Dear Time Magazine: About that subscription renewal ...
Dear Time Magazine:
Four years ago, I dropped what had been nearly a lifelong subscription to your publication, because on the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, you devoted not a single word to that event -- but instead devoted your cover to Ann Coulter, a woman who only a year before that had uttered the infamous line, "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
And you know what? I really haven't missed it since.
Lately you've been sending me e-mails imploring me to renew my subscription. "David, we want you back!" is the message line.
I've just been deleting them. Though I admit I've paused once or twice and reconsidered.
But now, after running a cream-puff profile of Glenn Beck that makes the Coulter profile look hard-hitting in comparison, I just have two words:
Bite me.
Jamison Foser at Media Matters has the ultimate evisceration of this piece of journalistic garbage. Charles Kaiser e-mails the author of the piece, who reveals he doesn't watch much cable and really hardly knows anything about the subject he was assigned to write about.
So please, go away. And no more whimpering about why no one wants to read established media publications anymore.
Signed, your ex-subscriber, Dave
Beck's intelligence...
is exactly right for Time Magazine. Do you suppose they'll name Blech "Man of the Year?"
For the second time? Everyone has been person of the year at least once.
seeing that this fool can break into crocidile tears on command..
......has always been a piece of crap, a sanitized looking Enquirer, a rag you scan in the grocery store line waiting your turn. That they have slipped even further, what a surprise! All the peons are allowed to have is TASS/PRAVDA on all fronts. That is exactly why I left when I did. Who ownws Time/Warner? OK, I'll google it. Wikipedia has good info on these criminals.
If this cover is real, that really shows his maturity and the magazines maturity. If this magazine was sitting on my coffee table, it would be hard to tell my grandkids that it is rude to stick your tongue out at people. Tho to those who watch CHRISTMAS STORY every year I would wish that Beck would be the one who got triple dog dared and his tongue would stick to the pole. Is that being to mean of me. NO NO NO.
Anyone giving this whack job any recognition/legitimacy shouldn't be taken seriously.
Can't say the cover isn't truthful.
It's not. It makes him seem funny.
that he acts like.
could C&L give us the option of seeing the back cover , that face is ( knowing what is behind the mask ) is painful .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
I see a $300 haircut and a green activity light.
when I look in his eyes I see the back of his head .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Exactly how I feel about cable infotainment (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc.) and the NYT's, WaPo, LA Times, etc.
They can all bite me!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
indeed! put on PBS damnit.
The world's most self-indulgent toilet tissue.
Gosh, I thought Time went bye-bye back when AOL bought 'em out years ago. Just kidding, but they may as well have. I occasionally see an old issue here and there in a waiting room I'm captive in, but I'd never spend a cent buying one or subscribing. Time magazine is irrelevant these days, and by doing a puff piece on Glenn Beck, they're only firming up their irrelevency.
A big fail. Because I don't think teabaggers read much of anything.
you would know they turn out of print Mormon reject books into Oprah-like best sellers at Beck's command.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Teabaggers can read period, you've seen their signs right?
spell check.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I don't think...
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 16:00 — -Bricked-
Teabaggers can read period...
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Not even:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Occult_dnd.png
?
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It looks like Beck is sucking Rush "Draft Dodgin' Druggie" Limbaugh's anal cyst into his mouth. I almost lost my lunch.
"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" - General Jack D. Ripper
I was grossed out as well, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
Now you have put an image in my mind I'm going to have to get rid of ASAP.
Anal cyst - - - GAAAAGG!
Another gross thing about that picture: Beck's earlobes.
Geez, I looked at that cover photo again and wondered if it's maybe an ad for Preparation H. Eeeeeewwwwwww!!!!
I read a little of the Time write up on Beck yesterday on some web site. It seemed to be complimentary and "soft" on Beck; it didn't seem to criticize him very much.
I stopped getting Time about a year ago. They keep sending me stuff in the mail to renew, so next time I get something, I will send it back and tell them to kiss off, and I will specifically mention this issue.
Stay out of my mailbox too.
Let me know when you plan on outing Tony Perkins and Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell
I haven't had a subscription to TIME since high school back in the early 1980s.
I'll take a look at it occasionally in the library, but it's basically crap. I don't know what the demographics might be, but I suspect people who still subscribe to news magazines like TIME average about 50+ years old.
No one reads that stuff anymore except older right-wingers who also watch FOX regularly. That's why they run puff pieces on people like Beck, Coulter and Limbaugh. Can't piss off the readership!
into subscribing by promising they'd help kids with cancer, or some such thing. When renewal time comes, Time doesn't phone, oh no! The Cancer people do.
I toss the magazine in the trash bin on my way back from the mail box.
How dare you treat a trash can with such disrespect.
is intended to be a factual statement
...when "The Cancer people" call back, ask 'em if they subscriptions to any other magazine because Time magazine is such a sh*t-rag. I'd bet a shiny apple they can hook you up with something else that won't stink up the joint.
When the cancer people call ask them where you can send the money directly and where a magazine subscription will not take most of the donation. In fact go by the hospital and ask them if any cancer patients could use $20 bucks and give it to them. Lord knows their insurance company is not paying their tab.
ROFLMAO!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
The Nation, Mother Jones and In These Times
to name a few that this auld guy nabs from time to time.
I subscribe to the New Yorker, myself. Good editorial content, excellent writing and very witty cartoons. Plus they send me a digital online advance copy every week.
This is good too:
http://www.aldaily.com/
My only subscription is to Mad Magazine
But after more than 50 years of being a monthly magazine it's now quarterly.
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I like to read High Times on DART Buses
And the Communist Manifesto.
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that if I wear one of those Che' caps with a Soviet pin on it, I look smarter than I really am.
and you'll look like a damn intellectual or somethin!
The Progressive and The American Prospect are also great political magazines.
. . . Readers Digest. Once one of the most profitable publications in North America, now deep in the red and being relaunched with a Christian slant for the 'mature' market.
reaching maturity still honor the age old tradition of reading while taking a crap.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
actually comes from trying to sneak out a silent one. This proves once again that a diet of fast food, lacking fiber, ultimately clouds the mind as the sufferer fills with crap.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
When grapes "mature" we call them raisins.
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heard of sour raisins before ? .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
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After losing 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back by reading this article online, I think we've been looking at Beck all wrong. He's a teddy bear, a patriot. So he called the President a Racist that has a deep hatred of white people. But reading the article I think Beck misrepresented himself.
On the serious side, who the hell is this guy who wrote this piece? Has he been watching the same Beck the sane people have? What a useless use of a journalism degree. If he has one.
is intended to be a factual statement
a very long time ago... when they were so happily backing Ronnie Raygun. Haven't looked back either... who needs Time magazine anyways?!
Well, I feel better.
That anger was considered "Style".I guess that makes hate, bigotry and deception, what...."window dressing"? or maybe "adornment"?I'm sure that Time will sell a lot of copies of this particular issue.Maybe they will even outsell The Enquirer or Moron Monthly. They should be so proud.A true collectors item. Hopefully there will be a lot of pictures though, as Glenn's fans aren't really readers or even thinkers for that matter.
Time scored big on keeping this edition on coffee tables everywhere.
It would have been easy to have made it a nut-job expose' but the geniuses at Time have embedded what both myself and also right wing fundamentalists need to know.
You just can't out and out Do Beck while risking loss of the whole story so I understand why it looks like fluff and so do cats: soft on the outside, razor blades and rabies shots on the inside.
When it got to the part about Beck rising through the ranks of morning zoo radio into a Fox personality, it gave away a subtle hint - that Time had been unable to extract very much about the life of Beck other than a rundown and timeline of Beck situations. This has exposed a shallow and tacky man that has made it to the church on time but has not a clue of what the tears mean to anyone else than himself.
And that cover picture, timeless. Just when you thought the untouched-up Palin photo taught the media to stop make'n stuff up, they do Beck.
Imagine how many different shots they reviewed before this little boy opened his big mouth.
"I understand why it looks like fluff and so do cats: soft on the outside, razor blades and rabies shots on the inside." When people try to pick up my cats, I tell them to look out, because they're prickly. Now I have an even better description.
was assigned to write the article. That is what are media has come to. They write about things they know nothing about. No wonder nobody reads their maagazine. I canceled years ago.
"Dave's not here, man."
the wonderful things Mrs. Luce did for China, but my heart hasn't been in it since Madame Chiang left this veil of tears unrestored.
I did buy their Man of the Year issue when I made the cover, but I got sunburned below the chin when I fell asleep with it on my lap.
I cancelled Newsweek. But that was when they hired Karl Rove. I am not interested in a magazine about teh math.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
That irving Kristol died today , wonder if TM will make him man of the yr .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
The godfather of the infamous neoconservatives. Imagine how many people died for his corrupt beliefs. A real scumbag.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
will continue to die .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
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drip off the old block .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Or, that's one, Bill.
I told Time I was done with them a number of years ago for a similarly offensive mood. I'm sorry I can't do it again.
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WoW...disgusting! I dropped Time like a bad habit years ago. When my In-Laws try to hand over their used copies, I tell them to throw it in the trash bin. The rag isn't even worth it for free.
Wasn't it Time Magazine that did so much to smear Gen. Smedley Butler?
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..............would finger right into the NAZI-SYMPATHIZERS M.O. I'd sure believe that!!!! This sneaky, underhanded, lying, corrupt, exploitive, manipulative, M.O. is exactly, purely Aryan NAZI, today called neoNAZIcons. The modern, so very modern oreo cookies added as window dressing is crap. A black PUKIE is an oxymoron. This is crazy, white, POWER addicted, domination addicted, neoNAZIcons. The scum of the Earth. Please punative god rapture these retards.
I have found their focus at times a bit nauseating.
a long time ago. It was one of the first periodicals that adopted the gutless "it remains to be seen journalism" which takes opposing views as equally valid no matter how illogical and indefensible one might be. They became so anxious to offend no one they developed the world's worst case of journalistic hemorrhoids. This is what comes of always sitting on the fence. I gave up on them a couple of decades ago. If you want serious and reasoned analysis try The Economist.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
From the initial finger-wagging, Reds-under-the-bed huffing and puffing of Henry Luce to today's bewildered pandering, TIME has always been a risible publication.
I certainly feel my bile rising up my throat.
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That right there sums it up for me. Time has no credibility. I will not ever go to a Time website of pick up another Time magazine... ever!
Putting Beck on the cover and doing some asinine story on him was a calculated move by the editor and marketing to increase sales and try to flip that into subscriptions from the Fringers. They knew full well that the Fringers would run out to snatch the mag up and look for something to criticize or praise in the article. Doing it with the Coutlergeist cover, and now this, did not and will not create new subscriptions; in fact, it will probably end some.
don't read, except Readers Digest on the crapper...
I open centerfolds.
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Klein is enough to never read Time again. Total waste of paper and ink.
Funny, I was just going to write that Time has Joe Kein and that has been enough for me not to read it.
so nothing they can do shocks me....
The author,DAVID VON DREHLE, of the Beck piece apparently is also Mr. Beck's Public Relations person.
How can Time Magazine consider printing this puff piece by an author who does not see the danger in Mr. Beck's beating the drum of ignorance and fact free objection to this administration.
I am extremely disappointed in Time Magizine. If some whack job right wing nut takes Mr. Beck seriously and fancies himself a 'Timothy McViegh' and does some real violence, perhaps we would find the man's Tivo full of Mr. Beck's program's. Oh yeah, and maybe they find this ignorant article from Time Magazine at his house also.
Sincerely,
Marc Sadoff
email the Time Editor at letters@time.com
I'll be content when I cease saying, "I'll be content when..."
In that they are all about anger, and can only engage in infantile tactics...
You'll be hard pressed to find any right wing intellectuals out there on the same level of intelligence as left wing intellectuals Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn or Gore Vidal
Every day or every other day, is a story about that asshole, what he said, or did, or didn't do, or the way he misspelled the word (rather comically, I might add), or the way he wore his hair today or, Is that a new suit?
The entire left blogosphere talks about Beck's antics all the time. Everybody's saying his name. It's no wonder he has such notoreity.
Edit: speeling
very ironically, include you. What's your share of the blame?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
to explain how Beck lives for the attention,
them quite nicely. If you had a big, sore boil on your ass, and it hurt every time you tried to sit down, would you do nothing about it? Of course not. You would see that it was lanced. This is our job here. Beck is a big, sore boil on the ass of this country.
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Some stuff you can't make up!
A good spell check program is Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It adds spell checking to all programs, including blogs. Might be of interest.
I don't think I ever subscribed to Time.
I have occasionally subscribed to Newsweek.
I think I quit Newsweek in 2004 permanently
since it is part of the Washington Post.
During the OJ Simpson saga and trail, Time
darkened OJ for the cover to make him blacker
and I guess more evil. That make me lose all
respect for time and I vowed never to support
Time in any way.
but instead of smoking them out
I got the munchies.
I don't think I ever subscribed to Time.
I have occasionally subscribed to Newsweek.
I think I quit Newsweek in 2004 permanently
since it is part of the Washington Post.
During the OJ Simpson saga and trail, Time
darkened OJ for the cover to make him blacker
and I guess more evil. That make me lose all
respect for time and I vowed never to support
Time in any way.
That's all I had to know to know the guy's a moron.
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Glenn Beck in his magic Mormon underwear... it just gets sillier...
is giving attention to a village idiot. Can he solve our energy problems? Can he solve our transportation problems? Can he help us move in good direction? Is he inspiring?
No. He's a village idiot.
Frank Schaffer knows the lay of the land and his advice is sound.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/f...
Jeanne
Do they still publish that rag?
"I can't keep doing this on my own with these...people."
Time/Life used to mean (a conservative) something. Clare Booth Luce, anyone?
Their music, theatre, movie reviews used to be examples of terrific, insightful writing, even if you disagreed with the editorial slant present in the rest of the reporting.
I have a copy of both magazines with my birthdate on the cover. The inside back cover ad in Time that week:
"Nine out of ten Doctors who smoke recommend Camels to their Patients"
C'mon, Evolution, you can do better than this...
I even hate the headline. It sullies the name of one of my favorite TV shows.
And that face! Would love to use it as a perpetual punching bag.
in NYC once, and he was too shiny, also. They both look like their skin has been replaced with some kind of vinyl. And ladies, how would you like to wake up with that face hovering over you? Bless his poor sister wives. Bacon, eggs, and red meat. The only answers.
Thanks! That's prime material for some nightmares...
All the drinking has fried him. He should he stuffed in a straight jacket and hung upside down
I guess it pays to Lie Your ASS off on TV.
His So called show is Nothing more than a Criminal Enterprise that
Prays on the Old,Dumb and the Southern Rednecks.
well, at least they are consistent. I never had a subscription, thankfully
Some stuff you can't make up!
Time (along with Newsweek) are simply coasting on their reputations, and have been for some time.
The articles are poorly written, the price of the publication keeps going up, and the magazine itself is physically (and journalistically) light. It weighs as much as a feather, so not only is Time ripping you off with bad reporting and poor prose, the actual magazine is getting smaller and smaller without any reduction in price.
There is no challenge in reading Time magazine. Not once does it make me think. It makes me angry, because it insults my intelligence.
Jesus Christ! This is the image I'm going to have to see while perusing the magazine racks for the next week? GAG!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
when I saw the posted photo of Beck was: where's that damn bar
of soap??!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
link thingy ,
But there is a condom ad on youtube about a father and his son shopping and the kid looks just like beck .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
how Time really feels.It's their history from way back and then, what they DIDN'T do/did do on the OK City bombing anniversary and now with this f'n clown. No respect whatsoever from me will be forthcoming for this rag.
,,,
Guess I'm not buying that magazine again. It has been going downhill for years.
far left loon >.<
That is one nasty hemorrhoid
America should be rather embarrassed at who and what becomes news in today's tabloids.
I completely understand why TIME would feature the likes of Coulter and Beck, the cover sells magazines. It will sell to the repuglitoad element, but it will sell. Watch for this issue to be prominently displayed and positioned in your conservative friend's homes, in doctor's waiting rooms, or anywhere else tea baggers think you'll "casually" see it.
I ceased donating money to local NPR fund drives about 2 years ago. Not because Cokie Roberts and Juan Williams are GOP shills, but because they had an "interview" with Beck when he was still at CNN. No more money for you guys. Every time I hear a new fund drive I think of that piece.
We no longer get Time Magazine.
AND ARE BETTER OFF FOR DOING SO ..............................
The only surprising thing missing from this cover is Glenn Beck's Halo.
Time Mag is BIG on religion.
That Ann Coulter issue was the proverbial straw that canceled my decades-long subscription. I even wrote Richard Stengel a polite, but stringent, letter by snail mail.
What was funny to me in one of those ironic ways, was that my subscription had always found its way into the lobby of the firm I work for. Within a month or two I had several lawyers harrumphing to me that "we" weren't getting Time any longer! God-damn it, do something about it!
If you can't laugh, you'll die...
Well, we're "out of Time". So Time magazine please cancel my subscription to your resurections. And complete my subscription to your crucifictions! I quit you, Flush,Cry-baby Beck,Coulter and so did my kids and my cousins and sister, my doctor and dentist(family members)...we were fooled by you.
Bye!
I canceled my subscription to Time and sent them an email explaining why. This was one too many times that Time has done puff pieces on right wing bomb throwers. The economy is too bad to be throwing away money.
Next time I get a subscription request from Time rag, I will use the postage paid envelope to send them a copy of a real news article. On second thought this would be a good place to send a link to Thom Hartmann's letter to Obama. "Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal". http://magginkat.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/dea...
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