Rove, Gibson, Moore for "Man of the Year"?

[flowomo]

"White House adviser Karl Rove topped the unofficial list of contenders for Time's 2004 Person of the Year, according to a panel assembled by the magazine on Tuesday to debate the question.

Along with Rove, widely credited as the architect behind President Bush's re-election, other candidates suggested by the panel included the president himself and filmmakers Mel Gibson and Michael Moore.

Time does not prepare or publish a formal list of nominees. Instead, the weekly magazine said its editors choose the person of the year after significant reporting by the staff.

The selection may well be none of the names suggested at Tuesday's panel, the editors said. The choice remains secret until it appears, this year, on the Dec. 20 issue cover."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041116/pl_nm/media_time_dc_4

[lasttrip]

1. un-fcking-believable

:puke::puke::puke:

on ed: sp

[ZombieNixon]

2. Moore, definately

He's occasionally over the top, but he's the only remotely decent choice on there. If they pick, *, Rove or Gibson, I'll buy a subscription to TIME and then cancel it!

[BlueStatesForever]

3. As I recall, didn't they make Osama Bin Laden

Man of the year in either 2001 or 2002?

[flowomo]

4. I don't think it means "good guy".... just most influential or something

[theshadow]

8. You're exactly right.

Hitler was a "Man of the Year", for example.

[JDStutts]

22. Hitler was Times Person of the Year

so was Reagan, Gingrich, and Nixon

[RafterMan]

5. I think they made a point of *not* making him MotY

when he was the person who most closely fit their criteria.

[Dookus]

12. No

they should have, but they wimped out and picked Giuliani.

Time's Man of the Year is NOT an honor -it's a recognition of what person has MOST impacted the news for good or bad. In 1939, Adolf Hitler was Man of the Year.

However, political correctness won't let them do such a thing anymore - people think it's some sort of an award.

[JVS]

23. They wimped out and went with Giuliani

[Silverhair]

6. Remember, Time's MOTY isn't always an honor.

It simply regonizes who made the most significant news story, FOR GOOD OR BAD, of the year. It does NOT mean, "Most Honored of the Year." Hitler was once the MOTY.

[RafterMan]

7. Three propaganda artists?

Must not have been much of a year.

[flowomo]

16. but a real sign of the times!

[blm]

9. I hope Rove does get it and then they EXAMINE his personal life which is

the exact OPPOSITE of the positions he promotes with the Christian right.


Mr. family values (married w/children) sure does like to party with his girlfriend and any young, willing lady they pick up at parties.

I'm sure if TIME wanted to do a thorough piece on Mr. Rove, they would have no problem finding some of these young ladies on the DC party scene. A private investigator could easily tail Mr. Rove and his girlfriend.

[I_Deas]

10. ...

im surprised jesus wasnt on there...

[Vickers]

11. They should make it Rove...it's funny, many folks who voted for

Bush don't even know who Rove is.

I think that the *more* that middle-of-the-road folks are told about Rove and PNAC and the neocon agenda and the religious right's stranglehold on the Republican Party, the better.

[Pig_Latin_Lover]

13. Joining Hitler

"Man of the Year" could be appropriate.

[lessthanjake]

14. Rove should get it

It pains me to say it but i have to admit that he has been the most influential person in the year of 2004.

[Lancer]

15. It's not always one specific person, either, right?

Wasn't it "The American Soldier" last year?

And a couple of years back it was three female corporate whistleblowers.

Howard Dean would probably be on my short list this year.

[seraph]

17. Fuck that! Howard Dean, Man of the Year. n/t

[Dookus]

19. Really?

you think he impacted the news this year more than any other person?

[seraph]

20. To a degree, yes.

He forced the media to give a shit about the Democratic Primaries when they usually don't. He did more for Democrats than anyone since Bobby Kennedy, and he's a swell guy.

Karl Rove is a smarmy worm, who without bush would be running a Quick Stop somewhere in nowheresville, and hiding in his mom's basement posting on freerepublic.

But what am I saying? I'm sorry... did you say Time Magazine?

Hmmm.... yeah, I'm out of toilet paper. That'll do.

eom.

[Dookus]

21. sorry, I don't see it

and I REALLY don't understand your assertion that the media never cared about Dem primaries before Dean came along. I'm 43 years old, and I could've SWORN I heard about the previous primaries.

Time's Man of the Year is not an award - it's a recognition of who impacted the news the most (or at least, that's what they SAY it is). I really don't see how Dean meets that requirement for this year.

[ydya]

18. I guess they're using the term "man" loosely here. eom.

[JVS]

24. Bin Laden, for surprising us all this October by showing up alive

[Lone Pawn]

25. Rove deserves it.

So did Osama.
So did Kruschev.
So did Hitler.

Rove changed the course of the world. For the worse, certainly, but he did change the course of the world.