Posted on 06/11/2010 5:54:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Photoshop is a nifty little tool. With the click of a mouse you can retouch a blemish or saw off a good chunk of someone’s hip bone. For the cover of their June 21 issue, the design team at Newsweek booted up the program to stick a shiny gold halo around Sarah Palin’s head.
Below the heavenly photo of the former Governor, just underneath her prayer-clasped hands, sits a message scrawled across the page in Old English font: “Saint Sarah.”
The cover image is just the gimmicky precursor to an accompanying feature that goes even further with the Christian allusion, establishing Palin as the predominant female force in American evangelicalism:
“Even if she never again seeks elected office, her pro-woman rallying cry, articulated in the evangelical vernacular, together with the potent pro-life example of her own family, puts Palin in a position to reshape and reinvigorate the religious right, one of the most powerful forces in American politics. The Christian right is now poised to become a women’s movement—and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry Falwell.”
In essence, the article claims that Palin is doing something that has never been accomplished before by combining evangelical Christianity and modern feminism, and using the mash-up as a tool to (in Palin speak) “shore up” the traditionally weak female front of the religious right.
Feminist blog Jezebel is less than pleased with the discussion of Palin as a new feminist leader, comparing her affinity for the term “feminism” to a half-masticated banana chunk being repeatedly picked up and dropped by a greedy dog – confusing in summary, scathing in full.
Whether Palin’s influence is as powerful as Newsweek claims, the female presence in Republican politics has never been stronger – there are reportedly 96 Republican women looking to claim House seats this year, and conservatives Nikki Haley and Carly Fiorina each won their respective gubernatorial and Senate primaries.
With both Haley and Fiorina being blessed by a Palin endorsement before their wins, perhaps Saint Sarah really is the new patron saint that conservative women running for public office should light a candle to.
She scares them to death.
They realize it’ll sell magazines.
I took the article which I read as a hitpiece on her supporters
It's not about Obama. They're doing extremist positioning work against Sarah in order to make Hillary look like a sane, stable centrist running against a fringe Christian extremist. So they combine that caricature with the idea of "feminism" so that the centrist women will recoil from the combo and turn to Hillary as seeming to better represent them.
It will get far, far worse. The MSM will take this meme to the limit, and start screeching that "if you ain't fundamentalist, you ain't feminist." Remember, liberal women like to think of themselves as "feminist-lite" ("lite" is more attractive to liberals that life itself).
Take nothing the MSM says on it's face - their very existence is a manipulative lie, and manipulative lying is also their purpose. And they serve only the very worst - with sadistic glee.
No, they are scared because they have Obama to worship and not the likes of Sarah. (IMO)
You’re both absolutely correct.
No wonder Newsweak is up for sale......what a rag.
“They’re doing extremist positioning work against Sarah in order to make Hillary look like a sane, stable centrist running against a fringe Christian extremist.”
Excellent insight into their clever maneuvering with the Palin Clinton thing. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.
The Left Wing continues to bash Sarah Palin because she is the one who in writing and interviews takes it to Obama
on an ongoing basis. Not, Mitt, Huck, Mitch, or the other wannaBies.
Geez, that’s a lame cover.
Nice pic. Too bad the article’s nuts.
I don’t think the radical Christian bit is going to work in light of Bristol and baby and the bit she wrote about considering ab abortion with Trigg. That is to say, Sarah has not gone around pretending she and her family are perfect people, with perfect lives, so that approach really isn’t effective.
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OK. I see their ‘thinking’.
THEY put a halo on Obama and we criticized it.
So... THEY put a halo on Sarah Palin, and they think that will make us criticize her.
Woof, woof.
And...she can also skin a moose.
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