Mark Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year 2010 — Progressives Slam Choice of 'Billionaire Jew'

No doubt progressives wanted Julian Assange, and I almost thought Time was gonna do it — especially after reading last week's drooling cover story, "WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy: Truth's Consequences." Not only that, Assange was the top choice among readers: "Julian Assange: Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010."

See, "TIME's 2010 Person of the Year: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg."

And see Richard Stengel's essay, "Why We Chose Him." Leftists aren't pleased.

All Voices makes a veiled comparison to Adolf Hitler. Social Beat doesn't even try to disguise it. The author posts a picture of Joseph Stalin too, but then mounts a preemptive defense against attacks on the Hitler comparison:

Before you go off in the comments about how it’s offensive to compare Zuckerberg, who’s Jewish, to Hitler, first of all, know that you are a supremely tiresome person. Second of all, I’ll point out that I’m Jewish, too, if you care. Third, Time magazine’s editors made the comparison, not me, by choosing him as Person of the Year. You can write to them at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York.

And there's more, "Nice Jewish Billionaire Boy Chosen Over Assange."

There'll be more, so send those links and I'll update.

More at Techmeme.

Added: Linked at The Other McCain, "Progressives Disparage Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Billionaire Jew’?" Also at Memeorandum.

And another disgraceful slam: "Hitler, Stalin, Zuckerberg: Time's persons of the year: Yet Assange won the popular vote."

Plus, Et tu, Elisabeth? --- "Elizabeth Hasselbeck Disses Mark Zuckerberg: Only Influential “On Gnat-Moving Scale”."