TIME magazine named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its “Person of the Year” in an hour-long heavily biased special on NBC, Thursday night. Other honorees including “racial justice organizers,” NBA player LeBron James, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
But despite Biden and Harris being the honorees, TIME spent a whole lot of time attacking President Trump.
After devoting a good portion of the special fawning over Black Lives Matter activists, while conveniently ignoring the violence caused by many in their movement, TIME journalists spent the remaining ten minutes celebrating their “historic” pick of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their top honor. TIME’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal noted Biden’s promise to “unite the country:”
This is the first time we've also named a Vice President as Person of the Year. The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic. ‘Person of the Year’ is not just about the year that was, but about where we're headed. And the next four years are going to be an enormous test of them and all of us to see whether they can bring about the unity they've promised.
He posed this ridiculous question to Biden that sounds like it was written by the Democrat’s speechwriter: “Do you think this is a do-or-die moment for democracy?”
Fellow TIME journalist Charlotte Alter also gushed, “Biden was running on a message of unity and healing at a moment when the country was sicker and more divided than almost any time in American history.” As she said this, images of Trump supporters yelling “four more years!” played in the background. Why no images of left-wing protesters throwing molotov cocktails at police officers, I wonder?
That was the theme for the special, though. Trump and his supporters had divided the country, and only Joe Biden could heal a damaged America. As video played of a Trump supporter shoving a BLM protester, frequent MSNBC commentator Eddie Glaude warned, “The country's in deep trouble, and Donald Trump was just a symptom to reveal how deep the trouble actually is.”
Footage of tiki-torch-holding white nationalists chanting in Charlottesville followed this, as TIME’s Molly Ball boasted Biden would “fix” racist America:
“Joe Biden saw what happened in Charlottesville as a symptom of a deeper American disease that only he could fix,” she gushed, as a soundbite of Biden promising this played afterwards.
There were more clips of Biden trashing Trump's leadership, interspersed with Biden supporters like Cindy McCain echoing him. Ball also sounded like a supporter, hailing Biden as a return to civility: "The promise of a Biden candidacy was always about turning the clock back to a sort of gentler, more civil, more decent time in American politics," the TIME correspondent praised.
It culminated focusing on race, as was a frequent theme throughout the hour-long special. Glaude and Felsenthal reappeared to tout how Biden and Harris must bridge the racial divide:
GLAUDE: ...They're going to have to address the fundamental inequality at the heart of the country. And then they're going to have to figure out how to finally rid us of this belief that white people matter more than others.
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FELSENTHAL TO BIDEN: What do you say to black Americans, immigrants, others who feel victimized by the Trump administration and have no interest in uniting with Trump supporters? [pictures of BLM activists/families grieving]
Felsenthal ended the special with one more dig at Trump supporters. While images of Trump supporters holding "stop the steal" signs played in background, the TIME CEO and editor attacked:
I don't think there's ever been a president and vice president to take office in a moment like this where we don't just disagree on issues -- we disagree on basic facts. What happens to the American experiment in this kind of chaos?
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Read a relevant transcript below:
NBC’s TIME Special: Person of the Year
12/10/2020
10:51:54PM-10:59:45PM EST
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: ...A once-in-a-generation health crisis has rocked our lives while also demonstrating the resilience of the human spirit. A rallying cry for justice and equality has rung out around the world. And across the nation, a record number of Americans made their voice heard, making history along the way. For nearly 100 years, Time has named the Person of the Year. In 2020, the Time Person of the Year is... President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.
TIME EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, EDWARD FELSENTHAL: Time has always had a special connection to the presidency. Every elected president since FDR has been Person of the Year at some point during their term. This is the first time we've also named a Vice President as Person of the Year. The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic.
FELSENTHAL: ”Person of the Year” is not just about the year that was, but about where we're headed. And the next four years are going to be an enormous test of them and all of us to see whether they can bring about the unity they've promised.
FELSENTHAL to BIDEN: Do you think this is a do-or-die moment for democracy?
BIDEN:-This moment was one of those do-or-die moments. Had Trump won, I think we would have changed the nature of who we are as a country for a long time.
TIME NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT CHARLOTTE ALTER TO HARRIS: You have always been so action-oriented.
HARRIS:-Yeah.
ALTER: So, what is the first thing that you want to do in that role?
HARRIS:We're at a moment where we're being confronted by many crises that have converged. We're talking about a public-health crisis. We are in the midst of an economic crisis, a long overdue reckoning on racial injustice, and a climate crisis. We got a lot of things that we need to handle, and we multitask to address them all.
ALTER: Biden was running on a message of unity and healing at a moment when the country was sicker and more divided than almost any time in American history.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS: Four more years! Four more years!
TIME NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, MOLLY BALL:This obviously was an election like no other, a campaign like no other.
BIDEN:-The question is -- -
TRUMP:...new Supreme Court Justice.
BIDEN:-The question
TRUMP:-- -Radical left.
BIDEN: -Will you shut up, man?
[video plays of Trump supporter shoving a BLM protester]
EDDIE GLAUDE: The country's in deep trouble, and Donald Trump was just a symptom to reveal how deep the trouble actually is.
CHARLOTTESVILLE PROTESTERS:-You will not replace us! You will not replace us!
BALL:-Joe Biden saw what happened in Charlottesville as a symptom of a deeper American disease that only he could fix.
BIDEN: I am convinced that the American public is looking for the possibilities that are available out there. They know we're so much better than this. When I ran, I said, this is about who we are as a nation, who we're going to be, what we want to be. The American people stepped up. [ Crowd cheering ]
CINDY MCCAIN: It starts at the top, and if you see a divisive leader, it trickles down.
TRUMP: The worst job of any governor. Fake news media.
BIDEN: The words of a president matter. Whether they're good presidents or bad, they matter. When I first announced my candidacy, what I got most criticized for was I said we had to unite America, that we weren't going to respond to hate with hate, we had to restore the soul of the country. And I never came off that message because that's my objective.
BALL: The promise of a Biden candidacy was always about turning the clock back to a sort of gentler, more civil, more decent time in American politics. But the divisions don't end when the election does. [ Cheers and applause ]
HARRIS: What a testament it is to Joe's character that he had the audacity to break one of the most substantial barriers that exists in our country and select a woman as his vice president. [ Cheers and applause ]
AMY KLOBUCHAR: Kamala takes us to that next chapter from the moment she walked across that stage -- she is someone that we've never seen before in one of the top two jobs in the country.
CORY BOOKER: I get frustrated 'cause dozens of nations have had women in their highest offices -- we have not. And I'm proud that he made it plain early that, "I'm going to choose a woman to be my vice president." And in that boom, he's now changed American history.
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ALTER: -Some of the criticisms of him were of whether the black community could trust him to look after their interests, and so putting the first African-American woman on a presidential ticket was a way of repairing that breach, in some ways.
EDDIE GLAUDE: We want to see it for what it is, because Kamala Harris -- it's important that she's there, but we need to see policies. We need to understand the limitations of a certain kind of representational politics. They're going to have to address the fundamental inequality at the heart of the country. And then they're going to have to figure out how to finally rid us of this belief that white people matter more than others.
FELSENTHAL TO BIDEN: What do you say to black Americans, immigrants, others who feel victimized by the Trump administration and have no interest in uniting with Trump supporters? [pictures of BLM activists/families grieving]
BIDEN: When George Floyd occurred, I was cautioned by some really smart people, you know, "Don't go out and talk about racial inequity, systematic racism. Don't mention it because you can lose the suburbs." My argument all along was the American people do want to see justice, and they understood things were out of whack and they had to change them.
BLM CHANTING: United, we'll never be divided!
MSNBC HOST/CONTRIBUTOR BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM: This was a pandemic election, and we have to realize that we got victory here because the most oppressed and suppressed voters fought like hell to make it happen.
[video of BLM marching]
GLAUDE-Part of what I think settles some of these questions is to work your behinds off for a more just America.
FELSENTHAL: I don't think there's ever been a president and vice president to take office in a moment like this where we don't just disagree on issues -- we disagree on basic facts.
[images of Trump supporters “stop the steal” signs]
FELSENTHAL: What happens to the American experiment in this kind of chaos?
BRITTANY PACKNETT None of us should be waiting on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to fix everything. We are the people for this moment.
GLAUDE:-The goal is a more just America, and people cannot only dream dreams, but can make those dreams a reality.
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