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by: Pacific John

Sun Nov 15, 2009 at 15:27:44 PM EST


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!

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Well, okay (4.00 / 2)
Newsweek might photoshop a beefcake picture of Obama, but they'd make him into a hero and not a contest model.

...Not that that would effect what they would do with it in the privacy of their own homes.


Much more accurate (4.00 / 1)
depiction of what that Newsweak cover should have said.

http://serr8d.blogspot.com/200...

I seriously hate these cheap asshats and everything they stand for.  If they're liberal, then liberals can kiss my ass.


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False allegations of photo darkening = SCANDAL !!! (4.00 / 2)
Actual sexist photo shopping = FUNNY !!!
These people DESERVE a Palin administration.  

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Zactly! (0.00 / 0)
"why not stick with that and drop the sex?"

Yes yes yes yes yes!!! It is so obvious people see her as a real political threat.


it's just depressing (4.00 / 2)
it's not going to change because fundamentally many of the liberal women who hate palin are going to think it's cool to objectify her sexually on the cover of a national news magazine.

and you know, maybe i'm wrong, but i'm going to make a guess that not many liberal african american men would, even if they hated him, tolerate the racial objectification of michael steele.

a tragedy here is that many of the liberal women who think it's cool to objectify palin will never see a woman president in their lifetime.  

again, i might be wrong.  but i see a connection in all this.

and i've become over the last 6 months even more and more jaded to the point of not caring.

i no longer see a point in speaking out on behalf of women about something they can't unify behind themselves.

when rachel maddow giggles and defends newsweek.....


But Rachel is SHOCKED ! when "progressives" (4.00 / 4)
are willing to sacrifice women's health issues to achieve healthcare reform.  
Doesn't she see that campaigns which promote "evil bitch" and other sexist memes become governments that don't care about issues effecting the "bitches"?

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I am *so* not surprised that (4.00 / 2)
- Newsweek chose to run a cover photo out of context. As a photo for Runner's world it makes perfect sense. As a photo on Newsweek's cover it totally objectifies her
- So called liberal women say " if she posed for the photo, she asked for it". Sadly so many women have drunk the Kool-Aid , they will not stand up against the obvious liberal media bias and sexism
- Sarah Palin gets slammed for being good looking; our very own HRC got slammed for not being good looking ( in they eyes of the commenters - I personally think out gal is fab!). As a society, we have still to move beyoind judging women by their looks
- Palin is still referred to as "dumb".No-one  gets elected Governor of a state or selected as Vice Presidential running mate or becomes a New York times best selling author by being dumb.
Makes me almost want to vote for her!

It's all about "if they like you" (4.00 / 1)
Hillary is thick and has cankles.
Michelle from behind has a "muscular" rump.
Get it?  

[ Parent ]
Oh yeah (4.00 / 1)
I "got it" all through the horrendous '08 campaign.  Seriously don't believe a woman can run for executive office in this country without being trashed.  Meg Whitman is being trashed for being a bumbling bitch now in the SacBee.  Sure, a billionaire woman with a degree in economics from Princeton and a Harvard MBA is stupid and doesn't understand money.  Sure...

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It's not their liberalism but their sexism - - (4.00 / 2)
and where the heck are the professional "feminists" - - do they only object to sexist insults to women if the women agree with them?
Remember when the criticism of Palin was that a mother of young kids shouldn't aspire to high office (voiced by the husband of Michigan's governor!?!) AND FEW "PROGRESSIVE WOMEN" OBJECTED TO THIS GLASS CEILING FOR MOMS ONLY?

Sarah's pict (4.00 / 1)
Rodale is an independent publisher. I wonder if they gave permission to use the pict.

Of course, they did. (4.00 / 1)
They made a nice chunk of money off of it and got bragging rights. There is no downside to it for them.  

[ Parent ]
pict (4.00 / 1)
You are probably right. if that's the case though, they ought be getting some heat about it as well.

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The story behind the pict. (4.00 / 1)
Having just read the story, I can see this op-d conveniently articulates with Newt Gingrich's latest plot to wrest control of the middle. Whatever.  Palin is being targeted before her book and the BW interview. Why? It's not only sexism.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/222786

How about this substitution?

"How do you solve a problem like Newt? He's bad for the GOP- And everybody else too." Anyone got a pict?


Another man, now from the right, pointing out sexism (4.00 / 1)
well thank you Newsweek - if you get men from the right to point out sexism, you've accomplished something.

Newsweek Photo of Palin Shows Media Bias and Sexism .


If you read (4.00 / 1)
Hot Air and sometimes Ace of Spades during the primaries, you would see they talked about it in regards to Hillary as well.  Not as much, but at least they brought it to the surface and that's more than the "progressive" blogs did for the most part.

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Palin and her handlers are naive if they think they can (0.00 / 0)
"compartmentalize" her pictures.  She could have worn long pants and not posed like cheesecake, even for Runner's World.

You know, it's possible to pose in a a long-panted running suit, standing straight and tall and proud, not like a cute cheerleader.

Poor judgment on her part.  I don't like Newsweek picking it up at all, but the original picture was not going to stay just for the runners crowd. It was all over the place right away...

Any woman in public office should know how the game is going to play out...

Of course, when Obama rises out of the ocean bare-chested....Well, now, THAT's something entirely different!!  It's damned stupid, too, but the reaction is, of course, much different!!

"If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked"--Charlie Chan


You're rigtht, and there are two issues (0.00 / 0)
She and her people have poor judgment, and the major media bias is absurd.

Good point about the rules for swimming Obama, but since there is a double standard, the real criticism here is for the press that needs to catch shit until they stop the sexism and classism, at least to the point that a talented woman who grew up in the working class has the same shot as The One.


[ Parent ]
They have poor judgement? (4.00 / 1)
I've seen pictures of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Goerge HW Bush in running shorts over the years.  Did they and their staffs have poor judgement as well?

This picture was shot for Runners World and is perfectly appropriate there.  After all it's not a major "news" magazine.

Sorry but this "poor judgement" thing is classis hindsighr and just doesn't stand up.


[ Parent ]
Only in the sense... (0.00 / 0)
... that we know the press is misogynist. And I take your point.

[ Parent ]
Any woman in public office should know she'll be criticized for her looks (0.00 / 0)
regardless of what she wears, regardless of how pretty she is. She'll either be too attractive (Palin, tho nobody comes out and says it) or not attractive enough.

So any woman in public office would be wise to burnish any kind of running credentials she has. She's wearing shorts for crying out loud. Her judgement on this is just fine.


[ Parent ]
Posing shirtless in Hawaii, 3 workouts per day (0.00 / 0)
There were so many shocking quotes during the campaign, but I remember reading he lingered shirtless where the photogs could see him and they quoted him as saying "come on guys ... did you get enough yet?" Also was the report he was working out three times per day during the campaign leading up to his trip.

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