Palin on Newsweek cover next week. Not the kind of roll out her publishers were hoping for:

[rvablue]

And the hubbub has already started that somehow this cover is "sexist." :eyes:

I'm assuming she voluntarily participated in this photo shoot, so I'm not really getting the criticism.

[Kalyke]

1. It's sexist in that she's the person reducing other women to

nothing but eye candy.

There are many women who are both smart and attractive and she's dissing us.

[Walk away]

20. Gwen Ifill was on Washington week babbling about Palin appealing...

to women voters. Gwen is a nice lady but what the hell is she talking about? Doesn't she mean STUPID women? Or maybe right wingnut women?

Most women I know are horrified by Palin's stupidity and crassness.

[MadMaddie]

22. Gwen should know better than to feed the ego of

Palin..

[Beaverhausen]

39. I took it to mean women who normally don't pay attention to politics are interested in Palin

I surely don't think Gwen really thinks Palin appeals to women who actually do pay attention to these things.

[chelsea0011]

41. Palin has more support among males, I believe.

[roguevalley]

71. T and A. If she was a 60 year old gal, no story. I told that to a few

rednecked friends and stopped them in their tracks. Told them it was her boobs and her butt, nothing more. They actually agreed. Use that on your rednecked friends.

[Ron Green]

49. Gwen Ifill's checks are from Monsanto and Chevron.

That says enough right there.

[MrMickeysMom]

68. Gwen isn't doing herself any favors by weighing in with this comment...

She wasn't very good at running the presidential debate she did, and she softballs too much.

I'm sure she's VERY nice, but she discourages me to watch Jim Leher News Hour (bleh!) She and Judy Woodruff can cash their chips in. Matter of fact, Jim's getting pretty lame.

You can do better than this, Gwen.

[bobbolink]

69. That's what I think of every time I hear her name.. that debate.

She really blew it.

[MrMickeysMom]

70. Yes, so I have an idea-

Shit-can the "News Hour with Jim Leher" - really

Next, get some news journalist besides my beloved Bill Moyers. Get a female version with real stones (Remember Linda Ellerby when cable news was brand new? She did a late show that was WONDERFUL).

We need a whole new news befitting the public evening news. Do it by collaborating from the perspective of every different kind of woman who is capable of contributing. Gwen might reverse her "ho-hum" image.

Make it bold and make do it on PBS. Surely Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers aren't the only ones to see!

[last_texas_dem]

72. IIRC, polls demonstrated that she actually ended up hurting McCain among women voters

Anecdotally, I have noticed that her stronger supporters have tended to be women, but so have her strongest detractors... and I have come across more strong detractors than strong supporters of Palin even in the conservative area where I live.

[MUAD_DIB]

59. My wife said pretty much the same thing at breakfast this morning.

"She really sets back the idea that women can make it in politics."

The GOP tends to promote minorities/women that will further their freakishly evil cause.

Examples: SCJ Thomas (a mockery of Thurgood Marshall), RNC Chairman Steel (a mockery of Pres Obama), Palin (a mockery of Hillary and every woman that has entered into politics in order to bring about something worthwhile).

[Mz Pip]

2. That photo pretty much

sums up Sarah Palin. The only thing that's missing is a wink.

And unless that photo is Photoshopped then no one should be complaining about sexism. She posed for it. So she owns the image it conveys.

[malaise]

11. She posed for that photo some time

last year. I remember the pic.

[Turbineguy]

30. Yes, but

they must have Photoshopped Putin out.

[stevedeshazer]

46. They did.

[malaise]

57. LOL

:rofl:

[TlalocW]

58. In Soviet Russia

You don't look at us from back porch. We look at YOU!

TlalocW

[juno jones]

65. Yeah, It was for Runner's World or SI or something like that. n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. I'm sure the publishers are more than happy with that. Political handlers? Not so much.

That type of cover and headline is certain to create buzz and sales.

Credibility and respect? Not so much.

[lunatica]

4. It's a good question. How does the GOP solve the Pandora's box

that is Sarah Palin. Her unleashing has certainly turned everything to shit. She's become the fucking Archetype for Stupidity in humanity. Or is that Michelle Backman? I can't make up my mind which one craves more attention and which one is the most stupid.

[tblue]

5. Have I told you lately that I love you? Lol!

I love what you just wrote. All beyond true!

[MadMaddie]

25. Don't forget Carrie Prejean.....

They all fit the same mold....they are victims, they are not responsible for any fallout from their own poor decision making, they constantly lie, they claim they are today's model of what a woman should be but their actions reveal the complete opposite....I could go on but it would be a long list...

Oh yea...the 3 of them are desperately trying to extend their extinguished 15 minutes of fame.

[patrice]

40. Yep. Everything that is wrong is someone else's fault. "Solutions" can only come when

OTHERS change.

[blogslut]

6. She absolutely posed for the photo

Although it was for Runner's Runner's World Magazine. I'm guessing Newsweek paid for the usage license. I can't see how it could be sexist for Newsweek to use it when it was ok to use it for Runner's World Mag.

link: http://www.runnersworld.com/photo/sarahpalin/slide7.html

[malaise]

12. 100% correct n/t

[HipChick]

7. If that was Obama on the cover, everyone would be so outraged about how the American Flag is being

displayed...she is totally disrespecting it

http://jezebel.com/5306190/sarah-palin-breaks-flag-code-in-runners-world-magazine

[KittyWampus]

8. is the flag supposed to be her sweat rag? The way its casually tossed over the chair

is odd.

[HipChick]

15. disrespect..just another prop

http://jezebel.com/5306190/sarah-palin-breaks-flag-code-in-runners-world-magazine

[Taverner]

9. I will say the only thing that is good about Palin - she has nice gams

And that is the extent of her worth in this universe

[SPedigrees]

10. It looks photo shopped to me.

The space around her right arm and the area at top of Newsweek banner show suspicious dithering out of sinc with the sharp focus of other parts of this picture.

[HipChick]

14. It''s not photoshopped...here;s the original

who is dumb enough to wear pantyhose with her runners gear...


http://jezebel.com/5306190/sarah-palin-breaks-flag-code-in-runners-world-magazine

[jmowreader]

62. Do people who run in Alaska wear pantyhose with runners gear?

Pantyhose will keep you warm and they're not as bulky as sweatpants or leggings.

[rvablue]

16. It most defintely not Photoshop. Well, maybe the editor at Runner's World

could have done some retouching.

$'error posed for these pics for their magazine.

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410--13221-0,00.html

So, nope, not a 'shop.

[kestrel91316]

17. Runner's World published the photo last year, and she willingly posed for it.

Whether or not it has been tweaked a bit is utterly beside the point.

[tabasco]

13. Nice use of the national colors, asshole. n/t

[bluestateguy]

18. Didn't plenty of magazines publish covers of Obama with the shirt off and ripped abs?

I mean, men are NOT sex objects to be objectified by oglers.

:sarcasm:

[patrice]

43. Oh yes they (men) are. They are sex objects to be "tickled" while words that affect the LIVES

of millions and all of our future are thrown about like dice.

[tishaLA]

19. To her, and her publishers, any publicity is good

If they can suck all the air out of the universe for Sarah's sake, everything is lovely.

[JCMach1]

21. Ick, sexist photo and lyrics from the Sound of Music... that song was specifically

about a gender problem. The novice, Maria, was having trouble leading a normal, cloistered, and most likely celibate life... And so get's packed off to the hyper-fertile von Tramp family.

This cover is certainly sexist...

I need a shower now, because it will be the one and only time I will ever defend Ms. Palin.

However, this cover is just as disgusting.

[blogslut]

24. Ws it sexist when she willingly posed for it

for Runner's World Magazine?

[HipChick]

31. No..I'm female..and Palin willing uses her sexuality when she wants to

and whines about it when it doesn't suit her..she disgusts me as a female..

[JCMach1]

36. I agree, but I think Newsweek has jumped the shark with this cover...

Of course the controversy will sell more copies.

[JCMach1]

35. Probably so, but more so in this context, with that headline

[blogslut]

42. I don't understand

She allowed the photographer to take her photo in that pose and outfit. Are you saying that Ms. Palin was complicit in the sexism?

[patrice]

47. I'd say so. She is a complict object in the sexual manipulation of others, men obviously but

also female wannabes.

[applegrove]

23. Conservatives are so crass about women's looks and bodies. Ann Coulter was on the covver

of Time or Newsweek and she also showed all of her legs. It is just rediculous.

[foxfeet]

34. All eight of them?

[applegrove]

52. LOL!

[StarfarerBill]

54. Oh, Universe! That's good! :)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

61. An awesome rejoinder worthy of a DUzy!

Well played!

[Ikonoklast]

37. Really? She also showed *all* of her legs?

Were there eight of them?

I always suspected she was part insect.

[applegrove]

53. LOL!

[dragonlady]

55. Spider. Probably a black widow. n/t

[high density]

26. "She's bad news for everybody but let's keep pimping her out"

Because we love seeing the lowest common denominator America.

[patrice]

27. The flag is being used to SELL her. It's wrinkled and dis-respected.

I'm not much for flag idolatry, but I DO believe in basic respect. This picture is DISGUSTING.

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Hahahahahahahaha

I LOVE this.

[patrice]

33. It really is just about one of the stupidist pictures I've ever seen. Just LOOK at it! It's DUMB!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

45. I like the subheading

"She's bad for the GOP - and everybody else, too."

This is GREAT! I hope somewhere her head is exploding.

[patrice]

29. They didn't even bother to drape the flag nicely as they ABUSED it.

[karynnj]

32. It is silly that anyone could call the cover "sexist"

This was a photo shoot that she intentionally did and that she controlled. The fact is that it is silly that we can't say that she used her attractiveness more than anyone I have ever seen in any campaign. If this were a candid picture (like Obama in Hawaii was) I would say it was unfair. In addition, she did these Runner's World photos AFTER loosing. With the American flag draped over the chair as a backdrop (not what I learned in Brownies about taking care of the flag - maybe Sarah's troop didn't cover that.) this can not even be said to be a photo of leader encouraging people to exercise. (The treatment of the flag is more disturbing to me - can you imagine the RW if a Democrat, had a flag like that as a prop?)

[SoCalDem]

38. Aaaw.. I was hoping for the other picture..

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. She believes in Evolution!!! Look here:

Page 3 of her article in Runner's magazine:

"As I get out there and run, I see the most beautiful signs of this evolutionary process that has created the mountains and the glacial retreats that have left the valleys and the rivers."

[patrice]

48. OMG, there's an Army flag in there too, an alusion to Dead Soldiers used to SELL Sarah.

Crass, insensitive, self-absorbed, disrespectful to the suffering and death of American Soldiers.

[Gabi Hayes]

50. you realize that's not the actual cover, right? here it is:

am I that impaired, as in not getting the inside joke

after reading the thread, I can't tell.....

[rvablue]

51. You're not getting it, that's right. But it's not a joke. Take a gander at the date

on the lower left corner of the pic you posted.

It's from last fall.

[dragonlady]

56. Check newsweek.com

At the lower left side of the page is the picture from the original post, listed as this week's magazine.

[Gabi Hayes]

60. what, me wrong????

guess so.

I just couldn't believe they'd put that

quote about her on the lower left....sounds too.....realistic; not like anything they'd be honest enough to actually put in print. where were they last year with this?

can't believe anybody takes her the slightest bit seriously, aside from the deranged



"Sarah Palin is my hero… I really look up to her and admire her for her strength and her courage."

[liquid diamond]

63. Good looking women.

Too bad they don't have brains.

[HipChick]

66. The mustache and eye wrinkle cover...didn't she complain and whine about that too..

[juno jones]

64. Old cover picture is old.

Originally came out last winter or this spring IIRC.

I also seem to recall that the photographer said Sarah was the one who came up with the flag idea, but I could be wrong, it's been awhile.

[potone]

67. I am disgusted and seriously offended that she gets this much attention.

Whatever for? She lost the VP race and quit her job as Governor of Alaska. The media never gave this much attention to Al Gore after the 2000 election AND he won the popular vote for President!!! They only paid attention to him when they had to, and the same for John Kerry. But Caribou Barbie gets on the cover of Newsweek???!!! Just because she is prettier??? Aaarrrggg!!!
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[cleveramerican]

73. she has a a bright future as a game show host.

[saltpoint]

74. A former beauty pageant contestant who blows animals out of the woods

from helicopters, who uses her children as political props, whose husband is an automaton, and whose supporters should be rounded up and institutionalized.

Did I mention that she wants to be the President of the United States?

[lpbk2713]

75. Why the hell is Failin still relevant in the eyes of the MSM?

I can't figure it out. She's dumb as a sack of horse shit, she's an opportunist, she is splitting up the GOP big time and nothing that comes out of her mouth can be believed. Yet they still give her prime coverage as if she's a rock star. This sort of thing is what gives most of the MSM the reputation they so rightfully deserve.