TIME Magazine: “Does the US Constitution Still Matter?”
Liberalism + Fourth Estate = Fifth Column
(The Daily Caller) — Provocative? Perhaps, but that’s nothing new for Time magazine with a history of taking iconic American symbols and using them to make political statements.
On Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Time magazine editor Richard Stengel presented the cover of his new July 4 issue, which features the U.S. Constitution going through a paper shredder and asks does the document still matter. According to Stengel, it does, but not as much anymore.
“Yes, of course it still matters but in some ways it matters less than people think,” Stengel said on “Morning Joe.” “People all the time are debating what’s constitutional and what’s unconstitutional. To me the Constitution is a guardrail. It’s for when we are going off the road and it gets us back on. It’s not a traffic cop that keeps us going down the center. And what our politics are about — politics are about conflict. There was no people who argued more about defining principles of America than the framers of the Constitution. They argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history — slavery, states’ rights, central government. So to say that what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question, I have to say. I write about that in the piece.”
The cover is about a story Stengel authored dated June 23 and tackles issues of the day as they related to the Constitution, including Libya, the debt ceiling, ObamaCare, immigration and Libya.
Stengel concludes his article by saying it isn’t the document that is the U.S. Constitution that plays the prominent role in American society, but the people instead.
“The Constitution does not protect our spirit of liberty; our spirit of liberty protects the Constitution,” Stengel wrote. “The Constitution serves the nation; the nation does not serve the Constitution. That’s what the framers would say.”
Posted by WM on Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 4:45 pm | 
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Apparently not. Progressives have made it a job requirement to ignore it.
These Commies of all venues have to be crushed…we’ll do that again in ’12, we have to continue on until the tiny minority of them are barely crawling.
Filthy Enemy Within.
@J in MS
“Progressives have made it a job requirement to ignore it.”
You’re right!
Unless it serves their purpose. Then, it’s all about the Constitution.
They love having their cake and eating it too.
Hail Yes!
They keep telling us their goals and we had better start listening and do something about it. If commies keep infiltrating high office it won’t be long before a stacked SCOTUS declares our precious rights null and void.
In the near future you will see more of this stuff as the election gets closer. They are involved with this administration, and it is obvious.
Well according to Ret. Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, the fear of Black people rioting outweighs the people’s right to have a POTUS who meets Constitutional muster.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=311433
I don’t usually trust or cits WND but I trust Gen. Vallely…..
They should be booted from America if they don’t like it’s foundation.
Does the U.S. Constitution still matter?
To most of us Americans, it sure as hell does!
Yes, but Time magazine doesn’t. Is this what a once great publication has finally sunk to?
Well, isn’t that convenient? This Time magazine cover story just happens to coincide with http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/23/pelosi-says-she-wants-to-expand-our-sacred-documents/“>Nancy Pelosi’s desire to “Expand our Sacred Documents” [posted here earlier]?
LOL, I am pretty sure that for the author and all those idiots at Time Magazine, NYT, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, the Constitution DID matter when W was President. What a bunch of hypocritical morons.
The United States Constitution holds the same value with people of the same ilk:
Liberals hold the Constitution just as dear to their heart as do Communists, Socialist, and Jihadists.
They all spit on it.
He failed to mention that these were the exact words from Barry the Pimp
as dictated from the oval office with cheers in the background from his
comrades in arms…..
These rag magazines and the press are dedicated to only printing what the commies want the sheeple to hear, drive that indoctrination down their throats and they will be ours untill the last bullet falls….
2012 and Governor Palin is our only hope, pray we can survive until then…..
Looking at that photo makes me sick. It makes me feel the same as if it were a Bible being shredded. Our Constitution is sacred. Too bad I am not in TN, I would file a complaint that the graphic offends me and is causing me distress.
Yes, it matters and it makes me angry as hell what these communist, socialist assholes are getting away with.
I dare them to publish a story saying “Does the Quran Still Matter” with the bottom of it being shredded.
HOLY
CRAP
YES !
This is what having a light in these roaches looks like.
The fact that Time asks the question sends shivers down my spine. Time to lock and load.
Is the freedom of the press part of the constitution to be shredded?
The progressives’ hate the constitution, why because it stands between their desire to rule us as peasants in their utopian Americastan. Does it matter, it’s the only thing standing between liberal facist’s goal of ruining this great nation.
Note to Richard Stengel: There are tens of millions of Americans that will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere”
~Robert Bork
Especially the false, delusional, dangerous utopia so-called progressives are pushing these days…
Man, TIME is so cool & shocking…just like Serrano’s piss Christ photo…hang me in a museum. For the Libs it’s Constitution by convenience, no absolutes, unless the ACLU is involved. Using the “irrelevant” Constitution to protect flag burning & shredding the Constitution, but limiting Gov’t power is another matter. Welcome to the disintegration of society a la the fourth estate.
Logic Mine says:
June 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm
“Liberals hold the Constitution just as dear to their heart as do Communists, Socialist, and Jihadists.
They all spit on it”
Yet they use constitutional arguments to argue against it while it supports their right to Jihad in America
Yes. By all means let’s throw that constitution out. Then next time you write a stupid article like this we can throw your ass in jail and you can’t scream about free speech.
It will matter much more once we get rid of all those libtards who hate the Constitution
Is it Constitutional to notice barack obama is a blithering idiot?
Does the Law matter?
Well it depends.
Anoter note to Richard Stengel: “Jane, you ignorant slut!”
You damn right the Constitution still matters! you know what doesn’t? the left communist liberals. I promise you,justice is coming.
Kruschev said he the communists would over throw the US without firing a shot. With the help of obama liberals progressives
the demonicrats and other parasitic useful idiots it could happen but not without firing a shot. Choose you targets.
Funny, when cretins like this guy want to express their bile, they stand behind the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
But if the rest of it does not serve their purpose, then it’s a “guardrail”.
No wonder Time has become the toilet paper of choice for doctor’s offices.
The Constitution was shredded on 9/11 when the country went into weak ass, beta, piss ant, please big brother protect me mode.
Thank God for free speech.
Otherwise we’d never be able to hear the assholes coming
I wonder what noise they make when walking ?
Who the fuck reads Time?
I haven’t read a “TIME” rag since about 1984. It was crap then and is crap now. “TIME” is what is obsolete and meaningless.
Keep publishing this type of cover, TIME.
You’re just strengthening the resolve of Conservatives (and others) and adding fuel to the fires of “Live Free Or Die” patriots.
Watchful waiting.
I say we burn Time to the ground, and do it tonight.
This is an admission of guilt.
Liberals know that their entire ideology is based on ideas that are absolutely UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and only now are they making a push to change the rules to meet THEIR particular needs.
The rest of us are expected to conform to the standard that they set.
Hope & Change should be seen for what it is; a failed Coup d’etat. It’s an ILLEGAL attempt to change the form of government of the United States of America. And as project Gun-Walker showed us, this new religion is willing to kill in order to secure it’s new power.
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“There was no people who argued more about defining principles of America than the framers of the Constitution.”
I FEEL LIKE I’M IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE OR SOMETHING. DID THIS JOKER REALLY SAY THAT?
“They argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history — slavery, states’ rights, central government.”
STOP FRAMING THE DEBATE IN HEGELIAN-DIALECTIC TERMS!
This is the same method that they’ve been using to attack capitalism and free markets. They twisted the concept that government was intended SOLELY to protect and defend the God-given rights and liberties of free men into this huge stinking pile of bureaucratic, nanny-state poop that doesn’t work, and then blame the original concept instead of their version of it. In the same way, they’ve twisted free market capitalism into some weird unworkable bastard child of socialism and crony capitalism, find that it doesn’t “work” (except it is working to make the unions more powerful and the politically-connected more entrenched) and then say it’s time to chuck capitalism. Phuq them all.
Michael Moon says:
June 24, 2011 at 12:12 am
Haha, that was brilliant!
The only reason why copies of Time are still being sold is to line bird cages. I’m sure parakeets thew world over will do the same to that picture as the White House does to the real thing.
btw, at patterico’s i fisked the livng hell out of that POS essay. you might check it out.
At the rate these traitors are corroding us from within our enemies won’t have to do anything. They can just sit back and watch us implode because of the socialist brainwashing courtesy of the fifth column in our fourth estate.
Four More Wars says: The only reason why copies of Time are still being sold is to line bird cages. I’m sure parakeets thew world over will do the same to that picture as the White House does to the real thing.
And the fact that schools use them for “current events” classes…
The Constitution of the US is the most perfect document ever written, much planning and thoughtful debate went into it’s formation. Most of these so-called elites who want to change or ‘modify’ it more than likely never read it or completely comprehend it and the division of power, which was inserted to protect ‘We The People’ from our own government.
>The Constitution was shredded on 9/11 when the country went into weak ass, beta, piss ant, please big brother protect me mode
that’s funny. i thought one of the MAIN ORIGINAL Purposes of the Constitution was to unite the states and PROTECT FROM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ENEMIES.
huh.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, all members of the ” fourth estate ” should and will be brought up on charges of treason for their complicit aiding and abetting of the enemies of this country.
Liberals never say anything (or tell us a question) except it advances some point in their agenda du jour. So the real question they want to know the answer to is more like: does the Constitution as written still matter to too many people for us to just throw it out entirely and replace it with something more to our liking?
“The Constitution was shredded on 9/11 when the country went into weak ass, beta, piss ant, please big brother protect me mode.”
I don’t recall people clamoring for Big Brother to protect them since they were too busy heading to recruitment offices to get a little payback.