LeBron James is a Finalist for Time's Person of the Year!?!?

[Tomorrow]

It seems to say more to me about Time than about Mr. James.

 

[phillipjfry]

The Person of the Year isn't about doing good work or what have you, it's for the person who had the biggest impact on world news. I'd say the miners had a pretty damn impact.

Following this line of thinking, one would think Justin Bieber would win?

 

[filfortugno]

Lbj ftw

Yeahhh LBJ over obama any day!!! Lebron didnt donate a trillion dollars to the new york make rich people richer fund.

 

[Eraserhead]

I think Bill Gates would be a worthy winner.

 

[MrMoore]

Time magazine has said in the past, that a "Person of the Year" doesn't neccessarily have to be for someone doing good. Just if they are a hot topic discuss during the year.

For example. Hitler won "Man of the Year" from Time in 1938.

Stalin also won (Twice!)

 

[iJohnHenry]

For example. Hitler won "Man of the Year" from Time in 1938.

Stalin also won (Twice!)

This has already been stated.

But Tricky Dickie also won it twice. And LBJ, Winston Churchill ...

 

[Counterfit]

WRONG!

This stopped being true after Adolf Hitler was denied "Person of the Century."

Easy there sparky.

 

[MacNut]

Give it to Tiger Woods, who else can crash their car into a tree and not win any golf tournaments in a year and still be talked about.

 

[carlgo]

Instead of individuals, how about groups?

You could elect, as a group, all the Hollywood Hiltons, etc who are famous for being famous, who have TV shows with three people watching, appear on the View because they...what, oh, I know, because they had too many kids and got makeovers!

Another group would be "short crazy dictators". They all over-compensate by building big missiles and wearing funny clothes. They scare people who don't want to spend the money to eliminate them right now, and if they were bombed tomorrow into a pulpy syrup nobody but some terrorists would be unhappy.

There are many others people can add.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Time's Person of the Year 2010 is...

Mark Zuckerberg

What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183,00.html

Fair enough. Won't warm any hearts like the story of the Chilean Miners... but money talks.

 

[MacDawg]

Time's Person of the Year 2010 is...

Mark Zuckerberg

Fair enough. Won't warm any hearts like the story of the Chilean Miners... but money talks.

A good choice given the criteria I suppose, and anybody would be better than LeBron

 

[rdowns]

As much as I can't stand ****erberg, I can see where he deserved it over the others.

 

[Old Muley]

What's a "LeBron James"? Wasn't that a car from Chrysler back in the 1980's?

 

[chaosbunny]

What do you expect from a magazine that made Ben Bernanke person of the year for the creation of - ups I mean his "efforts against" the econimoic crisis.*

*Of course Bernanke didn't create the crisis by himself, but the FED certainly did it's part.