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[Triumph]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041116/pl_nm/media_time_dc_4

Tears am falling down on keyboard.

 

[Jak140]

To put this in perspective, Hitler was also Time's man of the year.

 

[demon]

I haven't thought about it much, but I suppose he'd make a good candidate. And yeah, it's not necessarily "Best Man of the Year". Basically it's "Most Influential..", which is why Time picking the US soldiers as "person of the year" a little while back was bullshit.

 

[Triumph]

To put this in perspective--Hitler was Time's man of the century.

I could have sworn that Gandhi was. Oh well, I'll take your word for it.

 

[Guzim]

Einstein was Man of the Century.

 

[Socreges]

In the meantime, the selection becomes a parlor game in America to guess who fits the criteria of "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

Everything seems to be in order.

 

[Jak140]

I could have sworn that Gandhi was. Oh well, I'll take your word for it.

Hmm, looks like your right, but I could have sworn I heard it was Hitler from somewhere.

 

[Dan]

Yeah, Man of the Year doesn't mean the person had a positive effect on the world.

The Man of the Year is just "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

He might be the best choice of those that article lists as being in the running. Mel Gibson and Michael Moore certainly didn't do enough to deserve it.

 

[MetatronM]

Hmm, looks like your right, but I could have sworn I heard it was Hitler from somewhere.

No. Einstein was, as Guzim said, Man of the Century.

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938.

 

[MIMIC]

Another proposed entity for 2004 was "The Blogosphere," the online Web log journals that helped redefine the role of the media.

I would go with that.

 

[Jak140]

No. Einstein was, as Guzim said, Man of the Century.

:lol Come on guys, give me a break, I think it's pretty clear to everyone I was wrong by now. I found a site that lists Time's people of the year and apparently Stalin and Hitler made it, so that's probably where I got confused.

Edit: Here's the site in case anyone's interested:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa050400a.htm

 

[MetatronM]

I was just correcting that it was not Gandhi either.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Karl Rove deserves it. The main is pure evil genius. You may not like him, but he is one of the greatest political terrorists ever known.

 

[Triumph]

Karl Rove deserves it. The main is pure evil genius. You may not like him, but he is one of the greatest political terrorists ever known.

Indeed. I'm thinking Lee Atwater would be blushing at some of Rove's tactics.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Isn't Karl Rove a robot?

 

[BigJonsson]

So if Kim Jong Il launched nukes at the USA...he would have to be man of the year right?

I hope that attention whore doesn't know this

 

[RaymondCarver]

He had good campaign strategy. Other than that, I don't know anything about the man. Should I?

 

[demon]

He had good campaign strategy. Other than that, I don't know anything about the man. Should I?

He created George W Bush the politician. And when Dubya is gone, Rove will continue his campaign against the humans....er, democrats.

 

[Hitokage]

He had good campaign strategy. Other than that, I don't know anything about the man. Should I?

Rove doesn't do "good campaign strategy", he does ruthless no-holds-barred attacks regardless of factual merit. One of his favorite things to do is attacking opponents strengths instead of their weaknesses. John McCain was a war POW, and Rove turned it around by having an "independent" group come up and say that experience left him mentally unstable. Al Gore was widely seen as a boy scout, yet when the GOP knew they couldn't win on issues, they tore down his character and the so-called "liberal media" was happy to go along. John Kerry was a war vet who holds strong yet detailed positions, hence swift boat vets and flip flopping.