Whatever… Facebook Billionaire Founder Mark Zuckerberg Named Time’s Person of the Year over Tea Party Movement
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 16, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time's 2010 Person of the Year
You can’t get all that riled up over this latest kooky award from Time magazine. Most honestly don’t give a flyin’ fig about it.
After all, Barack “All Hat and No Cattle” Obama was farcically awarded the Nobel Peace prize last year by those ultra liberals who, smitten with the Chicago community organizer, thought it would be simply peachy to reward Captain Clueless for a few moving speeches and his lofty dreams and intentions, not for anything he had actually accomplished.
So Time’s annual POTY award has joined its ranks for laughable superficiality.
A billionaire CEO/founder of a time-wasting, social networking website vs. the thunderous voices of millions of regular Americans rising up across all 50 states and merging into the greatest patriotic grassroots effort to fight socialism and government tyranny that anyone has seen in his or her lifetime. Hmm. Tea party members, united not by color or gender or religion or political affiliation, but by their common love of country and the Constitution, did what few politicians in Washington thought they could: with their votes and clear communication to American voters, they toppled the Democrat dynasty in Congress and local governments in the greatest political bloodbath this nation has seen in decades. An earth-shaking shellacking.
Gee, tough choice there.
Hmm. Let’s go with that website guy. Whatever.
I never, ever expected the substance-heavy tea party movement to be chosen because, well, it would make too much sense and isn’t shallow enough for most liberals. It’s too conservative for Time’s tastes.
So… why wasn’t the tea party movement selected?
Time’s editor Richard Stengel gave this disingenuous, lame-bo explanation during an MSNBC Andrea Mitchell interview for why he disqualified the tea party:
“So we had the, the Tea Party was one of the runners-up. They had an obviously extraordinary year. I’m biased in favor of putting a single person on the cover, and part of the problem with the Tea Party is it’s hard to find a single person.”
“Put a single person on the cover.”
Hmm. The computer won the award in 1982 (no need to point out that this isn’t even a person), and three people — Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Bono — won the Time award in 2005. Going back to 1968, astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell were chosen by Time.
“Hard to find a single person.”
Another hmm. Let us not forget the odd “You” winner of Time’s 2006 Person of the Year award — or the collective American Soldier selection in 2003 — or the collective Whistleblowers selection in 2002 — or the collective American Women selection in 1975 — or the collective Middle Americans selection in 1969 — or the collective Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956 — or the collective American Fighting-Man chosen in 1950.
Am I missing the Time precedent/preference set for a “single person,” Richard? Rubbish and poppycock to you, sir.
Dana Loesch calls Stengel’s bluff:
Er, you did before.
Seeing as we’re all former Persons of the Year, I call BS on Stengel’s explanation. So they opted to settle (at least, that’s the insinuation) because their art department lacked the creativity and Stengel the editorial direction to envision and implement a photographic way to represent the biggest political movement of the past 30 years on the cover?
Cassy Fiano goes deliciously nuts on Meghan McCain’s post about why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is so “worthy” of the Person of the Year award. All English teachers and thoughtful writers who see value in proofing your written work, read the post in full, as there are a number of satisfying guffaws as Fiano slams Meggie Poo’s head-scratchingly poor grammar, punctuation, and spelling, which I’ve not included here (Meggie got an Ivy League education thanks to Daddy John, but prefers partying in Las Vegas)… Fiano asks and answers her own question: Who can we thank for the Mark Zuckerberg POTY idiocy? Meghan McCain.:
People everywhere are collectively groaning over the choice to name Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, as Time’s Person of the Year. Who would make such an idiotic, shallow, superficial choice?
Well, when you consider that the driving force behind his nomination was Meghan McCain, it suddenly makes sense…
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Previous people to have been awarded the now-defunct honor of being name the Time Person of the Year include Charles Lindbergh, Walter Chrysler, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Martin Luther King Jr, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Bill Gates. More recently, esteemed winners have included… er, Barack Obama and you. Mark Zuckerberg cements it: the Person of the Year award has officially jumped the shark.
Sure, a lot of people use Facebook for lots of different reasons. What has Mark Zuckerberg done this year, in 2010, to make him the Person of the Year? Well… his website inspired a movie that made a lot of money. A lot of people signed up to use Facebook. And… that’s about it.
Other people considered? Well, there’s Julian Assange, who while not likeable to most normal human beings certainly had a major impact on the world this year, thanks to Wikileaks. He also came in first in Time’s online voting poll. Mark Zuckerberg came in tenth, behind Lady Gaga, Glenn Beck, Steve Jobs (or Job’s, as Meggie Mac spells it), the Chilean miners, and the unemployed American. The Tea Party movement? While it didn’t make it into the top ten of the online voting poll, that would also arguably be a better choice.
Let’s see, founder of an internet site famously used for wasting time vs. a movement that redefined politics and halted socialism in its creeping tracks. I guess for Meggie Mac, it’s no contest. After all, those Tea Partiers sure do like Sarah Palin a lot, who is Meggie Mac’s arch-nemesis, so clearly she can’t side with them. (For that matter, Sarah Palin would’ve been a better choice than Mark Zuckerberg, too.)
Hey, maybe next year we can make the Kardashians the Persons of the Year! Their TV show is really cool and stuff! Right, Meggie Mac?
From Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Wins TIME Mag’s Person of the Year:
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange cleaned up in the online voting but even far left TIME Magazine couldn’t quite give him the award.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won the Person of the Year award instead.The Tea Party Nation did not make the list even though they were able to stop the onslaught of socialism dead in its tracks this year with the historic wave election in November.
From Hot Air, Time’s POTY: Facebook founder?:
Meet the second-youngest individual ever to be named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the omnipresent social-networking site Facebook.
You may feel as though you already know the 26-year-old. If you regularly use a computer, you probably interact with Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire on at least some level.
And maybe you’ve seen the acclaimed movie “The Social Network,” which portrays Zuckerberg as socially stunted, calculating and arrogant.
But is there more to this story? Yes, TIME editors discovered — and that’s what prompted the magazine to choose the multibillionaire CEO for the Person of the Year distinction.
Is there more to this story? Well … no. Their in-depth profile of Zuckerberg shows that he has a “weird calm,” and their in-depth interviews with people who depend on Zuckerberg for a paycheck finds that they “really like him.” What a shock! Truly, this is the most potent force of the year.
Apparently, Time didn’t know that Facebook launched in February 2004, and had achieved the status of most trafficked social network by the end of 2008. If the issue was impact, it seems as though Time is two years too late in awarding this.
About the author
back in the long-gone days, i had many, many,many,many people, including hanoi-jane, explain to me, the certainty that the terror-regimes of the ussr, china, castro et-al, was the way of ‘the future for all human society. and that the soviets were going to land on the moon before the ‘contemptable-yanks’ because their system was ‘better’. etc,etc,etc.
well. i’ve lived a long life and seen the downfall of most of those tyrannies.
and this young man, epitomises the ‘why’ of how a ‘free-society’ thrives when the initiative of ‘individuals’ is allowed to grow and act.
well done him, and thanks to all those who put their lives on ‘the line’, and sometimes died so that ‘we’ could enjoy our lives as we wish to, without overriding government control.
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