Posted on 10/28/2008 5:25:58 AM PDT by Perdogg
To our readers:
In the weeks since the November issue of Men’s Health hit mailboxes and newsstands, there has been an extraordinary outpouring of mail concerning our choice for the cover: Barack Obama. Some of you were excited to see a man you admired, some were grateful to learn about the presidential candidate from an MH perspective, and some of you felt betrayed by what you saw as a politically charged choice for the cover of your generally a-political magazine. Our selection of Senator Obama for the cover was based on two things: 1) he’s a man in the public eye, and worthy of a profile in Men’s Health, and 2) he’s a man squarely in our readers’ demographic who embodies many of the health, fitness, and success practices this magazine espouses. So, in placing him on our cover, we were endorsing a lifestyle, and a record of achievement, not necessarily a candidate. That choice, ultimately, is every voter’s, alone. But as the profile clearly states, you don’t have to vote for Barack Obama the politician to learn something from Barack Obama the man. If you don’t agree with that choice, we invite you to enjoy the other 206 pages in the magazine, and take the usual measure of “useful stuff” from them. If we’ve caused you grief, our apologies. That’s not our usual approach to reader service. The December issue, we pledge, will be quite Obama-free.
Best regards, The Editors of Men’s Health
Thanks for providing contact info. I made good use of it.
Health--smoker
Fitness--hit the gym rather than visit wounded troops
Success--Marxist race hustling backed up by a built-in thugocracy
Hmmm...not sure if I agree with their conclusions. I used to like this mag...
Just called and made it VERY clear that I was cancelling my subscription due to the adoring photo and fawning story about THAT ONE.
Very, very clear.
The December issue will be oldm60grunt-free, I promise.
If this hurts your wallet, I apologize./s
A non socialist ex-subscriber.
Another Marxist/Communist sympathizer/Democrat candidate for President and his views on reeducation
Success Practices?
Success by taking opponents to court and disqualifying them?
Success by taking wealth from working people and distributing it to non-producers?
Success by surrendering american sovereignty to the UN.
Success by takes success out of America.
Mens Health magazine is now a dead magazine circulating around the drain.
He's smoking again and reeking of tobacco.
Obama's health is a lie.
BULLSTALIN. Hold it until AFTER the election and put him on the cover after he's lost if the Senator is such an ideal figure of health.
From The Angry Georgian blog:
This time the torture comes in the form of a weenie with screwy hair, twiggy arms and a dorky headset - who’s now raving about a rag like it was specially woven by Rumpelstiltskin himself. Yes this would be Vince Offer, the Shamwow guy.
Convinced that I’m watching a Saturday night live spoof, I enjoy the commercial at first. It’s funny, he imitates the corniest, most regressed excuse for a washed-out used car salesman I’ve ever encountered. Brilliant slapstick comedy - I begin to rave..... until I realize this buffoon is really trying to sell me this God-forsaken rag.
Amazed that anyone would really ask $20 for what appears to me to be an overgrown handkerchief, I watch his pitch convinced he’s going to stop the commercial and admit he escaped from a psych ward someplace.
But wait, now wait just a damn second. That little piece of carpet had soda running all over the table and now it’s just a little wet spot in the center of the carpet square. Insulting. What’s more, he wrings out a half bottle of soda into the bowl as if I’m going to really believe that damn rag wasn’t already soaked underneath.
I take solace in the wisdom that no regular joe would actually pay $20 for this squawking bird’s routine. As his nasal infused voice whines “Ya followin’ me camera guy?” I prepare to see a fist fly out from behind the camera, but it never comes. Now I know it’s a scam. No self respecting dude with even a single hair on his chest would let this wirey, triple caffeinated, blunderhead bark orders like that in real life.
Dear Men’s Health editors,
You have a little something on your chin. Been riding around in a limo with the Senator?
Yep. Gets his repulsive visage more shelf space. I don't know anyone who subscribes to this magazine. I certainly don't.
Well you could go to any of a number of bookstores that sell coffee now. Borrow the magazine from the newsstand and read it there, and leave it at the store.
The bookstores end up tearing off the covers to send back to the disrtibutor and getting a refund on the publication (but they still made a nice profit on the coffee).
HF
OUTSTANDING FReeper comments BUMP!
I canceled my subscription the day after I received that issue. It was interesting how they timed it for just prior to the election so that readers comments couldn’t be published in time.
I’m canceling my subscription and asking for a refund on any issues I have yet to receive.
My reason- obama is not the picture of health. He smokes. He has used “a little blow”. Even if he was considered firt, he certainly doesn’t deserve billing above Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong. I noticed that they also included Ashley Judd in their list of “heroes”. So if Judd can make the list, why not another woman and political figure like say, oh, I dunno, perhaps Governor Palin???
Give me my money back and don’t darken my doorstep, men’s health.
Actually it may have been correct for Advertising Age to label OBAMA Marketer Of The Year.
He was branded like Pepsi-Co or the Campbell’s soup can.
His name was redacted from Barack Hussein Obama or even Barack Obama or even BHObama to OBAMA.
He had marxist street wheatpaster Shepherd Fairey design his HOPE CHANGE posters that were posted in the middle of the night on public surfaces and then later sold around the world to financial contributors and eventually sold on hats, shirts, etc.
He marketed himself in Germany and elsewhere even though only Americans can vote. He solicited the support of marketers who would not talk of past scandals or hidden agendas.
As MARKETING goes, he’s been a success, as a politician he’s been an absolute socialist thug.
They should have put Barny Frank on the cover. It would have been just as legitimate.
Please cancel my subscription immediately and refund my remaining balance. I expect news about health, not a thinly veiled endorsement for the socialist Barack Obama.
Short and to the point.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.