Newsweek Magazine Dumps America In the Trash

Newsweek, already in hot water for publishing, retracting and the apologizing for an unconfirmed report that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet by an American soldier at Guantanamo Bay, is in more hot water than previously thought.
A sharp-eyed expatriate American blogger overseas (Riding Sun)has passed on this copy of the Japan edition Newsweek for February 2nd:
The headine reads, "The day America died." As you can see, the American flag in soiled and tossed into a trash can with the staff broken. What a shameful thing for an American-owned magazine to do! Disgusting, in fact. If the American edition published a cover picture with the Japanese flag depicted in the same manner do you think that the Japanese press would take notice and object....just a little?

Little Green Footballs, Instapundit, Captain's Quarters and Lileks (who is having trouble actually believing such a thing is true) have all caught on to this new development.

I do believe that Newsweek's Editor, Fareed Zakaria, is going to be taking a lot of flack from the blogosphere in the coming days. What a shame that the MSM will hide their eyes from the entire fiasco.

It is one thing to see Palestinian militants and Al Qaeda-type terrorist groups burning the American flag or having people walk on it (as al-Sadr had his followers do last week), but to see "mainstream" American publishers doing the exact same equivalent thing on the cover of their magazines is outrageous.

I'm almost tempted to suggest that Mr. Zakaria be required to have an American flag tatooed onto his forehead as a punishment. If America is in the garbage can then I am too. And Mr. Zakaria should be given priority accommodations somewhere down in the bottom of the can along with his magazine.