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'Time' Person of the Year: You Can't Be Serious

AlannaBanana — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:04:42 EST

CNN actually quoted Gawker commenters on a story about Time's pick this morning. Way to go, Cookie Guggleman and jamiek.

Also, it's not You, it's Me.

AlannaBanana

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I'm Waitin' for Dolemite — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:17:17 EST

Although the case may be now closed as to whether Time magazine made a poor choice for Person of the Year, some may be interested (OK no one would be interested but indulge me) that the Advocate magazine has chosen Bill Maher as its Person of the Year.

Yes, that Maher, who "joins 55 feisty rule breakers who made our queer lives better in 2006."

Apparently no _actual_ gay, lesbian or transgendered individuals were queer enough for the Advocate this year.

If they were bereft of ideas the editors _could_ have declared it the "Year of the Gay Blogger", as there was a story highlighting three high profile bloggers. From this article (which of course I have not read) I have learned that Mario Lavandeira is apparently weighing in at about 290, your own Defamer's Seth Abramovitch is apparently a cutie with piercing blue eyes and apparently Andy Towle is five feet three inches tall.

I'm Waitin' for Dolemite

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Lionel Hutz Esq. — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:13:53 EST

"Welcome to your world."

Who knew that my world was made up of 90% porn, and that apparently the main purpose for my world is to market pills to make my penis bigger.

Lionel Hutz Esq.

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:33:21 EST

No, I'm down on the whole damn silly thing. I dig your muppet.

Ted

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GaryGnu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:31:07 EST

Jesus, I meant Machismo.

GaryGnu

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GaryGnu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:07:20 EST

Ted, I'm not sure of your point of view, are you down on Time or yourself as a poster? Plus shouldn't they just shoot diarrhea on the non-ad pages?

GaryGnu

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:56:12 EST

For Gary:

Ah, Time Magazine. Why don't the editors just eat Chipotle for a week and shoot diarrhea on 118 pages? It's not like me, or any of my friends, family, coworkers or children ever uploaded a video on YouTube or contributed to wikipedia or in any other way shape or form contributed to the sociological abortion that is the internet. Despite my commenting on several posts a day, I condemn the very thought that I may somehow have changed the way the media operates. After all, I'm just a snarky commentator who enjoys contributing daily to my favorite internets sites.

Is that more like it?

Ted

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GaryGnu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:45:39 EST

I'm waiting for the "50 Sexiest Latinos" piece, too. Until then I'll just stick to Honcho.

GaryGnu

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Little Mintz Sunshine — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:40:09 EST

Any truth to the rumor that "Them" is demanding a recount?

Little Mintz Sunshine

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gjdodger — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:39:39 EST

No. They ripped off Uriah Heep's Look at Yourself album cover. David Byron is rotating in his sarcophagus.

gjdodger

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ChupaCaBrooklyn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:18:54 EST

I'm waiting for the "50 Sexiest Latinos" piece. I'm sure I'll make it this time!

ChupaCaBrooklyn

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Lou Banjawi — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:38:24 EST

Does anyone think Time totally ripped off Spin Magazine for this one? Back in the heady Napster days of 2000, Spin named "Your Hard Drive" as album of the year.

Lou Banjawi

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GaryGnu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:45:53 EST

Ok, I think I have a post that would meet Ted's approval:

"Oh, Time, congratulations on your insight. 'You'--that is not any sort of cop-out at all. Please, Time, accept my most sincere, non snarky, witless congratulations. I am honored to be included in the POTY for this year. I hope next year when you select "puppies" my dog will be as graceful a winner of this honor. Bravo!"

GaryGnu

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:35:44 EST

I won't say it a third time, mostly because I've lost interest. I'm here because my job is not very time consuming. You?

Ted

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jamiek — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:34:16 EST

I enjoy the extra snark from cross-blogging pollination.

jamiek

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thatgirl — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:10:25 EST

The Rat, are you saying you were a member of TOPY?? I mean, "ov" TOPY?

thatgirl

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Alfonso X. Alfonse — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:09:02 EST

Ted. I read your post. And it was genius.

You said it meant nothing - I said it meant less than nothing, and explained why that's inanely infuriating. There's a difference.

And if you don't want snark, why are you here?

Alfonso X. Alfonse

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SantaBarbaraWahoo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:03:30 EST

The real TIME Person of the Year: The Internet Stalker.

SantaBarbaraWahoo

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stunman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:02:46 EST

First of all, I would like to thank God. Secondly, my friends and family, since this award belongs as much to them as it belongs to me...

Wait a second, it does. Crap!

stunman

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error27 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:01:11 EST

This doesn't do anything for me. The only award I cared about was People's sexiest man. :/

error27

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Little Mintz Sunshine — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:43 EST

Does "controlling the information age" mean "goofing off on the internets during work"? Because if it does, TIME actually got it right.

And, where the fuck is my gift basket?

Little Mintz Sunshine

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the rat — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:50:43 EST

Why does every time I read 'POTY' I think about my early college years.

the rat

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ocd — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:48:01 EST

This should be the picture next to the headline: Lebowski

ocd

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ExTexan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:35:08 EST

My mom is so proud.

ExTexan

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Steverino — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:17:26 EST

I hate that. Don't "we/people" shape the world every year?

It's so subtly condescending. They really mean, "You worthless, lazy bastards who normally wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being POTY, except you got lucky because some new internet software lets you post videos of your colonoscopy."

Steverino

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Gloppy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:03:26 EST

Have you seen the actual "mirror"? It's a piece of gunked-up foil that seems to have withstood a significant oil spill. You'd go blind if you stared at it too long but you try it anyway. OMG just like the internet!

Gloppy

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:02:18 EST

You really are the people of the year! God bless the internets.

Ted

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diminishingreturns — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:59:15 EST

diminishingreturns

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Black is Back — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:56:03 EST

Ted: Wonkette cross-post = snark. Blame Pareen.

Black is Back

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BillGnade — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:48:57 EST

I disagree about WHO really received TIME's "Person of the Year." It is not you, or me, or us. It is the Internet itself. TIME has anthropomorphized the WWW, as if it is a "you," an "us," a Being. One headline in the TIME article refers to the "Person Of The Year" as the Beast... "The Beast with a billion eyes." It is not really about US. It is about what we are building: the Great Thing.

Besides, how many of us who contribute to the WWW do so pseudonymously, even anonymously? "We" are not persons; we are not "yous." We are personae.

But what is most fascinating is that TIME's own editor, shown in a picture holding a copy of the "Person of the Year" issue, himself appears as the face on the cover. In other words, and this should disturb us all, TIME has awarded the "Person of the Year" honor to itself.

This is not pathetic. It is, frankly, quite scary. There is a freaky twist here, and I hope we're shrewd enough to see it.

But maybe it's not scary at all. Either way, "we" are really being "honored" for being contributors to the "Thing of the Year."

Peace.

BillGnade

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God's Noitalinmo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:46:57 EST

Oh, I also control Ted. I put him on grumpy mode this morning. But later today, I'm going to have Paris give him a BJ.

God's Noitalinmo

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God's Noitalinmo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:44:06 EST

Nice try, Time. After the DOJ concluded that the Internet was 99% porn free, I realized that I most certainly do not control the information age. However, I do control Paris Hilton. Yup.

God's Noitalinmo

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:41:19 EST

Alfonso, either you didn't read my post very carefully or you were looking for an excuse to write a very long "sad state of our society" diatribe which nobody cares to read on a celebrity gossip blog. My point was not about Time magazine, but about blog commentators and their tireless efforts to be punchier than the one before them.

Ted

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t.a.m.s.y. — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:32:26 EST

3) Being huge dicks momentarily distracts us from the crippling pain of existence.

And until Mal Lane blowing someone famous becomes a meaningless yearly tradition, this is all we have.

t.a.m.s.y.

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momo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:31:32 EST

Gary - who says that a villain wasn't chosen?

momo

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koala325 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:13:43 EST

I just threw up a little bit in your mouth.

koala325

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Alfonso X. Alfonse — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:10:41 EST

Ted - The problem isn't just that it's a meaningless ritualistic masturbation about modern society. That alone would be fine, and apropos.

1) The problem is that is doesn't even RISE to the level of useless social commentary about a political or global figure. It rises to the sub-shit strata of a fictional 'societal' movement that doesn't genuinely exist except in fiction. It exists in the heads of retarded 'technocrats' born pre-1970, who actually believe that things like 'teh interwubs' change the composition of the human consciousness. Which is retarded. The evolution of the ability of language itself changed human consciousness. Everything after that is just mush.

2) Even if you subscribe to the banal, skid-marked intellectualism that gives birth to this bullshit, you have to note that the very premise of the 'electronic democracy' that is YouTube is flawed in its outset. Like any communications technology, the ability of people to 'have their say' is entirely dependent upon their treasury. You can participate in the electronic revolution if and only if you have a sustainably high income. Fundamentally, the YouTube phenomenon is actually one of the most divisive things I can possibly imagine, not merely reinforcing, but actually building new differences in the economic strata of society.

Alfonso X. Alfonse

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Smitros — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:49:07 EST

Time for self-loathing.

Smitros

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Serolf Divad — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:44:09 EST

I would totally have praised gjdodger's choice, had it come to pass.

Serolf Divad

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bh — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:40:52 EST

"All I'm saying is, no matter what the subject is, all the commentors seem to be trying to one-up each other in the snark department."

Yep - that's about the long and short of it.

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fireboy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:38:10 EST

...and on a toilet in the White House, Bush sits with a copy of Time in one hand, and his forehead in the other, weeping. "The American People still believe in me," he says between chest-heaving sobs.

And then he voids his bowels.

fireboy

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gjdodger — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:33:42 EST

2007 Time Person of the Year: "Everybody Except You."

gjdodger

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:31:55 EST

All I'm saying is, no matter what the subject is, all the commentors seem to be trying to one-up each other in the snark department. Just seems like a harsh reaction to a yearly tradition that doesn't mean anything.

Ted

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RonMwangaguhunga — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:24:52 EST

You like Me, you really like Me ..

RonMwangaguhunga

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GaryGnu — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:18:31 EST

Actually, I think biting the bullets and choosing a "villain" POTY would significantly have reduced the "'snark.'" That at least would require some balls, and might piss off the White House or something.

"You" is just a masturbatory cop out with the spunk being distributed in the metaphorical thousand island dressing of public discourse.

GaryGnu

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thefrontpage — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:17:02 EST

Time hasn't been a good magazine for about 25 years. Time probably peaked in 1958 or something.

I just want to know who Maxim picked for its Person of the Year.

thefrontpage

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mr-scribbles — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:16:40 EST

Kim Jong-il is launching missiles over the Sea of Japan and Ahmadinejad has the West peeing in its panties -- and I'm special because I watch online videos of cats pouncing on their own shadows between Internet masturbation sessions. Um, OK...

mr-scribbles

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Serolf Divad — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:14:22 EST

It would be manifestly unfair to expect Time Magazine to choose a man of the year who was completelty immune to our scathing snark and searing wit, but it is not unfair to ask that Time magazine not make as heroically stupid a choice as they have done.

Serolf Divad

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htotheomo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:10:54 EST

He's just not that into You.

htotheomo

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Ted — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:06:13 EST

Chill out, people. Is there anything/body Time could have picked that you wouldn't have mocked mercilessly with your "snark" and "wit"?

Ted

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Serolf Divad — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:05:41 EST

That's it: the "Time Man of the Year" issue is now irrelevant. This would be like Sports Illustrated running a swimsuit issue featuring poodles dressed in doggie bathing suits.

Serolf Divad

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forgracie — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:04:50 EST

I'm glad my contributions are finally being recognized.

forgracie

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the girl also blogs — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:04:22 EST

I would just like to thank everyone who voted for Me.

the girl also blogs

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pirateyar — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:58:50 EST

Does this mean every human is now POTY, or just the ones that read Time? If the former, I hope they don't have any multi-year winner restrictions, because that would pretty much screw them from now on.

pirateyar

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Fuzzy_duffel_bag — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:57:57 EST

lucky for me, I'm Atoosa Rubenstein

Fuzzy_duffel_bag

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Aatom — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:45:10 EST

It's official, there are no more important people left. They did slap a cheap reflective surface on the computer screen of the cover, btw. Good for a laugh, not so much for blow.

Aatom

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Black is Back — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:44:37 EST

The funniest part is, if you click on the link to the article, you must first be subjected to a car ad with the tag line, "You might not be POTY, but you you can drive like one." I'm like, wait a second, I AM the POTY! It says so right there.

Black is Back

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momo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:38:33 EST

Does You have a MySpace page?

momo

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ellagood — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:30:35 EST

How long until some Yale undergrad lists this on his resume?

ellagood

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Alfonso X. Alfonse — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:25:30 EST

And also, Tom Friedman - poster child for intellectual palsy - will be spontaneously ejaculating on the CEOs of Indian computer corporations for the next 17 hours. Enjoy your day!

Alfonso X. Alfonse

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thatgirl — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:24:23 EST

I'm off to find "Man in the Mirror" in my iTunes so I can ponder.

thatgirl

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Alfonso X. Alfonse — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:22:04 EST

They missed the option of placing a tiny mirror under the word "you", so that you could understand how deeply and profoundly their 'ideas' are retarded by the fetal alcohol syndrome they so obviously have. And so that Time can collectively suck the cock of their 28 frillion American readers. And also, so that we could finally live out our fantasy of railing off of Time Magazine.

Alfonso X. Alfonse

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dmac — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:17:52 EST

Doesn't this just mean "the computer" won again?

dmac

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jamiek — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:09:00 EST

I'm am so over You.

jamiek

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bh — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:04:37 EST

Since Time is down with the kids an' all, shouldn't that be 'U'?

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spinachdip — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:59:43 EST

Fuck "You".

spinachdip

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kjc9 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:54:18 EST

I highly recommend watching the section of This Week with George Stephanopoulos that had Rick Stengel on the roundtable. He was defending the choice of "You" as the POTY and I'm pretty sure George Will wanted to punch him in the face.

kjc9

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JackieTreehorn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:46:47 EST

Does this mean the issue's cover is just going to be a mirror? 'Cause I already have one of those.

JackieTreehorn

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t.a.m.s.y. — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:45:42 EST

We should take a moment to congratulate the producers, writers, designers, gaffers, and everyone else over at TasteTV for this fantastic achievement.

You know, just to save Kevin the trouble.

t.a.m.s.y.

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Cookie Guggleman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:18:07 EST

"You" suck.

Cookie Guggleman