i of course read about this

and saw the videos. i was aghast as i am with many things that happen (especially on the unfair and very imbalanced faux 'news')

i didn't post about it then, but this is a pretty damn good take on the story.

no, it's not satire. the story is real. the video is real. yes, these people are fucking nuts. the country is bleeding to death and they're talking about an unflattering photo (and c'mon who HASN'T had an unflattering photo taken). what a bunch of stupid bio-tches

Judging Sarah Palin by the cover

With its outrage over Palin's unflattering Newsweek cover photo, Fox News proves that it creates its own reality

Sarah Churchwell

Last week, Newsweek ran a cover story on Sarah Palin with a close-up of Palin on its cover under the headline "She's one of the folks (and that's the problem)". Republican commentators were quick to protest, but their opposition took a novel turn: they objected not to the explicitly editorialising headline, but to what they argued was an implicitly editorialising photograph. Fox News's Megyn Kelly complained that it was "ridiculously unfair to her – not the headline, but the photograph".

The twist was that the photo had not been altered, which, Republican pundits like Andrea Tantaros claimed, was evidence of clear bias on the part of the magazine. "This cover is a clear slap in the face of Sarah Palin," she told Kelly. "Why? Because it's unretouched. It highlights every imperfection that every human being has. We're talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles." And why is a news magazine revealing normal human imperfection suddenly objectionable, rather than, you know, normal and human? Because, according to Tantaros, "unlike movie stars and liberal media types, regular 'folks' have other concerns besides tweezing, waxing, moisturising, exfoliating, detoxifying and pore tightening. We're busy."..............