So, did you receive your “Congrats” tweet from Time yet? If not, you likely haven’t been nominated for the magazine’s “Person of the Year” award. (At least you can console yourself with that award “You” won back in 2006 along with everyone else.)
Time’s novel way of publicizing its shortlist this year was to spam the honorees with congratulatory tweets, and there were quite a few. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Bill Clinton each got a nod, as well as Olympians Mo Farah, Gabby Douglas and Michael Phelps. Also on the list are “Gangnam Style” rapper Psy, the Mars Curiosity Rover and, in a truly curious development, Sandra Fluke.
In a just society, @SandraFluke would be the subject of universal mockery. In Obama's America, she's a nominee for person of the year.
— big tuna (@keder) November 26, 2012
https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/273187117943906304
https://twitter.com/RikkiWilliamsXO/status/273184177610948608
https://twitter.com/RikkiWilliamsXO/status/273186791207600129
What? Sandra Fluke has done a lot more than just beg for free birth control. And if she wins the award, perhaps we’ll break down and buy an issue of Time to find out just what that thing was.
http://twitter.com/mbabrahamjddo/statuses/273191321961910272
If @SandraFluke becomes @TIME's #POY2012 then I will no longer peruse it while passing time in waiting rooms #credibility
— keith tucker ن (@a_typicalXian) November 26, 2012
@Time has jumped the shark: Sandra Fluke nominated for Person of the Year. If she wins, then America has nuked the fridge.
— LarryD (@AoftheA) November 26, 2012
Media as prop arm of Planned Parenthood RT @TIME: @SandraFluke Congrats! You've been chosen as a candidate on @TIME's #POY2012 poll.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 26, 2012
the Mayans were right! // RT @TIME: @SandraFluke Congrats! You've been chosen as a candidate on @TIME's #POY2012 poll.
— Jon D Wilke (@jon_wilke) November 26, 2012
http://twitter.com/Roscoe09/statuses/273195136417148928
https://twitter.com/OrwellForce/status/273192982549774338
Well, Obama did give her a phone, and he does have a Nobel lying around somewhere.