Person Of The Year: Is Capt. Sully More Important Than President Obama?

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 1:20 pm, November 27th, 2009

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84660752WM008_PRESIDENT_OBA So it’s that time of year. Everyone is trying to figure out who the most important person of the year is. Time will be releasing their pick shortly (though they have been known to apply the term “person” loosely). So: Who is the most important person of the year? If one were to judge the merits based solely on the amount of words the media has devoted to a particular person in the last twelve months than likely we’d be looking at a horse race between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama. Of course, there are perhaps larger things to consider like, say, landing a plane on the Hudson river in the middle of January with no fatalities!

That, at any rate, appears to be the judgment of NBC viewers who are voting on which of NBC’s people of the year are their favorites. Capt. Sully is leading a pack that includes Richard Philips, Kobe Bryant, Octomom, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, and President Obama.

Currently Capt. Sully has an average rating of 9.34, the president clocks in at 6.52, and Susan Boyle pops up somewhere in between (you will probably be relieved to here that Octo-Mom is barely on the charts with a 0.7 average). Conclusion? Everyone loves lists! Also the country is apparently more scared of flying than airport line-ups let on. What do you think? Here’s an informal, unscientific Mediaite Person of the Year poll, based solely on who the people are that we have talked about most on this site. Have your say!

barack obama, Glenn Beck, Kobe Bryant, msnbc, NBC, Octomom, Person of the Year, Richard Philips, Sarah Palin, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Time

Zakk

To answer your headline question, YES.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Capt. Sullenberger’s experience was unique, coolness in the face of crisis. Great story. But the day after and every day since he’s had a rather mundane life deciding what to have for dinner, which book signing to go to. I have respect for him. But to answer the stated headline question as YES is to demonstrate an incurable ignorance.
TfT

I think it should be President Bush, afterall, anything/everything wrong with anything/everything is “Bush’s fault” in the eyes of the President/democrats/media (but I repeat myself). I even heard someone stretch that the gatecrashers at the State Dinner was due to something President Bush did years ago.

:-)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

You might be right – after all, Bush gave us the ‘Decade from Hell” Even Hitler was Time Man of the Year. We know how that worked out.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19390102,00.html
Sunnyr

ANYONE but Barack Hussein Obama, the most worthless piece of humanity ever elected to our nation’s highest office. What a complete DUD!
stephen rhymer

Capt.Sully did his job exceptionally well.

Clap clap clap.

But if someone thinks he’s more important than the president is to show how far the public has fallen in it’s abilty to judge the difference between celebrity and importance.

Using the just created SIQ(pronounced sick) – the Sully Index Quotent – Britany Spears, the Kardashians, the Hosuewives of Wherever and everyone on American Idol rate higher than people who actually accomplish something that benefits society.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maggie-Denson/100000117356468 Maggie Denson

Sunnyr says: ANYONE but Barack Hussein Obama, the most worthless piece of humanity ever elected to our nation’s highest office. What a complete DUD!

That is my opinion exactly!
ImNotBlue

Bill Adkins says:
November 28, 2009 at 10:50 am

Goodwin’s Law.

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I vote for “Twitter.” It’s annoying and everyone won’t stop talking about it… hopefully a “man of the year” vote will get it to go away.