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Lamer Every Year

I’m referring, of course, to Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.”

This year they’ve made “You” person of the year.

They claim to be highlighting the person persons who most shaped the news on any given year. Is there any doubt that on some years we have had some seriously notorious news-shapers who were conspicuously overlooked by time? Not to me there isn’t.

This “You” person of the year comes after a couple of years of George Bush (but not Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda). I can understand not wanting to give the terrorists attention, but maybe they ought to drop the ruse and just don’t tell people “this is the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year.”

This year, I agree with Brent Budowski (found via Keri) who says the Republican Party should have been the person of the year. If we could have “the Whistleblowers” one year, we should be able to have the corrupt hypocrites this year who lost the public’s confidence and support after doing their darndest to run the country into the ground (except for the richest Americans.)