Angela Merkel is TIME's Person of the Year for 2015

kettlehead

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named TIME's Person of the Year.

TIME Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs revealed that the woman who courted controversy in 2015 by opening her nation's border to hundreds of thousands of refugees and managed Europe's debt crisis as the choice in a TODAY exclusive Wednesday morning.

http://www.today.com/news/times-person-year-2015-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-t60481

The reasons why TIME gave it to her - http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-angela-merkel-choice/?xid=homepage

It's certainly been a very eventful, controversial and influential year for Merkel. She deserves the award on that basis.

Jesus Wept

I won it in '06

biko

Me too, in 2006

etoughguy

Mind you Hitler once won it also

smash

kettlehead wrote: »

It's certainly been a very eventful, controversial and influential year for Merkel. She deserves the award on that basis.

I've also had an eventful, controversial and influential year. Where's my award?

Shenshen

Considering that the short-list included people like "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic terrorist group known as ISIS; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump; (...) and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani", I'm not sure how much of a compliment that actually is.

Hammer89

etoughguy wrote: »

Mind you Hitler once won it also

That was Moustache of the Year, and the other nominees dropped out.

etoughguy

Hammer89 wrote: »

That was Moustache of the Year, and the other nominees dropped out.

I think its why Movember lost its appeal too

PopePalpatine

Hammer89 wrote: »

That was Moustache of the Year, and the other nominees dropped out.

I guess Stalin thought that prize was a load of bourgeois bullshit. :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Shenshen wrote: »

Considering that the short-list included people like "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic terrorist group known as ISIS; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump; (...) and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani", I'm not sure how much of a compliment that actually is.

The criterion is "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill". It's not meant to be a compliment.

kettlehead

Je suis Mario wrote: »

I won it in '06

It was well deserved!

2014 it was Ebola fighters
2011 it was The Protester
2006 it was You
1982 it was The computer
1975 it was American women
1969 it was The Middle Americans
1966 it was The Inheritor (those under 25)
1956 it was The Hungarian freedom fighter

Menas

Isis only came in second. That will piss them off. But at least they were ahead of The Don.

jamesbere

I taught Kim kardashboard would win it

Nodin

jamesbere wrote: »

I taught Kim kardashboard would win it

She would have, only the vote for her split between her and just her ass.

Corpus Twisty

jamesbere wrote: »

I taught Kim kardashboard would win it

Did you though?

If by "Person of the Year" they mean person who got on yer wick the most, sure she was shoo-in. Merkel I mean, Not Ms Dashboard.

namloc1980

PopePalpatine wrote: »

I guess Stalin thought that prize was a load of bourgeois bullshit. :pac:

Stalin won it twice! STALIN!

Anyway fair play to Angela, she's the 4th German Chancellor to win it starting with Adolf Hitler in 1938.

MRnotlob606

I would rupture her anus in a celebratory manner, then parade down a small Mexican town on a donkey's back.

kettlehead

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

I would rupture her anus in a celebratory manner, then parade down a small Mexican town on a donkey's back.

:eek:

inforfun

Considering the main man of ISIS was also on the short list, she was in good company.