Newsweek: America is dead (U.S. Flag Shown in Trashcan on Cover!)

Riding Sun Blog ^ | 5/23/2005 01:17:00 | GaijinBiker

[FreedomCalls]

Newsweek's false, retracted story about American guards flushing the Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo doesn't necessarily mean the magazine's staff hates America or Bush, or wants us to lose in Iraq. To be charitable, let's just chalk that one up to sloppy journalism.

But I'm at a loss to explain this, from the February 2 issue of Newsweek's Japanese edition:

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?":

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:

If you look carefully, you'll see that one of the articles from the other two editions is mentioned in a small blurb at the top: Fareed Zakaria's "High Hopes, Hard Facts" — here billed as "A reality check on Bush & 'Freedom'". Sure, they put scare quotes around "Freedom", but pretty tame stuff, all things considered.

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?

If I were to offer Newsweek a suggestion, it would be this: Any story or cover you're ashamed to run in America probably shouldn't be used in other countries, either.

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[FreedomCalls]

Better audio link:

http://www.cfrb.com/audio/americans.ra

[BJungNan]

The Newsweek flag story is up at

GoGov.com

[bad company]

I was pondering a response to pauls inevtible protestations, but you, FreedomCalls, did a fabulous job. Thanks for the links. I have them in my favorites under 9-11 betrayal. I wasn't on the net yet but I do remember how quickly the sympathy faded and the hatred returned. Inside of two weeks it was business as usual. (Even for the dems)

[auzerais]

The Newsweek flag story is up at GoGov.com

Have NewsMax, CNSNews, GOPUSA and Media Research Center been made aware of NewsREEK's treasonous cover? I sent the story to every addy I could find at FoxNews, Drudge and Michelle. I do hope Rush, Boortz, Savage, Tony Snow etc all cover this on their shows today [Monday]. .

[mewzilla]

Paging Newsweek's advertisers....

[OXENinFLA]

Blood boiling PING................

[InterceptPoint]

...can we turn this into a serious ACTIVISM thread...

Maybe it's time to start the "Hide the Newsweek Cover" prgram at Borders and other outlets. This is straight sabotage. Nothing fancy. You just take a copy of National Review (or something like that) and lay it over the Newsweek stack at your local Borders. A few thousand Freepers could make a difference.

[SheLion]

Blood boiling PING................

I want to barf up my second cup of coffee after reading this.

.....NewsREEK

[mewzilla]

Anyone know who's got the credit for the cover pic?

[aShepard]

I e-mailed it to Imus while he had Meachum of Newsweek on the phone. Probably got to Imus too late, but it would have been great to cold cock Meachum while on air.

[PGalt]

BTTT!

Internal. Enemies. Device.

Cowards

[hobson]

Bump!

[hobson]

Fox is on this story. John Scott just announced they will be talking about it in the 8:00 hour.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the heads up. Hooray for FOX!

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks for the ping. Infuriating is right!

This will be discussed on Fox News during the 7:00 AM program. Mt. time zone. Or, so they said.

CNN does the same thing. I've watched in both Asia and Europe. As bad as they are in this country, they are even more vicious outside of it.

[daybreakcoming]

Newbie Paul most likely gets his news from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

[DCPatriot]

Can somebody explain to me why Paul_fromatlanta was banned or suspended?

I didn't read anything from him that indicated he was a troll.

If we can't allow conversation stating different angles, then this forum loses a little credibility...and quite boring and predictable.

He never used ad hominem attacks and never used foul language. His crime appears to be that he refuses to be a lockstep cheerleader for this Administration.

[jwalsh07]

Newsweek: "America is Dead"

Americans who work for a living: "Newsweek is Dead, Remember Nietzsche"

[Houmatt]

How can they do this yet claim to be apologetic for the Koran desecration story?

It was an empty, hollow apology. They are not sorry for it. It was done intentionally, as this now shows.