According to the photo on the Drudge Report, it's Dubya. And considering he survived everything that Time and the rest of the legacy media threw at him, he's earned it.

(Of course, Time could be setting Matt up for a last minute head fake.)

Update: Nope, it's President Bush. What's perhaps more interesting though, is this tidbit:

“Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting. But in 2004, blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there,” writes TIME’s Lev Grossman.

That's a tremendous honor for Power Line, and they certainly deserve it. (I'm sure Dan Rather would agree. Right Dan?) But it's damning with faint praise to write, "Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting".

(Just out of curiosity, how many ham radio and stamp collectors out in flyover country will decide--maybe even subliminally--to drop their subscriptions to the always condescending Time after that line?)

As I wrote two and half years ago:

When the Web log concept first debuted, it was largely used for on-line personal diaries. Lots of “day in the life” stuff; lots of updates of family information; lots of photographs of nature and birthday parties; lots of nice pretty, stopping and smelling the flowers commentary by assorted emotional exhibitionists. And this is still a common use for Web logs.

Then September 11th happened.

One interesting byproduct of that awful day was that the servers on most major news sites (CNN, The New York Times, etc.) were blown out from over capacity. Since a big chunk of America either didn’t go into work, or left early that day, they went home, turned the TV on, fired up the computer, and wanted to know just…what…the…heck…was…going…on.

But with the Web sites of news biggies jammed to capacity, some people started going to alternative sites. Little funky one-man or one-woman sites. And some of those men and women, such as Virginia Postrel on her page, The Scene, and Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com, spent the day keeping the nation, hell, the world, just as informed as the traditional news sites people couldn’t get into.

Then, as the dust settled, that hoary old standby — media bias — started rearing its ugly head again, especially in newspapers, where the reporters seemed to pull out style guides left over from the Tet Offensive. Quagmire! Failure! Evil imperialism! The brutal Afghan winter! Remember the Soviets!

Seeking opinions and news that didn’t seem to be outtakes from the Johnson years, many, many people stuck with the bloggers. And sometimes it seems that just as many people saw how much fun the bloggers were having and decided to get into the act themselves.

And to not get the role that Weblogs have played in the three years between 9/11 and Ra^therGate is rather surprising.

Of course, it may be that Time doesn't want to remind its readers how embarrassing much of the post 9/11 coverage has been by its fellow members of the mainstream media, and how many errors blogs have caught. But Ra^therGate is so big and universally known that it makes a good reference point for Time without mentioning everything that lead up to it.

I guess I'm not surprised that Little Green Footballs wasn't mentioned, despite the role they too played in Ra^therGate. Perhaps it's because they're doing so good a job explaining the madness going on in the Middle East (or the presence of an occasional overheated comment by one their readers) that they're too much of a hot potato for the PC legacy media.

(And this is so obvious, I almost forgot to add it: I'm not sure if any of us would be blogging today without for the spadework laid by Glenn Reynolds.)