That was Newsweek, not Time. Time was pretty decent to Palin. But here is another conservative who got "the treatment":
I don’t care for racial “advocacy” groups, especially not for groups that are barely even a subculture, let alone an ethnicity. But that cover is stupid. I don’t know why they always have to have these close-ups with blank stares that make people look like weirdos.
If it’s a lib they’ll usually soften the image, leave it a little out if focus. But they do it to them, too. Warren Buffet, I remember, looked like a troll on one cover or another. They gave Paling a disturbingly extreme close up, with the excuse that they were zooming in on her daring, or something which related to the article. But she was still hot, so no harm.
Whoops, that’s Palin and zooming in on her earing. Stupid kindle.
“I don’t know why they always have to have these close-ups with blank stares that make people look like weirdos”
And these idiots pose for them too, doing everything the photog says like a fashion model. Totally gay.
That was Newsweek, not Time. Time was pretty decent to Palin. But here is another conservative who got "the treatment":