Another Palin Hit Job: Newsweek Cover Claims Former Alaska Governor 'Bad News' for Everybody

Newsbusters ^ | November 13, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue" is set for release on Nov. 17 and with that will likely come a media blitz of epic proportions. However, based on the cover of the Nov. 23 issue of Newsweek, someone felt a response was warranted.

The wizards of smart at Newsweek took an image from a shoot of Palin that originally appeared in Runner's World magazine for the cover and splashed the headlines, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?" and "She's Bad News for the GOP - and For Everybody Else, Too."

...more (with bare-legged Palin cover)...

[MNJohnnie]

I think there is a seriously misogynistic element to it. There is also the typical cattiness many women direct at attractive successful women. She makes them realize just how far from reality is their self image.

They suffer from the mistaken notion that tearing down the other some how compensates for their short comings and builds them up. Never understood the thinking in that mindset but see it all the time.

[your local physicist]

I'd say probably in the long run she could have gotten enough contributions to pay her legal bills. But everybody has to be careful about getting into too much debt based on the expectation of getting help to pay it back later. If things don't go as planned, you can get stuck with all the debt. So yeah, it looks like financial stress played a substantial role in her decision. I'd say she was getting concerned about the amount of debt her family was accumulating, and she was tired of wasting time on frivolous ethics complaints.

The Alaksa legislature needs to rewrite the laws on ethics complaints up there. It's ridiculous the way these left-wing activities are allowed to attack the governor of Alaska.

[Polybius]

It’s not a bad photo, but they’re trying to make her look like a bimbo

If it is PhotoShopped, then they are trying to make her look like a bimbo.

If it is a real photo, then Sarah Palin is more interested in raking in the Big Bucks as a controversial media celebrity than she is in being taken seriously outside of the Sarah Palin for Sainthood Fan Club.

True leaders do not quit a Governorship to write books in time for the Christmas shopping season and then hop around the world charging $100,000 per speech.

My humble opinion is that Palin, like Levi Johnston, wants to be a celebrity cashing in on the money that being a tabloid celebrity brings.

What we have now is a well choreographed, three-way Kabuki dance where the media attacks Palin, Palin attacks the media, Levi attacks Palin and Palin attacks Levi. It is nothing more than another version of the "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" Kabuki dance that we see on the cover of tabloids every time we are at the supermarket checkout line.

With each salvo in the Kabuki dance war, Palin gets more $100,000 speaking fees, Levi sells more Playgirl magazines and the media sells more magazines and draws in more viewers and, KA-CHING!, the money rolls in. The media, Palin and Levi then laugh all the way to the bank, winking to each other and telling each other, "We have a pretty good gig going on here. Let's do it again next week."

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Although I'm no expert on legal defense funds, I think she could have gotten enough contributions to a legal defense fund to pay all those legal bills.

The money was and is there, BUT it is effectively locked down because of the last outstanding ethics complaint, in which a lawyer with ties to Obama's campaign who also works as an investigator for the Alaska state personnel board ruled that the Trust Fund itself is illegal. She can't touch it, and had to take a second mortgage out on her house to pay her legal bills because of the organized Democrat attack on her family finances.

Palin Defense Fund May Be Unethical, Invest. Says (Kim Chatman Files Another Suit, Breaks Law Again)

'Ethicsgate' Video Shows Connect Betw Sarah Palin Ethics Complaints, BHO, AK Dem Pols,& AK Bloggers

Video: Dirty Obama & Democrats Conspire Against Governor Palin

The Alaska Trust Fund

[Screaming_Gerbil]

...Any chance she had to win on a national political stage went out the window the day she abandoned her post as governor. How anyone can take her seriously after she cut and ran is beyond me...

With all due repect to your opinion, she really did not have much of a choice the way her opposition chose to attack her:

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Palin financial disclosure may explain timing of her resignation

Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM | Josh Painter

Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 16:01:23 by Josh Painter

Sarah Palin's financial disclosure, which was publicly released this morning, may help explain the timing of her resignation as governor of Alaska. According to reporting by Sean Cockerham of McClatchy Newspapers, the former governor had to take out a loan to pay her attorneys for legal work in her defense from a series of bogus "ethics" complaints filed by her political enemies:

Palin is also reporting that she took out a home loan from Wells Fargo for "legal fees to fight false allegations while governor." She didn't give a date or amount.

One of the last of the complaints filed against Palin charges that the legal defense fund which was set up to pay Palin's legal bills is itself not legal under Alaska law. That complaint was filed with the knowledge that the fund would be frozen while it was being investigated, therefore forcing her to pay her lawyers out of her own pocket. The aim of her political opponents has always been to destroy Sarah Palin any way they can. So they staged an all-out assault not only on her character and her family, but on her personal finances as well.

According to reports, the twenty or so complaints had driven Palin's legal bill over the $600,000 mark. That's a considerable sum of cash for a governor with an annual salary of $125,000 to lay her hands on, so she was forced to borrow the money. Wizbang's Jay Tea (h/t: C4P) explains:

"...she had run up about half a million dollars in legal bills, and pretty much every single complaint had been tossed. In other words, she had incurred debts equal to twice her family's net income and 40% of their net worth for absolutely nothing..."

[Lazamataz]

Newsweek has gone so Moonbat that I will no longer even consider a politician that Newsweek HASN’T attacked.

[Texas Eagle]

Claims Former Alaska Governor 'Bad News' for Everybody

Heh, heh. Mostly for Leftists.

[Clemenza]

This is the same magazine that declared Al Gore as the “thinking man’s thinking man.” We have truly arrived at Idiocracy 100 years ahead of schedule.

[SolidWood]

The photo on the cover of Newsweek, is not a photoshopped fake. It’s a real photo of Sarah and part of a photoshoot of the magazine “Runner’s world”.

[Texas Eagle]

Who is stupid enough to buy it?

Don't give them ideas. If Nanzi Pelosi can send you to jail for not buying health insurance, she can send you to jail for not buying Newsweak.

[jla]

To 27 - Futile attempt to smear the grand lady of Alaska.
She, if you had an iota of knowledge about Reagan, would have his wholehearted support if he were alive today.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Let's assume that Sarah Palin will not be the GOP nominee in 2012, and that she will not run for any public office in 2010.

In that case, Sarah is doing a tremendous service to Republicans- energizing the voters, framing the national debate in conservative terms, and drawing fire away from actual GOP candidates.

She's built up a multi-million dollar media empire posting to Facebook as a private citizen. She's been more effective at communicating the conservative message the past year than every right wing think tank combined. Plus, she makes liberal heads explode. So what's not to like?

[sodpoodle]

Reminds me of the Rogers & Hammerstein Song!

“How do you solve a problem like Maria?”

[jeltz25]

Newsweek is now so lame that they’re reduced to stealing pictures from other magazines to use for their cover? What an embarrasment. Can Runner’s World sue them? I hope they do.

Are they implicitly calling for violence against her? Are they inciting violence? If something were to happen to her after a national magazine puts a picture of her on the cover and demands “how do you solve a problem like Sarah” would they have any responsibility? It’s like asking “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest”? I guess it’s now perfectly acceptable to incite violence against women.

Where’s Joe Biden? Isn’t he always bragging how he write the Violence Against Women Act? Does he have anything to say about this? Is it acceptable for a natl magazine to personally attack someone in this way and if not directly at least implicitly condone harm against her?

If Natl Review put out a cover with Obama on it and askd “how do you solve a problem like Barack?” they’d be vistied immediately by the Secret Service and the cover would be withdrawn.

And the lack of respect by using her first name. Has any magazine ever referred to a political figure by their first name on the cover? Maybe Hillary, but certainly not in a negative way like this is.

I knew Newsweek was pathetic. But now they are downright despicable.

A major islamic terror attack happens on US soil for the 1st time since 9/11 and Newsweek puts a picture of a provate citizen in track shorts on the cover? A picture that’s not even theirs and they had to steal from someone else? Does anyone actually take them seriously?

The only saving grace is that she looks damn good, a heck of a lot better than the “fashion icon” that Newsweek keeps trying to prop up. You’ll never see Michelle showing off gams like that.

[The Wizard]

one of her nice shots.....they want to sell magazines and now they have an issue guys can have on their desk and not even have to read....

[Polybius]

My concern is getting Obama out of the WH and I honestly believe that Palin is incapable of doing that.

Then, who exactly do you believe is capable of beating Obama and staying true to Conservative principles? Name somebody!

Are those really the only choices that America has left?

A known Marxist ideologue in the White House or a guaranteed loser in the general election that keeps a known Marxist ideologue in the White House?

I hate to break the news to you but Conservatives make up only 60% of the Republican voters and Republican voters make up only 27% of all American voters.

That is the reality of 21st Century America.

The vast majority of American voters today are to the left or us on Free Republic and to the right of the Oabama / Pelosi crowd.

The majority of American voters will dump Obama in 2012 if given a credible option but the majority of American voters will NOT vote for Sarah Palin for President any more than they would vote for Kate Gosselin for President.

With 83% of all American voters to the left of us, our choice is to either allow a true ideological Marxist to continue to occupy the White House and swallow rat poison or consider that maybe, just maybe, .... Oh! The humanity!!!! .... we may just have to settle for a double cheeseburger instead of a T-Bone steak.

"You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need"

[Polybius]

The photo on the cover of Newsweek, is not a photoshopped fake. It’s a real photo of Sarah and part of a photoshoot of the magazine “Runner’s world”.

Then Palin exercised extremely poor judgment.

If you want the majority of American voters to take you seriously as a credible choice for President of the United States, when 50% of all voters in recent polls already have a Negative opinion of you, then, for a photoshoot for Runner's World, you strike a "runner's" pose, not a "cheesecake" pose in schoolgirl pony tails.

Every action that Sarah Palin takes indicates, at least to me, that she now wants the easy money of $100,000 speaking fees that comes with selling tabloid noteriety and not the serious responsibility that comes with the often nasty work and sacrifices of high public office.

We need a serious candidate in 2012 that will make Barack Obama a one term President like Jimmy Carter.

Sarah Palin, with her current 50% Negative ratings and her tabloid fodder public persona, is not that candidate.

[SolidWood]

Whatever. Cling to the “polls”.

[gitmo]

Graham was denounced last week by the Charleston County Republican Party for working with Democrats on issues such as climate change; the senator's office replied by invoking President Reagan's belief that ‘elected officials need to find common ground and work together to solve difficult problems.'

Did Reagan believe elected officials need to find common ground and work together to solve imaginary problem?

[Polybius]

Newsweek is now so lame that they’re reduced to stealing pictures from other magazines to use for their cover? What an embarrasment. Can Runner’s World sue them? I hope they do.

You can bet your next paycheck that Runner's World sold that photo to Newsweek.

Palin should have known that such a thing would happen before she allowed herself to be photographed in a "cheesecake" pose in schoolgirl pony tails.