History Forum / General / British History / April 2008

more whinning from an old fool

Appallingly Poor Judgment On The Part Of Time Magazine.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum
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Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover

Time editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of
World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
4/18/2008

<http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080417171532.aspx>

    For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the
traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more
global warming alarmism.

    The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima
photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and
replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green
“the new red, white and blue.”

    Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute
on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”

     “It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to
hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo
Jima survivor.”

SEMPER FIDELIS. -- DSH

    Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming
was erroneous and disrespectful.

    “The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big
discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to
stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just
sacrilegious.”

BINGO! -- DSH

    According to the American Veterans Center (AVC), Mates served in the
3rd Marine Division and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, landing on Feb.
24, 1945.

    “A few days later, Mates’ eight-man patrol came under heavy assault
from Japanese forces,” Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the AVC, said. “During
fierce-hand-to-hand combat, Mates watched as his friend and fellow Marine,
Jimmy Trimble, was killed in front of his eyes. Mates was severely wounded,
and underwent repeated operations for shrapnel removal for over 30 years.”=

    Lt. John Keith Wells, the leader of the platoon that raised the flags
on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to Die:
Iwo Jima” wasn’t impressed with Time’s efforts.

    “That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known,” Wells told
the Business & Media Institute. “[W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up somebody’s
rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure something.”

Make sure the bark is still on it. -- DSH

    Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and
said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate
change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World
War II.

HORSEFEATHERS! -- DSH

    “[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an
effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global
warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an
issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and
a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look,
we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem
and my candidacy involves that.’  I don't understand why they don’t do
that.”

    Holbert, speaking on behalf of the American Veterans Center, said the
editorial decision by Time to use the photograph for the cover trivialized
the cause the veterans fought for.

RIGHT! -- DSH

    “Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United
States,” Holbert said. “The Japanese Empire in February of 1945, however,
certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of
one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history.  War analogies should be used
sparingly by political advocates of all bents.”

PRECISELY!

    Stengel also appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 17 and had no
difficulty admitting the magazine needed to have a “point of view.”

That's the PROBLEM today -- ADVERSARIAL JOURNALISM. -- DSH

    “I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of
the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of
view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one
hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re
experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel
strongly about something let's just say so.”

HORSEFEATHERS & CODSWALLOP. -- DSH

    Time has been banging the global warming drum for some time now. In
April 2007, Time offered 51 ways to “save the planet,” which included more
taxes and regulation.
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DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Clint Eastwood Scores Again.

_Letters From Iwo Jima_ -- A Superior Film.

<http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/movies/20lett.html?8mu&emc=mu>

AMC [American Movie Channel] is debuting an English-language version of this
film this weekend.

Look for local-listings.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

Semper Fidelis

Well, Holbert is a little out of step with the consensus view of the
world's scientific community, I'd say.  Climate change manifest over
decades is not an issue for WWII veterans because there aren't any
below the age of 79 going on 80 if they were at least 18 by August of
1946.

Jones