Could Occupy Wall Street Be Time Magazine‘s ’Person of the Year’?
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Could the Occupy Wall Street movement end up as Time magazine's Person of the Year? (AP)
Time magazine is preparing for its upcoming Person of the Year issue, hosting a panel Tuesday to discuss possible contenders. Among the names to emerge? Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs…and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The Person of the Year is ultimately chosen by Time editors, though readers have a chance to weigh in on the nominees through a poll.
As The Blaze previously reported, this was the same panel during which celebrity chef Mario Batali equated the banking industry with Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams advocated strongly for Jobs, who died last month. If selected, Jobs would be the first person to receive the title posthumously.
But actor Jesse Eisenberg and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Seth Myers were both open to the possibility of awarding the title to Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.
Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in 2010′s “The Social Network,” said this year has been about populist movements, both domestically and abroad.
“This year kind of the notion of the populists, these individuals that domestically we have the Tea Party, the Occupy Wall Street movement and then internationally the Arab Spring, have been made up of individuals that are part of populist movements,” he said. “It always seems like in a year where those movements have caused the greatest world shifts an individual as the person of the year might undercut the significance of those movements made by the populists.”
Myers said he agreed Eisenberg, adding he was on Time‘s panel in 2008 when the financial crisis was starting and doesn’t think things are any better now.
“I do think that sort of ‘angry people’ are the Person of the Year because I think they’re right to be angry,” Myers said.
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ThomasNast
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:04pmOk.. who airbrushed away her underarm hair?
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:41pmWhat I find funny is the girl in the photo has a sign that says Debt = Slavery….does anyone see the irony in that?
If not think about for a second….if Debt = Slavery…and isn’t our government severly in debt….and I bet that this girl believes as do many of the OWS do, that government should have more control. Now aren’t these OWS suppose to be highly educated? If so then shouldn’t they realize that:
Debt = Slavery, our government is in debt so Debt = Slavery = Our Government….and if these people get what they want which is government has more control…then the equation will look like
Debt = Slavery = Our Government (which will have more control) = each individual in america a slave to the government.
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:01pmGood Post POPP40 the Tea Party connected big government, debt, and slavery a long time ago its too bad reason has been indoctrinated out of the so called “ educated” in this country.
Report Post »Tom70
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:46amDid you expect anything less from the left wing’s rag.
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:35am“Could Occupy Wall Street be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year?” Why not, they named Jew hating Adolf Hitler as “Person of the Year” in 1938 the same year he invaded Austria and gave the title to Joseph Stalin in 1939
drphil69
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:26amOf course they are! And I am sure Time refers to them as “peaceful” demonstrators!
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:05pmVery peaceful indeed!
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Brizz
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:08pmCrime up 20% at Occupy Portland.
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44th Streaming Widget?
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:07amOTI: What’s good for the goose is not always good for the gander… These are the organizations that employ losers, distort the truth, support lifetime politicians, in some cases pay no taxes! So fire them and Occupy the internet instead! Get your Roku or streaming Blu-ray player today, save $ and help/tell a friend:)
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calisun
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:48amI was in the doctor’s office the other day and picked up the Time magazine while I was waiting. One of the stories they covered went something like this…… They claimed that they had proof that more restrictions on businesses were good for business. At that point I knew what the magazine was all about and I put it down. I ended up reading one of those gossip magazines instead and felt that Kim kardashian’s divorce was much more news worthy, and that aint saying much.
Report Post »taxwarrior
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:54amYeah didn’t Time name the Tea Party as person of the year?
Or was it Doctor Beck for his massive peaceful rally?
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:51amI stopped my subscription to TIME years ago due to their obvious far left mentality in reporting. Their commie rag has thinned out to almost nothing in content in the past few years and will soon be nothing more than a one sided flyer the way they are going!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:57am.
Report Post »TIME will pick the biggest socialist.
Remember they ran Obama on the cover 13 times when he was running.
Occupy Wall St.? What have they accomplished?
You want change, then the TEA Party should be the winner,
but they don’t stand a chance.
kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:04amTo “Secret Squirrel” (below):
That’s OK….Getting an award from TIME Magazine is more of a dishonor than an honor given their badly tarnished reputation and progressive (Marxist) stance.
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:41amThere is no real media anymore.
Report Post »OWS is not a man. It is not a movement. It is Failure idolized. Poor USA.
taxwarrior
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:44amOf course OBAMA’S ARMY is the Person of the Year.
He won the Nobel peace prize didn’t he?
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:52amAs far as the OWS being a movement – I DO consider them to be a “Bowel Movement”!
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:23amHaving lost its relevance long ago, Time Magazine’s tactics to boost sales tend to be to use controversy and to provoke outrage. Frankly, the only time I‘ve looked at the magazine in the past couple of decades has been during visits to the doctor’s or dentist’s office (unless there’s a National Geographic somewhere about).
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:57amFrom what I have seen, in Time Ragazine, they probably will.
Report Post »hoopojoop
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:31amNewsweak sold for $1 after being run by Fareed Zakaria. Time magazine, in it’s wisdom, rushed to hire Zakaria after he destroyed Newsweak. I’m offering an identical $1 for TIME magazine. That’s cold hard cash, although not worth as much as the dollar that purchased Newsweak, due to the economic policies of Barack Hussein.
You should take the $1 offer TIME.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:44amSure. Who buys it? They do not have any real readership. LOL.
Report Post »disgustedAmerican
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:39amIdiot actors who have no idea of what they are talking about. Eisenburg and Myers are two bit wannabes who have no real stake on what is going on. The whole pseudo dialect that both of them tried to portray was not only insufficient but incompetent. Stick to your scripts because apparently your writers are the only ones who can make you speak somewhat coherently.
Report Post »gooeylewie
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:45amremember, Hitler was “Time’s Man of the Year” in 1938.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html
the progressives were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:22amTime is no longer relevant.
Report Post »Wilbur D Pig
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:40amNail on the head! Who cares what Time Magazine thinks, nowadays.
Report Post »Southern Tragedy
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:20amHeeeey. I thought that was Mario Batali. I wasn’t sure until I saw his Crocs which confirmed it. Which reminds me. Never buy another pair. Capitalism sucks, eh, Mario????
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:17amDebt=Slavery huh?
Report Post »A: Then don’t go into debt stupid
B: Shouldn’t you be “occupying” Pensylvania avenue protesting the pretender in chief who is trying to enslave us all with this massive national debt?
KangarooJack
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:58amSorry, your post addresses Common Sense Issues: therefore; shall not be heard.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:15amI would say that would be a good bet. The only people who read time are the OWS type of person so why not honor those that honor you.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:11amYou gotta be kiddin me!!!
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:07amNo thank you on Ron Paul.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:07amAdd to so many influential Time Men of the year list. Adolf Hitler,Joseph Stalin,Ayatollah Khomeini,Nikita Khrushchev,Deng Xiaoping,Vladimir Putin,Barack Obama,Ben Bernanke……..
Report Post »frodis
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:09amGirl can’t even spell SlAVERY correct. If you use all caps then use all caps. Idiot.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:29am@Frodis
What can you expect from someone that very obviously forgets to dress herself in the morning?
Report Post »Br@dley
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:58pmthat is as stupid as “corporations are people”.
former perry supporters (turned current cain supporters, soon to be romney supporters), please don‘t do what you’re told by “conservative” media. the only real conservative running is ron paul. WAKE UP!
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:11ami thought ron paul was a libertarian.
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