While Time magazine ended the year with its collective choppers clenched, feeling forced to acknowledge George W. Bush as its Person of the Year – the magazine typically warned that Bush’s second term legacy was “the Death of Compromise” – Newsweek celebrated someone far more ideologically congenial on their year-ending cover. That would be Senator-Elect Barack Obama, whom Newsweek said was hailed by Democrats as “about the only good news in a dismal election year.” While they ogled Obama, they ripped on Rick Santorum, the “cultural militant” with the “combatively devout approach.” Brent Bozell captures the contrast here.
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