Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time’s ‘Special Environmental Issue’ Cover
Business & Media Institute
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.’
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
“One 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, a 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.
“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.”
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.”
“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.”
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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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Those heroic Marines in that photo were fighting for freedom.
This is total and utter disrespect of men who knew they would probably be killed but fought like hell anyway! It’s men in pictures like this that represent the very fact we are not speaking Japanese or German today! God I hate the evil left in this country as much as Muslim terrorists! To hell with you and may someone crack your heads open with a baseball bat!
Global Warming is another way of pushing communism. Its why the leftists love it soo much. Our soldiers FOUGHT communism!
Time editor Rick Stengel’s UPDATE ON EMAIL ADDRESS:
richard_stengel@timemagazine.com
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
TIME SUCKS and boycott TIME and their products! I think the US Marines lost 5,000 Leathernecks in ONE DAY trying to ‘secure’ IWO JIMA and for these pukebags at TIME to desecrate the US MARINE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL like this is not only disgusting, it’s disgraceful! I am now wiping my *ss with TIME magazines from the past….
When I was younger and so much less wiser, I thought Time was a great magazine.
Now that I am older and wiser, I realize just how liberal and disgraceful they really are.
Remember, they wanted to make Osama Bin Laden the Man of the Year.
But this tops it all. They just spit on every soldier who ever served in any war.
Chrissie, this is the same conglomerate, Time-Warner, that allowed Bill Maher to slander all Christiandom, the Pope and all Catholics. Of the 3,400 coming ashore with the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division, on Iwo Jima only 600 were standing when the battle closed. This was the only Marine battle where the American casualties, 26,000, exceeded the Japanese — most of the 22,000 defending the island. The 6,800 American servicemen killed doubled the deaths of the Twin-Towers of 9/11. Time has dishonored not only each and every servicemember but every veteran and sullied the memory of those Marines who fought on Iwo Jima so an asshole like Rick Stengel can publish garbage like this. If you want to boycott Time-Warner go here and look up what they have their fingers into. It is the only way to curb the scum, the instincts and impulses I have will only get us arrested.
Thank’s Mark
Chrissie, this is the same conglomerate, Time-Warner, that allowed Bill Maher to slander all Christiandom, the Pope and all Catholics. Of the 3,400 coming ashore with the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division, on Iwo Jima only 600 were standing when the battle closed. This was the only Marine battle where the American casualties, 26,000, exceeded the Japanese — most of the 22,000 defending the island. The 6,800 American servicemen killed doubled the deaths of the Twin-Towers of 9/11. Time has dishonored not only each and every servicemember but every veteran and sullied the memory of those Marines who fought on Iwo Jima so an asshole like Rick Stengel can publish garbage like this. If you want to boycott Time-Warner go here and look up what they have their fingers into. It is the only way to curb the scum, the instincts and impulses I have will only get us arrested.
Message sent!!!
Hey the maggot has his E-mail blocked, he must have felt the heat already.
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Time Magazine is just representative of the liberal bend of much of big time American journalism. Their blase’ attitude, sometimes outright demeaning, toward traditional American values and icons such as patriotism and religion goes against populist grain. I don’t know what attracts journalists to these liberal traits other than egotism and elitism.
Time and other MSM are paying the price via dying readership. But, they have covered their bases financially by becoming diversified, multi-national corporations. Ironically, they have become what they rant against.
I don’t know which is more revolting. Time magazine for printing this cover and story or their readers who think the cover and story are great. The country is sick, very sick. The only cure is regular shots of patriotism and conservatism combined with the daily reading of the PC Free Zone Gazette.
I would lay odds that Joe Rosenthal is spining
in his grave…Talk about total dis respect!!!
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Darth, these people show more and more they could care less about our heroes just as they could care less about our troops today.
Time and anyone that stays working for Time can burn in hell.
Lynn, me too. Nick and I used to get the magazine till oh gosh maybe 5 years ago we stopped.
Jack thank you so much for the information and the link too.
Darn I am so sorry about his email not working.
I just found another email for him if anyone wants to try again.
Tom you right, so many people have had enough and cancel their readership or things and on TV as well.
Les I agree, there is a real sickness in our country and honestly I don’t know if it will ever turn around.
Tincan Sailor, I bet he is too. It really is upsetting.
The careless representation of the flag raising on Iwo Jima is an abomination of the worst kind. Obviously, History means nothing to Time Magizine and the disrespect for what these men did is beyond reproach. There belief that there is such a thing as global warming is nothing short of stupidity and pure ignorance.
How can we cause, Man, global warming we can’t even divert a thunderstorm, in fact they can’t even predict the weather with more than a 70% accuracy. Yet we are to believe we, primarily the United States of America is the cause of it.
Iwo Jima was strictly a Navy-Marine Corps operation. During this 1-month-long battle, 27 U.S. military personnel were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions, 14 of them posthumously. Of the 27 medals awarded, 23 were presented to Marines and four were presented to United States Navy sailors; this is a full 30% of the 82 Medals of Honor awarded to Marines in the entirety of World War II.
These numnbers and the casualties is what prompted Admiral Nimitz to say, ” Uncommon Valor was common virtue”.
Since United States History has not been taught in this country in over 45 years, it is no wonder that the maggots at Time would not have a clue of how offensive their cover is.
They should save themselves a lot of trouble and just come out and publish the ‘life and times of Joeseph Stalin’ and admit their true alligence. Because it is certainly not to the United States.
Re-sent the E-mail Chrissie, thank you for the correction. I added some of Mark’s numbers to the list of honors this bum has slimed. Thanks Mark.
Mark, Thank you again for sending this article to me about this. I emailed the man that did it and have sent the corrected email out to others as well.
Thank you for what you wrote too.
This whole thing makes me so angry and I want so much to get back at this man and those behind this vile, horrible, disgusting thing they did.
Jack, thank you so much. I sent an email too.
The socialists at TIME refused my e:mail so THANK-YOU Wild Thing for helping flood the TIME lines into self destruct mode!!! Boycott TIME!!!!
Darth, what jerks they are. So far my first letter came back and my second one just might have gone through.
I agree Darth, Boycott Time.
The old Cold War Russkies used to tell US in the 50’s that …”America will crumble from WITHIN without us having to fire one shot or missile!”
TIME = SLIME!! Our US MARINES fought in HELL in the Pacific during their IWO JIMA and OKINAWA island hop missions to secure them for airfield runways so we could bomb the sh*t over Tokyo! MONTEZUMAS REVENGE on TIME / SLIME… BOYCOTT!!!!
It wasn’t lost on me either that “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.” Experts? Trust you? He can try to sell that crap to the mindless boobs that drink his drival,just give me the facts and I can think for myself.
What a socialist and elitest moron. I can’t wait to find every subscription card I can find and send it in.