Comments on: Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down

By: Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Newsweek’s Palin "Make Up Sex" Cover « FUTFS.COM

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:05:32 +0000

[...] 6. Ha! Make-up sex for Newsweek’s Runners World cover?! [...]

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:07:29 +0000

Nazi regime. Please. Any cursory examination of WWII history and the Nazis shows absolutely no parallel with President Obama’s administration. You may as well say that President Obama is a Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz. Nazi regime. That comment puts on full display the ignorance of the Republican right wing nuts.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:03:12 +0000

My children will have to pay for Bush’s foolish wars for years and years and years. What do you Republicans think helped bring the economy down, in addition to Republican insistence on deregulating everything and their big tax cuts for the rich? Beyond that, Bush’s foolishness has resulted in the deaths of more than 5,000 young soldiers and for what? Not to mention the tens of thousands of men, mostly men, whose bodies and minds are broken. The lives wasted on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is a national disgrace. The Republicans like to tell us they are “pro life.” Right. Tell that to the parents of a son or daughter lost in one of Bush’s stupid wars.
And the money wasted could have sent every American young person to college for free. What’’s better, pounding dollars down into the sands of a foreign desert or investing in our own country’s young people instead of killing them? The sheer ignorance and mean-spiritedness of Republicans is astonshing. And Sarah Palin is just a pretty face on this ignorance.
In order to be a Republican and an admirer of Palin, you have to be thoroughly misinformed.

By: gryphon

gryphon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:10:07 +0000

Missed the original fun here, but, the main thing this image shows me is contempt for the US flag. Sure every pol uses it for a prop but shouldn’t a governor have an idea how a flag should and shouldn’t be treated? Most school kids know better I imagine.
It is not being flown or displayed in a fashion that it deserves, unless it is beneath you and you’d like to see it destroyed anyway… Even if the photographer was ignorant an aide or the Gov herself should have mentioned the flag deserved more respect than being thrown over a chair back and LEANED upon…
Silent code like this photo and the photo of her with a bircher society paper on her desk she is pointing to are dog whistles to crackpots. Remember dumbya SIGNING small flags for souvenirs? They Don’t Care what anyone outside their bubbles think and will proceed thusly…
Middle Aged Contemptuous Secessionist Barbie is all I see in this photo. Why were half the posts in this thread about Obama??
Reese on Malcolm In The Middle had a box for Shiny Things, that is where she came from..

By: Michael Shaw (The BAG)

Michael Shaw (The BAG) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:39:21 +0000

Wow! Is this the new Bag? A site where comments are dominated by exchanges of insults? Formulaic, fill-in-the-blanks personal insults?

Any comment that comprises nothing but either slightly adapted (at best!) partisan "talking points" or equally partisan "I've been suckered into treating talking points as if they were legitimate contributions to intelligent discourse…" That comment reveals a lot about the one who posts it, but very little about analysis or understanding of the image itself.

What's the point? One can find such "static noise" anywhere on the internet dial. And wherever it's posted, that noise is basically generic and essentially pointless.

Wayne, this is not "the new BAG." This post was featured by YahooNews this morning and it's my fault for not monitoring the discussion thread as most of the commenters are not regular BAGnewsNotes readers. I am closing the discussion thread right now because the majority of the comments, as you indicate, either aren't reflective of the picture or aren't constructive or reflective of the tone or mission of the site.

I should also add that, contrary to the comment of a poster a few entries up the thread, I have not deleted any comments. As soon as I close the thread though, I am going back and deleting all comments -- and there are quite a few of them -- that are derogatory to Nina Berman. The attacks on her are truly ugly and offensive, and are an affront to her and to the site.

Michael Shaw, BAGnewsNotes.com

By: A.W.S

A.W.S — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:35:45 +0000

Hate Obama? NO, we hate what he stands for. His propaganda machine is reminiscent of the NAZI regime. His policies will make all of us wards of the state, if we allow it. Soon, in 2010, the Right change will make the Left….OUT!

By: rockinhiker@yahoo.com

rockinhiker@yahoo.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:33:39 +0000

Toobad she is not a blonde. She would be the proverbial bimbo

By: A.W.S

A.W.S — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:28:25 +0000

DK, I see that you are wearing your Obama armband and blindfold. You goose-step, with your brethren, to the ‘…just words, just speeches…’ of your new found messiah. You pray for the ‘Left-Loosed’ government to save Americans from themselves. Principled conservatives like myself and many, many others across this great land strive continually to promote individualism, not collectivism; to inspire ingenuity and innovation, not rehash tired and failed social-communistic policies. Your ignorance of true freedom has propelled you to be enslaved to that which seeks to destroy freedom. Remove the blindfold, take off the ‘O’ armband, unshackle yourself and jump off that bandwagon of ‘hope and change’. Stand on your own with resilience and confidence. For you will come to realize that it is better to be a leader than a lackey of one.

By: Julia Grey

Julia Grey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:26:18 +0000

So, you admit to vamping around as your tool for success and because of that, you are qualified to judge the motives of another.
I’m saying I’m qualified to RECOGNIZE the motives of another woman who is doing what I did. Takes one to know one and all that.
She has explained what the article was about for which the picture was produced.
And she couldn’t have posed in longer pants for that article because…?
The issue here has nothing to do with whether Sarah should have posed for a picture for the article,
I agree. It is whether Sarah should have posed for THAT KIND of picture for the article.
it is about whether Newsweek is doing an injustice by taking that photo and using it out of context to sell their magazine while trying to make her somehow look like a bimbo.
Newsweek is using that photo to illustrate THEIR article, which is about “the problem” of Sarah, and that photo sums up a great deal of that problem: inappropriate use of her sexuality to gain attention and power, and really lousy personal judgment. Changing the context of the photo doesn’t change the fact that it’s an absurd pinup shot of someone who should have known better. The woman is a Christian mother and grandmother and was the governor of the state of Alaska when it was taken. She shouldn’t have put on that getup for a photo shoot under ANY circumstances. The reason she was happy to wear shorts and hose is because she wanted to look “hot.” There’s no other explanation. Her pretense that it was entirely innocent is a standard part of the brain-disengaging manipulation she’s attempting: “Oops! I’m just trying to look ‘healthy’ here, and I can’t help it if I naturally look sexy, too, it’s a total accident, I’m really not trying to engage your libido! Honest!”
So yes, she looks like a bimbo. But she looked like a bimbo when it was the cover of Runner’s World, too. Now she looks like a bimbo to the rest of the world as well, and it’s no one’s fault but her own. “Personal Responsibility.” Are you for it?
If you would open your eyes and engage your brain, maybe you could see the truth here.
I could say the same to you, but it looks like neither of us have a hope of convincing the other. I’ve provided my…testimony…regarding this kind of behavior for the edification of the readers here. That’s all I can do.
Good night.

By: knomor

knomor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:22:41 +0000

bimbo
who’s sexist again?