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MISSING PERSONS
Michelle Malkin is right; these Persons of the Year selections by Time magazine suck like a million Dysons.
Michelle has a link to Time where you can comment on their choice. I just did, and not favorably (I echoed your sentiment, richard, but in different terms). I suggest others do the same.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 18 at 12:25 PM • permalinkTime Magazine is a lefty joke anymore. I subscribed to this magazine for nearly thirty years, but I’ve had enough.
Bono, for God’s sake?!? I admit Bill and Melinda have given hundreds of millions in aid to those in need, but they have hundreds of millions to give, and it’s hardly made a dent. So I can’t see where they’ve changed the world appreciably. And Bono, for God’s sake?!?
How about George Bush, or the Coalition Soldier as choices? People who’ve actually made world changes. I thought that’s what Person of the Year was supposed to be about.
Time out o’ mind makes choices arrogantly called “Persons of the Year”. Who cares? They ceased to be a serious source of information years ago. Imagine, they include Cindy Sheehan on the list of honorees. What did she accomplish during the year exept obtain the media attention she craves, and she did it by dancing on her son’s grave, by apologizing to the terrorists for killing her son, be demanding that America get out of occupied Iraq and New Orleans, by making common cause with Nazi David Duke and Islamofascist Galloway, and “Time” considers her as having an impact on civilization? The New Left media will use whatever deception is necessary to get its way.
stats — Be fair, Cindy did not dance on her son’s grave. She posed on it to sell magazines. Much more nuanced and sophisticated…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 18 at 02:06 PM • permalinkDave S., that was really uncalled for. Leaving aside whether Mrs. Gates deserves any sort of recognition from anyone, would you want someone talking about your wife that way?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 18 at 02:44 PM • permalinkI agree, subpar lot of mugs to get picked as persons of the year. Apparently, one needs not only to have done good, but to have done well. To the extent these folks have truly benefitted humanity, that’s great; but it’s difficult to believe that their giving was of the sort that “hurt”, however many gazillions they gave away. And are contributions to mankind’s well-being measured only in terms of bank drafts?
All this junk awards stuff gets entirely too much attention. Every skeptic who reads the MSM (and the locals) such as Time Mag dot AU (ask Tim), the Dallas Moaning Newts, the WaPo, or the Silly Morning Hilmer, do so in order to be informed about just what the credulous reader is being slyly encouraged to believe is true. That’s what we’re doing, right?
Here’s what I sent via Time’s comment thingy:
Pathetically terrible choices. Bono, who spent $1000 to fly his hat, and the Gateses, who have made a fortune off screwing the computer user with atrocious software, represent the sort of vanity, PR agent-driven do-gooderism that I suppose is inevitable in this world, but hardly deserves this kind of ass-kissing from a former news-oriented publication. You will look back in 10 years and be unable to believe that you made such a banal choice in the year of Iraqi democracy.
Wow, Tim! Those Dysons look really good. Constant suction and all that!
Gets my vote for vacuum cleaner of the year.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2005 12 18 at 06:29 PM • permalink#20 No way! Dysons have CONSTANT SUCTION.
Didja see all the crap that the [i]others (obviously including Hoovers) emit into the atmosphere.
Sorry - Hooover is not Kyoto sanctioned
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2005 12 18 at 07:44 PM • permalinkOf course, if they can do something to improve the stability of the hoooover bikes, all will be forgiven
[perview is my fiend]
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2005 12 18 at 07:50 PM • permalinkHere is a good article on Bono not helping Afica:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/opinion/15theroux.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all
[courtesy ]http://www.aldaily.com]
This stuff is really annoying me. I just found this on BBC World, its about Bob Geldof but it could easily be Bono:
“He recently caused controversy in Canada (a G8 nation) when he told Prime Minister Paul Martin not to bother showing up at the G8 meeting in Edinburgh on 6 July unless he was prepared to increase Canada’s foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP.”
WTF? or maybe the BBC misconstrued his remarks? - probably not.
Yawn. Time magazine is what my grandma reads in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. These non-controversial feel-good group awards are part of the reason it’s morphing into Reader’s Digest.
Posted by Sarah Brabazon-Biggar on 2005 12 19 at 03:21 AM • permalinkHow about George Bush, or the Coalition Soldier as choices? People who’ve actually made world changes. I thought that’s what Person of the Year was supposed to be about.
Sure, Bush may have lost the war in Iraq, destroyed the economy and screwed up the Katrina response but surely you’re not saying he’s as bad as 38’s Hitler or 79’s Ayatollah Khomeini? Go easy on the guy - he’s far more average than that.
Bush may have lost the war in Iraq, destroyed the economy and screwed up the Katrina
Wow. Do you really believe all that, or are you just going along with the party line?
Seriously—Iraq is going fine, the economy is growing quite well, and the Katrina response was as good or better than previous hurricanes.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 12 19 at 10:33 AM • permalinkHere’s a real contest. Pick the phrase which best answers “How does Time ragazine select its ‘persons” of the yr?” and win the opportunity to kick the Time Editor-in-Chief around the block. Suggestions:
a) by holding its nose,
b) by choosing from the leftovers of the Nobel Peace Prize Contest,
c) By outsourcing to the Board of “Publicity Grabbers, Inc”, John Kerry, George Galloway, et. al.,
d) By randomly picking names from “People” Magazine
I’m sure you all can do better.#28, Chumpy:“Sure, Bush may have lost the war in Iraq, destroyed the economy and screwed up the Katrina response” What world are you living in?
a)Iraq just had the first real democratic election in the middle east, Sadass is in the docks, barely a ripple from the terrorists during the election, the rate of American casualties is down 80% while that of the insurgents is up 200%, the infrastructure of Iraq is improving daily, schools have been open for over 1.5 years, etc., etc, etc. No defeat here except in your brain.
b) The USA economy, 4% increase last month, over the year beats every European country, increase of 250,000 jobs last month and I believe a million over the year. (I’m not sure of that.)
c) Katrina. You are one ignoramus Chimpy. You have no idea of how the Federal System works. The facts are these: The first responder is the Mayor, who failed to follow the evacuation plan, in fact he failed to do ANYTHING except shoot his mouth off. Those of us who have lived in New Orleans for a long time are not surprised. As news reports, buried in the back of the MSM, verify, the President of the USA does not have the authority to act in a state without the permission of the Governor of the state. Bush implored Gov. Banco of LA, a dimwit which makes her fellow imbecile Democrats look like Eiensteins, refused to act and refused permission for Bush to send in troops until it was too late.
I’m sure facts will not move you as you are more invested in your fantasies than in reality.
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Bono?! The Gates’s?! WTF? I mean, WTF?!