Michele Bachman: Ol' Crazy Eyes Makes the Cover of Newsweek
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UPDATED: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:33
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Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.
Expressing ones opinions, no matter what they are, is the most American thing a person can do.
...and good for those on the left, unlike you I don't need a herd around me.
Your opinion isn't the issue here. It's the attempt by a news magazine to falsely paint a candidate in a negative light. They've gone to such lengths to distort her image as to post a test shot photo as their cover , with extremely an misleading caption.
Everyone can see this, and even those on the far Left ( at least those who are honest ) can come out and claim what Newsweek did was yellow journalism, and intentionally deceptive.
Why can't you just be civil and mature about this, admit that Newsweek went over board in what they did, and just leave it at that ?
Really not that much of an issue.
They did not paint her in a negative light, just the true light of what she is. Had they done the something to say, Romney or Ron Paul I would take issue. I may not agree with their stances on the issues but they are intelligent enough to hold an intellectual conversation. Also they don't flaunt their religious convictions. Bachmann can only repeat talking points and she does a poor job at that.
Any person, right or left, that is so obviously no suited for public office should be ridiculed, along with the people who support them.
I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.
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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.
Or... a more fair and balanced review of the cover might be...Newsweek has been losing market share to Time for the last 6 months. Time's circulation has gone up 16% while Newsweek has gone down 5% in the first 6 months of 2011, even with new leadership at Newsweek. As any print publication will know, in this new digital age, if you aren't growing you are dying, hence Newsweek's trend to more and more controversial (desperate) covers, including the age-enhanced, digitally manipulated image of Princess Diana (only the face that's sold more newsweeklies than any other in history).
So it's not politics, it's not bad photography, it's just business. This is a win for Newsweek buzz-wise, even if they suffer in the PR dept.
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Ahhh, I get it Mike; it's not that looking at the wrong camera was a sign of stupidity, it's something that so much hay was made of that it follows her around, yes? Quote:
Ah, so she DID pose for it of her own free will. That takes them off the hook PARTIALLY if she didn't give them enough poses.
Brown referred to an earlier Newsweek cover, which featured Palin looking fresh and glamorous, saying that while Palin enjoyed the attention, giving the photographer many poses to work with, Bachmann turned up offering little time or effort.Quote:
That makes perfect sense. Palin knows how to play to the crowd and how to sell herself; that would be a priority with her, while Bachmann seems to run more "on the fly" and hasn't had the practice of posing and publicity (yet).
'Sarah Palin had a lot of time for the photo shoot. She loved to pose for the pictures. She's very compelling before a camera and all the pictures of her, to be honest, were really great. I think Michele Bachmann is a very strong looking woman but it's about the time you want to give a photographer.
'If you want to give the photographer two seconds and a snap it's hard to get a big range of photographs but with Sarah she spent a whole afternoon with him.'
Responding to our local troll is silly; try to bear in mind, he says these things DELIBERATELY to goad you guys. Works every time, don't it? You/I explain things to him once, he still says the same things; you go on explaining the same thing over and over, he continues to make his same original statement, OR doubles down on it. Now he's saying they didn't just "defend" Bachmann, they are "siding with her"...don't you see it? He really plays you guys for fools over and over and over, and you bite every time! I may bite ONCE, mostly for the sake of the truth, but beyond that, it's the old "fool me once..." (not the Bush version, the REAL one ;o) )
Pizmo, excellent point! Given that, it explains a lot and makes more sense than it being a political ploy, thank you. The basic point is that Newsweek did a bad cover, whether for political reasons, because Bachmann didn't give their photog enough time, or they're garnering attention. Raptor's right in that it's not really much of an issue; it got made an issue, Mike used it to score a political point, Raptor couldn't do other than respond and expanded it to people "defending" and "siding with" Bachmann, and it BECAME an issue here (as it has in so many other political conversations, obviously). Beyond the feuding and firestorm, it's an amusing diversion and Newsweek deserved to be "tch, tch"ed, but that's all, to me. And Stewart did a GREAT bit on it. What's amusing to me is that the entire bit started with him talking about how much the right enjoys complaining about how they're treated, and the picture of her made of words. Score one, Jon!
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Exactamundo!!! Who reads Newsweek anyways?! LOL!!
Though I hate attack ads and propagandic spin by the media (Mostly Left leaning - except for Fox Spews), it is pretty hilarious that she actually does look like that. I mean most of our politicians look like some version of Ogra or the Skeksis from the Dark Crystal LOL.
Jayne: "Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'..."
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Your conviction is anti- American. That much is clear. Also, you can't even accept that those on the Left are siding with Bachmann on this matter.
Expressing ones opinions, no matter what they are, is the most American thing a person can do.
...and good for those on the left, unlike you I don't need a herd around me.
Your opinion isn't the issue here. It's the attempt by a news magazine to falsely paint a candidate in a negative light. They've gone to such lengths to distort her image as to post a test shot photo as their cover , with extremely an misleading caption.
Everyone can see this, and even those on the far Left ( at least those who are honest ) can come out and claim what Newsweek did was yellow journalism, and intentionally deceptive.
Why can't you just be civil and mature about this, admit that Newsweek went over board in what they did, and just leave it at that ?
Really not that much of an issue.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
My take on this whole discussion in a nutshell is that it really isn't about Newsweek mocking Bachmann, it's about magazines and news agencies once again spinning someones appearance to push forward an agenda. She's a big girl and I haven't read or heard a peep out of her, so I'm not sure this is a "woman bashing" issue, nor do I think she has thin skin. It's another political assassination attempt by the media puppet-masters. I just wish journalists would take their credibility back and move back to reporting news and away from sensationalizing or spinning news. Let the candidates crash and burn on their own merits.
Then again, they (the journalists and editors) are all bought and paid for by the Murdochs and the Soros'.
Just my 2 cents for what it's worth LOL!!!
Jayne: "Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'..."
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Huzzah...and I would like journalists to become JOURNALISTS once again, not produce "infotainment".
I just wish journalists would take their credibility back and move back to reporting news and away from sensationalizing or spinning news. Let the candidates crash and burn on their own merits.
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Enjoying the red herring ? Sure seems like it.
Might as well get used to it, Rap. You'll be seeing it right through 2012.
The Democrats have had very little success to tout since their big 2008 win, and no major initiatives enacted. so all they can do is go to full attack mode.
Health Care reform ended up a gimme for the insurance companies. Recovery only worked if you're on the boards of GM, Chrysler, or a big bank. We're involved in more wars than in 2008, and killing more folks in Pakistan with drones. Gitmo is still open. Unemployment's still high. Our AAA rating is gone bye-bye. Not a great record of accomplishment to run on next fall.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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But you're neither left nor right, isn't that what you say? So of course the Republicans had nothing to do with healthcare not being "Medicare for all" or a public option, weren't the "Party of Hell No", had nothing to do with STOPPING any and all Democratic initiatives, filibustering everything under the sun, or creating the climate that the ratings services said CAUSED them to downgrade us, right? Of course; it's all the Dems fault--no, wait, it's all OBAMA's fault--Republicans had nothing to do with it. Yeah, sure.
The saddest thing of all is Dems most likely won't act like the right has, whenever we get another Republican President, and the Repubs will get to take credit for everything they accomplish. Works for them! You betcha.
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Someday, instead of reading that one party had zero success (which ultimately means no party had success), we'll read that our country had success during a given period.
The old saying, "It takes 2 to tango" rings true each and every day. Sadly ebcause each party feels it is necessary to entrench themselves in their minority leadership dogma (in minority, I mean that our representatives regardless of party don't listen to the whole of their constituency).
Every presidency we seem the same old tripe, "This party is evil incarnate..NO that party is evil incarnate". I think they all are. Eventually "We the People" will reach a point where there is no more tripe allowed, then we'll hear a pin drop LOL, that is as the politicians stand on a hill over looking Washington and the capitals of each state as their buildings burn.
OR
They will learn that there is something to be gained by legitimate compromise, rather then teh smoke and mirrors of the Pork compromises we have seen over the last 20 years or so.
Jayne: "Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'..."
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Originally posted by m52nickerson:
They did not paint her in a negative light, just the true light of what she is.
Bingo.
She's a fuckin lunatic, and they represented her accurately - which is, it seems to be, most folks problem with it, no one wants to admit more than half our so-called representatives, and those who wish to be, actually belong in a rubber room somewhere instead of the halls of power.
And I think press and publications who cower from facing and acknowledging that fact, who don't have the guts to call them out on it, have failed in their civic duty as a free press.
Although let's be honest here, it's far, far more one party that throws a hissy when their true colors shine through the mask and folks see em for the neo-feudal-fascist bastards that they are, cause the liberal wackjobs on the other end all but revel in that classification.
So mostly, it's about DISHONESTY, Perfidy, which is kinda universal, but the abject, overblown and melodramatic denials of the GOP are about as convincing as those of any caught red handed crook, and all the more offensive cause they PRETEND to a moral standard damn few of them even make a pretense of holding.
So this ain't about MIS-representation, this is outrage over ACCURATE representation, a publication refusing to shovel the agreed-upon measure of bullshit, and IMHO refreshing for that reason - our so-called leaders and would be leaders NEED to be mocked, sneered at, and shamed for their arrogance, their incompetence, their insanity, and it's about damn time someone did.
-Frem
ETA: I don't completely disagree Concho, but I have a different opinion on that subject.
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