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Reader’s Choice for TIME Person of the Year: Not Fluke, but Flake Kim Jong Un (Open Thread)
© Miri WTPOTUS December 13, 2012
Well, the voters have spoken. Their choice for TIME Person of the Year? Not Sandra Fluke, but the Sexiest Man Alive–North Korea’s Kim Jong Un!
Voters lately seem to have developed a habit of selecting narcissistic, dictatorial communists. What the heck is going on?
As this isn’t a true democracy, however, an elite krewe of magazine czars will make the final choice:
Kim Jong Un is having a good year. After taking over the leadership of North Korea from his late father Kim Jong Il, at the end of 2011, he’s solidified his control over the country, appeared on TIME’s cover and he was even named ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’ (OK, that honor was actually bestowed as a spoof in the satirical newspaper, The Onion, but a Chinese news service mistook the Onion piece for real news and the story went global.)
Now, he’s gotten the most votes in TIME’s completely unscientific reader Person of the Year Poll with 5.6 million votes. Not bad for a man who didn’t make an official public appearance until 2010.
This doesn’t mean Kim is TIME’s Person of the Year. That choice is made by the editors of TIME and will be revealed Dec. 19 …
We should have encouraged our readers to vote for the Higgs boson.
Open thread!
2013-01-06 16:49:48
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