Turkey’s so many time zones ahead of us, Jim Geraghty had the Time magazine idea a while ago and it’s only reached me now:
WHO OUGHT TO BE TIME’S NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR
So, riding up to NYC on the train this morning, I had a thought about who Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” ought to be: The Iraqi voter.
You know, this woman.
If I could somehow incorporate the Ukranian Orange Revolutionaries, and the Protesting Supermodels of Lebanon, I would include them, too. (You know the Protesting Supermodels would be great for newsstand sales. They could be the first newsmakers to make the cover of Time, National Review, and Maxim.)
Instead, Time magazine has a list ranging from okay to cliched to bland to silly: “Mother Nature; first responders to emergencies; Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of military relief operations after Katrina; Jordanian-born Abu Musab al Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates for the money he has donated to fight malaria; Pope Benedict; and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.”