Bush Derangement Syndrome alert: Cover art of the week
Update: The Daily Globe and Mail slams Maclean’s. (Hat tip – reader Janine).
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When your left-wing magazine is in need of some quick buzz and a cheap circulation boost, what do you do? Go for the easy Bush-bashing photoshop, of course. See MacLean’s (and, yes, they managed to squeeze Britney up in the top, left-hand corner, too):
The writer of the Canadian magazine’s cover piece is one Patrick Graham, who used to chill with Iraqi jihadists and Saddamite thugs before they went and started cooperated with American soldiers. Jules Crittenden, bless his heart, took the time to read Graham’s diatribe so you don’t have to:
Patrick Graham’s article doesn’t appear to actually say Bush is the new Saddam … maybe I missed it, this thing rattles on at great length … though he suggests Bush is responsible for the ethnic violence and is playing one group off against the other. A somewhat cynical and myopic take, when you consider the role played by Saddam, al-Qaeda, people like al-Sadr and Iran in inflaming ethnic violence, in the latter cases with the specific goal of undermining the Americans.
Within all the “Iraq is all effed up” he seems agrees with Bush that Iran is a real problem. He also appears to acknowledge that post-Saddam, massive ethnic violence in Iraq was inevitable. But the turning of tribes against al-Qaeda is all some kind of American propaganda, because al-Qaeda never really existed. Graham is at a bit of a loss, because his old pals aren’t with him anymore, he can’t really go with al-Qaeda … they’d cut his head off, if they didn’t get killed by the Americans before they had a chance to do that … and he doesn’t seem to have much time for Shiites. Rattles on at some length about the Balkans, and suggests turning different ethnic groups against their extremist elements, to the side of law and order, is a bad Balkan idea. Something he noticeably fails to do, which is pretty pathetic for someone who’s spent a great deal of time in Iraq, has friends there, and presents himself as an expert, is appear to give much of a damn about the Iraqis and their fate … except as an opportunity to bash the Americans … or whether they are worth trying to save, and whether that might in fact be happening.
Now, compare that crap to the illuminating, on-the-ground online reporting from Bill Ardolino and Michael Totten and Michael Yon. See also Bill’s tribute to an amazing Marine.
This is why magazines are dying.
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Doing the Bush-Saddam cover that American magazines won’t?
Another “George Bush = ______________ [fill in heinous dictator of choice]” rant. How lame; it’s not even an argument, it’s just a personal insult masquerading as an argument.
After all this time, you’d think that even the denizens of the left would’ve grown weary of it. But, no. When you’re intellectually and morally bankrupt, it’s too easy to keep falling back on the same worn-out cliches, canards and slogans rather than break a skull-sweat trying to think of something new, relevant or meaningful.
The magazine cover says nothing about George Bush. Is speaks volumes, however, about the people behind the magazine.
Our commander on the ground gets it. Now our President gets it.
I sure wish the dimocraps in office would get it. When they sit on their hands and do nothing, they show their approval. When they cast a “nay” vote to show they do not support our troops they are saying, “not only do we approve this, we encourage it.”
GRRRRRRRRRRR
Exactly right. This is more sophomronic nonsense from people who refuse to understand the world as it exists. They prefer to sit in Canada, who is kept free by the USA by the way, and moan and whine about America the Fourth Reich, the new Empire and all that. Luckily there are some Canadians still around who know the score, and one of them is Prime Minister. All is not lost, yet.
Poor trolls. They KNOW they have lost their momentum.
I asked a Code Pinko Skank in DC which Americans they were theoretically representing and IT said that anyone that doesn’t agree with them are NOT Americans.
Morons.
Where do these people come from!? Someone please tell me before I scratch a hole in the top of my head.
I had never heard of Macleans magazine before today and I am sorry that I now do.
I continue to hope and pray that the day will come when these idiots will wake up and see the light. Unfortunately, that may be wishful thinking.
MacLean’s is not a leftist weekly. In fact the left hates it.
This is the magazine of Conrad Black (his wife has a regular column) and Mark Steyn. They have article after article explaining why the federal Liberal and Socialist parties are wrong. They had an edition where they said Walmart was great and another edition supporting our troops in Khandahar and criticizing the government for not supporting the mission strongly enough. This is a right-wing magazine.
What you maybe don’t see is that Bush hating and American bashing aren’t confined to the leftist fringe in Canada – it’s mainstream, left and right.
Wait a minute, Mr Bush was Hitler and nobody likes Hitler. Now, Mr Bush is the new Saddam.
So let me see if I have this correct. While Hitler was the worst, Stalin, whom Saddam most closely resembles in brutality, wasn’t quite so bad (just ask any communist). Since Mr Bush is now related, indirectly, to Stalin, does this mean the nutroots are starting to like the president?
Hmmm…
#9 – And I quote from Dennis Miller, “The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn’t Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He’s not Hitler.”
Had to get the American Flag into the picture, too…
A slur upon us all.
TGIF
Snooper – luv ya but give morons a break.
I suppose I am responding to the comment from [perhaps] a Ca nadian, who seems to suggest that President Bush-bashing is a universal, and not merely limited to the Ca nadian ‘left-wing fringe’. This is my first comment. I am American, married to a Canadian -over twenty-five years, living here, so I can say, there is at least ONE fine Canadian, and HE’S ALL ALONE IN THAT GROUP OF OUR ONE. -By all means, go ahead and ask me how I know, -and you shall find the answers to many of the current day mysteries -whence cometh Timothy McVeigh, thence cometh the Twin Towers, the Wars of the Present Day …and the BLAME rests at the door of painted-up-purr-tie-but-rotten-inside (another way to say that would be: FAKE) Ca nada, from those days to this one, and with the Clinton’s, in their days then, and (PLEASE GOD, NOT) in the future.I am a bit surprised to see the reference to the Ca nadian magazine, but I felt I had to comment, after my experiences here, with both the government and the people, since the year, 1988, in an extraordinary Case, involving all levels of government, its institutions, and the character of the people themselves. The ONLY good thing about the Ca nadians, like al Qaeda, is that it can be said they led us to a Clear View, IN TIME FOR US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT VIEW, AND them. President Bush is not the problem. Thank God he is the President now. His steadfast, purpose-driven righteousness in this Conflict could not have been foreseen by his puny enemies. In that, I feel grateful, after the long years of Conflict here, to say, we’re quite similar. People of *Goodwill* give thanks for a leader of his rare strength, under such difficult conditions. Pointing out the Maclean’s article seems to indicate you are aware you won’t find that in Ca nada. I can tell you, you’re right. †Kathleen A. Wilson
I dunno… That one guy from Iran seems rather taken with the man…
The TV show ER also is taking this. Its so bad I rarely watch it, but last night one of the patients was a crazed druggie, driven mad by being an interpreter for interrogators, who “burned with cigarettes,” and o/w tortured innocent IRaqis (they didn’t care if they were innocent) until they begged God for mercy.
No matter that this has never been alleged by anyone. Any lie will do. But they support the troops!
As a Canuck whose surname is MacLean, I am slightly embarrassed to have my clan associated with this magazine cover.
That said, Mark Steyn writes for MacLean’s, and I will be interested in his take on the cover.
Well, if that’s true I now have even less respect for Canada.
Canada has slept under a blanket of protection that we have provided. It is telling that they can’t even acknowledge that simple fact.
Comparing Bush to the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Sadaam only shows the complete ignorance of those espousing it. These fools lose all credibility and any reason to pay any attention to anything they have to say when they make such comparisons. Don’t like Bush? Fine. Give rational reasons and debate it. Otherwise, shut up. I am sick of the hate and the inability to be rational by these radical, stupid people.
Canada, Canada, Canada. I’m so glad their dollar has recently found some equilibrium. This will certainly ensure U.S. forest products companies regain a competitive edge given ours are not subsidizied to the degree common in a nanny state. With the dollar down and economies bubbling globally, U. S. manufacturers are finding plenty of happy buyers – picture American yellow metal, forest products and Buicks mapping the earth. It’s humorous to consider a country that in modern times marginalizes the most productive aspects of it’s society by legislating language mandates, gives large swaths of the country back to native peoples and continues to insult it’s most important customer base. I for one don’t buy a damned thing if there’s a maple leaf involved. Of course, I never liked Moosehead, in any event.
People who equate Bush with Hitler/Stalin/Saddam have no real grasp of history or the true horrors of Communist/totalitarian dictator regimes.
I say we plunk these people down in the middle of Tehran and have those lucky enough to get back here alive kiss American soil and thank their lucky stars they live in the USA.
Bush is far from the perfect president – in fact, he’s done a lot of stupid things – but a dictator he’s definitely not.
re: englishqueen01 #20
How’s you get that laughing smiley in there?
Great – some free publicity for a magazine nobody’s heard of before. Well played on their part, no?
iowavette; with resepct, you need to pay a little bit more attention to current events. I’m Canadian, and the magazine cover embarrasses me. Probably a lot of Canadians will feel the same way.
This cover is not much different (and the article maybe not as bad) as some of the anti-Bush garbage that you get in the USA (e.g. General Betrayus. Anything in the New York times etc…) The media…US, Canada, UK and elsewhere have the same arrogant mentality. It knows no borders.
But, if you check the news…perhaps the net…you will find Canadian troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan, a Canadian Prime Minister who is not anti-American and a lot of Canadian who, like me, do not subscribe to the kind of insulting behaviour that MacLean’s indulged itself in with the stupid cover.
You need to get a bit of a grip.
Let’s face it – the whole free world lives now, and has lived under the blanket of US protection for most of the last century. And we’re up to the job – we have broad shoulders and (mostly) pure motives, witness the fact we haven’t taken over anywhere like true “imperialists” would.
The scorn of fools is something that goes with the territory, and is in part proof that we’re still doing the right things. Although if it were in my power I’d be mightily tempted to tell them all to go to you-know-where and let them try to fend for themselves – they might grow up and become adult countries and people, if they survived.
As a fellow Canadian, I concur with Blaise. Many, if not most, Canadians are very empathetic to Americans. Unfortunately, after 40 years of the nanny state and Liberal governments and their media, we have developed a significant chunk of the population who harbour anti-Americanism as their default mode. I suspect it is very similar to the DKos and MoveOn crowds who mindlessly attack everything that GWB might say or support and anyone who defends him or his policies. Please don’t paint us all with the same brush.