~PEACE~

the media is not our friend.

I'm not on my own computer and couldn't post the offensive cover. Thanks, it helps give context to my rant.

Yes I'm pissed at the pukes over this. I see it for what it is though and that is anything that President Obama does they're going to be against. F* m, the whole lot of them

We should all send something similar to them. They should be ashamed of themselves.

That poor family. I don't care what he did, we sent him there. I have avoided much of this because I am livid at the treatment he and his family are being given in the media. He would never have been there if we had not sent him there.

jaysunb, what you wrote here is powerful. Send it to them and we all should send something. If there is a problem with this guy it does not belong in the public dialog. We have lost our ever loving minds (well that happened a while back) and our hearts are shrinking like the Grinch. What a sick and sorry people we have become that we would accept this kind of treatment of anyone on a "news" magazine cover.

I will be too, so will my husband. This is simply sick and uncalled for. Do they want this guy hunted down all his life and his family? They are inciting and trying to curry favor with the worst elements of our society.

Worthless. Has been for some time but this is no better than a Hollywood Gossip rag with paparazzi that take personal photos from 3 miles away. Just plain old shit.

And it only adds to the shame we must all feel for the treatment given Sgt.Bergdahl.

They were cheerleaders for the war. Rah rah, support our troops. Then they are the first to abandon them.

I am not disappointed, I expected nothing more.

proof of the conservative media

sanctifying Ronnie Raygun.

fucking rw puke media.

about troops, wars, politics, the GOP, liberals, or anything else. Putting a human on the cover and asking if he's worth it??? Bad. Just bad. Unspeakable, really.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10025055737

Thanks for the thread, jaysunb.

notes recently.

- Teachers

- Doctors

- Scientists

- Journalists

- Immigrants

- Union workers

- Muslims

- The poor

- Women, gays, minorities

And now ... soldiers? Depending on who brings them back and their father's style of beard, apparently.

The only bright spot is maybe we will finally be collectively disgusted enough to reel in some of this cartoonish hate.

"If captured, we'll get you back--if we think you're worth it."

... or if your father has a "Taliban beard."

The family, it might be noted, are Republicans.

One of my men in Vietnam ended up as a POW after he left the platoon. He signed up for Huey door gunner to get out of the field, and then was shot down and captured. We brought him home--along with McCain--and when I saw him at a reunion a couple of years ago he was doing great.

I'm very ashamed and embarrassed to see this cruel and disgusting cover of an American magazine. Who is in their upper management? Joe the Plumber?

RoverSuswade

I haven't buying Time magazine for years now - Once in the days it was a decent magazine - specially the international one - but after GWB got into office it kind of disappeared into the black hole irrationality and desperate conservatism was - I ended it, have never been back - even if they is sending my a letter every year, to offer me a tentative magazine deal... Time magazine is just not what it once was - when it had decent journalist, who know their job - and who made Time what it once was...

Diclotican

Here is someone who was a POW for 5 years ... tortured ... and a bunch of smug clowns publish crap like this. I can't believe this is a conversation we are having as a nation. It's embarrassing to me. We send our young people into harm's way for ill-defined wars, and they can't even expect us to be behind them. Really?

I don't care about his father's beard or the young man's viewpoint. We get our POW's home. It should be a no brainer.

Mark Shields: From Rumsfeld, an ugly smear and a giant fib

snip...

Rumsfeld's "wit and charismatic candor" were praised on the liberal New York Times op-ed page, while the editorial page chief of the conservative Washington Times, proclaimed as "most charismatic" of the year the defense secretary "who's the heartthrob of neo-cons and mature women around the country, and Republicans everywhere."

Well, this is a different year, and in his first 2003 press conference, Rumsfeld shamefully smeared American veterans and then deliberately fibbed about how there is absolutely "no need " to consider reinstating the draft because the nation's all-volunteer military was, he assured us, working perfectly.

First, the smear of veterans. Speaking of the 11 million Americans who, during the Vietnam years, answered their country's draft call and the 2 million who served in Vietnam, Rumsfeld alleged that these draftees "added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone."

I'll say "then, they were gone!" Of the 58,152 Americans who gave their lives in Vietnam 20,352 of them were draftees. How dare the secretary of defense say these good and brave Americans "added no value, no advantage, to the United States armed services?" Read more...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/column.shields.opinion.rumsfeld/

With MisLeaders like the neocons who needs enemies. I'm glad an American POW is coming home!

Newsweek has always been the more liberal of the two, and that's not saying much.

He made those fuckers sound like the bunch of whiny little weasels they are.

http://www.timeinc.com/brands/#iconic-brands

Ideally, you should stop reading ANY of these publications, and ideally you should let them know about it.
Brands include:

Time
Sports Illustrated
Entertainment Weekly
Money
Fortune
Food & Wine
Homes & Gardens
InStyle
Southern Living

and many others.

Getting mad at Time magazine for this disgraceful cover, but then keeping your subscription to Sports Illustrated is like being mad at Fox News for keeping Hannity on the air, but then still watching The Simpsons every Sunday night. They want your money, and they'll get it, unless you stop supporting them at the Corporate level. They are counting on us not paying attention.


You can send letters to the Time editors here:

letters@time.com

Here's their Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Inc.

And of course, the parent company is TimeWarner. Its other brands include HBO, TBS and Warner Bros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner

Those who were seen alive and well after capture but never returned. In the Korean war some defected to N. Korea and we did not try and get them back. There were POWs who ended up in Russia during WW II were not returned by Stalin. So this crap that we never leave our troops behind is just that -- crap.

and some have come back, did their time and were forgotten.