From Fox Business
Last year, to be person of the year, you had to invent Facebook. This year, all you had to do was complain.
Time magazine on Wednesday named “The Protester” as its “2011 Person of the Year.” If you happened to have ragged about anything in the past 12 months, take a bow.
I, for one, have been recognized for this honor twice before: In 2006, when the person of the year was “You” (which I understood to mean “Me”), and in 1966, when it was “Baby Boomers” (and to think I was only 5 at the time).
I am not bragging because Time also has given this prize to nefarious characters like Hitler, Stalin and the Ayatollah Khomeini. Or to something that isn’t really a person, like “The Computer.”
This year, Time is merely continuing an established trend.
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2011/12/16/al-lewis-times-2011-person-year-is-wimp/#ixzz1gikd7asp