Newsweek Cover Focuses on Mitt Romney Being Mormon (With Image from Anti-Mormon Musical)
Is it appropriate to be focusing on a presidential candidate's religion in 2011?
Newsweek certainly thinks it is, and created a cover for its June 13-20 issue prominently highlighting Mitt Romney being a Mormon in a fashion that is guaranteed to raise a few eyebrows:
What you probably can't make out is the following at Romney's right bicep:
Yes, it says, "Mitt Romney, Mormon for President!"
Not very subtle, is it?
The image led Real Clear Politics' Tom Bevan to tweet Sunday, "This leaves me dumbfounded."
In fairness to Newsweek, this cover is a parody of the poster of the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon" as marvelously discovered by my Twitter pal @ClericalGal.
But is this an appropriate way to introduce a serious presidential candidate to your readers?
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So the 500 people who read Newsweek will get a
Submitted by virginia republican on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:45am.
slanted viewpoint of Romney...........yawn.
Newsweak lost its seriousness long ago
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:46am.
The magazine has devolved into a parody of itself.
Have Mormons beheaded anyone?
Submitted by jefflebowski on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:48am.
A candidate's religion should not matter any more than the pigment of his or her skin. Their ideology and experience are what should be taken into consideration.
Leftists exploit race, religion and everything else while crying racism, Islamophobia, sexism, etc whenever conservatives criticize the actions of liberals. They have cornered the market on hypocrisy.
I believe Romney is a good man. From what I've seen of Mormons, they are a credit to our nation. I wish more had their ethics, patriotism and morals.
I do not support Romney because he is a big-government moderate RINO and we have enough of those. We need a conservative warrior willing to take on the left, political correctness and the insanity of our out-of-control government!
Angry White Dude
www.angrywhitedude.com
I don't agree that a
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 7:25pm.
I don't agree that a candidate's religion does not make a difference. Obama may, or may not be a undeclared Muslim. He at least has Muslim bias. Ones religion does make a difference no matter how you look at it. Ones religion will affect a persons world view, behavior etc etc. It is unavoidable period. You can not devide a person from there belief system. Try to devide a person from their belief system and you may as well cut their head off, the dividing can't be done. If Obama is a Muslim or has a Muslim bias, that is dangerous for America and the world.
Speaking of cutting off heads....
Submitted by Lgbpop on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 1:00pm.
I haven't heard of any Mormons doing that. Have there been instances of Muslims cutting peoples' heads off? Maybe someone's religion DOES matter.
The real intent
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:52am.
Not only is the intent to make Romney look foolish but the reason the Mormon angle is worked hard is because they know a lot of conservatives are biased against Mormons and this is an attempt to fan the flames. The Leftist media is working hard to find and exploit a negative narrative for each Republican that dares step forward to challenge 'The One'.
Where's his birth certificate?
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:57am.
There's nothing new with MSM coverage of Romney. Newsweek and others will constantly reind their audience that Romney is a Mormon, and let prejudice create doubt.
To the Left and even some among evangelical Christians, Romney's religion makes him unacceptable as a President.
Well.. the "outsider faith created" Harry Reid ..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:55am.
.. a loser.
We all know that our national MSM made it the big issue with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DEMOCRAT.
(;~> Gary
WHAT?
Submitted by Order270 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:41pm.
Harry Reid is a Mormon? I never knew that. Now there's a Newsweek cover we'll never see.
Actually, the MSM made note of this when . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:47pm.
. . . Reid became Senate Majority Leader. To highlight 'diversity' in the Democratic Senate caucus, we were told that Reid was a "centrist" pro-life Mormon.
Thanks for the reminder...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 12:44pm.
I had nearly forgotten that Reid is a Mormon...Do we hear the MSM hypocrites calling the country's attention to that fact? Nope, and we never will, but Romney is targeted about it because he's a Republican. The left is so full of themselves and their phony blathering about "tolerance" for all beliefs and religions, unless, of course, the person in question happens to be a Repub/conservative...Then, it's all bets are off.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Prairie...You ignore the obvious in order to get in a swipe
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:16am.
at the Dems and the MSM.
Has it occurred to you that the fact Romney is making his second run at a national office--while Reid never has--is a factor in the nature and extent of the media attention. Nevada is the fourth leading state in terms of LDS membership percentages--a much higher ratio than that of the nation as a whole, and therefore a much less important consideration in that state's electoral contests in contrast to presidential elections.
Jer
Thanks for the hat tip, Noel
Submitted by ClericalGal on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:55am.
It amazes me no end that the MSN and people in the arts make fun of people of faith who only want to worship God and cause no one else any harm, but are silent about those Muslims who massacre nearly an entire family in Israel.
making fun of people of faith
Submitted by afotia on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:57pm.
That's because they fear Muslims, they don't fear Christians. Liberals are basically cowards.
how about an article
Submitted by scarletandgold on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:04pm.
on the mooslim anti semite in the white house..i would read that rag for that article..
Gee I missed that the cover story, too.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:52pm.
Here is the cover
You Didn't Build That.
I certainly don't care if he is Mormon
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:11pm.
But when he came out as a 'Warmer' that put an end to consideration of him by me.
Man Made Global Warming
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:49pm.
I like Romney's stance on Federalism. It's a great way for him to explain how he could enact the type of health care he did while governor of Mass., and at the same time say it's nor right for the nation as a whole, and ObamaCare should be dismantled. At the same time he's going on this Federalism path, I can't help but think he's doing it for political expediency, as I didn't hear his federalist message in 2008.
His support, no matter how tentative, of man-made global warming is very problematic, though. The science is way from certain on any of this stuff, and the data available to conclude any of this doesn't go back that far, even if the data is over 100 years old. I question anyone's judgment if they buy into any of this nonsense.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
King, Romney a Lukewarmer, So we get half a "cap and trade."
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:29pm.
This is a chilling graph.
Romney has maintained his support of ethanol subsidies and loves touting it on the corn-paved streets of Iowa
. No more coal fired power plants h/t Chris Christie;
At the same time, Christie announced a construction ban for new coal power plants in the state and pledged to close older existing ones.
“We need to commit in New Jersey to making coal a part of our past,” he says, reaffirming the state's ambitions to be an offshore wind leader.
No scientific leadership skills what so ever, meet in the middle crap, which everyday slouches more and more left. Drifting further away from science and logic.
Herman Cain...
You Didn't Build That.
Federalist?
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:57pm.
I've never heard of a Federalist who thought states were "problems". It seems Mitt doesn't like Texas. . . will, in my little corner of Texas the feeling is mutual.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Romney-Texas-insurance-Fox/2011/06/03/id...
Where did he say anything like that?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:01pm.
I checked your link, JusAl, and didn't see Romney saying states in general or Texas in particular are problems. I read it more as Romney doing political cover for enacting health care legislation in Mass, while that same type of legislation wouldn't work in Texas.
Maybe you could quote the exact part where Romney didn't like Texas. I can't find it.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
My Opinion
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:06pm.
Based on the logical assumption that someone who promotes state financed healthcare and then points out that a particular state makes extending this philosophy nationally impractical is that he does not care for the state of Texas.
Just and opinion, and, as I said, a reciprocal one in the case of me and Mitt.
Thanks
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:21pm.
Thanks JustAl, I thought I missed something.
And earlier, I said I like his current message of federalism, which was lacking from his 2008 campaign. I wish more candidates actually focused their message on federalism. If we truly practiced federalism, more states would resemble Texas.
I don't really think Romney is a federalist. I think it's a way for him to explain a position of anti-Obama care and his actions as governor of Mass. I do like how his running is going to actually engage people in the argument concerning federalism.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Agreed
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 5:07pm.
Franklin once said that the framers gave us a Republic, if we could keep it. With the seventeenth amendment, we lost it. What's left is so screwed up that the left convinces people that the way to give "power to the people" is to let the federal government take car of (and control of) everything. Of course, today, if you bring up the subject of states' rights you're labeled a racist and neo-confederate.
Here we go again
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:41pm.
Too many people believe that if we just repealed the 17th Amendment, we will all magically witness a major improvement in the government. We will all see the glory days of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay once again, right? Fat chance. You know what Senators appointed directly by state governments will do in this day and age? Simple: raid the federal treasury early and often, or orders of the state governments and the state government's voters, to bring home the bacon so that the state governments can cover their asses.
Unfortunately the concept of federalism is a TEENSY bit more complex than that. And I would argue that what has crippled the concept of turning to state governments as a possible solution was killed by something else entirely: the New Deal and FDR. That the 17th Amendment was in effect then is coincidental.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
A Mormon Moment With Romney
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:10pm.
Is a 1,000% improvement over the Marxist moment (4-year term) with Obama.
The Black Liberation Theology Moment
Submitted by NC Boy on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:22pm.
We all remember that 2008 Newsweek cover highlighting Barack Obama's church affiliation and relationship to Reverend Wright. Oh wait, that cover got pre-empted by the one with the smiling face of Obama and the words, "Our time for change has come."
Doctor and Dental Offices
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:30pm.
The only time I actually ever see an issue of Newsweek is if I pay a visit to a Doctor's office or a Dentist's office. I usually read a little bit of this rag to get the far left perspective on things. If I ever chance to see this issue in a professional office waiting room, I'm going to bring it into my appointment and put it to the doctor point blank: "Why are you subscribing to a magazine that perpetrates religious bigotry?"
If he/she insists on supporting this sort of thing, my business will go elsewhere.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Mockery is one of the first
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:33pm.
Mockery is one of the first weapons that the unrighteous and ungodly pull out of their arsenal when they are threatened.
'Fools mock, but they shall mourn.'
Ridicule...
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 4:01pm.
...is one of the recommended tactics included in the Rules for Radicals.
What do you think they would have penned
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:37pm.
if he was a Muslim?
Gee....nice photoshop.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:43pm.
That image is not real just like their credibility.
Any day now, "Campaign Obama"
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:01pm.
Any day now, "Campaign Obama" will start regularly attending church in DC, wife and kids in tow, the traditional Christian family. He'll start sprinkling more religious and biblical references into his speeches (and quite a few of them will be in churches as he preaches his own gospel, and the media will wax admiringly at this, and isn't it nice that we have a devout Christian as president.
They're about as subtle as a $10 streetwalker.
Which Is the Bigger Joke?
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:56pm.
Newsweak posing as anything but a prody.
Or Mitt "Romneycare" "Global Warming" "Gun Control is Good" Romney posing as anything but a liberal.
They should
Submitted by Bob K on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:04pm.
print "DNC Approved" on the cover of every issue of that rag. But hey, I have enough reasons to reject Romney without even considering his religion.
Fair Play
Submitted by TXTRUTH on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:05pm.
Would Newsweek print a picture of Obama as the Rev. Wright? I think not.
Amazing how religious bigotry on the Left is just accepted
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:13pm.
It's the new normal. Did anyone see the anti-Semitic comic book "foreskin man" that the Left is peddling out in San Francisco. And it's just accepted by these people. I guess it shouldn't surprise me. The KKK was a Democratic creation, both in 1866 and when it was refounded in 1915. Bigotry runs deep in the DNA of every Democrat. Seriously, why would anyone who is not bigotted choose to be a member of the party of Bull Connor, Orville Faubus, and Lester Maddox? But they're now completely open about it. It's evil. These are truly frightening times we live in.
JFK
Submitted by Dave81 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:22pm.
Back in the late 50's/early 60's people said we weren't ready for a Catholic president because he would take orders from the Vatican.
We've Come a Long Way
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:48pm.
Now we have a first lady who takes orders from the Klingon High Council.
O K, JustAl,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:57pm.
now send me your address, so I can bill you for a new keyboard, please? Too funny, thanks for that.....
And if Barack Obama was a
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:23pm.
And if Barack Obama was a Mormon, the Make Believe Media would trip over themselves telling us how wonderful Mormonism is.
This Newsweek story isn't really about Mormonism as much as it's an attempt to attack Romney. Newsweek doesn't care if they Slander the Mormon Church along the way.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
This is now, that was then
Submitted by locomotivebreath1901 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:52pm.
It is appropriate to be focusing on a presidential candidate's religion in 2011.
But we all know it was oh so very inappropriate to be focusing on a presidential candidate's religion back in 2008.
This is now, that was then.
Past Supporter
Submitted by paulnashtn on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 1:54pm.
I REALLY believed that Romney would be the best president 4 years ago but with his continued support of ethanol & romneycare despite evidence that both are dangerous to our way of life, I now REALLY believe we need someone else as our standard bearer
Gee, the #2 story on the cover was "Mooch the Food Cop".
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:17pm.
I guess there was no parody possible there.
Newsweek cover
Submitted by afotia on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:54pm.
What would the media and the American people have said if Newsweek had a photo of Barack Obama in Muslim garb, dancing with African drummers? Hypocrisy, double standards and liberal smear.... that's Newsweek.
Phony controversy
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:55pm.
This is a repeat of the leftist strategy of 2008 to try to drive a wedge between Republicans. The meme was that evangelicals were a bunch of redneck bigots who would not vote for a Mormon no matter what. But most evangelicals recognize that they won't always get a chance to vote for one of their own, and the largely positive image Mormons have would probably help with a lot of evangelicals. In Iowa's 2008 Republican caucuses, former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee came in first, but Mitt Romney was a strong second. If the evangelicals hadn't had one of their own to vote for, Romney may well have been the winner.
IMHO, Romney's faith would only disqualify him with a very tiny minority of the electorate. If he loses, this phony controversy will allow the media to duck the electorate's disdain for government health care and global warming taxes.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
The focus should have been Romney's RINO suit that, once removed
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:06pm.
...clearly shows the donkey dwelling underneath.
And as far as the anti-Mormon bigotry on the part of the MSM, they pulled the exact same BS leading up to the '08 election, too.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Good, they can focus on the
Submitted by Thoreau on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:38pm.
Good, they can focus on the guy that won't get a vote while we work on the people that can.
they bashed Mormons
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:39pm.
Way before there was a musical about it.
Romney would never win an election for president, partly because he is a rino and the other part because he's too nice to attack Newsweek for stuff like this.
Newsweek or National Lampoon?
Submitted by sam12663 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 4:32pm.
Is it any wonder that this publication was sold for $1?
Moved
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 5:04pm.
Wrong spot
Who Cares?
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 5:58pm.
1) Newsweak is still being published??!
2) Sure, it's ok to talk about a candidate's religion. It informs his thinking. There's nothing to hide. Religion is not a verboten topic.
3) Newsweak doesn't want people to take Mitt seriously, so they are trying to trash him. There's no objectivity there.
4) There's no "bias" against Mormons. What there is -- for those of you who do not have a conscience yourself -- is an unwillingness to give power into the hands of a liar. Mormonism is a lie and its members are cultists. I'm not willing to elect a cultist as president. You might be, but I am not.
Visions and Principles blog
Newsweek's Breathtaking Bias
Submitted by Frederick Michael on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 6:05pm.
I read Newsweek in the 1990's and they had a column called Conventional Wisdom, which gave up and down arrows to anyone who had a particularly good or bad week. I didn't read every single issue but I read most of them and during the entire Clinton presidency I never saw him get a single down arrow.
Sure, some folks thought Clinton was a great president but can you imagine someone who thinks he never had a bad week?
I remember it differently...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 6:26pm.
I read Newsweek and "Conventional Wisdom" regularly during Clinton's presidency and I recall his getting quite a few "down" arrows.
Jer
Hmmm
Submitted by Frederick Michael on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:32pm.
OK, I could have missed them, but I do recall that he didn't get a down arrow right after the Lewinski story broke. It was surely one of the worst weeks of his life.
I wish there was an easy way to look this up.
Frederick...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:53pm.
Me too. But I doubt the "Conventional Wisdom" department of '90s Newsweek issues can be easily retrieved.
Notwithstanding Newsweek's liberal bias, the magazine was pretty aggressive in its coverage of the various and sundry Clinton "scandals". I would be shocked if there weren't a fair number of "down" arrows for Clinton and/or his administration over the course of eight years [even though the editors generally sided with him on policy matters].
Jer
Here's the only CW list I've been able to locate so far...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:03pm.
It's from a Dec. 2001 issue.
You'll note that George Bush, Condi Rice, and Rumsfeld are "up"; Cheney is "neutral" and Bill Clinton is "down".
[This is stuff you'll never see at NB.] :-)
Jer
That is a bit of a fib, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 1:03am.
because if you are breathing, you will definitely bring it up on a thread in order to defend your homies and it will be seen at NB's.
You do realize that you you quoted an article that had Clinton "down", and then said it would never be seen at NB's?
Make up your mind. Either NB's slams Lib-Dims, or they don't. :o)
MD
Silly me...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 1:17am.
I recognized the implication of my statement as soon as it was posted but assumed my intent was so obvious that editing was unnecessary. For some reason I failed to consider the Matthew Dean fastidiousness factor which impels him to pounce upon any syntactical or contextual anomaly however minimal it may be. :-)
Jer
Not "impels", Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 1:50am.
"compels".
There is no sense of moral imperative involved; I just enjoy the tweak factor when dealing with you libs.
Gotcha.
MD
I am impelled to inform you, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 2:41am.
that you have fallen on your own grammatical sword and impaled yourself.
Jer
Sometimes, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 3:01am.
You are really off the mark with your interpretations.
Your own link underscores what I said.
I am 'compelled' - forced - as a conservative, to deal with you, as a lib, because I neither agree with or like your liberal take on things.
It is a political, not moral issue, with me.
Your grammarian link rates no higher than Funk & Wagnall's or Merriam-Webster.
Look up compel vs. impel and note those definitions as they apply to what I posted. The only significant difference is the addition of the word "moral" to the definition of impel.
In your tizzy to somehow, someday, some way, catch me in a grammatical misstep, you often see in a definition what you choose to see; not what is there.
If that won't work, you then misapply the context of usage to fit your argument.
Pedestrian, Jer.
You disappoint me.
MD
You are not just slightly mistaken, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 4:16am.
you are utterly, unambiguously, embarrassingly and shockingly wrong.
I am surprised, shaken, and concerned.
Jer
And once again, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 1:52am.
you flaunt your opinion as fact.
As I said, I am disappointed in you.
Although, with the the lying weasel in the White House turning out to be such a putz, and the putz, Weiner, turning out to be a lying weasel , I can see why you are surprised, shaken, and concerned.
A shame that more liberal Democrats don't share that emotion, eh?
Shame, that is.
It appears that liberal Democrat politicos do not have it as part of their DNA.
MD
My disappointment with you far exceeds your disappointment
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 2:58am.
with me. My capacity for disappointment is legendary and it currently pushes against the outer most limits.
It generally begins to recede after 48 hours however.
Jer
Well, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:16am.
being a liberal these days probably encompasses a whole big bunch of disappointment.
Your disappointment is bigger than mine.
Size does matter.
You win.
MD
I win?
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:18am.
I'm elated, and, needless to say, no longer disappointed in you.
Jer
Cool, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:26am.
& it didn't even take an hour, let alone 48 of 'em.
MD
Oooohhhh, he got DOWN ARROWS!!!
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:46pm.
And how much space did that stupid column take up? What, a quarter of a page, if that? That left about 90+ pages to endlessly praise Leftism.
Oh yeah, the token conservative, George Will, was relegated to the back page as "The Last Word".
I stopped my subscription in May 1998 and haven't looked back. Now if only The Economist had a section on American events and politics that wasn't written by the Democratic party. As good as the mag is, they have been in the thrall of His Majesty The Shahinshah since He was a U.S. Senatorial candidate in 2004!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Unsane...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 9:01pm.
As I recall, Will alternated with lib Meg Greenfield and later Michael Kinsley. I think you threw out your copies without reading them.
[FTR...Frederick raised the "Conventional Wisdom" topic.]
Jer
Consider yourself lucky
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:34pm.
As I recall, he had that column just about every week. Be thankful that I ditched my entire set of Newsweak back issues I had dating back to 1988 about 18 months ago in a recycling bin in Spring, TX.
It really is too bad for you that there was a time when I read Newsweak issues cover to cover, thinking I was reading quality journalism.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Unsane...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 1:31am.
As I mentioned above, there is no denying Newsweek's slant to the left, but that's not to say there wasn't a great deal of quality reporting and commentary. Will's intellectual dynamism and eloquent prose alone was virtually worth the price of the mag. And the resident financial columnists, Robert Samuelson and Jane Bryant Quinn, seemed--to me at least--to be undriven by any ideological agenda.
Jer
Horrible
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:43am.
The only thing worth reading in a typical issue was Will's writing. Other than that the commentary and reporting was just plain awful, as Newsweak increasingly revealed itself to be a mouthpiece for the Democratic party. And much like other U.S. media outlets, their coverage of world events went to pot after the events of August 1991 told them "OK, we can totally forget about the Outside World once and for all".
I do not mourn its gradual disappearance from magazine racks at the local supermarkets.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Newsweak
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:15pm.
...and you seem to miss something else, not spelled out by me - so its not entirely your fault - I hated the "CW" column because it was a constant attempt by the mag to show us "Look at how clever WE can be!", BUT Clinton DID get a few "down arrows" here and there, as it did "measure" week to week performance in the world of politics.
I agree with you there, but still, Newsweak wasn't fit to wipe myself with when I allowed the subscription to lapse in 1998. It has ONLY gotten WORSE.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
It's not Romney's religion Mormonism - it's his RINOism
Submitted by P.TANYHILL on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:23pm.
If Romney has made up his mind about one thing it is probably being a Mormon. But with every other issue he goes to the left and then to the right and then in the middle and over again and it usually depends on who he is talking to at the time. He has more twists and spins than the Mormons allow. Shoul be avoided at all intersections - you just don't know which way he is going to turn. Not a safe bet for the Presidency.
I think I am the only person
Submitted by tombaker on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 8:29am.
I think I am the only person that watched the 20 some odd debates in 2007 and 8 by the Republicans. Romney being able to speak in an organized and thought out manner, to every question he was asked. I mean I watched like 40 hours of that stuff at least, I saw all of them up there, including Huckabee. (Who if McCain would have picked, Palin would not have caused the loss)
I guess I want an Aircraft Pilot to be knowledgeable and skilled, unless they are a Mormon, then forget them, and go gal who thinks Paul Revere is a bell ringing, tall tale. He had 4 bells in each hand, each bell the size of pumpkin, and he rang them as he road his giant horsey, the Bells could be heard for miles. Bells if by land, trumpets if by Sea, and it was Bells, Bells she tells you.
Pardon me if I want the person that can think completely, organized, and give answers that are not just sound bites. Gotcha questions like what is your take away after your visit. ummmmm BELLS
Democrat media says Massachusetts Health care = Obama care
YOU SAY WHAT
MSM says you should hate that, you must after all
YOU SAY I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT, I MUST...I MUST....anyone talk to anyone in MA....ahhhh never mind they say I must, I must I must.
They say Romney can not win.
YOU SAY....I belive you, I believe you....is the purple grape?
tom Parrot - APDS
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:25am.
Palin didn't cause McCains loss. After announcing her as running mate, he took the lead. A lead he didn't lose until he "suspended" his campaign.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
tomparrot sighting, and he needs a carton of saltines
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:15am.
Is it remotely possible, tomparrot, for you to go an entire NB post without reminding us about how much you hate Sarah Palin?
We get it. You hate her, and you will not rest until everyone in America, if not the world, hates her as much as you do. Nothing in life makes you happy, except for the thought that one day, with your efforts and redundancy, all of America wil unite to do one of two things: 1) run her out of the country or 2) flay her flesh from her bones and then triumphantly publicly burn the remains.
we f***ing get it. Try to be a creative thinker for once.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)