Posted on 06/11/2010 5:54:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Photoshop is a nifty little tool. With the click of a mouse you can retouch a blemish or saw off a good chunk of someone’s hip bone. For the cover of their June 21 issue, the design team at Newsweek booted up the program to stick a shiny gold halo around Sarah Palin’s head.
Below the heavenly photo of the former Governor, just underneath her prayer-clasped hands, sits a message scrawled across the page in Old English font: “Saint Sarah.”
The cover image is just the gimmicky precursor to an accompanying feature that goes even further with the Christian allusion, establishing Palin as the predominant female force in American evangelicalism:
“Even if she never again seeks elected office, her pro-woman rallying cry, articulated in the evangelical vernacular, together with the potent pro-life example of her own family, puts Palin in a position to reshape and reinvigorate the religious right, one of the most powerful forces in American politics. The Christian right is now poised to become a women’s movement—and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry Falwell.”
In essence, the article claims that Palin is doing something that has never been accomplished before by combining evangelical Christianity and modern feminism, and using the mash-up as a tool to (in Palin speak) “shore up” the traditionally weak female front of the religious right.
Feminist blog Jezebel is less than pleased with the discussion of Palin as a new feminist leader, comparing her affinity for the term “feminism” to a half-masticated banana chunk being repeatedly picked up and dropped by a greedy dog – confusing in summary, scathing in full.
Whether Palin’s influence is as powerful as Newsweek claims, the female presence in Republican politics has never been stronger – there are reportedly 96 Republican women looking to claim House seats this year, and conservatives Nikki Haley and Carly Fiorina each won their respective gubernatorial and Senate primaries.
With both Haley and Fiorina being blessed by a Palin endorsement before their wins, perhaps Saint Sarah really is the new patron saint that conservative women running for public office should light a candle to.
Sarah ought to respond that the halo on her is insulting to her faith. That would blow their minds.
Palin and her supporters need to figure out how to respond to this or just get used to it because the MSM is going to paint her as a religious nut on the extreme fringe of Christianity.
Why would a Romney-bot misogynist care what Palin supporters do?
You just made Bob's point. Rather than answer his question, you responded in typical Palinista-style with childish and dishonest name-calling.
Bob has a long history of disrespecting, attacking and maligning Governor Sarah Palin on threads like this. I’ve given up on reasoning with him. Go to his “In Forum” and take a good long look.
It’s interesting how the (pathetic) Left paints people that actually stand for something that is virtuous as a Saint. They should try it sometime.
Liberal rags are on their way to bankruptcy. I received a call from someone trying to sell me that liberal piece of trash known as the "Seattle Times" just the other day. They offered me the "First 3 months for free". My response: "Isn't it pathetic that you can't even GIVE that liberal piece of trash away?"
CLICK.
No, I have a long history of confronting the spin, misrepresentations, outright lies and messiah worship of the Palinistas. But I don't expect you to know the difference because to you any challenge to your propaganda and insanities is a attack on Palin. Which only proves there is an extremely unhealthy relationship between her and some of her supporters. Some might call it creepy.
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