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In reply to the discussion: Miley Cyrus Leads TIME Magazine's Person Of The Year Readers Poll [View all]jmowreader
(50,589 posts)70. The person who wins is the one who most affects the news, for good or bad
Which is how Hitler got it. Whoever wins the presidential election in years it's held almost always wins it.
This year, since it doesn't necessarily need to be one person or a person at all - "you" was POTY the year social media became mainstream and "the computer" was once, Pope Benny the Rat and Instapope Francis will almost certainly win.
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Cali_Democrat
Nov 2013
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Best "review" of it I ever saw was simply "I didn't realize it was going to be a documentary".
abq e streeter
Nov 2013
#76
Why not? Cyrus speaks for a populace un-engaged with real issues as well as anyone ...
Auggie
Nov 2013
#2
I'll save my sympathy for real "victims"--not nitwits who can't keep their bacteria coated tongues
MADem
Nov 2013
#34
Miley would have done fairly well the old 'bump and grind' circuit. I doubt if she will be popular
lumpy
Nov 2013
#52
I agree. Whoever concocted that disgusting picture is a helluva lot more skanky than Miley Cyrus.
lumpy
Nov 2013
#38
Step right up and declare yourself about these "affronts to human decency" too, then...
MADem
Nov 2013
#60
Miley has consented with producers, directors, agents and camera-persons, composers and musicians..
Tikki
Nov 2013
#71
She took a lot of "what is that girl doing with her behind?" crap, and "Why is her coated tongue
MADem
Dec 2013
#100
Hey, there's no accounting for tastes! And we all like the occasional oddball tunes.
MADem
Nov 2013
#45
No kidding. We are quickly losing any prestige and honor we might have enjoyed in the past.
lumpy
Nov 2013
#39
I assume I have been around a lot longer that you have; and we did have standing in this
lumpy
Nov 2013
#58
How do we know these same kind of scripts haven't been used for the other candidates?
Cali_Democrat
Nov 2013
#16
Time has depicted unsavory characters in the past. I believe Hitler was person of the year
lumpy
Nov 2013
#41
That's why for a number of years the online winner doesn't indicate who the magazine will choose. n/
tammywammy
Nov 2013
#19
I swear to God, they're gonna be throwing their creamed corn at the tv in the break room
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2013
#20
Miley's twerking is not done in an artistic and talented way. Not interesting but merely blantant,
lumpy
Nov 2013
#46