Posted on 11/14/2009 8:32:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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."
Mike Allen of Politico previewed the cover in the Nov. 14 edition of his "Playbook." In it, he included these comments from Newsweek editor John Meacham who blamed Palin for Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., struggles with his conservative base in South Carolina. One of those struggles for Graham was his acknowledgment that climate change is a manmade phenomenon in need of a so-called "compromise," And that backlash is somehow former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's fault:
"What Obama advisers privately refer to as ‘Palinism' has created a climate of ideological purity inside the GOP. To deviate from the anti-Obama line at all -- that is, to acknowledge that politics is the art of compromise -- risks the censure of the party. Pure ideologues will argue that this is a good thing; others like, say, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close friend of Palin's onetime champion John McCain, think differently. 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.'"
Meacham went on to fret over Palin as a far-right figure and how her popularity has created an environment where "centrist" political figures in the GOP aren't willing to work with the Obama administration "for fear of a backlash from the base."
Left-of-center sensationalism isn't unprecedented for Newsweek magazine covers. Earlier this year, the brain trust at Newsweek declared us all socialists on their Feb. 16 magazine cover. And as Tim Graham, the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, said then, "the only Newsweek cover that would be more obviously untrue would be ‘We Are All Objective Journalists Now.'"
She’s got them scared to death.
They are crapping their pants as we speak. You know what a liberal’s worst nightmare would be..a Strong, Female, Pro Life, Pro-Gun, Conservative woman in the White House.
This is WAR — not a place for playing nice with the enemy media.
Another subscription killer for Newsweek: pissing of women AND Republicans.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
She sells papers. Duh.
They need a Billion dollar Lawsuit laid on them.
You got it!
Well, thank goodness Newsweek is looking out for the GOP! I just don’t know how the GOP would survive without Newsweek catching their back!
And so, Newsspeak...er...Newsweak finally jumps the shark.
"She's bad news for the GOP-and for everyone else too.."
Can Newsweak show any proof that Palin encouraged SC conservatives to go after Lindsey Graham?
Will AP use 10 journalists to fact check the Newsweak article?
True
If Palin is bad news for everybody and unelectable then why is the totalitarian left expending so much energy trying to destroy her?
I was skeptical of Palin for quite a while, but now that I’m seeing how much the MSM is afraid of her... I just can’t get enough of her. GO SARAH GO!!
We will take that bad news and trade ya an obama.
At this rate, why don’t they say she’s a poo-poo head.
Why do they demonize her so and call her everything but the anti-christ.
Shake out millions of newsweak subscription litter cards and drop them in the mail.
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