Howard Dean : 2003 Time Magazine Man of the Year?

Self | December 6, 2003 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Howard Dean has made the shortlist for the 2003 Time magazine Man (Person) of the year, according to my source. President Bush is also said to be in the running.

A big, splashy Time Person of the Year 2003 will be sure to give Howard Dean's campaign a free boost, while it may signal the beginning of the end of the Kerry campaign.

[nwrep]

[nwrep]

ping

[lormand]

I'm sure Pravda frequently had Stalin as their man of the year too.

[gipper81]

When howie wins, he'll forget to break-up aol-time-warner.

[AppyPappy]

I would be shocked if he does it. Hillary doesn't want that.

[Az Joe]

It will be Bush. Who has had more impact on world events than Bush? Answer: Nobody.

Howard the Coward can only get on the cover if he wins next year, which he won't.

[San Jacinto]

Your post indicates that you feel Time Magazine's selection of Person of the Year may be based on objective standards untarnished by political calculation. This causes me to wonder if you have been hitting the fermented cactus juice a little early this morning.:-)

[dead]

That'd be great. It would go along way towards sealing his nomination and guaranteeing Bush the 45+ state mandate we want.

But they won't do it. Even Time realizes that it would make them look like the partisan hacks they are, when you compare Bush and Dean's respective years. The comparison is howlingly laughable.

[Aeronaut]

When howie wins, he'll forget to break-up aol-time-warner.

Time Warner is leftist, they'll be fine. He only wants to break apart the (perceived) Right-wing, knuckle-dragging neanderthal Fox News Network.

[Young Rhino]

It will be Valerie Plame...a Democrat opportunist who used her job at the CIA as a means to give the Bush administration a couple of black eyes. Plame and her turncoat husband Wilson will be depicted as heroes driven to support Kerry in order to protect the nation. There will be a shadowy picture playing on the protection of Plame's identity despite her prior pictorials. She will give a sob story about fearing for her life and Wilson will be claiming the GOP is trying to kill him with yellow cake in his morning coffee. In other words, it will be a hit piece designed to lose Bush votes in '04.

[hflynn]

It will be Bush. Who has had more impact on world events than Bush? Answer: Nobody.

Yeah right. Time magazine, one of the finest examples of the liberal model for journalistic integrity, would give it to Saddam Insane or Osama Been Missing before Bush.

[Az Joe]

It will be Bush-for all the wrong reasons. When I used to drink the cactus juice I voted Democrat.

[weegee]

Time Magazine had Rush Limbaugh on the cover during Bill Clinton's presidency and asked "Is Rush Right For America?".

Later they called the Unabomber a mad "genius" on the cover; if he had been bombing abortion clinics instead of corporate execs, he would have been called a prime example of what's wrong with conservativism.

[Charles Henrickson]

Caption Happy Howie: Howard Dean, Angry White Metrosexual

[Cagey]

I'm sure Pravda frequently had Stalin as their man of the year too.

Time had him twice.

1927	Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928	Walter P. Chrysler
1929	Owen D. Young
1930	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931	Pierre Laval
1932	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933	Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935	Haile Selassie
1936	Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937	Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938	Adolf Hitler
1939	Joseph Stalin
1940	Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942	Joseph Stalin
1943	George Catlett Marshall
1944	Dwight David Eisenhower
1945	Harry Truman
1946	James F. Byrnes
1947	George Catlett Marshall
1948	Harry Truman
1949	Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950	American Fighting-Man
1951	Mohammed Mossadegh
1952	Elizabeth II
1953	Konrad Adenauer
1954	John Foster Dulles
1955	Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956	Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957	Nikita Krushchev
1958	Charles De Gaulle
1959	Dwight David Eisenhower
1960	U.S. Scientists
1961	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962	Pope John XXIII
1963	Martin Luther King Jr.
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson
1965	General William Childs Westmoreland
1966	Twenty-Five and Under
1967	Lyndon B. Johnson
1968	Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969	The Middle Americans
1970	Willy Brandt
1971	Richard Milhous Nixon
1972	Nixon and Kissinger
1973	John J. Sirica
1974	King Faisal
1975	American Women
1976	Jimmy Carter
1977	Anwar Sadat
1978	Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979	Ayatullah Khomeini
1980	Ronald Reagan
1981	Lech Walesa
1982	The Computer
1983	Ronald Regan & Yuri Andropov
1984	Peter Ueberroth
1985	Deng Xiaoping
1986	Corazon Aquino
1987	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988	Endangered Earth
1989	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990	The Two George Bushes
1991	Ted Turner
1992	Bill Clinton
1993	The Peacemakers
1994	Pope John Paul II
1995	Newt Gingrich
1996	Dr. David Ho
1997	Andy Grove
1998	Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999	Jeff Bezos

[AzJohn]

Thanks for the list. I notice they have never given this designation to a presidential challenger in a year preceeding the presidential election. If Time names Dean they might look foolish if he gets clobbered next year.

My vote would be for Rumsfeld, or for a generic designation like "America's Soldiers". The stunning victory in Iraq was the most significant news event of the year.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I hope he wins it.

Commie-powered Howard!

[GraniteStateConservative]

stunning victory???

We lost that war! You need to pay more attention to what Time tells you!

[AzJohn]

Sorry, I'll try to keep up on my reading! LOL!

[HardStarboard]

Lets hope Howie makes Time's cover...then the Demo's will have to nominate him!!!

[jmaroneps37]

Things like that will happen more and more frequently as the ratmedia watches their ship sink and desparately searches for ways to save the day. The truth is that they act like horses when a barn is burning. They only know the safety of the barn, so they keep trying to run back into the flaming barn - scared of the outside world. ratmedia types will continually revert to the old playbook because they don't know any better.
By the way, NOBODY who is not already voting for how-odd? will be impressed with the cover.

[metesky]

I'm sure Pravda frequently had Stalin as their man of the year too.

So did Time, twice, 1939 and 1942.

Link to list

[metesky]

I really should scroll. I hate my redundant posts.

[Dave S]

Remember the criterion for Time Man of the Year is the person who has had the most impact good or bad on the news.

[Cagey]

Well, mine only went up to 1999. And, did you notice that they changed the "award" title from Man of the Year to Persons of the year after 1998? That was very sensitive of them.

[debaryfl]

My prediction for "Person" of the Year is Jimmy Carter (Nobel Peace Prize).

Time mag can celebrate that leftist and get in the same digs at George Bush as the Nobel Committee.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Let Dean be man of the year in '03, as long as Bush ends up man of the year in '04!

[Az Joe]

I had forgotten about that cover. Those pieces of sh*t! Let's see what they do. (As if we don't know)

[metesky]

Wear your personhood proudly!
;O)

[Cicero]

You got it. If the Time editors had their druthers, it would be Dean. But Hillary would have their heads if they even thought about doing it. So, the next best thing in their view would be to put Bush on the cover BUT DO A HUGE HATCHET JOB ON HIM.

They could even remind readers that the criterion for Time's man of the year is importance, not approval. After all, if they ran Hitler and Stalin as men of the year, why not Bush?

:-}

[OldFriend]

Time is proud of it's bias towards the america haters. Never misses an opportunity to bash the President and further the lies of the left.

Dean is a perfect choice.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Time Magazine's Person of the Year is as objectively selected as the Nobel Peace Prize. It's all about the Left congratulating the Left. LOL!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Agreed. They will "recognize" GW with a masterful hit piece, how he destroyed BC's surplus economy with ruinous tax reductions, etc.

[ntnychik]

I thought they had a Rush cover planned, but ditched it for the discovery of the Ice Man in the Alps. The feature article on Rush remained in the issue. Rush was pretty sarcastic about that on his radio show, IIRC.

[HHFi]

That's all these "news" weeklies do, which is why they're worthless to me, and I write a radio syndication service where I'm constantly looking for news to write jokes about. I recently had to sit for an hour in a car repair shop waiting room where the only thing to read was a couple of recent copies of Newsweek. I told my wife you could play a game with them: I'll give you five minutes, and you try to find ANY non-ad page, including movie reviews and fashion news, that didn't have a snotty slam at President Bush somewhere on it. Good luck!

I was also recently roped into helping a group that I'm in take pledges for the local public TV station (which is at least one of the less political ones, mostly showing things like reruns of Lawrence Welk). One of the premiums when you pledged $200 or more was a free subscription to Newsweek. One guy called in to renew his wife's membership for $200, and I offered him Newsweek FREE for a year. He said, "Eh, that's okay. I don't want it." I cracked up laughing and said, "I'm with you, brother!"

[sauropod]

If that puke makes the "man of the year" Time will have shredded the remaining tatters of its credibility.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

This is stupid. The obvious choice is Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway - it will revolutionize the world....ah never mind.

[ClarenceThomasfan]

I think the man of the year will be the "soldier". The people at Time won't give it to President Bush but they want to be at least some what credible. When will they announce it?

[zbigreddogz]

Wonderful! It will help him get the nomination, which is good.

[medscribe]

My guess is that TIME will be forced to go with George W. Bush and Tony Blair as their Men of the Year, especially after the events of this past week put an exclamation point on the Bush/Blair triumphs of this past year. If TIME sticks to their true criterium, ie, the most impact in the past 12 months, then Bush and Blair have written not footnotes, not chapters, but an entire volume of human freedom in the history annals this year.

[Monty22]

Is that IT?!?

[squidly]

If TIME sticks to their true criterium, ie, the most impact in the past 12 months

They caved to political pressure as recently as '01 when they made Giuliani MOTY over Bin Laden. Obviously, by their criteria, it should have been OBL that year.

[Monty22]

Well, I think I scooped the issue..

Maybe.

MAYBE they are saluting the soldiers?!

[squidly]

I should have known. This way they get to praise the mission without praising the evil Dubya.

[sinkspur]

I think the man of the year will be the "soldier".

Look at you! You got it!

[Monty22]

grr, it seems that way..