Time Magazine Names Bernanke 'Person of the Year'

[LSRochon]

I've cancelled my tv ...and any mag subscriptions to start as  aprotest to corporatism.

[Riddlerx333x]

never reading that magazine AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yamahamod]

+1 if Bernanke needs to be fierd?

[treid100182]

Article is disgustingly slanted...

...a complete failure in journalism.

[GoldenBoughTrader]

@treid100182

Look at the ratings. 100% negative. I read that it crosses all demographic lines, race, political party, income, you name it. People are fucking pissed.

[lawtek711]

this is bull-Sh_t! Bernake was partly responsible for the economy's calapse! this is complete garbage! plus, to say the US is still dominating - who are you kidding? What's the dollar worth right now? This entire article is politically biased!

[drauglintuor]

Hey TIME: Way to blow off both of your fucking knee caps with this little stunt. I hope whatever amount of cash you got for this was worth your publications image sinking into the toilet, you greedy fucks.

[kissthecornhole]

Time Magazine is nothing more than glorified toilet paper anyway so the next time your wiping your ass.........well you get it.

[trinomialtree]

3 cheers for Chairman Bernanke!! Thanks to his great policies, the American dollar together with worthless American people will soon be flushed into oblivion.

I will personally award 1 trillion US dollars to the Chairman after the hyperinflationary depression he is helping to create hits the US and its citizens right up the shorts.

[paladin74]

Thats right...Ben Bernanke now joins such distinguished Men of the Year like Adolf HItler (1938) and Joseph Stalin (1939 AND 1942).

[Orion1232]

paladin, yea most of these idiots think this is some kind of award or prize given to the best and brightest individual, when it's only a title given to someone who had the most influence in world affairs.

[lordoftheinternets]

Time Magazine is a joke.

[GoldenBoughTrader]

@lordoftheinternets

No. Jokes are funny.

[lordoftheinternets]

Naming Bernanke "Person of the Year" is pretty funny, in a sad sarcastic kind of way. It's like naming the content of a Chipotle restaurants septic tank the best gourmét soup in the world.

[StigmataBOB1]

Remember Jesus was born homeless. His Pregnant mother had to seek shelter in an animal stable.

[pinkcheesegreengh0st]

Bernie Madoff

would have been a better

Man of the Year!

Is this for real?

[1ruskie101]

Nice partisan hack job. Time Magazine dumped all their journalist integrity in order to protect one of the main people at the center of the disaster. If anything, the story should have been about how could Ben Bernanke keep pushing an insane Fed Policy in the face of disaster. But no, Time Magazine decided to "praise" his leadership.

The Fed needs to be opened up and audited. This secrecy has to end.

[cocobear33]

THE USA MILITARY should have won hands down , they do more thyan any of these fools ,

[phibes2]

Can anyone say "Media Corruption."

[SmokePropaganda]

Indeed its a media whitewash. Time is bowing down to their masters in the FED who are running scared over Ron Paul's want to audit them.

This is nothing more than the typical "covering of the asses" These banksters know theyre in hot water with the American people, so they are trying to pull out ALL the stops to keep the FED secret and keep people from knowing what does on.

The fed is scared that their crimes have finally come to light to bite them in the ass.

End the FED

[njedinjedi]

Time Magazine: fuck you!

[4teepee]

George W. Bush appointed Bernanke to shill for Wall Street capitalists.

[jumar1281]

AND OBAMA KEPT HIM THERE

[4teepee]

Yep. The capitalists win regardless of the political party.

[Freethought42]

How does capitalism win when both parties support redistribution of wealth?

Bush redistributed wealth by government force to the bankers. He used govt. force to redistribute wealth to the Military industrial complex. He subsidized, and gave legal immunity to AT&T to wiretap millions of phones.

Learn what Capitalism is before you spread misinformation about it.

[4teepee]

Learn what capitalists are.

As for what capitalism is, it is a system under which most people sell their labor to a minority that privately owns the means of production.

[Freethought42]

No need to preach Marxist idealogy to me, I've heard these tired arguments before.

The fact is, under laissez-faire capitalism, the Federal Reserve's monopoly on creation of credit can not exist. If it does, then it's simply not a Laissez-Faire system.

Funny thing is, a Central Bank with a monopoly on credit is the fifth basic tenet of Marxism.

[4teepee]

Oh, but you needed to be informed as to what capitalism is.

[4teepee]

This is a case of Time Incorporated trying to prop up a ruling class representative: the incompetent Ben Bernanke, who was out to lunch as the financial crisis was developing.

[killgreed]

Obama Nobel, Bernanke time person of the year! You should be in FUCKING PRISON!!! Both of them!

[Philhelm]

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

[FearISaWMD]

what a joke, this proves we should't watch mainstream media!

[wallstjim]

We want to believe that Ben Bernanke is a hero and he saved us all. Though this is exactly what they thought after the 1929 crash ... that things are improving and we are back on track. Don't be fooled by the hype ... they have an incentive to want you to believe in the recovery ... save your money and look out for yourself ... the government will not be able to take care of you forever.

[dazed80s]

Fuck Ben Bernanke you asshole his policies for devaluing the dollar is what almost took us into a worldwide depression.

Runner-ups were Nancy "Socialist Whore" Pelosi and the chinese communist workers. Time magazine is an Anti-American pro-communist piece of shit rag.

[Griz806]

Sure, a magazine owned by the elite giving an award to another undeserving minion. Reminds me of the Noble Peace Prize ...

[Narniak69]

I, for one, welcome our demon pig overlords, and pledge my undying allegiance to their plans for global enslavement of all mankind.

ALL HAIL BEN SHALOM BERNANKE!!!!!

[harvey101107]

worst person of the decade more like it

[roibasses]

If these idiots think he actually calls the shots - they really should resign. They can fire all the Fed Chairs they want. They're just front men.

[bakeryofideas]

Is this a joke?

[JCJ77]

Stalin and Hitler made the cut too.

[ComradePatriot]

HE SHOULD BE HANGED

[dikinallholes]

Guess this is what a weekend of rubbing wienies at Bohemian Grove with your buddies gets you.

[camathes]

dump asses at time suck

[pellar1]

when i heard about this all i did was LMAO because its such a joke

they named one of lucifers henchmen as person of the year

they probably own time too

[zappos49]

FUCK YOU TIME MAGAZINE!!!!

[boneyfreak2004]

What do you expect from elitist so called journalists....just sychophants. And they probably wonder why their circulation is down so much....."it's the internet..."....no dummies....it's your writing.

[kissthecornhole]

It would be super funny if it wasn't so strikingly sad.

Americans are great folks at heart and it's so very sad seeing these clownsters fleecing them over and over again.

[trucking42witness]

Don't you understand they are doing this to make us so angry we have a Revolt and they lock us up!

[wsmith1213]

I didn't realize the people over at time magazine had this much of a sense of humor, either that or they're all really drunk

[BertGriffin88]

Bernanke is a criminal mas

You Tube Censored

[electric789]

i hate that asshole.

[midasman68]

this is as bad as the peace prize going to someone who has done nothing,also as bad as sports illustrated making cassius clay a draft dodger athlete of the millinium

[Joseluissamaniego]

what a hell it's going on. and who the hell vote is the same like the peace nobel to oabama.. who vote. i have an idea.. david rockefeller and rothschild and satan. o ok. i see now..

[bengalboi77]

haha ur hit the nail right on the head Jose.even Obama himself said that he didnt deserve the award, but once again they need to puff up these world leaders to carry out their agenda. Henry Kissenger himself said and im just paraphrasing...that they have been priming Obama for a long time to lead the world into The New World Order.

[SamuraiCommando]

Bernanke needs to be on the cover of America's Most Wanted list. Next thing Nancy pelosi will be on the cover of Playboy....

[bengalboi77]

i agree with samurai's staement about Bernanke, but the latter part of his comment....could u imagine? eww

[SamuraiCommando]

USE YOUR IMAGINATION AT YOUR OWN RISK!

I accept no legal responsibility to my posting.

I apologize for any medical issues you may have due to my post

[wsmith1213]

i just threw up a little after reading that, thanks for ruining my dinner

[skintightpotato]

"This is not a democracy" he says about Time magazine...

What a coincidence...neither is our country. We are now a corporatist country, run by the likes of Bernanke, Goldman Sachs, et al.

[bengalboi77]

yeah he did have the greatest impact... on our economy that is.the guy couldnt answer to congress where trillions of our dollars went. very true about hitler. i think he did grace the cover as well. i can see where people would get confused on why he would b on the cover. i agree with miss griffen though bernanke and the whole clan from the Fed should b locked up for their crooked new world order schemes. its an elitest magizine and they gave him the award to help his re-election.

[Orion1232]

bengalboi: It's not an award...

People need to educate themselves before they start making assumptions. I remember this same controversy at the end of 2001. They wanted to put Osama Bin Laden on the cover. I asked the same thing. "Why would they award abama this prize". Well, I did research (8 fucking years ago) on my own and found out that, oh, this isn't an award. See, now I am not so dumb, and don't just jump to stupid conclusions about things I don't know about.

[bengalboi77]

i apologize orion, i didnt mean to stick the word "award" at the end of my comment. u r right that it isnt an award...obviously. i mean would u give an award to a madman who was responsible for killing millions of people (hitler) missgriffin, orion is right. it isnt an award. but miss griffin is right as i stated earlier that he and the rest of the Fed reserve workers should b locked up for stealing trillions of the tax payer dollars and cant give an account to where it went.

[midasman68]

you got to be fuckin me ,he has done nothing,but make the usa worse

[dlucas90]

One who uses language to destroy communication is called a liar.

One who uses money in order to destroy value is called a banker!

Bernanke is an expert on the "great depression", in the same way that Charles Manson is an expert on murder. Anyone think Manson should be put in charge of a murder investigation?

Banks make the most money of any business, yet, produce nothing but debt! Does anyone else find that strange?

[missgriffin77]

Times "Man of the Year" is as much of a joke as the Nobel Peace Prize has become....disgusting.

[Orion1232]

missgriffin77: Hey idiots, everyone listen up. "Time Magazine's" "Person of the Year" has NOTHING to do with who is popular or who they think is a great individual. It's simply someone who had great impact on politics, the world, etc... It has NOTHING to do with who they think is a great person or who did the best things that year. I repeat, it's simply who had the MOST impact in the world. That's why hitler was on the cover as well.

[missgriffin77]

@Orion~~You don't need to be such a prick to get your point across!~~I am well aware of the supposed "reasons" for who they choose!~~Bernanke should be tossed out on the street with the whole lot of crooks instead of on the cover of a magazine plastered with the title "man of the year". Regardless of how they choose em....it is still considered an "honor". ~~idiot!

[Orion1232]

missgriffin: The distinction of this being an "honor" is a perpetuated myth by fools like yourself who don't understand what time magazine's "Man of the Year" award is. It's not praise, or honor. It's just who had the most influence on world affairs that year. That's it. Not who was the best guy, or who did the best things. That's why hitler and the ayatolla of Iran were both on the cover as well. Bin laden was supposed to be on the cover too, but whiners like yourself had it changed.

[phibes2]

Orion, the problem is The Time's article does praise him for saving our nation and the world from a depression. While most American's believe it was his policy's that helped contribute to the crisis in the fist place. And to heap such praise on someone with such a high profile article when they're about to appear in front of a Senate Committee stinks of media corruption.

By the way, I could be rude to you like you were to everyone else but then that would be wrong.

[Orion1232]

phibes: dude, the whole bailout bullshit has all wall street labeling it as a success. I hate bernanke, but this isn't an "award". It's just a distinction. EVERYONE, not just Time has to say that the bail out of the banks staved off a recession, otherwise, people would know they are full of shit. In fact, people already know that the media is full of shit when they talk about the bailout saving us. But for them to admit this would be suicide. Time was just saying what everyone else is saying.

[bengalboi77]

yeah Phibes it seems it would b an honor to grace a high profile magazine such as Time. i can see where the confusion would come in this matter. i sure Bernanke sees this as an honor obviously, but as we all know the Federal Reserve is not a Federal Reserve if that makes sense. its not ran by the government. its ran by a group of elitest that control the government. they put that word "Federal" to pull the wool over our eyes. thanks to informists like Alex Jones, and Coast to Coast AM informg us

[huefirm]

The person who holds the Fed chair is either corrupt or incompetent, neither of which is very appetizing,

[carlfinkle]

Quote

"My concern about the legislation is that if the GAO is auditing not only the operational aspects of our programs and details of the programs but is making is making judgments about our policy's decisions. That would effectively be a take over of monetary policy by the congress a repudiation of the independence of the Federal reserve which would be highly destructive to the stability of the financial system the dollar and ah our national economic situation."

Highly destructive ?

[2LeBronJordan3]

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[linwooddeaton]

Jan 2,1939 Hitler was named man of the year by TIME. Any other questions?. lol

They ought to put Gore on trial for the biggest scam in history.

[returnfire1682]

Next, lets give Wall Street a humanitarian award.

AP and Time, Fuck you both to Hell. :)

[baalyezidi]

LOL is Hitler next?

this guy brought you the fucking depression yet hes time of the year?? loooooooool

the fed is going to die next year... thats for sure.. aliens have said it

[rorrimruoY]

How much more proof do you all need that the fix is in and has been in for a LONG time. Now you see more and more of the players and TIME magazine IS one of the players. Please people, wake up and take your country back because if you don't unite and rise up, you are going to suffer consequences beyond belief and you will have no one to blame but yourselves for not doing something. I don't mean writing your representative, I mean rising up and going to their door step and kick them out.

[rushin2]

That's exactly what they want - a civil unrest.

What happened to Civil Disobedience?

ANd this circus on Bernanke being a "man of the hour."

A chosen Elite. By the Elite. For the Elite...

...welcome to the world of 'isms...

[rorrimruoY]

Civil Disobedience is needed as well. These people are using every tool available to them against not only the U.S. citizens but against the world. United we can and we will get through this. We will take this country back I assure you.

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

[dlucas90]

Who's runners up, Bin Laden?

[olyproco]

BOYCOTT Time magazine! You can find just as worthy, if not better candidates, in Teen Beat magazine. Ridiculous!

[hollyhoodjoe123]

First, Obama (while escalating a war) wins a Nobel Peace Prize. Now, Bernanke (while contributing to the financial collapse of the world) wins Person of the Year.

Whats next? Tiger Woods win Husband of the Year? *zing*

[SmokePropaganda]

Warmonger and murderer Henry Kissinger also received the nobel piece prize before.

Ben Bernanke should be nominated for Crook of the Century. The entire Federal Reserve needs to be abolished and everyone involved in it needs to be thrown in prison on charges of Treason and Financial Terrorism.

The Fed has been ripping us off since 1913.

Its time we took our country back from the Money Changers. These people are decendants from the same Money Changers Jesus threw from the temple.

[esgatch]

LOL, Excellent point! That's the bizarre mindset of the corporate media.

Great joke for Leno... :)

[turtleblues66]

WTF??????

[MyImago]

Bernanke should be in jail.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt. Henry Ford

[max1media]

We know now that Time Magazine & AP are globalist propaganda tools!

[dazed80s]

Ben Bernake deserves to go to prison along with Tim Geithner and the rest of his cronies. We're not buying into your bullshit anymore Time magazine.

[SocialistDemokrat]

This is starting to stink of massive corruption within the democratic party, the White House and the left-wing press. Time magazine must be on the verge of collapse for them to name Ben Bernanke person of the year.

The economic crisis could not have happened without Bernanke's help. Either he deliberately looked the other way or he's totally incompetent. Either way, Time magazine has become a mouth piece for the far-left and abandoned their journalistic integrity.

[dobehi]

never read another time magazine again. this is a complete sham.

[baboonsquadron]

Ap suck

[brendandugan]

This makes as much sense as Obama winning the Nobel Prize. How do people not see something shady going on with all of this? hmmmm...

[IwishIwasnot]

what a sick joke!

[emilyek1]

Ben Bernanke: Time Magazine's Jew of the Year.

He did more for his fellow criminal Jews than any other Jew.

It ain't Democrats people: It's Jews.

[moonphibes]

What the? Ben Bernanke bears much of the blame for America's economic collapse. He was in the drivers seat and should have seen the financial crisis miles before the collapse. He had a substantial regulatory obligation to curb the deceptive subprime loans and did nothing.

The only reason why Time magazine would make such a statement would be to help their fellow democrats politically. It's like they're trying to rewrite history and gloss over the events of the past several years.

[watersoluble1]

true bullshit

[WEREFEAT]

Jews praising Jews for the benefit of everyone else who doesn't know or see them.

[soetebeer]

He is a criminal!! Support HR1207 and audit their buts and get rid of them!

[charliebaird13]

What a load of bullshit

[EvenMaxx]

He deserves trial and sentencing...

[esgatch]

Typical radical media!

It's a laughable insult that Time magazine praises a man who flaunts it in the face of Congress that he doesn't have to answer to the American people or the U.S Constitution.

Wake up, Amercia!

[Orion1232]

esgatch: They aren't praising him, idiot. This is not an award. It's simply who had the most influence and impact on world affairs. God you people are fucking dumb. No wonder this country (USA) is so fucking stupid. Most of the people don't read, research, or learn to think for themselves.

[SocialistDemokrat]

Orion, you should read the article before commenting. It looks like you're the only one who didn't.

The people you're criticizing understand all too well the recession was the story of the year and Ben Bernanke was right in the middle of it. But the Time article praises Bernanke and credits him with saving the country from certain doom. This will probably help Bernanke with his confirmation with the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is due to vote on his nomination on Thursday.

[Orion1232]

Socialstdemokrat: Obama praises him, too. What's your point? This still isn't an award. Hitler did a lot of great economic things for germany after the fall of the weinmer republic. But, whether or not we like bernake, he was by all definition, "person of the year". Especially if you go by what time magazine's quota for it is. This isn't a distinction that goes to just people who did good things in world affairs with their influence, just people who had the MOST influence.

[SocialistDemokrat]

Your sure heaped an awful lot of BS on the other posters here and you don't give a damn.

[Orion1232]

socialist: because people are idiots and often have kneejerk reactions to nothing they know about. In this case, it's the same perpetuated myth that time magazines "person of the year" is some honorary title, when in fact it's simply a distinction of the individual. Just read about the history of "person of the year". I reacted the same way when they were going to put Bin Laden on the cover, but it was changed because of outcry, even though they said it wasn't a prize or award.

[SocialistDemokrat]

Orion, I read the story. Time magazine is heaping praise upon Ben Bernanke, something they normally didn't do in the past. They are crediting him with saving the U.S., and the world for that fact, from global fiscal disaster. Instead of presenting the story thru a journalistic approach, Time decided to influence public policy and help Bernanke win confirmation in the Senate Banking Committee.

No one would be saying anything if Time Magazine wasn't pumping the story with a slant.

[Orion1232]

Socialistdemokrat: I call bullshit. If what you say were true, and this title is given to people they only seek to praise, than why were they gonna give Bin Laden man of the year back in 2001? Regardless of whether the story was being pumped with a slant, people think this is an honorary award. Most people haven't even read the article, and are only having a kneejerk reaction to the title of "person of the year". Why would people cry about Bin Laden being on it?

[SocialistDemokrat]

Orion, I don't think you understand the article and the subject matter. Time magazine didn't praise Bin Laden and try to sway public opinion in his favor. But they are with the Ben Bernanke story.

Instead of simply reporting on the events in a journalistic manner, they decided to heap praise and credit him for pretty much single-handedly saving the global economy from a depression.

The timing of Times announcement while the Senate is debating his reappointment and auditing the Fed is uncanny.

[themarycity]

Why not the American people? Of course they couldn't do that. God forbid!!

[iwillspyonyou]

Crook of the Year !

[JPK7777777]

I vote him bankruptcy agent of the decade!

Please, see my page under comments section for newly published expose.

We finally have proof. Documents do not lie.

See my comments section and connect the CAIR dots.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

[RedPhroggz]

Fair enough, it's Time's title and therefore their choice whom they pick. Whether or not Bernanke's influence has been good or bad, he's been influential nonetheless.