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Sarah’s pissed over Newsweek cover? You betcha!

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November 18, 2009

Newsweek magazine dug up an old Runner’s World photo of Sarah Palin in running shorts and used it on the cover for a story entitled How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?

So Sarah’s pissed. She called the cover “sexist” and conservative pundits are weighing in with bombastic self-righteous indignation.

Odd. These same pundits gleefully promoted Palin as the new sex symbol for the GOP when the John McCain campaign plucked her from obscurity in a desperation effort to salvage the 2008 Presidential election.

But Sarah, wearing a bright-red, form-fitting top in the photo, is seeing red over the cover photo.

On her Facebook Page, Palin posted:

The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness – a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context.

Do anything to draw attention? Sounds like a former Alaska governor to us.

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11 Responses to Sarah’s pissed over Newsweek cover? You betcha!

  1. John Q

    November 20, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    What is that saying about a picture and a thousand words? Be honest, people. When you look at that picture what’s going through your mind? “WOW! How smart she looks!” or “WOW! What a pair of legs!”

    It doesn’t matter how many books she “writes” a picture like this has said it all very clearly what she really is.

  2. Sandra Price

    November 19, 2009 at 6:18 am

    I find nothing offensive with her picture on the cover of Newsweek. There isn’t a woman alive who wouldn’t like to look like Sarah Palin in shorts. She is a puritan because they are the fad these days. America cannot get enough of the Miss California Daisy Maes and women who stir the blood of men and the wrath of women.

    The GOP needs Daisy Mae as they have yet to locate an agenda.

    Sandy

  3. John Q

    November 18, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Levi Johnston, eat your heart out! Look at those legs. You’re dead meat if she decides to pose for Playboy.

  4. colocritic

    November 18, 2009 at 10:45 am

    colocritic

    “this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant.”

    What IS relevant about this creature? She keeps doing 180′s every time she speaks so you can’t believe anything she says. She contradicts herself at every turn. Can anyone actually take her seriously on any topic? She now is fodder for most of the talk shows.

    Glad she has an R following her name – they are welcome to her! Heaven help us all, if she ever gets elected to any national office. She reminds me of a fly that flits from one surface to another.

  5. Sandra Price

    November 18, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    But..But..But.. colocritic she speaks for the GOP!

    She is very beautiful and could do much with her talents if she would just learn to speak properly.

  6. John Q

    November 18, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    How unfortunate for her beauty and talents that Hee Haw was cancelled a long time ago. Picture this: Cousin Sarah carrying a six-pack in one hand and a rifle in the other, wearing scanty costumes, winking and saying something like, “You betcha!” What a sight!!!

  7. silentSCREAM

    November 18, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    ‘Palin of the Puritans’ enjoys notoriety for one reason and one reason only – physical appearance! She knows it. Most of the world knows it too. Hell, even her adoring nut-base groupies know it – though they deny it with every fiber of their storied fanatical piety.

    To fret objection for being objectified on a magazine cover… that’s rich. If nothing else, you gotta love the ad nauseam – I’m being unjustly scrutinized – performance her type provides.

  8. Doc_Holiday

    November 19, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Our government has gone the way of movies and TV. “Sex sells!”

  9. colocritic

    November 19, 2009 at 11:04 am

    colocritic
    I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the line of 1500 people outside that book store! Maybe it was the thrill of seeing her in the flesh or getting an autograph in their new full price book. It’s available on line for under $5.00.

    She looked lovely in her red jacket, all smiles, bobbing, bouncing and all bubbly like a pot of boiling water on a red hot stove. You betcha! I guess republican brains are wired totally differently than mine. I would not stand in a line like that for anything except maybe free 1500 dollars.

  10. bogofree

    November 19, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    Thankfully they did not put Nancy Pelosi in a similar pose. Then again NP has done a lot more damage.

  11. acf

    November 20, 2009 at 12:10 am

    I’m guessing that she didn’t pose like that precisely for the Newsweek article. OTOH, I feel certain that she posed for these pics somewhere along the line as part of her public campaigns, intending that they be used exactly as Newsweek is doing now, to promote her sexuality for political, or in this case readership goals. The only problem today is that she doesn’t like the article, and this is the weapon to attack it.