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Flashback: Newsweek’s Adulatory 2008 Obama Cover Portraits

By Brent Baker | August 09, 2011 | 13:32

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With outrage from right to left over Newsweek’s “Queen of Rage” cover story photo of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in which she looks crazy, or at least empty-headed, a look back at how during the last campaign the magazine, under previous ownership, made sure candidate Barack Obama always looked presidential.

The image below was collated for the “Scrapbook” page in the July 28, 2008 Weekly Standard, which dubbed Newsweek “Obamaweek” and illustrated the media's infatuation with Obama by displaying images of six Newsweek covers featuring Obama.
 

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At least they didn't print

Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:37pm.

At least they didn't print the God-like photo, or the Mussolini photo............those drive me up a tree, because they are so phony!!!
And personally, I'd be embarrassed as hell to have a photo like that of me printed.............but I'm not nearly as self-absorbed as Boy Barry - he's probably got those photos hanging all around his house.

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NEWSWEAK.....

Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 3:01pm.

And the rest of the LSM have been sucking up to this guy like a two dollar whore!!!!

Liberals: No Morals, No Standards, NO Problem!
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The MSM owns Obama -they are one and the same.

Submitted by Don L on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 5:49pm.

Actually he's a prodct of the MSM. He would still be walking CHicago handing out money from his Amnnemberg Challenge stash to buy votes.

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He basically is a member of

Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 6:43pm.

He basically is a member of the MSM. He is a good looking guy with a likeable personality who reads everything off a teleprompter. Aka, a news anchor. That is why the media likes him so much. But it was a bad idea to make him President.

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Good looking?---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 6:49pm.

Holy crap.

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Well I only meant in

Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 7:41pm.

Well I only meant in comparison to news anchors. Look at who's on the news, Obama wouldn't be the ugliest by far.

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tcm---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 8:00pm.

:o)

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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I've never considered Boy

Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 10:56pm.

I've never considered Boy Blah-Blah to come anywhere close to being 'good-looking' or 'lucid', since the guy can barely put a coherent sentence together within a limited time-frame if he doesn't have a teleprompter or an ear-piece. As far as looks to, he might be in the same category as Shank Hunger, or Leghumper Matthews...........I mean, threre's another gay black guy besides Boy Barry that's not too bad looking.........what's his name......Lemon something or other???

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So.................Jar.......

Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 10:57pm.

So.................Jar..................you've had some experience with two-dollar whores???

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Who can forget those Obama

Submitted by gopsteve on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:47pm.

Who can forget those Obama covers? Every time you walked past a magazine rack during the election season...there he was multiple times...

Who knows, maybe the mags, sensing Obama's vulnerability he did not have in 2008, will double or triple their efforts in 2012!!

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I am surprised it was only

Submitted by gopsteve on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:49pm.

I am surprised it was only SIX covers...weren't there more?

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You're thinking of all the

Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:51pm.

You're thinking of all the other magazine covers that were all around Newsweak........by the check-out aisle. I think he's made the cover of the National Enquirer a few times too.

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That was Princess Di

Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 2:03pm.

Hate to tell MO, but she's no Di.

How many covers of MO have there been? The most fab first lady evah!!!! (ack!).

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covers

Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 4:53pm.

I think there was one of Michelangelo's "God touching "man"". For the libs that would be #7.

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Newsweek only had 6

Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 11:07pm.

You're thinking of Time Magazine.

Be on the lookout for random acts of journalism from the MSM~h/t Rush

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Barack Obama is living proof

Submitted by Barack Must Go on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 2:11pm.

Barack Obama is living proof that sometimes looks are very deceiving.....just like everything else about this loser.

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Someone call Living Colour...

Submitted by ljacone on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 3:39pm.

...because what we have here is a Cult of Personality.

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We've seen that kind of cult frenzy before

Submitted by Don L on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 5:59pm.

Yep, it was orchestrated to be close to early 20th century Germany -he even started his campaign over at the Brandenburg Gate, and also used foam pillars and emblems for historic credibility, just as they did. (He also wanted a civilian army the size of the military as they did.)

But the truth be told -we found out that teleprompters lack charisma! Even more so, when they get stuck on "Bush did it!" Now we'll have to listen to a thousand programmed voices all shouting "the Tea Party did it," right up until the election, where he'll sweep the inner-city and zombie vote.

Don L
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Barry Looks Like A Tool

Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 5:59pm.

I cant say there is any "good" picture of him.

Big-earred dope.

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I have always thought that

Submitted by WarEagle66 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 8:50pm.

I have always thought that the media projected on to Obama what they think of themselves. The media folks see themselves as hip, urban cool, athletic, smart, worldly....etc etc.

We find that he is not much of any of those things.

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