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11/18/09
11/18/09
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.
11/18/09
11/18/09
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
11/18/09
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
11/18/09
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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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
11/18/09
11/17/09
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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Be honest. That was on purpose, right? #sarahpalin
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