Assange Man of the Year

**HermantheGerman** · 24-12-2010, 12:10 PM

Eat your heart out Biden...and the rest .

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by France's Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to co-operate with the whistleblowing website on its latest release of leaked documents. Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange, with 56 per cent backing him for the honour, compared to 22 per cent for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 6.9 per cent for American Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg. Time magazine la
st week named Zuckerberg its "Person of the Year".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10696303

Assange named Le Monde Man of the Year

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by French newspaper Le Monde.
The newspaper is one of five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents. The newspaper officially named Mr Assange in a weekly supplement magazine due out today.
Fifty-six per cent of voters on the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange, while jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo received 22 per cent.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg received just 6.9 per cent of the vote a week after Time magazine announced him as its "Person of the Year".
Meanwhile, Mr Assange says he and other individuals should not be held to the same standard of accountability as his website levels at governments and officials.
Mr Assange says transparency is for governments not individuals.
He made the comment in an interview published by a Brazilian newspaper when responding to press revelations about the sexual assault case against him in Sweden.
Mr Assange also accused Britain's Guardian newspaper of being manipulated and improperly publishing details of the case.
http://www.xxx.xxx.xx/news/stories/2...24/3100867.htm

**Davis Knowlton** · 24-12-2010, 12:19 PM

^Somehow, that just figures......

**HermantheGerman** · 24-12-2010, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^Somehow, that just figures......

You are right ! Public support World wide must be nice to have.

Keep up the good work Mr. Assange and God bless You !
(do I sound like Palin ?)

**Davis Knowlton** · 24-12-2010, 12:46 PM

^I don't know, Herman. I have forced myself to read some of these leaked cables, and fail to see much of any significance at all. For this guy, and the Facebook guy, to get some kind of 'recognition' just shows what a sad state of affairs the world is in.

**Norton** · 24-12-2010, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

do I sound like Palin ?

Tis the season for all sorts of Person of the Year" Awards. Never know who might win one.

This from Issues Forum:

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Zogby Poll: Palin Chosen as Person of the Year, George W. Bush Person of the Decade Swarms of lefties suffer mass head assplosions in 3..2..1..

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Former Vice-Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is the Person of the Year for 2010 according to a recent Zogby International survey. The poll, also names former President George W. Bush as the Person of the Decade (2000-2010). Palin garners a 21% response with President Barack Obama claiming 16% for person of the year, and Glenn Beck tied with Julian Assange with 13%. None of the other seven people listed (General David Petraeus, Mark Zukerberg, Hillary Clinton, Conan O’Brien, Steve Jobs, LeBron James, Robert Gates) in the survey pull in more than 6%. Democrats mostly choose President Obama (33%) and Assange (19%), while Republicans go for Palin (39%) and Beck (25%), and independents split their votes between Palin (17%), Beck (16%) and Assange (15%). President Obama only pulled 8% of the Independent vote. Former President George W. Bush pulls in 44% of the respondents for Person of the Decade. President Obama comes in second with 20% and Osama Bin Laden garners 11%. Zogby International

Zogby International

**PaulBunyon** · 24-12-2010, 08:27 PM

A recent Dec clip of Assange talking to an Aljazeera.

**crippen** · 24-12-2010, 10:14 PM

I wonder what Julian thought would happen to him after his 'Revelations' were published? Is he naive enough to think the Yanks would just take it lying down?

**The Bold Rodney** · 24-12-2010, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by crippen

Is he naive enough to think the Yanks would just take it lying down

Another way of looking at it is... were the Yanks naive enough to think they could continue to get away with pulling the strings of governments worldwide forever and a day?

This could very well open a can of worms that may just prove Assange to be a little smarter than the Yanks gave him credit for.

**sabang** · 24-12-2010, 11:25 PM

People of the year-

Sarah Palin
Julian Assange
Mark Zuckerberg
Liu Xiabao

Holy cow. Imagine being stuck on a desert island with that lot.

**who** · 25-12-2010, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^Somehow, that just figures......

You are right ! Public support World wide must be nice to have.

Keep up the good work Mr. Assange and God bless You !
(do I sound like Palin ?)

.
No, you sound like a fucken idiot.

**dirtydog** · 25-12-2010, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

and God bless You

Weird, are you merican? or in some brain washing cult or something?

**HermantheGerman** · 25-12-2010, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by who

No, you sound like a fucken idiot.

Realy ! You think so ? Does being an idiot qualify me for becoming the next President ?

May God also bless "fucken idiots" like you too !

Sarah Palin: ‘God Bless You Tea Partiers’

George Bush: May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.

Obama 2010: Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America, and all who serve her.

**dirtydog** · 25-12-2010, 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Realy ! You think so ? Does being an idiot qualify me for becoming the next President ?

Nope, but being yerman might.

**HermantheGerman** · 25-12-2010, 04:04 AM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^I don't know, Herman. I have forced myself to read some of these leaked cables, and fail to see much of any significance at all. For this guy, and the Facebook guy, to get some kind of 'recognition' just shows what a sad state of affairs the world is in.

Of course Davis, you are absolutely right. The leaked cables are not realy shocking news. We are all humans and bound to make mistakes. Some people have not kept their closet shut and have to face the consequence. At a certain position you have to pay for your mistakes harder then others.
The U.S. should just realize that they made a big booh booh. They should shut up, keep a low profile and make sure that these things don't happen again. But instead they go into the offensive (like always) and make this Assange a hero or Man of the Year. America not Le Monde is made Assange "Man of the Year".
Maybe we need more Wikileaks ? Because like you said: "what a sad state of affairs the world is". Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a new fine example. And so are a lot of other foreign politicians (not only the U.S.)

**HermantheGerman** · 25-12-2010, 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Realy ! You think so ? Does being an idiot qualify me for becoming the next President ?

Nope, but being yerman might.

Dankeschön !
Remind me to buy you a beer.
That goes for everyone that votes for me.

**sabang** · 25-12-2010, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

and all who serve her.

They'll be just delighted to hear that in the sweatshops of Mexico and Indonesia.

**Thormaturge** · 25-12-2010, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by sabang

People of the year-

Sarah Palin
Julian Assange
Mark Zuckerberg
Liu Xiabao

Holy cow. Imagine being stuck on a desert island with that lot.

No mention of Obama?

**Davis Knowlton** · 25-12-2010, 11:36 AM

^That ship has sailed.......................and foundered on the rocky shoals.

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