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