Here's my initial response to Time's Person of the Year choice — The Whistle-Blowers: Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI, and Sherron Watkins, of Enron. Or, rather, my reaction to others' reactions.

1) As far as it being an obscure choice, what about David Ho, from 1996? David Who? Exactly.

2) As far as Con. vs. Lib. vs. Neither, here are the tallies since 1990:

1990 - C - George Bush
1991 - L - Ted Turner
1992 - L - Bill Clinton
1993 - L - Rabin, Mandela, De Klerk, Arafat
1994 - C - Pope
1995 - C - Newt Gingrich
1996 - N - Dr. David Ho
1997 - N - Andrew Grove
1998 - N - Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton
1999 - N - Jeff Bezos
2000 - C - George W. Bush
2001 - C - Rudy Guiliani
2002 - L - Whistleblowers
Total: 5 Conservative covers, 4 Liberal, 4 Neither

Even though you can dispute the categorization of a few, I don't see any obvious biases along the political spectrum

3) As far as this year's nominees go ... my question is, why didn't they blow their whistles earlier, before September 11 happened and billions dollars were lost to unethical business practices?

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