Time, Newsweek Match TV Pack With Transparently Partisan Foley Scandal Covers

http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | October 9, 2006 | Tim Graham

[lowbridge]

Posted by Tim Graham on October 9, 2006 - 08:48.

In case you thought the Foley story was wrapping up on Friday, be warned that both Time and Newsweek weren't buying that. They wanted a chance to build its place in history/Republican infamy. Both covers are quite transparently partisan for the politically sensitive time of the season. Time has a huge black and white picture of an elephant's butt, with the words: "What a mess...Why a tawdry Washington sex scandal may spell the end of the Republican revolution". Time has been rooting for the end of the Republican revolution since they suggested it was in danger of killing off the "human species" back in the first month of the new GOP-majority congress in 1995.

Newsweek's cover has a huge picture of Foley and the words "Off Message," and the "O" is a computer "emoticon." Cute touch. But Newsweek is very much ON-message this week: they want the Democrats to win both houses. Newsweek has two web exclusives from gay pols: Democrat Barney Frank explains how the "closet" is somewhat responsible for his and Foley's scandals, and gay Republican Brian O'Leary Bennett clucks over how "our party has a history of scapegoating gays and lesbians at the first sign of election trouble." There's Newsweek's idea of balance: a gay Democrat and a gay Republican lashing out at social conservatives.

[truthandlife]

Last weeks news that nobody will buy. Let them continue to print and collect dust.

[Welike ike]

Mark Whitaker, the Editor of Newsweek, was reprimanded by his publisher and had to apologize to the White House, for his fraudulent story in 2004 saying soldiers were throwing Quarans in the Toilets of Iraqi prisons. Newsweek is a liberal joke

[Brilliant]

Foley needs to out the Dem gays. That would take this "scandal" off the front pages in seconds.

[george76]

• In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.

Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.

• In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.

What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."

• In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=244680809798238

[Mo1]

[L98Fiero]

"Newsweek is a liberal joke."

And as always,

"Newsweek? Not in this house."

-Hank Hill

[lowbridge]

I just love the Time cover:

"What a mess...Why a tawdry Washington sex scandal

A BIG overstatement.

may spell the end of the Republican revolution"

Followed by wishful thinking.

[roses of sharon]

Sorry, I did not mean literally, of course!

[Dark Skies]

By Nov 7th, Foley will be ancient history IMHO.

[knightshadow]

"Newsweek is a liberal joke."

Yes. And should we expect anything different from them as they do their best to manipulate the mid-term elections?

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Last weeks news that nobody will buy. Let them continue to print and collect dust.

WRONG.

Your tax dollars will buy them and enshrine them in libraries in every city in this country and in schools where students will get "educated" about those corrupt and sinful Republicans who must've surely stolen another election back in 2006 for a party of creeps like that to win again.

DEFUND THE LEFT and get this trash out of our schools. It is considered the "respectable" research material but it hardly qualifies as such.

[capt. norm]

Who cares. These magazines are all on their way down the commode of irrelevance.

[gusopol3]

yeah, I can see these flying off the newstands when people really want to know and are talking about the Amish shootings.

[samadams2000]

Go to your local bookstore. Pick up the hundreds of subscription inserts on the ground and return the litter for processing. Its said each of those cards cost the company $3-4 to process. Do your part to clean up our environment.

[t2buckeye]

I guess the reason they put an elephant's "butt" on the cover was because of the nature of the scandal? (Gay sex?) Sorry, but am the ONLY one who noticed the imagery?

[jaydubya2]

I was listening to ABC radio new this weekend. They were calling it a "sex scandel", and mentioning poll data that basically indicated how "doomed the Repulicans are". It was obviously biased, even worst that NPR!

[NeoCaveman]

National Review should sue TIME, they did that cover months ago.

[hophead]

I find it ironic that the left hold up gays as some sort of trophy group that is beyond criticism. If you criticize it is gay bashing.
I have always asked defenders of gays this question. "If being gay is ok, what would your reaction be if in the local newspaper your name was in a list of gay contributors to any local cause?" 99% of the time the answer was, "Well, that would not be right". They always seemed perturbed by the thought that THEY could be listed mistakenly as gay. Even though "there is nothing wrong with that".
So the left is proud when someone "comes out" on the left but uses it as a club if it is someone on the right. Look at Greevy. The ex Governor of NJ. He is the lefts idol for right now, going on Oprah and all.