SOURCES: EDITORS OF TIME MAGAZINE WILL NAME WIKILEAKS FOUNDER 'PERSON OF THE YEAR'

The Drudge Report ^ | 12/7/2010 | DrudgeReport

[nikos1121]

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that “for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year.” Although TIME’s list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list.

Here are a few zingers:

1988 Endangered Earth
1993 The Peacemakers (Yeah, right)
1995 Andy Grove (Who?)
1996 Dr. David Ho (Bwahahahahahaaaa)
1999 Jeff Bezos (Who the deuce is he?)
2002 Endangered Earth (Thought it would be PETA)
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Bono
2006 You (Did you get that one?)

[a fool in paradise]

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were leading the online vote last week.

[The Shrew]

How ironic that this was "leaked" by sources.

Regards,

TS

[Gideon7]

TIME is desperately fighting for Newsweek’s one dollar.

!!! You owe me a new keyboard and cup of coffee.

[Lazamataz]

Time maintains their long and time-honored tradition of being as AntiAmerican as possible.

[SeekAndFind]

How many times is the Endangered Earth going to get the Time Award?

Gaia must be getting embarassed at all the attention she’s getting...

[Conservative Tsunami]

Odd.

I figured those forgotten bank auditors who were prosecuted for uncovering 0bama's loan records might have been in the running.

OR Lt. Col Terry Larkin.

OR 0bama's own Kenyan grandma.

[SunkenCiv]

What's "Time Magazine"?

• WikiLeaks and double standards in a toxic media environment
• WikiLeaks and the trouble with transparency
• There are no secrets anymore!
• Biden Aims to Rival WikiLeaks
• Why is Lady Gaga's music better protected than our state secrets?
• WikiLeaks to keep releasing cables despite Assange arrest
• Rush Limbaugh Wants Julian Assange To Find Obama's Birth Certificate

hey, not so fast:

• Obama May Need to Resign and Other WikiLeaks Weekend Updates
• Assange: "Geopolitics will be separated into pre and post 'Cablegate" (and Obama should resign)
• Julian Assange calls for anarchy, complete removal of US 'chain of command' including Obama
• Obama Should Resign If Approved UN Spying: WikiLeaks Founder
• Delusions of Grandeur

follow the money:

• Wikileaks "sells secret information" -- report:
  Co-founder blows whistle on "criminal outfit"
• MORE WikiLeaks: Full State Department Listing of
  Vital US Security Interests- a Terrorist's Dream
• WikiLeaks lists sites key to U.S. security

and of course, therefore:

• Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange
• Wikileaks: good or bad?

and finally, the AGW hoax and conspiracy to defraud:

• Eco-Diplomacy, The Chicago Way
• WikiLeaks cables: US pressured UN climate chief to bar Iranian from job
• WikiLeaks: Obama administration manipulated 2009 Copenhagen climate accord
• WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
• Don't Look, Don't Read: Government Warns Its Workers
  Away From WikiLeaks Documents

Thanks RightFighter.

[Liberty Valance]

It's OK. We all know that the Tea Party Movement is the actual person of the year. Time just hasn't figured that out yet.

[Mr. Silverback]

I don’t see why anyone would bother being outraged by this, for two reasons, either one of which is enough to make it a non-event:

1. Time is an irrelevant publication at this point.

2. Man of the Year is a measure of how much effect the person has had on the news, not an award for character or accomplishment. That’s why, back when Time was run by real Americans, Adolf Hitler was their Man of the Year one year.

Of course, the real men and women of the year are the Tea Party.

[Mr. Silverback]

Dead on.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx SunkenCiv !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[MeganC]

TIME recently offered me a two year subscription for $15.

They’re on the ropes and the end is near.

[newzjunkey]

In that context how did they name FDR person of the century instead of Hitler?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Andy Grove, long time boss at Intel Corp., and noted supporter of free enterprise.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Jeff Bezos - the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.

[fireman15]

There are so many other deserving people:

[FlyingEagle]

How about “Treasonous Seditious Espionage Agent and Sexual Predator of the Year”, instead.

[rlmorel]

This is nothing new. We have seen this type of thing for years. The last time I read Time was probably in 1996 or thereabouts...

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think the fact that he’s a sexual deviant will put him at the top of the list for the Nobel “Peace” Prize also.