Of all the people Time could have chosen for its 'Person of the Year,' why Taylor Swift?



Time magazine isn’t known for making the best choices, especially when it comes to its annual “Person of the Year” issue.

This year is no different as the magazine has just crowned Taylor Swift with the title.

Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere believe Time could have chosen better, even though Swift has cemented herself as one of the most popular people in the world.

Stu notes that Swift has had “lots of impact on my football-watching every weekend,” but he’s not sure if entertainment was the most important thing that happened this year.

“There was multiple wars that broke out, you kinda had that. You had a lot of stuff going on that was of large impact,” he says.

Glenn believes any of the whistleblowers from this past year might be more deserving of the title. Whether they’re the “the Hunter Biden ones” or “the ones that pointed out that we were just targeting Catholics for no reason and calling them terrorists.”

However, Glenn and Stu don’t think anyone actually good would be given the honor this year. Not in times like these.

In fact, since it’s leftists choosing the winner, the role may be more likely to go to an anti-Semite than to someone who’s done anything honorable.

“I mean, you could put Rashida Tlaib. She’s been the queen of the anti-Semites,” Stu says, while Glenn notes that the presidents of Harvard and MIT also fit the bill.

The president of MIT was asked whether the calls for genocide of all the Jews on her campus violate the university's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment.

Dr. Sally Kornbluth answered that anti-Semitic targeting would be investigated if it were “pervasive and severe.”

“Now, I think anybody standing at a rally chanting ‘death’ or ‘genocide to all the Jews,’ I don’t know, I think that’s pretty severe,” Glenn says, shocked.


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Elon Musk fires back at Joy Reid amid Elizabeth Warren tax clash



Elon Musk and Joy Reid engaged in a war of words this week, which was ignited by an earlier feud between the Tesla CEO and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over the billionaire's taxes.

Warren sparked the quarrel by calling Musk a freeloader in response to the SpaceX founder being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year."

"Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else," Warren tweeted on Monday.

Musk fired back at Warren by telling her to "Stop projecting" and shared a link to a 2019 Fox News op-ed titled: "Elizabeth Warren is a fraud – Her lies about being Native American disqualify her from presidency, Senate."

The article highlights Warren's false claim for decades that she had a significant Native American heritage, when in reality, she is between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American.

The article spotlights, "Warren listed herself on the 'Minority Law Teacher' list as Native American in the faculty directory of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) from 1986 to 1995."

Musk also told Warren, "You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend’s angry Mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason."

He then replied, "Please don’t call the manager on me, Senator Karen."

The pejorative term "Karen" is slang for a middle-aged white woman who is angry, obnoxious, and entitled.

Musk contended, "And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year." He advised the senator, "Don’t spend it all at once … oh wait you did already."

Musk – the world's richest person with a net worth of $245 billion – will likely pay billions in taxes this year, according to estimates.

"The eccentric billionaire (and the world’s richest person) likely owes the federal government at least $8.3 billion for 2021," Forbes reports, adding, "Only the Internal Revenue Service knows who the largest taxpayer in American history is, though."

CNN speculates, "So his federal tax bill to date for 2021 stands at $7.6 billion, with a chance it could rise to nearly $10 billion or more by year's end."

CNBC reported last month, "Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces a tax bill of more than $15 billion in the coming months on stock options."

Reid joined the fray by rushing to the defense of the Democratic politician. She also accused Musk of "misappropriating black vernacular for misogynistic purposes" by using the popular insult "Karen."

"Elon wasn't happy, so he did what he always did, and stomped his little feet and insulted Senator Warren," Reid said on her MSNBC TV show. "Calling her an 'angry mom' and referring to her as 'Senator Karen.'"

"For so many reasons – being a freeloader – and a selfish and disrespectful one – and for misappropriating black vernacular for misogynistic purposes, Elon Musk is the absolute worst," the progressive host told her viewers before interviewing Warren on her show.

MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid, one of the dumbest people in media, argues Elon Musk culturally appropriated his Karen insult from black people. Really:pic.twitter.com/v8kXj16NMu
— Clay Travis (@Clay Travis) 1639674379

Not one to back down from controversy, Musk shot back at Reid – dubbing her "(Lack of) Joy Reid." The 50-year-old billionaire entrepreneur also said Reid is a "lobbyist for Sen. Karen," referencing the previous insult he launched toward Warren.

During her appearance on "The ReidOut," Warren continued to attack Musk over his taxes.

"The world’s richest freeloader evidently has a very thin skin," she told Reid. "But you know the part that makes me angry about this? It’s on behalf of every public school teacher, every waitress, every computer programmer, every street cleaner who actually paid taxes and that means they paid more than Elon Musk did in federal income taxes. And that’s just not right and it means the system is broken."

"But the days when these guys not only get to rake it all in but then rub everybody else’s nose in it while they head off in outer space and declare how they did this all on their own when they were subsidized by the federal government and subsidized by every waitress and public school teacher who paid their taxes," Warren continued. "This is wrong. And Elon Musk needs to eat a big dish of that."

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Joe Biden & Kamala Harris: The Worst People of the Year? | Ep 186

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Time’s Person of the Year: Joe Biden & Kamala Harris | 12/11/20

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Time Magazine Naming Joe Biden ‘Person Of The Year’ Makes Total Sense For Today’s Boot-licking Media

The more than 6,400-word profile is beaming with admiration for the man who one might think is saving the nation from collapse.

Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' nominees: Stacey Abrams, Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Fauci, Gretchen Whitmer, BLM activists



The list of nominees for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" award were announced on Wednesday, and the pool of contenders is predictably extremely left-leaning and has no shortage of Democratic politicians.

Despite issuing a directive forcing nursing homes in New York to accept coronavirus-positive patients, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a candidate for the "Person of the Year," according to Time. Thus far in the voting, there have been 35% of people who Cuomo is deserving of the accolade.

Fellow Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is also nominated, and there are 19%, who voted for her to win the award despite her exceedingly prohibitive COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Snatching up a 59% approval rating on the poll is Stacey Abrams, who lost her gubernatorial race in Georgia in 2018. There were no Republican governors on the list.

The only Republicans who were eligible to vote for were President Donald Trump, who was at 8%, Vice President Mike Pence at 3%, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) coming in at 2%.

Meanwhile, there were plenty of Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Kamala Harris (68%), Joe Biden (64%), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (38%), Sen. Bernie Sanders (23%), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (22%), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (17%).

There were 6% of people who said Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett should be Time's "Person of the Year," the same percentage as rapper Cardi B.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was the highest-rated individual with 81% of people voting for him to be the "2020 Person of the Year."

"How to Be An Antiracist" author Ibram X Kendi garnered 11%, and quarterback-turned-racial justice activist Colin Kaepernick snagged a 29% approval rating.

There were 61% of voters who believed that Black Lives Matter activists should win the honor. The World Health Organization was given 32% of a "Yes" vote.

Essential workers earned a whopping 81% for their contributions during the coronavirus pandemic, and firefighters came in at 54%.

Other non-political nominees include Pope Francis, NBA commissioner Adam Silver, tennis player Naomi Osaka, LeBron James, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Patrick Mahomes, Beyonce, Sacha Baron Cohen, Megan Markle, comedian Sarah Cooper, Mark Zuckerberg, singer Billie Eilish, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, and teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who won the award in 2019.

The final results will be announced by Dec. 10, after Time editors select a winner.

Time has been naming its "Person of the Year" since 1927, when aviation legend Charles Lindberg won the accolade.