Time's Person of the Year...Ben Bernanke???

"I don't deserve this."


You gotta be kidding! Fed chairman Ben Bernanke as Time's Person of the Year? What were they thinking? I mean, isn't this guy one of the villains who has helped bring about all this fiscal crisis?

Ben Bernanke?

Well, on second thought, I guess it is no more ridiculous than Al Gore getting an Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize-or Obama getting a Nobel.

Or they could have chosen Barney Frank.

Well, since it's a done deal, I might as well chip in with some of my own selections for this or that of the year.

Athlete of the Year- Milton Bradley of the Chicago Cubs (below in happier days as a Dodger).



Woman of the Year- Rachel Uchitel (one of Tiger's babes) There she is below with her unnecessary celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.

Rachel's on the right in case you can't figure it out.

Pulitzer Prize- Eugene (Chuckles) Robinson of the Washington Post for his "insightful" essay on Tiger Woods' "fatal attraction" to white women. What you say? Robinson already has one?

Best Actor- Arnold Schwarzenegger for his performance as a California governor.

Best Actress- Rosanne Barr, wherever she is.

Best male vocalist- JJ Smooth J or whatever his nom de guerre is.

Best female vocalist- Lady Ga Ga. What? She's already gotten it?

Anchor of the Year- Keith Olbermann for his "always straight reporting" on a host of issues nobody cares about.

"You Fousesquawk, are shredding the Constitution. Have you no shame?"

(No.)

Anchorette of the Year- Tim Geithner look-a-like Rachel Maddow- from Air America to MSNBC-what a resume!(Save your cards and letters, NOW.)

And my own Person of the Year?

Hmmmmm. Ah, what the hell-Ben Bernanke.

"I don't deserve this."