The yearly Time Magazine “Person of the Year” issue is coming up and they’ve released their Top 10 shortlist. This list, of course, is ostensibly who ‘influenced the news’ the most in the last year which always depends on who the media chooses to cover. Sometimes it’s impossible to miss with someone like edward Snowden, but would they choose a nemesis of their Dear Leader Obama?
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Here are the final ten contenders for TIME’s Person of the Year (listed alphabetically):
Bashar Assad, President of Syria
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
Miley Cyrus, Singer
Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
Barack Obama, President of the United States
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist
TIME Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs announced the group on the TODAY show Monday morning. TIME’s Person of the Year will be announced Wednesday morning.
Obama was Person of the Year in 2008 and 2012. He is the only person who appeared on last year’s short list to make this year’s. His predecessor in the White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the only person to receive the title three times.
TIME selected its first “Man of the Year” in 1927. The recognition goes to the person who TIME’s editors think most influenced the news this year, for good or bad. TIME’s readers, in a poll completed last week, selected Egypt’s General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi as their Person of the Year.
Time seems more like an instrument of deceit these days.
Ann Althouse has it called.
How about Grumpy Cat? How could they omit Grumpy ?
Shifra.
I think they will give it to the dumb bastard once again. Unfortunately.
I’d have to go for Snowden. And since they say most of it (information) hasn’t come out yet, he might get ’14 as well.