Time's Person of the Year

I don't see the conservative slant in Time that others seem to. They were pretty hard this week, for example, on the Republican field. And they raked Giuliani over the coals for his business interests. Meanwhile, it's been a weekly B.J. for Obama and Edwards.

 

Mr. Stengel explains why...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1696150,00.html

TIME's Person of the Year is not and never has been an honor. It is not an endorsement. It is not a popularity contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recognition of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals and forces shaping that world—for better or for worse.

 

I said elsewhere, Jobs didn’t invent anything. He merely designed a pre-existing product into an image that has a cult like following. The iPhone was hardly something new. Hell, they have had phones that play movies, touch screen, and a 5megapixel camera in Korea for over a year. The iPhone is barely close to that.

It can be argued that the iPod video units were much more impressive, but the iPod isn’t what destroyed the music industry. That was Napster about 10-years ago.

The selection of Putin is interesting if, and only if, they hammer the fucker relentlessly. The man is an authoritarian whack job. I’m just glad somebody looked into his soul and was able to learn that he was a great man.

 

Fixed.

 

That actually made me laugh.

But with this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year;_ylt=AhMpXqbtoDmo8vho7pW0Wlms0NUE


Some of you have a dilemma....embracing the man who rose from the much-admired Politburo (for some of you) or the guy you also call a genocidal maniac.

 

Putin's an authoritarian wingnut, so he should be right up your alley.

 

No, he's a product of Stalinism......

 

Hmm, another authoritarian whacko...shouldn't you have a gigantic Stalin poster over your bed or something?

 

Stalin was one of those friends of the Politburo that "went a little too far" in Marge Schott's words... Still, a socialist.

 

Have you ever even read a history book? There is scant evidence that Stalin believed in anything Lenin or the Party was spewing. Uncle Joe believed in one thing: Power. The rest was lip service.

 

I have finally accepted the fact that Yawn is utterly devoid of any sincerity argument. He simply pulls out of his bag of mindless cliches whichever Rushism or O'Reillyism seems plausible at the moment.

Putin had a good year, and is a good choice. He had an immediate impact on the world this year, while the impact of Gore's work is yet to be fully measured.