Posted on 06/23/2011 3:19:16 PM PDT by mandaladon
Provocative? Perhaps, but that’s nothing new for Time magazine with a history of taking iconic American symbols and using them to make political statements.
On Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Time magazine editor Richard Stengel presented the cover of his new July 4 issue, which features the U.S. Constitution going through a paper shredder and asks does the document still matter. According to Stengel, it does, but not as much anymore.
“Yes, of course it still matters but in some ways it matters less than people think,” Stengel said on “Morning Joe.” “People all the time are debating what’s constitutional and what’s unconstitutional. To me the Constitution is a guardrail. It’s for when we are going off the road and it gets us back on. It’s not a traffic cop that keeps us going down the center. And what our politics are about – politics are about conflict. There was no people who argued more about defining principles of America than the framers of the Constitution. They argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history – slavery, states’ rights, central government. So to say that what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question, I have to say. I write about that in the piece.”
The cover is about a story Stengel authored dated June 23 and tackles issues of the day as they related to the Constitution, including Libya, the debt ceiling, ObamaCare, immigration and Libya.
Stengel concludes his article by saying it isn’t the document that is the U.S. Constitution that plays the prominent role in American society, but the people instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Time Magazine means a lot less today than it once did. Newsweek even less than Time.
Make a trip to the store and shake out the subscription cards and drop for processing. Send a message.
QUICK! We NEED a photo of TIME magazine in the toilet!
Saw a picture of the cover this morning. I’m sure TIME thinks its ok to shred the Constitution, that is, all except the amendments they like.
reminds me of “We Are All Socialists Now” from Newsweak
“They (the founders) argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history – slavery, states’ rights, central government. So to say that what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question, I have to say. I write about that in the piece.”
Yes, asking “what did the framers want” is kind of a crazy question.
Luckily we Constitutionalists don’t pay much attention to what the founders wanted - we pay attention to the CLEAR MEANING OF WORDS in what they wrote.
What a simpleton.
He has it exactly backwords. It's not to keep "us" from going off the road. It's to keep the government from going off the road. And the government has been off-roading for quite some time now.
Or a photoshop job of James Madison putting a copy of Time magazine through a shredder.
It sounds to me like you are not with the “new program”, perhaps a “reactionary” that needs to attend a “re-education camp” along with all of your friends and family and anybody you have had contact with in the last 2.5 years. Carry on Comrade!/sarc
I would say the real question is why does TIME ask? What are they leading up to? Will they push for Zero to disregard the Constitution and forgo elections? Are they trying to soften us up for a permanent Zero administration? Are they trying to tell the Zero followers what the next step is?
Matters to me. I am sworn to defend it. And will.
I probably am, lol
Of course, along with most of the rest of the socialist presstitutes. Their motto is "By any means necessary."
The asshat LIB/DIM/Progressive moonbats really fry me. Their views and actions are anti-Free-America and anti-logical. These self-loathing morons should choose to leave this earth.
No need for confession at this point.
The regime will tell you when to confess and exactly what your confession should be.
After seing what these guys are capable of, it is no longer a joke.
Look at Boeing: the #1 exporter in this country and they are going to cancel a new 1 Billion dollar plant.
You can't make this crap up.
They want a rewrite of the Constitution, and the Time editors will obligingly do it as a "public service".
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