My son just told me that Time is giving Man Of The Year to...

[walldude]

FUCKING BEN BERNANKE! And to my dismay I just confirmed it.


http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949880

Unfucking believable

[Captain Hilts]

1. The year of the common hero goes unacknowledged. Not Sully. Not Boyle. Not Phillips. nt

[valerief]

2. Good reason to not buy Time. Ever. nt

[Cant trust em]

5. I would love to buy some time.

I'm currently running out of it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. They've also given it to Hitler and Stalin.

It's not necessarily a badge of honor.

[JuniperLea]

4. Man of the Year isn't always a positive thing...

TIME's Man of the Year

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

•Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.
•Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.
•Though a number of people have received the honor twice, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only person to have been named three times: 1932, 1934, and 1941.
•Adolf Hitler, the murderous leader of Nazi Germany, received the honor in 1938.
•A whole generation was named in 1966 - "Twenty-five and Under."
•In 1982, the computer became the first object ever to receive the distinction.
•There are several years where large groups of people were nominated: the American Fighting-Man (1950), the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956), U.S. Scientists (1960), Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Middle Americans (1968), and American Women (1975).


http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa050400a.htm

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Hell, George W. Bush got it twice.

[JuniperLea]

9. He was very influential...

For the worse, but influential nonetheless.

[polichick]

6. They probably hope to influence Congress in deciding whether to audit the Fed. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Not as prestigious as a Nobel Prize but just as appropriate

[liberal N proud]

10. Time's Man of they Year does not have a good reputation. See list here...

1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 Walter P. Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie
1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Catlett Marshall
1944 Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 Harry Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Catlett Marshall
1948 Harry Truman
1949 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 Elizabeth II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Krushchev
1958 Charles De Gaulle
1959 Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 U.S. Scientists
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 Pope John XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 Nixon and Kissinger
1973 John J. Sirica
1974 King Faisal
1975 American Women
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Walesa
1982 The Computer
1983 Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985 Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazon Aquino
1987 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 ewt Gingrich
1996 Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama


I dropped the subscription when they put Gingrich on the cover.

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11. "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."

[doc03]

12. He may have saved us from the 2nd Great Depression n/t

[walldude]

14. Yeah, he's also one of the ones who got us into it...

:shrug:

[doc03]

15. From what I understand there is plenty of blame to go around

going clear back to Clinton, The Maestro Greenspan, GWB, Barney Frank and Dodd. Who else is better to clean up a mess than the person that made it.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Barney Frank ?

[walldude]

20. Who better.. yeah you know I once debated a Conservative about

Cheney using Energy Companies to create energy policy. He said the exact same thing. Who better. Well I'll tell you who better, how about someone who isn't adjusting policy so that it will benefit them when they move into the private sector. How about someone who doesn't have anything to gain by "fixing" policy.

I know how about we let the health insurance industry help create the health care bill... oh wait..

[endless october]

13. it's not an honor.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Limbaugh must've been in the DR when the nominations were made.

[KamaAina]

18. Are you sure that isn't "Twit of the Year"?

:eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. wow...never occured to me... But I know the choice would be economy related