Time magazine names Bernanke 'Person of the Year'

[Cal166]

Really?!?! Is Time Magazine a joke?

Last year's winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos (BAY'-zohs.)

 

[Possessed Freak]

Really?!?! Is Time Magazine a joke?

Last year's winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos (BAY'-zohs.)

Don't forget, Hitler was man of the year too. So obviously Bernanke is Hitler.

 

[ShawnD1]

Adolf Hitler was man of the year. Stalin too I believe. Osama Bin Laden was going to be man of the year but people got really uppity since it was Americans he killed rather than Jews and Ukranians so it was changed to Rudy Giuliani.

Murderer of millions of Ukranians. I think the grand total across the entire Soviet Union was something like 20 million people. He was in power for 3 decades.

 

[Zebo]

LOL what a joke. He has set us past point of no return & Time will go down in history as biggest fail.

 

[phreaqe]

how is that a joke? it is not that he was the best person, it is that he was a person who was in the news, affected people, changed the nation or world for good or bad. i would say he fits pretty well. if you guys think its a joke then who else should have won.

 

[PottedMeat]

Well I guess it's better than naming 'You' person of the year. Do people still read Time/Newsweek? Last time I read one it was filled with 50+% ads and old very cursory information.

 

[Lamont Burns]

IS THAT A JOKE ZOMG BANKS ARE BAD AND WE ARE LOSING JERBS.

mouth-breathers.

 

[ShawnD1]

how is that a joke? it is not that he was the best person, it is that he was a person who was in the news, affected people, changed the nation or world for good or bad. i would say he fits pretty well. if you guys think its a joke then who else should have won.

Sarah Palin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHOqgmDgpo

 

[totalnoob]

Destroy the savings of millions and guarantee systemic malinvestment that will make the housing bubble look like a freckle = person of the year?

lolol

 

[Strk]

how is that a joke? it is not that he was the best person, it is that he was a person who was in the news, affected people, changed the nation or world for good or bad. i would say he fits pretty well. if you guys think its a joke then who else should have won.

The problem with having something like "Person of the Year" is that people don't bother reading beyond the title.

 

[JDub02]

Destroy the savings of millions and guarantee systemic malinvestment that will make the housing bubble look like a freckle = person of the year?

lolol

time is just aiming for some of that bailout money that obama has in his stash.

 

[gorcorps]

Some of you people are stupidly clueless. Person of the year doesn't mean the person who's done the most good, it's the person who has had the most impact on the years most important events and news... for better or for worse. You can't argue that the current chairman of the reserve has been of great importance this past year given that the entire year has been a struggle economically.

That's the same reason Obama, Putin, Hitler, etc have won in the past. They pretty much defined the memorable part of that year. Maybe they were shitty memories, but you still won't forget them.

 

[techs]

He was a big part of the solution that prevented a disaster that would have been greater than the Great Depression.

Funny how morons who only have their jobs, homes and savings due to Bernanke and company criticize him.

 

[phreaqe]

Sarah Palin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHOqgmDgpo

i would say that she could be a runner up, but he had a larger effect on this nation especially, but the world as a whole. Far more so then sarah palin did.

 

[The-Noid]

Gee, the guy who staved off the Great Depression and came up with more lending programs than in the prior century of the Federal Reserve gets man of the year. Shocking.

Totally deserved contrary to what others say. The point of an overleveraged economy still holds but Bernanke stopped a collapse so we at least have the chance to delever.

 

[phreaqe]

Some of you people are stupidly clueless. Person of the year doesn't mean the person who's done the most good, it's the person who has had the most impact on the years most important events and news... for better or for worse. You can't argue that the current chairman of the reserve has been of great importance this past year given that the entire year has been a struggle economically.

That's the same reason Obama, Putin, Hitler, etc have won in the past. They pretty much defined the memorable part of that year. Maybe they were shitty memories, but you still won't forget them.

its funny cause this discussion happens every year. someone posts this and every has a freak out session because they don't agree with it because they dont get it. When GWB got it i remember everyone going irate. i keep hoping everyone will read past the headline and understand what this really means.

 

[BoomerD]

While I too would question whether Bernake was deserving of "Person of the Year," did you see some of the "runners up?"

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1946375,00.html

Stanley McChrystal...perhaps, since he was a military general, but IMO, still undeserving.

Chinese workers? WTF?

Nancy Pelosi? While she's far too dammed liberal for this old Democrat, as Speaker of the House, she does wield quite a bit of power...but IMO, still undeserving.

Usain Bolt? Fuck...an athlete? Not a gawd-dammed chance.

"You" was a better choice than any of the above...but I guess Time was afraid of repeating themselves...