Time hates communists, loves you

So as you have all heard by now, either because you have seen the actual magazine or because you've read the 9000 blogs that made fun of it, Time magazine chose "you" as its person of the year. Well, apparently, "you" were not the winner of the online poll. It was Hugo Chavez, leftist Venezuelan leader, seen above on the right pictured next to another U.S. favorite. While I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that because of this post my blog will be added to the CIA's favorites list, and not because they like my witty insights into modern media and early 90s tv show updates, I thought it was important you knew about this. The Time poll is still up and you can see it here, but to summarize Hugo Chavez got something like 35% of the votes, which was significantly more than anyone else, including - well-- you. So anyway I guess Time decided to just go ahead and ignore public opinion and pick "you" although "you" did nothing but sit on your fat ass, eat Pringles and look at pictures of various exposed celeb private parts all year while Hugo Chavez went about slowly transforming South and Latin America into a seething pot of anti-American, labor union-loving anger. Yeah you just continue spending 3 hours a day selecting your Myspace background pics, Chavez will be busy picking a red scarf to match his hat, but I guess Time couldn't care less because it's what "you" do that really matters.