Newsweek Obama Cover: 'The First Gay President'
Bill Clinton was the first black president. And now, according to Newsweek, we have the first gay president.
Yes, all the speculation over what cover Tina Brown would choose for Newsweek is over. Despite several suggestions from The New Republic on this crucial subject, Brown refrained from taking their kindly advice and chose a picture of President Obama with a rainbow halo over his head.
This is quite an improvement over the mainstream media's portrayal of Obama in 2008 with an ordinary halo over his head. Now his MSM iconography includes the rainbow halo. It is hoped that this image will be used often in this campaign. After all, economic issues are trivial when compared to the all-important (in the eyes of Newsweek and liberals) matter of gay marriage.
And on this topic we get a preview from Politico on Andrew Sullivan's Newsweek cover story:
It’s easy to write off President Obama’s announcement of his support for gay marriage as a political ploy during an election year. But don’t believe the cynics. Andrew Sullivan argues that this announcement has been in the making for years. “When you step back a little and assess the record of Obama on gay rights, you see, in fact, that this was not an aberration. It was an inevitable culmination of three years of work.” And President Obama has much in common with the gay community. “He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,” Sullivan writes.
Three years of work? Too bad he couldn't have spent a bit more time working on improving the economy. But, hey, gay marriage is just such an important issue that it takes precedence over all else.
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Andrew Sullivan wishes.
Submitted by redfish on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:58pm.
Andrew Sullivan wishes.
I hope he also realizes he's
Submitted by redfish on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:33pm.
I hope he also realizes he's going against other gay rights activists who say Lincoln was gay because he bedded with another man and Buchanan was gay because he was a bachelor.
Well considering ignored
Submitted by kg on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:42pm.
Well considering ignored testimony from a few people in Obama's past the cover might just be the truth.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Newsweek--->worth every dollar!
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:05pm.
Sometimes I truly wonder about how out-of-touch these journalists have become
with mainstreet America---and why that is. Gays have always been able to marry under
the same rules as everybody else. If the rules change here, how does one not allow
polygamy for bisexuals? After all, it would be cruel to make them choose only a man or only a woman.......
and if I may add-->same sex couples were 1% of "coupled"
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:08pm.
households in the American 2010 census. 1%. Yes, all of 1%.
You would swear from the media coverage that gays were 20% of America, but their
demographic is staggeringly low.
Very becoming!
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:10pm.
... and he wears it well, ... He has made a lot of firsts, and not a one of them is anything to be proud of!
Inadvertantly Hilarious!!
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:19pm.
Newsweek doesn't realize that their attempt at irony actually reveals a carefully hidden truth about Obama. Our first gay president indeed....
Anyone who has watched the
Submitted by robert108 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:23pm.
Anyone who has watched the bowling video already knows.
Or
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:30pm.
Throw a Baseball
Or ride a bike.
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:36pm.
Or ride a bike...................and let's NOT forget that 'special Olympics' comment either - typical of his abject lack of class and consideration.
And it was a girl's bike at that.
Submitted by Order270 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:51pm.
And while wearing his little bicycle helmet with the safety strap fully buckled. It doesn't matter what's his sexual orientation, he's the gayest President ever.
Or Basketball
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:25pm.
Pop the link on my Gaffe #102.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Heck, Blonde, ButtBoy Baraka
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:31pm.
Heck, Blonde, ButtBoy Baraka used to have a 'swish' before he affected his current 'swagga'...................
Ha ha....6 air balls in a row doesn't constitute "swish"
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:38pm.
More faux-ny praise for the Once.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Swish?
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:04pm.
Have you not seen Obama dance?
Light in the loafers.
Hee hee, strat
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:09pm.
I meant "swish" as in all net.....basketball. We all know he's lost without his body man, Reggie. And apparently, Michy is terribly insanely jealous of the other O.....Oprah!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Nuttin' But Net
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:19pm.
By most metrics, Obama is swishy.
While reading your 'O vs O' story, I spotted this link. Had no idea there were so many Democrat dogs following their master's lead..
Oooooh, the dog link....you
Submitted by ozarkian on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:32pm.
Oooooh, the dog link....you guys are cracking me up tonight...I don't usually laugh at stilly stuff, but you got me going with those first few..(then I started to wonder a little about Photoshop toward the end there.) Anyway, thanks for some good laughs, 'cos we can all use 'em these days. (Actually, that Newsweek cover is just silly enough to make me want to laugh, too. Don't his people care that he just got set up for ridicule, big time, with his..ahem..history?)
Hah! Thank you for the clip
Submitted by ozarkian on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:22pm.
Hah! Thank you for the clip of obeyme dancing! I hadn't seen that yet, and it made me laugh out loud! He does look sooooo gay in that!
Oh, about that article -- I read that Sullivan is saying gays will change the concept of marriage -- that they'll lend heterosexuals much-needed "honesty" and "equality," but that "fidelity" will no longer be considered important in marriage, because men are different. I hadn't thought of that as part of the insidiousness of the whole thing, but it makes sense. (No offense to men here; he -- and I -- are referring to gay men in marriage.)
Forget about the lame-ass
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:21am.
Forget about the lame-ass fairy dance - James Brown isn't sweatin' anything!!! But what about that tilley-assed swipe at the speed bag??? That thing could've come back and hurt him!!!
Ahhhhh, Ms. Blonde, you KNOW
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:08pm.
Ahhhhh, Ms. Blonde, you KNOW I wasn't talkin' 'bout his 'game'!!! I"m a terrible basketball player, and I could probably keep up with him - plus I"m taller and have a stronger body, so I'd probably have to 'put the whup-ass' on him too!!!
As you know, I was talkin' 'bout his walkin' style - or his dancin' style, as my ol' buddy Stratocaster has pointed out.
So any million dollar bounties on BtB's first time?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:23pm.
Come on; gotta be some broke a$$ Punahou graduates out there?
You Didn't Build That.
I know that I live out here
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:34pm.
I know that I live out here in the boondocks (re:Billy Joe Royal - 'Down in the Boondocks'), and as such, I'm totally out of touch with what REALLY goes on in America................but I fail to see how this is going to have any positive impact for ButtBoy Baraka. In fact, I think it will have an overall negative effect. Gays are a very small percentage of the population to start with - and most of them are probably libs/Democrats also. And I know that there are a percentage of 'activists' who will support all of these oddball agendas that the REGIME and the StateRun Media likes to shove down our throats.
But I think that the vast majority of Americans could give a Kenyan Kow Krap about gay marriage, and will actually scoff at the idea that ButtBoy Baraka is our first Gay President................as if it wasn't too hard to figure out anyway. I'm a lot more concerned about him being our first Communist/Socialist/Racist/Re-distributionist/Marxist/Totalitarian/Moooooooooooooooslem president than his damn fairy-ass queerness!!!
Yea and those few years ago, the Japanese were in the majority
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:37pm.
Here in Hawaii ...HAY I found her...Coretta Miyashiro .. just ask her brother Glen.
Drag a 100 bucks through Kalihi, may find some Poop on Berry the Butt, his Punahou nick name.
You Didn't Build That.
I don't think that too many
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:03pm.
I don't think that too many students from Kalihi went to Punahou school, unless they were some top-of-the-line Samoan football recruits. As you know, Kalihi is a little.............shall we say...............'below the pay grade' of your typical Punahou student - where Barry was financed by his 'typical white grandmother'.................who unexplicibly died the DAY BEFORE he was sworn in!!!
No no No, Ended up there after graduation , lolz
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:57pm.
yea , cremated soooo convenient, spewed without a permit..
You Didn't Build That.
New Republic
Submitted by Franksam on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:03pm.
This picture is more queer than most of the New Republic ideas.
Osama Bin Laden, felled by a faggot. Who would have guessed?
Hey, bin Laden had been
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:24pm.
Hey, bin Laden had been living in the same house with three women for years, and he never left!!! He would've been happy to be killed by anybody!!!
With friends like Newsweek, you don't need enemies.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:30pm.
Stupid Obama took it hook, line and sinker.
And it was only a sh*tty plastic bait. Now you own it, baby.
Well.......
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:25am.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1635/646/Obamas_Gay_Past_Being_Hidden_By_...
Next week
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 3:32pm.
Newsweek's cover story "scoop" next week?
Water Is Wet
LOL - Is Obama being gay supposed to be a revelation?
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:04pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
First Gray President
Submitted by P.J. Gladnick on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:19pm.
The first gray president was probably George Washington but I'm not completely sure because he was always wearing a wig.
Larry Sinclair Vindicated?
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:00pm.
Maybe Obama's new campaign slogan should be "Grope and Dope 2012".
Romney is next
Submitted by Texndoc on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:02pm.
Newsweek will be vilified by the left and attempt retribution with a Romney cover next. Tina Brown has no conscience.
You know the photoshopping is already
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:50pm.
going on, Tex. Romney's face is going to end up on a posed pic of some kid getting his blonde hair cut by some bully.
Two words; Larry Sinclair.
Submitted by tsscls on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 6:17pm.
Two words; Larry Sinclair. If newsweek wants to portray him this way, it's time for him to be vetted and asked questions about the rumors.
So he is now a tea bagger???
Submitted by Paul G on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 8:12pm.
LM*O...didn't wanna use the A
Double Dipper
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:45pm.
He is now an affirmative action Double Dipper. Black and Gay.
If he was BLACK, like the
Submitted by Jerry Frey on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:21pm.
If he was BLACK, like the rhymin' reverends, he never would have been elected.
no mas
Submitted by Jerry Frey on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:20pm.
And now the messiah is a saint...good grief!
LOL This cover is so gay! How
Submitted by Old Europe on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:37pm.
LOL
This cover is so gay! How dumb must the people at Newsweak be to think that this helps? It simply affirms all the rumors about Mr Obama riding down the Hershey Highway with Larry Sinclair. It's gonna become the most ridiculed cover of the year. So can we now say that Dear Leader is the First Lady? And more importantly: Is he gonna invite Barbra Streisand and the Village People to his campaign trail?
He treaded lightly for a reason........
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:10am.
Obama may have said he supported gay marriage, but he also made sure to say it is a state issue. That alone goes against his mindset. He supports more powerful federal government and for him to say something is a state issue is an anomaly.
What he could be doing, by saying it's a state issue, is to hopefully keep states from asking Congress to create a US Constitutional amendment bill (the President has zero authoritative involvement), which would be sent to states for ratification. Why? Because 39 states currently have in their state Constitutions, a definition of marriage as being one man and one woman.
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/human-services/same-sex-marriage-ove...
A Constitutional amendment bill requires 3/4 of the states to ratify for it to be added to the US Constitution, meaning 38 states would need to ratify in order for that to become part of the US Constitution. Obama does not want that issue to become an Amendment bill because it very well may get the 3/4 needed, at which point it is codified into the US Constitution, which would reverse current state laws that allow gay marriage, and put a stop all of the madness taking place all over the country about this issue.
America's First Gay President
Submitted by berlet98 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:06am.
America's First Gay President
We already knew Barack Hussein Obama was America’s first semi-black president. Now, according to Newsweek, he is apparently also our first gay president!
I don’t know whether the editors at the magazine were trying to out our commander-in-chief as a homosexual or whether Michelle Obama was aware all these years that her hubby had been living in a closet.
When the editors featured the president on the cover of their latest edition with his head crowned with a multi-colored halo, they may have been figuratively crowning him with the title of King of America’s gay community as an adjunct to his already well-earned titles of Nobel Peace Prize Winner, “the Anointed One,” “Master of the Universe,” etc.
Unless it’s related to the president’s sudden, truly-miraculous, election-year evolution from being an adversary of same-sex marriage to finally comprehending the moraI and legal rightness of men marrying other men and women wedding other women, I really don’t grasp the editorial rationale of declaring Obama “The First Gay President.”
Perhaps if I read the leftist rag that is Newsweek, I’d comprehend more.
I do know that the rainbow halo is a nice touch beautifully complementing all the other halos superimposed on his head by his mainstream media over the last four years. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=23839.)
Thank you, King of Spam
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:27am.
Now that you've finished copying and pasting your own blog, you are dismissed.
Jer
Parade Magazine: "Hey, it's Mother's Day!"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:29am.
So who do they honor with a feature cover story?
Why, of course, a butt pirate from Bravo TV.
How about another Obama image to throw into the mix
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:55am.
Apologies to Benneton...well, no damn apologies to that pervert organization, but the picture is apropos.
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj434/GOPCongress/obamakiss01.gif
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:35am.
don't say he's gay... most high profile black men will not admit to being gay, they're members of the DLC... Down Low Club.
If either were true, wouldn't that make The Big 0 the TIC (Teaba@@er In Chief)? Perhaps the expert on Teaba@@ing, Anderson Cooper, can share his expertise on this?
I'm sorry,
Submitted by nolefan2 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 11:16am.
but when I look at the picture, I see nothing but a jug-eared dork with a rainbow colored halo over his head.
You mean a gay jug-eared dork
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:17pm.
You mean a gay jug-eared dork with a rainbow colored halo over his head??? And, hey - you're NOT supposed to be making fun of his ears!!! He's very sensitive to that!!! You're being mean, intolerant, and racist!!!