Osama Bin Laden Time Magazine Cover: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
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2011/05/04 23:00:00
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Time magazine saves its big red X for the worst of the worst. In fact, it has only busted it out four times in its history: once for Nazi mastermind Adolph Hitler in 1945 and in a special edition coming out on Thursday, Osama bin Laden.
But with the other two instances coming within the past decade (former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 and alleged al Qaeda mastermind Abu al-Zarqawi in 2006) and both related to Muslims, The Huffington Post wondered if maybe the news weekly was laying things on a little thick.
Noting that the bin Laden "X" was painted on extra thick (like Osama bin Laden was twice as bad as Hitler was?), the Post's Michael Shaw wrote, "In 1945 when they did the first X-out, Hitler had been the scourge of the planet. There was absolutely no ambiguity surrounding his elimination. Fast forward 58 years. The X-out returns, not to realistically portray any equivalency with Hitler so much as enable the Bush Administration's own blood lust in targeting Iraq and Saddam Hussein for being a bully, a convenient target and a convenient stand-in for bin Laden. Recall, also, after the U.S. caught Hussein alive, how the cover validates the actions of a kangaroo court and a hasty, ugly hanging at the expense of a legitimate and potentially international trial."
Shaw said he'd probably have no qualms if Time had X-ed Hitler, left the cover treatment alone for 66 years and then applied it to bin Laden.
"But after X-ing out three Muslims over the past eight years, today's cover (apart from the question whether bin Laden was even in Hitler's class) speaks more to targeted assassination -- and racism," he wrote.
Do you agree?
But with the other two instances coming within the past decade (former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 and alleged al Qaeda mastermind Abu al-Zarqawi in 2006) and both related to Muslims, The Huffington Post wondered if maybe the news weekly was laying things on a little thick.
Noting that the bin Laden "X" was painted on extra thick (like Osama bin Laden was twice as bad as Hitler was?), the Post's Michael Shaw wrote, "In 1945 when they did the first X-out, Hitler had been the scourge of the planet. There was absolutely no ambiguity surrounding his elimination. Fast forward 58 years. The X-out returns, not to realistically portray any equivalency with Hitler so much as enable the Bush Administration's own blood lust in targeting Iraq and Saddam Hussein for being a bully, a convenient target and a convenient stand-in for bin Laden. Recall, also, after the U.S. caught Hussein alive, how the cover validates the actions of a kangaroo court and a hasty, ugly hanging at the expense of a legitimate and potentially international trial."
Shaw said he'd probably have no qualms if Time had X-ed Hitler, left the cover treatment alone for 66 years and then applied it to bin Laden.
"But after X-ing out three Muslims over the past eight years, today's cover (apart from the question whether bin Laden was even in Hitler's class) speaks more to targeted assassination -- and racism," he wrote.
Do you agree?
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MegaFortunateSon 2011/05/05 00:40:01
Incidentally, why wasn't there a Time magazine cover at the end of 1991 with a big black X through the Soviet flag?
Bin Laden also succeeded in dividing the US like Hitler could never accomplish.
Hitler could not compete with murderers on the scale of Stalin or Mao.
Bin Laden stands in a class of his own. He challenged the most powerful country in the world with a handful of fervent followers and changed nearly every aspect of daily American life for over a decade and for decades to come -In that light, Hitler isn't even on the radar.
Oh, and pulling the race card for such an irrelevant subject? That invalidates every word the author has ever written or uttered, since he's obviously full of sh*t and doesn't know the meaning of the term race.
Lets see, they say the muslims will be mad at us if we show these kind of pictures.
Now I see one of Hitler. Does this mean Nazi not going to like us any longer either?
These is a difference, the pedophile priests go against the teaching of Christ and his Disciples/Apostles. The old and the new, when was the law fulfilled?
Hitler represented extremists, not Germans. Pretty cool how the Germans took him out and not the Allies. They sure did not know what was going on as they pulled their neighbors out of their homes year after year, burned their synagogues down one after the other, never got a word on what was going down in the death camps, did not support their military as that killing machine did it's best to crush Europe.
Yeah, sure.
@Jeb...sounds like how people interpret the Bible. I don't think that too many people actually believe that anyone who commits adultery should be stoned to death, or that anyone who does work on the Sabbath should be put to death!
By the way, when was the last time you read the Quran?
The qu'ran, not daily to be sure, but weekly when questions arise such as told in 1st John 1:4, " Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
When you spark up a joint is it home grown or are you part of the drug trade from Mexico and Central America where thousands of innocent people are murdered and have lost everything because of the drug traders?
This is the 40th year of my life now that I walked away from the weed, acid, heroin. So as far as the 'High Times' reads go I found life is way too cool to waste anymore time fogging by brain up and missing some of its daily adventures.