Time Magazine has named as their Man of the Year ”The Protester.”
Like this guy:
Or these Jeffersonian Democrats in Egypt:
Does Time also nominate the 22.2 million dollars the OSW thugs have cost the American taxpayer?
We assume Time has failed to notice, or care, that the kosher Milk Street Cafe has gone out of business because of the protests killing street traffic.
Oh well, as Stalin said: “You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.”
Obviously, We beg to differ with the overbred, overeducated comrades of Time.
Seraphic Secret’s Man of the Year is…
The Navy Seal Team who killed Usama Bin Laden.
G-d bless our men and women in uniform.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Robert,
Let’s not forget Time Magazines “Man of the Year 1938.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html
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Robert, Robert, Robert… it’s not Man of the Year anymore. It’s Person of the Year!
Ironically, in the last 10 years, the TIME editorial staff has elected to choose a “collective person” 5 times. Since 2001 the winners have been:
2001 – Rudi Guiliani (mayor of NYC during the 9-11 crisis)
2002 – “The Whistleblowers” (representing events at Enron, WorldCom and the FBI)
2003 – “The American Soldier” (for their service in the war against terror)
2004 - George W Bush (how’s he get in there??)
2005 - ”The Good Samaritans” (represented by Bono and Bill & Melinda Gates)
2006 – “You” (the individual content creator on the Web)
2007 – Vladimir Putin (Russian leader)
2008 – Barack Obama (US President)
2009 – Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
2010 - Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook)
2011 - ”The Protestor” (OWS and Arab Spring types)
Of course, TIME has a long and illustrious history of selecting leftists and dictators. In 1938 Adolf Hitler was named TIME’s Man of the Year and Joseph Stalin won it in 1939 and 1942. Deng Xiaoping (China’s leader) won it in 1978 and 1985, and who can forget TIME naming the Ayatollah Khomeini as the Man of the Year in 1979 (during the Iran Hostage crisis).
I would much rather they name this “award” Newsmaker of the Year — I could see naming some of these figures as news-worthy, but not “Man of the Year”. But I guess the meaning of words is of little importance to the media… *sigh*
I heartily approve of your choice for Man of the Year. The USN Seals are the best at what they do. Hands down. This should become an annual event, Robert. You wait until TIME announces their selection and then you put forth a dose of reality.
Finally, sorry to hear Mark Epstein couldn’t survive the OWS fiasco. Hope he didn’t lose too much capital and is able to open at a different location. Also hoping his former employees are now gainfully employed and able to celebrate the holiday season…
PJ
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Prophet Joe:
Right, Person of the year. How terribly UnPC of me—by design. I will not allow my language to be corrupted by these dimwits. Normal people understand that man implies mankind, meaning male, female.
Very sad about Mark Epstein. I’ll bet there are plenty of more Epstein’s out there, but the media have not bothered telling their stories because the narrative does not fit their anti-capitalists world-view.
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Has it occurred to anyone besides me that Time Magazine is the Media, CBS is the Media, Lara Logan was an employee of CBS. After the way a representative of the media, ONE OF THEIR OWN, was treated by “protesters,” they make ”protesters,” en masse, “Man of the Year?”
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@Miranda: I’m sure the left sees Lara Logan’s attackers as right-wing zealots and not as protestors. After all, in their (the media) eyes, liberals are not capable of racism or rape!
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Miranda:
Great point! Mass rape is now a politically sanctioned liberal act.
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Good choice, Mr. Avrech. These men and women deserve every bit of recognition we can give them for their selflessness and courage.
On the subject of Time’s ”Man of the Year” award to the “Occupoopers” (credit: Mr. Dave Mulligan): The media’s insidious complicity in defining and blaming the 2008 financial crisis as a failure in free market economics cannot be overrstated. They took the government’s (leftist) narrative of the causes of the financial crisis and disseminated it to the masses. The result? A bunch of gullible, uninformed, anti-capitalist buffoons with a superficial take on an issue of great complexity.
I don’t claim to understand the ins and outs of the crisis as an economist would (or should), but I have enough common sense to understand that the bulk of demand for subprime loans did not come from the banks, but from gov’t sponsored entities like Fannie & Freddie.
There must a reason why today’s public schools don’t teach basic economics and finance…it must be to inoculate young people from growing up into thinking adults (sorry for the overgeneralization, but it rings true).
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Abigail:
Beautiful comment. The public schools are too busy teaching the coming annihilation of, um, peoplekind, because of global warming, I mean climate change. And let’s not forget all the hours devoted to explaining why homosexuality and transgender identity is totally fabulous, or the endless class projects designed to show that if mommy and daddy don’t recycle they are enemies of the global community.
With all that who has time for basic free market principals.
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They do it without fanfare or desire for public acclaim…
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Bill:
Every true warrior I have known—mostly Israeli commandos—are soft-spoken and incredibly humble about their service.
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They could at least have put a picture of Mohamed Bouazizi on the cover. The protesters against dictators were risking a lot more than the OWS could ever imagine.
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Johnny:
Mohammed Bouazizi is not PC. he self-immolated because he could not get a permit to run his food stand. He was protesting Big government and the suffocation of free enterprise. In short, the OWS mob, if they even knew who was, and I doubt that very much, will view him as a counter revolutionary.
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Some people look at the candidates and realize a pick like Seal Team 6 is the obvious choice.
Some people at liberal magazines that have previously chosen Hitler and Stalin as Man of the Year continue to look for the candidates that can give it congratulatory props on Morning Joe. Because the magazine’s target audience is Mika from New York and not Betty from Topeka.
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Amen.
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