Time Tramples Iwo Jima Image to Push 'War on Global Warming'

Photo of Mark Finkelstein.

In our nation's history, there are few images more heroic, more sacred in a civil sense, than that of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Time has now twisted, and enlisted, that image for its "war on global warming."

Time editor Rick Stengel, making his regular Thursday appearance on Morning Joe to tout the week's cover story, naturally thought it was a wonderful idea. He also explained why Time decided to editorialize in favor of a "massive" effort to combat global warming.

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RICK STENGEL: The cover story, I mean there's been so many stories about the environment and we see them all the time. And they're often just descriptive. And what we decided is we wanted to do something something that was prescriptive. We we wanted to say, you know what? We know there's a problem, we acknowledge there's a problem, global warming exists. Here is a strategy for how to handle it. And by using that famous Iwo Jima image and saying basically what we have to do is what we did before World War II by creating a great national effort, national endeavor, to combat this problem. Using cap-and-trade policy and using new research into renewable energy and having an efficiency surge with energy all across the country. This is this massive effort that is needed.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Rick, was it a difficult decision for you all to take a position where you actually were advocates for a position or is it something that the entire editorial staff decided was the direction you needed to go?

Difficult? Hah!

STENGEL: I think since I've been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that's needed in journalism, is that you have to have a point of view about things. 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. And we've done that a number of times since I've been back. We did the case for national service, a cover story last summer. The end of cowboy diplomacy where we said that foreign policy had to change. I think readers expect that. I think, look. You guys are up there all the time. On cable television, people are giving you their point of view, giving their opinions on something and people want to know that.

So Stengel says readers want to know people's point of view? Well, since he asked, I think Time's cover is a disgrace.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Best way to stop global warming

Make Al Gore shut up!

 

During this time with political correctness at its zenith, I reserve the right to let you know you're an idiot.

Put out the Sun.  That will

Put out the Sun.  That will stop Global Warming!

My question. If

My question. If these grandious "experts" could rid the planet of every carbon atom? Would they? 

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Agreed! Thirty days in

Agreed!

Thirty days in the hole!

 

They can do this to the Iwo

They can do this to the Iwo Jima memorial and the left looks on with disinterest.

But imagine if a conservative did something to the Aids Quilt?

Al Gore?

After yesterday, I coulda sworn they were just getting behind President Bush...
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Man!! Its going to release

Man!! Its going to release tons of CO2 burning all those Time rags!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Unreal

A true insult to all those that have served.

When will it end?

It's official:  nothing American is sacred to the left.

I'm sure those soldiers would be sickened to know that their souls were being evoked for this.

 

Stinkle

 

People trust us to make decisions. We're experts in what we do. So I
thought if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so and we've done that a number of times since I've been back.

Trust you? Are you crazy? The only "experts" are the one's who think they are. Journalist are to report the facts, at least thats what I learned in school. Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one.

Report the accurate facts and let John Q. Public make a rational decision/opinion based on that.

P.S.  Bet everyone who fought on Iwo Jima just loves the cover. 

During this time with political correctness at its zenith, I reserve the right to let you know you're an idiot.

Disgrace

What a disgrace! The ignorant, radical left in action. Pathetic! This guy Stengel is so immature; he reminds me of Penn, Glover, Rosie, et. al. No wonder Time is bleeding customers and MSNBC is in the toilet!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

An ancient proverb

"Professing to be wise, they became fools." In otherwords anyone who thinks that they know it all are fools. The wise know that they do not know everything and are willing to change when they are shown to be wrong. These fools ignore those who dispute the global warming dogma and proudly proclaim that they are the "wise ones." What fools!

These guys are "experts"?

So Stengel refers to himself and his cast of idiots as "experts"?

A phonetical definition of "Expert":

"EX" - A has-been.

"SPERT" - a drip under pressure.

Any questions, class?

"Yeah! That's the ticket!" - Tommy Flanagan

If they really wanted to

If they really wanted to contribute to their sacred cause of fighting "global warming", by their own prescriptions, they should have skipped printing this issue. Instead of hypocritically telling us what to do, they could've set an example by taking their own advice - for a change. I know, I know, that's how the Big Eco works - waste resources to tell us we should conserve them. By the way, is green ink any more "carbon neutral" than other colors?

If they really believed what

If they really believed what they preached at Time, why not print their rag on recycled paper with soy based inks, instead or the high gloss paper and petroluem based inks (or whatever the ink is made from)? Or better yet stop printing entirely.

Double post.

Double post.

Disgusting! To somehow

Disgusting! To somehow equate the heroism and bravery of the men at Iwo Jima to enviro-wackos planting trees is beyond ignorant.

 

I am the exotic Queen Mum, and I approved this message.

It goes with being ashamed

It goes with being ashamed of your country as "the new patriotism".

And to replace the image of

And to replace the flag of the United States of America in such an iconic image is akin to defacing a national monument with graffiti. How dispectful.

 

I am the exotic Queen Mum, and I approved this message.

WAR & LIBERALS...

 The war on global warming? This is yet another example of lefties taking on an enemy that will never harm them. Don't worry about terrorism, but pull your hair out about the overhyped theory of "global warming" that can never be proved. It's a political topic, there is nothing scientific about it. As for Time's parody of the IwaJima image, it shows a total lack of disrespect towards the almost 40,000 Americans who died there. Then again, Time does'nt give a damn about our troops for the most part.

The problem with those pimping "global warming" are hellbent on destroying the American economy. The greenies are THEEEEE biggest threat to America by not allowing us to become energy independent. We can't drill for our own oil, we can't expand refining capacity, we can't build nuke power plants, & we can't expand our use of coal. Why? The left stops all of this in the courts. Then the solution is to take our corn crops & burn it in our gas tanks? We are killing ourselves by not fighting these A-holes tooth & nail. This crap needs to stop today.

 

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Some correction needed

Some correction needed here.  40,000 Americans did not die on Iwo Jima.   About 7,000 did.  Close to half of these out of 3rd Marine Division.  Another 19,000+ were wounded there.  The three Marine Divisions who stormed that place took 26,000 casualties in 35 days.  Maybe that will shed some perspective on the 4,000+ casualties in Iraq in 5 + years.   3rd Division was so badly shot up it was pulled out of the line and sent home after the Battle.  4th and 5th Marine went on to Okinawa.

I STAND CORRECTED...

I remember seeing or hearing the number 40,000, maybe I should have looked into it. I did not, I did see numbers around 7,000 dead, maybe what I got messed up with was about 40,000 when you add up the dead & wounded. I should have checked out the numbers before posting figures, I sound like those saying US forces have killed over 600,000 in Iraq, ooops. 

 

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

The cover isn't so much as

The cover isn't so much as offensive as it is stupid.  In 10, 15 years' time, people will look back at covers like this one and Vanity Fair's cover from last year proclaiming global warming a bigger danger than terrorism and laugh.

sort of

As a previous military man I do find it eminently stupid and somewhat offensive. To the guys who were at Iwo I would suspect it is repulsively offensive. When you are a shallow minded dirt worshipping lefty military memorials literally have no meaning or connection to your life. So why is anyone surprised?

Sorry!

Double post!

The left (including the

The left (including the eco-nazis) has a history of making some tortured moral equivalency comparisons...but this one takes the cake.  Lame.

Hi fitz....Speaking of

Hi fitz....

Speaking of eco-nazis...I just heard on Rush that they now have a sickness called ECO-ANXIETY....I kid you not, these ill people have to go to ECO-THERAPISTS....

Man oh man when are people going to wake up, what the left won't create is beyond me....and the lemmings that follow this are pathetic...who I feel sorry for our our kids and grand-kids if this nonsense to put it nicely continues....

You can't make this stuff up!

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Bigtimer, I was reading that

Bigtimer, I was reading that very story on my BlackBerry while having lunch today and was laughing so hard, I think the people in the restaurant were afraid I was a nutjob. I laughed again when heard mention it a little while later. The line of her having so much pathos, that it was making her ill -- give me a break! What a self-important twit! If people like the woman in that story and Time were so worried about their carbon footprints, by all means, remove yourself from the planet. I'm sure they'd both make lovely compost.

Eco-Anxiety

CJK...

Here is a link about this too...it is from Pat Dollards site for some there is a little cussing in this, just warning here for some who may be offended..

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

I would rather stick with my word

Enviro-fascism! This I think is tantamount to treason! As we are at war and if I was President and Martial Law was declared, if Time and other of the communist-press out there did what they are doing--SHUT DOWN! No need to cry about the Constitution--that's out the window and any means to use the environment as a means to destroy this country--THAT'S TREASON AS WELL!

 

I think, no make that KNOW Time is a treasonous magazine--one among many I WOULD NEVER, EVER READ!

Insert insanely long,

Insert insanely long, multi-syllable cuss word fill rant, here:_________

→ Gary P

I prefer "polysyllabic vile smut"

♣ a seal

I like it!

I like it!

Brazen Tree Killers

How many trees were raped and murdered just so TIME can print magazines. I am disgusted at the barbarism.

STOP THE TREE TORTURE NOW

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Howdy Jack...lol...my

Howdy Jack...lol...my husband is a retired faller, he had to go through a 12 Step program to stop the tree torture.

Until we stock up on wood for the winter that is...then he has to go through it again!

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

"Using cap-and-trade policy

"Using cap-and-trade policy and using new research into renewable energy and having an efficiency surge with energy all across the country. This is this massive effort that is needed."

A massive effort to hamstring our economy by shutting down power plants and bleeding money out of our productive sectors.

And is it merely a coincidence that the most prevalent communist power in the world today, China, has everything to gain by this massive effort? They don't have any intention whatsoever to limit themselves in this hysteria. Only the west is in the crosshairs.

That cover picture is

That cover picture is blasphemy. Shame on them for comparing the raising of the Flag to the war on AlGore's global warming.

marpel...you took the words

marpel...you took the words right out of my mouth.

For me this is another disgrace.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Hi, Bigtimer, how are

Hi, Bigtimer, how are things? You know, I won't watch any of the political shows in the evening. I'm even getting tired of Fox, (especially Bill O'Reilly's sex reports). But, it seems that the left is even more badly behaved during an election year...or is it just my imagination?

LOL marpel... IMO it

LOL marpel...

IMO it isn't your imagination.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Has anyone seen the movie,

Has anyone seen the movie, "Wag the Dog".  The cover of Time is part of the "pagent."  Al Gore is "old shoe." 

AGW is nothing more than a crisis created out of whole cloth in order to make the powers that be appear to be acting in our best interests.  Hence Nancy Pelosi with her Green legislation and then saying Bush is doing nothing but standby as the crisis unfolds.  Meanwhile all the payoffs under the guise of subsidies and tax breaks are making certain people rich.

 Lord Sidious / Darth Vader 2008  Long Live the Empire!  Come to the Dark Side, it is your Destiny.

I saw it. Wanted it to be

I saw it. Wanted it to be funnier than it turned out to be.

"Liberal" Loons

This is just another example of how disingenuous and self-serving these people are. And for me, it is another example on the long list of experiences I've had throughout my life working with them. Things that any sane, mature, intelligent person would just laugh at, they claim to genuinely believe in. Stengel, after producing this utter nonsense, actually says he is an "expert". You honestly don't know whether to laugh or to cry. How pathetic "liberals" are.

 P.S. The downside is , of course, that the young are so influenced by these charlatans who are simply in this for power, influence, and, of course, big bucks. Sad.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

To War against nature is to loose

I can't believe that Time has taken upon itself to declare war against nature. Talk about an un-winnable war. And these are the same people who complain about "Bush's" war in Iraq!

No matter what we try to do to fight against natural processes like climate change, nature will always triumph. Remember New Orleans and their war against flooding? Well nature show them, and everyone else, just how foolish it is to try to stand in the way of natural processes. When the levies break, we have no place to stay.

So you're "Experts" at what you do

eh, Ricky? 

Oh really? 

"It seems Time Magazine has "regretted some errors" in its original publication of the Haditha scandal..."

"Time Magazine has published a story that suggests John Paul II may have been euthanized by his doctors at his own request..."

"Time Magazine Circles The Wagons Around Joe Klein after FISA column..."

Great products sell themselves Ricky.

But your crowd's needing 350 mil. to SELL its product, and its also trivializing what is arguably the most honored and cherished symbol to our Greatest generation to help sell it, spells out who and what you lot really are!

Hope there's a special 'warming' place in hell for you self-important, f**king hippie-boomers when you kick!

Examine the Cover...

If you were to dip it in lemon juice and expose it to the light, the words "Waste of" appear immediately preceeding the word Time. Case Closed!

I do not need to say one word

Each  of you have said it all.

This truly bothers me. Others out there will not understand like each of you do because government schools do not teach Civics or U.S. History.

If the government can hide the past, they can pick the future.

I am "bitter" so I am heading for a concealed gun carry lisense.

are we going to change our flag color to green as well?

from another article on this:

The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green "the new red, white and blue."

(Ah, so that's what has happened to our patriotism.)

a great quote from the article:

Holbert [Tim Holbert], speaking on behalf of the American Veterans Center, said the editorial decision by Time to use the photograph for the cover trivialized the cause the veterans fought for.

“Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States,” Holbert said. “The Japanese Empire in February of 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history.  War analogies should be used sparingly by political advocates of all bents.”

 

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944

momrox... Holbert said it

momrox...

Holbert said it all!

This is all so infuriating.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

As long as I live I will

As long as I live I will never understand the political left.  They refuse to see evil even when it is spitting in their faces, yet they see evil where it does not remotely exist.  They appear to be against fighting a known enemy, which has taken a public oath to destroy the U.S.A. and its people, while they support a full-scale "war" against something that cannot readily be defined.  They rail against the Iraq War as being "too costly" while having no reservations about fighting a global warming war, the cost of which cannot even be determined and, even if it could, we would never have a viable way of measuring the impact of any such action.  If we start to fight this gw "war," and temperatures continue to increase, what then?  Will they claim that they actually slowed the rate of increase?  What if temperatures start to drop?  Do they then take credit for all of the decrease, even though temps have already been dropping?  Ultimately, this gw fight is right up the left wing alley--an expensive debacle which will have no accountability attached to it and, therefore, no finger of blame can ever be pointed (whether world temps rise, fall or stay the same, they will claim they won).  And they ridicule Bush for giving a speech on an aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him.

Holy Crap!

That's two institutional insults in a week. First that unfunny ass on HBO bashes the Pope. Now the dingus' at Time ragazine give a backhanded slap to the Marines.

What's next? Oh ... I know how about attaching a gay flag to the pole and calling the piece "Mounting the Fag."

Holy Crap!

That's two institutional insults in a week. First that unfunny ass on HBO bashes the Pope. Now the dingus' at Time ragazine give a backhanded slap to the Marines.

What's next? Oh ... I know how about attaching a gay flag to the pole and calling the piece "Mounting the Fag."

Holy Crap!

That's two institutional insults in a week. First that unfunny ass on HBO bashes the Pope. Now the dingus' at Time ragazine give a backhanded slap to the Marines.

What's next? Oh ... I know how about attaching a gay flag to the pole and calling the piece "Mounting the Fag."

Holy Crap!

That's two institutional insults in a week. First that unfunny ass on HBO bashes the Pope. Now the dingus' at Time ragazine give a backhanded slap to the Marines.

What's next? Oh ... I know how about attaching a gay flag to the pole and calling the piece "Mounting the Fag."

Redundent isin't it, Crash?

Redundent isin't it, Crash? Just a tad, tho.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Something's going on between

Something's going on between the servers.

The war on global warming

The war on global warming now. Next up? The war on cloudy days, blue Mondays, and morning frost.

Time and global warming,

Time and global warming, seems the Iwo vets are some upset. Disgraceful conduct of Time warrants burning all those mags. Contribute to GW, burn Time mags!!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

This is as MUCH of a battle

This is as MUCH of a battle todays sissified culture will fight. They Create the Myth to fight it.

 

Sorry Time, those REAL men on Iwo were, and are heros. You Time Mag schlubs are silly.

 

 

 

"Thank God I am young enough, that I shall see all the 60's Anti American leftist "worst generation" croak- overtaken by the Reagan Babies.......soon"

Tacky, tacky, tacky

And what we decided is we wanted to do something something that was prescriptive.

What a quack.

I think since I've been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of
the things that's needed in journalism, is that you have to have a
point of view about things.

And what does Stengal think they had before?

People trust us to make decisions.

Ho ho ho. Funny. Yeah, I get all my decisions made by TIME. What to wear for work, what shows to watch, and what I should waste my time and money on. I trust them with my very life! Praise be TIME! My life is complete. ;-)

Stengal's desperate to feel important. Not happenin'.

 

Rick Stengel is a Homosexual spineless bastard !!!

Rick Stengel is a traitor to MY country.....Little lispy lipped faggot !!!

I see the Iwo Jima Memorial

I see the Iwo Jima Memorial every time I drive home from work. I will feel a little strange looking at it tonight. These are the kind of image stunts that you would see in Mad magazine...not Time! It just goes to show the athiest world has lost it's collective mind! What's next I wonder?

 

Political Correctness Is a Progressive Disease

Rick Stengel

Little lispy lipped faggot !!!

Great one!  Tell me, is "effete elite liberal" a double entendre...or is it just a truly apt description?  Because that is exactly what I thought as I watched this disgusting piece this a.m.

This cover is a mockery about all that is good and true in this country.  And the effete elites blather on about it as if it were a good thing.  Disgusting. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

"People Trust us to make decisions"?

If anyone wants to understand what's happened to the MSM, all they have to do is read that statement, that was highlighted. My God, there is no way I trust Time Magazine, or it's writers, to make decisions that affect the way the government is going to tax me, starve the people of the world, and screw up our energy supply for decades.  We already know Mr. Gore can't explain what's going on, with the climate, so why should we trust Time Magazine? 

Someone please tell this moron, all we want from Time Magazine is unbiased reporting, stick to the facts, and let us form our own opinion.  Just because Time has drunk the Gore Kool-aid doesn't mean we all have to.

Will anyone be reporting the truth, in the next year? 

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

pb... In answer to your

pb...

In answer to your last question I think it would be a big NO.

Nothing happens to these people, there is no accountability, they have an agenda and that is that.

No matter the money losses, the ratings if it is the msm or the subscriptions adn readership if it is the print...they do not care, they are blinded by their own light which in my opinion will eventually be their own demise.

How long that will take I don't know...but it cannot continue indefinitely.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

What a collosal bunch of

What a collosal bunch of thumb-sucking morons. But it does give me an idea about how to reverse global warming: if we just stick a nice green spruce sapling up the ass of every member of the MSM, the earth should cool off (once it stops laughing its ass off).

F___ Time Magazine, as well as the horse they rode in on...

...and the two people who brought them into this world, and their descendants for the next three generations, as well as their cousins eight times removed.

Hell, make it the next five generations, for all I care.

Ira Hayes, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, Michael Strank and Rene Gagnon do not deserve to be portrayed in this hideously disrespectful fashion.

How dare the limp-wristed Time editorial staff allow this to happen!

Once again, Time has demonstrated, for all to see, its utter contempt for the United States of America.

Bastards all!

Theme for Election '08: Who cares?

How dare the limp-wristed

How dare the limp-wristed Time editorial staff allow this to happen!

Don't you think RD those very people are more than happy about this....possible encouragement plus a bonus...if you know what I mean... 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

bt, I read Flags of Our Father's two years ago.

But I had read much of the people involved many years ago.

Block, Sousley and Strank died not long after that (rather accidental) photo was taken. In fact, it wasn't even the first American flag raised on Iwo that day.

It doesn't matter. Those guys are still heroes to me, even though a couple of them had troubled lives afterward.

I'm seriously p*ssed-off here. Royally so.

I wouldn't allow Oliver to relieve himself on that worthless mag (IYKWIM).

Theme for Election '08: Who cares?

Brazen Stengel

I watched Morning Joe with Stengel this morning. I could not believe it when he opened his mouth and actually said,

"People trust us to make decisions."

That equates to: People trust us to make their decisions for them.

What a sanctimonious SOB... to a reasoned and rational person.

And what a relief for the hobbled minds of the Left, huh? A magazine will (continue to) do their thinking for them! Handy.

I've got a great green idea for where the top of that tree could be shoved.

And, yet another desecration of a National monument to be used in the false promotion of something that doesn't even exist, except in those little hobbled minds that are unable to think for themselves. Stengel admitted that point.