Posted on 09/02/2008 4:29:31 PM PDT by cdchik123
Rick Klein, from ABC’s The Note, reports: Let’s say you don’t read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter). Let’s say you don’t follow the big political blogs and you’re not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.
Let’s say, instead, like millions ofworking-class Americans, you get your “news” on the political race from the supermarket aisle. Let’s say you’re -- I don’t know, a “hockey mom” -- and you’re intrigued by this Sarah Palin person you’ve been hearing so much about since Friday.
So you’re shopping this week -- and what do you see on the cover of US Weekly? That esteemed journalistic institution is taking it right to John McCain’s running mate -- with a hard-hitting piece that details the “scandal” involving her daughter’s pregnancy.
“BABIES, LIES & SCANDAL,” screams the headline on the cover, with a picture of a smiling Palin holding her fifth child, 4-month-old Trig.
Inside is a collection of Palin lowlights -- from her daughter’s now well-known pregnancy; to Internet rumors that the governor pretended to be pregnant to cover for her daughter; to “troopergate”; to her onetime support for the “bridge to nowhere”; to a radio appearance where she giggled while shock jocks called a political rival a “bitch” and a “cancer.”
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But this, to me, is the clearest evidence yet that the McCain-Palin campaign is losing the battle over Palin’s image. US Weekly readers are the voters her selection was designed to attract. There’s not much to like in this early take -- and not much to indicate that the next round will be much better.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Simply wanted to ask if their rag came in a handy 4 pack roll for use in my bathroom.
You're lying. Al Gores son got busted before the last convention and not a peep was heard about it on the MSM or in US magazine.
Why don't you go to KOS where you belong?
How do you not know if Chelsea Clinton has already had an abortion or two? Democrats like the Clintons kill all their little problems before they become big problems. If Governor Palin’s ex brother-in-law would have been related to the Clintons he would probably be dead now or in a coma and any friends or associates would have come down with the Hillary disease—”I don’t recall”
Yeah, we saw the hours of coverage devoted to the sleazy lobbying done by Biden's sons and the sweetheart job given one of his sons by a company for whom Biden was carrying water. And there was an in-depth discussion of yet more family dynasty politics with one of those Biden sons being elected as AG in Delaware.
Not. Those got some coverage, but not the salacious idiocy we're seeing over Palin. And the reason is clear.
The media is covering for Biden and is hell-bent on tearing Palin down because she has energized the base. For you to believe otherwise makes me wonder just how much you have actually read in your time on FR.
Yes. I agree. My only point is the tabloids haven't found anything else related to Obama to meet the threshold for a story. Seems odd but I don't understand that business.
I’m done being nice to aholes. In a very few words I’ve had it with the MSM and anybodythat supports their sleazy advocacy.
“And many people in the MSM knew about the Bristol Palin Pregnancy and decided not to report it until AFTER the Palin Family issued a press release.”
(1) Sorry, that “news” was not very commonly know in media circles outside of Alaska, and even then it is pretty recent “news”; and (2) until she became a “national figure” it was no widely considered a “national” story. Whereas, the Edwards affair was known in Washington D.C. media-social circles for months; including during most of his Presidential primary campaign - and they all said nothing, by choice. (3) There is a big difference in how “the media” has treated the two stories as well as a difference IN the two stories - one concerns the judgement of the candidate directly (Edwards) and one concerns a member of the candidate’s family, not the candidate (Palin).
US Magazine Contacts
Janice Min, Editor-in-Chief
Victoria Lasdon Rose, Publisher
Scott Willett, Associate Publisher
Jon Tuck, Advertising Director
New York
1290 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
Phone 212-484-1616 . Fax 212-484-4242.
Nina Levine (Entertainment Director) nina.levine@usmagazine.com
Andi Rimas (Account Manager) andi.rimas@usmagazine.com
Erica Shlafer (Fashion Account Manager) erica.shlafer@usmagazine.com
Kate Solinsky (Account Manager) kate.solinsky@usmagazine.com
Jon Spellman (Account Manager) jon.spellman@usmagazine.com
Michele Goldenberg (Direct Response Account Manager) michele.goldenberg@usmagazine.com
Sabrina Ng (Direct Response Account Manager) sabrina.ng@usmagazine.com
Los Angeles
5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 345
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone 323-930-3300 . Fax 323-935-4214.
Lee Zellweger (West Coast Director) lee.zellweger@usmagazine.com
Greg Fox (Los Angeles Manager) greg.fox@usmagazine.com
Melinda Carson (Account Manager) melinda.carson@usmagazine.com
Chicago
333 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 707
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone 312-782-2366 . Fax 312-782-5677.
Maureen Harrison (Midwest Director) maureen.harrison@usmagazine.com
Courtney Lawson (Account Manager) courtney.lawson@usmagazine.com
Chris Svoboda (Midwest Manager) christopher.svoboda@usmagazine.com
San Francisco
1700 Montgomery St., Ste. 207
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone 415-788-7625 . Fax 415-788-0925.
Holly Jones (Account Manager) holly.jones@usmagazine.com
Detroit
201 West Big Beaver Road, Ste. 1230
Troy, MI 48084
Phone 248-743-1020 . Fax 248-740-9446.
Brian Green (Account Director) brian.green@wennermedia.com
South
Phone 212-484-3470 .
Scott Willett (Associate Publisher)
Post/line of the day!
Your wasting your time. I think “we” are a bit epistemologically challenged.
US Magazine Publisher:
Victoria Lasdon Rose
Let her know we will start contacting her advertisers and Walmart tomorrow...
And there is more in store for tomorrow: Sarah’s affair that threatened to end her marriage. Yep, folks, get ready for the “affair” to hit on Wednesday.
"I don't care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right." PT Barnum.
I think some of them have figured this out through polling, and they’re now trying to shift to “it's not about Sarah Palin, it's about McCain's impulsiveness and/or control by offstage right-wing boogey-men.”
Jann Wenner, the homosexual owner of US magazine and Rolling Stone and the orchestrator of this smear:
Not surprising this type of trash would come from someone who supports these folks:
Contact Wal-Mart and tell them to pull US magazine from their stores:
http://walmartstores.com/contactus/feedback.aspx
http://walmartstores.com/7663.aspx
Good Lord they should be embarrassed for being so vicious.
PBS recapping McGovern-Eagleton, speculating “what if John McCain were to change his mind”. Like it or not, they smell blood. We need to pray hard.
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