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Newsweek: America is dead (U.S. Flag Shown in Trashcan on Cover!)
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| 5/23/2005 01:17:00
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Posted on 05/22/2005 11:12:32 AM PDT by FreedomCalls
Edited on 05/22/2005 4:04:18 PM PDT by Lead Moderator.
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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. Source
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com
I doubt it. The market for left-wing propaganda is thoroughly saturated.
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posted on
05/22/2005 4:47:05 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(So you're a feminist... that's so cute!)
To: Blurblogger
%100 on your side ..What nerve putting out a cover like that ..
Funny thing is , if America was really dead the same countries who praise this Newsweek cover would fall into total chaos in a matter of weeks , as would half of the world .
To: FreedomCalls
I copied the image and emailed it out, along with an explanation of what it represented and a plea to boycott Newsweek. And I asked the recipients to pass it along.
43
posted on
05/22/2005 4:54:49 PM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(By their works you shall know them.)
To: Brad's Gramma
Another Newsweek article.
Boy, the famer hauled another load away!
44
posted on
05/22/2005 4:56:47 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(Hey Chirac, Call Germany Next Time. They Know The Way To Paris)
To: FreedomCalls
For Newsweek, it appears desecration (or alleged desecration) of the Koran is bad, but desecration of the US flag is good.
To: Lead Moderator
46
posted on
05/22/2005 5:01:56 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: who knows what evil?
Be a REAL shame if this came to Rush Limbaugh's attention... Wouldn't it just. I can hardly wait for 12 tomorrow, Rush ought to be great. Maybe I'll go to bed now so it gets here faster. LOL
I know...I'm pathetic.
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posted on
05/22/2005 5:04:32 PM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
To: Dog
The credit belongs to another Mod, but I'll take it! ;)
To: Max in Utah
"I copied the image and emailed it out, along with an explanation of what it represented and a plea to boycott Newsweek. And I asked the recipients to pass it along."
If you send it to me, I'll pass it around.
To: FreedomCalls
To the foreign reader, not attuned to the nuances of our freedom of the press, stories such as these in an obviously American magazine might be thought of as sanctioned. They don't realize that like rebellious teenagers, the magazines need to rub it in the faces of the American people who are responsible for their very existence. Nuck them, nuck Fewsweak I say.
50
posted on
05/22/2005 5:07:30 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
To: Lead Moderator
51
posted on
05/22/2005 5:11:28 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Interesting how America seems to get blamed for EVERYTHING that goes wrong around the globe. Hell, I am getting sick of everyone using the US as a scapegoat for their problems. Oh, but when they need help...THAT's a different story...all the sudden we become their best friends...
It used to be like that. Now it's gotten so bad, they don't even PRETEND to be our best friends when they need our help. They basically just try to make us feel obligated to help because we have the wealth and power to do so.
I second your motion. SCREW EM ALL.
52
posted on
05/22/2005 5:11:45 PM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on.....)
To: NonValueAdded
is there a real source other than the weblog link in the authors post that doesnt work?
To: FreedomCalls
Is Newsweek/Wash Post a publicly held company?
54
posted on
05/22/2005 5:15:00 PM PDT
by
woofie
("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!")
To: FreedomCalls
Truly the enemy within. Get out of the USA, traitors! Go live in Iraq, go live in Saudi Arabia, go live in Afghanistan, go live in Indonesia. If you hate it here...GET OUT!!!!!!!!
55
posted on
05/22/2005 5:21:29 PM PDT
by
BigFinn
To: FreedomCalls
"to actively promote the notion that America is a "dead", "rotting" country overseas"
And .. they are doing this while America is at WAR ..??
I'm a little shocked .. but I guess I shouldn't be.
56
posted on
05/22/2005 5:25:10 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
57
posted on
05/22/2005 5:30:45 PM PDT
by
proust
(“All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”--Edmund Burke)
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
See image in post #11. Check its properties and see that it comes off the NewsWeak Japan site here at
http://www.nwj.ne.jp/. Unless NewsWeak itself is reporting a story about someone hijacking their cover, I'd say it was real.
58
posted on
05/22/2005 5:34:04 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
59
posted on
05/22/2005 5:36:58 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls; AFPhys; prairiebreeze; onyx; Texasforever; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; ...
Some please tell me these covers of Newsweek are fakes
60
posted on
05/22/2005 5:37:30 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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