{"id":44741,"date":"2009-11-18T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/?p=19163"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:36:32","slug":"recapping-the-latest-sarah-palin-newsweek-cover-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44741","title":{"rendered":"Recapping the Latest Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/files\/2009\/11\/palin-newsweek-runners-world.jpg\" alt=\"palin-newsweek-runners-world\" width=\"175\" height=\"226\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>1.<\/strong> Newsweek runs the cover you see to your right. The text reads &#034;How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She&#039;s Bad News for the GOP &#8212; And For Everybody Else, Too.&#034; They illustrate this statement with a portrait from Palin&#039;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/2009\/07\/01\/alaskan-governors-theyre-just-like-us\/\" >Runner&#039;s World photoshoot<\/a>. In the picture, Sarah Palin is wearing running clothes, grinning, clutching two Blackberries and leaning casually on an American flag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Sarah Palin, the person who posed for this picture in the first place, is angered. The photo was meant to be &#034;all about health and fitness,&#034; she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/sarah-palin\/newsweek\/175955933434\" >Facebooked<\/a>, and Newsweek&#039;s &#034;sexist and oh-so-expected&#034; re-use of the image &#034;shows why you shouldn&#039;t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin.&#034; She cannot name any books that have genders or skin (but then, who can?). Nor does she explain what the Blackberries have to do with &#034;health and fitness.&#034;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Various <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cbn.com\/thebrodyfile\/archive\/2009\/11\/16\/newsweek-photo-of-palin-shows-media-bias-and-sexism.aspx\" >people<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feministlookingglass.com\/2009\/11\/17\/is-sarah-palins-newsweek-cover-sexist\/\" >around<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5406558\/sarah-palin-gets-her-criticism-of-newsweek-cover-right\" >the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/sarah-palin-calls-out-newsweek-for.html\" >internet<\/a> agree with Palin that the cover is sexist. <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34015001\/ns\/today-today_people\/\" >Other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/campaign_desk\/strike_a_poserogue_rogue_rogue.php?page=all\" >people<\/a> disagree. Some of us remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/188444\/october-14-2008\/tip-wag---palin-s-newsweek-cover\" >the last time<\/a> Newsweek caused a controversy with its cover image of Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>An Indecision blogger and her editor spend almost an hour instant messaging about the Sarah Palin Newsweek cover. At one point your blogger&#039;s editor asks her to &#039;role play&#039; a hypothetical meeting in the Newsweek editorial department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>We all know that Sarah Palin leaps at any chance to play the victim (it&#039;s cardio), even when she&#039;s invited the scrutiny, prompted the inquiry or posed for the photo. Also, any time a major political figure agrees to be photographed in an unusual setting, wearing anything less than a power suit, and those pictures are made public, they will be seen and published and republished. In public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. <\/strong>Yet here we have a political-type lady wearing shorts, on the cover of a national news magazine. That seems sexist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6a.<\/strong> Or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. <\/strong>All this discussion, and still no definitive answer to the big question: Did this photograph of Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/betsy\/flagetiq.html\" >violate flag protocol<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/?ak_action=api_record_view&#038;id=19163&#038;type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Newsweek runs the cover you see to your right. The text reads &#034;How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She&#039;s Bad News for the GOP &#8212; And For Everybody Else, Too.&#034; They illustrate this statement with a portrait from Palin&#039;s recent Runner&#039;s World photoshoot. In the picture, Sarah Palin is wearing running clothes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}