Posted on 11/18/2017 1:34:57 PM PST by grayboots
Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a “Person of the Year,” defined as a person (or people) who has had the most influence over the news in the last 12 months.
In 2016, the Person of the Year was Donald J. Trump, who upended the political world after unexpectedly defeating his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to become the President of the United States. The year before, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named Person of the Year after she led Europe through a series of political and economic crises.
Many of 2017’s biggest headlines were a reflection of the year that preceded it. After President Trump was inaugurated in January, both the U.S. and the world began adjusting to a new administration and a new President who wanted to undo much of his predecessor’s legacy, whether that meant withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement or working to revamp the nation’s healthcare system. Warnings from the intelligence community that Russia was attempting to wage an interference campaign in the 2016 election escalated into a major investigation helmed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller; the inquiry has already resulted in indictments against two former Trump campaign officials. In another major news story of 2017, sexual harassment and misconduct allegations against powerful figures like Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and comedian Louis C.K. sparked a long overdue conversation about the treatment of women in the workplace.
TIME’s editors ultimately have jurisdiction over who is deemed Person of the Year — but the reader plays an important role. TIME’s annual Person of the Year poll provides the editors a window into who you think most shaped 2017. This is your chance to cast your vote for who you think had the biggest influence over the news.
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I vote for Carlos too!
Harvey Weinstein.
Nailed it! Steve Bannon!
Most of the choices are vomitous, but have at it!
Cannot be Trump, since that would make it harder to impeach him. Perhaps JEB! for giving it one heck of a try (although a year ago), or W! for being the first human with a spine that materializes only when attacking his own party.
Damien Chazelle
“Ronan Farrow for breaking the Weinstein story and forever changing the power politics of Hollywood.”
Good recommendation!
President Trump
Is TIME still in publication? I haven’t read that magazine since the 1990s and that was in a doctor’s office. I did subscribe to it at one time - some girls were knocking at my door back in the 1980s looking to sell magazine subscriptions to go to college. Probably a scam but they were good looking girls. I also got National Geographic for a while.
I was a sucker in those days. Bought the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Remember that? I think I paid maybe $800 for the entire set back around 1985. I got it for my kids who weren’t even born yet, thinking they could use it for their school days. They ended up having the internet instead. They never even cracked the set open. Ended up selling the entire set to a neighbor for like $75 around 2000.
Ronan would be a good choice. He is still making Hollywood squirm. I love that the Meryl Streeps are shown to be stone cold hypocrites. They were as guilty as if they whipped Harvey’s p**** out and sprayed it themselves.
Agree. Frank’s kid did good. Gutsy.
His wife Claire Booth Luce was Bill Clinton’s handler.
Al Franken.
He single-handedly put Roy Moore in the Senate.
I think you have the wrong person in mind.
That’s amusing, since she died in 1987.
Maybe he thinks she had a Time Machine.
Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior of Mankind
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
How about all the people at NFL stadia masquerading as empty seats?
She was a conservative woman anyway, doubt she would have been his handler if the timing was right.
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