Posted on 12/07/2011 12:40:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
However wrong the rankings might be, I have to admit Time’s ”Best of Everything” lists are pretty fun to browse. In fact, if I made a list of reasons to check Time.com, the magazine’s immortal lists would be the first and last item on it.
But, really? The journalists at Time think ”Occupy Wall Street” is the No. 1 U.S. news story of the year — ahead of the GOP primaries, the economy, the Gabby Giffords shooting and the debt ceiling crisis? What, oh what, was the rationale? I know you’re dying to read this:
To some, Occupy Wall Street is the left-wing iteration of the Tea Party, directing their rage not at big government but at the big banks that gutted the world economy and took billions in bailouts from the U.S. government while awarding themselves hefty bonuses.
But many in the movement see their cause as part of a more global zeitgeist, in keeping with the anti-austerity demonstrations in Europe and the leaderless uprisings of the Arab Spring. …
[T]he sheer persistence of the occupations, galvanized by incidents of heavy-handed policing in New York and California that shocked the nation, have given the protesters’ appeals for economic justice a weight that may play a real role in the upcoming presidential election.
So much in that description that I just love. For example, I love that, according to Time, the banks took billions in bailouts from the government (i.e. the government didn’t voluntarily give taxpayer dollars to ‘em). I love that, according to Time, heavy-handed policing just came out of nowhere to galvanize the movement. I love that, according to Time, OWS, which just might play a “real role” in the upcoming presidential election, matters more than the state of the economy to which the movement itself was only one of many responses.
Let’s postulate a more plausible rationale for Time’s implausible choice: Must be that OWS is the only story that kinda sorta looks good for a certain struggling incumbent. And it only kinda sorta looks good for Obama because the MSM and Democrats have attempted to link the amorphous movement to the president’s jobs act and his present class warfare pitch, all while carefully overlooking the in-your-face violence that characterizes Occupy. Note that the Time description references over-the-top police action, but fails to mention the more than 400 incidents of violence, vandalism and outrageous behavior that have accrued to Occupiers. Now that might have been a reason to name OWS No. 1.
No wonder Commentary’s John Podhoretz tweeted out this new nickname for Henry Luce’s once-innocent baby: “Time, the magazine that keeps embarrassing itself.”
In the category of comedy, perhaps!
But seriously, I wonder who the "Person of the year will be"? Some stinkin' OWS hippy?
Only if ignorance, pee, and poop is your thing.
But they NEVER even MENTIONED the Tea Party movement in their pages — at least not as an important story in 2009/2010. Wow....
I would like to see who the “donors” are who keep this afloat through craigslist ads, food donations and such.
I can take a *guess*, but I’d LOVE to see documentation.
Anyone know anyone who is doing this?
Where are the investigative reporters compiling a list? For sure it’s a tentacle or two off ‘discover the networks’...I just want to see proof. Am I s’posed to believe it’s Joe’s pizza? Marie’s donuts? The local sammich shop?
Time??
Isn’t that the “t” in physics equations?
Still looking for the “satire” tag......
Time Magazine = communist propaganda. I would equate them with Pravda, but they actually come up with a decent article now and then.
Hearst:Spanish American War
Obama Media:Occupy Wall Street
So let’s see. Stories they overlooked. Hmm. Gabby Giffords shooting (13 dead), Japanese earthquake/tsunami (thousands dead), Death of Osama bin Laden (millions happy).....
I agree. I’d also like to know who was paying some of the protesters to show up. Some stated they were paid. Crickets!
It’s my take the unions pay people. It’s also my take that college professors give extra credit to folks who participate. High school teachers may as well.
This isn’t an effort that just sprang up like the Tea Party did. No Tea Party members are paid to be out there.
How delicious such a list would be...and it would prove the point you are making. We know it, just can’t prove it to the snoozing droolers yet.
Wonder if Stossel, Malkin, Drudge, Breibart?...if any one is working on it.
It would be hugh.
It would be hugh, and I’d love to see one of them do it.
Time for Occupy TIME!
Time for Occupy TIME!
No, the banks didn't TAKE the bailouts, they were handed the bailouts by BIG government. So, without BIG government (at which they are NOT directing their rage) there would be no bailouts. Brilliant.
How about a party that was called names like racist nazis and torn down and formed the 2010 elections?THE TEA PARTY!If they highlight this they better report Obama’s ties to it and how they are thugs.
Not nearly the biggest story. Leftists live in their own insular little world and no light can seep into it.
Sigh.
If there was a prosecutable event here, there would be arrests, indictments, hearings.
The banks were offered a way to make lots of money, risk free. They took the government up on the offer. When it blew up, the government bailed them out.
So the government should be “occupied”, not the opportunists.
Same goes for the immigration problem. Working immigrants should be held harmless.
Why is it called the Gabby Giffords shooting? She lived for crying out loud. Name it after the dead federal judge!
What about that Norway massacre? What was the final death toll?
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