Time magazine replaces flag in famous Iwo Jima photo with tree for global warming story [Barf Alert]

Daily Mail ^ | April 18 08

[camerakid400]

Furious World War II veterans called for a boycott of one of America's most influential and respected magazines today over a controversial picture on its front cover.

Next week's Time magazine cover is based on the famous shot by war photographer Joe Rosenthal of marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima during the bloody battle in the Pacific.

But artists have replaced the flag with a tree to illustrate an article about global warming.

[ladtx]

They are completely clueless as to the meaning of that memorial. To them it’s just so much metal sticking out of the ground.

[Publius6961]

Furious World War II veterans called for a boycott of one of America's most influential and respected magazines today over a controversial picture on its front cover.

I thought this might be a serious story until I discovered it was from the Onion...

[chainsaw]

But artists hack photo shoppers have replaced the flag with a tree to illustrate an article about global warming.

[ASA Vet]

Hopefully, there will be a lot of canceled Time subscriptions over this one.

Folks who read Time probably agree with Time viewpoint.

[Cicero]

a boycott of one of America's most influential and respected magazines today

Influential? Respected? By whom? I doubt whether even many liberals subscribe to this useless rag any more.

I remember back in the 50s when I was in school and we were required to read it for one of our courses that I thought it was a bit simpleminded. But it was generally respected and influential. Since then, it's been all downhill. Vietnam and the Counterculture finished off all of those supposed "news magazines."

[Cricket24]

How disgusting! Thank goodness I don’t buy or read that rag anyway!

[alloysteel]

Time magazine is influential and respected? They may have been at one time, but both of those traits are a little eroded.

[American Quilter]

I thought this might be a serious story until I discovered it was from the Onion...

How did you find out? I can't find a reference to The Onion anywhere. I'm not doubting you, just want to know where to look next time!

[unkus]

“They are completely clueless as to the meaning of that memorial. To them it’s just so much metal sticking out of the ground.”

“They are completely clueless as to the meaning of that memorial. To them it’s just so much metal sticking out of the ground.”

My World War II Marine uncle heard about this and just closed his eyes and shook his head. I would not want him to see the picture. He’s 84 and said he is glad he’s in the downside of the hill. He lost a hand on Saipan.

[indcons]

I guess we've to be thankful that Time didn't include a Photoshopped Algore. /sarc

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[colorado tanker]

It really is an insult to vets and Marines, especially to those who served in the Iwo Jima hellhole.

[groanup]

Once upon a time it was like this:

Liberals read Newsweek.

Conservatives read U.S. News and World Report.

Idiots read Time.

[nicko]

that’s pretty f____d up...

[AlexW]

“Influential? Respected? By whom? I doubt whether even many liberals subscribe to this useless rag any more.”

I was born in Memphis in 1944.
In 1968, Time said this about Memphis:
“the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis.”

I never again picked up a copy of Time, the tampon of leftist.

[Cyclone Conservative]

The picture is a disgrace. Time should issue an immediate apology and then cease operations(because of this and because they suck anyway).

[Red Badger]

Folks who read Time probably agree with Time viewpoint.

Folks who read Time probably get their viewpoint from Time.........

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"How To Win The War On Global Warming"

1) Prove that current man-made CO2 emissions have any meaningful influence on the average global temperature.

2) After Step 1 has been completed, prove that the positive benefits to the world's population of significantly curbing CO2 emissions will outweigh the negative impact on the world's population, much of which is now finally moving out of poverty thanks to the power created by burning coal.

3) After Step 2 has been completed, attempt to convince every other nation in the world of the results of your analysis. Attempt to convince nations like China and India to hold back or end their current climbs out of poverty. Persuade the people of sub-Saharan Africa to stay in poverty by providing a library of complaints from complacent, fat Western liberals about how bad modern life in the West has gotten.

4) After Step 3 fails completely, I can see two possible alternatives for the US at this stage:

a) Embark on a crash program of nuclear power plant construction. Since most of these plants will not be built or provide power for decades due to environmentalist obstruction, convince the people of the US to get used to a lower standard of living for themselves and their children, replete with power outages and economic shrinkage throughout their lifetimes.

b) Build no nuclear power plants. Decommission existing coal-fired power plants. Await the inevitable riots and revolution.

[indcons]

Agreed

BTTT

[Between the Lines]

I wonder if Time ever thought it ironic to put this cover on millions of magazines made from wood pulp?

Just how many trees died for this farce?

[American Quilter]

I like the way you think.

[tumblindice]

The Metropolitan Museum of Old Stuff, 2039

Children, in the next display are what were called “magazines”. People paid to have them brought to their homes!
The one on the left was called `Time’, the other one on the left, `Newsweek’. Oh no, Jimmie—they’re long gone . . they stopped making them sometime the first part of the century.

[cricket]

They ARE totally clueless and no doubt 'shocked' at the response. . .but this is just another glimpse as to their mindless, tasteless. . .vacuous and 'thankless' state of mind.

Like all Libs; these people; having NEVER entertained a 'patriotic' thought; would not recognize one, if it 'hit them upside the head'.

[rightinthemiddle]

The country is being brainwashed with the lunacy of “climate change.”

When will the madness stop?

[Cicero]

Actually, to give my teachers credit, we were taught to read the New York Times and Time Magazine analytically. The point was in large part to get behind the news and to learn to detect when they seemed to be twisting it, or as we would later learn to say, spinning it.

(I was chosen senior year to write the weekly editorials for our school paper, but I apprenticed earlier at writing sports articles and composing headlines so they would fit the allotted space).

The NY Times was taken as a model of how to construct an article. At that time, they were relatively professional, and really did begin with Who, What, When, and Where, and they put the most important matters at the top, so the editors could cut it off at whatever length would fit.

Later, of course, they would develop the habit of putting less convenient facts, indeed centrally important facts, below the fold or in the continuation on the back page where casual readers were less likely to see them. But it was already noticeable back then, that even the Times, which was our practical and stylistic model, showed evident bias, when a schoolboy was taught how to look for it.

[HereInTheHeartland]

This is as sickening and disgusting as the TV ads which equate the Normandy landings with global warming.

[Irish Eyes]

I thought this might be a serious story until I discovered it was from the Onion...

How did you find out? I can't find a reference to The Onion anywhere. I'm not doubting you, just want to know where to look next time!

Let me know if you find a link to the Onion.

Until then BTTT

[sionnsar]

It was a joke. A reference to Time as “one of America’s most influential and respected magazines today” is like the kind of material you find in the Onion, though this was not in the Onion itself.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[metesky]

No memory + no class = totally clueless

[Bubba_Leroy]

... one of America's most influential and respected magazines ...

[Grizzled Bear]

If I had wasted my money on a “Time” subscription I would cancel it.

[NathanR]

It's not a joke.

http://www.time.com/time/

[DMZFrank]

Those heroic Marines in that photo were fighting for freedom. The fraudulent enviromental movement is a front for the Watermelon (green outside, red inside) Marxists who would use this hoax to impose bureaucratic tyranny and depotism upon us.

[SunkenCiv]

Too late, I’ve boycotted “Time” and “Newsweek” (and “US News” ever since it veered left) for years. Thanks indcons. This is reprehensible, but it’s just one of many such acts by the f-heads who run that POS.

[Hunton Peck]

I don't even read them in the doctor's office anymore (but I do touch them, in order to turn them face-to-the wall and move them to the back of the rack).

Um, is that weird?

[Berosus]

This is how the cover really looks:

[Quackattack]

Great post. It sums up everything wrong with today’s environmentalist movement:

“a library of complaints from complacent, fat Western liberals about how bad modern life in the West has gotten”