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I am curious if anyone else is aghast at the vicious campaign Rolling Stone magizine is running against McCain/Palin. In the latest issue they have yet another horribly mean illustration of McCain and Palin accompanying a hit piece on Palin. McCain appears with his eyes black making him look dead and a huge bump on the side of his neck to indicate his facial deformity resulting from cancer treatment-liberal compassion at work. And Palin is shown as a horribly ugly pit bull-like dog, a despicable reference to her acceptance speech joke-a representation which makes the historical anti-Marie Antoinette propaganda drawings...

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080924/capt.77b900c2f9fa4fa298cfa43d396d4825.obama_2008_flcc110.jpg?x=253&y=345&q=85&sig=TPENIkvdduVdL8XfbRiImQ-- Strange world we live in, cult of personality on full display. On a side note check out this Youtube user's old NBC news videos of Joe Biden, strange they are not getting more play http://www.youtube.com/user/blastforth

You might think that a tidal wave of denunciation would ensue if a cartoon depicting John McCain being tortured in a bamboo cage by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and another person (who might be George W. Bush) were to appear in a supposedly respectable or trendy publication. You might further think that giving McCain's three torturers stereotypically exaggerated Asian features would only further fuel the outrage. Sorry to disappoint you, but the cartoon involved appeared last month in Rolling Stone. As far as I can tell, what you are about to see has produced not a single ripple of protest.

Article at link. The "political" cartoon was enough for me

Barack Obama graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for the second time in the campaign. After the first cover he got, I didn’t think it was possible to give him a more worshipful picture, but they have done so. In the first cover, they create the look of a mythical figure, no doubt the hero of their dreams. In the later cover, it’s as if Obama is too divine to even have words placed around him. Like it would be profane to sully a page containing his visage with normal language. Orthodox Jews won’t write the name “God,” believing...

NEW YORK -- Evan Wright had no idea what he was getting into when he was assigned to travel with the Marine’s 1st Reconnaissance Battalion in the first weeks of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When Wright, then a correspondent for Rolling Stone, was picked to ride with the special forces unit, the other reporters gathered at the Kuwait Hilton to find out where they would be embedded "looked at me with sheer hatred and envy," he said. "I didn't know what 1st Recon was, but if all of these reporters look so jealous, it must be a good spot,"...

Rolling Stone is a left-wing magazine which puts liberal politicians on its cover and this year has already featured a cover story on Barack Obama, yet despite the seeming lack of any newsworthiness in a second Obama cover story, this one written by an "unabashed Obama supporter," on Wednesday morning NBC's Today show devoted a full story to how the just-released issue of the magazine illustrated "fascination" with Obama. Co-host Matt Lauer marveled: "On the cover not a musician but a politician, Barack Obama. It's the second time he's been featured there but this time there will be no cover...

July 10-24, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone....

The Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama showcased his diverse musical taste, ranging from Bob Dylan to Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen, after revealing the playlist on his iPod. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, to be published this Friday, the Illinois senator said he had "pretty eclectic tastes". The list of bands reads like the acts at a summer music festival, with the Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow and Ludacris all in the mix.

Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger. Evening, June 3rd, in a muggy, dragonfly-beswarmed place called the Pontchartrain Center, just outside New Orleans. Half a continent away, amid yet another legacy-smashing fusillade of unsolicited invective from Bill Clinton, the excruciating Obama-Hillary mess is finally wrapping up, in a pair of anticlimactic primaries somewhere over the darkened plains of Montana and South Dakota. But here in the Big Easy, John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy — who, as luck...

Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive. "I am in disbelief," Dylan fan and fellow...

The Fear Factory The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts?It was late November 2006, and twenty-two-year-old Derrick Shareef and his friend Jameel were hanging out in Rockford, Illinois, dreaming about staging a terrorist attack on America. The two men weren't sure what kind of assault they could pull off. All Shareef knew was that he wanted to cause major damage, to wreak vengeance on the country he held responsible for oppressing Muslims worldwide. "Smoke a judge," Shareef said. Maybe firebomb a government building....For all his bluster, Shareef...

Rolling Stone Gives Obama Campaign Some Free Damage ControlBack on Feb. 22nd, Rolling Stone published their in depth story (6-pages on the net) about Barack Obama's "charisma" under the title, "The Radical Roots of Barack Obama." However, the story has lately been retitled "Destiny's Child." One might wonder why Rolling Stone made the sudden change avoiding the word "radical"... unless, that is, one were living under a rock and isn't aware of the trouble Barack is lately having with the anti-American and racist ranting of his "spiritual mentor," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. Many hard questions arise over Rolling Stone's...

It's Presidents day, two weeks before the Texas primary, and Adam Ukman has come to the small city of San Marcos to train precinct captains for Barack Obama. A soft-spoken native of Houston, Ukman has served on the campaign's front lines in Iowa and Utah, organizing grass-roots supporters to secure decisive victories in both states. This evening, more than eighty residents of San Marcos have crammed into a yellow clapboard recreation center on a street dotted with shacks that date from the Jim Crow era...

The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed. And then along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations. There is a sense of dignity, even majesty, about him, and underneath that ease lies a resolute discipline. It's not just that he is eloquent — with that ability to speak both to you and to speak for you — it's that he has a quality of thinking and intellectual and emotional honesty that is extraordinary.

It's turning into quite the morning for, uh, outing double-standards in the media. First was my item mentioning that Bob Herbert of the NYT had accused Hillary Clinton of "opening a trap door" under Obama. Readers are invited to imagine the PC outrage if a conservative had expressed the desire to do the same to the Illinois senator. Now comes Mike Allen of the Politico. In his Playbook column of this morning, Allen offers this quote from Jann Wenner's over-the-top endorsement of Obama in Rolling Stone: We have a deeply divided nation . . . A new president must heal...

Rolling Stone Editor: 'Hillary Clinton Has Really Exhibited Some of the Things that Most Disgust Us about Politics' Eric Bates tells MSNBC the Clinton campaign attacks on Obama are a 'veiled kind of racism' and says he favors Obama's campaign approach with new media. By Paul Detrick Business & Media Institute 3/7/2008 4:53:00 PM Chalk this one up in the category of the left eating its own. Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates appeared on the March 7 “News Live” on MSNBC to talk about his magazine’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. He had several reasons why...

WASHINGTON -- Rolling Stone is backing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, the first time the music magazine has endorsed a contender for the White House during the primary. "The reason for the early choice is twofold," the editors explain in the publication's upcoming issue. "Undoing the damage of the disastrous Bush years will take a leader who can unite a deeply divided nation, and politicians with gifts like Obama's are so rare that it's imperative for each of us to do our part." The magazine has endorsed presidential candidates since 1972, beginning with Democrat George McGovern. Other recent candidates...

The current issue of Rolling Stone magazine, its special 40th anniversary issue, reveals almost all one needs to know about the current state of the cultural Left. The issue features interviews with people Rolling Stone considers to be America's leading cultural and political figures -- such as Al Gore, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Cornel West, Paul Krugman, Kanye West, Bill Maher and George Clooney, among many others. It brings me no pleasure to say that, with few exceptions, the interviews reveal a superficiality and contempt for cultural norms (as evidenced by the ubiquity of curse words) that should scare anyone...

The Eco-Hypocrisy of Another Green Advocate; This Time Rolling Stone Owner Posted by Lynn Davidson on July 7, 2007 - 13:41. As NewsBusters noted, in June Rolling Stone published a “green” issue that still didn't please the enviro-left. Well, now Radar Online exposed the magazine's founder and publisher Jann Wenner's not-so-green lifestyle which contrast with his ecological stunts and stances. Radar's July 3 article and July 6 update about Wenner's high-living, carbon-spewing lifestyle which is filled with globe-spanning Gulfstreams, big SUVs, lending his evil Global Warming Inducing Death Plane to high-profile friends (like John Kerry) and staffers ferrying lunches back and forth should really...

The “in” word in the American press at the moment is green. Newspapers and magazines are all rushing to produce issues devoted to the subject of global warming and what can be done about it. How to go green is the theme. But some are having problems. The magazine Rolling Stone, for example, is putting out a special “green issue”: at the end of the month. In addition to the requisite interview with former Vice President Al Gore, who is spearheading the “green campaign” in the US and environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jnr, the magazine will start printing on a paper...

Response from the Hunt Estate

>> This is an excerpt from the new issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands until March 22nd. Deep in a maze of adobe-colored huts at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort conference center in Indian Wells, California, men in polo shirts are striding to 8:30 a.m. meetings. Most are gathering to debate recent advances in re-wetting drops for contact lenses -- "I have superior lens technology to Bob, I know that," one man jabbers, croissant in hand -- but beyond the golf course, in a hut with a majestic plaque reading villa capri, six Viacom employees huddle over coffee on polka-dotted...

The odd northern soul single might have sold for $10,000, but a 60s garage punk record fetching that amount has not been seen until now. But this is what "Boy, What'll You Do Then", by Denise & Company, a 1966 recording on the Wee label out of Oakland, California, recently sold for. This raucous recording, only the second copy known to exist, was initially featured in an eBay auction, where it garnered intense interest from collectors and received bids of over $4,000, until the item pulled by the site due to incorrect auction procedure. A dealer then privately bought the...

Liberal Air America radio host Mike Malloy had his show abruptly “terminated” on Wednesday, allegedly for financial reasons. The network is failing but there could be another factor behind the Malloy debacle. There is still fallout from Malloy’s recent decision to turn over two-and-a-half hours of his three hour show to a former associate of ex-con Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who campaigns against what he views as British and Zionist control of the U.S. political system. The LaRouche organization is frequently labeled as a cult. The former high-level LaRouche associate, Webster Griffin Tarpley, was...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan says modern recordings sound "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc. "I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Dylan, who released eight studio albums in that time, returns with his first recording in five years, "Modern Times," next Tuesday. Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't...

...If only someone with Kennedy's stature would outline this need. If only. Whatever his aim, RFK Jr. does not appear intent on fixing the problem. He's more content to take us through a hit parade of the most popular, and the most dismissible, theories purporting to show that John Kerry won Ohio, theories that have been swirling about the blogosphere ever since the race was called. I scoured his Rolling Stone article for some novel story or statistic or theory that would prove, finally, that George W. Bush was not the true victor. But nothing here is new. If you've...

See for example this thread first. Kennedy say Bush stole the election in '04, but it escaped detection ("What about JFK and his pal, LBJ?") Oops! Let's not go in that direction!

It now looks like the Kennedy family has now joined the ranks of the tinfoil hat loony leftwing brigrade in the form of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.. The former heroin addict has long been on the ecology kick EXCEPT in cases where energy conservation would have put energy saving windmills near his family's back yard at Cape Cod. However, now Bobby Jr. has stepped over the bounds of political sanity to join the DUmmies in his allegation that the 2004 election was stolen as you can see in his Rolling Stone ARTICLE titled, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" So...

Bob Dylan has announced no plans for his 65th birthday on Wednesday, but around the world and in the hometown he couldn't wait to escape, the musician who has insistently resisted labels will be celebrated as the voice of a generation. Dylan's spokesman, Elliott Mintz, responded to questions about Dylan's birthday and touring plans by saying only that he had passed along the inquiry.

 Rolling Stone has a splashy cover story that asks if George W. Bush is the worst president in American history.Smart rock fans, of course, ignore Rolling Stone. A rock magazine that once wrote that Exile on Main Street shows the Stones "at their most dense and impenetrable" and taking "a minimum of chances"; and that once characterized Who's Next as "dangerously close to sterile," is a magazine that is not to be taken seriously on the good, the right, or the true of rock music, let alone politics. When they opine about the latter, I usually laugh and move on.This...

"George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace."So declares ROLLING STONE magazine in a planned cover story, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT."The Worst President in History?" streets Friday.Developing...

We're witnessing a tectonic clash of civilizations -- over a simple line drawing. And it is now clear to me, in a way that it never was before, that Islamists truly do hate our freedoms, our way of life. I have no doubt that the cartoonish depictions of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper are blasphemous to millions of believers worldwide. But, hell, so is the Rolling Stone cover depicting Kanye West as Christ in his crown of thorns. Just like fatwa against Salman Rushsdie, the violence spawned by these Danish illustrations is unjustifiable in the civilized world, and...

In 2006 Kayne West can mock Jesus on a Rolling Stone cover but in 2005 Zondervan could not advertise a Bible. From Newsmax - Rolling Stone magazine rejected an ad from the nation's largest Bible publisher, USA Today reports Tuesday. Though the message doesn't mention God, it does tout publisher Zondervan's new Bible translation aimed at "spiritually intrigued 18-to-34-year-olds." "The magazine rejected Zondervan's Bible ad just weeks before its scheduled run date, citing an unwritten policy against accepting ads containing religious messages," the paper noted.

NEW YORK - Kanye West, with a crown of thorns atop his head, poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. The outspoken rapper defends his brash attitude inside the magazine's pages, on newsstands Friday. He is also pictured posing as Muhammad Ali. "In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts," he says. "You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?" West also says his hit song "Gold Digger" was the best song last year and that...

Perhaps the first thing that leaps out is that it's a very Beatle-centric list. "Sgt. Pepper" is No. 1 as it often is in such lists, but two of the top three albums are by the Beatles, three of the first five and four of the first 10. The first 10 are: 1) "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles 2) "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys 3) "Revolver" by the Beatles 4) "Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan 5) "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles 6) "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye 7) "Exile on Main Street" by...

I had not picked up a copy of Rolling Stone magazine since its editor and publisher Jann Wenner decided to use Photoshop on Al Gore's cover shot in what was a kooky homo/hetero erotic ploy to swing the election to the newly digitally endowed Democrat. On Monday, a friend of mine threw the latest copy of the magazine down onto the table, which featured a cover bearing a noticeably agitated King Kong. "I wish they had stories about music in here," he said as he sighed with frustration. He told me I could have it. Slightly curious about Peter Jackson's...

George Bush is just about the only person in Washington these days who doesn't know that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. "We're never going to back down, we're never going to give in, we'll never accept anything less than total victory," Bush declared in mid-October. But in the rest of Washington, including the Pentagon, nearly everyone else is thinking about exit strategies. Public support for the war has fallen to an all-time low. Top U.S. generals in Iraq are telling anyone who'll listen that the war has no military solution and are quietly floating ideas to...

snip... The illegal arms, according to al-Haideri, were buried in subterranean wells, hidden in private villas, even stashed beneath the Saddam Hussein Hospital, the largest medical facility in Baghdad. It was damning stuff -- just the kind of evidence the Bush administration was looking for. If the charges were true, they would offer the White House a compelling reason to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. That's why the Pentagon had flown a CIA polygraph expert to Pattaya: to question al-Haideri and confirm, once and for all, that Saddam was secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. There was only one problem:...

MoveOn.Org's failures are nothing new. It's really difficult to spin any victories for the dot com group that have made it outside the Democratic Party. Their latest "victory" was getting Howard Dean elected as the head of the DNC, but the biggest cheerleaders for that move were conservatives. They do like to believe they are winning though. Even on their Web site, they have a section listing MoveOn.org's recent "victories." But only ten "victories" are listed from June of 2004. And one of those is a clear loss as it cites the fact that "36 Senators Object to Gonzales' Confirmation...

The Online Insurgency MoveOn has become a force to be reckoned with By TIM DICKINSON They signed up 500,000 supporters with an Internet petition -- but Bill Clinton still got impeached. They organized 6,000 candlelight vigils worldwide -- but the U.S. still invaded Iraq. They raised $60 million from 500,000 donors to air countless ads and get out the vote in the battle-ground states -- but George Bush still whupped John Kerry. A gambler with a string of bets this bad might call it a night. But MoveOn.org just keeps doubling down. Now that Howard Dean has been named chair...

Rolling Stone agrees to Bible ad Rolling Stone reverses itself, says religious content isn't banned 08:29 PM CST on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Rolling Stone magazine has reversed itself and agreed to accept an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible. After first rejecting the advertisement, Rolling Stone sent the publisher, Zondervan, a contract for a half-page ad in the music magazine's Feb. 24 issue, said Doug Lockhart, executive vice president of marketing at the nation's largest Bible publisher. Lisa Dallos, a spokeswoman for Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media LLC, said Tuesday that...

In a 180-degree switch, Rolling Stone has decided to accept an advertisement from a Bible publisher after first rejecting it. Two weeks ago, the entertainment magazine decided not to run a planned ad from publisher Zondervan for Today's New International Version Bible. The ad reads: "In a world of almost endless media noise and political spin, you wonder where you can find real truth. Well, now there's a source that's accurate, clear and reliable. It's the TNIV – Today's New International Version of the Bible. It's written in today's language, for today's times – and it makes more sense than...

Rolling Stone magazine has decided to run an ad for a new Bible in its magazine. The ad is to run next month and will be the same one the magazine rejected as too controversial. "We have addressed the internal miscommunications that led to the previous misstatement of company policy and apologize for any confusion it may have caused," Lisa Dallos, spokeswoman for Wenner Media, Rolling Stone's parent company, told USA Today. The magazine first claimed the ad's "spiritual message" might turn off its pot-smoking audience. The ad never mentions God, but does refer to the Bible as "real truth."...

The editors at Rolling Stone magazine have determined that an ad promoting a new Bible for "spiritually intrigued 18-34 year olds" is too religious to appear in the historic rock and roll publication. Zondervan had attempted to place an ad in the magazine for its new Today's New International Version Bible. Ad space was initially sold to Zondervan before the ad was ultimately disapproved. The ad reads: "In a world of almost endless media noise and political spin, you wonder where you can find real truth. Well, now there's a source that's accurate, clear and reliable. It's the TNIV –...

NEW YORK (Talon News) -- Rock music magazine Rolling Stone rejected an ad on Wednesday for a new Bible translation designed to reach "spiritually intrigued 18- to 34-year-olds" because it was deemed too religious. Zondervan, the largest Bible publisher in the United States, was hoping to purchase space in the popular secular magazine to attract their target consumers for the new "Today's New International Version of the Bible," which is due to hit bookstores in February. Doug Lockhart, who serves as the executive vice president of marketing for Zondervan, said he purchased the ad in Rolling Stone last July in...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An advertisement for a new translation of the Bible by the nation's largest publisher of the book is gathering moss at the headquarters of Rolling Stone magazine. Zondervan, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, is in the midst of an aggressive advertising blitz for Today's New International Version, or TNIV. The new Bible, which contains both the Old Testament and the New Testament, is to be on store shelves in early February. Doug Lockhart, Zondervan's executive vice president of marketing, said Wednesday that research by his Grand Rapids company indicates the TNIV would hold particular appeal...

Rolling Stone magazine rejected an ad from the nation's largest Bible publisher, USA Today reports Tuesday. Though the message doesn't mention God, it does tout publisher Zondervan's new Bible translation aimed at "spiritually intrigued 18-to-34-year-olds." "The magazine rejected Zondervan's Bible ad just weeks before its scheduled run date, citing an unwritten policy against accepting ads containing religious messages," the paper noted. USA Today reported that Zondervan executives say the entertainment magazine was key in its $1 million campaign to reach young adults who have rarely, if ever, seen Bible ads before. Surveys show that 53 percent of this age group...

"No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time," wrote Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke in an article accompanying the magazine's list of the top 500 rock songs of all time.