Your liberal media…making sure Sarah Palin has a legitimate gripe:
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, her new book, and her policies, but you don’t have to stoop to sexism to do it. Newsweek’s November 23 issue, however, does just that by publishing on its cover a photo of Palin in short running shorts and a fitted top, leaning against the American flag. Making matters worse is the equally offensive headline Newsweek editors chose to run alongside the photo — “How Do You Solve a Problem like Sarah?” — presumably a reference to the Sound of Music song, “Maria,” in which nuns fret about “how” to “solve a problem like Maria,” a “girl” who “climbs trees” and whose “dress has a tear.”
Click through to read about the “slutty Sarah Palin school girl doll” illustration. I. Shit. You. Not.
There really are no words. Now when Palin’s supporters complain that she has been subjected to an absolutely horrific double standard, this is exhibit number one. Thanks Newsweak! I’m sure the conservative victimhood machine will utilize this to the fullest extent possible, because they will (for once) have an actual point.
The second paragraph summed it up perfectly.
News outlets and elected leaders shouldn’t act or be treated like celebrities and gossip rags.
Break out the popcorn and the butter!
It’s a core meltdown at the Moonie Times!
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Hey Stupes! Check out the lawsuit that your favorite right wing bullshit novelist Miniter is bringing against Moon!
EEOC? Isn’t that the “gubmint”?
LMAO!!!
I think you’re helping perpetuate a manufactroversy here, Jon.
According to CNN the photo is taken from a photo shoot Palin did for Runner’s World magazine. It’s not like some paparazzi caught her in an awkward moment in an attempt to embarass her — she posed for the damn thing! If a photo of her in her running outfit is so objectionable, why did she pose for it?
@3
See #1.
Palin HAS had HUGE opportunities to display her intellect and judgment. She has chosen instead to come across as an entertainer. It is hardly Newsweek’s fault for presenting a bimbo as a bimbo.
Let me go a step further over the PC precipice. Treating people as stereotypes is hardly unique to the media painting women. The Clintons, for example, tried to play the racial image against Barack. Unlike Palin, Obama survived this by simply appearing as he is … a very smart man.
Palin’s complaint is not anything new nor is it party specific. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both complained about not being taken seriously. Dan Quayle had the same complaint, as did George W. Bush. Most recently Susan Hutchinson tried gloriously to separate herself from the newsbimbo image.
As I said, sometimes a bimbo is .. a bimbo.
@5
See #1.
There’s nothing wrong with posing for a photo like that in runners world. The problem is with News Weak (I love it) using it out of context.
OTOH, she seems willing to exploit sexism in exchange for populist appeal from the neanderthal set who have no politics other then wating to see her mug on TV. If she is as smart as FAUX makes her out to be, then she would be exercisng control of her image to boost her numbers…lacking any depth on the issues, she may have chosen the correct route, give that the left will eat their young over this…just like the Palin vs. Hutchinson comparisons.
A few days ago the wingnuts were complaining that the pictures of her in scanty clothing were fake.
Now they are complaining because the pictures are real.
They enjoy faking outrage — especially if it doesn’t really matter.
Well… she started it. Have you ever before seen a vice-presidential candidate winking at the audience during a debate? And when she was first nominated, lots of Republicans bragged about how she good-looking she was!
And lets not forget that both Clinton and Edwards were also basted by the media for their expensive haircuts, long before Palin’s wardrobe became controversial.
Finally, Palin had a chance to rebut her image on Oprah’s recent show. Oprah gave her the perfect opportunity, asking her why, since she was abviously a bright woman, she didn’t tell Katie Couric about all the books, newspapers, and magazines she read?
It was Palin’s perfect opening. All she had to say was that she was surprised by the question and momentarily drew a blank, but she regularly reads (then list off three or four newspapers or magazines). After all, she’s had over a year to think about it. Who doesn’t re-think arguments for days, weeks, even months later, and say to themselves “…and then I should have said….”?
But Palin didn’t do that. She responded that, of course, she reads books and magazines, and she has always been a great lover of books. But she didn’t mention any. Then Oprah gives her one more chance, asking a follow up question. Then Palin responds by saying that she was offended at the questions, she was already tense because she thought she was being treated unfairly by Couric.
so Oprah dropped the subject. Having had two opportunities to answer a basic question most of us could answer at any given moment of the day, she failed. The only probable explanation is that she DOESN’T WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. She would have to admit that she really doesn’t read newspapers or magazines, or that the ones she reads would be too embarrasing (politically or personally) to utter in a national interview. She probably knows that if she says she reads newspapers or magazines, the news media will immediatley try to verify those facts, and there will be people close to her who will say they have never seen any of those publications in her home or office.
And in her book, she talks about how she was prepared to talk about substantive foreign policy in an interview, but complains about how sexist it was that the interviewer kept asking about her views on fashion. Hello? The interview was for VOGUE magazine!!! What did she expect??????
I’m not trying to argue that Palin isn’t a slutty, brainless, bimbo- she absolutely is. Regardless of how Palin acts News Week shouldn’t try and turn its self into Us magazine.
We should hold BOTH the news media and politicos accountable for dumbing things down. The photo’s tacky and dumb, but contextually correct for Runners World. Not for News Week. News Week shouldn’t have run it.
There’s nothing “sexist” about it; Newsweek portrayed her perfectly. A candidate for Vice President of the United States who tries to get votes by winking at a TV camera deserves to be ridiculed as a slutty schoolgirl — because that’s exactly what she is.
By the way, here’s a link to a picture of the cover, along with Newsweek’s explanation.
Official Statement on Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover
@5 If anyone deserves to not be taken seriously …
I too believe that because Palin is a joke, treating her like a joke is fair. She has done nothing in her 1 1/2 years in the national spotlight to suggest she has any substance. Newsweek has done the nation a service–this airhead needs to be stopped in her tracks before she does serious damage.
Well, I think Spiro Agnew might have fluttered his eyelashes a couple of times while he was huffing about “the nattering nabobs of negativism” but….at least, thank GAWD, he never posed in spandex.
There probably aren’t a lot of female joggers in Afghanistan. But, if there were any, they would need to COVER UP those legs!
As has been pointed out: the same conservative websites which are b!tching about this photo also feature – prominently – the girl in the tight tee shirt. And Ann Coulter’s legs, which got her notoriety from the beginning.
The girls who wore their religious beliefs on their sleeves were always the sluttiest in my experience.
Repent and redemption, it’s bigot crack, doncha’ know! Also.
(Wink)
This serves as further evidence of Palin’s intellectual laziness, not to mention her overgrown ego. Evidently she or her handlers neglected to read the fine print in the model’s release form which must have allowed Runner’s World to do anything they damn well please with the picture…including licensing it to another publication. Furthermore, the shot originally ran last August, perfectly timed to get the most traction going into the election. Whatever publication it is, unless it’s a behind-the-counter stroke mag, it gets her picture on every newsstand in the country.
Now watch her feign righteous indignation and milk this for every speck of attention she can–oh, so conveniently while she’s hawking her book.
I’d go to the rightwing sites to check out the “girl in the tight tee shirt”, but all I end up seeing is Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh. That, and Art giving me a mental image of Spiro Agnew in spandex, pretty much made me forget about eating dinner tonight.
But it was entertaining to read that there is now a campaign to get Kirby Wilbur back on the air at KVI. Some right-wing bloggers are rushing to give you the news that Kirby’s ratings were actually doing quite well (beating Glen Beck), and that he had offered to forego a raise in order to help out the station, but his contract wasn’t renewed anyway – contrary to KVI’s statements that it was a ratings call.
So now they are organizing a campaign to have advertisers pull their spots from KVI until they put Kirby Wilbur back on.
Looks like the Republicans have lost control of their wingnut revolution:
How All Revolutions End
Dammit, Art, like rhp says, why’d you have to share the image of Spiro Agnew in spandex with us? It caused me to throw up in my mouth a little bit.
@19 Kirby should probably be putting his energy into finding another gig. Most likely Fisher has made the decision to fill KVI’s airtime with the cheapest syndicated crap they can while they look for a sucker to whom to sell the license and the frequency.
Bah. I’m old enough that when I hear “KVI” I still think of Bob Hardwick, Jack Morton, Perry Allen and waking up to Count Basie or Astrud Gilberto.
Palin had an 83% approval rating and was Governor of the only state in the black as far as I know. We should be so lucky to have her as President. You tards are so scared of her I can’t believe it. So funny to watch. Whats it like being a tard? Do you drool alot?
Well Puddy isn’t sure what’s it like but they do have some knuckle draggers and goat abusers on that side.
@22 Yeah, it’s pretty easy to be popular if you’re the governor of a state that hands out money to all its citizens. It’s pretty easy to do that when fools like Klynical are shovelling lots of dollars your state’s way to feed their gas-hungry SUV’s.
Of course, that’s another reason Sarah might have had in mind to get the hell out of there. The North Slope’s just about played out, and when that’s done the good people of Alaska are really going to have a struggle to continue living in the style to which they’ve become accustomed. When it gets to that point, whoever’s sitting behind the big desk in Juneau had better have a secret back door to slip out of.
@16 You can say “bitching” on this web site without repercussions, Max. We’re very straightforward here — when we want to tell trolls to go f*ck themselves, we don’t screw around with asterisks; we tell them to go fuck themselves.
@23 “Well Puddy isn’t sure what’s it like”
Sure you are; you just can’t find the words to express what you feel.
@24 Of course, it has never once occurred to the wingnuts in the Lower 48 trailer parks that Alaska charges the same price for oil that OPEC does.
mark @ 22: “You tards are so scared of her I can’t believe it.”
You got that right. Sarah Palin as president is terrifying. She couldn’t tell you the difference between Iraq and Iran, couldn’t possibly define “gross domestic product,” and couldn’t hope to explain in rational terms why she opposes the House bill concerning healthcare reform. She is, to use a politically incorrect term, a complete airhead. So, do we fear her as president? Damned right. Do we fear her as the GOP nominee for president? You must be kidding. That would be like a gift from the heavens for the Democrats. I think it would be the largest landslide in American history. You folks on the right who lately seem so enamored of polls, did you see the one just out where 60% of Americans think Slutarah is not qualified to be president and just 28% (the usual puppy-barbecuer crowd) think she is? Please, oh please, oh please, nominate her as your candidate.
Awwwwww Poor ArtFart… He wants Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm to do the same thing for him.
@28 Actually Palin as president would probably be laughable, and brief.
Roger Dumb Bunny Farted
Wrong again fool. Puddy said it right here…
Facts and Roger Dumb Bunny are diametrically opposed particles…
At $60 a barrel or above Zombie Brains, a barrel of Alaska oil goes: Mmmm Mmmm Mmm gets 20%, Alaska gets 42%, oil industry 38%.
@29 Puddy, if you’d care to express yourself in some comprehensible language, some of us might see fit to respond.
OK, I’ll try anyway.
If you’re trying to say what I think you are….no, not really. We’re pretty much doing OK. I know there are a lot of people who aren’t, and I know there are also some people who have lots and lots of money who have maneuvered their way out of paying their fair share. I think they should.
Folks,
there is a reasonable thread here on a rational subject. If Puddy or Mark wants to particpate that is great but can’t we all just ignore their off-the point silliness.
Back on the issue, it seems to me that NW did what was reasonable. Only an uptight, PC liberal or an oversexed tomcat of a Republican would see this picture as even mildly sexual much less sexist.
Anybody here likely remembers the similar images, even more revealing, of America’s first basketball playing President .. throwing hoops or exposing his nipples in the Hawaii surf. How was it that these elicited so little in the way of groans? The answer is obvious .. BHO is obviously a serious politician, someone with in depth knowledge and great commitment. So even when Faux news tried to use these images to make fun of the guy, their efforts fell flat.
Think about other images NW might have shown of the all-too-briefly governor of alaska. What would be a more accurate self image? Would the righties like to see her in sweats, on a couch next to a stack of copies of Foreign Affairs? Or maybe the photogs at NW could have posed her praying at the tomb of Ronald Reagan? Howsabout this ….
One of the most hackneyed pictures of any President are the ones based on JFK during the Missile Crisis. JFK is staring out the window. SO .. int he spirit of avoiding originality, perhaps NW could have photographed Palin at home in Wassila, staring through the curtains at Russia?
“BHO is obviously a serious politician, someone with in depth knowledge and great commitment.”
Hilarious.
SJ @ 34: “SO .. in the spirit of avoiding originality, perhaps NW could have photographed Palin at home in Wassila, staring through the curtains at Russia?”
Nice, SJ. Might you also posit the picture of Palin in the posture of The Thinker, chin rested on fist, brow furrowed, lost in thought? Of course, she’d be lost in thought about whatever Levi Johnston might be up to, but whatever. Lost in thought is lost in thought.
If Sarah Palin is even on the GOP’s practice team, they are in serious trouble.
@35 marvelous comment.
You must be REALLY scared that Barry has as much smarts as Nixon without the bearded one’s streak of mean-ness. Gosh darn .. what is Barry socializes the US or turns us into a raceless melange of mediocre community organizers? Now you got me really scared!
@36
May I modify that?
If Sarah Palin is even on the GOP’s practice team, America is in serious trouble.
@33 AF
Be nice to Puddy, he is, .. I assume you know, morally disadvantaged.
I understand HA provides him with a much needed opportunity to exercise his disability rather than peeing around the house or clawing at the furniture.
Actually, knowing the real person makes me wonder, how can anyone as bright as the Kat, take anyone as foolish as the broad from Wassila seriously? Or .. maybe it is all an act?
This is not sexist.
She posed for the picture. It’s just her in running shorts. There’s been photos of presidents in running shorts before.
Just because she looks better than Bush or Clinton in running shorts does not make it sexist.
Who cares?
I don’t know if this is a satirical post or not, but if it isn’t, this is one of the dumbest things I have read in a long time.
If she wants to put her ass out there, she can’t call ‘sexist’ when they show it. She posed for the goddamn picture, it is her problem. It isn’t like someone had a picture of her breastfeeding a young’en and Newsweek ran with that. Newsweek didn’t darken the photo, like for OJ, or put some perky nips on it. It is just the goddamn pic she posed for.
It doesn’t even have a camel toe in it.
41: “It doesn’t even have a camel toe in it.”
Can you imagine if it did how many rightwingers who haven’t gotten it up in forever (Puddy and Cynical come to mind), might have thought about getting it up? Not that they could, but they would have at least thought about it . . .
Wow rhp6033, that’s a good one. Still reading pattinwood eh? Or was it the Saturday Night Live skit with Tina Fey that sold you on it?
Hey SJ, this is called responsible commentary when almost everyone is using vitriol and negative attacks against Palin?
When Runner’s World Editor said News Weak (good one above) used it without permission?
When rhp6033 focuses on a person winking in a debate because Tina Fey did it in her Saturday Night live skit?
When Roger Dumb Bunny calls her a slutty school girl along with Jon (Allen Stanford) Devore?
When ArtFart makes spandex jokes?
When you further the bimbo comment?
Yep this is a really meaningful discussion SJ. The type you love to troll here! Right up your “alley”.
Whatever happened to the “pitbull with lipsitick” schtick? This woman is just one big bag of whine.
And as for the MILF angle, I don’t get it. MINF is more like it.
Bomp chiki chiki Bwow-wow
Bomp chiki chiki Bwow-wow
Mr Speaker, the President of the United States:
Bomp chiki chiki bwow-wow…
a buddy told me i could find some Patty Murray shots here..
ya know, even if sarah is dumb, she’s still prettier than patty (duh) and also smarter
@44 Puddy
Meaningful? Palin? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Pudster
So??
As usual, you nevwer answer questions.
Does the puddy tat take the kitten from the cold cold north seriously?
Ya gonna buy her book?
47
Sarah Palin is better looking than Patty Murray. She, however, doesn’t have one-tenth of Patty’s brainpower.
SJ,
Puddy doesn’t answer canned questions. You’ve known Puddy long enough to know this yet you continue to ask closed questions. Even Mrs Puddy knows your question style.
SJ, Puddy won’t need to buy her book. Why? It’s been excerpted by the left and the right. All the “so called gotchas” by libtardos. 11 researchers from the AP funded by libtardos. And the the talk shows have her on. Everything is already exposed. Kind of like the continual lack of intelligence exposure on ylb arschloch, steve, and rujax’s part.
@51 Puddy does not answer questions ….
ahhhh … must mean he has no answers?
@52 Puddy thinks the charactures of Palin are correct. Tempting to ask whether he means the dumb Bimbo or the courageous slef educted patriot? But …Puddy does not answer questions ….
Since Puddy does n to answer questions, we can assume whatever we want about his beliefs?
Hmmmmm ….
Does this mean Puddy is a put on, an Eliza like character with preprogrammed answers?
Maybe Puddy is really a devotee of J. Stalin and is just rrying to undermine the System by making inane comments?
1 Michael
I admit I don’t really know what you mean. But Sarah Palin is not an elected leader and has not been for some time. She served only 18 months (roughly) of the four year term to which she was elected, that Alaskans were foolishly counting on her to serve with energy and honor. But without compelling personal reasons, scandal, or any other good reason, she abandoned the high post with which she had been entrusted and turned her back on the people who placed her there (and on those who did not, but they were probably just as happy).
My opinion is, it’s open season. One cannot with a straight face cite “respect for our elected officials” as a defense for her.
18 AF
I agree. It’s not as if SP herself hasn’t milked her MILF image for every drop of Southern whiteboy semen she can engender.
I love the idea of a Palin cnadidacy for anything, best of all president. Huckabee is already spanking her (figuratively, of course) among her strongest–dumb Southern white male evangelical–constituency.
Women don’t like her. Blacks don’t like her. Latinos don’t like her. Heck, only 43% of Republicans think that she has the ability to be an effective president. She couldn’t be elected dogcatcher now, let alone president. So yes, this will be fun.
22 m
Yes, I am sure that poll was taken just after she resigned after serving 18 months of her 4 year term.
It must have taken so much hard work for her to balance the budget of her state. Of course, the legislature does that and not the govenor. And even though Alaska has its owm oil revenue, it STILL accepts in $1.34 of OUR MONEY for every dollar its citizens send to the federal government. Alaska is a socialist paradise.
Puddy pulls from his ass: “All the “so called gotchas” by libtardos.”
Can’t stand it, can you? Does denying reality help you sleep better? Please try to keep in mind, Puddy, that delusions really do have a lousy future.
“Kind of like the continual lack of intelligence exposure on ylb arschloch, steve, and rujax’s part.”
LMFAO!! From the shit-for-brains who bragged to Lee about having a 120 IQ.