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Rolling Stone’s strange, dreamy cover of terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Hotair ^ | 07/17/2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 07/17/2013 9:49:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It’s interesting, and infuriating. We’ve already seen the rise of what Twitchy calls the “Jaharem” of admirers of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, in custody since murdering a police officer and engaging in a firefight with law enforcement, then hiding and bleeding in a boat the rest of the day until he was discovered. Now Rolling Stone offers a profile of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother of the duo who killed three and injured hundreds of others at the event, including an eight-year-old boy shredded by their bomb.

Why not give Tsarnaev the soft focus treatment for that, huh?

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RS at least notes that Tsarnaev became “a monster,” so why pose him as a sultry dreamboat for the cover? They didn’t need to make him look maniacal or diabolical to get the point across. One of the surveillance photos would have been sufficient to get the point across, or one of the pictures of Tsarnaev with his friends if they wanted to press the innocence-lost angle. Instead, they give Tsarnaev the celebrity treatment, complete with soft focus, sepia wash, and bedroom eyes. That’s why the credit on the cover says “Illustration by Sean McCabe.”

A more minor nitpick comes from the teaser for its cover story. Rolling Stone insists on using the name “Jahar Tsarnaev.” That may be how the first name is pronounced, but his name is spelled “Dzhokhar.” It certainly sounds chummy and intimate to use the nickname version his friends used, but that’s hardly appropriate for a news story about a “monster.” Why not use his actual name? Did Rolling Stone assume its readers couldn’t figure out how to say it?

As Allahpundit notes in the Green Room, the Jaharem isn’t pleased with the magazine despite the soft-focus treatment Tsarnaev gets on the cover. I guess these guys got it all wrong 40 years ago about how to make the cover of the magazine … or maybe they got it right:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: again; boston; dzhokhartsarnaev; hessodreamy; jihadinamerica; radicalislam; rollingstone; rollingstones; sympathizers; terrorism; tigerbeat; tsarnaev
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1 posted on 07/17/2013 9:49:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Is it really so strange? Is it such a mystery?

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The MSM are enemies of the people!

2 posted on 07/17/2013 9:52:13 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is George Zimmerman going to make the cover of Rolling Stone as a hero?


3 posted on 07/17/2013 9:54:06 AM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Jaharem” Interesting word. I still don’t know what to make out of this very weird phenomenon. Same as the women who marry violent criminals in prison?


4 posted on 07/17/2013 9:55:19 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: TigersEye

Agreed. It’s the same thing the left has been doing with Che for that past few decades.


5 posted on 07/17/2013 9:56:26 AM PDT by ruiner
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6 posted on 07/17/2013 9:58:12 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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If Che had a son...


7 posted on 07/17/2013 9:58:40 AM PDT by Catmom
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If Che had a son


8 posted on 07/17/2013 10:04:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have seen real pictures of Che, and it is a shocker what a bloated, grungy,brutish-looking troll he REALLY was.


9 posted on 07/17/2013 10:08:19 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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Ah, yes, t-shirts with Dzhokhar’s face on it. The perfect attire for young white Trayvons.


10 posted on 07/17/2013 10:08:58 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Interesting! Kind of a male/female look about him.
11 posted on 07/17/2013 10:09:53 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: SeekAndFind

Next week we will be charmed by one Ms. Rachel Jeantel


12 posted on 07/17/2013 10:10:17 AM PDT by Gamecock (Member: NAACAC)
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Reminds me of the Jim Morrison cover..

“He’s Hot, He’s Sexy, He’s Dead”


13 posted on 07/17/2013 10:11:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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well, Dzokhar is not dead yet...


14 posted on 07/17/2013 10:12:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re enemies of America.


15 posted on 07/17/2013 10:14:27 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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What about Abdul Rahman Ali Al Harbi?


16 posted on 07/17/2013 10:15:16 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Che's TRAYVON Moment!




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17 posted on 07/17/2013 10:21:11 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: SeekAndFind

Now he can send five copies to his mother.


18 posted on 07/17/2013 10:28:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Even liberals that I know are outraged at Rolling Stone over this!


19 posted on 07/17/2013 10:29:10 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Hey mom! Ain't America great! Look, I made the cover of the RS! If I, a terrorist who kills people, can make the cover, anyone can.

Ain't America great, mom?

5.56mm

20 posted on 07/17/2013 10:31:19 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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