Is the "The American Soldier" really Time magazine's Man of the Year?

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[dennisw]

 

 

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12/21/2003: Dear Time Warner...

Am I the only one who thinks it’s more than a little weird that TIME Magazine names “The American Soldier” as their “Person of the Year,” only days after publishing a story by a TIME reporter who’s hangin’ out with the mujahideen trying to kill that same “Person of the Year?”

No, I’m not the only one: Mudville Gazette: Dear Time Warner...

posted by Charles at 5:50 PM PST

[dennisw]

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William  12/21/2003 06:13PM PST

Some more lame covers from Time magazine:

Apr. 7, 2003 (two days before liberation)
"What Will it Take to Win?" (overlayed on a bloody US soldier)
http://www.time.com/...

This issue had a lengthy article with laughably bleak predictions -- it hit the newsstands the day Baghdad fell.  Morons.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Joe Boucher]

YOu have to understand that time and most of the other media would rather jump through fire then give Mr. Bush credit for anything.
Bush could cure cancer, aids,and create world peace and still time would look to promote anyone but Bush as man of the year.
Honestly I am so very supportive of the troops. I just understand that Time hates Bush.

[tkathy]

Great point. Thank God for the internet.

[Radix]

The alternative was to name President Bush the Man of the Year.

Time is so far left gone that they would not likely ever appreciate that they have once again been manipulated into doing the "right" thing. You simply have to love this administration.

I heard a brief interview with a Time spokesman on the radio yesterday, and it was evident that the decision to give any credit or consideraton to our Troops was a reluctant one made by the editors of that rag which dares to call itself a News Magazine.

[Thebaddog]

I understand the slight, but I am proud of our soldiers and agree with the honor.

And you have got to love the Canadian cover honoring the queers of the year.

[ThirstyMan]

What is obvious is the gross media bias. The soldier is sent. The soldier is the messenger. Sent by and the messenger of whom? one might ask?
Recall the soldier who related President Bush's greetings to Saddam Hussein as he crawled out of his spider hole. He knew! Ha!
What blind studied fools posturing at Time magazine!

Time magazine loses big with this one. The constraining of current events to conform to their prejudiced worldview is transparent and shameful. We always associated such journalistic editing with propaganda coming from Tass, the old Soviet "news" agency. Let's hear it for Tass Magazine, representing the American elitist's liberal worldview.

[ChiefKujo]

I don't know. The troops here at 1AD on Baghdad Int'l Airport love it.

ChiefKujo

[cynicom]

Did anyone honestly think they would put Bush on the cover?????????? In an election year?????????????

[RckyRaCoCo]

Sorry Time, your politically correct cover STILL gives you no credibility.

[capt. norm]

They had to put the "american Soldier" as man of the year because it was the only alternative to George W. Bush that they could come up with that would work.

[NoClones]

Time, a stealth-commie rag, is just seeking to cash in on patriotic feeling which happens to be running high now.

Check out the denigrating, slanted and distorted titles on their magazine covers and one will quickly learn where their sympathies are.

Actually, the democrats remind me of the commies in China during WWII - they thought that the legitimate government was their number one enemy. The Japanese to them were number two...

[Democratshavenobrains]

Over at DU, one of them actually asked why the American Peace Activist was overlooked!!!! Too stupid for words!

[JennysCool]

Hey, Chief! Good morning (U.S. time)! Merry Christmas, and pass it along to everyone there, with a whole lot of thanks!

[mystery-ak]

Im happy Time selected the American Soldier as person of the year...they deserve it!...Im buying a copy(first time in years) and sending it to my husband in Balad.

[Catspaw]

The troops here at 1AD on Baghdad Int'l Airport love it.

Tell the troops Over There we're proud of them. You and the rest of the Armed Forces are in our prayers.

[auboy]

Kudos to the American Soldier!

My sincere gratitude to them for their dedication and service, and to their families for supporting them.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Whatever Time's motives were...our soldiers deserve the honor. And, their CiC would be the first to admit it.

[catpuppy]

From Time: ... the classic definition of TIME's Person of the Year is the person who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse

Nope. President Bush couldn't possibly fit. Let's just put a flag on the cover, plead patriotism and hope no one notices our rather stupid partisanship.

[MEG33]

I was watching Katie Couric interview Time editors about the cover.

Rumsfield was being interviewed as a candidate for MOY and he said "Why don't you make it the American soldier"?.The Time guy said it was a first for a candidate to suggest someone else.

Naturally Katie ignored that comment and went immediately to something else.

Thank you,Rummy, for wanting our soldiers to get the honor!

[Alas Babylon!]

Look at it this way... After Dubya trounces the democrats this upcoming November, Time can make Bush Man of the Year for 2004!

[leprechaun9]

Time (Slime?) could never recognize anyone who has proved most of the pudits and pimps of the election industry to be wrong.

Time after Time the prophets of doom rained copy after copy of dire consequences upon their foolish readers, only to be proven wrong!

But rather than show, or admit, the errors of their way, Slime follows the old adage, "Retreat Hell, We'll Advance In Another Direction!"

[sausageseller]

We are proud of our "hometown" girl on the cover.
Medic Grimes was raised on a farm here. ( Lebanon, Indiana)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I thought that the "person of the year" was the one who had the greatest impact for change.

This doesn't mean that TIME is going to portray the soldiers in a positive light, necessarily.

[Gritty]

After trashing the American Soldier for a year, or damning him with faint praise, TIME has decided they had an emergency on their hands. They either put President Bush, who deserves it, on the cover or they look like the biased fools they are.

So, they punted and did what conniving Liberals always do when caught in this bind; they "praise" the troops while continuing do to everything they can to undermine their mission. It's right out of the Democrat Candidate's Handbook.

[Vision]

Those are real covers of time magazine?

[Ditto]

The troops here at 1AD on Baghdad Int'l Airport love it.

Tell them that this Freeper thinks they more than deserve it as well.

Ya, TIME pretty much sucks, but they got this one right.

[Dave S]

Did anyone honestly think they would put Bush on the cover?????????? In an election year?????????????

They did in 2000, an election year, when he was Time's Man of the Year.

[Doc Savage]

The inherent arrogance of this left-wing communist rag sheet knows no boundaries. To consider yourself so important, to be so full of yourself, to imagine that the common man finds your "selection" so important, is beyond belief.

I don't read this screed, this foul excrement of the left. But the ego these leftists have as the though the entire world hinges on who they select as Man of the Year, leaves me incredulous.

Don't buy this crap, don't read this communist propaganda, and urge others to boycott anything having to do with Time, Inc. They are traitors, collaborators with our enemies, propagandists against all free men, against freedom, against liberty.

[kayak]

True .... but that was after he was elected, not while he was seeking election.

[Robert Drobot]

"....Don't buy this crap, don't read this communist propaganda, and urge others to boycott anything having to do with Time, Inc. They are traitors, collaborators with our enemies, propagandists against all free men, against freedom, against liberty."

Can't be said often enough!!!

[Kozak]

Actually, I'm surprised Time didn't name old Fightin Howie Dean as the man of the year.

[suzyq5558]

Over at DU, one of them actually asked why the American Peace Activist was overlooked!!!! LOL!LOL! yeah they would ask bout that wouldnt they ,lol

[rave123]

You are so right.

[dennisw]

Those are real covers of time magazine?

Most definitely they are.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

made by the editors of that rag which dares to call itself a News Magazine.

We must understand that all of the entertainment media exists to aggrandize PR to itself--and the most potent entertainment medium for producing PR is journalism. The reason that Congress passed, the president signed, and the Supreme Court upheld "Campaign Finance Reform"--all of them knowing that it traduced the Constitution--is quite simply that flattering journalism is a PR "Get Out of Jail Free" card, and crossing journalism is a PR "Go Directly to Jail" card.

Nothing makes journalism seem important like claiming that the government is abusing the people; politicians who go along and get along with that claim just naturally get good PR--and get called "liberal"--or, if that be preferred, "moderate." Politiicans opposing the claims of journalism just naturally get bad PR--and get called "right wing"--if not worse.

Of course if the politicians who go along with journalism are in power, the "homeless problem" and "unemployment" suddenly disappear from the radar screen--or else are blamed on the residual effects of evil right-wingers. If the tenents of PR were as powerful as its acolytes in journalism assume, Republicans would never win elections; journalists consider Republican victories fundamentally illegitimate because journalism's position is supposed, in their world-view, to be dispositive.

[Syncro]

How true. But they should have included the Commander In Chief behind the soldiers.

Oh never mind, that would be President George Walker Bush...

[mickie]

I wouldn't pay one thin dime for this rag of a magazine.

PC to the max.

President Bush IS Man Of The Year.