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Meet Time‘s ’Person of the Year’…‘The Protester’

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — “The Protester” has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2011.

The selection was announced Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show.

The magazine cited dissent across the Middle East that has spread to Europe and the United States, and says these protesters are reshaping global politics.

Time Person of the Year is The Protester

“From the Arab Spring to Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Athens,” the cover says.

Last year, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg got the honor.

Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor in 2009. The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.

Time said it is recognizing protesters because they are “redefining people power” around the world. On its website, it even includes profiles of protesters, including multiple Occupy Wall Street occupiers.

However, it does seem odd that the magazine would recognize such a “person.” Consider that thousands have been arrested in the Occupy movement, Arab Spring protesters in Egypt have raped several female journalists, UK youths screamed “Off with their heads!” at Prince Charles, and Greek rioters have been filmed firebombing police.

This story has been updated with new information.

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  • Wakeup Maggie
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:28am

    Same as nominating the poo they left behind. Is time still in print?

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    • Delta D-5-3
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:37am

      Ya, I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with that rag…….

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    • ICanComment
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:38am

      Pick a newsstand. Walk up, cover your eyes and say, “Wait, don’t tell me. The protests are great in every way.” Uncover your eyes, and it‘s as if you’re clairvoyant.

      This keeps happening on a variety of subjects. At what point does it stop being “the news?”

      “We’re still on the air, it must be the truth”

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    • WATCHMAN15
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:05am

      I don’t have time for Time, beyond taking note of the cover and their obvious intent to further embolden the likes of OWS to unlawfully assemble while disturbing the peace with the stated intent of collapsing our system of liberty. One does not need to read time to know there agenda is to elevate Progressivism, Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Islamism and the other isms contrary to the Principles and Values upon which this nation was founded. It has not gone unnoticed that the demonstrators given the attention they seek, poo wherever they please.

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    • Bill in Texas
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:19am

      Reshaping global polotics? Please? They’re a fraud! Hello!

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    • old white guy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:25am

      and the parade of the terminally stupid marches on.

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    • quickstudy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:31am

      Notice their “person” of the year isn’t a “person” at all but it is a plural of people? Forced collectivism. Time has jumped on the socialist band wagon big time.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:32am

      What is with them and terrorists, they had Clinton, Obama, and now all terrorists, wow.

       
    • Nasado
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:33am

      I am suprised how many people who have commented can not seem to read. “Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill.” I would definitly say that protestors have captured the news during the past year for good or ill. (as here in the US) There are many calling for the Tea Party to be it but they have not done much this year to influence the culture and news throughout the world. So I would have to agree with Times pick (though I probably would not agree with the support they give it, but I have not read the article) Please Blazers, read the articles and think before you post. That way the left can’t say that we are a bunch of ill informed and ignorant individuals. (And don’t try to call me a troll or plant either. Look at my other posts and you will see that I am very conservative)

       
    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:36am

      Why why why do you Blazers bother? Can you all be any more predictable? Whenever The Blaze has a story about a magazine or a TV show or whatever that disagrees at all with the Blazer ideology, all of your pile on the message board to say how irrelevant it is, or how you never read/watch it, or how it’s not funny/intelligent, blah blah blah.

      As if anyone cares that you don’t like Time/The Daily Show/Bill Maher/ the Huffington Post/etc. Of course you hate anything that offers an alternative viewpoint! It’s pretty much a given here. It‘s like the time that the Founding Father’s insisted that no American should ever have to be exposed to a dissenting opinion…

      Oh right–they didn’t say that. They actually valued public debate over lockstep ideology…

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:48am

      Yes, and guess who was behind and instrumental in causing all the upheaval in the Middle East, including the Arab Spring? Barack Hussein Obama, the fraud, the deceiver, the charlatan, the traitor, the Muslim sympathizer, the Israeli back stabber, the economic destroyer, the imposter, and on and on the list goes. His day of reckoning is not far down the road.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:48am

      OWS is dead. Public sentiment has hardened against them. However, the liberal media cannot stand losing what they thought would be the left’s tea party. So they keep propping up the corpse of OWS for pictures and salutes hoping to raise it from the dead. It won’t happen. The restaurant near Zuccotti Park that initially had to fire 21 employees because OWS had choked it‘s business is now closing it’s doors for good. over 90 people are now unemployed thanks to OWS. Indeed..person of the year? As we’d say it in Australia…TIME Magazine is only good for dunny paper and doctors’ offices.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:53am

      I just get so tired of the LEFT Glorifying evil. A differing opinion is
      one thing. Praising and promoting EVIL in the World is another.>>>>>

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:53am

      I honestly wonder who still reads them? I associate with very intelligent people and I cannot say that I know of one person, not one, who reads or subscribes to Time, or has for at least the last decade. Somebody has to be reading them or they’d be out of business, but I have no idea who that is. Even the doctors I know do not subscribe to Time to put magazines in their waiting rooms.

      Hmmmm…makes me want to investigate, how odd.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:56am

      Which one?
      The crapping on police cars,shooting up drugs,raping women or assaulting police officers?

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    • martelthehammer
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:01am

      Who reads Time anymore?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:02am

      By the way….why do some of these stinky OWSers insist on wearing masks and bandanas? What are they protecting? Their good name and reputation?

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    • drago
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:05am

      Makes me wonder if next year the “person of the year” will be the zombie killers, just wondering……..

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    • Rogue
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:08am

      The Time cover photo is zoomed in far too close. A wide shot would show the strings attached to the protest puppet, being manipulated and directed on by the big government socialists, ultra-rich liberals, and the leftist US government themselves. Time wants to “honor” a group, start with them. Besides, the stocking cap doesn’t allow us to see the sheep ears.

      Sickening that Time would glorify the MASKED protester – those so ashamed of their actions here in the US, and so unwilling to own up to what they actually are protesting for, that they won’t show their faces. Never in my life did I think there would be news clips of masked protesters in the streets of the USA – people who have bought into the mob mentality hook, line and sinker.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:21am

      Did you even read the article? It includes the Teaparty. Guess the jokes on you :^)

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    • sWampy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:29am

      Did you even read the article? It includes the Teaparty. Guess the jokes on you :^)

      Leave it to Time to glorify a bunch of terrorists, then try to lump the Tea Party in with them.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:30am

      Fear the faceless bureaucrat more.

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    • Jacque
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:30am

      Hope the little kiddies went home to open their corporate presents at their parents home who work for a living.

      Anyone but Obama 2012

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    • Howsit
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:55am

      TIFOSA, I wouldn’t have wanted Time to include the TEA party in this story so, yeah, I guess the joke is on me. I am surprised it wasn’t ALL about the TEA party to further their depiction of the movement as radical dangerous terrorists. The cover picture better represents the OWS group and I wish they would have left the TEA party out of it.

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    • freeus
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:59am

      Which prostestor? The defecating one?

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    • Lotus503
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:00pm

      This is the same liberal rag that ignored the MASSIVE Tea Party protests of last year. Time magazine has zero crediblilty in ANY department…

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    • Wayner
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Did I ever hear somebody say “Bottom up, top down, inside out’?

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    • Miami
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:16pm

      This from the rag that helped free Fidel Castro from prison and rallied to help him take power

      I would not use it to light a fire

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    • tifosa
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:17pm

      LOTUS, credibility comes from telling the truth. Not only has TIME had many articles about the teaparty, there was at least one huge photo essay in 2009.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Never satisfied. If they exclude the Tea Party, waah, waah, they’re ignoring us. If they include it, waah, waah, they’re lumping us in with anarchists and filthy hippies.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Tim Circulation

      1997 4.2 million
      2009 3.4 million

      19% drop in circulation

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    • WATCHMAN15
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:38pm

      NASADO, One does not have to drink the Progressive Kool-Aid to know it is Progressive Kool-Aid.

      Intentional or not, stating that a person (or persons) is whatever category of the year, like it or not, has implications of adding positive value to those so chosen.

      Is “Athlete of The Year” one who has defamed sport?

      Is “Car of The Year” one that caused the most problems?

      Time’s decision to include the infamous, wittingly or unwittingly, extends positive value to those negative choices that they have made. We do not yet know whether these veiled protesters have truly extended any positive value to the human condition, yet Time, in their own self-interest, have chosen to embolden the potential threat for global chaos that presently engulfs the globe.

      Why not have “Person of The Year” carry positive connotation and denotation, and make choices accordingly?

      Those with negative impact could be assigned a title that carries negative connotation and denotation, such as Scourge of The Year, or Villain of The Year.

      Given that there are many who feel as I do, why should we read Times justification for that which we know in our hearts, by the very nature of the title, is counter productive to improving the human condition?

      The protesters only need to know that they have been deemed to be more significant than any other person or persons to conclude that their cause is justified. They don‘t need to know Time’s details for their decision.

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    • coindexter
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:41pm

      it’s been a bad year…who did you expect to be on the cover? the finalists were probably: m. obama, g. soros, trumka, j. biden, Vasserman-Schultz(yes,say it like a nazi) or athiests. i can see a time board member pipe up” let’s make it the protesters”. even tho the protesters around the world are protesting about very different things…to lump them is beneath adolescent journalism.

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    • MarsBarsTru7
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Save the environment and stop one source of idiotic rhetoric. Don’t buy Time Magazine.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:44pm

      TIFOSA
      The 1st mention was a backhanded compliment.
      Time days that a reason for the Tea Party was opposition to the Wall Street Bailouts. So why didn’t the OWS people join?

      The other reason given was the election of a socialist. When Obama talks about the Constitution/Bill of Rights as a collection negative rights, he is a socialist.

      Somehow socialist Obama & Family will feather their nest with the best of the nobles past & present.
      The 2nd mention was a dismissal.
      Way more time & attention devoted to OWS than the Tea Party. The two sentences to the Tea Party explain in leftist minds how it is evil & how it is over. We’ll see in 2012 if it is over. It might be. If Mickey Mouse & dog are voters & their signatures are valid, then we have no Democracy. To have some much ballot stuffing to steal election after election is the same as not holding elections only the weapons vary.

      “In the U.S., the Obama campaign was in part a feel-good protest movement that galvanized young people, and then its shocking success and the Wall Street bailout produced an angry and shockingly successful populist protest movement in the Tea Party, which has far outlasted its expected shelf life.”

      “After all, the Tea Party protests subsided only after Tea Partyers achieved real power in 2010 by becoming the tail wagging the Republican Party dog.”

      Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132_2102373,00.html #ixzz1gX1IfoUu

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    • mils
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:49pm

      The protestors are not an example of “people” power..
      .it is a disgrace to even tie the general public with these misfits

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:12pm

      PubliusPencilman

      Time has picked Hitler (1938), Stalin (1939 & 1942), & Yuri Andropov (1983). Time picks people in the same slipshod way that some men superficially pick women. If you pick Stalin in 1939 why not pick Hitler. They carved up Poland together. Andropov is a mere footnote. He served 15 months. Most people would remember Brezhnev, but Andropov? If you are going to pick people for their impact on the world, then they should have more business men & scientist. Apparently, the j school grads don’t know much about either (1960 the American Scientist & 1982 The Computer). I guess the j school grads couldn’t be bothered to learn who the pioneers of the computer revolution were or take the time & explain it in several pages of print.

      Time is becoming more & more irrelevant. Their circulation has decreased by almost 20% over the last decade. Keep reading bud. I am going to read media that researches & analyzes enough that it can predict a several months to a year out.

      Being consistently anti-rape would be lockstep & a bad thing according to you.

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    • janedough1
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:12pm

      I’m sure both Time subscribers are really excited about their choice.

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    • Nasado
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:18pm

      WATCHMAN1
      I in no way disagree with your relply. I was simply stating that in accordance with the criteria set by Time, that the choice they made was fitting. I do not agree with the protests whatsoever but Time is free to choose whatever they want to qualify for the spot. Heck, they picked Hitler one year, no more needs to be said. All I am saying is that many of the people who have commented are making themselves look rediculous by crying out that a left leaning magazine writes an article fitting the criteria that they set about a left leaning group (OWS) as well as other protests (the Middle East) that have dominated a left leaning media who are focused on promoting left leaning ideas. There should be no surprise there and everyone should stop scting so shocked about it.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:29pm

      Too much PC is why I quit buying Time Magazine, years ago.
      This is Political Correctness on STEROIDS!

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:37pm

      TIME magazine sort of reminds me of that old cartoon called Mr Magoo. Mr Magoo was an old dude who wore these gigantic glasses because he was pretty much blind. Invariably in every episode, he would somehow lose the glasses and meader blindly through dangerous foibles putting himself and others at risk – all the while ASSUMING that he knew what he was doing.

      TIME – you are myopic to the point of near total blindness.

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    • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:48pm

      @PubliusPencilman profoundly correct!

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:01pm

      So the person of the year is a lazy filthy hippie fhat is such a coward they hide their faces? So its a faceless loser. Congratulations again time for remaining irrelevant.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:08pm

      Like I ‘ve been saying since 9-11-welcome to the 21stc-the century not of empires, military superpowers or nation states-but people-taking things into their own hands.About time the century of the people is being recognized by the media too.The millenium of self actualizing human beings and the abolishment of national divisions is starting.

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    • His_Way
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Way, way back in the day, I remember when writing grade school reports, this magazine was the main resource for information. You don‘t suppose teachers could still utilize this old magazine’s propaganda to INFLUENCE YOUNG minds? Nah, that was long ago.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:32pm

      Yes TIFOSA..of course…“the tea party”. How inclusive of such a “non-partisan” rag like TIME yes?
      Because we all know how TIME loves the Tea Party. And of course…we didn’t notice that lefty radicals like Bill Ayers have been calling for the tea party to join OWS along with OWS organizers Wade Rathke and Steve Lerner and assorted other lefty mouthpieces. Including the Tea Parties works two ways for the marxstream media. It’s meant to give legitimacy to OWS or spark confrontation…in either case, the marxstream media then takes up it’s role and either conjoins them or vilifies the tea parties as applicable. The only one that’s been had here TIFOSA is you sweetie.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:34pm

      and of course TIFOSA…when TIME has run a story on the tea parties it’s been a very flattering piece..yes? You seem to be quite gullible and stupid TIFOSA.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:53pm

      The person or persons who determined that this was the person of the year on their cover their
      Brian must be made of JELLO! I am done with Time Magazine!

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    • Ari Ben TZion
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:08pm

      These people have zero credibility and most thinking Americans don’t give a damn who or what they nominate.

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    • 1babybogie4us
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Agreed!

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    • Ari Ben TZion
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Hitler was chosen as Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1938.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

      Why in the hell do we hold a global elite-owned, indoctrinating and misleading publication, in high regards?

      This magazine is a peice of progressive/socialist crap !!!

      They had Hitler as man of the year two times !!!

      This Biased, manipulative rag-mag, should go the way of the dodo bird.

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    • charleyrocks
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:14pm

      Has the time mag gone mad?

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    • WATCHMAN15
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:04pm

      NASADO, Please do not assume shock on my part, for I fully expect the absurd from Time, and as they have the right to intimate positive qualities to villains, so too do I have the right to express, by whatever available venue there is, my contempt, not shock, for them, and justify with logic and reason why I have such an opinion. I do not need to additionally support their absurd existence by reading the drivel they vomit to demonstrate tolerance or open mindedness on my part.

      If the car with the worst record were named Car of The Year, I would not need to read the article to know it was an absurdity to give it such standing simply because it negatively impacted so many lives.

      Time can define their meaning all they wish, by all other uses of the phrase ending “… of The Year,” such has been to impart superior quality to the subject. I don’t agree with Time, that is my right. I don’t have to read their blathering to be justified in a position that levels mistrust, as their historical bias gives me sufficient standing, and as to their convoluted mutation of the phrase “…of The Year,” it has never sat well with me, given that it equivocates good with evil, and imparts no inspiration for the reader to aspire to the good. I would argue that such is the mentoring of Celebrity, good or bad, a quality to which our youth are more enamored than emulating goodness.

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    • GriffNC
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:37pm

      The media is so in the pocket of the left . Here in NC we had something happen that had 22 thousand people mad , yet a few hundered OWS get all the coverage ! What a crock !!! Person of the year , what a joke , thats why I have not bought a Time in 20 years !!!

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:40pm

      @PUBLIUS PENCILMAN,
      Your post is inane.
      In your world PENCIL perhaps TIME still has credibility. I guess Maher, Stewart, and the rest do too. FINE and DANDY.
      What you cannot wrap your PENCIL brain around is that ….,as a country, we are in great danger.
      Those you celebrate, those you embrace, ignore reality.
      Their propaganda, under the guise of comedy and their right to free speech, abet the PROGRESSIVE road to ruin.
      They should be ashamed of what they do. They are not.They are cowards.
      They appeal to those who think they are cool…,when really their “COOL” is just stupidity.

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:43pm

      @Delta
      I agree 100% with you. It is even more ridiculous that they picked those nut cases claiming to be the 99%ers when they don’t even make up 1/2 of 1%.

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    • jjoy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:55pm

      @ICANCOMMENT
      “At what point does it stop being “the news?”

      It stopped being the “news” years ago… Nothing but propaganda now… Joseph Goebbels would be pleased to see how much his methods have accomplished…

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    • sittingbird
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:22pm

      no matter what you may believe……our government has a huge crew to build on any stupid idea and act just like anyone else……think you are sharing your ideas with good people….be careful…..

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:58pm

      In most all Counties and States it’s illegal to wear masks or clothes that cover your face in public (unless, of course, it’s -20 F outside or you’re a Muslim Woman).
      Try walking around on a nice sunny day, all by yourself, looking like the person on the cover of Time Mag or through a shopping Mall. The Police will stop you in no time. But, if there are 100 of you carrying signs and wearing masks it’s OK! Just crazy!

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:08pm

      .
      Hey, they’re making progress.
      They didn’t name Obama, again.

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    • bowtome
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:22pm

      Just another liberal mag.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:45pm

      So, no TEA Party cover, but we got this ‘protestor’……….. why am I not surprised.

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    • Wes inTexas
      Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:10am

      Yeah, imagine this, it was purchased for $1.00 (that is 100 cents more than it’s worth), but why did they NOT have to pay taxes on this POS mag/rag!

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    • cykoaudio
      Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:22pm

      this “award” holds as much weight as the Enquirers “sexiest person alive” or the Nobels peace prize going to Obama right after he expanded war in Afghanistan,sending 30k more troops….and off topic thought on the one thing ppl don’t like about Ron Paul,his stance on Iran/wars abroad….he has the backing of one of our founding fathers who said “the threat of danger in foreign countries has historically been used to thwart civil liberties at home”..James Madison….sound familiar?? “they have WMD’s,we have to strike first”…”we have to attack them over there so they don’t attack us over here”..”Iran is building a Nuke and will use on Israel,we just know it,just like we knew Iraq had WMD’s”.etc..all the fear mongering from repub candidates that we just HAVE to intervene overseas,when we’re just in an endless war in Afghanistan,and spending billions we don’t have policing the MId east,backing rebels in Libya and Egypt that even some conservatives agreed with…now how stupid do those look backing them,going along w/Obama on that one,now that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over and there is a MORE extreme gov’t there.–so in turn,we lose billions we could use here in this country.& if we brought all our troops home and weapons, sat them at each ocean pointing away creating a blockade,anyone really think it’s even possible for someone to attack us-but with our military spread thin around world,we could be attacked & have no one here to protect,Paul is right

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    • Al Gored
      Posted on December 17, 2011 at 9:32am

      rose-ellen,

      OWS is a prime example of your imagined Utopia.
      Don‘t think I’d like to live there.

      btw:
      Are you related to Frances Fox Piven?

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  • Leperus
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:28am

    The only time anyone will ever pay attention to Time Magazine is when they do something controversial. Congrats, you bought into it.

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    • txbigfoot
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:29am

      What magazine is this?
      No one cares.
      Move along, no story here.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:50am

      I however , will buy a copy,…… To wipe with !!!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:56am

      I wonder what Lara logan thinks about this choice…… Nothin like a bunch of third world rapists to be chosen as SLIME MAGAZINES person of the year !!!!!!

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  • Docrow
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:26am

    Remember who Time picked in 1936?

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  • barber2
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:26am

    Why don’t they call the “ Movement ” what it really is behind the hoodies and the masks ? Anarchism ….

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    • mrfunn
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:45am

      The Protester
      Announced on NBC, Obama approved.

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  • stuartr44
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:26am

    Does anyone still subscribe to out of time

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Funny how the Tea Party didn’t even get an honorable mention in 2010 but now…protestors are the most important people in the world. Unbelievable.

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    • GeneTracy
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Time has set the bar pretty low as to the “high”standard it should represent.No surprise,it happens all the Time.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:09pm

      I refused to ever read the magazine again after the 2007 Man of the Year. The year when General Petraeus turned the war in Iraq around and got a relative ceasefire between the Sunni’s and Shiites, only to be looked over for Vladamir Putin. It finally became clear to me that they were just political shills.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:48pm

      C’mon GONZO, cut some slack. Time magazine featured the Teaparty on the cover THIS YEAR in fact. August 15: TIME Magazine Cover Claims “The Tea Party Hijacked America.” Interesting article about the teaparty downgrade. :^)

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    • mrfunn
      Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:34am

      .
      TIME
      APRIL 8, 1977

      How To Survive
      The Coming Ice Age

      That was the headline on the magazine cover.

      Under that headline they suggest:

      51 Things You Can Do to Make a Difference

      Also featured on the cover:

      Beyond
      Detente: Why
      We Can’t Beat
      The Soviets

      No wonder no one pays any attention to Time but once a year.

      The question is, why all the attention?

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    • Al Gored
      Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Yea, that co2 is wonderful.
      We would all be living in igloos by now without it.

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  • ExpatInLux
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:26am

    Awesome. I have protested against the Obama WH, so this is now my second time to be Time’s Person of the Year (remember we all were in 2006). I will definitely need to add two-time Time Person of the Year winner to my resumé.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:31am

      Actually you’re the one person who gets this. Yes, take a bow.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:50pm

      Do these kinds of platitudes work on idiots like you TIFOSA? Is that why you’re perpetuating them here?

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  • Wyratt
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:23am

    Tally up another reason NOT to give a flying crap about Time’s opinion..

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    • I_Hate_Libs
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:29am

      I didn‘t even know the Times was still printing don’t these democrats know they are killing trees?

      TEA!
      Anyone But Obama 2012!

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:31am

      The protestor is nothing but the tool being used by the internationalist. This philosophy, global activism, is moving into our schools. It is the International Baccalaureate program (IB) designed in socialist central, Geneva, Switzerland.

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    • Locked
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:41am

      @Smackdown

      Being upset with European countries is no excuse to be ignorant. IB has been available for decades in schools across the country. It’s not as popular as Advanced Placement, but your comments about Geneva make me think you’ve never been there, nor know anything about the city or its country. I hope some day you’ll learn more.

      Also, it’s important to note that the Curriculum and Assessment Centre for IB is in the UK, and that there are 30+ subdivisions of the program in the Americas. It’s a global program, not Switzerland-specific.

       
    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:40am

      Perhaps you ignore that IB has partnered with UNESCO, and that this partnership requires IB to promote the policies of the UN.
      IB schools are required to promote international socialism in all of their IB classes.

      http://truthaboutib.com/

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:41am

      And, yes I have been to Switzerland.

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  • Locked
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:22am

    “However, it does seem odd that the magazine would honor such a “person.” Consider that thousands have been arrested in the Occupy movement, Arab Spring protesters in Egypt have raped several female journalists, and Greek rioters have been filmed firebombing police.”

    Apparently the article‘s author can’t remember what he wrote a couple sentences before:

    “Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill.”

    It’s not a matter of “honoring” the person, it’s pointing out that the person (or group) has had a major influence in the world. No doubt about it, the last year has been drastically altered by protests.

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    • dakotachuck
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:22am

      Good comment. Lucid and thoughtful. Keep it up.

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:03am

      What else do you expect from Blaze authors? There are typos in nearly every article so you can’t expect them to actually read what they have written.

      Hitler was also Time’s person of the year, do you Blazers think that Time supported him?

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:48am

      I read Time a couple of weeks ago and I saw that Glenn Beck’s choice for Man of the Year was Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian guy who set himself on fire and ignited the Arab Spring. Time went with the general, rather than the specific, possibly because Bouazizi actually burned himself last year and died on the fourth of January this year, but they seem to be more or less on the same page as far as what the most important story of the year was.

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  • DirtyDeeds
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:21am

    Proof again that you don’t need talent, a job or merit to achieve something. Lets get these jokers a trophy.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:25am

      i must agree ……obama got a peace prize…………

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  • Colette
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:18am

    Here is the e-mail address of Time Magazines editor, so that you can tell them how “happy” you are with their decision:

    letters@time.com

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:23am

      These are the same people who completely ignored the TEA Party … yes … no bias in media what-so-ever.

      TEA!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:23am

      time is too smug. They don’t care what you think. I haven’t even touched a time in a waiting room for over a decade.I bet most people consider it a rag now. How are their sales?

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    • sisserydoo
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:06am

      ishka4me
      There’s usually a trash can in the waiting room too, that’s where the time magazine goes :)

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:30am

      The Tea Party was and still is strictly an American movement. The past year did in fact see protest erupt in many parts of the world: in the Middle East, in America, in Europe, even in Israel. Nothing like this has happened since 1989, or maybe 1968. Time has made a good choice, whatever you think of the magazine or the actual protests.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:25am

      You clearly didn’t read the article. The Teaparty is included. Have to say though, the funny knee-jerk reactions have been raucous!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:54pm

      “Included” needs clarification though doesn’t TIFOSA? Where TIME is desperately trying to romanticize and resuscitate OWS with this “Person of the Year-Power to the People” hilarity of theirs…the tea parties haven’t been treated in so sentimental and encouraging a way by TIME in the past have they sweetie? Is lip service something you buy into often precious?

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  • TOPTEN
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:17am

    The TOP TEN Persons of the Year (were on the list at TIME, but to sell more rags, they had to not consider these people)….

    Number 10……Glenn Beck

    Number 9…….George Soros

    Number 8…..Bo Obama

    Number 7……..Moochelle Oblamer

    Number 6…….George Soros’ valet

    Number 5…….Glenn Becks Hairstylist(s)

    Number 4………Jesus

    Number 3…….Tim Tebow

    Number 2………Tyler Durden

    and the #1 Person(s)…..

    THE GUYS CLEANING UP AFTER THE PROTESTERS!!!!!

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:16am

      LOVE YOUR HUMOR….alot of times humor keeps you SANE and keep repeating “This too, shall pass”.

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    • Esteban74
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:27am

      Where is the ‘like’ button here?

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    • ClunkerT
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Shame on you for putting Glenn Beck on the list. All the good that Glenn has done is a awash because he refused to and orders his staff to NOT cover the forged birth certificate, the fraudulent SS#, the fraudulent Selective Service registration and most importantly, the failure of Obama to meet the requirement of being a “natural born citizen.“ The ineligibility of Obama for not being a ”natural born Citizen” is the Constitutional issue of the century and these idiots refuse to cover the story and at the same time claim they love the Constitution. They are make believe Constitutionalists. Not one shred of courage. Jello spines. Never, never man of the year!!

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    • Formula382
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:20pm

      Correction, there is no Tyler Durden, Tyler is actually Tyler(s)

      He may as well be an occupier as he too is jobless, fired from the Squid some years ago for insider trading….

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  • Rick300
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:16am

    Another TIMEless mistake!

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  • Copper Catfish
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:16am

    It should have been the TEA Party. We are protesting everything unpatriotic that is going on in our country!

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:26am

      But that doesn’t jive with the Marxist agenda to take down our system, and take away our freedom. If you sway from that, the State media will have nothing to do with you.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:31am

      Look what happened in the 2010 elections … the TEA Party candidates swept in (yes all but a couple) .. where was time last year? They didn’t even have a mention of the TEA Party …. more reason the MSM is dead or dying.

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    • Locked
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:32am

      Tea Party hasn‘t done much in 2011 as there haven’t been many elections. Would have been a good choice during 2010.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:47am

      @Locked
      They have been doing a lot more than you think, MOLE.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:01am

      Yes .. yes we have ..

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    • Colette
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:57am

      It says in the Bible something along the lines that “Woe is it when good is bad and bad is good”. This is what is going on. End times anyone?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:14am

      LOCKED…the wisest move the tea parties have done this year is stay out of the spotlight. OWS and it’s organizers were screaming indeed salivating for the tea parties to show up. Bill Ayers at every public appearance begged his faithful to bring the tea parties in. Wade Rathke and Steve Lerner the same. They wanted to exploit the tea parties either by using their proximity to legitimize OWS or by provoking confrontations which they knew the media would exploit in favor of the left and OWS. OWS failed to grow beyond the all too familiar lefty demographics and societal debris. Any student of these “movements” could have told you that when these types of protests fail to grow into popular movements, they lose the oxygen around them and fizzle out. At that point, they need confrontations and disruptions to keep themselves in the news. This is exactly the phase we’re seeing now. However..what you’ll see in 2012 is a lot of GOP and Tea Party event disruption by OWS (we’re seeing a taste of it now). They want to provoke confrontations. They want bad publicity for the tea parties and the GOP. I applaud the tea parties for the restraint they’ve shown so far. They need to show the same restraint and smart strategic thinking in 2012 when OWS gets in their face. The tea parties this year observed Napoleon’s rule and came away stonger for it…”never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake”.

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    • Locked
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:00pm

      @Avengerk

      “the wisest move the tea parties have done this year is stay out of the spotlight.”

      I completely agree. But because of that, and the fact that there hasn’t been a chance to flex their voting muscles, the Tea Party hasn’t had much of an influence in 2011. Hence my comment: they would have been a good choice for 2010, but not 2011.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:47pm

      LOCKED..the day the tea parties get a flattering reflection in TIME magazine is the day the Earth moves off it’s axis. TIME’s hypocrisy is stark. The tea parties facilitated one of most historic victories for the GOP in the house for 70 years. It will take several election cycles to change it but only now does “the protester” get a front row center seat at TIME? Why is that? The Arab Spring is proving to be quite malevolent. Putin won’t give up power in Russia, he’ll do what he does best…be a KGB man and take out the leaders of the protests. And here in the U.S. where TIME is really wanting to influence the conversation…OWS has died an ignominious death. The left didn‘t get it’s tea party as it thought it would. Public opinion hardened against OWS and all along the media tried (in vain) to keep OWS alive by sanitizing, ignoring or embellishing as the situation demanded. We’ve got a Law and Order episode “ripped from the headlines” that features OWS-esque protesters and a shady “one percenter”. Now we’ve got TIME with the now familiar image of a bandana-ed protester adorning it’s cover as “person of the year” as TIME trumpets “power to the people”…in a ham-handed attempt to romanticize, glamorize and resuscitate OWS. And would you answer me something? Why the bandanas? What are these stinky OWSers protecting? Their good names and reputations?

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    • Onesimus
      Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:51pm

      @ Colette the Passage is Isaiah 5:20 (preceding vs included to set context) ” Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

      Entire chapter needed for full context.

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  • jdog777
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:14am

    LOL… the Tea Party gets ignored with a message of Freedom, Low Taxes, Small Government, real currency, no bailouts…. etc. The Anarchists and Commies get Time person of the year for their message of Stealing from one group of people for the benefit another. Classic.

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  • stogieguy7
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:13am

    And the radical left in the media are at it again with their propaganda. The former editors of Pravda would be so proud.

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  • TX_45_ACP
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:12am

    Person of the Year used to be something that was coveted, like the Nobel Peace prize. Whatever Time. My wife accidentally got me a Time magazine subscription, which came free when she purchased something. Each issue went directly into the trash without being opened. LOL

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:12am

    Maybe next year it will be ‘Indignant Children who stomp their feet’, or ‘terrorists’….

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Terrorists are not comprable to indignant children but americanism is-people are rising up everywhere in spite of your policies -not because of them.You‘re the ones stomping your feet about your economy and can’t admit you brought it on yourselves with your greedy hypercapitalism and hypermilitarism.

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  • Commando
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:11am

    The Anarchist! Zero unleashed the gates of Hell! What a waste of time…Sad World we live in..

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:28am

      Totally agree with you. I hadn’t seen your comment before I just posted mine.

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:10am

    I am going to sit in a checkout line at Target and throw a temper tantrum when they tell me to pay for my candy…that way, i will be their most fascinating person next year.

    “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor in 2009”

    did anybody else twitch when they read that?

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  • Drum Man
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:09am

    Occutards?

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  • GodblessGlennBeck
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:09am

    I have to say: if something you are doing makes you feel as if you need to hide your identity with scarves and head coverings, should you really be doing it?

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  • Sergei
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:09am

    Waste of votes…. why didn’t Obama get it for saving us from another Great Depression?

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  • geo01
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:07am

    .
    It takes a REALLY WARPED MIND to have voted “The Protester” as “man” of the year.
    .

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    • His_Way
      Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Even scarier, how many warped minds out there that will vote again for BHO-scoundral of the year.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:05am

    Nice cover. They misspelled “JOKE”

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 9:04am

    How cute; another good reason why I do not subscribe to that newsless, hapless rag.

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