Newsweek Cover Story: 'Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?'
It seems almost impossible to believe, but the upcoming issue of Newsweek has a cover story entitled "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?"
If you think we're kidding, the following picture was tweeted by @Newsweek three hours ago:
As you can see, the author is the supposedly conservative Andrew Sullivan.
Figures, doesn't it?
The Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway wrote a few hours ago, "If in recent years it seems as if Newsweek has been descending into self-parody, it's still hard to imagine that this is real."
Indeed.
Is there anything the mainstream media won't do to get Obama reelected?
*****Update: Politico has some excerpts from the not yet published article...
“[I]t remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb. Their short-term outbursts have missed Obama’s long game … [T]he president begins by extending a hand to his opponents; when they respond by raising a fist, he demonstrates that they are the source of the problem; then, finally, he moves to his preferred position of moderate liberalism and fights for it without being effectively tarred as an ideologue or a divider. This kind of strategy takes time. And it means there are long stretches when Obama seems incapable of defending himself, or willing to let others to define him, or simply weak. I remember those stretches during the campaign against Hillary Clinton. I also remember whose strategy won out in the end.”
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Comments
No kiddin...
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:11pm.
A US President has to be a genius to destroy America. Not just any ol Marxist can do it. Obama is the best.
And on the right of the cover in smaller print........."Mrs. Santorum's Surprising Past."
Its a fine line but it is a line of distinction
Submitted by Injest on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:59am.
Obama is not a Marxist, a Marxist would be a lot more competent when it comes to industry. Obama is a Maoist.
“some scholars additionally define personality cults and political sloganeering as "Maoist" practices. Contemporary Maoists in China criticize the social inequalities created by a capitalist and 'revisionist' Communist party.”
Its a fine line but it is a line of distinction none the less.
personality cults political sloganeering and Egalitarianism are "Maoist" and that fits Obama to a tee!
Not trying to play word games, but ...
Submitted by Bodini on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:47pm.
Marxism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic ... and the official definition and role of Mao's original ideology in the PRC ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
Sounds like BO to me!
How could Newsweak ...
Submitted by Bodini on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:10pm.
be so Dumb?
Oh, it's Andrew Sullivan? And Newsweek?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:12pm.
Never mind, I thought it might be someone intelligent, writing in a magazine that might be relevant. Neither applies in this case.
Ok............here's a photo
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:20pm.
Ok............here's a photo of ol' Purple Lips, looking down at all of us 'folk' (because we're so DUMB!!!), and then there seems to be a story about Mrs. Santorum, and another story about 'ending' class warfare - which is something that I thought Boy Barry allready did - along with racism and a host of other topics.
I've seen comic book covers that had more 'gravitas' than this DUMB cover - but then again, it's NewSpeak..........and I don't know if anybody reads it anyway. I'm not sure if your typical high-school newpaper editor could come up with such a patheticly lame heading.
I thought
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:42pm.
that was Alfred E. Neuman on the cover.
What me worry?
Submitted by Franksam on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:51pm.
T Phil, perhaps your team did not do so well in the playoffs. Mine neither, but please don't insult Mr. Neuman. He never has even pretended to be serious, and has been a role model for me throughout the years.
Who really cares
Submitted by Clemenza on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:24pm.
about the thoughts of a flaming bone smoker writing in a magazine that was sold for a $1.
Obama is a MODERATE liberal...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:24pm.
News to me. I guess that's why they call it NewsWEAK.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Whoever paid $1 for this
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:30pm.
Whoever paid $1 for this piece of cr@pola magazine overpaid by 99 cents.
I'll Buy That for a Dollar
Submitted by Poovey on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:30pm.
Just like the game show in the movie RoboCop. Then again, RoboCop was much more seated in reality than Newsweak.
Haha, that was a great movie.
Submitted by Sude23 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:42am.
Haha, that was a great movie. Watch Starship Troopers, thats how the director of that movie feels about conservitives, thinks we are all a bunch of militant warmongers. But still a good movie though, who wouldn't want to shoot a nuke down a bug hole...
Verhoeven
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:50am.
IIRC, Verhoeven is Dutch, so the American brand of conservatism is way, way out there for him on a good day.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
The sequel movies are pretty
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:18am.
The sequel movies are pretty frightening also where the conservative government looks more like 1984 than anything else.
I read the book in High School...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:00am.
I waited for YEARS... I SAY YEARS for the movie! And when that travisty came out I felt like I had lost my virginty to a hooker! (not that I know what that feels like, uhhmmm). :-p
Same for 'Dune' btw...
Dune and anti-liberal posters
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:15pm.
I guess we should be lucky they didn't make into an environmental movie. If it was made today I am sure they would try to pass off the desert conditions as part of Global Warming and assume no one read the other six books.
BTW, did you see the list of anti-liberal posters for the puk awards - my favorite is the call for the return of Conservative blacks back to the Plantation.
posters and dune
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:58pm.
Have either of you (or anyone else who cares) seen the SciFi(now called syfy) Channel's version of Dune? Was a mini-series and honestly, I thought it was WAY better than that Lynch version from the 80s. Still a little bizarre though. Plus it had a sequel mini-series, Children of Dune. One big difference was that they used some kind of weird reflective blue contacts in the Dune movie, but then went with coloring the eyes via CGI in the sequel because the contacts were painful to wear.
As for those posters, YIKES! Not bad, but dang!
-Jon
jon_,
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:21pm.
I saw part of the siffy's version and while it seemed to stick closer to the book I really had a hard time watching it. If I had to put a finger on the reason it would be because it didn't seem like the Director/Producers tried to do too much with limited resources. Case in point, they had one actor portray Paul but portrayed the entire range of his growth from 15 year old bratty aristrocrat to the Fremen leader. The actor could not carry off either extreme but did okay on the whole.
Consider this though
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:42pm.
You gotta give siffy credit though, they did pretty good with a considerably lower budget than what was in the theater, once dollars were adjusted between the decades of production. I tend to look at it more of how they tell the story rather than going all out on special effects which was what drove the first movie. In this case, they not only told it as a mini-series but had a sequel to it, something the original couldn't pull off. And if I remember some of the news(and not really interested in checking), there was a bit of a renewed interest in the Dune series which some more books came out because of these mini-series and seemed to have done fairly well in book sales...at least according to the one or two Dune fans I know of.
-Jon
absolutely
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:59pm.
with the budget they had it was good.
If the story is about the
Submitted by mattm on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:31pm.
If the story is about the RINOs and the republican establishment, it's probably not too far off. The elitists running the party were hoodwinked into putting forth a candidate in 2008 who couldn't possibly win, and now they seem to be backing a Ken-Doll who will probably lose.
But if the story is about the average voter, it's wayyyy off. The stupidity of the typical obamabot is well-documented.
Doubling down on stupid...
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:33pm.
Despite the thrashing the left was given in Nov. 2010, it seems liberals have not yet realized that Obama is leading them all over a cliff. Most Americans know we've been played for FOOLS by the Smartest Man Ever and his media apologists, yet libs have ratcheted up the idiocy.
There will of course be another electoral earthquake this November, liberals will not change, thereby continuing to marginalize themselves.
Being a liberal means never having to say "I'm sorry" or "I was wrong."
You are, of course, correct!
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:39am.
Note to Bob Beckel:
Dear Bob, you porkulent obese sweathog, after 4 years we are still waiting for your in-depth investigative vetting of der Barry. Let's start with his actual, real name. Anyone know it? Of course not, because NO one knows who the real father was. How about your expose on his grades at Occidental? What, you can't find them? Tsk. tsk. While you're at it don't forget these exposes! His passport to Pakistan? His application, grades, and diploma from Columbia,... plus see if you can find even one person willing to claim they remember seeing him there. And how about that mind-blowing expose on exactly how a pinhead like Barry got into the Harvard Law School let alone was elected President of the Law Review, yet never wrote ONE article? And that phony internet BC he put out. And come on Bob, Jack Cashill has CONCLUSIVELY proven that Blithering Barry couldn't possibly have written either book for which he took complete credit and made millions. I'll Corpse-man you one up on that! Keep eating Blob, we hope you explode into a greasy stain all over Dana Perrin!
One teeny tiny correction there BB...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:50am.
It's Dana 'Perino' not Perrin. And why would ANYONE want to see a greasy stain all over one of the most attractive women on TV?
Porkulent, obese sweathog?
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:43am.
A perfect description of Bob The Bloviator Beckel.
And aside from his snide,
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 1:41am.
And aside from his snide, snarky attitude - he has one of the worst hair-dye jobs I've ever seen!!! Plus............WHAT is his resume??? He worked for Dukaikus??? WOW!!! Or was it McGovern?? Or maybe that other guy who was running - who is such a footnote in the anals of history that I can't even remember his name!!!
I am
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:32pm.
under the impression the media WILL do anything to get Barry elected. Nothing at all will shock most Americans coming from the most un-ethical media in the history of this great country. Most only laugh at what is printed and is blabbed on tv/lib radio. We know who to listen to, who to watch, and what to read. The media is a disgrace and those who take part in it are, disgraceful. Americans are much wiser then these loosers who make millions preaching lies, hate and BS think we are.
Sheppard is a lying S.O.B.
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:34pm.
Absolutely repulsive & degrading to any "free-thinking" & politcally observant citizen. Noel Sheppard, I feel like it is a good day to whip somebody's ass. And I wish I could get my hands around your rude, crude, socially unacceptable, philistine throat, you bastard.
Calling me dumb is tantamount to "spitting-in-my-face."
eh?
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:38pm.
eh?
Huh? Are you a Packer fan?
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:43pm.
Huh?
Are you a Packer fan?
Maybe a Packer fan who drank
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:48pm.
Maybe a Packer fan who drank too much during the game, took a Tuinol, and smoked some bad ice to boot...........but then again, maybe he's being 'sarcastic', or just sending us up????
Scoob ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:56pm.
Ol' Arlen sounds more like a Raider's fan.
Did you check out his bio?
Damned if that pic doesn't look like the offspring of GW Bush and Obama.
Strange.
MD
I see that MD. Very
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:02pm.
I see that MD. Very strange.
But I have to say, being this is his very first post on NB and he proceeds to attack a well respected blogger can tell me only one thing.............................................TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
a "well-respected-blogger"
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:07am.
When did Sheppard become a "well-respected-blogger?" I know ... rhetoric is "free-speech." But, well respected ... ? T'ain't so, Bo!!
Your back
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:24am.
Where did Noel call you dumb? Dummy
You still have not responded
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:13am.
You still have not responded to where in the Noels posting did he call you dumb.
Of course your subsequent postings have proven that you are indeed not the sharpest crayon in the box.
Move along little arlen, move along.
In spite of your vapid opinion of Noel, he is respected.
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 6:20pm.
The thing about you guys who come here with both guns blazing and miss the mark of sarcasm (which you did) by posting outrageous comments is that you lose all standing regarding your respectability.
That was probably a bit hard for you to read.
So, try this.
You ain't getting enough stinkin' respect here through your behavior to dis(respect) my man Noel.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
hmmm, strange..
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 6:24pm.
Why is my Trolldar pegging red?
So, MM, how you doing my man?
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:16pm.
Your trolldar is red because this guy is a troll.
I mean what kinda name is "Arlen" anyway. Who has that name?
Answer is behind door number .....
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
MD, he mis-spelled his last name,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:02pm.
he's really Snarlin' Arlen Specter. And, yeah, strange doesn't even begin to address him.
UpNorth---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:13am.
Snarlin' Arlen - good one.
A lib politician who dressed in a Republican suit for years.
MD
Topic Fallacy
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:51am.
MD, your response is a prime example of why Obama is president. Common folks like yourself don't know the difference between politics & sports. NewsBusters is a political source. But like many others you confuse it with ESPN or Sports Illustrated. Had I been posting in regards to the play-offs you may wish to identify me with an NFL team. Please don't compare the two, (politics & sports). BTW, do you know that America was founded as a "Democratic-Republic," and NOT a democracy? There is a big difference, MD.
Benjamin Franklin said, "We have given you a democratic-republic … if you can keep it."
http://thenewamerican.com/opinion/chip-wood/3844-benjamin-franklin-had-i...
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html
Stay tuned & learn "sumpin'." Mi Amigo.
That explains it. It is a Paultard.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:19am.
The New American website is another King Crank loving conspiracy driven website.
Hey, Paultard, when did Mr. Sheppard call you dumb?
"Common folks like yourself"
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:33am.
"Common folks like yourself"
Yep, ole arlen here figures hisself to be one of them thar "elitists".
Amazing how MD asking if you were a Raider fan brought out this diatribe. Maybe your are one.
Did MD even once mention the type of government we had in his post? So why the commentary on our type of government?
Oh wait it must be because it has the word "democrat" in it and we know how libturds love their labels.
Edit: Upon further research Benjamin Franklin NEVER uttered that statement. The response he gave to being asked if we had a Republic or Monarchy was "A Republic, if you can keep it".
So I dub thee LIAR.
Damn, Scoob, I was ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 6:41pm.
gonna tag ol' Arlen Spectator Cooper with "LIAR", but since you got there first, I believe I will go with 'dipshit troll'. :o)
MD
the offspring of GW Bush and Obama
Submitted by vrwc13 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:03pm.
...strange. It looks like he used one of those programs that takes two pictures(usually a couple looking to see what their offspring would look like) and morphed them.
...hehehe, if obama had a son that ended up looking like this...he could blame Bush!
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Voyage XXXIV
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:52am.
He's on Voyage 34, Scuba.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
And we have heard how that
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:37am.
And we have heard how that ends. Crushing.
Devoid Democrat spouting some of them great KKK moments.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:43pm.
Racist much? How about a real argument, oh that's it.... philistine throat... well ok then.
You Didn't Build That.
Spoken like a true Obama-supporting dumbass
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:06pm.
Smoking crack and posting on a public forum is never a good combination.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I iz so confuzed.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:49pm.
I read Mr. Sheppard's blog post here 3 times. He called no one dumb.
Arlen Cooper: Calling me dumb is tantamount to "spitting-in-my-face."
Well, Vet.........these libs
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:05pm.
Well, Vet.........these libs DO have thin skin,and it starts at the top - they have a perfect role model.
Vet...I believe NB newbie Mr. Cooper
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:52am.
is laboring under the misperception that Noel is actually the author of the Newsweek article rather than the NB blogger reporting it.
Jer
Ah,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:39am.
By George, I think your right
Jer, his later posts proved that incorrect, no?
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:22pm.
I could give him the first mistake of his career here (short as it may be) but the other posts show him to be rude, inconsiderate and ignorant.
What's with the unprovoked attack on Noel?
I guess him to be a neo-Liberal.
Otherwise known as a J.. hating, free spirit Paul Bot.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Read the "Tag-Line."
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:15am.
Perhaps you missed the "tag-line." "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" Me, myself, and I, being a critic(s) of Obama must assume that Sheppard is addressing me.
Nope, not even close
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:26am.
Noel is explaining how the newsweak article is calling you dumb. Apologies are in order, yours
Take a hike Paultard.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:37am.
This is a site for Democrats run by Democrats that love all things Democrat. President Obama is never going to legalize marijuana because he is the greatest President ever. Obama 2012!!!!!
Too bad you are so dumb that you can't see how much we love Obama. We support the 33rd Amendment to the constitution. Getting rid of term limits so our beloved President Obama can run for a 3rd term in 2016.
And don't come back, paultard.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:26pm.
President Obama saved my life. I live on the coast and I can't swim. President Obama stopped the seas from rising. I surely would have died had he not.
And Noel Sheppard saved the life of my youngest son, Little Luke. Mr. Sheppard bought us a big fat goose on Christmas day and he doubled my salary. And he let me use more coal in the fire so I would be warm at the office. Little Luke is alive today because of Mr. Sheppard and he does not even use his crutch no more.
Wow, that is what you deduced
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:45pm.
Wow, that is what you deduced from this article, Arlene?? And you're waltzing around here acting like you're smarter than anybody else?? I'd say you've made a total fool of yourself on your first venture here on NB (at least it's the first time I've seen you here). Irregardless of your elitist attitude, I can tell you that the people who frequent NB are NOT fools, rubes, or idiots - and they are often more informed and knowledgable than the so-called experts who try and give us the 'news', or try and tell us how to run our lives.
Maybe you'd better regroup before you open your trap and make a fool of yourself again.
It would be nice if you retracted the death threat, Arlen.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:04pm.
Assuming you now realize what is going here.
Or is it possible that you are truly this stupid?
Retraction
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:37pm.
Death Threat retracted.
You will do better here posting on NB if....
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:28am.
1. You post a relevant post on topic.
2. Do not call people names or attack people personally.
3. Write a cogent sentence.
4. Not post about something that no one can figure out what the golly shucks you are talking about.
When you behave like this I feel you are possibly lost. Try HuffPo or DU. They love this type of disjointed insanity.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
This is not an endorsement of the topic or tone of the Newsweek
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 1:43am.
article, but it appears that in Arlen's case, Sullivan does have a point.
Jer
Jer, you might have a point
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 1:23pm.
Jer, you might have a point there - Arlene did sound rather insulted. And where DID that mutant cross between GWB and Boy Barry go, anyway???
Anyone surprised that
Submitted by TE on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:35pm.
Anyone surprised that Newsweek found a militant, virulent, fundamentalist homosexualist like Andrew Sullivan who is the cult leader of the leftist freakshow freaks known as Trig Truthers (who think that Sarah Palin's youngest son is not her son but instead is her "grandson") to find that the critics (i.e., the pro-America community) of the clueless, career community organizer are "dumb"?
Too dumb?
Submitted by hoaxbuster on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:34pm.
Does this mean I have to turn in my MENSA membership card if I criticize Obama? Incidentally, I don't see Andrew Sullivan's name anywhere on the MENSA membership list..... who is the real dumb one here?
Why are...
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:39pm.
...NewsWeaks readers so dumb? All eight of them.
At least they're honest.
Submitted by pvoce on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:46pm.
Now, they're not even trying to hide it anymore. Kool-aid in all its spectacle!
And
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:10pm.
When asked for his thoughts on the article, Obysmal replied, "Uh, er, well, let me clear on this, uh, that is, now, now, hang on, wait a minute, er, um, uh..." [teleprompter rises]"...the implications of political commentary across the spectrum are complex and not without their own intrinsic difficulties. That's all. Go me."
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Guys guys guys...
Submitted by Kitsapbass on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:10pm.
They really wanted to put "Obama's Neck Tumor - the REAL brains behind his Presidency", but they couldn't find a way to blame Bush for it...
Newsweek - still hoping for a
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:15pm.
Newsweek - still hoping for a bailout.
this is fake
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:15pm.
No way they run this cover....................
Like I said - I don't think
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:06pm.
Like I said - I don't think this could pass as a headling on a high-school paper............I guess we'll have to find out, huh???
Actually this could be used
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:58am.
Actually this could be used to good purpose. Get the Republican candidates to remind everyone that if you criticize Obama, then you're dumb. Hold the cover up at interviews and speeches. I know a lot of Democrats that think Obama has screwed up some stuff, and almost every Independent I know thinks he's doing a lot of things wrong.
Nothing irritates people more than being called stupid, especially when there is objective evidence that you're not. Let the MSM keep calling Independents and moderate Democrats dumb. It's a great way to alienate voters (not to mention some of the few readers still reading Newsqueak).
The only thing more laughable
Submitted by Clericus on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:19pm.
The only thing more laughable than someone trying to deny this rag's bias would be the content of that cover "story."
Dumb?
Submitted by MacWell on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:27pm.
Yeah, I agree. All of those dumb ass people who made a modest living but were okay before Obummer stole office should be pleased as punch to now be on welfare collecting $300 a week and sitting on their butts for 3 years. What the hell are they thinking?
sarc/off
So...we're "dumb" because we
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:10pm.
So...we're "dumb" because we are resisting his policy of turning this country into a Marxist state while his runs the economy into the ground...?
Andrew Sullivan, McBoobs, Morning RINO and others
Submitted by David Kramer on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:21pm.
are just Moby trolls in the 5th column media apparatchik. They are as conservative as ol Uncle Joe of New York Times fame.
NAME CHANGE TIME
Submitted by KornKing on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:29pm.
WhatUdumbBastardsShouldThink
Vindication
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:33pm.
In 2003, worldwide circulation was more than 4 million, including 2.7 million in the U.S; by 2010 it was down to 1.5 million (with newsstand sales declining to just over 40 thousand copies per week). Fewer and fewer people are buying their garbage.This should be on the cover.....
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:37pm.
http://cslacker.com/images/funny/amazing/perverted_banana_flasher/
Civics test
Submitted by MacWell on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:56pm.
If voting is so important, (which I think it is), then why can't we make an amendment to require AMERICAN CITIZENS, to take a simple civics test in order to be granted the privilege of voting?
All the evidence points to many Americans utter stupidly about the electoral process, not to mention the people who are running for office.
We say voting is a right?
I disagree, imo voting is a special privilege that shouldn't be taken so lightly, as many people do.
Just listen to any of the "man on the street" interviews. People are shown pictures of others who are either in politics, or running for office and don't have a clue. What is even more disgraceful is the way these people laugh when provided with the answer, like it's funny?
America isn't some tinhorn country where people are led around by the nose, or at least it shouldn't be. America is, or was, a place blessed by God to do great works in the world, and at one time, she did.
Being born and raised in the 50's I've seen my great land go from being the country the rest of the world admired to become the laughing stock it is now. I've seen our school system taken over by people who's only interest is in themselves rather than raising good solid citizens.
Well, that said, I also think I know the answer.
The career politician.
Think about it. The career politician who's only interest is their next election. These parasites have set up the good old boys club that allows these lawyers to trade votes like so many baseball cards regardless of how that vote affects us.
This kind of behavior is why America is in the condition it's in. If any of you think I'm just picking on the democrat party, I'm not. There are the same mindsets in republican party as well. The political elite who have convinced us that Congress must be staffed only with people who have little letters after their names, mostly .esq
When were we the people hoodwinked into believing that lawyers, or law degrees become a prerequisite to serve in Congress?
Congress, at least the House of Representatives, was meant to be filled with a cross section of Americana, it was NEVER meant to be a career in the first place.
I believe that we the people have one more chance to save America. The 2012 election cycle will be the most important election in America's history.
We the people MUST rid American politics of all career politicians, federal, state, and local. Until we do, America will never again be the great country God meant it to be.
MacWell---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:20am.
Consider the "like" button engaged.
MD
License to Steal
Submitted by kilrod on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:47am.
These days a "law degree" and political office has become little more than a license to steal.
kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Agreed
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:47am.
Well said. People don't know jack squat and just tonight as I was outside doing something, I thought about the primaries and elections, and how someone who pays no attention to anything and has no clue how our system of government works (even the most basic of pieces), ............. has a vote that counts JUST as much as mine, George Will's, Thomas Sowell's, etc etc. THAT is a problem. And politicians like it. They don't give a rats a&% what you know about government, and MUCH prefer you know nothing, so they can feed you the nonsense they need you to buy into to vote for them. I am all for requiring something in the way of responsibility before being able to vote. It's asinine that any citizen can just walk in and vote blindfolded and it actually counts, then walk out and not know anything about what they just did, nor care. How many people voted in 2008 Presidential election who 1) never voted before and 2) will never vote again and 3) don't care one way or the other? Millions.
You're correct in all you said, and it will take moving Heaven and earth to make such a change. People simply do NOT care about the system of government under which they live. They do NOT care what the Constitution says, and do NOT know anything about the Constitution short of the phrase "freedom of speech" and they don't even know what that means.
It's pretty sickening. I work with a guy from India, here on a work VISA. He's been here I think 5-6 years and will stay. He's edging his way toward citizenship. And he and I are always talking about our system of government here. He asks all kinds of questions, has visited the Capitol, etc etc. He genuinely wants to know how things work. I don't talk politics (though I have given my views on taxes and government overreach....no names). When we talk about the system, I talk strictly about how it works, even when the lib a few cubes away brings his nose into it and tries to interject his snarky crap. I keep it serious. I see it as one more person who will be informed and have understanding so many don't. This Indian guy knows more about how our system works than many Americans, I am sure of it, because he's interested.
I asked him one day, what is a big thing he likes about the USA. He said the freedom. India of course is not a government-oppressed people, but he just said the freedom here is much greater.
It's going to take big things from a relatively small percentage of the population to turn this ship. The Constitution must be taught and revered and understood. That is a major piece that has to happen. I'm not sure how it's going to.
sounds great
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 8:46am.
until you realize that at some point the politicians will end up allowing liberal groups/unions administer and grade the tests.
biased test
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:00pm.
And if minorities can't pass the test it will be deemed "racially biased" as in those who can't pass a basic test in firefighting skills because it asks questions only whites could possibly know.
Much like police promotional exams.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 6:17pm.
And the rocket scientist who devised the Detroit PD promotional exam, who said that the people taking the test didn't really need to know anything about MIranda and Search and Seizure, that's what the prosecutor's job was.
Asking that police officers actually know those things is "setting the bar too high" and the test and procedure is skewed toward the white candidates.
Or, the promotional exam I took, that had very few questions on the law, search and seizure and crime, but a lot, including most of the interview, that really emphasized how to get along with neighborhood associations and respond to citizen queries about how city government works.
'how city government works'
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:11am.
Find the most influential member of the local political body and find out how much it cost to buy his influence. What is so hard about that?
"[T]he president begins by
Submitted by shayne62 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:27am.
"[T]he president begins by extending a hand to his opponents; when they respond by raising a fist, he demonstrates that they are the source of the problem..."
Except, of course, for Israel. He has never extended anything but his middle finger and still calls them the guilty party.
I don't know anyone who calls Andrew Sullivan even remotely conservative. But it's nice to know that Andy talks about other things besides Sarah Palin's uterus.
This cover is no more insulting than their "We are all socialists now" cover. Although, I would guess they may double their readership to 2.
Thanks NB for reporting on this...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:56am.
...Normally I wouldn't see this issue for another two years while waiting to get in for a dental check-up....
Is that a cover shot of Baracko or is it that clown on SNL who does a great parody of him? I just can't tell them apart anymore.
Bigdaddy, I got to the point
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:04pm.
Bigdaddy,
I got to the point where I'd rather read the Journal of the American Dental Association in my dentist's office than read Newsweek.
delete
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:52am.
delete
Joke
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:14am.
Andrew Sullivan personifies the Obama water carrier who thinks he is overly clever when in fact, he's nothing but a pompous jacka**. If Newsweek thinks this is going to help them sell some extra copies, I am inclined to believe it will not.
Sullivan's article in Newzweak
Submitted by donaldduck on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:19am.
I guess Doobie Watergun Schitz collaborated with Andy on the article. Its kinda like having someone commenting on MessNBC, who is gonna see the article?
Obamaphilia...
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:49am.
Just who the heck buys this tripe?
The person that wrote it, the people that buy and read it, the people that believe it, have got to be some of the least personable elitists you'd ever want to meet...
NEWSTWEET
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:12am.
NEWSWEEK is now exclusively disseminated by Twitter. Now I understand why it sold for a buck...
Dovetails
Submitted by Scottyb4292 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:28am.
This story dovetails nicely with the recent story on Michelle Obama. In that story, the First Lady is interviewed and says that the people of this country just don't seem to understand how all the things the President has accomplished are good for us. They're going to make sure we understand that Obama has done great things for the country.
Yes. We are numbskulls and we just don't appreciate the greatness of President Obama. Thankfully, we have conservatives like Andrew Sullivan and wonderful people like Michelle Obama around to explain it to us simple folk.
"why are Obamas critics so
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:42am.
"why are Obamas critics so dumb?"
This should absolutely positively remove all doubt about this magazines integrity!
In all seriousness this sounds like something a fifth grader would write. How juvenile!
Was the headline "I hate all
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:52am.
Was the headline "I hate all you that disagree with Obama" taken?
'WHI IS IT THAT OBAMA SUPPORTERS CAN'T CHANE A LIGHT BULB?"
Submitted by Sgthulka on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:47am.
Hmmmm?
Ah, but they do know how to change lightbulbs
Submitted by Chaitealover on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:09pm.
They're changing all the bright, instant lighting, easy to read by incandescent light bulbs into dimmer, slow lighting, hard to read by fluorescent bulbs that require a call to the local hazmat team if broken.
Chai
Well, actually they can.
Submitted by David Kramer on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:50pm.
It just takes an environment impact study from a company that donates to Democrats, a logistics study from a company that donates to Democrats, another study to evaluate the previous two studies, of course from a company that donates to Democrats, a contract with a company that is wholly union controlled to provide said labor for installing the bulb, which will be provided by GE and made in China.
Simple really!
IMO
Submitted by David Kramer on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:49pm.
one of my better snide remarks on the internet. Pat self on back.
Cuz...
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:02pm.
Cuz--they are scared of breaking a curly bulb and the men in the bunny suits having to come to sweep it up?
The MSM mantra ...
Submitted by Crash on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 7:44am.
... Deaf, dumb and blind.
See what a dollar will buy you these days? A propaganda rag called Newspeak.
They act as though Obama is like the "settled science" argument.
If by dumb they mean silenced and ignored ... then they're right for a change.
Why are people...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 8:54am.
...who don't read Newsweak so smart?
Weird picture
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:57am.
That's a very weird picture, reminds me of the very first pilot to Star Trek(The Cage) back in the mid-60s, he's got a scrawny neck just like the Talosians with their enlarged heads.....except that was done with makeup/prosthetics.....he comes by it naturally.
Which is an apt comparison, those Talosians like to control how you think and make you think you're in an alternate reality, and this bogus potus is similar in that regard by lying to everyone and trying to convince everyone that the sky is really green instead of blue.(That's the general statement, would be a long list of his statements like "he cut taxes" and "unemployment has gotten better" which are lies)
-Jon
Newsweek?
Submitted by retrocon on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:45am.
Taken over by the editors of Mad Magazine.
They even have the updated Alfred E. Neuman on the cover again!
cool.
Is this any way to run a magazine?
Submitted by Nelbert on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:21am.
As of today (1/16/2011), Rasmussen states that 41% of the nation strongly disapproves of Obama's handling of the nation.
That's an awfully large slice of the nation for Newsweek to be alienating. I guess their main competition is now Mother Jones.
After all, outside of a doctor's or dentist's office, when was the last time anyone saw a copy of Newsweek?
Nel
Submitted by retrocon on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:34am.
see above, i really think that they've decided that the only way to come back is to compete with Mad and Cracked ;-)
They even have their own PC version of Alfred.
andrew sullivan, the same andrew that wrote this:
Submitted by sarainitaly on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:47am.
andrew sullivan, the same andrew that wrote this:
Noel, could this be in fact the same writer?
Submitted by vrwc13 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:06pm.
He (obama) thinks you're fools. Either the US will go into default because of Obama's cowardice, or you will be paying far far more for far far less because this president has no courage when it counts. He let you down. On the critical issue of America's fiscal crisis, he represents no hope and no change. Just the same old Washington politics he once promised to end.
...if so has he been waterboarded? Or is he calling himself dumb?
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Newsweek, Newsweek...........Newsweek..................
Submitted by David Kramer on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:54am.
Newspeak, AHAH!!!!!!!
Really?
Submitted by Orpheus75 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:56am.
"“[I]t remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb"
Oh, we've absorbed it alright, and the wretchedness is making us sick to our stomachs.
That author, like so many others, tries to make it appear that Obama is nothing short of pure genius, something us "commoners" just cannot fathom or comprehend. What drivel and tripe!
Give me a break!!!
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/01/15/newsweek-cover-sto...
Newsweek? Is that an American magazine or something?
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:04pm.
Looks like a rag taken over by junior highschoolers from New York doing practice articles for the year book. Do adults read it?
How dumb was this?
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:57pm.
I was smart enough to cancel when they put a halo on the guy---and this was when you could actually get your money back, a real-life check!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:09pm.
Remind me again why no one reads this silly magazine? I forget...
The Right IS dumb...IF they think the Media is fair
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:27pm.
I have always wondered why conservatives and constitutionalists who at least have a surfeit understanding that the mainstream media are defacto PR hacks of the Democratic Party (and in extension, the socialist agenda) even give them the time of day. Frankly, we should just boycott the media and work our own communications strategies through the Internet and personal interaction, which is more effective than old school mass communication anyway.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
meanwhile...
Submitted by Cooper on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:49pm.
Meanwhile...in a parallel universe somewhere there is a magazine cover that says: "Why are Rick Santorum's critics so dumb", and in the corner an article labeled "Obama's surprising past".
You don't have a crazy uncle by the name of Arlen do you?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:00pm.
;)
newsweek,America's Pravda!
Submitted by angelann1 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:52pm.
newsweek,America's Pravda!
What is more frightening
Submitted by nolefan2 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 3:39pm.
to me is NOT that BHO was elected to this office, but that there were so many people DUMB enough to vote for him. They tell us how intelligent he is, but never show any proof. Now, we are to believe that the Missus has "grace, charm, and intellect." What you talking about, Willis? Did you look at that picture of her?
If you need further proof...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:16pm.
If you need further proof that the make believe media morons are still in the tank for Ears, look no further than this outrageous cover...The question that needs to be asked is not, "Why are Obama's critics so dumb?" but, "Why are American voters so dumb - or, at least, gullible?"