Time's person of the Year should've been...

qtegirl

By now most of you know that Time's Person of the Year is YOU.

Little known is that Time ran an online poll to choose the person of the year.

"Time also failed to report they held an online poll for "Person of the Year" and then ignored the results when they turned out not to their editors' liking. "Time's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year." It turned out Hugo Chavez won their poll by a landslide at 35%. Second was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at 21%. Then came Nancy Pelosi at 12%, The YouTube Guys 11%, George Bush 8%, Al Gore 8%, Condoleezza Rice 5% and Kim Jong Il 2%. For some reason, the magazine's December 25 cover story omitted these results so their readers never learned who won their honor and rightfully should have been named Time's Person of the Year. An oversight, likely, in the holiday rush, so it's only fitting the winner be announced here - in the online space the magazine rates so highly:

Venezuelan President Hugo is Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year."

Source: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=11681

That seems very interesting to me.

dkst0426

Hitler was honored.
So was Stalin (twice).
And Kruschev.
And Khomeini.

Giving the honor to someone not always associated with the term "nice guy" wouldn't have been a big surprise. Controversial, for sure, but not unheard of.

My shortlist was:

Mohammed Yunus
Ahmadinejad
The Democrat voter

And that TIME poll was too easily set up for some "ballot-box stuffing" to happen, anyway.

Uncle Leo

dkst0426 wrote:

Hitler was honored.
So was Stalin (twice).
And Kruschev.
And Khomeini.

Giving the honor to someone not always associated with the term "nice guy" wouldn't have been a big surprise. Controversial, for sure, but not unheard of.

Correct. It is supposed to be "most important", not "best."

YOU is the lamest choice imaginable.

sponger

They should give it to John Mark Karr. That was hands down the most bizarre thing I saw this entire year. He was willing to go to jail for life just so his name would be common knowledge. It's almost satirical.