Dan Gainor appeared on Fox News's "Fox and Friends" to talk about the latest issue of Time magazine, which had a Photoshopped cover of World War II Marines raising a tree instead of the American flag at Iwo Jima.
Gainor told viewers of the Saturday morning broadcast April 19, "Time magazine basically tried to co-op an icon of American heroism to push their global warming agenda. They're trying to claim that their war against global warming is similar to what our veterans endured during WWII."
He went on to say that there were 28,000 casualties and more than 6,000 people killed at Iwo Jima, exclaiming, "That's real war."
The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green "the new red, white and blue."
Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover's purpose was to liken global warming to World War II.
"[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change," Stengel said. "It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.' I don't understand why they don't do that."
—Paul Detrick is a Research Analyst at the Business and Media Institute.
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April 21, 2008 - 12:55 ET by PolazerusWho knew?
If Time wanted to ACTUALLY help, or had a clue about WW2
April 21, 2008 - 13:11 ET by sarcasmoThey might have invoked the greenest idea of that war, the Victory Garden. In this age of blatantly-dishonest government inflation numbers (it's a tough act to hide inflation in the case of food-prices) a packet of radish or tomato seeds per magazine could have made far more difference than a green border on a deliberately controversial image. Of course, a pack of seeds can be useful, which would be breaking a long Time Magazine tradition.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Time magazine is pro-tree? Who knew?
April 22, 2008 - 02:55 ET by Ted ClarkeTime Magazine championing a pro-tree, green agenda is kind of like McDonald's championing a pro-cow, animal rights agenda. How many trees have been destroyed in order to produce their horrible, disgrace of a magazine?
And who killed the tree......
April 22, 2008 - 05:35 ET by old croDon't they know it is a possible crime to take the life a a living, vibrant, oxygen producing tree?
The left has thier priorities screwed up big time on this one. Here they are mocking one of the grandest, awe-inspiring acts ever committed in the defence of this country and juxtaposing it with a green movement that threatens our economy and way of life.
First off, they have no shame nor honor.
Second, the heroic men that raised that flag did so out of love for thier country, would they now try to destroy it with all the globaloney going on today?
Last, as a protest, I will never again sit in a doctor's office where this piece of trash magazine may be found.