Conservatives rip Newsweek's 'crazy-eyes' Michele Bachmann cover

[NFS4]

I first saw this on NBC Nightly News this evening, and Brian Williams said that one of the quotes was that "She looks like someone is dangling a treat in front of her face"

I nearly choked on my food from laughter

Sting was the King of Pain. Is it fair to call Michele Bachmann the "Queen of Rage?" That's what Newsweek has gone ahead and done on the cover of its most recent issue, a cover that has Bachmann's conservative supporters, well, uh, raging.

It's the same old song for Newsweek, which in the past has taken heat for a pair of covers with Sarah Palin, one that featured an extreme close-up and the other picturing her in a jogging outfit. In this week's issue, not only is the GOP presidential candidate (and the field's only female, so far) branded an intemperate queen, it also features a shot of Bachmann looking rather wild-eyed. As in crazy. As in "crazy woman."

Tea-party activist Dana Loesch, writing at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Journalism" site, denounced the cover as chauvinistic. Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, addressing Newsweek editor Tina Brown, said, "You've resorted to recycling bottom-of-the-barrel moonbat photo cliches about conservative female public figures and their enraged 'crazy eyes?' Really?"

But even the National Organization for Women chimed in:

"It's sexist," NOW president Terry O'Neill told conservative news site the Daily Caller. "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."

(Someone who comes to mind as a past candidate for similar treatment: Democrat Howard Dean, who appeared on Newsweek's Jan. 12, 2004, cover. The headline was the gender-neutral -- and exceedingly dull -- "Doubts About Dean"; although, in all fairness, the cover also promoted a story on "mad cow" disease.)

Newsweek apparently stands by "Queen of Rage" for Bachmann. It promoted the story Monday on Twitter, using that as a hashtag.

As for Bachmann, she didn't rise to the bait, reports Slate's Dave Weigel. At an event in Iowa, the Minnesota congresswoman said she hadn't even seen the cover or the article.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-bachmann-newsweek-m,0,7104860.story

 

[Phokus]

She makes those crazy eyes all the fucking time.

 

[her209]

Why isn't she looking straight at the camera but past it?

:hmm:

 

[PottedMeat]

was she the one that did a weird interview looking somewhere off camera?


edit: haha yeah it was her: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/826bfb3623/what-michele-bachmann-was-looking-at

 

[Red Dawn]

Here's a pic with her bisexual husband looking even crazier.

 

[ProfJohn]

The right has a reason to be upset with Newsweek and how they portray Republicans:

Compare that to the Obama covers

 

[ProfJohn]

The Romney one is awful.

Imagine if they took Obama and photoshopped him on the head of a rapper:
The Black Moment...

The left would have freaked. But making fun of Mormans and Republicans is par for the course.

 

[Jhhnn]

But she *is* crazy... you can see it in her eyes, & in what comes out of her mouth...

I think what she really wants is a Christian Theocracy-

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza

 

[Red Dawn]

The Romney one is awful.

Imagine if they took Obama and photoshopped him on the head of a rapper:
The Black Moment...

The left would have freaked. But making fun of Mormans and Republicans is par for the course.

 

[MovingTarget]

PSA to conservative women posing for magazine covers: look at the camera lens. No, directly at it. Not slightly off in one direction. It isn't that hard, but it is a skill that Michele Bachmann has obviously yet to master.

And yes, she is nuts, but that has nothing to do with her appearance on the cover of Newsweek.

 

[NFS4]

The right has a reason to be upset with Newsweek and how they portray Republicans:

**Bunch of Pictures**

Two can play at that game

Bunch of damn crybabies

 

[her209]

Two can play at that game

<snip>

Bunch of damn crybabies

Its PJ's sop to blame the media as liberal when it doesn't cover Republicans in a favorable light.

 

[jman19]

Its PJ's sop to blame the media as liberal when it doesn't cover Republicans in a favorable light.

The victim culture at work.

 

[Lanyap]

She makes those crazy eyes all the fucking time.

It's those migraines.

 

[Craig234]

The victim culture at work.

It's the 'big lie' technique. If the media covers each party similarly, and you point out only the Republican negative coverage, it's called 'selection bias' and make it seem bigger.

When you're LOOKING for anti-Republican bias in the media, you notice every bit of it, and not so much any other bias.

Of course the agenda is to undermine media that's accurate and contradicts their lies.

 

[her209]

Here's a pic with her bisexual husband looking even crazier.

<snip>

Another one!

 

[HomerJS]

As I've been told pictures on a headline don't mean anything.

Having said that it's a really bad picture. How did her staff allow this?

 

[ProfJohn]

Two can play at that game

Now find me an Obama pic that is disrespectful.

 

[theeedude]

That's how she looks:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...lks_entitlement_reform_on_oreilly_factor.html

 

[HomerJS]

Now find me an Obama pic that is disrespectful.

It's not disrespectful just a bad picture. Disrespectful would have been an upskirt shot.

If you notice all the Palin pics are very good.

 

[theeedude]

 

[Craig234]

A lot of Republican women look like that, and some Democrats.

But Bachmann seems especially crazy.

 

[Imp]

A lot of Republican women look like that, and some Democrats.

Stop the madness!

 

[NFS4]

Now find me an Obama pic that is disrespectful.

Well, given your low bar for "disrespectful":

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

A lot of Republican women look like that, and some Democrats.

Holy shit is that one real?... That's one crazy woman...