Outraged that Time Magazine has named a Marxist like Pope Francis as its “Person of the Year,” Glenn Beck responded on his radio program today by declaring that Sen. Ted Cruz was The Blaze’s “Man of the Year.”
Claiming that Time snubbed Cruz by not giving him the honor because “they don’t want to give him any more power,” Beck proclaimed that “progressives are fascists,” which is why Time has named people like Hitler and Mussolini as the “Man of the Year” (for the record, Mussolini was never named “Man of the Year.”)
Even though Cruz was among the finalists for the “Person of the Year,” Beck is positive that he never had an actual chance of winning, even though “he’s the guy who is going to affect our life, your life, much more than anybody else.”
As such, Beck unilaterally decided that Cruz was the “Blaze Man of the Year”:
