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Newsweek Cover Paints Sarah Palin As A Prophet
Mediaite ^ | June 11, 2010 | Steven Jessop

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.


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; abortion; carlyfiorina; mamagrizzly; nikkihaley; palin; palinfreeperping; prolife; sarahpalin
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To: Don Corleone
And...she can also skin a moose.

And...she can also skin a Bunch of Braying Dem Donkeys!

21 posted on 06/11/2010 7:08:42 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; SmokingJoe; SevenofNine

22 posted on 06/11/2010 7:42:49 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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23 posted on 06/11/2010 7:44:09 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

You’re insane lol


24 posted on 06/11/2010 7:45:13 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

Might be!


25 posted on 06/11/2010 7:46:02 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

26 posted on 06/11/2010 7:46:05 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

LOL!


27 posted on 06/11/2010 7:47:17 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: ReneeLynn

She ought to scarfe them. If she keeps this up, she will be the end to a lot of the liberal nonsense they all treasure.


28 posted on 06/11/2010 7:47:26 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: ReneeLynn
Yes she does.


29 posted on 06/11/2010 7:48:18 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: ReneeLynn
*Feeling sheepish*

Spelcheue is yur freind......

30 posted on 06/11/2010 7:48:19 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I saw a thread a few days ago where someone had added the keyword “ourladyofwasilla”. I don’t care if you like her or not, that’s funny right there.


31 posted on 06/11/2010 7:48:32 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

not a very nice picture....am I surprized....


32 posted on 06/11/2010 7:49:31 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Bratch

THe way the light washes out part of his head you can’t see the scar where they insert the cd.


33 posted on 06/11/2010 7:51:18 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Dr. Sivana

Sometime later this year or early next Obama will begin to have medical problems. He will be unable to run for reelection. Hillary, who will quietly resign from SoS, will be there to pick up the banner for her faultering comrade.


34 posted on 06/11/2010 7:54:44 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2532711/posts


35 posted on 06/11/2010 7:58:31 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: monkapotamus

They ought to give Bammy a quantity discount.


36 posted on 06/11/2010 8:01:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Pan_Yan
Sometime later this year or early next Obama will begin to have medical problems. He will be unable to run for reelection.

Large segments of the black community will smell CON-SPIR-ACY on that one. Of course, they have to play the hand they are dealt.
37 posted on 06/11/2010 8:02:48 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Pan_Yan

There’s word that she’s switching to Secretary of Defense.


38 posted on 06/11/2010 8:06:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SHUT YOUR MOUTH. DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT.


39 posted on 06/11/2010 8:09:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Read it and weep:

Hillary for Defense? The president may also want her for veep to rally the base in 2012.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2533012/posts


40 posted on 06/11/2010 8:18:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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