Russian President Vladimir Putin Named Time's 'Person of the Year'

Fox News ^ | 12/19/07 | AP

[mware]

NEW YORK — Russian President Vladimir Putin was named the Time magazine "Person of the Year."

Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor, said the 2007 honor went to the Russian leader "for an extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability."

Others in the running for the honor included Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore and author J.K. Rowling

[mware]

Stunning.

[ryan71]

Time loves a good commie.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Time.

It should have been “Dictator of the Year”

[iopscusa]

If only Stalin were still alive, Time would have a twofer!

[bmwcyle]

Time = Cultural Marxist News

[mware]

for an extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability."

Democracy takes another step backwards in Russia thanks to Time Magazine.

[Da Coyote]

Time/Newsweek have become the Yugos of publishing. Cannot they hire some students who got better than a D average? (And boy, getting a D in lib arts is really, really hard. Usually, it takes being a conservative.)

[Bahbah]

Is this a joke?

It has to be a joke.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Stability.

Good criteria. All the trains run on Time.

[Obadiah]

Wow. Just wow. I’m pretty jaded, but even that surprises me. The MSM is the enemy.

[mware]

of course that stability came at the price of their loss of FReedom of the Press.

Something just ain’t right about the press praising Putin for silencing the press.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Apparently General Petraeus, (Bill O’Reilly’s choice, as well as mine) did not merit consideration. Turning a lost war into a won war against a vicious enemy of America is not what TIME was looking for.

[mware]

NOpe reported a few minutes ago on Fox & FRiends.

[steveegg]

If only Stalin were still alive, Time would have a twofer!

Didn't Time honor Iosef already?

[The Dude Abides]

Better him than Gore or Hillary, I suppose.

[sure_fine]

didn’t you forget

(Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)?

[mware]

sure. I am still at a loss for words...This is just stunning.

[xzins]

Putin???

What’d he do this year?

[mware]

Wonder how the DU’ers are taking this one. I suspect they thing that Chevez ought to get it.

[1rudeboy]

It's actually quite an astute maneuver on Time's part. It reduces the likelihood that one of its journalists will be arrested and sent to the Gulag.

[o_zarkman44]

Whoever said that communism was defeated is dead wrong. Commuism is alive and well.
surprised Hugo Chavez wasn’t a top finalist.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

The thing is, The Surge was the biggest story of the year and Patraeus made it work. Should’ve been a no-brainer, but once again the press proves it has no brains.

[mware]

He silenced his opponents, heated up the Cold War again, and oh yeah, hand selected the next president and assigned himself PM of Russia.

[fweingart]

Gee am I glad I cancelled my subscription to Time over 25 years ago. This is an editorial staff who hasn’t met a communist they didn’t like. They’re gaga over the hillbilly marxist team of Clinton and Clinton.

[BallyBill]

Safe Pick.

Al Gore or Ackmahdinejaad would be worse.

[TheRobb7]

Putin was named the Time magazine “Person of the Year.”

Of course, you realize now that Katie Couric is gonna have to dust off her knee pads for that obligatory P.O.Y. interview.......

just sayin...

[Bushwacker777]

Okay, having just returned from Russia I can say that Putin is very popular there. One should consider who it is attacking him — the same multinational corporate/foundation types who dislike conservatives in the USA.

Putin is a nationalist and it’s too bad we don’t have a leader like him in the White House.

[Just mythoughts]

Pooooor Hillry why did TIME disssss her?

[mtbopfuyn]

Had to check if this wasn’t from The Onion.

[abb]

[Just mythoughts]

Well I can feeeeeel the love Putin has for US, and yes it is tooooo bad we do not have a few more nationalists US leaders in our government. /s

[RDTF]

when did it become stable?

[Kerretarded]

Simply amazing......

[Kerretarded]

Isn’t this the same magazine that named ALL of us “Person of the Year” last year?

[metesky]

The war was never lost.

[Justa]

Honoring their employer and master, the KGB, for over 60+ years now.

[VictoryGal]

> Didn’t Time honor Iosef [Stalin] already?

Indeed they did, and what a glorious writeup they did of him, too, as an ally in 1943.

My father saved a copy as a reminder of how the press can make mistakes, or worse. I never forgot that lesson.

[mware]

I guess Time Magazine did not hear about the Russian poisoned in London.

Had Putin's name all over it.

[drpix]

What! Only one cover? Their Stalinist devotion must be slipping.

1937:

1943:

1945:

...And I may have missed one or two.

[sure_fine]

snip...

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

../snip

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[xzins]

In that case, Robert Mugabe was more their man. They really missed an opportunity.

[mware]

I understand that the Person of the Year does not have to be for an honorable reason, and if they had named him because of the repression of his opposition I would understand it but their reason is stated "for an extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability."

Not hard to do when you silence the press, limit the political opponents from getting media coverage, etc.

[silent_jonny]

Is this a joke?

That's what I thought too.

"for an extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability."

General Petraeus, anyone?

[blam]

Henry Luce must be spinning in his grave.

[theDentist]

Well, they named Hitler “Man of the Year”, why not another blood-thirsty dictatorial socialist? The Editors probably identify with him.

[topher]

I thought he was up for DICTATOR of the YEAR award!

Beating out Mugabe of Zimbawe is not easy to do, specially with Mugabe playing hardball and starving his people to death!

It is about TIME TIME gives the right title to people...

[steveegg]

Time loves a good commie.

Precisely. Let's review the list of Commies that got Time's highest award:

• Iosef Stalin (twice)
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Deng Xiaoping (twice)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (twice)

Then you have Communist-enablers FDR (thrice; the only person to win 3 times) and Bill Clinton (twice).

[jveritas]

Disgusting.

Instead of having General David Patraeus the man who crushed Al Qaeda in Iraq, or having President Bush whose leadership made us win the war, the hateful magots at time magzine picked up the Russian dictator for man of the year.

[Broker]

Wishful thinking; TIME is warning the world to watch Putin closely. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. This KGB hand operates in the darkness and finds himself under worldwide media scrutiny. Putin’s 2007 is not so important as his 2008. He needs to be watched and for this warning; thank TIME.