Posted 5 years, 2 months ago mid-afternoon by oso
Here is an excerpt from WhyWeHateBush.com:
Commentary ~ December 19, 2004: George Bush has been named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine, joining such historical similarities as Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Adolf Hitler (1938) and Joseph Stalin (1939).
Time’s managing editor Jim Kelly said the president was chosen for “sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design,” and for “gambling his fortunes – and ours.”
We couldn’t have said it better.
As far as bleeding choices, 1,304 Americans have been killed as a result of his war in Iraq ; while 9,844 have been wounded (5,229 so seriously they have been sent home with missing body parts). More than 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children have died. No one is keeping track of how many of them are maimed for life.
Reframing reality to match his design: in other words, forcing his worldview on the rest of us. In the next four years, we can expect much more of his reframing of reality. Adolf Hitler did the same thing after he was named person of the year.
The conservative blog Power Line was named Blog of the Year.
Just wanted to stop by and say hi to all my liberal buds from a caffe in Chapala, Mexico. I was on this baby for 20 minutes the other day, and all they charged me was 3 pesos, which amounts to a little less than thirty cents. I was like WTF.
Anyway, I see you liberals are getting along just fine without me…But you forgot other Time Person of the year winners, like last years…The American Soldier.
People whom are “outraged” are simply not well informed about the criteria Time uses to choose their “Person of the Year.”
A quote from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/19/time.moy.bush.reut/:
The winner must be “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse,”
Time magazine’s choice is based on the person’s influence, it is not a measure of merit. The same criteria has been in place since they started “Man of the Year” in 1927. Other infamous people who have been nominated as “Person/Man of the Year” were Adolf Hitler, and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Bush, Iraq, and the 2004 elections have been in the headlines and all over the news globally over this past year.
Time made the right decision based on their criteria.
CIAO! Happy Holidays!
Yup, you said it right DD.