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Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester"
Hugh Pickens writes "Time's editor Rick Stengel announced on The Today Show that 'The Protester' is Time Magazine's Person of the Year: From the Arab Spring to Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Moscow. 'For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally, for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century.' The initial gut reaction on Twitter seems to be one of derision, as Time has gone with a faceless human mass instead of picking a single person like Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi who Time mentions in the story and is widely acknowledged as the person who set off the 'Arab Spring.' In 2006, Time chose "You" with a mirrored cover to much disappointment, picked the personal computer as 'Machine of the Year' and Earth as 'Planet of the Year,' proving 'that it should probably just be "Story of the Year" if they aren't going to acknowledge an actual person,' writes Dashiell Bennett. 'By not picking any one individual, they've basically chosen no one.'"
The Tea Party has been co-opted into Fox News' astroturfing arm.
No, they're not.
A protest that needs Fox New's Glenn Beck to organize and the Koch brothers to fund in order to get off the ground really isn't the same as a bunch of folks getting so upset about the status quo that they take to the streets.
See also, astroturfing vs grassroots.
Check your premises.
Because TIME is liberal hippie magazine as far as mainstream publications go. I can site plenty of examples from Global Warming to Obama. No other US president can claim that much front cover status. Not a single one!
Life is not for the lazy.
...and driving down the tone of political discourse everywhere they show up. And by bringing assault rifles to public political gatherings.
Apparently you mostly pay attention to Fox News.
You mean like the Neo-Nazi's who showed up to give their support for Occupy Phoenix?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/unreal-neo-nazis-patrol-occupy-phonix-with-ar-15s-media-silent/
Apparently, you don't read enough news sources outside your narrow, bigoted interests.
Yes, if the Tea party was having protest in most countries, and had as many people as the media would leave yu to believe, then yes they would have been on the cover.
The fact the Team Party members think this should include them is another examples of how deluded and willfully ignorant they are.
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