Why would any editor, especially one from TIME, approve George W. Bush as "Man of the Year"??????!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I am trully astonished, I never thought it would go this far.
George Bush makes me want to throw up; no one else has ever impacted me like that...kimmyeatworldDecember 20 2004, 15:13:27 UTC
Time is connected to too many big businesses now to EVER pick a controversial, but deserving candidate.
Osama bin Laden should have been man of the year. He has had the most impact globally. Now security screening at the airport has become an arduous and intrusive process (I once got asked to take my sweater off, when all I had on underneath was a sheer tank top...and the security guy wouldn't take no for an answer. I wouldn't think terrorists actually would implant plastic explosives, WMD, or knives in their boobs, but that initiative did come from the biggest boob ever alive, George, so it figures. Thank you, Osama, for making an airport strip/search a "necessary procedure
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Re: George Bush makes me want to throw up; no one else has ever impacted me like that...earthdogDecember 20 2004, 15:57:32 UTC
According to stories in respected newspapers, Time's editors anguished over the choice, fearing that selecting the al-Qaeda leader might offend readers (and advertisers).
Re: George Bush makes me want to throw up; no one else has ever impacted me like that...kimmyeatworldDecember 20 2004, 17:41:28 UTC
It's pathetic that the magazine that once elected "Adolf Hitler" as man of the year is so obsessed with advertisers and readers. Screw advertisers... Time is one of the most popular U.S. magazines. If advertisers bailed, others would snap up the chance. Secondly, in my opinion, literature is supposed to evoke passionate feelings, either positive or negative. I don't want to be fed candy coated bits of literary crap because it gives everyone else a warm fuzzy feeling. If I wanted that, I'd only watch molly ringwald movies. I want reality, even if it means that it makes me depressed or pissed off.
On a different note, I'm obsessive about grammar.
"duh! It is a magazine. It's job is to sell SUVs and Mutural Funds."
It actually is "Its." "It's" is the contraction for "it is."
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Osama bin Laden should have been man of the year. He has had the most impact globally. Now security screening at the airport has become an arduous and intrusive process (I once got asked to take my sweater off, when all I had on underneath was a sheer tank top...and the security guy wouldn't take no for an answer. I wouldn't think terrorists actually would implant plastic explosives, WMD, or knives in their boobs, but that initiative did come from the biggest boob ever alive, George, so it figures. Thank you, Osama, for making an airport strip/search a "necessary procedure ( ... )
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On a different note, I'm obsessive about grammar.
"duh! It is a magazine. It's job is to sell SUVs and Mutural Funds."
It actually is "Its." "It's" is the contraction for "it is."
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