Posted on 11/17/2009 3:38:55 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention - even if out of context.
- Sarah Palin
WHAM!
PING
Yeah but! Cute picture of the barracuda though!
With garbage like this, how can anyone at Newsweek expect anyone who isn’t a rabid leftist Greenshirt to take them seriously. They have the credibility of the Weekly World News.
I’ll add that when I first saw the cover I thought that it was a photoshop parody. When I found out that it was disgustingly real, I was shocked. I guess I shouldn’t have been, given the depth of hatred the leftist have for this woman.
Runner’s World is a much at fault as Newsweek. The picture could not have been used without their permission. It might have been a financial thing, Newsweek might have paid handsomely for the use of the image.
Frankly I don’t think it will hurt Sarah that much. Those of us who love her will enjoy seeing her in her running garb. As for the rest, they are so far ‘round the curve that it won’t matter. There might be a few on the fence who will fall to the liberal side, but I expect most of them will fall on the Sarah side!
If the President looked like that, I wouldn’t mind seeing her on TV all the time!
Yep, guilty...
"Is she running for President or head cheerleader?"
I don't know why FOX keeps this ass around.
Newsweek?
Are they still printing magazines? I thought they went out of business back in the 90’s?
What’s the big deal? That pic of Sarah has been around for a long time.
Well, we’d better get used to it. Frankly, that’s the first Newsweek I’ve seen that I’d be willing to buy! Lets just come out and SAY it ... she’s a PRETTY LADY! OK, like any “pretty lady” ... now can she type? (/s) This lady is a health nut, lives on basically a frontier, fishes, hunts and calls politics with the same eagle eye and simplicity. Let them “hype” her beauty ... but sooner or later, that will become just a part of the fabric of what she is. She’s “different” than anything we’ve seen ... that picture is only a small part of the difference, and frankly highlights it. We have to go through this phase to get to the next ... once through it, we’ll see the differences we’ve been waiting to vote FOR (as in not AGAINST).
Can you imagine NewsWeak doing a story about SoS Hillary Clinton, and using the picture of her in her bathing suit?
Of course not. They would sit her down and take the most respectful picture they could.
Sarah Palin knows that cheesecake photos of her will not help her career. Now, if only her followers would learn that lesson.
She’s having fun with it, LOL. I’ve liked Cheney’s nonchalance to the hate as well and the hits being returned, but with a legitimate KO. But Palin is great with her responses to the outrage of our media being a player in advocating and protecting 0bama and the Demon party.
I gotta disagree with you and apparently most of the people on this thread. The illustration is certainly designed to make all the limp-wristed Manhattanites choke on their butter cookies, but she looks simultaneously pretty and down to earth, outdoorsy yet brainy, bold yet relaxed and pleasant.
What, do you think we can run away from her gunslinging image? This shot doesn’t distance herself from her hunters’ ties, it humanizes them and turns them into an asset. Newsweek probably thought they were going to radicalize her image, but I bet this backfires. And this is coming from a Long-Island neocon.
I just realize I'd better not presume what those little x'es represent.
Since your link to facebook only goes to the main page, and all your images are busted, do you mind making posting which image you are talking about from another source, or confirming if I’ve got the right one?
The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now.It is sexist, according to Sarah Palin, to post out-of-context pictures of her when discussing political matters -- something that some supporters do here at FR all the time.
They did the same thing to Katherine Harris -- she would say something serious, and all the guys could think to do was post sexy pictures of her on a horse.
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