How Do You Solve A Problem Like Newsweek?

Hey, with newsstand and subscription sales plummeting for the last eight years (at least), it only seems logical that Newsweek would resort to stealing a photo of Sarah Palin from Runner's World magazine in an attempt to bump up sales. She is, afterall, the epitome of your average American Super Megastar.

Though it is a very attractive photograph of the former GOP VP candidate, it obviously is not appropriate for a so-called news publication's cover. That point cannot be argued. If Speaker of the House Nancy Lugosi had been asked to pose for Runner's World, would...nevermindnevermindnevermind...

Newsweak is little more than a pamphlet nowadays; I assume they will go all black and white soon just to keep the lights on.

No One, or only A Few Loser Nobodies anyway, reads - or subscribes to - Newsweak anymore.

Author/Editor/Sexist Evan Thomas, obviously a deranged misogynist, hates strong, self-made women like Governor Palin. His disdain for pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-big-government feminine women helps feed Newsweak's biased "content."

He sure idolizes feckless, inexperienced, Alinsky-educated U.S. Presidents though, ala his declaration that Obama is "sort of God" in June, 2009. A "god" of little substance or accomplishment I would add.

Somehow Mr. Thomas is threatened by women who posess strong moral convictions like Margaret Thatcher, Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin. He would probably feel more comfortable doing shots with Mollie Ivans, Rachel Maddow or Wanda Sykes.

Julie Andrews' character, Maria, in The Sound of Music shares several attributes with Mrs. Palin: religous faith, strong family values, tenacity, grit, endurance, perseverance, humility, a love of children and of mankind. Mr. Thomas obviously feels these are qualities to be repudiated. How else to explain the incredulity of the question posed on the magazine's November 23 cover?
And the sub-head? "She's bad news for the GOP -- and for everybody else, too."

Not "Why she is..." rather, "She is..."

How objective of you, Evan.

My guess is that Sarah Palin has pre-sold more copies of Going Rogue than Newsweak will sell of their rag all year. (This, of course, does not include the copies they give away to urologists' offices.)



"I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people...that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes."
-Sarah Palin in Going Rogue