Time Magazine Person of the Year: KARL ROVE?

Karl Rove in Running for Time's Person of the Year

By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - White House adviser Karl Rove topped the unofficial list of contenders for Time's 2004 Person of the Year, according to a panel assembled by the magazine on Tuesday to debate the question.

Along with Rove, widely credited as the architect behind President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election, other candidates suggested by the panel included the president himself and filmmakers Mel Gibson and Michael Moore.

Time does not prepare or publish a formal list of nominees. Instead, the weekly magazine said its editors choose the person of the year after significant reporting by the staff.

The selection may well be none of the names suggested at Tuesday's panel, the editors said. The choice remains secret until it appears, this year, on the Dec. 20 issue cover.

In the meantime, the selection becomes a parlor game in America to guess who fits the criteria of "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

The person also must be alive, the editors said.

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Congrats, Georgie, you've got your mandate--you're just a figurehead!!!

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rocknation

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I got my star! Yea me! Ok, back to business now.


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I donated a week ago today and still don't have mine. :shrug:

it took, well, 24 hrs or less :( sorry!

Skinner.

...I originally received an automatic/form e-mail message from his address confirming my donation, which I kept. I pulled it back up in my e-mail and replied to it so he can see that as part of my inquiry.

Hopefully, that will do the trick soon, but I realize he's very busy.

:hi: Enjoy the discourse, but be very careful, it is very, very addictive! ;-)

Karl Rove isn't a "person" so he's not eligible.

cancelled his subscription in '00 after Bush was named man of the year.

We never resubscribed. What a shallow worthless magazine.

by not giving Man of the Year to Osama bin Laden. According to their own criteria, they are to award it to whoever has had the most effect, for good or ill, on the world. (I don't remember who they gave it to that year, Gulliani maybe?)

Even as a baby, he had a distinctive look about him


College years...didn't study much..


There was a time he "let himself go"..before W saved him


His parents feared he would emulate his brother Kevin



The Cover-Boy

Mine will be first to go!

It doesn't have to be for 'good' reasons it is for the person that has the biggest impact. Bin Laudin should have gotten it instead of bush.

has done GREAT damage to civilization as we know it. And he ain't done yet.

...like "the terrorist" or "the American soldier." Why not "the red state cracker" for voting to make a complete break with whatever was once good or noble about America?

and weren't they both named Man of the Year..afterall it doesn't mean the person was a *positive* newsmakers...just a very important one as far as what occured in the past year...and Rove definately was that...his actions had more impact on the world last year then anyone else...just in a NEGATIVE fashion...

That sums it up.

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of Defendant of the year (easily nudging Scott Peterson out of the running and not worrying about Ken Lay because the press doesn't)?

Oh yeah, bet those corporate whores at Time Magazine are shaking in their jack boots from the forgoing announcement. <snicker>

Of course, when they should have chosen Osama, they went the softie route and picked Giuliani, and last year they picked "the American soldier", which isn't even a single person.

The editors of TIME seem to be pussies when it comes to Person Of The Year.

They did Hitler one year, it doesn't always have to be someone who does something GOOD.