Nice try, Newsweek.
Posted on 08/19/2012 1:47:13 PM PDT by blam
Edited on 08/19/2012 5:08:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The other day, Newsweek had a cover story about Mitt Romney's "Wimp Factor."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Not being familiar with Niall Ferguson, I Googled him (did not read full search btw)
Jul 30, 2012 ... Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University,
also NYT is already chiming in that “Newsweek must not have fact checkers”
so must be real.
LBJ: “If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite...”
BHO: “If I’ve lost Newsweek...”
Looks like this is the cover so they can continue to claim they’re a fair-and-balanced news source while publishing wall-to-wall Republican bashing for the next 10 weeks leading up to the election.
“Racist magazine.”
Great comment, but perhaps they’re interested in trying to sell some copy, rather than just make a statement into a more and more empty forest.
These parody issues are a blast.
Amen! You’re right on top of it!
Another few million read the cover in the grocery store lines each week.
Yes, it is strange. Could it be that some in the media are finally realizing that they have no credibility or believability, and maybe they're trying to regain a shred of legitimacy?
Nah, I doubt it. There must be another reason.
Sink the Barack.
Well, let’s put it this way. I have a birthday to shop for later on and actually went to some shops this afternoon. I have not done this for a Loooonnnnngggg time.
Everything, I mean EVERY LAST BLOODY THING that I picked up and thought might be worth considering was 3 to 4 TIMES what I remember things like this would be 3-4 years ago.
I found myself speeding as I was leaving the area. I realized I was fleeing the prices. No joke.
Now, I don’t know what I am going to do. I can’t buy those things anymore.
And then, there were the people with kids shopping for school. Clothes and shoes and school supplies and backpacks and OMG. You could drop $1K without batting an eye...per child. I heard several people that didn’t look like I’d expect—saying that they couldn’t afford to buy X Y Z. Couples were shopping with their children, not just moms.
Then there was the grocery store. I am beginning to get an inordinate fear of the produce area of a grocery store. Did you know that if you want to buy real, healthy food, you need to practically take out a 2nd mortgage?
Thank you, 0bama, Democrats and RINOs, for making us pay now, later and until Jesus comes.
Except most of us here
I guess Newsweek is trying to make people believe that it is neutral.
Got to be a joke. Newsweek is ditching its hard copy and going online. Another total waste of bandwidth.
So, the liberals HAVE turned on Obama.
...on further thought, perhaps my prediction from early this year is coming true, and Obama will be jettisoned for Hillary. The MSM will simply NOT run a cover story like this without SOMEBODY giving them the go-ahead. Something is stirring...
As I noted back then, the biggest problem with that plan is getting the black vote out. Once they figure that out, then I could EASILY see Obama stepping down.
Back when I posted this theory, a lot of people thought Obama’s ego would not permit him to step down - but I’ve studied Marxism more than most here (I suspect), and they WILL ‘sacrifice for the revolution’, which is clearly what would happen here - with Hillary just carrying out the second act in the ‘transformation’ of America. Obama would be given some other job, maybe even VP (thereby taking care of the ‘Biden Problem’).
Newsweek has been doing these “controversial” covers just to sell their rag....they may or may not mean ANY of it....in truth, the staff at Newsweek hate the conservatives more than the liberals.
This is posing. They very likely have the “comeback kid” cover already in the can...when they want the liberals to celebrate some lame accomplishment of Obamugabe.
Nice try, Newsweek.
Niall Ferguson is one of the most brilliant historians writing today. He is not so easy to ignore and ridicule with Alisnky tactics as if he were a “conservative blogger” or a writer for WND. I first became aware of him some years ago when in Jolly Old when I read his piece “Two Cheers for Empire.” His “The War of the World” is my bedside reading. This is a real breakthrough.
Aside from price increases, I notice the lack of employees at the local grocery stores, Walgreens etc. There is always a line because of fewer check-out personnel.
This article, shocking as it is for Newsweek, is flying on Twitter and FaceBook. Let’s hope it causes a few people to rethink voting for this failure again. Good post.
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