The obligatory “Time adapts Iwo Jima imagery for global warming” post
posted at 3:19 pm on April 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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You’ll have to make do for now with the front-page thumbnail (swiped from Media Blog), but it’s clear enough even at that size. And yeah, it’s real:
The dudgeon in the comments to the Headlines item on this is already six feet high and rising. Baldi pronounces it a case of moral equivalence, but I think that goes too far: They’re just being lazy and reaching for a shorthand for war and they went with the most iconic image they could think of. Imagine the designs that were rejected. Uncle Sam pointing a gun at the head of Mother Nature? Al Gore running naked, screaming, down a road with a melting glacier closing in behind him? There’s no limit to the possible offensiveness!
Hopefully the thought of Marines being sent in to plant trees on Mt. Suribachi will help soothe our new epidemic of eco-anxiety. Exit question: The left sure does like war imagery in this context, huh?
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dis-freaking-gusting
EJDolbow on April 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM
You have GOT to be kidding me.
I just threw up in my mouth a little!
Vanceone on April 17, 2008 at 2:17 PM
My grandfather was there. Shot through the mouth storming the beach. Got a purple heart and almost died. Lost all of his teeth. I don’t think he’d find that image amusing.
robblefarian on April 17, 2008 at 2:19 PM
There’s a line - and this cover crossed it.
Un-freakin’-believable.
Corky on April 17, 2008 at 2:20 PM
*speechless*
CP on April 17, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Don’t think there’s going to be any soldiers signing up to fight THAT war.
freakagriep on April 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM
But…but…but what about the carbon footprint those soldiers are leaving?
JammieWearingFool on April 17, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I beg to disagree–there’s already a whole army of them–being led by a nobel prize winner with an enormous electric bill.
robblefarian on April 17, 2008 at 2:27 PM
This is exactly what Jonah Goldberg was talking about when he talks about the moral equivalency of war in “Liberal Fascism” … This is utterly unsurprising to me.
apollyonbob on April 17, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Lead post over at Newsbusters
dmann on April 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM
I didn’t think I could see anything so discusting as this. I guess it really shouldn’t surprise me, they all hate our military who give them the freedom to put this on this crud magazine. God Bless our military, past, present, and future.
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letget on April 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM
That’s pretty lame and disrespectful. Just what I would expect from Newsweek but Time? I thought they were a little better. Not much, just a little.
Geronimo on April 17, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Who thought this was a good idea?
The tree-huggin’ losers at Time? By the way, what material are those magazines made out of?
Tony737 on April 17, 2008 at 2:39 PM
I can’t stand it any longer - on different sites I visit, there seems to always be someone that says “I just threw up in my mouth a little”…is that from a book, movie or tv show?
msflea on April 17, 2008 at 2:42 PM
This is sacrilege, and a perfect illustration of how these low-life bastards from the mainstream media would like to equate their leftist agenda with the great and noble accomplishments of our military.
Alamo on April 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Has absolutely no one paid attention to the recent news from the UN regarding NO warming over the last 10 yrs or the fact that it has been unusually cold thus far this year?
DerKrieger on April 17, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Disgraceful.
infidel on April 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM
That’s it. I’m taking the catalytic converter off my chainsaw.
Cuffy Meigs on April 17, 2008 at 2:53 PM
It’s like when your 3rd grade teacher tried to be kewl.
- The Cat
MirCat on April 17, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Disgrace.
nailinmyeye on April 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM
This is completely disgusting. I have had enough of this crap. They are not going to stop until one day we wake up and realize that the United States no longer has the wealth and power to prevent a real danger to humanity. Global Warming is crap and the same people relentlessly hammering the public with it refuse to have an open debate. They simply refuse. One day their goal will be acheived. The United States will be greatly weakened. How wonderful will they feel about this accomplishment when we are faced with a real threat to confront?
And don’t know who I am more ashamed of. The useful idiots dumb enough to buy into this con job or the people smart enough to know its junk science yet cry wolf about it in order to acheive their socialist goals?
Zetterson on April 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM
My uncle was in the Marines in WWII. He stormed the beach at Iwo Jima. Only three men in his group came back alive. The other two were badly wounded. Not long after that battle, the military sent my uncle home because they thought he was going to die of malaria. Ironically, his illness was what brought him home alive.
Though he participated in some of the worst fighting of WWII, I don’t recall him ever talking about his experiences. He suffered from recurring nightmares for the remainder of his life. More than thirty years after those events at Iwo Jima, his alcoholism finally killed him.
My collie says:
If my uncle was sill here, he would be muttering under his breath (almost inaudibly):
CyberCipher on April 17, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Stupid.
Vizzini on April 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Dude, no.
amerpundit on April 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM
“We didn’t wait for someone else to storm the beaches at Normandy.”
Yes, but I don’t think we would have if we only had computer models of Europe that projected that the Germans were there.
frankj on April 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM
How to win the war on global warming? What! The war that needs to be won is the war on mass hysteria!
Sigy on April 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM
FINALLY!
The Left has found a war worth fighting?
Let’s see:
War to liberate humans from tyranny = Bad.
War to enslave humans to the State = Good.
Got it.
catmman on April 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Beyond disgusting. Have they no shame, no sense of propriety, at long last have they no decency
rhetorical questions, the answers all are “no”
Or is that long since dying rag implying that many people are actually going to have to die for Goebbels Warmening?
rbj on April 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM
The last months of a presidential administration are often dangerous. Presidents — looking to their legacies — go to desperate lengths to try to enhance their reputations for posterity. A pungent example of such practices by the Bush administration was reported above the fold on the front page of The Washington Times Monday: “Bush prepares global warming initiative.”
Oh, dear. Just as an increasing number of scientists are finding their courage to speak out against the global warming alarmists and just as a building body of evidence and theories challenge the key elements of the human-centric carbon-based global warming theories, George W. Bush takes this moment to say, in effect: “We are all global [warming] alarmists now.”
- Tony Blankley
MB4 on April 17, 2008 at 3:28 PM
I don’t care for it at all.
They did, however, make me very happy when their cover story a couple of weeks ago was the Bio-fuel Scam.
Credit where it’s due.
SouthernDem on April 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM
SAVE A TREE, WIPE YOUR ASS WITH AN OWL.
DESPICABLE!
winemkr on April 17, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Aw cumon, they’re just trying to be green by recycling old photos. Think of how many carbon offsets they earned by not shooting any new photos. Hopefully they took all of the their photographers out back, killed them, and added their bodies to their compost heap. We all have to do our part.
BohicaTwentyTwo on April 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Exactly. It seems to be in fashion lately to wear clothes that talk about global warming. I bought one just for the irony of it, a company that mass produces t-shirts to talk about saving the planet.
It still makes me laugh.
Esthier on April 17, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Not nuance, but nauseous.
The people that identify have no clue what imagery and sacrifice they are detracting from.
Fake science, fake intellect.
Hening on April 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I’ve seen too much of this crap to be disgusted.
MarkoMancuso on April 17, 2008 at 3:37 PM
It starts with the government forcing us to buy light bulbs that we don’t want or need…where does this farce end?
WisCon on April 17, 2008 at 3:38 PM
This image has been used by dozens of other causes including TV commercials. Washington crossing the Delaware, “The Spirit of 76,” the Gettysburg Address and more were all wartime events that have been used commercially.
I despise the environmentalist whackos too, but let’s not get too carried away kids.
Akzed on April 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM
the lefts “moral equivalents of War” in action.
jp on April 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM
People still read Time?
MadisonConservative on April 17, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Despicable.
To think that a moment in our history could be used to advance a political agenda is disgraceful to my grandfather and all of our honorable servicemen who laid down their lives to stop that totalitarian regime.
They should be ashamed. I will never purchase Time.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM
My parents still get that crapp mag.
It is extremely flimsy, not much to it anymore. Feels like a Parade magazine.
They’re catering to their base, liberal idiots.
benrand on April 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Yikes. Even assuming, as AP does here, that this is a lazy metaphorical creation, some graphic artist had to create this abomination, and some reporter’s name is in the byline, and some (probably several) copy editors had to sign off on it. Shameful, even by Time’s corrupted standards.
Flyover Country on April 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM
If anyone goes to that crap website, leave a comment that a lot of energy could be generated by putting wind farms off Hyannisport island. Oh wait. Why can’t they?
Marxist, socialist, hypocritical douchebags.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM
ManBearPig!!!!!!
Chakra Hammer on April 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Son of a…
The largest hoax of our generation is getting far out of hand. And I thought Time had a good thing going recently when they blasted Ethanol production in their lead story.
Grafted on April 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM
You get a big +1 from me on that one, on all points.
wise_man on April 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM
TIME sucks
Domino on April 17, 2008 at 3:51 PM
But environmentalists are an even Greater Generation ‘cuz they’re not saving people, they’re saving the whole pla-a-a-net.
eeyore on April 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM
This is stupid.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM
For the love of God what freakin CRISIS??!! It’s cold in the winter, it’s hot in the summer and here in Colorado Springs we just got 6-8″ of new snow last night what is the f’n problem here? What is the Climate Crisis?
saltydogg14 on April 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM
What Global Warming?
TooTall on April 17, 2008 at 3:54 PM
The only people who are are truly “green” are either dead or leprechauns.
TexasJew on April 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM
The new climate crisis is that there isn’t one.
TexasDan on April 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM
First it was real wars. Then it was the War on Poverty. That was followed by the War on Drugs. Then came the War on Terrorism. Now it’s apparently the War on Global Warming. Have you noticed a trend here? Whenever the government wants an excuse to expand its perogatives while restricting further the rights of the citizenry, there has to be created a new War on Something. This isn’t to imply that the problems being addressed aren’t serious, but the government has been equating phony wars with the real thing for some time now. “Moral equivalence” is not really the point. It’s political equivalence they’re after. As for the offensive picture on Time, well, I stopped reading Time ages ago when I discerned that the rag was way biased leftward. Now they’ve just descended once more into buffoonery.
NNtrancer on April 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Offended.
OMG.
Fainted.
WTF!
Oh no!
My relative was at the war, hence my opinion carries more weight. Kerry actually went to Vietnam himself. His opinion is irrelevant.
We’re all victims of liberals.
Good God!
…
freevillage on April 17, 2008 at 3:58 PM
As an oil producer and geologist (and someone who has been in the energy industry for well over 30 years, when oil was around $3 per barrel), I can only say that if you folks knew what I know about how absolutely destructive and nation-destroying Congress’s treasonous greeny-weeny “energy policies” are, you’d go right up to Washington and burn the fricking place down.
TexasJew on April 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Why did the Toddle House have to die and TIME have to survive?
mymanpotsandpans on April 17, 2008 at 4:01 PM
I look at the picture differently..i see brave soldiers ripping a tree out by its roots and preparing to ram it up Obama Bin ladens rectum.
malkinmania on April 17, 2008 at 4:02 PM
oops Osama…sorry Obama
malkinmania on April 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM
You can`t fight an enemy (man-made global warming) if it doesn`t exist.
ThePrez on April 17, 2008 at 4:04 PM
msflea - I think the quote is from Dodgeball.
It’s pretty lame, but I’ve seen the picture used like that before countless times. Each time it pisses me off, though.
JohnW on April 17, 2008 at 4:06 PM
That is just about the biggest pile of dog dung I’ve seen lately.
rplat on April 17, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Unbelievable.
mymanpotsandpans on April 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM
The cost of green tinkering is in famine and starvation
Biofuels threaten food supplies, rainforest and climate - yet our leaders push them in the name of the environment.
Farewell the age of reason, welcome the idiocracy. Only George Orwell could have invented - and named - the government’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) that came into operation yesterday. It is the latest in a long line of measures intended to ease the conscience of the rich while keeping the poor miserable, in this case spectacularly so.
-Simon Jenkins
MB4 on April 17, 2008 at 4:11 PM
I can’t see that thumbnail very well, but did they use the original picture and the photoshop a tree into it?
It’s one thing if the dressed up a bunch of hippies and slackers in tie-dyes and flip-flops and recreated the pose…
It’s a shame that certain symbols aren’t respected anymore. It’s funny how it’s always the useless people in society; the slackers, the losers, the people lining up for handouts who don’t do honest work, the college kids living off Mom and Dad, the trust-fund liberals, and so on, who try to tear down symbols and traditions.
reaganaut on April 17, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Complete liberal idiocy. Men and women are fighting and die in a REAL war, upon which the entire course of history rests. Their sacrifice is real. They are honoring their grandparents and great-grandparents by following in their footsteps and waging an actual war that saves actual lives.
And they’re trying to market a tree? Who else wants to go to throw some oil in the ocean?
emailnuevo on April 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I’m only a “would have been” Texas geologist since I never did get a job in the field, figuratively and literally. That was probably about the time you were starting. But now I’m in the nation’s drain hole, a.k.a., Washington DC, and would appreciate it if you’d elaborate… about “energy polices”, although I’d also like to see your target list.
NNtrancer on April 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Morons. Just morons.
johnsteele on April 17, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Hmmm. And I wonder which point of view they are going to choose to take EVERY TIME!
Did these morons even graduate J-school?
Zetterson on April 17, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I wouldn’t even wrap fish in that magazine.
Maxx on April 17, 2008 at 4:22 PM
But I thought the threat was from global cooling?
Et tu Brute on April 17, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I think most of us here know. As someone pointed out a few days ago, the green on the outside…. commie red on the inside enviros have prevented us from building any new refineries for about 30 years. If we were to find an ocean of oil, the price will not go down because we have no capacity to refine it. This is what happens when lots of people are sucked into big lies like the environment and global warming.
Maxx on April 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I’ll state my obligatory offense on behalf of my father who witnessed the actual flagraising on Iwo - I’m sure he’s turning in his grave…
I can’t wait to see how many negative letters to the editor they receive - wait, let me correct that - I can’t wait to see how many they actually print, as opposed to the few letters of support they’ll get
jrlingreenbay on April 17, 2008 at 4:45 PM
.
As a fellow member of that evil group of capitalists, I see your bid and raise you by 535 tar-and-featherings.
Think_b4_speaking on April 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM
My father was on Iwo Jima, as well. In fact, two of my family members served there (the other was KIA). My Dad was as conservative as they come.
He always impressed upon me what a bloody, brutal hell it was…and consequently, I absolutely hate it when people use that image to get some sort of stupid (read: leftist) point across.
Ugh.
capitalist piglet on April 17, 2008 at 4:50 PM
It’s now called “climate change”. See, that covers every possibility.
capitalist piglet on April 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM
How about the Earth bursting into flames like the Hindenberg?
Jim Treacher on April 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM
They are f’ing with my Marine Corps and that is very bad thing to do..
Wade on April 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM
The irony being that while the actual event was real, the famous photograph was staged and did not feature any of the actual men involved in raising the flag.
Just like global warming. The pictures we get (drowning polar bears, for instance) are staged, and it’s not caused by what they believe it is.
Niko on April 17, 2008 at 4:58 PM
I’m only a “would have been” Texas geologist since I never did get a job in the field, figuratively and literally. That was probably about the time you were starting. But now I’m in the nation’s drain hole, a.k.a., Washington DC, and would appreciate it if you’d elaborate… about “energy polices”, although I’d also like to see your target list.
NNtrancer on April 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM
NNtrancer, too bad - you’re missing the boom down here, since the schmucks in your current hometown don’t think that our nation’s energy, or our dollar currency, is as important as, say, caribou mating habits.
Well, let’s start with the 15 billion or so easily-accessible barrels of oil (over 20% of our national daily production and over 40% of our current reserves) in ANWR that will never be produced to flow down the nearby Transalaska pipeline, the many more billions never-to-be-produced barrels of oil that are offshore on Federal leases, the billions of barrels in offshore Alaska waters that are about to be locked up due to lawsuits about polar bears, the impending shut-down of our critical coal power(52% of our nation’s electricity - and we are the Saudi Arabia of coal) , without which we will immediately sink into a major economy-destroying Depression, due to phoney CO2 environmental concerns, the billions and billions of tax and energy dollars wasted on wind turbines costing 2.5 million dollars for less than the oil-equivalent of 4 barrels of oil per day each in electric generation, useless solar rebates that cost 8 times more energy to manufacture than they will ever produce, and ethanol - where you get less than a 40% return on a diesel equivalent return on the diesel and gasoline-dependent production from the corn - actually INCREASING our nations imports for an inferior transportation fuel (ethanol), and the 10-15 year horizon for nuclear (which, by the way,has NOTHING to do with our monstrous transportation fuel problem).
Our pissing about leaving NAFTA, and current silly policies about greenhouse gases which will allow (or force) the Canadians and Mexican to sell most - if not all - of their abundant oil to a higher bidder (ie, China), remembering that these two countries are our MAIN sources of oil imports.
That’s only about 2% of the stupidities of our current energy policies. In some cases, it goes down from there..
AS far as “target list” I was only speaking euphorically, of course. Or maybe because at least one decent truthful person (Senator Inhofe) is still in office.
Save the Spotted Inhofe! Drill for oil!
TexasJew on April 17, 2008 at 4:59 PM
The irony being that while the actual event was real, the famous photograph was staged and did not feature any of the actual men involved in raising the flag.Just like global warming. The pictures we get (drowning polar bears, for instance) are staged, and it’s not caused by what they believe it is.
Niko on April 17, 2008 at 4:58 PM
That is not true. There was more than one flagraising, yes, but this photograph was not staged. These men did indeed raise the flag - a second, larger flag.
capitalist piglet on April 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM
That will only happen when we start using hydrogen to power our cars.
Corsair on April 17, 2008 at 5:36 PM
My father who was there on Iwo is spinning in his grave.
jukin on April 17, 2008 at 5:41 PM
TexasJew said:
Tex,
can you point me to some
weaponserr numbers on energy to make solar cells versus their output? I’ve searched without luck; maybe that industry doesn’t want those numbers so easily available. Thanks.Feedie on April 17, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Johan Klaus on April 17, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Yes, the real enemy is the WEATHER. We must fight the cold of winter, destroy the heat of summer, and kill spring and fall. The way to do it is by ridding ourselves of all we have invented over the centuries. We must become cavepeople (politically correct) once again. It’s the only way we will survive against WEATHER (because it is a result of our creations). Otherwise, if we don’t, we will all become cannibals.
Rick on April 17, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Especially if have got to buy gasolene.
Johan Klaus on April 17, 2008 at 6:40 PM
These people are souless. They have no concept of honor or decency. They deserve the eventual bankruptcy that is heading their way.
thekingtut on April 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM
If you do not think that the “climate change” hysteria is about control {communism}, read up on Green Cross and Michail Gorbachev.
Johan Klaus on April 17, 2008 at 6:59 PM
You don’t have to go far! Guess who was born on Earth Day:
And even better, exactly a century later, the first Earth Day was celebrated.
Once again, Rush is right. Environmentalism = Communism through other means.
newton on April 17, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Another bitter hick clinging to God, guns, and xenophobia.
misterpeasea on April 17, 2008 at 7:24 PM
We need another Martin Luther. Somebody nail 95 theses to Gore’s door.
Grayson on April 17, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Three of the six men in this photo were KIA on that island. Time’s action in using their images (not editorial cartoons, their actual images) in this manner is despicable.
tgharris on April 17, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Uh, overreach much?
spmat on April 17, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Military haters PIMPING the military for their own purposes. Shame on them. Shame of ever last one of them.
JonRoss on April 17, 2008 at 8:40 PM
This is all you need to know.The Iwo Jima campaign was
a bloodbath,a horrific heroic struggle of good and evil!
This is a mockery and downright slap in the face who served
fought,and died honourable on the beaches that day!
Enviromental Wacko’s love imagery like this,it helps them
connect their feelings,emotions to scenes of war!
Since this is Lefty art on patrol,Liberals please don’t
keep going over the same montra about SUPPORTING THE TROOPS!
canopfor on April 17, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Is that why the polar ice caps are melting at an accelerated pace? This isn’t a scientific debate going on at Stanford vs MIT vs Michigan. It’s the right wing’s wishful thinking vs. the scientific community at large.
bayam on April 17, 2008 at 9:00 PM
More idiotic liberal moral equivalence.
Kerry is irrelevant, period. That he briefly went to Viet Nam then lied about his actions has no bearing on his irrelevancy or the issue at hand.
And, for the record if I had a relative who gave everything on Iwo I would be more then a little pissed that some cowardly liberal pissant journalist was using their sacrifice to make a buck. Instead I’m just another Jarhead who is more then a little pissed that some cowardly liberal pissant journalist was using their sacrifice to make a buck.
jdkchem on April 17, 2008 at 9:16 PM
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