When right wing news critics get ammunition of this quality, there's something very, very wrong.
Are Newsweek editors actually this unaware of their biases? Yes they are!
As the wingnuts at Newsbusters point out, the context of the Runners World picture is entirely different than the objectified crop job Newsweek obviously took pains to concoct.
Why not this one, which is a more informative depiction of her political draw?
The crop job of the Runners World pic takes an image designed to highlight the fact that (runner) Palin has a kid in the military, that she lives this particular value (which DC chickenhawks of both sides think is corny), and turns it into the same visual message as a bikini picture.
Look, Palin is wrong on virtually everything. Her policy mumblings invoke jokes that write themselves. So if Newsweek wants to write a critical story, why not stick with that and drop the sex?
It's easy to imagine a slideshow of Obama in a basketball themed fitness magazine, but impossible to imagine Newsweek clipping way original content to turn a civic or patriotic message into a beefcake cover image, a fantasy they the might have, but have the taste to avoid.
With friends like these in the "liberal" MSM... we don't have any! |
