http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Year
time magazine is indeed a joke.
but the thread seems to have moved quickly away from time magazine and the question of the "person of the year"---see the above link for infotainment on the award and the sorry history of pretending that the history of the united states overrides that of the rest of the world embedded therein---what it is (obviously) more about now is the evaluation of bushworld--which is more complex, and--not surprisingly--more heated.