In addition to awarding you — yes, You! — the annual "Person Of The Year" award, Time magazine singled out a slate of honorable mentions, including Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he of Holocaust-denial conferences, press freedom rollbacks and darkly threatening 18-pages letters to President Bush. How best to blurb this man? Apparently, as a "champion of the dispossessed" and a "global everyman." Contributor Andrew Levy over at Greg Gutfeld's blog noticed it first — a description which was quickly corrected sometime on Monday morning (the Time POY package was posted on the web at around 8:30 pm on Saturday night) (NB: I can't find this specific page now on Time.com, but both versions turn up in a current Google search, included after the jump, and a few right-wing bloggers that have picked this up claim that there is no notice of correction). A timestamps for the new version is here; here's the interview with Time's Scott McLeod, and the full Ahmadinejad photo essay is here (frame #5 says he has "fashioned himself" as an Everyman, rather than that he is one).
Curious choice of words in the original, certainly; and curious that it made it through the editing process (and the stringent staff meeting!); also curious if the correction was not noted, as it does not seem to have been.
(Hat tip: Little Green Footballs.)
