Comments on: Time Really Did Not Want Obama To Be Person Of The Year, It Seems

By: Cullum Rogers

Cullum Rogers — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:35:16 +0000

Time almost never names the same Person of the Year twice in a row, especially if that person is President of the United States. The only exception was Nixon in 1971 and 1972 — and in ’72 he shared the honors with Henry Kissinger. Besides Obama in 2009, this list of Presidents who *weren’t* named POY includes FDR in 1933, JFK in 1962, LBJ in 1965 and 1968, and Reagan in 1981. They’d all been POY the previous year.

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:44:05 +0000

Snipzor says:
December 16, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Actually… of their top 10 list… Obama made the most sense. Twitter was still a better pick… or the protesters. But since Obama has been on the cover how many other times… and since they want to continue to deny bias without ALL of the audience laughing at them, they can’t always put him on the cover.

By: Magister

Magister — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:24:34 +0000

It kind of surprises me that Matt Taibbi hasn't posted more than a sentence of wonderment to hisblog, but clearly they couldn't name Obama because of all the "in the tank" kind of comments and well, his friends have been a bit disappointed lately...

By: TfT

TfT — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:06:07 +0000

Too bad Glynnis already posted her moment of Glenn today; Glenn is having fun with Time’s man of the year and the other finalists.

Too bad they didn’t pick Nancy — here is her latest:

No Health Care deal this year. Nancy will work to ‘try to send House-Senate compromise to White House before State of Union’…

By: Snipzor

Snipzor — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:17:13 +0000

@TfT

To be honest I thought it was part of Time myself, so saying apparently was a bad way of saying “Probably, might have been someone else though, I don’t know or care”. We aren’t the first to make the mistake though, apparently.

By: TfT

TfT — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:20 +0000

Snipzor: That was me, but I was wrong. It was Newsweek editor Evan Thomas who said:: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.” I got my liberal magazines mixed up.

By: rmbltmbl

rmbltmbl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:19:02 +0000

Bernanke is just as terrible as Obama.. but I guess since he doesn’t have to go through a democratic process, he is worse.

By: Snipzor

Snipzor — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:54:00 +0000

I seem to recall a series of right-wing posters bitching about how Time was OBVIOUSLY going to pick Obama, oh they had to pick Obama, no doubt they were going to pick them. One of their guys called him god (Apparently), of course they were going to pick him.

By: m

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:44:16 +0000

TIME has a liberal bias they love Obama-THE MESSIAH. Part of the mainstream media cabal!!!!

By: ChrisNH

ChrisNH — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:15:11 +0000

Whew…this should put to rest the debate on whether TIME is ‘Liberally-biased’ (roll eyes).