Time Magazine Promotes, We Surmise
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
The Time Magazine Man of the Year roadshow rolled into D.C. this morning at an ungodly hour despite the snow to get D.C. opinion leaders’ opinions on who Time should’ve chosen (since they’ve probably already decided) besides You, you narcissistic bastard. To help not decide, they invited Senator Sam Brownback, Representative Ellen Tauscher and Time Magazine employees Mark Halperin and Karen Tumulty. We don’t know why that group of people, really, but they fed us coffee and miniature pastries so that we couldn’t ask because our mouths were full.
The Time Magazine Man of the Year roadshow rolled into D.C. this morning at an ungodly hour despite the snow to get D.C. opinion leaders’ opinions on who Time should’ve chosen (since they’ve probably already decided) besides You, you narcissistic bastard. To help not decide, they invited Senator Sam Brownback, Representative Ellen Tauscher and Time Magazine employees Mark Halperin and Karen Tumulty. We don’t know why that group of people, really, but they fed us coffee and miniature pastries so that we couldn’t ask because our mouths were full.









Among the many things to be thankful for last week we counted a Thanksgiving Eve column by Lloyd Grove, and its coverage of an appearance by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. During an interview held by Norm Pearlstine, Scalia mocked schoolchildren (Whining “The Constitution is a living document” while rolling his eyes), taunted media elites (”You can dish it out, but you can’t take it.”) and defended the court’s decision to hear Bush v. Gore using what Al Kamen today called the “appearance-of-ridiculousness standard”:
Another missive from the humid hothouse of journalist-on-journalist love. This afternoon’s entertainment was a Q&A between the cosy duo of Time’s Matt Cooper and Time’s Jim Kelly. Kelly, Time’s editor, kicked things off with a recap of the past 28 months, from the Cooper’s “double super secret background” convo with Karl Rove (in which Rove mentioned, sans name, that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA) to Judith Miller’s aspen-turning move in yesterday’s New York Times. Summing up, Kelly turned to Cooper and asked: “So do you have any idea what the case is about?”