Now taking nominations for the Worst Magazine Cover of the year

I humbly submit the following:


I saw this magazine cover sitting on the coffee table at a friend's house two days ago and I had to look twice to believe what I was seeing. After digesting my double-take i concluded my eyes had not deceived me; for there it was for all the world to see: Time Magazine equates the importance of "The War on Global Warming" with the Battle for Iwo Jima. I'll give Time an "A" for shock value alright, but if their intention was to shock folks like me into thumbing through the issue--let alone purchase it--well let's just say they failed miserably.

Dennis Prager sums up my thoughts on the matter rather succinctly, so I'll just add, "yeah, what he said."

The Time cover is cheap heroism. It is a liberal attempt to depict as equally heroic those who fight carbon emissions and those who fought Japanese fascists and Nazis.

Second, for much of the left, the cover reflects the primacy of environmental concerns over moral concerns. For example, the left seemed never to care about the millions of Africans who continued to die from malaria largely because of the environmentalists' worldwide ban on the use of DDT as pesticide. The same holds true for another leftwing environmentalist fantasy. Changing corn into biofuels is causing a surge in food prices throughout the world. The European Union continues this policy despite warnings even from some environmentalists that food shortages, starvation and food riots are imminent. But human suffering is not as significant as environmental degradation.

Third, the left is far more internationalist -- global, if you will -- in its orientation than national. As the Time article states, "Going green: What could be redder, whiter and bluer than that?" Whereas, for most Americans patriotism remains red, white and blue, for much of the left it is green.

Fourth, the further left you go, the more inclined you are to hysteria. From the threat of DDT to the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America to that mass killer secondhand smoke, the left believes and spreads threats that, unlike the threat of Islamic terror, really are "scare tactics."

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who see nothing wrong with Time's cover this week--even going so far as to celebrate it as speaking "truth to power" or something--and will take the opportunity to dismiss any objection as typical right-wing hysteria. Too bad they'll also not realize that the men on the cover and their brothers-in-arms fought for their right to hold and express their mis-guided feelings and opinions.

Oh yeah, HAPPY EARTH DAY, whatever that means.