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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    I love when you go Pareene on someone's ass, John. Bravo. Newsweek should send you a box of cookies.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Thank you, John. This is exactly how I felt when I first saw the photo IN RUNNER'S WORLD. It was a bad move to be the sitting governor and have THAT photo taken in her office (the flag as a prop? pageant posing?).

    She wants to be taken seriously and then pulls stunts like this. Would Condoleezza Rice have done this at her office when she was Secretary of State? Not in a million years.
    Newsweek was making a point. And I got it.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    NAILED IT! Bravo.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    I first saw this shot in Time, when they ran the cover of her walking in the woods as she was stepping down as Governor. Exact same cheesy shot. No griping from her then, although I guess it wasn't the cover and didn't have the blythe text next to it.

    Bottom line: the reason they chose this shot is its extreme cheesiness factor. So posed, unnatural, yet gleeful and begging to be loved, just like Sarah. "I always suck in my gut and pose like this, while leaning on an American flag holding my blackberries! It's what real Americans do!," egads. The lighting alone makes it look like the start of a really bad porno from the '70s.

    To me, the ineptitude of her posing in such a tasteless manner make it fair game. Shiny legs come in a close second.

    Oh, and Sarah? Don't want to be judged on your looks? Stop winking at the Goddamn camera during the Vice-Presidential debate. #sarahpalin
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    The Palin problem, then, might be that she cynically incites a crowd that she has no real intention of pleasing. If she were ever to get herself to the nation's capital, the teabaggers would be just as much on the outside as they are now, and would simply have been the instruments that helped get her elected."

    How can he be so sure? She's an idiot, with loyal to no one. Why not be loyal to idiots? She's insane, a brat.

    I will say this--in that "sexist" Newsweek close-up of her face, she looks pretty good. I don't hold it against if she has some (minor) flaws...God knows my own 20-something face would look much, much worse in a close-up, and I don't smoke or go out in the sun that much. So good for her. She's over 40 but fit and relatively unwrinkled.

    Good piece, Gawker. There might be a [inch of real sexism in coverage of her, but she herself is a misogynist...or, if not a misogynist, misogynist-by-proxy by virtue of her toxic, frightening stupidity. Between that and the fact that she's a "victim" when anyone calls her out for her bald-faced lies, her lack of qualifications to hold public office, the things she says about her designated media/political foes (about ANYONE..."real America," my ass).....she's hard to take seriously as a human being, let alone someone running for public office. Cry us a river, Sarah. I take her seriously because I am afraid of her and the people who support despicable candidates like her. Afraid, and repulsed.

    The perfect Republican woman is a brainless one who has a shitty record on issues that directly affect (and involve actual penalties for) women. #sarahpalin
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    My favorite cover pic of her is also from Newsweek. I don't know if it has an official title but I call it 'the hairlip heard around the world' (well, I guess seen would be a better choice of word.) That was perfect! Did it suck and would it kill me if I was in her shoes, absolutely, but it spoke so true to what they were trying to say and expose about her in that article. Remember that quote from Clueless? "From far away, it's OK, but up close, it's a big old mess." - it couldn't have been a better choice for the cover!

    Here's the thing, if you're going to capitalize on your looks to get ahead in any aspect of your life then you need to be prepared to be judged by them in all venues and from all angles. If you're going to be open to the positive then you have to equally accepting of the negative both when you're looking good but especially when you're looking bad. It's like the actresses who go out of their way to cultivate the image of being the most beautiful or sexiest woman in the world (yep, I'm talking about you Megan Fox) but don't spend any time improving their craft and yet have the audacity and ignorance to get upset when they're only talked about or offered roles b/c of their body and basically expected to do nothing except stand/sit/bend over/lay there looking pretty. She'll start bitching soon enough, if she hasn't already.
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Sweet Jesus, does this woman know how to play the victim card or what? I'd be more willing to laugh at all this if I didn't have the sinking feeling that's all going to work like a charm to get her dumb ass into office in 2012. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    @Astroblack: Thankfully, a heartening 60% of Americans think she's unqualified for office: [www.allheadlinenews.com] #sarahpalin
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    11/18/09

    @sweet_communist: Which I thank Katie Couric and Tina Fey for pointing that out to Middle America. Otherwise I think we'd be in a world of hurt. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    It's cold, but it's the truth, therfore it is fair game. They would (and should) give the same treatment to Joe the Plumber, who has about as much to offer the nation as Palin. They are both cartoon characters. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Yes, she's dim-witted and loathsome, and she did agree to take this silly photo, but there is something about Newsweek's decision to use it, that is even bitchier than my description. Since when do they use other magazine's photo spreads for their covers? They are openly mocking this woman. Again, I get why, but they're not the Daily Show, they're a middle of the road news magazine. I think this (and their recent 12 Unfunny Comics list) is a sign Newsweek is trying to be current and viable by acting like a snarky blog and hoping to sidestep the circulation grave by shedding the image of an innocuous and increasingly irrelevant magazine. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    @OldTowneTavern: I'm not sure if you read or look at Newsweek (I work at a library), but Newsweek has had incendiary covers for months, if not years now.

    I think you're trying to defend Sarah Palin more so then attacking print journalism's credibility. If there is any bias on that cover, it's been balanced within the article and with other issues that ran pro-conservative covers. #sarahpalin
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    11/18/09

    @ostartero: I agree. I love Newsweek and have been reading it for years b/c it is fairly balanced where it counts, in the articles. Sure their covers get a lot of attention every once in a while but that's the nature of their business. They need covers that call out to people, either b/c they love them or b/c they hate them just so long as they're buying them. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Seems to me Newsweek is treating her like the joke she is.

    When you take a picture that looks like you're selling a sports drink and not looking like an authoritative person in our government, then, yeah, people are going to point to that and say, "Ha! She thinks she's in a commercial on some lady vitamin channel." Not saying you need to wear fuddy-duddy pantsuits, but, if you put out surface aesthetics, bubble-headed gobbledygook and fouxrage at nearly everything (aside from the straight lunacy you spew on a normal basis), most people are going to see you as the one-dimensional punchline and goofy cover art that you selected. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Can I get another order of hot wings and a refill, oooh, oops, this isn't Hooters? #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    She wins for Whiner of the Year. But her masturbating spiritual sister Carrie Prejean came damn close! #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    @IamnotStarJones: 'Carrie Prejean came damn close'
    Be honest. That was on purpose, right? #sarahpalin
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    11/18/09

    @EddieTheDane: No and I think it's sexist and inappropriate for you to insinuate that it was!
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    Was Palin outraged when those photos of Obama appeared everywhere, shirtless, with people oohing and aaahing over them? #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    @BlinkyMcChuck: Right? And HE wasn't either. Herein lies just one of thousands of differences between the two. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    I love it when Republicans have to pretend to be feminists to sell their crap. It is awesome. #sarahpalin
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Is Using Her Newsweek Cover to Trick You Into Taking Her Seriously
    I can't decide whether she's more delusional about the appeal of her legs or the legs of her 2012 run... #sarahpalin
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