Well, So Much for 'The Year of the Whistleblowers'

Hey, remember this Time magazine cover from the end of 2002?

Who’d have thought we’d look back on 2002 as the good ol’ days?

(Not that Time is exactly heeding the president’s 2011 call for an era of new civility themselves, of course.)

Related: “12 Death Threat Photos Against Gov. Walker and Wisconsin Republicans That You’ll Never See in Legacy Media.”