Michele Bachman: Ol' Crazy Eyes Makes the Cover of Newsweek
POSTED BY: Kwicko
UPDATED: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:33
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Yikes!
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Just shows the bias of the media, and lengths to which the Left will go to , in order to vilify anyone they feel is a threat to their dear and fluffy Obama.
Here's a legitimate cover shot of the congresswoman - 
How petty and unprofessional for Newsweek to use what very likely was only a test shot, as the cover , and then to add the juvenile headline.
Oh, am I a professional photographer ? Nope. But that's what some who are have said...
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First, the lighting is harsh and uneven, more like a driver's license photo than a professional portrait. Her hair casts a shadow over her forehead, indicating poor positioning of the flash on the photographer's right. Her expression is unnatural, something good portrait photographers try to avoid not only because it looks bad, but also because it doesn't give the viewer any insight into the subject. Really good portrait photography reveals the subject's personality, which is why the best portrait photographers spend a lot of time making their subjects feel relaxed and comforatble. You can't capture someone's personality if she's nervous, unready, uncomfortable or distracted. Bachmann appears all of those in that photo. On top of that, she's awkwardly posed, as if she happened to be walking by and suddenly looked up. It looks like a test shot, not a final portrait. ( I found out after writing this, that Bachmann's campaign said it was a shot from the lighting test. ) Forget a national news magazine; that photo wouldn't make the cut in some smaller, regional publications based on its technical flaws alone. So how did it make the cover of Newsweek?
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110809/LOCALVOICES03/110809881
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Even the gals from the N.O.W. side against Newsweek and its shoddy treatment of Michelle Bachmann...
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Monday, the National Organization for Women (NOW) spoke out against Newsweek’s most recent cover, which features an extreme close-up of Michele Bachmann and the title “The Queen of Rage.”
“It’s sexist,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told TheDC. “Casting her in that expression and then adding ‘The Queen of Rage’ I think [it is]. Gloria Steinem has a very simple test: If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? Surely this has never been done to a man.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-national-organization-for-women-
defends-bachmann-against-newsweek/#ixzz1UeF5a9G3
And where was Newsweek and the rest of the MSM on THIS psycho Queen's wincing screech ??
Hypocrisy much ?
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? Surely this has never been done to a man.”
Never say never.
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Jon Stewart takes Newsweek to task over Bachmann cover
After briefing the London riots on Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart did something slightly out of the ordinary: defended Tea Party Rep. Michele Bachmann.
By now most people have seen Newsweek's latest cover featuring Bachmann with the headline "Queen Of Rage." But it's not the story that's making headlines -- it's the way Bachmann looks in the photo: wide-eyed, a bit startled and a bit startling.
Stewart concluded that it couldn't possibly be "an accidentally s***ty" picture of Bachmann and showed several photos of her looking very photogenic to back it up. Of course, he still worked in some amazing send-ups, including placing the cover side by side with the poster of Steve Carell from "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (the similarities are uncanny!).
Newsweek Editor Tina Brown has defended the cover, saying it aimed to capture how Bachmann is "galvanizing" voters in Iowa, but Stewart insists that the photo intended to make her look crazy. Watch the full clip to hear Stewart's solution for a Bachmann Newsweek cover that would actually do the trick -- without even using a photo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/jon-stewart-defends-michele-b
achmann-newsweek_n_923124.html
So, N.O.W. and John Stewart both are defending Bachmann, and taking Newsweek to task for their obvious unprofessionalism at shamelessly ridiculing Bachmann, and then trying to justify it.
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Stewart also said you don't have to make her look crazy, you can figure that out by listening to what she says.
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Stewart also said you don't have to make her look crazy, you can figure that out by listening to what she says.
Which makes the point all that more significant. He's no fan of Bachmann, which is plain to see. But even so, Newsweek went way over board in its treatment of of her.
THAT is the point.
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Hee, hee, hee...you vilify Stewart gleefully 90% of the time, but hold him up as proof when he says something you like. I see it's all over google, and the title on many is "Jon Stewart Defends Michelle Bachmann", which is hysterical if you see the entire bit. It's amazingly funny that some see that as him "defending" her:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-9-2011/glazed-and-confuse
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You of course left out all the rest of what he said, which was hysterical, and what he said about her BEING crazy, the fact that he didn't "defend" her whatsoever, and the finish, where he said "You want a photo that makes her look a little off? Make it out of her words" and offered just that:
(It's a screen capture, Raptor, only way I could isolate it, in case you're clicking on the "run" button madly and wondering why nothing's happening.)
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