Posted on 12/01/2016 12:12:48 PM PST by rhett october
Hillary Clinton supporters can still live a part of their dream if they so choose. Once they decide to stop protesting, they can hop online and order a commemorative edition of Newsweek that was going to be released if the former secretary of state won the presidential election.
Pictures of the recalled issue feature a photo of Clinton with the title “Madam President.” The issue was leaked before the November 8th election which led for some to decry it as evidence of a rigged system. Newsweek quickly explained itself, stating that the issue was published under a Newsweek license by Topix Media. Newsweek posted on Twitter that a “President Trump” issue was also designed.
The “Madam President” edition was quickly recalled following Trump’s win, but copies of it are for sale on eBay and at least one is fetching bids of $200.
Newsweek editor-in-chief Jim Impoco said he was surprised by the cover when he saw it on social media. During an interview on the Media Masters podcast released Thursday, Impoco described the cover as a “routine” action of the publishing industry in the event that a result could go one of multiple ways.
“Yet in this toxic brew of electoral politics in America, it became a thing, it went viral,” Impoco said.
“I actually preferred the ‘it’s rigged’ argument to the ‘boy are they dumb’ argument,” he said.
According to Topix Media, only 17 of the 125,000 “Madam President” issues were sold before they were recalled.
You got that right!
One day they will be valuable. Buy a few, and sell them to lefties for thousands of dollars.
Also, that would be the 20th century, not the 21st.
I got my Dad 3 rolls of that for Christmas 2015.
380 with 54 bids, 3 hrs remaining.
LOLOLOL!!!
“Amercan people defeat media” would be an honest headline on the morning after the election.
You may end up holding the bag. Pun intended.
I bought one copy before the prices went way up for my sister who was a campaign worker for Trump. Great Christmas present!
That cover required a Hell of a lot of airbrushing. Kudos to whoever made her look human.
This is pretty simple: Newsweek figured - with their bias - that the election was in the bag, so they opted to cash in early on it and beat their rivals.
Oops.
I wouldn’t even do that to my hemorrhoids... lol
See? Now we can't rag you over needless excerpts
or posting in the wrong forum.
We'll just have to be content with the normal hazing for a
n00bie who is rehashing yesterday's news - although I will
say you did it rather concisely.
And of course we can always comment on your content, such as:
"But one day we might look back at one in a frame and
remember how we almost lost our country to a globalist, communist"
What do you mean "almost?"
Where have you been for the past eight years?
This post appears to be correctly done and properly attributed.
Let’s all crack open a beer, well done, fan...
All here, for free -
much more practical use for her picture...
“It does make sense that a magazine or a newspaper would make two covers - one for each possible result. Sort of like championship games in football/sports.”
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Broadcast and print outlets also maintain ready-to-go obits of famous people. There was a great “Mary Tyler Moore” show episode that centered on the practice.
I read Gunner's post and it hit me.
Rather than trying to find new things to rag you about
I should be acknowledging the fact that you've complied
in every way with our posting requests.
I should be giving you the approbation you deserve.
There's probably a real good egg under that Blogger exterior.
So anyway, here's a big "Tentacles Up!"
Not much there though, but thanks for the peek!
Think of how much one would be worth in a few years if it is autographed by Trump? The ultimate flip off to the Left.
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