Those of us in the seemingly growing ranks of liberal apostates, like the eloquent Mr. Thompson below, frequently find ourselves under assault by our former friends who, at least in my case, often tell me smugly that sooner or later I will return to the fold. Since I have the normal level of insecurity, I sometimes think “what if they’re right?” and start gaming out my mea culpa. But always I come to a confused stop. What…exactly… am I supposed to return to? It’s very hard to figure out since the soi-disant liberal media and politicans have offered virtually nothing of a positive nature other than a tentative backing of gay marriage (somthing I already support and Kerry backed off even that), since 9/11.
So what’s left? 
Well, I’m sorry to say that today the answer seems almost tragically simple because Newsweek has spelled it out for us. The ideologies of liberalism and progressivism, as they were known to us for decades, are not only dead, as the lady said… they’re decomposed. There is only one explanation for this cheesy and idiotic “America is Dead” Newsweek cover in Japan – greed. [Hey, is there a Koran in that garbage can?-ed. No, it's the brain of the foreign editor of Newsweek.]
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1. Buddy Larsen:“It’s one thing for Newsweek to actively promote the notion that America is a “dead”, “rotting” country overseas. But it’s quite another thing indeed to hide those efforts from its American readers. If Newsweek really thinks America is dead, and our flag belongs in the trash, why won’t it tell us?”
–from Riding Sun
May 22, 2005 - 4:22 pm 2. Doug:AMERICA IS DEAD .
(Newsweak says so)
As you can see, the cover story shows an American flag, dirtied and tossed in a trash can, its staff snapped in two. The large white text reads, “Amerika ga shinda hi”, which translates to “The day America died.”
The equivalent international edition of Newsweek, the January 31 issue, featured a picture of Bush on the cover, with the caption “America Leads …But is Anyone Following?”:
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Both of the above editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled “Dream on, America”. (This was translated into Japanese as “Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki”, which is even harsher; it means, roughly, “America, the dream country, is rotting away”.) According to Newsweek itself, the article described “the world’s rejection of the American way of life.”
Moravcsik’s article did not run in the American edition of that same issue. The cover was also a bit different. It featured Hilary Swank, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, with the title “Oscar Confidential”:
May 22, 2005 - 4:23 pm 3. Doug:Gee, just quotes, no comments.
What can you say?
I’m not up to it right now.
May 22, 2005 - 4:26 pm 4. Terrye:This sucks, it really does. Newsweek should be ashamed. How about newsweek is dead? Which it might well be if it keeps this sh*t up.
If America is dead why are all these people so hysterical?
I mean are they afraid of ghosts?
I would say the truth is American influence is greater than it was a decade ago.
And the reason for that is not all about war. I think the tsunami relief efforts together with more emphasis on democratic reform and less on real politick has had a beneficial effect.
I read a poll that showed a marked improvement in attitudes over a couple of years ago. But antiAmericanism is still there and I suppose it always be.
May 22, 2005 - 4:37 pm 5. CERDIP:I think the answer is to pour more (much more) money into the space program. And also research into colony ships.
Then we just leave the planet to them.
May 22, 2005 - 4:38 pm 6. chuck:Doug,
Please, we are quite capable of following the link and reading for ourselves… If you have no thoughts at the moment why not hold off and wait a bit?
Roger,
This could just one stray can from the buried garbage heap. I now have a real interest in seeing what else comes to light. I doubt that Newsweek is alone in this, although they may well be the worst offender.
May 22, 2005 - 4:40 pm 7. Lan Nguyen:“I think the answer is to pour more (much more)money into the space program. And also research into colony ships.
Then we just leave the planet to them.”
Nope, those parasites of liberty will just follow us because our environment is the only place that make them prosper and feels like useful. Find any of them in China, Vietnam, Muslim countries, Russia, etc? See what I mean?
May 22, 2005 - 4:59 pm 8. richard mcenroe:But… but… shouldn’t we try to understand why they hate us? All these Columbia and NYU journalism majors, jammed into their ghettos of Westchester and th Upper West Side, being oppressed by American hegemony for so long… surely they have some legitimate grievances that we should acknowledge…
May 22, 2005 - 5:01 pm 9. Lan Nguyen:“Find any of them in China, Vietnam, Muslim countries, Russia, etc? See what I mean?”
Should read …
“Find any of them in China, Vietnam, Muslim countries, Russia, etc dares to say the same thing in the same context”? See what I mean?
May 22, 2005 - 5:01 pm 10. David Thomson:The United States will almost certainly dominate the 21st Century. We are essentially the only game in town. America is the preeminent world power by default, and not because we screw the other nations. Most of the rest of the world is mired in self defeating socialism, if not outright laziness. They simply donít give a damn. Come on, does anyone think that the Canadians or the French worry about their responsibilities to the world?
The Newsweek editors are self hating Americans. They perceive themselves as primarily members of the international community. Their identity as citizens of our country is not highly valued. Being wined and dined in Paris is deemed more rewarding than attending a red state social gathering. These employees of Newsweek, on a practical level, are on the side of our enemies. They will adamantly deny that this is the case. We cannot, however, allow them to con us just because they have conned themselves.
May 22, 2005 - 5:04 pm 11. Buddy Larsen:reading Lan, Richard, & David, with Newsweek in the background, I’m starting to wonder, just what WAS so laughable about that old 60s expression “America, Love It or LEAVE It!”? Who ridiculed it to death?
May 22, 2005 - 5:14 pm 12. PJ:THOSE BASTARDS!!!! I am beyond angry! One week after the Koran incident, they deliberately put the flag in the trash.
If anyone hates us, it’s because the media trains them to.
Everyone else is emigrating here.
May 22, 2005 - 5:15 pm 13. Buddy Larsen:Really, Newsweek guyz n’ galz–honest question, what with this place such a rotten mess, why don’t you folks just move yer ass to France?
May 22, 2005 - 5:17 pm 14. David Thomson:Good grief, this is weird coincidence. I just happened to visit the WSJís free article website and I found the following opinion piece:
ìBush Country
The Middle East embraces democracy–and the American president.
BY FOUAD AJAMIî
“George W. Bush has unleashed a tsunami on this region,” a shrewd Kuwaiti merchant who knows the way of his world said to me. The man had no patience with the standard refrain that Arab reform had to come from within, that a foreign power cannot alter the age-old ways of the Arabs. “Everything here–the borders of these states, the oil explorations that remade the life of this world, the political outcomes that favored the elites now in the saddle–came from the outside. This moment of possibility for the Arabs is no exception.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006721
May 22, 2005 - 5:20 pm 15. PeterUK:“Hell hath no fury like a Newsweek scorned”.
May 22, 2005 - 5:29 pm 16. chuck:Richard,
surely they have some legitimate grievances that we should acknowledge…
Oh, they do. They are bored of their nice secular existence and need a little excitement. If anyone ever figures out how to slip them the promise of 72 virgins we will be in real trouble.
May 22, 2005 - 5:29 pm 17. Doug:You’re right Chuck, Stupid Post – No sleep had it ready for comments on previous thread, No patience with Newsweek. Just Stupid. Sorry
Here’s a classic though, I think:
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Also, Newsweek obviously has no problem desecrating a flag by placing it in a trashcan.
This seems just a tad bit hypocritical of a magazine that just recently criticized desecrating another symbol…
Posted by Erik
May 22, 2005 - 5:36 pm 18. Buddy Larsen:“…bored of their nice secular existence and need a little excitement.”
That may be IT. No mystery for the wise guys, they got it all figured out. No spirit journey, no effort needed to stay in shouting distance of a higher self. Just words that tell you that you have it all figured out. Dull. Boring. Entropic. Ennui’d. Dead-ended. From there, history and human nature tell us, it’s “hate”. And, it has to be something good to hate. Hating something bad is so booshwa.
May 22, 2005 - 5:45 pm 19. Doug:Hey, Dave’s taking the same smart pills I do.
Check this out Dave.
. May 21, 2005: If you’re looking for an antidote…a>
May 22, 2005 - 5:49 pm 20. Kevin P:Roger:
If you want to write a article critical of American foreign policy fine.But to intentionally insult and degrade the flag is beyond the pale. Plus these gutless hacks hide it in their foreign edition to play to the rampant anti-american feelings abroad. Exploit your countries flag for profit and then you don’t have the balls to show it to Americans. At least the leftists at Mother Jones have the courage of their insane convictions. Well at least Newsweek doesn’t have to worry about riots and deaths. But they do have to worry about an Avalanche of cancelations and what their unemployment benifts contain. I think their might be some prime co-op spots in NYC available in the next few months.The nice thing about scum bags is that they are often very stupid.
May 22, 2005 - 5:49 pm 21. Kevin P:Roger:
Didn’t some of the same crowd tell us that God was dead too.Zero for two.
May 22, 2005 - 5:52 pm 22. Doug:Time:
Men are Just Like Women.
(Time “men” maybe)
May 22, 2005 - 5:53 pm 23. Doug:Protesters Mob Laura Bush in Jerusalem .
Reminds me of W. Standing out on the mound at Yankee Stadium.
Before throwing a strike.
May 22, 2005 - 6:05 pm 24. JK Ribera:I wonder what Newsweek’s advertisers will think about this.
May 22, 2005 - 6:06 pm 25. Rick Ballard:Just to put a bit more context to this cover – if it’s dated Feb 2 as Riding Sun states, then it was on the newstands as the Iraqis risked their lives to vote.
The Washington Post Group is more dangerous than Zarqawi. Zarqawi has made his intent to damage or destroy the US absolutely clear. He’s a woman and child murdering terrorist who has earned his fate. The Washington Post Group is using the freedom that patriotic Americans gave their blood, treasure and lives to secure to attempt to destroy the US – or at minimum to change it into something that most of us would not recognize as American.
It would be in the best interest of the Republic if the the Washington Post Group were rendered economically unviable.
May 22, 2005 - 6:08 pm 26. Buddy Larsen:For those who haven’t read the Rising Sun entry in-toto, there is also this foreign Newsweek cover, about which RS says:
“Both of the above editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled “Dream on, America”. (This was translated into Japanese as “Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki”, which is even harsher; it means, roughly, “America, the dream country, is rotting away”.) According to Newsweek itself, the article described “the world’s rejection of the American way of life.” Moravcsik’s article did not run in the American edition of that same issue. The cover was also a bit different. It featured Hilary Swank, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, with the title “Oscar Confidential“.
Newsweek gave Boobus Americanus Hollywood on the home cover of the foreign issue that tells the rest of the world–but not us–that “the world has rejected America”.
My God, Newsweek has joined Osama bin Laden.
May 22, 2005 - 6:18 pm 27. Buddy Larsen:Anything–anything–to get a Democrat into the White House. Kill a hundred people. Kill a hundred million people. Send the future of Planet Earth to hell in a death-cult head-basket. But get a Democrat back in the White House.
May 22, 2005 - 6:27 pm 28. neo-neocon:Wishful thinking on the part of Newsweek.
When Fahrenheit 9/11 first came out, I did some research on Michael Moore and discovered that he’d been touring Europe for years, spewing the vilest anti-Americanism to sellout crowds–much worse stuff than he tends to say in the US. He must feel safer to express himself freely among the oh-so-sophisticated Europeans. At that point, I began to wonder what percentage of anti-Americanism around the globe is caused by Americans such as Moore, (and, now, American publications such as Newsweek) spreading anti-American propaganda in foreign venues.
It’s a bit like when Arafat used to say one thing in English–a kinder, gentler Arafat–and another in Arabic. We caught onto his game when groups such as MEMRI started posting translations. Now, people are starting to monitor what Newsweek does outside of this country. Very interesting.
Also interesting is Doug’s comment about the translation of the title of the article therein, “America, the dream country, is rotting away.” This is perhaps somewhat tangentially related, but I wrote a post today about how leftist thought is based primarily on a dream, and how hard it is to face the loss of a dream. You might even say that particular dream is in the process of rotting away, although it’s extremely hard for the left to accept that fact.
May 22, 2005 - 6:36 pm 29. Buddy Larsen:The corporate directorate behind the Washington Post organization has picked this critical point in time to endanger–if not worse (and the odds are great that it IS worse)–the lives and work of America, Americans, and American history. WHY?
May 22, 2005 - 6:38 pm 30. CERDIP:Buddy:
Follow the money?
May 22, 2005 - 6:50 pm 31. Fresh Air:Buddy–
“WHY?”
The WaPo and all the rest are like Jefferson Davis and his phantom insurgent army, taking to the Appalachians with their rifles and mess kits. They know they’ve lost the war, but figure they can hold out against surrender for another 10 years or so.
Note: The cognitive dissonance will only grow as the same America-hating leftist greybeards stay current on the news by reading Newsweek and The New York Times. Thus will the outrage grow at the failure of the rest of America to get with the program.
Ultimately, though, it’s a slow, unhappy boat full of fools circling the drain.
May 22, 2005 - 6:53 pm 32. Cutler:It is pretty much commonplace. Witness Eason Jordan, Bill Clinton schmoozing Iran, the Dixie Chick comments, CNN International… People get braver when they are speaking to the likeminded. When the comments actually come home, to the audience they weren’t intended, they often get in trouble.
It isn’t just things said in foreign lands, even our own domestic talking points are taken up by foreign audiences. Go to a foreign politics board and you’ll see most of the Europeans spouting Democrat talking points about theocracy, Halliburton, etc, etc. Anyone else remember Ted Kennedy running his mouth about Vietnam last year, only to be parroted by Muqtada Al-Sadr the next day?
Regarding Moore, his book Stupid White Men, meant to discredit American democracy, was popular in Europe long before 9-11.
May 22, 2005 - 6:57 pm 33. Kevin P:Roger;
I have never been big on economic boycotts. Hugh Hewitt has been calling on people to cancell their subscriptions to the LA Times for years and i have never done it even though their slant makes me sick sometimes. But this cover cuts it.I just finished a polite but enraged letter to Newsweek via their MSNBC site. I don’t subscribe to the magazine so I told them the shows that I watch on their network and informed them I will never watch them again. I told them that I didn’t think they were anti-American. I just told them that they were cowardly seekers of money who would sully the flag in a time of war for profit. I actually beleive in the right of flag burning, I just think anyone who does it is a idiot. I know that they are not IQ stupid so the only conclusion I could reach was that they had no shame and that they had no honor. I suggest that anyone else that feels the same should submit their feelings to Newsweek so they know that they have gone to far. It’ is not about their right to do it. That is a given. It is about what kind of slime would do it even if they can.
May 22, 2005 - 7:04 pm 34. thibaud:This Newsweek cover’s just another example of an unstoppable MSM niche marketing trend. In this case, the niche is a foreign audience that is thought to be hugely receptive to a (literally, in the Newsweek Japan case) trash America message.
This trend will only intensify becuase it’s driven by hard financial necessity. When the market fragments, and your company’s market share shrinks, time to abandon the mass market strategy in favor of niche products that can compete more effectively in growing areas– in this case, the overseas market.
Mark my word, the MSM will soon distribute doctored news accounts as per the target audience. We may even reach the point where here at home, the MSM product is tweaked for different psycho-political niches: one version for the bicoastal blue urban metrosexual audience, another for the upscale “Economist” corporate elite, another for the flyover state broad middle market, another for red state NASCAR types, and so forth.
May 22, 2005 - 7:04 pm 35. ed:Hmmm.
I think we need a translated copy, at least the cover page, of every Newsweek for the past 5 years. I think if we did get this, is there a source(?), we’d find far worse than this.
It’s just a feeling, but I think there’s plenty of precedence to support it.
May 22, 2005 - 7:06 pm 36. Knucklehead:Why do the media corporations do this sort of thing? Because the international market is the only one where they are growing their ad revenue.
Why do the individuals who work for them do this sort of thing? Aside from the paycheck (whomever is signing them), a few short years ago they were convinced that they were on the verge of turning the US over to the international lynch mob to be “civilized”. Since that obviously isn’t going to work they realize they need to prep the ground for their new homes. They will not love it and they will leave it. In due time their newly adopted homes will grow sick to death of the malcontents and their relentless nit-picking criticisms. Only then will they discover they had it.
May 22, 2005 - 7:15 pm 37. Rick Ballard:Here is an appropriate response.
May 22, 2005 - 7:17 pm 38. sammy small:About one year ago (when my wife subscribed to Newsweak), I looked forward to each week’s cover with its headline of doom and gloom. It would usually have a headline that touted “Bush’s failure of the week”. It got so comical that I tried to predict what Bush was going to be blamed for each new issue. Ultimately my wife got tired of giving me such hillarious ammunition and didn’t renew. It is truely pathetic.
May 22, 2005 - 7:21 pm 39. Cutler:“Hmmm.
I think we need a translated copy, at least the cover page, of every Newsweek for the past 5 years. I think if we did get this, is there a source(?), we’d find far worse than this.
It’s just a feeling, but I think there’s plenty of precedence to support it.”
I’d enjoy that.
May 22, 2005 - 7:25 pm 40. thibaud:There’s um, one slight problem with the trash-Bush strategy as applied to foreign editions or foreign broadcasts. The world doesn’t line up uniformly in favor of the parochial American left-lib agenda.
Case in point: flash back to 1999. Anti-US riots in Moscow and other Christian Orthodox capitals over the Clinton Admin’s bombing of Kosovo. Banner at Moscow’s equivalent of Harvard, MGU, reads: MONICA: SHARPEN YOUR TEETH. Shots fired at the US Embassy in Moscow.
How would Newsweek have pursued its pandering strategy in Europe at that time? Pander to the bien-pensant Euro elite, and you piss off much of Eastern Europe and China.
It’s not so simple, is it, Mr Thomas? Dangerous game you boys and girls are pursuing.
May 22, 2005 - 7:27 pm 41. Terrye:I feel a riot coming on.
I mean why not? I am after all a lost cause. An American who is not ashamed to admit it. Why shoudn’t I go burn something down? nahhh. I actually make a point of obeying the law, silly me.
I am sick of these self absorbed little snots that run around all over the freaking planet hanging out with other self absorbed little snots who seem to think that trashing America is cool, so why not?
I know a guy in the Indiana Guard, a widower with two kids under 12 years of age who had to go over seas. He really does not deserve to be treated like crap by some idiot who would cry like a little girl at the sight of a bearded man and a gun.
But so much of this kind of thing is just gratuitous. It serves no purpose but to humiliate.
There is no defence against it, it is just rude and peurile.
May 22, 2005 - 7:29 pm 42. chuck:…I know that they are not IQ stupid…
This is a pet gripe of mine. Psychologists have labored well over a hundred years to develop tests of intelligence. In that same period no one has put any effort into developing tests of stupidity. Really, it’s a scandal. Such a test is sorely needed.
May 22, 2005 - 7:44 pm 43. Buddy Larsen:Boy, when the left decided to drop the old “politics stops at the water’s edge” tradition, they dropped it all the way thru the floorboards and way down deep into the basement.
Reckon it really could be as dunderheaded and onanistic as, “wrecking the Nam effort gave us a decade of control, so we wreck this war effort and we get another decade of control” …?
May 22, 2005 - 7:54 pm 44. Terrye:Buddy:
yeah, but haven’t they heard of the internet?
May 22, 2005 - 8:07 pm 45. simone_r:David,
I certainly hope the US and its values of freedom and democracy prevail.
But the US is not the only game in town. Watch out for China.
From what I’ve been reading and observing, the Canadian government has switched sides from the US to China: economically, for sure (look at all the trade deals); politically, not so obvious (but Prime Minister Martin went on his first business trip to China in 1972 — when you’ve had close business relations with Communists for more than 30 years, it’s not just business); militarily, what military? (Chretien gutted it).
This was first sketched in the RCMP/CSIS sidewinder report in 1997. Link…
Links to more info on Chinese subversion in Canada: Link…
Also consider that the Clinton administration encouraged close ties between the US and China (including sales of military-related technnology) and didn’t do much to stop Chinese espionage.
The current issue of The Western Standard has an excellent cover story by Kevin Steel on Chinese control of Canada. The familiar names: the Demarais, Martin, Chretien, Strong, Li Ka-shing. The familiar corporations: Power, CITIC, COSCO, Lippo. The current familiar theme: oil (China buying Canadian oilfields and tar sands). Another theme: the Kyoto scam. Lots of details, dates, and quotes from US and Canadian security people. Clinton’s ties to China (US Rep Cox’s investigation, Chinagate) are also mentioned. Finally, a pointed reminder that the US government takes the Chinese threat seriously. Nice photo of Rice in Beijing.
Unfortunately it’s not (yet?) available on the web.
May 22, 2005 - 8:08 pm 46. madawaskan:I sometimes think “what if they’re right?” and start gaming out my mea culpa.
Well crap you do live in California…their babes got more silicone, they got ya surrounded and like a good neo-conservative you do have survival instincts and heck refreshingly honest which still puts you right back in the liberal apostate camp.
Sinner Why can’t you get that old time Hollywood religion back?
Thanks again for the laugh. wow…
May 22, 2005 - 8:39 pm 47. Terrye:simone:
From what I hear Canada was one vote away form a new government. one turncoat saved the day for the Liberals. this time.
I think the conservatives are not done with Paul Martin yet.
May 22, 2005 - 8:43 pm 48. madawaskan:simone_r
China and Canada great.
Look the Chinese better brush up on their Acadianese and learn how to get their balls personalized by the stealth grassroots Bloc Quebecois comme Jacques Chretien or else…
Allons-y!
May 22, 2005 - 8:44 pm 49. Buddy Larsen:‘ey, madawaskan, da last one broot doon da hoose, we all larfin’ ood lood!
May 22, 2005 - 9:19 pm 50. Kevin P:Chuck:
The idea of wisdom has been has been ignored and discarded and has been replaced by the automatic association of accumalated knowledge and mental quickness with being “smart”. People who have true wisdom often have those qualities also but it is not a requirement. There are many book smart people who border on being retarded.I am not making a argument for anti intellectualism.I am saying that many of the people that we bless with the title of smart are so seperated from real life and live a modern form of the cloistered life while living in the middle of society. I think there is a intellectual aristrocacy that live a life very similar to the last of the French Monarchy before the Revolution. They have no connection to the real world that their ideas, while interesting in theory, have no practical use and in fact when they are implemented they fail miserably.
May 22, 2005 - 9:49 pm 51. Sandy P:–But antiAmericanism is still there and I suppose it always be.–
Terrye, always has been. Outside of WWI, WWII and the Revolution – where no one would give US any credit, when have we ever been liked?
We are the original rogue nation, and we have been sticking our middle finger in the air for almost 229 years. Brits feel we took their birthright away. Frogistan feels we took everything away. The BBC’s been against us for decades and they are the most widely listened to radio station on the planet. No surprise the world “hates” us, especially the past 40 years. I spent 3 years in a chat room where 1 topic was “should the US give up the Constitution?” A reason – it’s an archaic 18th century document and has no place in the 21st century. It worked well then, but now….It all comes back to they think their way is better and we know our way is. hehehehehehe
We wanted to trade w/them, but be left alone otherwise. Haven’t you ever wondered why other nations have not specifically set up their government like ours; modeled their constitution on ours; and adopted some of our Bill of Rights?
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—Both of the above editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled “Dream on, America”. (This was translated into Japanese as “Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki”, which is even harsher; it means, roughly, “America, the dream country, is rotting away”.) —
What they’re saying is true from a certain POV (sorry ANH reference, couldn’t resist) — their POV. They’re losing power and the ideals/ideas/policies they put in place don’t work. It’s no fun anymore. They’re just full of anger.
May 22, 2005 - 10:29 pm 52. richard mcenroe:In an earlier thread I referred to Newsweek as The Butchers of 57th Street for their callous disregard of the human damage their Koran article did overseas.
I was wrong.
They are not butchers; they are simple pimps and prostitutes. The truth they claim to honor they abuse as casually as a whore’s sex and with as little regard, for nothing more than a short-term financial gain.
They deserve no more than the scorn such normally deserve, and nothing better than the nameless grave in the potter’s field of American letters at the end of their path.
May 23, 2005 - 7:51 am 53. PJ:More Newsweek covers, different strokes for different folks:
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83397923
May 23, 2005 - 8:59 am 54. Kyda Sylvester:Wasn’t it a newsweek cover years ago that declared “God is Dead”?
newsweek: “America is dead.”
America: “newsweek is the detritus of old media’s putrefying cadaver.”
May 23, 2005 - 9:27 am 55. Buddy Larsen:Kyda, is this it?
May 23, 2005 - 9:51 am 56. Keith_Indy:I’d boycott Newsweak, but then I’d have to buy it in the first place…
I’d flush Newsweak down the toilet, but then I’d have to buy it, and unclog the toilet…
I’d throw a flaming copy at their offices, but then I’d have to buy it, fly to their offices, and then possibly be charged for the act…
Just aren’t to many effective ways to protest them.
May 23, 2005 - 12:02 pm 57. Kevin P:Keith:
I don’t read Newsweek myself but if you watch any of the programs on MSNBC or NBC boycotting them is a good outlet for your disgust.I wrote a very polite but very outraged letter to the MSNBC website and informed them of the 3 programs I will never watch again and if enough people tell them that the propaganda that they promote has economic consequences they might listen although I doubt it.I have never been fond of economic boycotts but I am doing this as much for my own need to do something rather then the hope that it will make any difference.It is good for the soul.
May 23, 2005 - 3:27 pm 58. richard mcenroe:Keith_Indy ó Well, we could burn a Japanese flag outside the offices of Newsweek… that seems to be a traditional piece of free expression…
May 23, 2005 - 7:13 pm 59. joeS:Take heart folks, the fact that in the United States there exists media that is critical of it’s own country probably is a good sign. Usually when you don’t seen critisism it means something has gone wrong. Hey, maybe there might be some postive things to learn, because when you think your perfect, well, it’s probably down hill from there. What are some things that could be improved in this country, well how about health, obesity and it’s related problems is doing in this country, economicaly and of course physically. Morally, the war on terror may kill the terrorists, but it in doing so it puts in place a government that condones torture, by exporting it to other countries like Syria. Is it wonder that the world takes pause at what values it wants to import from the United States with stories like Columbine, and McVey. The United States was born from noble ideals, it is with ideals that not with intolerance and beligerence that it will remain noble. If the United States continues to wage a policy of fear, has it not already lost?
joeS
May 23, 2005 - 7:20 pm 60. Buddy Larsen:Sure, Joe…if we just popped up out the blue and started making war on Arabs you’d have a good point that you wouldn’t even have to make, it would be so painfully obvious.
May 23, 2005 - 7:36 pm