I'm not one to ordinarily start SP threads, but Celtic Diva has a very good post

[Blue_In_AK]

up here: http://divasblueoasis.com/diary/931/palin-on-tourmy-head-hurts

Then we have the "offending" magazine cover:

<photo omitted because I'm sick of it>

Much has been written, very eloquently, about this by my fellow bloggers:

1) She posed for the picture herself.

2) It's a staged, pageant pose with a flag, not a "healthy lifestyle" pose.

3) She posed for the picture herself.

4) She's wearing shiny, expensive panty hose under her shorts and an outfit unlike anything she really runs or exercises in (we know that from the "Oprah" video) and a flipping "bumpit" in her fully-quaffed loose hair with extensions (on the Oprah video, like most women, she wore a pony tail).

And can we talk about the full-trowel make-up?

Please explain to me how anyone can exercise like that, unless you want the "bumpit" and the extensions hanging off the side of your head and your trowelled-on make-up running down to your chin by the end of your run?

5) Did I mention that she posed for the picture herself?

6) The only reason we don't see Condoleeza Rice or any other female political figures in photos like this? THEY DON'T POSE FOR THEM because unlike Palin, they care about whether or not they are taken seriously, because...

7) ...Palin uses her "sex-appeal" any way she wants, but throws out the "sexist" word anytime anyone calls her on it.

However, the very biggest reason Sarah Palin is claiming that Newsweek is "demeaning" her through this "sexism," THE ARTICLE ABOUT HER IS NEGATIVE! If this was a Conservative magazine with a positive article on Palin, we wouldn't hear anything about it.

<snip>

I really need a palate cleanser, so here is a video of how someone with true class and leadership skills acts. Our President answers the question: What does he think of the "4 out of 10" rating Sarah Palin gave him on Barbara Walters:

<video of the President laughing her off.>

[intheflow]

1. K&R to expose Sarah's faux feminism!

:kick:

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick. Good points

[spoony]

3. Shit I thought this was a South Park thread.

Good post anyway, though.

[lillypaddle]

4. funny

:rofl::rofl:

[malaise]

5. DUzy

Fugg that lying hypocrite Sarah Palin.