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May 23, 2005If this is real, Newsweek’s got more ’splainin’ to doI’m still hoping to learn whether or not this cover is a photoshop jobbie that should be identified as such. I want to believe that this is a photoshop fraud and not Newsweek trying to appeal to an Anti-Bush, Anti-American audience overseas…I want to believe that American journalists, even though they have lately decided to call themselves “Journalists first, Americans second” and have therefore adopted a very “continental” outlook about much of America, are not cynical. I want to believe it. How about it, Newsweek? Can you tell us this is a fake cover? Please? Hmmm….so far, no one is saying it’s NOT the Newsweek cover overseas. Now, by Newsweek’s latest, “prove-the-negative-if-the-white-house-doen’t-deny-things-they-must-be-true” standard, if no one from Newsweek is saying it’s NOT the cover, then it must BE the cover, right? Instapundit is taking a bit of a we’ll see attitude on this one, and it certainly is smart to be cautious, but from his emails, right now it seems like it might be real. Michelle Malkin has more links and some additional Newsweek quotes, too little, too late to read, but LGF seems to have broken this and comment #597 says it is not only real, but provides some a translation. I’m still hoping it is a fake. If it is not, Newsweek has lost any lingering respectability in my mind. UPDATE: Ed Morrissey has more here. UPDATE: H/T to reader For Now: The text of this “international” report may be read here by Andrew Moravcsik: Dream On, America You had only to listen to George W. Bush’s Inaugural Address last week (invoking “freedom” and “liberty” 49 times) to appreciate just how deeply Americans still believe in this founding myth. For many in the world, the president’s rhetoric confirmed their worst fears of an imperial America relentlessly pursuing its narrow national interests. But the greater danger may be a delusional America—one that believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the American Dream lives on, that America remains a model for the world, one whose mission is to spread the word. An American magazine has the right to print such crap, I guess. But to peddle it overseas when we are at war, when our troops are being killed in an effort to liberate people so that the societies in which they live can enter the 21st century, enter the marketplace of goods and ideas and ultimately CEASE to be a threat to the west? The word treason should never be used lightly. But to me this seems to come mightly close. I’m stunned. Read it all. This is poison. WELCOME: DailyPundit readers. Please look around! Today we’re discussing the modern no pain-in-life requirement, the freakin’ English, and a brainteaser to boot! http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/05/23/if-this-is-real-newsweeks-got-more-splainin-to-do/trackback/ 8 Responses to “If this is real, Newsweek’s got more ’splainin’ to do” |
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:07 pm
This sort of thing has been going on since Bush got into office in 2001. The headline(in white) reads “America foresaken.” The yellow text says “The Day America Died — The ideal of ‘freedom’ falls to the ground due to Bush continuing in office.”
Any then they have the nerve to ask why the world hates us! The Mainstrean Socialist Press never rests, neither should we.
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Yes, the flag-in-the-can image source at Riding Sun is Newsweek’s own Japanese site. If you don’t see the URL in the bottom left corner of the browser window when you put your mouse arrow over the image, then right-click on the image and click on “Properties.”
The other two Newsweek cover images at Riding Sun are not linked back to Newsweek sites.
I’d save the flag-in-the-can image in case Newsweek removes it from their Website.
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:20 pm
Lileks was presumably kidding about the photoshopping, consistently with his kidding about the other things which he said in the same paragraph.
May 23rd, 2005 at 4:57 pm
I’ve found the Newsweek cover article by Andrew Moravcsik which Newsweek hid from American readers by omitting it from its US domestic edition but printing it in its International edition (January 31, 2005 issue) as “Dream On America” http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6857387/site/newsweek/ and in its Japanese edition as “The Day America Died.”
The article quotes Bush’s inaugural and says his words in it represent a “delusional” America. I.e., Newsweek does indeed regard the November 2004 election as the day that America died.
It quotes (25 words) arch-moonbat George Monbiot: “George Monbiot, a British public intellectual, speaks for many when he says, ‘The American model has become an American nightmare rather than an American dream.’”
The article opines (53 words): Blinded by its own myth, America has grown incapable of recognizing its flaws. For there is much about the American Dream to fault. If the rest of the world has lost faith in the American model—political, economic, diplomatic—it’s partly for the very good reason that it doesn’t work as well anymore.
May 23rd, 2005 at 8:41 pm
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May 24th, 2005 at 12:58 am
Yeah, the Euro-Model is the key…except for those pesky decades long 1-2% growth rates and those double-digit unemployment rates… Remember when the Euro hit the market, initially pegged to the dollar for a start? It sunk like a rock to around $0.50 cents until the US and Japan propped it up with unprecedented purchases….There is a contingent here that says better to help Europe this way than with direct economic assistance(Foreign Aid). I say time to flush…And let them sort it out. Let’s move our bases to New Europe and stop throwing good money after bad. Socialism never worked and never will. Our only weakness was not coming down hard on our enemies.
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