Time magazine jumps on the bandwagon of environmental doomsayers with the April 28 edition.
Gone is the usual red border on the cover. Now, it's green.
The theme of the edition is "How to Win The War On Global Warming."
It doesn't take much imagination to know what's inside. There's nothing new. The arguments are Al Gore redux. Time fell for it hook, line and sinker.
But the magazine stepped into a steaming pile when it chose the cover art for their climate alarmist issue. That cover is raising the ire of Marines, veterans and Americans across the country.
Time used the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal of Marines raising the stars and stripes on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima during World War II and – changed it!
They removed the flag and replaced it with a tree.
An Iwo Jima photo of a redwood, instead of a U.S. flag, on Time's April 28 issue |
Bryan Walsh wrote the cover story; he calls green "the new red, white and blue."
It's Al Gore's fault. His Army service involved manning a typewriter, not a machine gun. But war is minor to Al, who has created a whole new career and gotten astonishingly rich by becoming the world's biggest fear-monger.
We may be doomed, but he, Tipper and the kids will go out in style.
According to Gore, and TV commercials from his environmental outfit, one thing takes precedence over everything, including World War II: the environmental "crisis."
According to Uncle Al, if we don't change our ways, we'll all die; everything on the planet will die; the planet will die. All that'll be left will be a steaming pile of – something. Al blames global warming.
But it may be a pile of ice, and it won't be steaming. The truth is, no one knows, least of all Uncle Al, what will happen to the planet as climate evolves through normal cycles.
But Gore has beaten his "theory" – and that's all it is – into the psyche of millions. Schools teach it, churches preach it, politicians enforce it, businesses cash in on it and the news media indoctrinate. Consider what's been on TV to scare the wits out of us.
The fallout of the current Time cover has veterans seeing red, not green. It's hard to say which angers them more – demeaning the flag and the Marines or commercializing the photograph.
Donald Mates is furious that the photograph was changed.
"It's an absolute disgrace," he told the Business and Media Institute. "Whoever did that is going to hell. That's a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor."
Mates is one of those. The Institute reports he landed on Iwo Jima in February 1945 with the 3rd Marine Division. Within days, his eight-man patrol came under heavy fire and hand-to-hand combat. His friend was killed in front of him, and Mates was severely wounded, enduring 30 years of operations for shrapnel removal.
Mates said they knew World War II was real, but not so with climate change. "There's a big discussion. Some say there is global warming; some say there isn't. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious."
Time essentially spit on the graves of those who died taking that island from the Japanese. Roughly 60,000 Marines from the 3rd, 4th and 5th Divisions fought for 26 days before that 8-square-mile island was won.
Six thousand Americans were killed.
The real Marines in Rosenthal's famous photograph honored those men and those who survived fighting for that victory.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said, "uncommon valor was a common virtue" in that battle.
Time's choice is disgraceful, but apparently anything goes, especially if it's for "a greater good" or – for money.
The cover uproar gives Time free advertising and is certain to increase sales, pleasing them and advertisers.
It's all about the bottom line, even though Time managing editor Richard Stengel says the editorial purpose was to give the magazine a "point of view" and address the issue as a crisis, just as war is a crisis.
But most revealing is what Stengel said April 17 on MSNBC.
According to the Institute, he said journalism needs that "point of view."
(Read this carefully.)
He continued:
"You can't always just say 'on the one hand, on the other' and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We're experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something, let's just say so."
That's it! Real journalism is dead. No more balancing issues or presenting both (or more) sides. In fact, readers/viewers can't be left to think/decide for themselves.
According to Stengel, he and "they" know better and will tell us what to believe.
Do we really trust them to make decisions? That's a mistake.
He says they're "experts in what they do" but gives himself away saying "if we really feel strongly about something, let's just say so."
Sorry, Richard Stengel. I don't want to know how you feel about something. I want facts. Time is supposed to be a news magazine, not a weekly shrink session.
You're unloading a pile of bull on the public by supporting the similar pile propping up Al Gore and his green empire, and it's all at the expense of the rest of us.
You perpetuate lies that will cost billions, change lives and destroy people and businesses.
On top of that, by desecrating the Iwo Jima photograph, you demean and trivialize the heroism of men who fought a real enemy and who were injured and died to give you the opportunity to shuck and jive the American public, to say nothing of the rest of the world.
You and Time should be ashamed, but you have no shame. That's all too obvious.
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