Rolling Stone has featured Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of their upcoming August issue in an article titled “The Bomber: How a Popular, Promising Student Was Failed by his Family, Fell into Radical Islam, and Became a Monster.” Several retailers, including Walgreens and CVS, have already vowed not to carry this particular issue of the iconic music magazine. Millions of Americans have taken to Twitter to criticize the cover – including country stars Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley.
I have to say, the Rolling Stone Magazine cover with the bomber is in poor taste. We shouldn’t make rock stars out of murderers.
— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) July 17, 2013
So Rolling Stone put the Boston Bomber on Cover. I think it’s extremely in “Bad Taste” and just rediculous!! Your thoughts?
— Chuck Wicks (@chuckwicksmusic) July 17, 2013
childish but had to dick the cover of @rollingstone in airport. keep your 1st amendment & ill keep my 7 bucks. … http://t.co/HxbHcdXPXn
— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) July 18, 2013
Seriously…Who’s idea was it to put a bomber’s photo on the cover of a magazine?!
— Whitney Duncan (@whitneyduncan) July 17, 2013
The always outspoken John Rich launched a particularly heated series of tweets to express his disgust:
If u wanna get on the cover of @RollingStone just blow some people up and get some photoshop on your terrorist face and you’re IN! #boycott
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013
Imagine what the mama and daddy of the EIGHT year old boy who was murdered must thing about the cover of the @RollingStone @greggutfeld
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013
If you EVER buy a copy of @RollingStone shitrag mag again then shame on you.
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013
Shoulda blown his head off when he was cowering in the boat. #wasteofammo
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013
It’s a heart breaker to see an iconic music mag glorify a terrorist. I always dreamed of being on that cover, like any other singer. No more
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013
Hey @rollingstone here’s an idea for your net cover boy: ADAM LANZA. Wouldn’t that be great @goldadam I bet you’d defend that 2. Better now?
— John Rich (@johnrich) July 18, 2013