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anneboleyn

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7. Exactly. Honestly I wonder if right wingers (not OP) are trying to undermine the Time cover by

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #6)

Fri May 19, 2017, 12:56 PM

May 2017

starting a smear campaign suggesting that Time "stole" the cover. It's a way to distract from the message and undermine the contents as well as play into the "fake news" mythology.

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Time cover of Russia taking over the white house was l"lifted" from Mad magazine... [View all] iluvtennis May 2017 OP

Perhaps the idea was but I like the added 'awash in blood' image. IMHO riversedge May 2017 #1

I admit, I like the blood also. nt iluvtennis May 2017 #4

I am not sure that is blood or a reference to "red" being synonymous with communist? still_one May 2017 #5

Well, I see it as art--with many interpretations-all valid:-) riversedge May 2017 #9

I buy that, or a rorschach inkblot still_one May 2017 #10

You just have to go with the best way to say it lunatica May 2017 #2

To be honest, it's an obvious visual metaphor for the situation. Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #3

Yes. St. Basil's is one of the most famous (even more than the Kremlin) images of Russia so anneboleyn May 2017 #8

And others did it before Mad did muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #6

Exactly. Honestly I wonder if right wingers (not OP) are trying to undermine the Time cover by anneboleyn May 2017 #7