Newsweek: Palin Too Common, Too Stupid to be Vice President, She’s ‘Dangerous’

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/09/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Newsweek's Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him. The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline "She's One of the Folks (And that's the problem)," and Meacham writes the accompanying cover story. Be clear about what this means: This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.

Meacham finds Palin to be incurious, unprepared, and even finds it "dangerous" if she were to become our vice president but he offers us nothing but his opinion to judge by. And it's all because she doesn't measure up to his personal standards. Sadly for Meacham's elitism, however, Palin easily satisfies the standards that the Founding Fathers set as criteria for stepping into the highest office in the land. Curiously, Meacham does not once mention the actual Constitutional requirements to run for office in his entire sarcastic attack on Sarah Palin. Like most of his ilk, the Constitution seems meaningless minutia to him...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

The media... is it helping or hurting Palin? I'm not sure which?

[Red in Blue PA]

I don’t have a doctor’s appointment for another 6 months, so I guess I will not be reading this article.

Newsweek is a rag doctor’s use in their offices for their sick patients to kill the time.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

If they tried to make her look bad on that cover, they failed. Sarah is beautiful.

[TommyDale]

The people who “touched up” Sarah Palin’s picture for the cover should be taken out and horse-whipped in public. Do they really think informed people will buy their phony magazine? This contrasts with the phony picture of the “halo” on Obamamama, “the Chosen One”.

[1Old Pro]

The media is feverishky working 24/7 to slime McCain/Palin and endorse Obama.

I’ve never before seen this much blatant in your face liberal bias.

It’s a call to arms, COnservatives and Republicans may have to take election day off and make sure to get all like minded people to the polls to save our democracy.

[mgc1122]

The media is just demonstrating “why” they deserve to go out of business. They are less trusted than bottom feeding lawyers and used car salesmen.

I think their attacks are helping Palin like they did with Reagan.

[ConservativeMind]

Reagan just had a 4-year degree from a no-name Christian college.

[grobdriver]

I actually think we’re looking at the next (2012) President - after McCain’s first 4 years, he’ll bow out due to age and let Sarah run against Hill - whom Sarah will clobber.

Our first female President, two terms!

[Red Badger]

“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” - Henry Peter Brougham

Liberals do not believe this, or if they do, it is a hindrance to them.......

[Rick.Donaldson]

Newsweek is too stupid and dangerous to be a news magazine.

No wait, that’s wrong, they aren’t a news magazine.... they are crap.

[Yankee]

Who th f___ is Jon Meacham and what has he accomplished in his pathetic life besides tearing other people down.

Screw all the dinosaur mediots.

[BigEdLB]

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, columnist for “Newsweek”, has been assigned an interview with “Roswell Crashdummy” the command pilot of the saucer at Area 51, Nevada. As a Radical Elitist, he only wants to do interviews that are in vogue. Saucers are in vogue, as determined by the Elitist Intelligencia Commission. He joins David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, George Will and others, who have defications that lack odor, and who have attacked Gov Palin.

[Army Air Corps]

Too common to be VP? That is rather elitist. I guess that, according to Newsweek, I am “too common” for public office. I do not have a trust fund nor did I attend an Ivy League university (I graduated from a state university). Newsweek and their gaggle of toffee-nosed prats (writers) can kiss my “common” bum.

[sunmars]

Did Newsweek just have their own “bitter clingy” moment.

Dimwits.

[MarkT]

The late, great William F. Buckley, Jr. said (to this effect), “I would rather be governed by the first two hundred names in the Boston phonebook than all the folks at Harvard.”

[JimSEA]

This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.

This is more in a avalanche of liberal arguments that conservatives should be barred from politics, both as voters and candidates, because of their stupidity. The Democrats have become antidemocratic.

[peggybac]

I saw this rag at my dentist’s office yesterday and turned the cover over and stuck the magazine in the bottom pile of tons of others. I would have ripped the cover off, or put the filth in my purse to throw away, but the receptionist was sitting right there.

[ArrogantBustard]

1) Is Jon Meacham queer?

2) Newsweek is useless ... the paper is much too glossy and hard surfaced to be properly absorbent.

3) She's one of us? Good. It's about time I had political leadership "of my peers".

[rom]

Or maybe it’s a rag to make their sick patients even sicker? Maybe Newsweek is good for their business. LOL.

[colorcountry]

Speaking of crap...

This is the only way I'll use Newsweek: