Reuters is acting as Time’s publicity agent on the Person of the Year selection process, noting in a story that their POY-picking panel includes “Time commentator Andrew Sullivan, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, activist Rev. Al Sharpton, Alessandra Stanley, television critic for The New York Times, and FBI agent Coleen Rowley, one of the 2002 Persons of the Year.” Most of those are yes, Kerry-loving media liberals (this year including Sullivan), but…Al Sharpton? How on Earth does everyone have to include this guy in their little plans? Is he really an objective journalist at heart? No. He’s still a Tawana-fraud-pushing, violence-urging, racial-ambulance-chasing embarrassment. Time should try a more reputable POY judge — Anna Nicole Smith, or the host of “Fear Factor,” or someone responsible for messing up the flu vaccine.

But the most amazing sentence in the Reuters story is this one, summarizing potential POYs Mel Gibson and Michael Moore:

“Gibson was proposed for directing ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ a controversial film seen by many as anti-Semitic. Moore made ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ a film highly critical of the Bush administration which was a huge box office hit.”

The real spit take in this sentence is that “Passion” was three times as huge as “Fahrenheit.”

So it really could be turned around this way:

“Moore was proposed for making ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ a controversial film seen by many as anti-American. Gibson made ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ a film highly critical of the human sinner, which was a huge box office hit.”