Chrysler doesn't think you're "Of The Year" material
As some of you may have heard, TIME magazine just named its Person of the Year. Or rather, Persons of the Year. In what some have labeled a big cop out, TIME named you as its POTY. Bush, Angelina, Rumsfeld, Mel Gibson, Obama, Hillary, Schumacher, we can think of dozens of people who might have deserved the title this year. But the folks at TIME decided to honor the common man (and woman) instead.
The official statement goes something like this. Rather than any one person who might have been responsible for shaping the world over the course of the past 365 days, TIME chose to recognize the growth of the real people in control of the new information age, you, me, them, us. Citing the growing importance of sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, and MySpace (obviously an oversight in omitting Autoblog), they chose to honor all of us who have reinvented the way news travels. The whole Web 2.0 thing.
As newsworthy as that may be, it doesn't directly relate to the automotive world unless you consider AB's place in that field. But there IS a connection. If you click through to view the online version of TIME magazine and follow the link to the POTY story, a Chrysler ad splashes across the screen before you reach the article. Perhaps expecting TIME to follow form and award the honor to an individual (or at best a small group), the Chrysler ad begins, "You might not be TIME person of the year." Oh really, we thought we were. Open mouth, insert Hemi here.
[Source: TIME via Daily Klos]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Um... no 3:10PM (12/18/2006)
"Bush, Angelina, Rumsfeld, Mel Gibson, Obama, Hillary"
I seriously hope that was a joke.
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Rhea 3:24PM (12/18/2006)
So it really is all about me. I mean, us.
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Stphane Dumas 3:23PM (12/18/2006)
well, the Canadian edition of Time magazine chosed Stephen Harper, Canada's current Prime Minister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_harper
also, interesting to see the previous Persons/Man of the Year winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_the_Year in 1966, it was the persons of 25 years and younger and in 1969, the Middle America
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Mr_Oak 3:36PM (12/18/2006)
----->Bush, Angelina, Rumsfeld, Mel Gibson, Obama, Hillary, Schumacher.
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Which Hillary were you referring to? Duff, Swank or the other one?
Mrs. Clinton does not deserve to be thrown in with the pack of asses in your list.
Why is it that the GOP and their minions fear her so much? Get mad now or later, she will be your next president. I'll go out on a limb and say that she will be miles away, a better more worthy president than Boy George.
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Andrew 3:55PM (12/18/2006)
That's pretty funny. I bet they thought that was a pretty clever ad, and then, what are the odds, you actually DID win? I love it.
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Sasha 4:46PM (12/18/2006)
Hillary is a warmonger, she will pursue the exact same foreign policy objectives of bushco but do it more successfully and attract less bad publicity. Where was she at the start of the Iraq war? She was beating the same war drum as everybody else.
we need a radical change of direction. mrs. clinton offers nothing like that.
I think the person of the year should be "You, as long as you never appeared in the news ever"..it seemed like just about everybody in the news was screwing up, while the regular joes were doing pretty cool things.
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Jason 4:17PM (12/18/2006)
Hahaha... Chrysler got screwed!
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iQuack 4:25PM (12/18/2006)
That "YOU" for POTY shows that "TIME" just couldn't think of anyone sufficiently relevant this year.
I do praise "TIME" for not making Obama the POTY. Even a liberal rag like "TIME" was smart enough to realize that being a glib and pretty Democrat isn't enough to qualify.
Inasmuch as this is an AUTO blog not a political one, I should add that the new Chrysler Sebring would be a better looking car if it didn't have that dopey, "C" pillar that I suppose is painted to look like a small window that isn't there. It's almost as phony as Obama.
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JON C 5:35PM (12/18/2006)
Hillary is a warmonger...playing DIVIDE AND CONQUER with the AMERICAN PUBLIC to gain power.the level of rancor and lack of civility in the public forum was never as much until she and her husband took office.Her coalition of special interest anti-american hacks will gut this country of it's principles and make it everyman for himself.
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JON C 6:05PM (12/18/2006)
I gave up on TIME magazine when they put Jar-Jar Binks on their cover.
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ron 7:52PM (12/18/2006)
Stupid
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iQuack 8:14PM (12/18/2006)
That was Jar-Jar Binks on "TIME's" cover?
I thought it was Hillary!
http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html
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Mr_Oak 8:23PM (12/18/2006)
9. Hillary is a warmonger...playing DIVIDE AND CONQUER with the AMERICAN PUBLIC to gain power.the level of rancor and lack of civility in the public forum was never as much until she and her husband took office.Her coalition of special interest anti-american hacks will gut this country of it's principles and make it everyman for himself.
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You have obviously been asleep for the last 6+ years. What you just described there is the present administration to the letter.
The irony of you assuming that what she will do, now we all know that's exactly what your current president did. That plus bankrupt the country, fail at endeavour, fatten the pockets of his friends, and left our military readiness in a precarious position.
Anyway, she will be your next president, and she'll end up having to clean up the shit storm left by current administration.
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JON C 8:41PM (12/18/2006)
The person of the year,easyThe Islamic terrorist...For his skill at playing the liberal american media and winning the war on terrorism without firing a shot.
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iQuack 8:51PM (12/18/2006)
Per Mr_Oak: "Anyway, she will be your next president, and she'll end up having to clean up the shit storm left by current administration."
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Uh, huh! Just like Bush is currently trying to clean up the mess left by Hillary's husband's inaction.
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V 12:20AM (12/19/2006)
We should start a section here about cars. ;)
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Andy 12:23AM (12/19/2006)
The Car of the Year: the mighty Sebring.
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Eleventeen 8:34AM (12/19/2006)
I agree with V...cars are cool. We should talk about them instead.
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JON C 1:04PM (12/19/2006)
#18 .Good point.I'm suprised at how nice the Chrysler Sebring is in the flesh.I saw one on the road 2 nights ago.not my kind of car ,but definitly not worth the scorn it got in autoblog(from myself included).Pictures of the dash I've seen are very up to the moment,design wise.Worth a second look.
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