Posted on 07/17/2011 9:20:06 AM PDT by markomalley
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is gracing the cover of the current issue of Newsweek magazine. As can be expected, she is receiving some criticism — this time over her image. Earlier today, Jonathan Capehart took to The Washington Post’s PostPartisan blog to criticize the 2008 vice-presidential candidate. In making a clear reference to her garb and presence in the cover photo (see right), he writes:
Folks want to be able to envision someone sitting in the Oval Office. They don’t necessarily want to envision them in the pages of Esquire magazine’s “Sexiest Woman Alive 2011” or Maxim. She can’t possibly be taken seriously as a presidential contender dressed like that, especially since this is the second time she has graced Newsweek in a less-than-presidential pose.
(video at link)
Examining Palin’s cover image, one may wonder where the author drew his comparison to Esquire or Maxin from. Capehart also cites the fact that this is the second non-professional outfit Palin has worn on a Newsweek cover (although the image that was used in 2009 was taken for Runner‘s World and used at Newsweek’s discretion; a photographer leaked the images, which Palin lamented. Capehart declines to include this key fact in his post).
He goes on delve into what he calls a more “substantive” critique. He writes that he is “particularly incensed by the lunacy” of Palin‘s take on the nation’s potential default on its debts. In her interview with Newsweek, Palin questioned how severe the situation truly is:
“It is not the apocalypse,” she said, and questioned the need for the urgent negotiating sessions Republicans and Democrats were conducting in search of a debt-limit agreement (ongoing at press time). “The fact is that we have $2.6 trillion in revenue coming in, and if we just use some common sense there—take that revenue, service the debt first, take care of national priorities—we don’t have to increase debt.”
While Capehart accuses Palin of sputtering “nonsense,” he doesn’t spend much time defining his actual issues with her political statements. Instead, he refers readers to a previous post to explain why he thinks her comments constitute insanity. In his other article, which focuses on the nation’s debt, he writes:
Failure to raise the national debt limit is not akin to a government shutdown. Whereas a government shutdown would prevent Social Security checks from being issued until the impasse were resolved, default would stop Social Security checks cold as the federal government moved first to pay the debts it has already incurred with the cash it has or will collect. The damage from a default would be far-reaching and long-lasting.
He concludes his Palin hit piece by targeting her for quitting halfway through her gubernatorial term and questioning why anyone would take her seriously as a leader. Then, he calls Palin’s assertion that she “can win” in 2012 “laughable” and says that she’s a star merely trying to hang on to her fame.
It‘s interesting to see such criticism of a potential presidential candidate’s clothing, considering the praise President Obama has received for his shirtless escapades on the beach. President Bush, too, was known for occasionally sporting “plain folks’” clothing. Is there a difference, here, perhaps due to the fact that Palin is a woman?
Either way, the dig about her garb has little to do with viable disagreements with her policy stances.
So what does it take for a presidential contender to be taken seriously? Click over to The Blog where Meredith offers up more thoughts on this story.
I take her very seriously and I wasn’t even thinking about what she was wearing.
Pool ol’ Andrea Mitchell looks like such a deranged woman in that picture. Yikes.
Hillary in Bathing Suit with Bill
![](http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/movieimages/2011/05/20660.jpg?key=1305761236")
Obama wears Mom jeans.
WaPo’s Jonathan Capehart: Cornel West’s Criticism Of Obama Makes Him ‘No Better Than A Birther’
Professor Cornel West’s criticism of President Obama as a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs” is reverberating throughout the African American community and the media, and is particularly disturbing to The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart. After defending his comments last night on MSNBC, West did not sway Capehart from his belief that West is now leading a “Blacker than thou” crowd that is as embarrassing as the Birther movement.
In a controversial interview, West also suggested Obama is “afraid of free black men” and “has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.” Capehart was equally as blunt in his response to West, labeling West’s critique to be “myopic, offensive and embarrassingly petty.” Capehart continued:
“Whereas [Birthers and some Republicans] tried to deny the president his citizenship, West is trying to deny him his inherent blackness. By indulging in the ‘Obama-as-other’ narrative, West is no better than a birther.”
Ask Tammy Bruce, Chris Barron of GOProud and *ahem* Andrew Breitbart.
Aside: Mrs Paslin dresses just fine. Matter of fact, when the occasion calls for it her appearance is sans faute.
Jonathan Capehart Can’t Hide His Homosexual Side
May 6, 2009 – It’s no secret that Jonathan Capehart and his boyfriend, architect Giuseppe Lignano have been together for at least 10 years and counting
http://heloise8.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/jonathan-capehart-cant-hide-his-homosexual-side/
Capehart is openly gay. He was one of the journalists on a panel in 2008 sponsored by the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign and the gay-interest cable channel LOGO.
Capehart, a commentator for cable news channel MSNBC.
Capehart is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
The way things are going with Obama at the helm, we all are going to be wearing rags, well, with the exception of Obama and Moochelle.
Us po’ folks are going to have to use the new Tide, guaranteed to wash out the rips and tears, and holes.
Palin’s clothes look fine with me.
Good heavens, they didn’t even airbrush out the cellulite. LOL
Anyone that wears a suit is a low life and no better than a sleasy used car salesman!
Jonathan, a Political Science major, He came to the city right out of college in 1990 and almost immediately got himself a job working for the president of the WNYC Foundation, writing speeches and serving as liaison to the Foundation’s board as well as the New York State Legislature and the Washington-based public broadcasting organizations.
Two years later he went to work for the “Today Show” doing research and writing news. That assignment took him the following year to the New York Daily News as a member of the seven man editorial board, forming the paper’s editorial positions on city, state, national and international issues as well as doing daily reporting and writing.
In 2000 he joined Bloomberg News to become its National Affairs columnist. Less than a year later, in 2001, he took a leave of absence to be the first individual to join Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for mayor, serving as a policy adviser. After the election became a member of the Mayor’s transition staff.
The following year he went back to Bloomberg News as its Global Poverty correspondent
he also serves as a correspondent for “In the Life, “ a gay and lesbian news magazine show on PBS.
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Jonathan Capehart announces that he’s gay on Morning Joe
Dec 24, 2008
Homosexual Media Target Christians
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/homosexual-media-target-christians/
But thanks to the financial largesse of George Soros, who puts money into such groups as Simpson’s National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco, the “right” to be highlighted as a “transgender” individual is being presented as fact.
The Post seems to find normal heterosexuality, not gender identity confusion, to be a disorder. It had previously condemned General Peter Pace for expressing his view that homosexuality is immoral. The Post was also one of the first papers to run “gay marriage” announcements.
It is clear that Jonathan Capehart’s basic problem is with the Christian character of the opposition to his lifestyle.
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/homosexual-media-target-christians/
...what is not seen are the Fantastic straight creases in her Fashionable pants... Now those creases demonstrate Presidential timber
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