Miley Cyrus Leads TIME Magazine's Person Of The Year Readers Poll

[Cali_Democrat]

Miley Cyrus Leads TIME Magazine's Person Of The Year Readers Poll, But Will She Win?
Posted: 11/27/2013 12:07 pm EST

Congratulations social media, millenials and pop culture enthusiasts, you did it. You've put Miley Cyrus in the lead for TIME magazine's Person of the Year readers' poll. We hope you're happy.

As they do every year, the editors of TIME magazine pick "the person [who] most influenced the news this year for better or worse." Last year, it was President Obama. The year before, the ambiguous protester. Could 2013 officially be the Year of Miley?

Not necessarily. Cyrus, who currently has 28.7 percent of the votes, might still lose the prestigious cover. TIME's editors are the ones to crown the winner, and this is merely a readers poll to gauge the public's opinion. And even if it were up to the readers, Cyrus can fall off first place later today, tomorrow, or anytime before Dec. 4, when voting closes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/miley-cyrus-time-person-of-the-year_n_4350334.html?ref=topbar

Go Miley, go!

[onehandle]

1. My faith in the stupidity of Internet denizens is upheld. nt

[MADem]

33. Yes indeed-- my first thought? "Idiocracy!" nt

[Brigid]

74. That movie was prophetic.

Who woulda thunk?

[abq e streeter]

76. Best "review" of it I ever saw was simply "I didn't realize it was going to be a documentary".

[Auggie]

2. Why not? Cyrus speaks for a populace un-engaged with real issues as well as anyone ...

but I think the award should be renamed "TIME Magazine's Distraction Of The Year."

[Scootaloo]

30. By "a populace un-engaged with real issues" you must mean the US media...

Because I could swear I've read more about Miley bouncing her ass than anything else this year. And that being the case, I think she's actually worth consideration, by the criteria set forth by TIME.

"the person most influenced the news this year for better or worse."

Since the media can't tolerate a white woman moving her hips while dancing, Miley's shot to the top, over anything actually, y'know, important. it'd be neat for Time to run with it and make a case for how fucking awful the Us media is... except they're actually part of the problem.

[NYC_SKP]

3. She twerked her way to the top!

[TeeYiYi]

5. Oh, fer cryin' out loud!...

NYC_SKP

TYY

[MFM008]

12. omg

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. ...

[adirondacker]

22. LMAO! Happy Twurkey Day!

[Trailrider1951]

59. DUZY!!!

if there ever was one!

[calimary]

92. DUzy!!!!!!

SUPERB, adirondacker!!!!!!!! Happy Twurkey Day!!!!! OMG!!!

[Are_grits_groceries]

23. I think this an unnecessary shot at Miley.

It is disgusting and aimed at a 21 year old woman. It may be funny to some, but is portraying any woman in this way acceptable?
You can say it's just a turkey, but you know damn well what it symbolizes.

Miley has performed in ways that people disapprove of. That is an opinion. Because of her performance, does she deserve to be portrayed this way?

I don't think so!

[MADem]

34. I'll save my sympathy for real "victims"--not nitwits who can't keep their bacteria coated tongues

in their mouths!

Anyone who runs around with minimal clothing, flexing their ass muscles in public in a gratuitous display, deserves to be told they are acting like a turkey...or a twerk-y, as the case may be.

People who don't want to be mocked as idiots shouldn't act like 'em.

I think that picture is HILARIOUS....and right on point.

[NYC_SKP]

43. 'Zactly.

If you go out and twerk like she did, which is fine if that's what you want to do, then you ought not be surprised if somebody mocks you.

The idea that it's somehow an insult to womankind is, well, silly.

[lumpy]

52. Miley would have done fairly well the old 'bump and grind' circuit. I doubt if she will be popular

with the more mature, artistic, talent appreciating segment of this society. Still the turkey
cartoon is disgusting, not funny and an affront to decent sensibilities.

[MADem]

55. Affront to decent sensibilities?

I think you are taking this far too seriously. It's HILARIOUS.

And she deserves the attention she's getting--she wants the attention, too. Anyone who dresses (or undresses) up like she has been doing in her videos and live appearances WANTS people to notice her. All this is, is a form of "notice."

If you're objecting to people being portrayed as turkeys, I will expect a similar, full throated defense for THIS turkey:

Sorry--I am not buying your outrage.

[Are_grits_groceries]

53. Negative views of her and her performances don't bother me.

That's to be expected, and she is well aware of her image.
I am not fond of this either.

However, I will take issue with that particular representation. It portrays her as a commodity to be abused by anyone. That picture goes way beyond mocking. Put any other person as the head of the gif and it won't be so funny.

People who want to mock other women could easily use a similar image and DU would explode. Nobody deserves that particular kind of mocking.

If you think a lot of people are just going to see that as a turkey ass twerking, think again. For others it will be a virtual representation of Miley's own butt and whatever else open for business.

Twerking has been around for a while. There are many examples of it in music videos and other media. Nobody has had much to say about it before. Miley uses it as her stage performance and BOOM!

If somebody such as Beyonce did it in a better production that was just as suggestive but more sensual would it be ok then?

Miley can handle the criticism. I don't have sympathy for her when people are panning her performance. I do object to this representation and I stand by that. It's not just Miley but anybody portrayed like that.

[MADem]

57. That is just absurd. If you can't make the connection between

TURKEY (which Miley IS) and TWERK-Y (which Miley does) I can't help you.

If you put someone else's head on it, it would be funny, but would make less sense, unless the "someone else" is famous for flexing their ass in the way that Miley is.

And I insist that you offer the same outrage to the producers of Seinfeld for their objectification of Kramer, if you're to be consistent.

How dare he be portrayed as a "commodity!" Oh, the INHUMANITY!!!

Sorry--no sale. She's reaping what she has sown, putting out videos of herself flexing her butt all over the place, and swinging nekkid on that wrecking ball. This is simply accurate humor--which is why it works.

[Are_grits_groceries]

64. I have no problems with portraying people as animals.

All of the ones you have shown have no suggestive content whatsoever.
Miley as a turkey or twerky could be equally funny.
I don't find that picture of a bare-assed turkey as a portrayal of anything but Miley with her bare ass out there. I don't find that funny.

We will just have to disagree.

[MADem]

66. What's "suggestive" is what Ms. Cyrus has done to make herself famous.

Or "infamous." If she sat onstage reading a book and acting the fool, she'd be depicted as a turkey reading a book. The "suggestiveness" comes from HER behavior.

I stand with the crew of the Starship Enterprise on this 'un.

That turkey wouldn't be twerking if Ms. Miley wasn't a twerker....and Miley wouldn't be portrayed as a turkey if she didn't ACT like one.

See how that works?

[Agschmid]

96. +1

[lumpy]

38. I agree. Whoever concocted that disgusting picture is a helluva lot more skanky than Miley Cyrus.

We are going over the brink as far as human decency is represented in this country; decedent.

[MADem]

60. Step right up and declare yourself about these "affronts to human decency" too, then...

If you object to objectification, it should be a blanket objection, if you're to be consistent.

Personally, I think these two and the twerking turkey are flat-out gut bustingly funny. People will reap what they sow.

[Tikki]

71. Miley has consented with producers, directors, agents and camera-persons, composers and musicians..

dance coaches and others in the industry to do what they both want to do…this is so cool because there will be no ramifications against her or others because everything she does is a consensual decision, that is the way the entertainment industry works.

And remember this if she ever says she was lead in the wrong direction, by others, in the future..because she knows
everything about how this industry works, for sure.

Tikki

[Hippo_Tron]

95. It's funny because her outfit kinda looked like a turkey butt...

I think Miley's taken an unfair amount of slut shaming crap, but I don't mind getting a chuckle from her ridiculous outfit choices.

[MADem]

97. The idea of the outfit was to look, for a brief moment, nekkid.

But it did end up looking like turkey skin, without the goose bumps!!

I don't think it's slut shaming that people are doing when they mock her, so much as calling her out for acting like a fool and looking, well, stooooooopid. The "Orange is the New Black" hairdo, the Big Foam Finger, the tongue that looks like it is lard-coated, and that costume--none of that is "sexy" or "slutty" or even, really, "shocking"--it's just baaaaaaaad fashion...!

[Hippo_Tron]

99. No, but Miley took a lot of slut shaming crap for that performance

So I'm hestitant to pile on any further snark or criticism, but as you said the outfit bares an uncanny resemblance to a turkey skin.

[MADem]

100. She took a lot of "what is that girl doing with her behind?" crap, and "Why is her coated tongue

rolling out of her head?" crap, and "Holy shit, is she doing what I think she is doing with a sports fan's 'We're Number ONE' finger on national TV?" crap...

I think a lot of people didn't find the performance slutty at all. It was suggestive of something one might find in the DSM-IV, though. My first thought was "Has that child lost her ever-lovin' MIND....?"

All young people--regardless of gender--like to push the envelope and shock their elders. This has been going on since the dawn of time. Thing is, most of her elders have seen this foolishness before--Madonna did it all, particularly with the no clothing business and sexual posturing...and except for the fundies who went ballistic over her "Black Jesus" and her crucifixion representations, nobody really cared for very long back then, either.

Miley's performance was, if we're to break it down, more of the "Cover the eyes of the children!" variety. She wanted to make it plain that Hannah Montana is d-e-a-d, and in her place is someone who doesn't like clothing and does like club drugs like "Molly" and who thinks these things make her "cool" somehow and will market her music to a crowd that concurs with these views. For those who don't care for her "new style," or who find it seems a bit faked or forced or just flat out phony and worthy of a bit of mocking, she's, well, a turkey...and that's what makes the .gif so doggone funny.

[progressoid]

25. ...

having just removed the giblets from our turkey, I am...um....troubled by this image.

[Blaukraut]

36. Looks like a plucked Cleopatra from the movie "Freaks" n/t

[CincyDem]

56. This needs a "Warning - Graphic Image" header. LOL n/t

[Quantess]

4. See? That's how you do it!

Annoy everybody with your slow-trainwreck of a performance so absurd that people cannot stop talking about it for months, let the peanut gallery speculate on how you just ruined your career, get in all the tabloids, and then laugh all the way to the bank.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. No shit.

She played the American Public like a violin.

[MADem]

35. I don't know anyone who has actually PAID for any of her stuff.

But I suppose there's that media-based "value added" money, where she gets paid and people tune in to see the train wreck.

I think someone should give her a tongue scraper for Christmas.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. The jumbo model

to be sure.



full disclosure: I actually think her song about ecstasy and sex with all the twerking and whatnot aint half bad.

[MADem]

40. That might do it!

Have you bought her music, or gone to her concerts, though?

I suppose if any of us watch programs that she is featured on, she gets money for going on the shows, and we support her that way...but I think she might want to watch it--if she wants to be a "spectacle" she's making that happen; if she wants to be a musician she is skirting the border of "fringe clown" territory. After a while, even good back up musicians, voice modulation, and a steady beat won't save one....

[Warren DeMontague]

42. No comment.

Truth be told, though, I'm not exactly the demographic your record companies are trying to sell to. I probably buy about 5 CDs worth of music a year, but most of that either comes from dead.net.

[MADem]

45. Hey, there's no accounting for tastes! And we all like the occasional oddball tunes.

I like, in small doses, traditional music that to some sounds like cats mating to some ears!

[polly7]

67. I bought Wrecking Ball on iTunes.

I like it.

[MADem]

69. Each to their own!

I think it's pretty awful music, myself--but hey, I probably like some stuff that would curl hair...

[polly7]

73. Absolutely.

My tastes definitely aren't everyone's either. Did you see her singing 'Jolene' on that video someone posted in the lounge? I thought it was quite good and portrayed her probably a lot more as she really is.

I do think she's a very bright girl who knows exactly what she's doing and how she wants to get there.

[MADem]

75. She's certainly -- for better, or worse -- in charge of her own career.

Didn't see the video, but I will go have a peek!

[polichick]

6. No wonder the rest of the world thinks the US has lost it's way.

[lumpy]

39. No kidding. We are quickly losing any prestige and honor we might have enjoyed in the past.

n

[maxsolomon]

47. Oh Please

America doesn't have "prestige and honor". The world looks to us for crass entertainments, we give it to them, and they love it.

And they don't have any leg to stand on to critique us, anyway - witness the Eurovision Competition, or S. America's plastic beauty queens.

[lumpy]

58. I assume I have been around a lot longer that you have; and we did have standing in this

country. This country has changed it ideals; if you think a performance such as Mileys and that disgusting cartoon would have even been thrown in our faces on the net/TV even 50 years ago, you certainly weren't aware of what was going on 50 years ago. Yes our reputation is floundering in many areas and what we accept as entertainment is just a reflection of what the US accepts as worthy of acknowledgement or applaud..

[maxsolomon]

65. I'm 50. I don't know when your Golden Age was.

But America has always had crass entertainments - Ragtime was considered libertine jungle music unfit for polite company.

I encourage you to google Big Freedia, or other twerk or bounce videos, and learn that Cyrus is an exploiter of NOLA/african american culture, deserving of ridicule and disdain. She is after fame and money, aided and abetted by giant corporations, and has succeeded at both.

And I wish she'd put her tongue away just as much as you do.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. face/palm

[pscot]

8. We just can't stop

The girl's an American icon.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Bwaahahahhahahaa

One can only imagine how mad Sinead O'Connor's going to be NOW.

[SomethingFishy]

11. ROFLMFAO.. You actually believe this? Here's how the scam is working:

http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-cyrus-rigged/

It was about 9:30pm Monday and Gains and Marek were already pounding away at their keyboards. Coding in C# (Gains) and Ruby (Marek), each of them was working on a script, a piece of software that automated the process of casting votes by working around Twitter and Facebook’s authentication. By plugging a person’s Facebook ID number (which is public) into their scripts, the duo discovered a sizeable loophole in Poptip’s service: They could vote on behalf of that person without them knowing. (The following screengrabs of the script in action were provided to the Daily Dot by Marek and Gains.)

more at the link.

Yeah Go Miley... Please.. Go Far.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. +1

[Cali_Democrat]

16. How do we know these same kind of scripts haven't been used for the other candidates?

Like Putin?

[SomethingFishy]

24. They have... other articles pointed out a few.. ahem.. odd names

that have "won" the readers poll in the past, including Kim Jong Il...

I linked to the site that explained how it works but there were a number of articles on the voting fraud around the net..

[lumpy]

41. Time has depicted unsavory characters in the past. I believe Hitler was person of the year

way back when.

[NYC_SKP]

44. Oh, that's fantastic!

They are so clever, and Time is such a sucker!

[napkinz]

15. to boldly go ...

[BlueJazz]

32. That's Great !!

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. GET A GRIP PEOPLE: Anonymous and 4chan are behind this

They did the same thing to get moot in the #1 position.

It's a real poke in the eye to Time. However, Time doesn't have to go along with the vote.
http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-cyrus-rigged/

[tammywammy]

19. That's why for a number of years the online winner doesn't indicate who the magazine will choose. n/

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I swear to God, they're gonna be throwing their creamed corn at the tv in the break room

this is not going to go well

[MADem]

49. Well, they're the SMART ones in this equation!

And nowadays, the ones who can afford 'em have bionic teeth--they make that James Bond villain look like a wimp! Creamed corn? They can chew nails and spit 'em at us!

[opiate69]

84. Dammit, Warren! You made me spew Jameson all over the thanksgiving table!!

[Warren DeMontague]

85. Jameson, huh?

Don't get me started on that

[opiate69]

87. No.. Not Jenna...

You sick, evil, VILE purveyor of erotoxins, you!!

[Warren DeMontague]

88. No, no, I'm quite familiar with the beverage.

...although personally when I was still drinking my hard liquor of choice was Wild Turkey. Either that, or some ungodly form of cheap vodka or... -shudder- Tequila.

Of all the demons in the 12th circle of hell, there is none quite so foul as the beast named Tequila.

[opiate69]

90. Ah.. Yeah.. I don't even fuck with tequila..

Anymore, I just don't drink for the buzz like I used to.. I'm pretty much a whiskey/whisky guy these days. Stuff that's meant to be savored (best quote I've seen on Scotch - "it takes 12 or more years to make it. You don't disrespect it by drinking it in one go!)

[Warren DeMontague]

91. Ha, yeah, that was never me.

No, I always subscribed to the Hunter S. Thompson model of inebriation.

[opiate69]

93. Heh.. Well yeah.. Back when I was young and could handle it lol.

Still have fond memories of playing some random weeknight up in Seattle, getting shit-faced, then going back to the practice room to unload gear, finally getting home around 4 and somehow being able to sleep a bit and make it to work by 7. Now, 3 glasses of Scotch and I'm pretty much laying around all next day lol.

[colsohlibgal]

21. Stunning In A Bad Way

The dumbing down of the US is in full flight. Amazing.

By 5th grade or thereabouts children in Norway are learning 3 languages, it's required in that awful "socialist" country. Here, in too many places, we have to fight so they aren't being taught the earth is 6,000 years old. Sigh.

[MADem]

51. If I were Norwegian, I'd be motivated to learn at least two other languages.

Hell, who speaks Norwegian, except Norwegians?

Many Americans speak more than one language--we're not as thick as some think.

This is 12 years old...I'll bet the percentage is higher by now:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1825/about-one-four-americans-can-hold-conversation-second-language.aspx

[progressoid]

26. Time Magazine is still in business?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

27. I'm sure most of these are nullification votes

just voting for the most ridiculous person possible to show they think the Time Person of the year is bullshit.

[stevenleser]

28. Her SNL skit on the shutdown was priceless.

[Golden Raisin]

29. I'm only surprised it's not

a tie between Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. With the Kardashian Klan coming in for a close 2nd place.

[Jamaal510]

31. About Miley Cyrus,

it's strange that even though "Twerking" has been around for at least a few years, people are just now jumping on board with it once she started doing it.

[lumpy]

46. Miley's twerking is not done in an artistic and talented way. Not interesting but merely blantant,

reflecting the crudity that is becoming the American standard in this culture.

[MADem]

61. Singing like Elvis was around years before Elvis did it, too.

He was just the first white boy to give it a spin.

I guess this is just a 21st Century case of plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.....

[shanti]

79. I know, huh?

Jamaicans have been twerking in the dancehall for many a year, although they didn't call it twerking...it's just a booty pop.

[Gothmog]

48. Juanita Jean is urging people to vote for Wendy Davis

http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/11/26/theres-good-news-and-theres-bad-news-2/

[Triana]

50. Meh. I vote for Granny

[llmart]

80. LOL

Why did I watch that?

[Tikki]

54. With all this talk about consensual behavior here…well, the voters have consented to be stupid and..

vote their happiness, completion, satisfaction, curiosity and just plain fun.
No other considerations for a Person of the Year needed...


GO MILEY GO…


Tikki

[Rex]

63. She is now legend after the VMA.

Good move from Disney to MTV culture. Could have been worse, she could be stuck in the Nickelodeon child stardom abyss.

[doc03]

68. I believe this really is sign the world is coming to

an end. Why would they chose her over Lady Ga GA?

[jmowreader]

70. The person who wins is the one who most affects the news, for good or bad

Which is how Hitler got it. Whoever wins the presidential election in years it's held almost always wins it.

This year, since it doesn't necessarily need to be one person or a person at all - "you" was POTY the year social media became mainstream and "the computer" was once, Pope Benny the Rat and Instapope Francis will almost certainly win.

[Iggo]

94. Lol @ Instapope.

Good one.

[dipsydoodle]

77. Who ?

[treestar]

81. an ugly person inside and out

Just disgusting.

[Comrade Grumpy]

83. Who? Miley? Why would you say that?

[Warren DeMontague]

86. Have you seen her MRIs, or something?

Oh, I'm sure your innards are a Japanese Tea Garden.

[NaturalHigh]

82. So the apocalypse really is upon us then?

Actually I know that people are likely voting her up as some sort of tongue-in-cheek joke.

[PeteSelman]

89. I don't care for her music but I love people that rattle cages.

I couldn't believe all the people of my generation acting like the dad in the Twisted Sister videos after her performance on MTV.

I say good for her. Keep pissing off the stuffed shirts.

[cantbeserious]

101. Is Miley Cyrus News - Who Knew

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