Newsweek: Palin Too Common, Too Stupid to be Vice President, She’s ‘Dangerous’

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/09/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Newsweek's Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him. The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline "She's One of the Folks (And that's the problem)," and Meacham writes the accompanying cover story. Be clear about what this means: This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.

Meacham finds Palin to be incurious, unprepared, and even finds it "dangerous" if she were to become our vice president but he offers us nothing but his opinion to judge by. And it's all because she doesn't measure up to his personal standards. Sadly for Meacham's elitism, however, Palin easily satisfies the standards that the Founding Fathers set as criteria for stepping into the highest office in the land. Curiously, Meacham does not once mention the actual Constitutional requirements to run for office in his entire sarcastic attack on Sarah Palin. Like most of his ilk, the Constitution seems meaningless minutia to him...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

The media... is it helping or hurting Palin? I'm not sure which?

[Red in Blue PA]

I don’t have a doctor’s appointment for another 6 months, so I guess I will not be reading this article.

Newsweek is a rag doctor’s use in their offices for their sick patients to kill the time.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

If they tried to make her look bad on that cover, they failed. Sarah is beautiful.

[TommyDale]

The people who “touched up” Sarah Palin’s picture for the cover should be taken out and horse-whipped in public. Do they really think informed people will buy their phony magazine? This contrasts with the phony picture of the “halo” on Obamamama, “the Chosen One”.

[1Old Pro]

The media is feverishky working 24/7 to slime McCain/Palin and endorse Obama.

I’ve never before seen this much blatant in your face liberal bias.

It’s a call to arms, COnservatives and Republicans may have to take election day off and make sure to get all like minded people to the polls to save our democracy.

[mgc1122]

The media is just demonstrating “why” they deserve to go out of business. They are less trusted than bottom feeding lawyers and used car salesmen.

I think their attacks are helping Palin like they did with Reagan.

[ConservativeMind]

Reagan just had a 4-year degree from a no-name Christian college.

[grobdriver]

I actually think we’re looking at the next (2012) President - after McCain’s first 4 years, he’ll bow out due to age and let Sarah run against Hill - whom Sarah will clobber.

Our first female President, two terms!

[Red Badger]

“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” - Henry Peter Brougham

Liberals do not believe this, or if they do, it is a hindrance to them.......

[Rick.Donaldson]

Newsweek is too stupid and dangerous to be a news magazine.

No wait, that’s wrong, they aren’t a news magazine.... they are crap.

[Yankee]

Who th f___ is Jon Meacham and what has he accomplished in his pathetic life besides tearing other people down.

Screw all the dinosaur mediots.

[BigEdLB]

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, columnist for “Newsweek”, has been assigned an interview with “Roswell Crashdummy” the command pilot of the saucer at Area 51, Nevada. As a Radical Elitist, he only wants to do interviews that are in vogue. Saucers are in vogue, as determined by the Elitist Intelligencia Commission. He joins David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, George Will and others, who have defications that lack odor, and who have attacked Gov Palin.

[Army Air Corps]

Too common to be VP? That is rather elitist. I guess that, according to Newsweek, I am “too common” for public office. I do not have a trust fund nor did I attend an Ivy League university (I graduated from a state university). Newsweek and their gaggle of toffee-nosed prats (writers) can kiss my “common” bum.

[sunmars]

Did Newsweek just have their own “bitter clingy” moment.

Dimwits.

[MarkT]

The late, great William F. Buckley, Jr. said (to this effect), “I would rather be governed by the first two hundred names in the Boston phonebook than all the folks at Harvard.”

[JimSEA]

This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.

This is more in a avalanche of liberal arguments that conservatives should be barred from politics, both as voters and candidates, because of their stupidity. The Democrats have become antidemocratic.

[peggybac]

I saw this rag at my dentist’s office yesterday and turned the cover over and stuck the magazine in the bottom pile of tons of others. I would have ripped the cover off, or put the filth in my purse to throw away, but the receptionist was sitting right there.

[ArrogantBustard]

1) Is Jon Meacham queer?

2) Newsweek is useless ... the paper is much too glossy and hard surfaced to be properly absorbent.

3) She's one of us? Good. It's about time I had political leadership "of my peers".

[rom]

Or maybe it’s a rag to make their sick patients even sicker? Maybe Newsweek is good for their business. LOL.

[colorcountry]

Speaking of crap...

This is the only way I'll use Newsweek:

[CapnJack]

“The media... is it helping or hurting Palin? I'm not sure which?”

You would think this would be hurting the media and helping Palin, but from what I see (now this is just my observations at work), that the people here parrot what the “media” says, and think she is stupid.

Out of all the ladies I have spoken to here at work, only two so far have said they like and support her. The young women here at work (at least 10 so far) think she is an idiot ... but can't give any specific reason for their beliefs other than the way she talks ... then again I work on the North shore in Mass.

Back home in NH, most of the people I know think Palin is great ... go figure.

[Mad Dawg]

Lincoln never would have stood a chance with these elitists. Democrats then and Democrats now have a certain preoccupation with “class”.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Memo to Newsweek: You're irrelevant.

[Reeses]

Sarah has a net worth 3 times Biden at about half his age. Who’s the idiot here? Do we really want someone to run our country who at retirement age can’t afford retirement?

[MES401067]

I’ll take one “common” person against a commie any day.

[Humbug]

Newsweek is a rag doctor’s use in their offices for their sick patients to kill the time.

Oh. I always thought it was to make them sicker.

[Proud2BeRight]

“Newsweek is a rag doctor’s use in their offices for their sick patients to kill the time.”

I don’t read mags in doctor’s offices because I think they are infected by all the sick people who hold them. I especially wouldn’t read Newsweak because it is also infected inside because of all the sick people who write it.

[OB1kNOb]

Ah! Humanistic intellectual elitism rears its ugly head once again. This time at Newsweak.

[merry10]

I think she is very pretty too, but this is what the closeup does(which is what they want): shows visible dark hairs above her lip. I’m glad she’s got other stuff to worry about than that....

I also didn’t think the article was that bad.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Nope, *I* don’t.

I never really liked McCain much.

But I sure like Sarah Palin. I can see her being President in 2012. I can see her running against Hillary (because I can see Obama being impeached, or removed from office by the People!)

[BooksForTheRight.com]

This is why I never buy the mainstream “news” mags. I read them in Dr’s and dentist’s offices, or libraries.

[scooby321]

They lost 37% of their readership tis year alone.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Huston's money line:

The main problem with Meacham’s position is that it would tend to create a permanent political class from which we would draw our leaders. This is a concept quite outside of what the Founders wanted.

[Unam Sanctam]

Newsweek sounds like Mrs. Slocum: “She’s dead common!”

[savedbygrace]

Newsweek is a rag doctor’s(sic) use in their offices for their sick patients to kill the time.

'Doctors', 'patients', and 'kill' should never be used in the same sentence.

;-)

[owlbird]

Havent read this rag in years. If it were fifty cents for 52 weeks, it would still be too much.

[DeLaine]

a liberal education can ruin lives and enslave people.

[Obadiah]

Meacham finds Palin to be incurious, unprepared,...

The standard Dem play book. Ronald Reagan was too stupid and had a cowboy mentality. Dan Quayle was too stupid, George Bush was/is incurious and too stupid.

Tell me, what Vice Presidential nominee declared that Roosevelt was President during the 1930s Depression and went on TV to comfort people? What presidential candidate visited nearly all 57 states? Funny how that stuff is left out of the the MSM template.

[Red Badger]

a liberal education is an oxymoron............

[FreedomProtector]

Newsweek: To biased and corrupt to be capable of any real journalism—only capable of liberal anti-American editorials.

[Seaplaner]

The "fellow travelers" at Newsweek know that the market is vanishing for their alleged "news" product.

So, rather than adapting, they are going for one, last...

Crazy Ivan to the left!.

[freekitty]

Definately helping with stupid articles like this.

[Non-Sequitur]

Palin easily satisfies the standards that the Founding Fathers set as criteria for stepping into the highest office in the land.

So does Obama. Scary, ain't it?

[twigs]

Actually, Meacham is an excellent writer and journalist. Certainly not a “dinosaur mediot.” However, I really like Sarah Palin and won’t be swayed by anyone’s attacks on her, otherwise credible or not.

[BusterBear]

These people wouldn’t have liked the pioneers who came to settle our country, either. They get their ideas from the oh-so-cultivated Europeans who made fun of us ever since this country was created.

What they need is some hard work on a farm or in a factory - actually producing something that has some value.

[polymuser]

Neoliberals say the darndest things! Especially when they’re irrelevant or losing.

[Reaganesque]

From the Newsweek article: "John McCain is a man of accomplishment and curiosity, of wide and deep reading, travel and experience. He is smart without being a snob."

Too bad the same can't be said of the author and a large number of his colleagues.

[griswold3]

The moniker of the Democrat party being for the ‘working guy’ is over!
The ‘elitist’ have been talking down to the folks!
Obama’s ‘clinger’ remarks, Biden’s Obama too intelligent for my neighborhood, on and on....

Conservative Republicans believe in ordinary people doing extraordinary feats.
Go Sarah Go!

[Minus_The_Bear]

"Reagan just had a 4-year degree from a no-name Christian college."

Excellent point. This needs to be repeated. Noonan, Brooks, National Review, and all the other northeast country club Bush/Nixon "Rebuplicans" only share a common interest with us when we are winning.

Reagan didn't have the means to attend an "elite" school and would have been pushed aside by today's "Republican elite." He educated himself by traveling this country and interacting with the electorate during his GE show days.

[edpc]

The article opens with this little gem:

Yes, she won the debate by not imploding. But governing requires knowledge, and mindless populism is just that—mindless.

Many in middle America identify with Sarah Palin and her family. They're not going to take kindly to being called "mindless" and "problems" by elitist journalists. This is the kind of snobbery that causes a HUGE backlash, much like it did with US magazine. There is an old adage that says: Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. In this case, it would seem the people at News-weak have been swilling the said ink.