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December 20, 2007
Villain of the Year
Some expected Time magazine to indulge its moonbattery by choosing global warming hoax profiteer Al Gore as its ballyhooed Person of the Year. But the Time folks found another way to poke Western Civilization in the eye: they picked Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
Former KGB agent Putin is hostile to the USA, and has been systemically strangling democracy in Russia. Yet Time raves:
[I]f Russia succeeds as a nation-state in the family of nations, it will owe much of that success to one man, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Time reps will tell you that they don't necessarily like the Person of the Year, which may be true — yet it would be foolish to deny that it's perceived as an honor by those who still take the magazine seriously. If they aren't aware of this, why didn't Osama bin Laden get the nod in 2001?
Bill O'Reilly has found a much more suitable 2007 candidate: General David Petraeus, who has worked miracles in Iraq, to the horror of Democrats who have invested heavily in our defeat at the hands of al-Qaeda.
On tips from BUUUUURRRRNING and baldeagle390.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 20, 2007 9:46 AM
Comments
Previous esteemed holders of the title include Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Dung Xiaoping (twice!), the Ayatollah Khomeini and, most odious of all, John Maynard Keynes.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at December 20, 2007 10:03 AM
It was either put Putin on the cover, or bring Geiger counters to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at December 20, 2007 12:37 PM
