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LATimes' Snead: Palin With 'Rifle' on Newsweek Cover... is it 'OK?'
publiusforum.com ^ | 10/09/08 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 10/09/2008 7:21:04 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

Over at the L.A. Times' The Dish Rag blog, Elizabeth Snead wonders how Newsweek got Governor Sarah Palin to pose "with a rifle" for the cover of its next issue? Snead then reveals that it was not a new photo but an old one, that the Governor did not pose for the cover at all, and wonders if it is right for the magazine to use the photo as they did? I suppose Snead wasn't really too worried about the photo, but she did just prove that she has no idea what a "rifle" is because Palin is holding a shotgun, not a rifle, in the cover photo.

Snead tries to give a ribbing to Governor Palin for holding the "rifle" over her shoulder with the barrel pointing toward the ground and the breach open with the shoulder stock draped over her left shoulder. Showing she has no idea how a firearm works, Snead wonders if Palin could "shoot" her "foot off like that?"

Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can't you shoot your foot off like that?

What we have here is another denizen of Hollywood that knows zip about firearms. Palin is not holding a rifle. And even if it were a breachloading rifle, with the breach cracked open, draped over a shoulder, one cannot shoot one's foot off regardless. A breach must be closed before any foot shooting can be in the offing...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; mediabias; sarahpalin
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To: Mobile Vulgus
LATimes' Snead: Palin With 'Rifle' on Newsweek Cover...

Oh darn.
I'd hoped it was an authentic Palin-in-bikini-with-rifle cover...
instead of that photoshopped image.
21 posted on 10/09/2008 7:37:51 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Mogollon

Not only do conservatives have MORE guns than liberals, there’s no telling where or what the liberals might shoot if or when they ever got a weapon loaded...*LOL*


22 posted on 10/09/2008 7:39:29 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Mobile Vulgus
And, only someone in Hollywood could presume that a cover photo had to be “posed for,” after all.

That's really the funny part to me.

It's (ostensibly, at least) a "news" magazine. You don't have to "pose" for a news magazine cover.

23 posted on 10/09/2008 7:39:37 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Sheesh give me a break. I don’t even want to comment on this most outlandish article I have read today on FR...


24 posted on 10/09/2008 7:41:46 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: anniegetyourgun

Yes, it does. When will we see that on the front of “Time?”

I want to see the picture of Sarah with horns like they did Billy Graham and Bill Clinton. lol. They do that every now and again with the “M”. Have you seen it before? It is usually a cause of disdain here at FR. lol.


25 posted on 10/09/2008 7:43:59 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: sarasota

Try one of the “Airweight” Smith&Wessons. They’re revolvers,
so no slide to pull back. Also, internal hammer for additional
safety.


26 posted on 10/09/2008 7:46:52 AM PDT by Fireone (Homeland security is 10,000 rounds of dry ammo and 10 cords of dry firewood.)
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To: sarasota

I like my Beretta Model 70 - they do have a fairly stiff spring... Keep the Beretta, and buy one of those nice SIG 225/P6 police trade-ins, should be well broken in, and you can’t get a better weapon for the money. SIG is probably the best weapon on the market...

I just love how these reporters nowdays just open their mouths and spout off on everything from Hemorrhoids to Hurricanes... Kinda reminds of that Jon Lovitz SNL sketch with the pathological liar...


27 posted on 10/09/2008 7:47:59 AM PDT by craig61a
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To: sarasota

>Any suggestions??<

That’s not a question anyone can answer until they know what your physical health condition is.


28 posted on 10/09/2008 7:48:20 AM PDT by B4Ranch (I'd rather have a VP that can gut a Moose, than a President that wants to gut our Second Amendment!)
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To: Niteranger68
This makes the picture of 0bama with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth fair game.

It's actually a photoshop.


29 posted on 10/09/2008 7:48:57 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: craig61a

That’s a good idea. In fact, a local shooter shop allows you to use a variety of handguns so you can determine which one works best.


30 posted on 10/09/2008 7:52:32 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: Fireone

Internal hammer—does it have an indicator that tells you if there’s a bullet in the chamber?


31 posted on 10/09/2008 7:53:16 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: B4Ranch

Great health but 105#, so not much muscle.


32 posted on 10/09/2008 7:54:01 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: craig61a

I loved those skits! And you sure can draw parallels with the MSM.


33 posted on 10/09/2008 7:55:04 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: mysterio

He is/was a smoker so there have got to be legit pictures of him smoking somewhere.


34 posted on 10/09/2008 7:55:20 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Let's cut the socialist media's head off!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Additionally, Mobile;
Over the shoulder with the weapon broken open IS one of the proper ways to carry a shotgun. However, if it were MY shotgun, I’d chew Sarah a NEW one for holding the metal barrel in her BARE hands......which, unless the weapon has been wiped with silicone or other protectant, will probably corrode at the spots where she put her hands.

It’s bad enough if a male puts his bare hands on the metal; but in females, at CERTAIN times in the month, their perspiration becomes extrememly corrosive.


35 posted on 10/09/2008 7:58:48 AM PDT by Tucker39 (I Tim. 1:15b " .....Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.")
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To: sarasota

They are revolvers. If adequately loaded, there is ALWAYS a round in the “chamber”.


36 posted on 10/09/2008 7:59:15 AM PDT by hotshu (Obama/ Biden '08: "Thugs and Plugs")
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To: Tucker39
in females, at CERTAIN times in the month, their perspiration becomes extrememly corrosive.

Not to mention their voices.

37 posted on 10/09/2008 8:01:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Mogollon
And no a shotgun can't fire with it's breech open.

What, you've never heard of an open breach shotgun full auto assault streetsweeper widow maker that only targets kids?

38 posted on 10/09/2008 8:02:31 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Bratch

Something just ain’t right with that picture of Al Gore. I just can’t put my finger on it.


39 posted on 10/09/2008 8:03:14 AM PDT by SgtSki
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To: sarasota

Were you able to use the shotgun when you were younger?


40 posted on 10/09/2008 8:03:42 AM PDT by B4Ranch (I'd rather have a VP that can gut a Moose, than a President that wants to gut our Second Amendment!)
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