time magazine has named Pope Francis as
the person I love the year and of course
this has been a very controversial
decision but that's a magazine's usually
do they like to name a controversial
figure
as the person the year so people like us
we'll talk about it now I'm
there was an article written about this
decision by Nancy Gibbs and the article
was terrible it was the hardest thing to
read
well we can have an argument about
whether or not hope Francis should be
named the person of the year
but the way that she wrote about him
made him seem as though he is the single
most important person in the universe
okay so just to give you a little taste
of what she wrote Nancy rights
it is not once in office he is placed
himself at the very center
the central conversations about time
about wealth and poverty
fairness and justice transparency
maternity globalization
the role of women at the nature of
marriage the temptation to power so that
partner for peace is actually one
hundred percent accurate right and I
think she makes a good justification
there
although the writing again it's little
questionable that he's put themselves at
the centre central question yeah I
noticed that
okay yeah as he also put himself in the
middle 0 for questions the middle
okay anyway yes well then she continues
she says a
Vatican bureaucrats and clergy stand
accused of it infighting
grab blackmail ended up session with
small-minded rules as francis puts it
rather than the vast possibilities of
grace don't just preach
listen he says don't school he'll mmm
okay look I like the guy
so I'm not hating honor me likey
it's cute but the problem is it's like
when someone is popular in the press
they get these articles written about
them bike in this case I
almost like their days right exactly the
case so I I know we're not giving you
guys the best examples you have to read
article in its entirety and you
understand what you're saying
but just one more slippage and companies
have to read this part she also writes
out when he kisses the face a bit
disfigured man washes the feet of a
Muslim woman
the image resonates far beyond
boundaries of the Catholic Church
so look it's all true but like the
entire thing makes it seem as though God
is walking on earth
yeah you know it may have seen my keys
themself exact it look like the pope a
lot but
but unfortunately press those assault
far too often
and where to get the criticism over over
their selection in a second here
well but if somebody is you know
doing in there my son because they're
the greatest thanks remember I Larry
Summers robert rubin
a and alan greenspan they were committee
save the world
like when there was economic trouble
1980s I believe it was time again that
put through them
on the cover the committee is saying the
world
and all these and then glowing articles
about
you know whether it's Tim Geitner or the
former treasury is church
sector either bush Hank Paulson the
Masters of the Universe
and always like the CEOs are great the
politicians are great
religious leaders are great but if the
challenges that was spent
well you're crazy you're dangerous if
you go back and read the newsweek
articles Palace have a sweet I'm and I
like news we live in some respects but
go back and read the articles about
Howard Dean
and General Wesley Clark in 2004
they were more outside candidates
outsider candidates in
you know for there are viewed as a
little bit more dangerously
establishment
so Howard Dean you know it was
considered more progressive
and general clerk was an independent
figure and who's going to do whatever he
thought was right
I mean that hatchet job on general clark
was own believable
so they go to these extremes now in this
case
Pope Francis does to serve those things
and watching you know the feeling a
Muslim woman is a powerful
it is simple companies and he's got rid
of the mercedes in
you know now is to try to Ford Focus he
lives in a smaller house
he doesn't wear the red shoes he doesn't
work like golden crosses
wears an Iron Cross we like the guy and
it's a worthy selection
in another year okay yeah and and I
think that he is an excellent candy from
an earlier
but it's gotta be snowed yes okay so let
me tell you who the
runners-up were Bashar Assad was
considered I of course because he's made
so much news considering the chemical
weapons
I love snow 10 abused Windsor if Windsor
was the one who brought the
DOMA case to the Supreme Court and of
course as you guys know
the Supreme Court eventually ruled that
DOMA was unconstitutional Defense of
Marriage Act
and then also Ted Cruz now these are all
figures that made a lot of news this
year but you're absolutely right thank
I mean you you read about the way they
were right about Pope Francis
and you'll realize that it's just it's a
safe choice
you know it's not someone that has ever
challenge the establishment
and they're uncomfortable with people
like snowed in saluted names known in
up for a person in the year which
doesn't make any sense to me because it
anyone had any influence in the news and
also in american politics
it definitely snowed in so now to look
the pope is the establishment he's the
poll right but he's bringing
catholicism not on the rules is not
changing the rules to keep that in mind
right
but in at least imagery and symbolism
and some other things that he's doing
a little further to the progressive side
more than her as a populist
actually care about human beings I know
it sounds crazy right
so that's a wonderful thing but it's not
it's still a very safe choice
you not gonna go wrong way people are
gonna be outrage that you picked up old
as man of the year now you could pick
someone who's a bad figure of course
heather was man of the year as well
thats why its side is an interesting
candidate
for the thing but in terms of what
affected the news the most
it's a no brainer continues to affect
the news the most every day there's a
new article about the SAT's
every world leaders reacting to the
spying in regards the NSA
it's changed roles perceptions
everything
to emit when they look back in history
is so what happen this year
I mean the pope is going to be a big
story what's known
is a giant story I mean its its the
story about a whistleblower
who made us realize that our democratic
process is being
put in jeopardy we just heard about 160
the top riders in the world including
Nobel laureates write a letter for the
first time get together write a letter
say that it's a must stop doing what
it's doing is it's destroying
Liberty a gay that's because of stone
and
and on and on it goes so we're we're not
the only ones who
disagree with the selection yet Landry
wall disagreed and as usual he was
fairly colorful
in his that this agreement first before
they even put it out
he said if they don't fix bastogne they
would be the cowards at the decade
yes well I guess the power to the decade
because you know what happened
up but he did speak to Talking Points
Memo any told them the following
it's a meeting was awarded from a
meaningless magazine designed to achieve
the impossible to make time relevant
an interesting for a few fleeting
moments damn
nobody delivers an elbow like agree what
he continues though
I don't begrudge the choice above Pope
Francis sum up his
pronouncements are impressive with the
potential to achieve real change
but then he continues snoring is clearly
by far the person who has influence this
year's news events
if it were a serious magazine with
minimally brave editors then of course
known would have been chosen
but I never expected him to be precisely
because that's not what I'm
is but you see it looks ok when can be
very harsh in his harsh there
I like it but nobody is right all you
need it was just a little bit a bravery
cuz you know stones the right choice
right
but they're worried like are cool down
well and
he everything should be arrested Ami's
really
this DC doesn't like him at all he's in
hiding in asylum in Russia
who hats and GE me just couldn't bring
themselves to be that edgy
let you don't mind being edgy in like
things that are can actually get you in
trouble
be controversies when they put the bat
picture chris Christie up
yeah right yep so and at this that mess
other right-wing or left-wing
make right it's just that they're scared
and the like and you know they had the
meeting they discussed it in a dad and
his got a little scared to like
well relief the pope that's true yeah
and then you something you might be
wondering what why is this even relevant
who cares if time magazine one magazine
decides that the Pope is a prisoner via
it's more symbolic than anything else
because I think it's pretty
representative what you see in the
mainstream press right
whenever the Edward snowden story bro it
wasn't really a conversation about the
information that he gave us it was more
conversation about
his character is he an American hero or
issue trader
right and they totally change the
narrative that entire story
so again it's more symbolic than
anything else I should make you question
the way the mainstream press coverage
certain things and they would had
trouble writing this kinda glowing piece
about it would stop me
and that's what they barely that's
that's what they do
