December 18, 2006 12:32 PM
Congratulations! YOU are Time's Person of the Year
I'd like to thank the little people and of course I have to share Time Magazine's Person of the Year award with YOU.
Time magzine named us - 'citizens of the digital democracy' it calls us - because we update Wikipedia, promote ourselves on You Tube and MySpace and blog ourselves silly on like this.
We represent, in Time's words, "he many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."
This is going to look so good on our resumes.
If Time hadn't named you and me, they would likely have gone with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but apparently decided you can sell more magazines with pictures of you and me on the cover (actually it's Mylar acting like a mirror) than a guy who thinks the jury is still out on the Holocaust.
Was Time's choice inspired or a cop-out? Should they have picked Ahmadinejad based on his prominence on the world stage? Or Kim Jong Il, Abu Masal al Zarqawi or the citizens of Iraq? What about Stephen Colbert on the cultural front? Or Sacha Baron Cohen?
December 18, 2006
2:09 PM
Elwood writes:
What a wimpy choice, of course it was a cop out. With numbers of subscribers down for the written news media, anything controversial would have caused cries of outrage and loss of dollars. If the editors at time can't make up their mind, don't have one!
December 18, 2006
3:03 PM
Anonymous writes:
Now Jay and JW have to find a way to hate themselves!
December 18, 2006
3:27 PM
Anonymous writes:
shouldn't that be Uncivilized Narcissist Arnie?
December 18, 2006
4:43 PM
Anonymous writes:
I just can not believe they didn't pick President Bush
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/18/bush.poll/index.html
December 18, 2006
5:10 PM
will writes:
Tom Tancredo, Man of the Year
December 18, 2006
5:24 PM
David Hakala writes:
You know print circulation is plummeting when Time pulls a suck-up like this one! :-)
And they chose to profile some of the most pathetic little exhibitionists on YouTube. Grassroots organizations such as CopWatch.com, which turns surveillance on its head, are much better examples of the Internet-empowered People.
December 18, 2006
5:46 PM
Anonymous writes:
If freaks like Ahmadinejad are eligible then freaks like Tancredo certainly are. Good point Will.
December 18, 2006
11:53 PM
Kevin Jones writes:
Gold Stars for Everyone!
December 19, 2006
7:42 AM
Will writes:
Tancredo is an Oracle.
December 19, 2006
7:56 AM
Groucho Marx writes:
I think I will decline, because I would never want to be a part of any group that would have someone like me for a member.
December 19, 2006
9:00 AM
Your time is gonna come writes:
Hey Dec 18, 5:46, Typical anti-American spewage from the left. You can even spell Ahma- Ahma,...... Sham-a-lama ding dong's name correctly, I guess. Tells me which side of your bread is buttered.
December 19, 2006
9:16 AM
Anonymous writes:
Spell it right next time Will.
Tancredo is an Orifice.
December 19, 2006
11:47 AM
Will writes:
Hey, 9:16. Tancredo has onions and insight. You don't even put your name on an anonymous blog.
December 19, 2006
5:10 PM
Anonymous writes:
Speaking of Tancredo....his birthday is tomorrow. Are all yoiu lemmings going to run around and yell "The sky is falling!" in his honor?
December 19, 2006
9:48 PM
Patriot writes:
The sky is falling. Wake up America. Open your eyes and put down the RMN.
December 19, 2006
9:54 PM
Your time is gonna come writes:
Happy Birthday Tom Tancredo, may you live long and prosper.