{"id":1501,"date":"2005-01-04T08:20:31","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/on-the-%e2%80%9cperson-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-issue\/"},"modified":"2005-01-04T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T15:20:31","slug":"on-the-%e2%80%9cperson-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/on-the-%e2%80%9cperson-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"On the \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nypress.com\/17\/52\/news&amp;columns\/taibbi.jpg\" alt=\"person of the year\"\/><a title=\"New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion\" href=\"http:\/\/nypress.com\/17\/52\/news&amp;columns\/taibbi.cfm\">New York Press<\/a><br \/>\nPRAVDA, IZVESTIA, TIME<br \/>\nOn the \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d issue.<br \/>\nBy Matt Taibbi <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; issue has always been a symphonic tribute to the heroic possibilities of pompous sycophancy, but the pomposity of this year&#8217;s issue bests by a factor of at least two or three the pomposity of any previous issue. From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline &#8220;An American Revolutionary&#8221; was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the &#8220;Why We Fight&#8221; black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. One even senses that this avalanche of overwrought power worship is inspired by the very fact of George Bush&#8217;s being such an obviously unworthy receptacle for such attentions. From beginning to end, the magazine behaves like a man who knocks himself out making an extravagant six-course candlelit dinner for a blow-up doll, in an effort to convince himself he&#8217;s really in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Press PRAVDA, IZVESTIA, TIME On the \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d issue. By Matt Taibbi The &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; issue has always been a symphonic tribute to the heroic possibilities of pompous sycophancy, but the pomposity of this year&#8217;s issue bests by a factor of at least two or three the pomposity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/on-the-%e2%80%9cperson-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d issue.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}