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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:08 AM
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Oh my... are they crazy?
The MSM's slide toward complete irrelevance continues, unabated.



http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html">Person of the Year 2009

"The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe"

lol...
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:11 AM
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1. The elites are desperate to keep Bernanke in charge of the Fed
And why not, he's funneled trillions straight onto their bottom line leaving the country holding the bill.

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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:11 AM
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2. Reality is incompatible with modern "civilization". nt
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:18 AM
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3. Remember, it's Time, INC.
or rather, Time Warner INC.

Shareholders, CEOs, etc, etc.

He certainly WAS Person of the Year for the corporatists.
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:57 AM
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5. +1
fuck Time.
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Goldstein1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:48 AM
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4. What did you expect from the corporate media...
Bernie Sanders as Man of the Year?

This is war, and propaganda is part of war.
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 05:31 AM
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8. Maybe Time just didn't dare name Lloyd Blankfein to that slot
(unlike Forbes/Directorship's 2009 CEO of the Year): http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/16/lloyd-blankfein-goldman-leadership-managing-directorship.html

The nice guy from the Bronx. Uh huh.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 02:04 AM
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6. I Was Rooting For Bernie Madoff

Missed it by just a smidge.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 02:42 AM
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7. 1938 Adolf Hitler, Time's Man of the Year
They have a history of being boldass blind.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 05:45 AM
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9. Yeah, the cover on the right is from 1993 (I think).
Rubin, Summers, Greenspan. How'd those guys do "saving the world"? :rofl:
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OllieLotte Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 01:05 PM
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10. Being the ":Man of the Year" is not necessarily an honor.
Time (which I never read), views it as the person that had the largest impact. In that light, I think a person could make a pretty good case for Uncle Ben. Note: Hitler was also a Time Man of the Year in 1938. Hitler certainly had a pretty big impact on the world.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 04:38 PM
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12. Nobody ever gets that

It's bizarre this needs repeating every year.

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OnlinePoker Donating Member (837 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 05:14 PM
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13. Agreed
And I seriously doubt anybody on this board could have disputed last year's "Person of the Year": Barack Obama
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-18-09 07:43 PM
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16. The article that accompanied the cover was pretty glowing..
so I took it as an endorsement. :shrug:
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LeftHandPath Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-17-09 02:36 PM
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11. Are they 'Crazy'?
I prefer the word 'Criminal'?

And I would vote a resounding Yes, they are criminal.

Sherrod Brown voted to reappoint Bernanke? WTF is going on in the world?
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Crewleader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-18-09 10:30 AM
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14. Person of the year comments from Peter Schiff
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-18-09 02:43 PM
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15. And they wonder why...
they are going out of Bidness.
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