View original posta) It's the Guardian...
They chose the candidates, yeah. There were only 2000 votes cast, in any case, and all by Guardian readers. For such a tiny thing, this seems to have generated a lot of publicity.
View original postb) They have their tongue so far up the guys ass they can pick peanuts out his teeth;
Lovely image.
View original postc) I would say he was probably the most despicable person of the year. But then, he's the Guardians person of the year, I'd expect nothing else.
OK.
View original postAlso, Peyton won man of the year 2012? I mean he did well coming back from injury, but that's a bit much, surely Wiggins would have been a better choice.
Bradley Manning. Or Chelsea, if you prefer. The year before that, it was some leader of Chilean student protests.
Guardian person of the year
09/12/2013 02:52:49 PM
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Good choice. Snowden is a true patriot.
09/12/2013 03:13:15 PM
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You know....
09/12/2013 04:11:09 PM
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Agreed
09/12/2013 05:38:36 PM
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Why go to prison when you know you've done the right thing?
09/12/2013 06:25:46 PM
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To prove it was the right thing?
09/12/2013 07:12:34 PM
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Better to be free in Russia than rot in some American prison
09/12/2013 09:10:20 PM
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Better for who?
09/12/2013 09:51:09 PM
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Perhaps more in the eyes of the Americans?
09/12/2013 11:10:10 PM
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In this context American opinion is the important one, since it is US policy under discussion
09/12/2013 11:41:07 PM
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It would have been the right thing, and best for the anti-NSA movement
10/12/2013 02:07:49 AM
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He did kind of lose his credibility by running to Moscow.
09/12/2013 06:58:48 PM
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Running off to a police state to complain about a growing police state does harm credibility
09/12/2013 07:30:59 PM
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Screw that. He's not obligated to martyr himself.
11/12/2013 06:23:43 PM
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Of course he isn't. It's his own credibility and he can do what he likes with it. *NM*
11/12/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Snowden deserves a bullet in the head for his betrayal of the US.
10/12/2013 03:42:37 PM
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In another news: Is Edward Snowden The Hottest Whistleblower?
09/12/2013 09:15:34 PM
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But if he was sincerely hot, he would have come back to be on America's Next Top Model. *NM*
10/12/2013 02:33:02 AM
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It's the Guardian, so this isn't very surprising or conclusive
10/12/2013 02:15:56 AM
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